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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
AN UNEXPECTED SPIRIT.

1t appears that, after all, there are
the stranger things in heaven and
EARTH, and all the rest, as Hamlet
said. Who would have imagined that
the docile hobby horse, harnessed to
the harmless merry-go -round, would
develop vicious tendencies and plunge
and rear? Yet it is true. An Associ-
ated Press dispatch from San Rafael
tells about it in the following words:
A novel suit has been brought by Fannie
B. Clarke. She wants $25, 600 for injuries
sustained while riding a hobby horse at Ell
Campo, a summer resort. The horse, which
was on a merry go-round, owned by the de-
PENDANT, became unmanageaDle, through the
noise OF the music. The lady was thrown
and SO badly hurt that she may be disabled
for life.
There has never been suspicion that
the gentle demeanor of the hobby horse
was only a ruse to hide the fires of
spirit that were concealed beneath the
CLASSY eyes and painted coat. Trained
to patient endurance, the plunging
chargers have galloped about the lit
tie circle of the merry go-round with
no signs on the surface OF the deSper-
ate deeds that were seething in bass
wood brains. Though all unknown, it
was only question of time when stol-
id endurance would give way to frac-
tious vigor, and now it has come. Flu
ture care will not mend Mrs. Clarke,
but it will protect hundreds of happy
children, who have played knight errant
on the wonderfully-cons steeds
with no thought of peril But the hob
by horse should not be judged too
harshly. Merry go-round music is not
soothing, and perhaps the jangle of
the hurdy gurdy in this case would
have caused even wooden hippograf,
with canton flannel ears, to bolt.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
TWO WAYS OF CHARTER MAKING.

The departure made by Minnesota III
the old method of providing govern
ment for the municipalities of the
state, by renting to the people of the
cities the framing of their own organic
law, is bearing it's first fruits in the
neapolis 1t will be time enough to
judge of the fruit when it ripens into a
completed charter but the occasion is
opportune for comparison between
the former method of making these So
called charters and that being pursued
by the commission in our sister city
1t will be manifestIy improper to term
the rules framed by such commissions
and ratified by the voters charters,
however properly that name was given
the governing acts enacted by legisla-
1ege or power made by superior, and
city charter was grant of the pow
ers enumerated made by the sou
ereign state, without which the city
would be powerless. The laws framed
by these home-rule commissions are
the exercise of the inherent right Of
government and should be termed
municipal constitutions.
Under the former method the legis
lative delegation of city prepared the
charters or their amendments. They
were generally composed Of few men
without special fitness for such work,
some of them without any, usually pol
iticians concerned mostly in getting
partisan advantages through the char
ter. Special interests, that find profit
in city franchises and contracts for
the various public works, were always
alert and attentive supervisors of this
work. The general public took but lit
tie interest in it because they were be-
ing governed, not governing them
selves. Later, the public growled when
they found the plumbers that cost them
dearly or the jobs came to light that
were concealed in the charter. The I'M
PROJECTIONS. inseparable from work
done in this manner, necessitated pei
petual tinkering, and now and then a
complete reconstruction of the charter
to be again amended and displaced.
The best Of these charters had in it the
unrepublican principle of government
by a superior power instead of gov
eminent of the people by the people
and their construction moved on the
same line, the assumption that the
mass had nothing to say, no right to
be consulted or heard. This, of course,
was not openly declared, but the
method of work implied it,
In the work Of the Minneapolis COM
mission we see a very different method
and one more in accord with demo-
cratic government. The commission
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
THE IMpERIsHABLE IDIOT.

Nothing is more wonderful to a man
who considers this an enlightened age,
and who boasts of the rapid advance
of intelligence and education, than to
read in the daily papers the reports of
confidence games that are constantly
worked upon the unwary. We know
that there is q whole army of unscru-
pulous gentry in the country who live
wits. One cannot help being entertain
ed by their fertility of invention in
devising constantly new schemes for
swindling the public. There is real
genius in some of the plans that they
have worked out for compass sing unlaw-
full gains 1t is not these, however
that surprise u.s. but the fact that there
is no confidence scheme SO ancient, so
thoroughly ventilated and so imbecile
on it's face that it cannot find plenty of
victims. The old adage of the gambler,
that there is a sucker born every min
ute, seems to be literally true; and the
ages cannot add wisdom to the mental
furnishing of the imperishable idiot.
Take, for instance, the scheme that
has been worked with most success
recently in this city. It is what is
called 1.-The lock game and a more
infantile device, never suggested Itself
to the mind of man. 1t is hard to be-
lieve that any man outside of an asy-
lum for detectives could be taken in
by it, To make it work it is necessary
for the victim to be accosted and en-
Then the two engage in stroll about
the city, when they are met by third,
who carries in his hand what looks like
lock of rather peculiar construction.
The two confidence men practice try
ing to open this lock, and one of them
seems to know how, while the other
full fellow gives the tip to the stranger,
while the other vainly wrestles with
the lock. Not being able to open it, he
offers to bet S. that the victim cannot.
Either of two results may follow. Some
spring may be touched in the lock that
sets the bolt so that the man loses his
bet. Most generally, however, third
confederate appears on the scene at
this stage. throws back the lapel of
his coat. exposing an officers star, and
places the whole party under imaginary
arrest for violating an alleged ordi-
nance against gambling. Rather than
be locked up In a strange city and sent
to prison for an unknown term, the fool
usually gives up all the money he has
about him.
It would seem utterly impossible,
when one studies this plan on its mer-
it's. that it should work with any
body. The bursp man has become so
universally recognized, and has been
exposed and explained SO often in the
newspapers and Fhe police courts, that
everybody bmight be supposed to be
onto MIN. loWo IN 'iii' se1iiie .i
tim must permit himself to be drawn
into close association with two entire
strangers. and must make a bet of a
considerable sun of money on con-
trivance about. which he knows nothing.
He must believe that all this is genuine
and he must be1 ignorant of the fact
hos nj
somebody every day for unknown
years. 1t goes on just the same, and
meets with unusual and apparently in
creasing success Legislation against
crime appears to be confronted with a
new and stupendous problem. 1t can
! deal with the law-breaker easily ana
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

pretty effectually. It is impotent as a
protection to the man whom nature has
not gifted with intelligence, and whose
wits experience has not sharpened AS
nature ordains the survival of the fit
test and the determination of the fool,
it would appear that law is impetent
to reverse her DEGREES.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

Now that the United States has seen fit
to move in regard to the Cuban matter, we
hope that there will net be a single back
ward step taken.-Litchtieid News-Lsdger.
The only backward steps that have been
taken so far are by you uns who wanted Spain
and Cuba and the rest Of the world to wait
until Mckinley got in, and then fur was
going to fly, Spanish fur. Mae would make
them spaniards walk Spanish out'n Cuba in
a hurry
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
THE opULENT DAYS OF THE YEAR

These are the opulent days Of the
year, when Nature sits at ease, resting
from her toll, watching the garnering
of it's fruits and making ready for the
sleep of winter. The year is her day:
the springtime its morning; the mid
summer, when blossom has turned into
fruit that hastens to it's ripening, its
noon; and the autumn, when tina.
which has been sown and planted is
reaped and garnered, is it's afternoon.
Now is it's twilight, when the day
fades away and rest comes and peace
and contentment. In her morning she
bade the sun and the wind and the
rain make ready for her tasks, and the
sun kissed the chilled earth, and his
pulses began to throb, and the frown
he had worn all winter was smoothed
ready to deck himself out in all his
finery.
The wind came up from the South
and walked the trees and the mead
ows and babe them put their houses
in order for the song birds that were
coming. The rain came and fell soft
ly and went down into the ground into
that marvellous laboratory where ma
ture keeps her wonderful mechanism
and all her wonder-making material,
the daintiest sweets, the most gor-
geOuS and tha most daIiooto Of ooIop-
and all that homelier material that
gives and sustains all life And the
sun sent his warmth down, and the two
made ready the workshop and prepared
the material for the summers work.
The husbandmen went afield and SOW
ed and planted and narrowed, while
the sun shone and the winds blew and
the rain fell out of the sky, and the
birds sang and the trees shook out
their leaves and the grass came I'D and
the dandelions yellowed the pastures
The sun and the wind and the rain
did their share Of the work, the hus
bandmen theirs. and the harvest is
over, the grain gathered, the fruit rim
ened, and Nature smiles as she rests
and looks out upon her work. for il
was good, and the harvest is large. And
the contented husbandman feasts his
eyes on the stacks that hold the COLDER
grain and upon the fields where tba
heavy ears of corn bend with their
weight and hang pendant from the
stalks, and he listens to the lowing of
the COWS as they come from the pas
ture, and the scent of the hay in the
NOW perfumes the air he breatbes IT.,
too' smiles as he rests, for his work
was good and his harvest is large. And
the good wife has gathered the fru;t
OF the trees and bushes and vines and
sang as she put them through all those
mysterious processes of her kitchen r.,
Keep them good against the DAVIS who,
the leaves have fallen and the SNOW
covers the earth as her white coverlets
deck the beds in her chambers III,
cattle, fat with the heritage of tba nas
lures, lie under the trees and leisure,,,
chew their cuds, for they, too bava
cone their part in the great DAVIS vor1,
OF the old mother of us all Let nc
Joice and be thankful
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

A rnmor is afioat that ex-President Cieyc-
land would like to represent New jersey in
the United States Senate. He would make
a model senator as that body is now cell
battar opinion of their own seif-importance.-
ChatfieId Democrat.
Among which few there fingers suspicion
that the editor Of the Democrat will be emu
merated when the census is competed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

number If Miss Bessie Wilson's young
friends gave her an agreeable surprise Satur-
day evening by dropping in to spend the
evening. A nice time, oil course, was the
result-Alexandria Citizen.
We should think she was surprised We
would be surprised if she had net been sur
prised. And her nice time" was, doubt
less, in picking UP the young friends VINO
dropped in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

Times are improving in st. Paul. The
G 10 be only has couple of columns this
morning devoted to forg5ries h0.d-ups strong
arm work pickpockets, lc,ck games, ETC., and
it really looks as if prosperity was at hand
for the "grafters Saltwater Gazette.
Times aren't improving 50 much as "eur
best are. After the Glob told them what
the crooks were doing the two chiefs declared
that something must be done to stop It.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

President Mckinley evidently does not over
look many OF his poor relations when it
comes to filing appointiye ofiices.-Pine
Island Record.
Mr.. Mckinley. you should know, is To-
gician. His syllogism runs thus: Protec
ton is charity. Charity begins az home.
Therefore protection begins at home. -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
TCDAY.S WEATHER.
AHHkNrC

Barometer, 3O.15; mean temperature, q;
relative humidity, 50; wind at p M, south
east; weather, clear; maximum temperature,
So; minimum temperature, so; daily range,
rs amount of precipitation in last twenty
four hours, 0.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

ers. We are, therefore iriven to the
conclusion that this profound observa-
ton of the Tribune is but another of
its Bunsbyisms
If the Jack Bunsby OF the Tribune
will turn to the first volume of Nc
Masters History of. the People of the
United States he will get good deal
of needed information as to what the
founders must have intended in the de-
seription of what they provided. The
common school was kept two months
in winter for the boys and two in sum
mer for the girls. The master boarded
round" His labors We're confined to
teaching his scholars to read with a
moderate degree of fiuency, to write
legibly, to spell with some regard for
the rules of photography, and to know
as much of arithmetic as would enable
them to calculate the interest on a
note, to keep the family accounts and
to make change in a shop" Noah Web
ster had just published the first spell
ing book. Geography was rather a
fad When the boy left these district
schools and went to some academy or
seminary he found masters who knew
no way to impart knowledge except by
the rod To sit eight hours a day on
the hardest of benches porting over
Cheevers Accidence; to puzzle over
long words in Dilworth's speller; to
commit to memory pages of words in
Webster's American Institute; to read
long chapters in the Bible; Ito learn by
heart DR.. Watts hymns for children;
to be drilled in the Assembly cate
chism made up, with morning
and evening prayer, the life of the lads
at most of the academies and schools
of New England" Under this system
of the founders Trumbull, the artist,
spent three weeks in vain endeavor
to solve an example in long division,
and Josiah Quincy went over his Ac
cidence twenty times" We apprehend
the less the Tribune's Jack Bunsby has
to say about the intentions of the
founders of our government as to what
should be taught in the schools the bet
ter it will be for his reputation for
knowing what he is talking about.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

N6te-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. p. F. Lyons, Observer.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-17
A KITTEN IN A HORSES THROAT.
The CarnivOrOus Taste OF the Latter
Animal Almost Causes Its Death.


Animal Almost Causes Its Death.
From the New York Tribune.
Pulver Michel is, or was, the name of
big bay horse belonging to the Kruger
Brewing Company, in Newark, that tried
to swallow a live kitten and was nearly
strangled in the operation. The stable
men now call the horse "Katzenfresser"
Pulver Michel or Powder Michael" so
named because of his disposition, is a pc
culiar animal He has carnivorous tastes
and Will eat meat with as much gusto as
the average horse devours hay or oats
One day, while standing htched to a
wagon in Jersey City, he ate a large
quantity of beefsteak from a butchers
stand, and the driver had to pay 81 for the
animals extraordinary meal.
There is a cat with several kittens in
the Kruger Brewing Company's stables
The litter is four weeks old. Last Sat
urday the mother eat took a fancy TO re-
move her progeny from the place where
she had hidden them to the Manager of
Pulver Michers stall. She knew the
horse, and had established friendly rela-
tons with him. So the cat leaped into
the Manager with a kitten in her mouth
dropped her burden in the hay of the man.
ger, and departed to- bring a second kit
ten. Pulver Michel had never seen kit
ten, and, shifting at 1t, recognized In it a
piece of fresh and tender meat. HIS great
mouth opened and gathered in the kitten
and then trouble began. The kitten stuck
in his throat and used its claws. Pulver
Michel stamped and kicked, and the COM
motion aroused the other horses in the
stable, which stamped and squealed.
The old cat returned to the manger and
ran about searching for her first kitten. A
stableman ran into Puiver Michels stall
and, seeing blood running from the horses
mouth, called a veterinary surgeon who
found that Pulver Michel was choking
His eyes were dilated, and there was a
large lump in his throat. The tongue was
scratched and bleeding from the Kittens
claws.
The surgeon thrust his hand into the
horses mouth to try to extract the OBJ
ject, but could not reach il. Looking
around, the stableman saw the mother cat
moving In the manger, and said: "PI
bet it's one of the kittens" He hunted
up the litter and found that one MAS gone.
The kitten was evidently stlll alive in Pull
yer Mlchers throat, and, as It could not be
extracted, the surgeon manipulated II by
his hands, and forced 1t down the throat
into the stomach. Then he gave Pulver
Michel some pepsln and muratic acid. to
help digestion. Pulver Michel has been
sick since Saturday. but Is getting over
his experience, and Will be at work In
fow days.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-17

ginning of the trouble, and the only thing
clear to him was that his supposedly hon
est customer bad made an astonishingly
bold attempt TO steal a wheel from the
rack. There was only one thing TO be
done. Jumping upon another wheel he
joined in the chase, and the three scorch-
ed up the boulevard in admirable racing
style. The real thief proved to be the
poorest rider of the three, as the shop
keeper was unquestionably the best, and
the result OF this state of affairs was that
the distance between the different mem
bers of the trio grew speedily less. Az they
drew together a truck crossed the avenue.
crowding them into a small space. The
rate at which they were going precluded
any dismounting and the three came an
to collision with resounding crash. Be-
fore they had fairly extricated themselves
policeman appeared. His first PROPOSE
ton was TO run them all In for scorch.
ing but, impressed by the unusual ex-
element of his prisoners, who seemed to
be more disturbed in mind than ordinary
scorchers, he waited to hear their stories
This, as may be imagined was no short
task. The genuine theft was the only one
who saw humor in the situation. Know
ing that he had nothing to say for him.
self, he stood by and grInned, while the
shopkeeper and his customer eputtered out
angry and conflicting accounts of the af-
fair But the truth was finally ascertain-
ed. AS he collared the guilty man and dis
missed the other two the policeman am
nounced that no charge of scorching
would be pressed against anybody.
IF have two or three more cases like
this to settle" he remarked to a bystand-
err Its lawyer I'll be calm meself in
stead of an officer"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-17
FEELERs IN PLACE OF EYES.
New Facts About Blind Ftsh-Cnn
Live Long without Food.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The most abundant species of blind hsh
Is about five inches long when full grown.
Its body is perfectly smooth and its skin
has no pigment, so that It is translucent,
and the entire fish has a plnkish appear
ance. resembling a skinned caulsh.
About the head, especially in the young
fish are many ella or feelers, giving
fuzzy appearance in the case of young fish.
These feelers take the place Of eyes to
some extent. but In spite Of them the fish
frequently runs against the walls OF It's
cavern or some other obstacle. IT is pro-
tected from injury, however by It's long
lower law. which acts as a bumper. In It's
native caverns the blind fish has practi-
callv no enemies. 1t, therefore, IS quite de-
VOID of that shyness that characterzes
most fishes, and ii may be taken with the
hand. If care Is observed about making
any sudden jar that agitates the water
Bv means Of its sensitive feelers II can
recognize any motion about It IN the wa
ter. but no amount Of noise attracts It's
attention. for 1t seems to be as devoid of
ears as Of eyes.
II is not quite correct, however, TO i'm
nlv that the blind fish has no eyes. 1t
is. indeed. absolutely blind, but 1t never
theless has the rudments Of eyes, RENT
niscent Of that very remote time when its
ancestors lived in the light and could see
az well as other fishes. Prof Eidenmann
has made some highly important micro
scopic sections of these rudimentary eyes,
and compared with them sections of the
ewes of normal fishes. He finds in the de-
generated eyes rudlments of all the main
LAYERS Of cells that are found In the nor
NAL eve. but in a very aborted condition.
Thus. the crystalline lens is represented
bv a mere dot composed of but few
microscopic cells. The optic nerve Is even
more rudimentary, so that there IS abso-
lutely no nervous connection between the
abortive eye and the brain. Thus 1t Is alb
golutely certain that the blind fish cannot
detect the slightest trace Of light with its
rudimentary eye. Yet. strangely enough,
it has been determined by Prof Eden
mann that the blind fish may appreciate
the presence of light in some other way.
It's native caverrs are absolutely dark
dark as no night IN the outer world ever
Is. But II the fish Is brought out into the
light, 1t seems to appreciate the change
In its conditions-somewhat perhaps, as a
plant appreciates the difference between
light and darkness. Doubtless such a
documentary constituencies TO light as this
may be property Of all animal bodies