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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
GORMAN's COMPROMISE.

Mr.. German is great on compromises.
He has never yet learned of any prin-
ciple at stake in political action so i'm
portant or soul-stirring that it might
not be bartered away, if 1T seemed
necessary, in order to harmonic con-
flicting elements for the sake of carry
ing an election. Victories at the polls
first is Mr.. Germans idea, and policies
and points of right and wrong can look
after themselves later. This Is the
nature of the man., and no experience
can make him otherwise. 1t was for
Mr. German that the compromise
on the Wilson tariff bill was made
which reconciled, temporarily, the two
wings of the party In the senate-with
results affecting the party at large that
were shown in the elections of 1894 and
1896.
The Maryland senator shows the
fine work of his practiced hand in the
platform of the recent Democratic con-
vention in his state. There was more
legitimate field here for the exercise of
his talent, because there can be no
united upon financial policy, and he
who brings them together without the
sacrifice of principle will deserve well
of his party and of his country.
1t is more than open to doubt, how
ever, whether the method is the one to
accomplish that desirable object. 1t
is not really a compromise at all, but
an agreement to drop out Of sight, for
the time being, the matter in conten-
ton, and to use ambiguous and sooth-
ing terms, which will persuade each
that if has won a victory
1t would have been sensible if
Mr. German had obtained the con-
sent Of both factions Of the par
ty to omit all reference to the
currency question. 1t would have
been sensible if they had agreed upon
a ratio for coinage between gold and
silver or upon any other plan that
promised a permanent ground of meet
did was to put out a long string of
resolutions on the financial question,
which means nothing whatever, except
in as far as they appear to boom the
mission. The; free silver Democrats
will be Disguised thoroughly with this
catering to what they believe to be a
false and foolish policy, and the gold
Democrats will be equally disguised
with the twaddle about ''the money of
the constitution" and money of final
redemption;" as if a dollar that is legal
tender in payment of all debts, except
where otherwise specifically stated in
the contract, was not money of final
redemption.
While it is always gratifying to find
Democrats getting together in a SEN
sible way, as they ought to do, trying
to harmonic their differences and
working together for the redemption of
the country from the rule of the evil in
f1uences that dominate Republicanism,
there is no use in winking at obvious
facts, in sticking your head into a dark
closet and imagining that your whole
body is there, or in making up COM
premises that do not compromise. The
people want solid conviction and loyal
adherence to it. They admire an earn
est man who is wrong much more than
a trimmer who is right. We do not
find In Mr.. Germans compromise a
basis for anything serviceable to De-
mocracy or hopeful for it's future.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

This plan will work That of the Sun is
inane and impotent. When an emergency
came it would break down utterly and leave
the government stranded. The Sun must try
again.-Chicago Tribune.
Thus our contemporary closes a column of
sober and serious argument with its newly
arrived party associate, apparently oblivious
that the Sun brings with it all that fervor of
greenbacksm that made Ben Butler its only
suitable candidate for the presidency in 1884
One of the sights that stir laughter is that
presented by this venerable old advocate
of cheap paper money larruping the other
fellows who clamor for cheap silver money,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
Slight Difference in Figures.

few days ago twenty -one bids were
opened for the interior finish of the United
States postoffice building at Milwaukee.
The lowest was that of st. Paul firm, call
ing for $249,i49. and the highest that of a
Minneapolis firm for 1897. 270, a difference
of $142, S2l, although both bidders are practi-
caly located side by side. Here. again, exact
science appears to have operated very differ
emily under precisely the same conditions
and the result raises the question. Which
of the two Twin Cities is ahead in this mat
ter? Has Minnie more reason to be proud;
of the bulging magnitude of her figures than
Paul of being the successful bidder?-Wash-
ington Post.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
You may be great, but you truly seem
Guilty OF willfuI blindness,

fou may be great, but you truly seem
Guilty OF willful blindness,
TIL you learn to garner the richest cream
From the milk Of human kindness.
-Bede's Budget.
That's all right, Jadam, and we applaud
The sentiment But the | O b Gosh" man
would tell you that they don't garner
cream.-Cloquet Pin Knot.
Common nlortals, milkmaids and such,
skim" cream, and ornery creamery men
gather" cream; but poets are neither, and
II they have to use a dissyI1abe instead of
monosyllable to keep their meter on its
feet traditional custom accords them license.
But 1T would be sight for the angels to see
Jadam, In his birch bark panties, down in
the spring milk house, skimming cream from
that kind of milk
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
ANOTHER MUDDLED PER CENTER

The editor of the Liquor Trade Re-
view," in a letter to the New York
Times, directing attention to the gen.
eral adulteration of liquors of all
kinds, says:
OF course. a retailer, whether his establish
ment is on the Bowery or on upper Broadway
has the right to retail his goods at any figure
he pleases, but if he does so at a price 100
or $50 per cent less than do his neighbors, he
is certainly open to the reasonable suspicion
OF selling adulterated or deleterious liquors
Here again crops out this astounding
misconception of percentages. We
have had a senator of the United
States bemoaming the reduction of the
number of sheep in his state 900 per
cent; we have had a representative in
congress Incorporating in the undying
pages of the Record statement that
bill proposed the. reduction of a tax
$50 per cent: We have even had the
Northwestern organ Of paternalistic
government stating that something Or
other, whose identity has escaped our
memory, was or would be reduced
lover 100 per cent and now comes an
editor of trade paper alleging that
a retailer of drinks who reduces his
price 100 or $50 per cent, lays himself
open to a reasonable suspicion of sell
ing adulterated liquors. We should
say that any editor who can say that
a retailer can reduce the price of a
drink $50 per cent lays himself open to
the certainty of not knowing what he
is talking about.
What is there in percentage that so
confuses the minds of men? Or is it
that percentage is innocent and that
such absurd statements as those cited
are due to muddled brains? 1t seems
that child's mind might comprehend
and hold the idea that one hundred
per cent is the. whole Of anything:
that to reduce a thing one hundred per
is nothing to reduce after the reduc-
ton reaches the hundredth point. To
give effect to the arithmetic of the
Review it would. be necessary for the
retailer who reduced his price 100 per
cent to give away his liquor for moth
ing and, when he reduced it $50 per
cent, to give with each gratuitous
drink something worth half the origin
al price.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

some figuring also. including some data
pfopaply inadvertently omitted by the
court journal, but re ally quite necessary
to have in order to ascertain what may
be termed the incidence of the prosper
ity claimed by the Times-Herald. The
omitted data are The par values of the
railway and industrial. or trust stocks.
whose increase in value the TIL. pa
redes. 1t finds that the par value of
the railway stocks is $2,S35. 100000, and
the percentage Of increase on this Is
S'4 per cent,I The par value of the
trust stocks 1859, 500, 600 in round num-
bers. and the rate of increase in their
value is fraction over 80 per cent.
The cause Iof these increases Yields
readily to an easy analysis. Railways
have been increasing their earnings for
some time, and the crop prospects give
promise of largely increased earnings
from the movement of the enormous
crop now ripened or fastening to the
sickle. 1t is altogether probable that
general business feels a forward i'm
pulse now that, with the tariff fixed for
some time. business can adjust itself
to the radical changes made. In this
promise of stability all investments
share and feel the effects in the stiffen-
Ing of their values But the increase
IN the railway stocks, representing
properties affected only injuriously by
the new law, is nearly normal and in
dexes the general increase, while the
movement Of the trust stocks beyond
the normal Of the railways, is attrfbut-
able to the monetary advantages they
have secured in the new bill 1t repre-
sents the conception of the street of the
money value of the tariff to these
stocks. This is easily seen when one
takes the two tariff acts and compares
the difference in the protection" af-
forded the industries represented by
these trusts. The street indicated it's
estimate Of the effect of the sugar tax
by sending trust stocks up 81 share.
NOIIoA I'll, 1CDaccO, Ledu, wine anu
other trust stocks find their increased
value in the Increased rates given the
products they control More prosper
Gus they are, of course, but the con-
sumers Of their products furnish the
prosperity in increased prices. Pros
perity that merely changes the distr1-
button of wealth and creates none, is
calamity, not prosperity.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
BUSINESS is BETTER.
So Say Seventy Per Cent of the job.
berS Questioned.

CHICAGO, July 29.-The Wholesale
Grocer will publish tomorrow answers
from Jobbers all over the country to
questions regarding trade. The replies
are from jobbers in twenty-seven states
and 80 per cent show an increase in
the volume of business for the first
half of 81, as compared with the same
period last year; 80 per cent report the
volume about the same, and 20 per cent
note a decrease. he question if de-
Unite Improvement in conditions was
recognized was answered affirmatively
by 70 per cent. Sectionally Ga per cent
of the jobbers in the Southern states,
65 in the Eastern, 20 from the Western.
and 50 per cent from the central states
said yes" to the Improvement ques-
ton.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
Places for Republ.cans.

WASHINGTON. July pa statement pre-
pared at the treasury department shows that
increases the exemptions from the civil serv-
ice competitive examination from GO to PIG
in the internal revenue service, and in the
customs department 348 positions are added
to the exempt class, and $50 places hitherto
outside the rules have been brought within
them. All of the exempt places, however,
subject to rigid competitive exam
nation, conducted by the civil service COM
mission.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

The voracity of congress in infinite No
matter how vast the revenues of the gov
eminent may be, the prof1igacy Of political
demagogues seeking reelection by means Of
appropriations for their districts will consume
them.-Chicago Tribune.
Those from Chicago, for instance, demand
ing and getting 500, 900 to deepen and widen
the inner harbor Of that town, and the Trib-
une calling thst8, sum only IAN entering
wedge" The voracity-of Chicago is quite up
to the congressional mark.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

OF longitude and time in the latter. Get the
longitude Of Eastport and Of Cape Wrangeii;
compute the difference in time; find the time
OF sunrise at Eastport on June Il. and see
what time 1t must be at the Cape. Then re-
verse the process, taking sunrise at the Cape
on December Fl, If you can find one, and then
go and tell some more people that "the sun
never sets on the United States"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

Borrowed brains without credit is the way
some OF our country contemporaries are run
ming political paragraphs from Washington at
present.-Lamberton Star.
quite extended observation and comparison
brings the conclusion to us that the readers
of such papers are better served in the way
OF syntax and prosody, and, perhaps, in the
way of information, than if the matter in the
papers were the product of the EDITORS own
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

WASHINGTON. July 29.-Wilbur r. Glass
of South Dakota. was today appointed consul
to Kiel, Germany. This IS the place held
by John II. Drake, of South Dakota, under
the Harrison administration, and for this
reason was claimed by the Republicans from
tlp;t state 1t is presumed that the appoint
mont of Glass was made on recommendation
of Senator Kyle. The place pays $1,000 pei
annum and fees. and Glass will have the ap-
DointmAnt of two deputies who receive fees
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

There is a greae deal of satisfaction in the
fact that the youngerS element in the Demo
cratic ranks has cbmes over to the idea of pro-
tection.-AppIeton Tribune.
McEnery, old enough to be the grandfather
of the Tribune's editor, is the only ''young
cement that weht over body and breeks to
that idea, and we will try to survive the loss
comforted by the iSgreat deal of satisfaction"
it affords our contemporary.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
South st. Paul Postmaster.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-The president has
appointed the following postmasters:
Iowa-James A. Henderson, Cherokee; Ma
than L. Trevitt, Fort Madison.
Minnesota-E. F. Gould, South St Paul
Wisconsin-Cayton H. Underhll, Sharon.
number of these are reappointments, oc-
casioned by failure of confirmation of previ-
Gus nominations sent to the senate.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
Canal Board Named.

WASHINGTON July 29-The secretary of
war has appointed the special board provided
for in the sundry civil appropriation bill to
make survey and examination, including
estimates of cost, of deep waterways between
the Great Lakes and the Atlantic tidewater
The personnel of the board Is as follows: NAL
Charles w. Raymond, corps of engineers
Alfred Noble, Of Chicago, and George Y. Wis
ner, of Detroit
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
GLOBES VOTING CONTEST WELL BE
CLOSED AUG. IA TO CATCH
BOATS.
CLOSE OF THE LAKE SEASON
CoMPELS A CHANGE IN THE ORIG
INAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR
THE FINISH.
1T rs STILL A LIVELY RACE.
Contestants I'm the Rear Are Pulling
Up With the Leaders More Or
Less Surely.

Owing to the fact that the regular
season of the Northern Steamship COM
pany's palatiale lake boats closes Sept.
1, it has been found necessary to make
an important change in the G o b e s
great popular voting contest, and while
the same magnificent offer remains
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

VIII some one please explain why it is that
the avearge Democratic platform can never
tell the truth ?-Mandan Pioneer.
Because you wouldn't recognize the truth
II 1t should walk up to you and say: Howdy?
Where have you been since the war?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

The efforts of the secyetary Of agriculture to
create demand. Tor american butter in the
European countries Is, Beginning to bear fruit
Park Rapids Enterprise.
An Iowa college has picked all the ''fruit'
the secretary's effort is bearing so far. And
the general market price is saggng under it,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
TnnAY,S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-Forecast for Fri
day: Minnesota: Generally fair; cooler in
southeast portion; variable winds, becoming
northeriy.
The Dakotas: Generally fair; variable
winds.
Wisconsin: Generally fair; cooler in west
ern portion; light southerly winds.
Montana: Generally fair; variable winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture.
Weather Bureau, Washington, July 29, GAS
p. m. Local Time, p. m. 18th Meridian
Observations taken at the same mo-
ment of time at all stations.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

While addressing the people at the ceiebra-
ton last Saturday, we mentioned the fact
that the sun never set on the United States.-
Kittson Enterprise.
If you told the people any such thing as
that you would better get out your geography
and your arithmetic, and study UP the table
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

as, canada; Edward d. Winsiow, illinois,
consul at Stockholm, Sweden; ii. A. kurger'
North Carolina, at Panama, Columbis James
H. Johnston, New Jersey, at ShefieL Eng
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30

DAILY MEANS.

Barometer. IS; mean temperature, II;
relative humidity, &c; wind at p. m, south;
weather, partly cloudy; maximum tempera-
ture. 80; minimum temperature. 81; daily
range, %; amount of precipitation in last
tWenty-fOur hours O.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
Cut the Coupon

out of every G l o b e you see and send
1t to the be office at once, as they
are only good two days after publ
cation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-30
RIVER AT s A. NJ.
GETTING SCARED.

Note Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation p. F. Lyons, Observer.
The morning times., 1897-01-11
STOLE The PARLOR CHAIR
Handiest Thing Charles GraysOn
Could Find Around.
Bicycle Taken From in Front of
a Hotei-Thief in Doc
tors Stable.

Three scasGS~of robbery were reported by
Inspector Hollinberger's central detective
office yesterday.
b Charles GEayson, a colOred man, about
twenty five years of age, was met by De
tectivcs ~WeednE, Horne and Lacey, Satur-
day night, coming out of the house of
Mary Gordon, No 46l Missouri avenue,
with anfHncy parlor chair i'll his arms. The
officers nabbed him, and carried him 10
police Headquarters.
Era ts6n took his arrest stocially and ad-
mitted that he, had appropriated the chair
To his own use because it was the handiest
thing he could fine TO steal. He told the
officers that he no d at one time trained
for tie ring under i PriZe Fighter Muldoon.
''Ise jus tryin' t make d record for
myself he said.
He saic lie began his record in Alexandria
a few months ago, when he made some
trivial theft and was sent to the chain
gang he made his escape, carrying the
balls and cham away with him ON his
feet
Grayson also claimed 10 be grandson OF
Ike Sinner, one OF the best known coIorcd
crooks in the city in olden days.
Mr.. J. Hart Britain, manager of the
Columbia Riding Academy, reported to the
detectives that he left his bicycle in front
Of Wizards Hotel, Saturday evening while
he went inside. When he returned it was
gone, and there is no clew 70 the thief.
DR.. L. y. WiIlston, No. 331 Fourteenth
street, reported that his stable in the rear
of No. 1858 Cedar street, had been entered
some time, Saturday night, by thief, who
carried away horse blanket, lap robe
and q TIr hin
The morning times., 1897-01-11
LIKE GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK
Twelfth Street Station Policemen
Mystifed by a Ticker.
Ancient Affair, Weighing. Two
Pounds, Found in a Pile of
Rubbish-No Owner.

1T is the mystery Of q watohman's
clock" mIUyered an officer Of Lieut.. Amiss'
precinct, as he entered the Twelfth street
sta-ion-housc, aud caught hold Of small,
round, leather case, with a brass ring
sticking from tne top, that hung from a gas
jet by leather strap. There was au
animated ticking going on inside the case
Isn't there a claimant for 1t yet27'
asked another officer.
No" said the station-xeeper.
Its q coricr and an enigma said the
first officer, as he leJ the suspended time
piece swing back into place.
Tie clock had been iii the station-house
since Friday evening. Mike Cannateila.
allttle Italian boy, and party Of companions
were playing in the alley in the rear of
the Ebbitt HoIse just at dusk, when they
came across the trash box of the big hotel.
Mike saw the strap OF the clock sticking
from the surface Of the rubbish and with
boyish instinct realized its value as an
article OF amusement.
He Immediately began drawing it from
its surroundings Presently the heavy clock
came along with the rest.
--Huny gee,' exclaimed Nike.
"Swipe it, advised his companions 49,
''Wo: is it?'' asked every one
Take > cr TO de joint an git de rewarJl,-
suggested the business youth OF the crowd
III turn 'er over to de perlice,'' said
Mike, as he started on a run for the sta
ton house.
The clock is a heavy brass affair en-
cased in leather. 1t is almost as large
around as an ordinary saucer and weighs
probably two pounds. There was no key
with the clock and it could not be opened.
IT is made to bc wound by different keys
and each one registers
When new the clock costs about $50 lit
is said. The clock viii run eight days, and
it was still ticking d way last night at the
station house.
The police have made every effort to
find an owner for tire umepiece, but have.
thus far been unsuccessful. 1t does not
belong 10 the hotel. it was said there, nor
could a claimant be found in any of the
neiglbo1ing business houses. 1t remains
at the station house.
The morning times., 1897-01-11
INSTITUTION INCORPORATED.
Articles Were Secured at Chicago
forsa a Big Bank.

Chicago, H., Jan. 10.-Ardcles OF In
corporation were secured yesterday at the
state auditors office at Springfield for
what is lesign to be the largest banking
Institution west Of New Y ork city The
concern is styled the General Trust Com
pany of Illinois, and its-capital stock is
named at So, oGo, ,O0oo. The incorporation
fee of 1918 is the largest ever paid into
the state treasury under the new iucorpor ra-
tion law. $500
The incorporators named are employees In
the office of the law firm -of' q GOODRICH,
Vincent & Bradley.
Ex-Judge William A: Vincent declined
last evening to shed any light ON the big
incorporation beyond stating that it was
a bona fide enterprise, and that it wasin-
tended to be aGmammoth, affair.
Il am only sorry that the news of this
has got out" said Mr. Vincent, "as the
gentlemen who are back of the enterprise
are not ready tD make their plans public.
However, icansstate that lthe Institution
is genuine. Thelmere fact of such large
capitalization fee being paid in cash is
|. evidence of the .sel.ndnesSs of the company
Articles of incorporation state it is de-
signed to carry on general banking buSi-
ness under the laws of the State Of
Illinois.
The morning times., 1897-01-11
ALONG THE WHARVES.

The schooner Pomeroy, Capt. william,
brought a cargoof oysters from Wicomico.
The number OF captains at the oyster
wharf IS only exceeded by the number Of
coloneIs in Kentucky.
The oyster market opened somewhat
stiffer Saturday, owing, it is thought, to
the continued cold weather. oysters of an
inferior quality Were still to be mad for 40
and 40 cents a busliel, but the better grades
sold for SO and Go cents.
Capt Joe Gibson is still the most popular
1naR1otthe oyster wharf. He arrived late
last night from Blackiston Island, his boat,
the Sunny South. brimful OF salt water
oysters. Early this morning the run on his
load commenced, and he says he expects
to be sold out by evening.
The morning times., 1897-01-11
sCALDED THEIR FACES.
Policeman Wits Children Meet
With Painful Mishap.

The little children of Policeman Lee r.
Witt, wholive at 1912 Thirty-fourth street.
were severely scalded Saturday.
The toy was carrying a basin Of boiling
water into the yard and was followed by
his little sister. AS he approached the
hydranthe stepped on an1cc- covered board,
slipped and fell. His sister stumbled oveI
him.
The water was thrown squarely in their
faces, badly burning them.
Their mother attracted by screams,
rushed out, brought them into the house
and sent for a ply sician.
The little ones We're somewhat better
last night, tut it will he some days before
theirfaccs will be utterly well.