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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-11-04
A CURIOUS OLD LADY.
Parsimonious In Her Own Affairs, Yet Law
ish With Others.

ParsimOniOus In Her Own Affairs, Yet Law
ish With Others.
When Henri Rochefort planned the
erection Of workman's glass works at
Carmaux to help the glass workers, he
received an anonymous gift of 100, 900
francs. The donor was Mme Dim bourg,
who has since died at Boulogne, aged
~. She was a curious old lady, wildly
generous, yet careful to miser]iness,
sending her gift to the glass works
anonymously and then complaining
when her name was omitted from the
stone bearing list Of subscribers. She
lived in an unpretentious house, fur
nished in the plainest fashion, boarded
up every scrap Of paper and bit Of rag
che found, yet helped all whose want
came to her ears. She sent 1000 francs
here, 5000 there, while her own sery-
ants could scarcely get enough to eat,
and their wages were extremely small
The money for the glass works was sent
in small linen bag. comparatively
worthless, which no one thought of re-
turning to her.
She sent servant to claim It, how
ever, and was greatly annoyed that it
had not been sent back. She was very
fond Of cats, but even the food of her
pets was measured out with niggardly
hand, and the youngest kitten had it's
milk in the cover of a pomade pot that
it might not drink too much. During
her last illness she scolded the nurse for
rinsing a glass with filtered water
FILTERED water wears out the filter
You must be more economical" Yet
this woman, SO parsimonious in her
own concerns, lavished benefits on the
poor wherever she found them and
made princely gifts out Of a life annuity
by 10 means large. - Philadelphia
Times.
A Crocodile One Hundred Feet Long.
1t is well known fact, even among
those pho make no pretense of having
their heads stored with geological and
archaeological lore, that the beasts and
reptiles which existed in the early ages
OF the world were giants when COM
pared with the very largest representa-
tives of the same types which still sur
vive. This fact has recently been strik-
ingly illustrated by find made at
Poitiers, where excavations are being
made under the auspices of the Oriental
Academy of Science. At that place a
crocodile tooth was found which weighs
almost seven pounds. M. Gerard, the
professor in charge of the working
corps, says that there is no doubt that
the tooth formerly belonged to gigan-
tic crocodile, and that there is no posi-
bi]ity whatever that he has COMPOUNDED
the tooth with that of the megalvasau-
rus, as some scientists have limited.
M. Gerard says: ''It is a typical croc-
odile tooth and is probably the largest
specimen Of the kind ever seen by man.
In my estimation it is from the head. of
reptile net less than 100 feet in
length. st. Louis Republic:
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-11-04
And Extensive.

He---What a frank, open countenance
Miss Murdy has.
She Yes. It's eternal1y open when
I'm with hex. Detroit Free Press.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
WORKING SOUTHWARK.

The hearty assistance which Fresno is
giving the right-of-way agent of the Valley
road in selecting a route south of Fresno
is all the more commendable when it is
reflected that the road to Fresno is assured
and will soon be completed, and that the
city is thus provided with means for
sending its products to tidewater. What
ever benefit it may secure from the south
ward extension of the road will be small
in comparison with its facilities for reach
ing the bay of San Francisco. Not con-
tent with all the financial and moral en-
couragement which it has given the new
road, it sends able citizens into the field to
assist in securing right of way. Such
public spirit as this is worthy of emula-
ton. Doubtless Visalia, Hanford, Tulare
and Bakersfield will put similar COM
mittees at work.
No contracts will be made for right of
way until ell the routes have been in
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

afternoon attire, with white gloves. They will
be much seen on Fifth avenue and the rialto
for the next two months.
"Neckwear designs show a decided change
this year. The fabrics are principally satin
finished, and the designs are mostly dotted
effects
81 begin to plan my clothes six months in
advance OF the season. import my own wool
ems from the samples six months ahead. My
haberdashery, shirts, collars, neckwear and
that sort of thing receive the same attention.
am now having some new scarfs made from
my own designs in Chicago The material for
my shirts is chosen in advance.
"This season l have some MORE effects In
pink and blue, some Dresden rose patterns on
blue grounds and some in black and blue hair
line stripes. l am going to bring out the
latest thing il Partisan shirt patterns soon, q
large maple leaf woven into the bosom of the
shirt. have both straight link and turnover
cuffs. My collars tall and fare just trif1e in
front. The high turn-down collar is out of
vogue.
'.The fashion OF wearing the neckscarf in
ring is very pretty fashion and was in vogue
here ten years ago. 1t has never gone out of
fashion in more conservative England or in
Paris. am having made three rings from my
designs. One is plain gold buckle, another an
oblong setting of four rubies set in diamonds
and one of emeralds also set in diamonds, the
latter two for evening wear. l am also having
made pair Of link buttons in balls set with
small diamonds.
'I got new lot of pajamas recently. They
are of silk and in pink stripes and yellow
checks. My summer pajamas are loosely
knitted of half and half silk and Isle.
81 carry dozen new hats with me-silk,
Derby, Fedora, straw and also travelling caps
The travelling caps are made from the material
of each of my sack suits. 1 carry thirty pairs
of shoes and am very partial to patent leather
I have just received a halfdozen pairs of
patent leather shoes from Chicago. They have
round toes with plain caps, fancy tops to go
with my light Clothes and are buttoned close
to the vamp. I started the round-toe idea
some months ago to get away from the pointed
toe."
Mr.. Kirk had similar remarks as to other de-
tails of dress. He will be on the coast about
two months,
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

spected and the terms offered by land
owners are mpared. As the territory is
all good and the choice of routes on that
account small, the selection will be de-
termined by the iiberality of the land
owners The value of the road to all lands
over which it passes will be so great that
serious injury will be suffered by progress
sive owners willing to donate the right of
way if others, who wish to take selfish
and short-sighted advantage of the situa-
ton, force the road upon some other route
by demanding damages. The great need
of that whole section for a competing road
is so evident that any obstacle to its rapid
progress would be misfortune.
The operations of the new company
thus far have developed some things that
are entirely new in the history of railroad
operations in California. Whenever ma
terials and labor procurable in California
were needed they have been employed.
Construction has been done honestly and
without the mediation of company or
ganized among the controlling stockhold-
ers to make profit out OF the work. The
policy announced at the start, to charge
only such transportation rates as will pay
a reasonable interest on the investment is
being put in operation by the compilation
of schedules based on tnat proposition.
Nothing fictitious or shady has been re-
sorted to. The result of such a policy
has been to secure popular sympathy
and cooperation hitherto unknown in
California between railroads and the peo-
pie. This will have very important bear
ing on the value of the new company's Sc
curities and the amount of its earnings.
1t will likewise react wholesomely upon
the work of developing the State.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
LET'S GO UNPLEDGED.
San Francisco Miasion Mail.

San Francisco Mission Mail
California wants a Cabinet officer. That is
so say leading Republicans of this City and
State. To accomplish this result they propose
that the delegation to the National RepubH-
can Convention be sent uninstructed so the
delegates will be free to throw solid vote to
any candidate who appears most likely to get
the nomination. By this method, it is claimed,
California will be most likely to get Cabinet
officer. Now, this proposition is good one.
Let the delegation go unpledged by all means.
But in order that there be certainty that the
delegation will agree at the National Conyen-
ton, have the State Republican Convention
send a solid unpledged delegation OF either
Mckinley, Morton, Allison or Reed men to st.
Louis, then an agreement upon any candidate
can be easily reached. 1t will not do at
Sacramento to divide the eighteen delegates
to St. Lo1is among men of different Presiden-
tial preferment, because an agreement cannot
be afterward reached where so great a di-
vergenee of opinion prevails at the start. All
must be for one man, not, as heretofore, di-
vided. Oil and water selected at Sacramento
will not be apt to mix at St Louis. so let US
start right to secure that Cabinet officer-let's
go unpledged with solid delegation for one
candidate
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
NEWSPAPERS AND TRADE.

IHE CALL has repeatedly called atten-
ton to the folly of those of its contem-
poraries that seek to establish larger
circulation by offering chromos, prizes and
thousand forms of fake inducements to
the public. This course of building up or
maintaining paper is journalism in name
only. A newspaper should sell news and
not books, bicycles or baby carriages. 1t
should aim to give its readers the value of
their money in the fullness of its reports
of trade, politics, society and all the
abounding activities of life. If it cannot
give news enough to justify the charge it
makes it should cease to call itself a news
paper and solicit subscriptions only for its
coupons and their chances.
The subject, however, has another as
pect that is too often overlooked. The
press stands in an almost confidential re-
lation to business. The newspaper and
the merchant are allies. They are of 1nu-
tual helpfulness when each is conducted
in Legitimate channels. When the news
paper, however, com bines its press with a
junkshop and proceeds to issue coupons
by which people can get a cheap sort of
books, bicycles or baby carriages at prices
far below what good articles can be sold
for by men who have reputation as hon.
est merchants to maintain, then the press,
instead of being the ally, becomes the foe
of the merchant. Instead of building up
trade it tends to demoralize it, and not in
frequently seriously Injuries business by
introducing into community an over
stock OF cheap articles of one kind or an
other that prevents the sales of the mer-
chant.
If newspaper should undertake to in
troduce cheap labor into community the
workiugmen's unions would very soon
register an effectual protest. The mer-
cantile community, however, seems to
lack this ability to work together. Deal
ers in one branch of trade do not make a
common cause with those of another
branch whose business is assailed by some
new coupon scheme advanced by an ZEN
terprising editor.'' Thus the journalistic
faker is enabled to attack first one branch
OF business and then another with COM
parative impunity. So long as merchants
act with this indifference to mutual in
terest they will always be exposed to the
faker's assaults, and the misfortune of one
branch of trade to-day is likely to be tha
of another tomorrow.
The doctrine of THE CALL has been that
of "live and let live" Competition is hard
enough as it is upon merchants of small
means without having added to it the
tricks and schemes of fake journalism. The
coupon, lottery ticket, prize chrome busi-
ness we regard, therefore, as being doubiy
injurious, inasmuch as it not only degrades
journalism but demoralizes trade 1t is
rapidly becoming one of the great evils of
journalistic and business life and it is
high time that reputable merchants as
well as reputable editors should begin to
take some steps toward abating it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

L'Echo Musical publishes for the first time
story which the late Benjamin GODDARD used to
tell about his experiences in composing one OF
his most popular works: "I once happened to
be spending the summer at st. Valery. and q
druggist in the neighborhood, who was adver-
tising liqueur, made in q convent near by,
came to me and said, Il should like to send my
customers little present. put up with each
bottle and thought thata new work by you
would be very acceptable. Gould you not
compose piece of dance music. so easy that
any young girl could play it to her parents at
first sight?' Easily answered. The price
was agreed upon, and, my visitor having de-
parted, went to the piano and composed
on the first theme that came into my head,
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
CANADIAN COMPETITION.

The recent realization of the harm which
the Canadian Pacific Railway is doing to
American commerce recalls an able mi
nority report made few years ago to the
convention of chambers of commerce of
the Pacific Coast held in this City. A
committee was appointed to consider "the
application of the interstate commerce
law to the American carrying trade of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, or the abolition
OF the bonding system for railway carriage
through foreign territory" A. S. Hallidie
Of this City presented minority report,
but it was not adopted. as popular senti-
ment on the coast had not been sufficiently
educated at that time and was quite diff
ferent from the sentiment to which ripper
experience has given birth.
The recent agitation in Congress on this
subject embraces two propositions-a
withdrawal by the United States of the
bonding privilege enjoyed by the Canadian
Pacific in shipping American goods out of
the United States over the feeders of that
road to the main line, and the granting of
mail subsidy to the Oceanic Steamship
Company to enable it to compete with the
heavily subsidized steamers of the Cana
dian Pacific, to the end that we shall re-
So'Ci q pal VI buS idESc AuSlrdAldn trdIuC
which we have lost through the superior
advantages enjoyed by the Canadian line.
Mr. Hallidie's statement of the situation
in his minority report was the clearest and
ablest ever made. After showing that the
Canadian Pacific was carryin,:: passengers
and freight at rates below those of our
roads he said:
Running from Montreal to Vancouver,
distance of about $500 miles, costing
$161. 100000, the Canadian Pacific has re-
ceived from the Dominion Government
$1O5, ,000, 900 in cash and equivalents and
$11o 100000 in guaranteed securities. It's
property is free from taxation. By the
terms of its charter it has the sole privi-
lege to build or operate railroads west of
Ontario. Its land grant of 5000, 900 acres
is exempt from taxation, as much as is
unsold, for twenty years. An annual
mail contract of $500, 900 has been granted
for connecting line of steamers from its
western terminus to Japan and China,
and for the short road built through the
forests of Maine, by favor of the State; it
receives also from the Dominion of Canada
subsidy of $1S0,000 per annum for twenty
years. 1t has secured the control of lines
| in Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin and Min
nesota, and the United States Government
has granted q franchise for bridge across
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
DISTRESS OF MANUFACTURERS.

Their distress must be great when more
than thousand leading manufacturers
feel obliged to commission score of their
number to go to St. Louis and tell the
Republican Convention that speedy relief
from the hurtful operation of the Wilson
tariff act is necessary to the existence of
the industrial enterprises of this country.
Yet just such committee was appointed
by convention of manufacturers in Phi ila-
delphia the other day. They had given
the Democratic theory of import taxes a
thorough practical test, and they COM
pared notes. The conclusion was that the
country must go back to substa ntially the
schedule of Custom-house charges of 1890
or the wages of industrial operatives would
have to be brought down on parity with
the operatives of Europe. The alternative
remained, of course, to put out the fire in
their furnaces and let their employees seek
living in other channels of occupation.
No stronger or more logical argument
could be submitted for the cause of protec-
ton than the statement, substantiated by
the figures of experience of more than a
thousand owners of American industrial
enterprises, that they cannot longer keep
the machinery of their plants in motion
unless the Nation stands between them
ano the product of the pauper and poorly
paid labor OF the old country, unless they
adopt Europe's wage schedule and reduce
American labor and American manhood
to the level of the industrial centers of the
countries of Europe. In view of these
facts it is not to be wondered at that the
industries of America are up in arms as
one man against the further operation of a
law that steadily but surely gives foreign
countries the privilege of becoming mas
ters in the markets of the United States
upon the ruins of our own industries.
The brain and the Drawn of this country
are in perfect accord with the purpose OF
this committee of manufacturers, and it
may be said that il the st. Louis conven-
ton fails in any particular to emphasize
the determination of the Repu blican party
to right the great wrong which has been
inflicted upon the country by Democratic
incapacity the people Will repudiate the
candidate. But, of course, the convention
will pledge the party to principles which
contemplate the highest good to all the
people. The people of the United States
have been driven close to the abyss of
bankruptcy in the last three years, but
there are still lower depths to sink into,
and because there are, and it is because the
people want the country's business inter-
ests carried away from and out of reach of
Democratic policies and Democratic igno-
rance of the needs and requirements of the
country's business interests, that they are
standing with the manufacturers in their
efforts to thoroughly fortify this country
against invasion by foreign pauper labor
made commodities. The time has come
when it must be made settled and unal-
terable principle of this Government that
the population of the United States shall
never be denied opportunity to earn
homes that employment may be secured
to the people of Europe or of Asia or of
Africa.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
The Delegation to st. Louis-It Should
Be Made Up Of Men of Charac-
ter and G snius and Be
Unpledged.
SAN FRANc1sCo. Cal Anri1 oe

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April %, 1896.
Editor Morning CdIt-DEAR SIR: Since THE
CALL has made its advent under your admins
tration have taken great pleasure in reading
it. I find it healthful and congenial to an old
man OF my age and instructive Tor any and
every age. 1 pleased with many of the
things which appear to me to have the sanction
of the editor and indorsed by other sensible
men of standing.
am delegate to the Sacramento convention
from San Rafael, Marin County. I like plenty
OF silver and like protection, and do not want
to be found advocating that delegates to ST.
Louis be pledged. So far as my voice and in
fuence at Sacramento will go, they shall be for
delegation OF the higher order ofintelligence,
for men OF character and genius and un.
pledged.
Now kindly allow me to be your obedient
servant, r. S. ALEXANDER
35 Steuart street. San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
rank. He has seized the dramatic spirit of the
text in q perfectly marvellous way"

One of the editors of the Partisan newspaper
LIE Temps, has been visiting the Conservatory
of Brussels with an eye to "copy." In writing
up his experiences for LIE Temps this is what
he makes f. A. GeYaert, the director OF the
Conservatory, say about the independence of
the institution: 81 have been quarter of
century at my post. Would you believe that
during that time neither king nor burgomas-
ter, neither the court nor the municipality,
has ever once used influence to make me
take single pupil. You cannot imagine such
state of things in France, but here am in
dependent of the Administrations am as free
as if I were at home. l am judged by results
and no restraint is imposed"
At verviers in Belgium, committee has
been formed to raise monument to Vieux-
temps. The promoters of the plan address
themselves to all those who have personal
souvenirs of the great viol1nist or whose ar
tistic predictions lead them to admire his
works Among those who have already sub
scribed are Marsick, Sarasate, Peter Benoit
and Bazzini. The committee has asked the
Allgemeine Musique-Zeitung to open sub
scription for the monument but there are
some Belgian papers that feel very much
sighted because no one has asked them to do
anything.
A monument is about to be erected at
tha." 1t is interesting to recall the works
written by this composer, nearly all OF which,
with the exception of "Martha," have been
long ago consigned to oblivion. Flotow was
the composer of the following operas: "Peter
and Catherine" "Rob Roy" ''The Duchess of
Guise," "The Shipwreck of the Medusa," "The
Forester" "The Slave of Camoens," "Martha,"
"stradella." "The Grand Princess" ''Rube-
zahl, "Indra," cabin" as we'll as ballet,
incidental music to ''The Winters Tale" and
number of trios, romances, songs, etc.
Plunket Green, besides being a singer OF
great renown, is also we'll known for his wit.
At recent concert at which he sang, through
a typographical error the programme
nounced him as "Plunket Green, soprano"
Mr.. Green took up the programme, looked at
it ana said, "By Jove, I'll take this home to
show my English admirers the effect this
American climate has a mans voice.
Johann Strauss new opera, "Waldmeister,"
has been produced in Berlin with as much
success as it met with in Vienna on its first
production.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
DON'T LET THE WORLD KNOW
YOU'RE DOWN.

The world is wide, remember this,
Nor shrink from fate's deep furrowed fro wn
Woo fortune with your brightest smiles,
Don't let the world know when you're down.
It spoils your chance for future deeds
To frame your face with dull cares crown;
Brace up, and higher hold our head,
Don't let the world know when you're down.
The world w i'll bow in servile zest
To one who sways il with frown;
Toss up your head and flash your eye,
Don't let the world know when you're down.
II scandals lip would seek to stain
The name you hold as honor's crown,
BY your own life refute the lie,
Don't let the world know when you're down.
II bare your purse, v our heart most sad,
Your Life near crushed by sorrows crown,
Then mask them well with Jest and song,
Don't let the world know when you're down.
Detroit Free Press.