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The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17

child can be secured, and II we can
remedy this great and growing evil
through the homes let that be done.
But with all the effort and all the au-
thority that our churches can exert,
and we are sure that all of them are
doing their utmost III this direction, the
street gamin still exists, and reform
schools and reformatories demand in
creasing accommodations for the recep-
ton of Juvenile offenders. 1t is in
tnitely more sad and more menacing to
hnd this true than 1t would be to
chronicle an addition to the total of
adult criminals lin our penitentiaries;
for each boy or girl so brought under
the correctional influence of the state
represents a life 1cdistorted, If not
spoiled. at it's beginning, and the de-
struction of those high ideals and pure
tendencies which, because they are the
natural heritage of childhood, are the
eternal hope fthe race. If family life
in the modern city has become SO
or restraints the child if vice is encour-
aged and increased by the contamina-
ton which children find upon our pub
lie streets, 1t is a legitimate cause for
interference. If we hold, as nearly ev-
cry community does, that the interest
of the state justifies making attendance
upon the public school compul-
sorry. which affects only the
training of the mind shall we
can we, dare we say that the
state, which represents our common in
terests and future, is less concerned
about matter that involves those
moral qualities which are far higher
and more necessary qualification for
good citizenship than the ability to
read and write?
We believe in indivdualism in it's
largest and most liberal sense. We
deprecate state interference with pri-
Vate affairs as hostile to true democ-
racy. But there. is no higher duty and
no more inalienable right of the state
than to protect the helpless and shield
the innocent. The security of life and
property is the chief aim and the com
mon basis of our civilization. That a
man should be protected by the law
against physical assault upon the high
way, although he may perhaps be per-
fectly competent to resent it on his
own behalf and to punish the offender,
is certainly no more important or legiti-
mate exercise of police power than that
the child, whose parents or guardians
know and care nothing of his where
abouts, should be protected against
moral assaults, whose allurements
alone he cannot comprehend, and whose
debasing tendencies will leave their
mark upon him to all eternity.
There has been more f1ippant and
foolish talk about curfew ordinances as
'grandmOtherly legislation" and inter
ference with personal liberty than we
remember to have heard upon any other
subject. We stand for personal lib
erty in it's fullest sense; but we also
stand for the right of self-preservatiOn
and for the performance by some one,
in the home first of ALL and, If not
there, by such public care as may be
necessary of that guardianship of the
child which his natural inability to
care for himself makes imperative.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17
OVER A VOLCANO.

The warning given the people of Eng
ly shaping themselves along the lines
which led up to the horrors of the
Sepoy rebellion, calls attention to the
fact that a repetition is not so i'm
possible as might at first seem appar-
ent The general public has come to
look upon India as being so thorough
ly Anglicized that a. flood and a new
mutiny seem equally remote. English
control in India, however, is, in spite
of years of power, largely that of mind
over matter; or, better, energy over in
dolence The natives have 1t quite
as much in their power today as ever
before to inf1ict terrible injury on the
dominant race. The English army in
India numbers, taking a round total,
some three hundred thousand men; and
of these, all but about seventy thousand
are native troops. 1t is true there are
a few thousands of English volunteers,
but these are more than offset by the
armies maintained by rulers OF native
states. One Indian prince alone has a
standing army Of fifteen thousand men,
quite as we'll equipped and quite as
effective as the English regulars
The loyalty of a considerable portion
Of the native military force is unques-
tened, but there is no standard by
which the percentage can be accurate
ly obtained. That the absolute allie
glance of the natives is questioned by
the English is shown in the arrange
ment of the Sepoy regiments, which as
shown by a recent magazine writer,
are made UP of battaiions from differ
ent sections of the country They are
unlike in speech, customs and even
religion, and this fact is relied upon
to prevent the formation of powerful
combinations to resist the authority Of
the masters of the land. When such
distrust exists among those who are
most familiar with the natives, 1t is
small wonder that the assertions Of
Loru RODeftS nave given England a
decided jar.
Habit apparently is what the British
have relied upon to keep the natives
of India docile. Years of association
and intercourse have been expected to
result in respect and reverence for
the existing government sufficient to
hold rebellion in check. Time has been
trusted to as the balm to heal the sting
of original wrongs. India, however. il
appears, has a long memory, anu ac-
cording to Lord Roberts, the people are
again restive under the evils Of a sys-
tenn of government not ideal in itself
and badly administered 1t is not q
thing pleasing to contemplate, but there
seems some ground to- believe that un.
der the calm of a peaceful occupation,
India is seething with the repressed
hatred of religious fanatacism and a
sense Of civil wrong. With famine to
provoke to desperate deeds the warn
ing Of the English authority seems
mere than timely. An outbreak against
the masters OF India Is hardly probable,
but it is not impossible, and the dread
memories OF former occasion attach
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17
OPPOSED BY "COIN,"
Harvey Objects to the Loud Postal
Bill,

WASHINGTON, Jan 16.-The sem
ate committee on postofffces and post
roads granted a hearing today on the
Loud postal bill. Among those who
were heard was W. H Harvey, author
of Coins Financial School" who Op-
posed the bill Mr. Harvey contended
that the consumer would get the benefit
OIL any reduction in the price Of pub
hcations caused by low postage. for
the reason that there could be no mo-
nopoly in the business which the bill
most effects, as there could be IL the
publlcat1On OF the metropolitan news
papers He claimed that the distribu(
ton Of cheap literature was in the ma
ture or a free education of the people
He said in reply to a question from
Senator Villas that the Sunday news
paper was more trashy than most of
the books the bill was aimed at Some
OF them were Valueless, to be sure. bur
any effort to establish a censorship
WouIo prove dangerous. He hoped that
at least way would be found to ex-
cept books on political economy from
the operations of the new bill, and he
was remarking that he thought we
were entering upon serious time in
the life OF the republic" when Senator
chandler interrupted to say that he
thought we had saved the country
last fall"
Mr.. Harvey thought the cheap posi-
age ought to cover clOthbound as we'll
as paper bound books. He thouebt
MI. Loud had begun with the wrong
economic point of view, and said he
should have investigated the railroad
charges for carrying the mails. He
Deheved these were double what they
should be.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17
'MARGARET OGILVY" AND IT'S
CRITICS.

/ The best journals of literary criti-
/ cism, notably the Critic and the Chap
Book, have been condemning Mr.. J. NJ.
Barrie in no gentle terms for publish
ing biography of his mother, on the
! ground that such a book trenches
upon the sanctity of private life to an
| indelicate, not to say indecent, extent.
The Chap-Book goes so far as to stig-
Matte him as literary undertaken
! On general principles, this is all
| right. 1t is precisely the kind of thing
any person of good taste would say
about Margaret Ogilvy" before read
ing that very remarkable book But
that any one, having read it, should
still continue to say the same is mar
Velous, past understanding and argues
an obstinacy Of prejudice unworthy of
the position Of the critics who have
condemned it,. The fact is that when Mr..
Barrie, in the white heat Of emotion fol-
lowing love and loss, sat down to tell
| the world what manner of woman this
was who had passed out of it, the mira
Gle happened which always happens
when piece of literature Of the high
est emotional value is produced. The
individual became the typical. The pri
Vate grew the universal.
What Mr. Barrie actually pub
llshed is in no sense merely
biography of his mother. It
goes very far beyond that. The book
is song, a poem of filiaf passion and
the domestic affections, such as the
world has scarcely possessed before. It
exalts the dinner of herbs. where love
! is. and shows to a heavy, dull. ma
terialized society an unaccustomed vi
| sion. whose brightness we can hardly
| bear, of the devotion that can trans
figure the poorest life This picture
OF the Barries humble home and the
woman who was the heart of it has
all the undeniable force of reality and
all the glory of the ideal 1t convinces
ana converts, as the same home had
it been presented to us even in the
most powerful fiction never could have
done. 1t is not something that might
be, but something that has been. and
the world. has right to it, as the world
had right to Mrs. Browning's '.Son-
| nets from the Portuguese"
or course, Mr. Barrie, being merely
mortal, may wake from his trance of
exaltation presently and wish that he
had not shared his precious mother
|
with the world. Very probably he will
do so. But the world, at least, has
nothing to complain of, for it has been
enriched by one of those pieces of lit
erature rare in any century, which
are woven out of "the tough fiber Of
the human heart and destined to
enrich the world and to endure in it
long after all the other little triumphs
of the authors successful career have
descended into the dust.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17
WITH INTENT TO AMUsE.

Dramatic Critic-How did you come TO give
me these seats in the gallery?
Manager-So that you could give us some of
the higher Observation-Disclosures.
Jones-Brown is very careful about his
children, isn't he?
Jenkins-Yes: he's trying to bring them up
in the way he should have gone.-Puck
George-How do you like your new master,
uncle? l hear he Is very fine man.
Uncle Rlchmond-Ya-as Mars'r George
les berry fna man. But, tell yo', Mars r
George dar sLn sum folks in dis world whad
thinks dey made Do earth an de Almighty
carted do dirt.-Judge.
Hook-Do you consider thirteen at table
unlucky?
Cook-Well. rather. There seldom is more
than enough for twelve.-Exchange.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17
DAVIS WILL GO up
sherman's Advancement Puts Him
at Head of Foreign Affairs

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The accent
ance by Senator Sherman, Of the port
Iollo or secretary Of state, will un-
doubtedly result in placing Senator
JaV1s at the head of the COMMITTEES on
foreign relations in the senate Sen
ator Frye. Of Maine, is the ranking
member and Davis is next in point of
service. Frye is president, pro tenn. Of
the senate, and the state of Maine
having the speaker of the house. and
chairman Of the committee on wavs
and means. will not be given the posi-
tion.
1t is stated this afternoon that Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley has sent word to
the Minnesota Republicans that the
claims of that state for cabinet posi-
ton will be considered, provided there
Is some unanimity of sentiment and an
agreement as to who the man shall be
1t is understood that Senator Sherman
brings this message from Canton. and
that a move will be made very soon
now among the delegation TO come to
an amicable understanding
1T is also stated that the factionaI
trouble in Wisconsin has gone SO far
that H. c. Payne will not be selected
as a member of the cabinet This
raises Minnesota cabinet stock several
points on the political stock ticker.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17
ELECTRICITY IN SONG.

Electricity, as displayed in the light
ning's flash, has been the theme of
many a verse of poet and rhymester; but
electricity, captured, broken, harnessed
and made the forceful, powerful, if also
dangerous servant of industry, seems
to have appealed less to the poetic
fancy than when it tears the skies with
it's jagged forks in untamed freedom.
So, when q correspondent appealed to
the Independent for aid in finding some
verse where what Edison defines as "a
mysterious fluid about which we know
nothing" was embalmed, it could do
no better than refer him to some of
Sydney Lanier's, who, it says, had an
interest in scientific knowledge Of all
Sorts The lines given as illustrations
make no reference to the utilitarian
form Of electricity. except as 1t may
be inferred in
tSnatching Deaths hot bolt ere hurled,
Flash new life about the world
which may refer to the telegraphic
services of what in another couplet he
calls
The subtler essences polar that whirl
In the magnet earth"
One would think that there was that
in the laying of the Atlantic cable to
have stirred the poetic imagination to
something more than Holmes quizzi-
cal DE Sauty," his
whispering Boanerges, son of silent thunder
Holding talk with nations,'
who held the wire electric, sucking in
the current" but who, when the cable
ceased to carry the message ''all right,
De Sauty," faded away and resolved
himself into "a cloud of elements or
ganic such as man is made
of"
Lowell, in his "Agassiz," contrasts
letters that
'Have sympathies
And tell-tale faces that reveal,
To senses finer than the eyes,
Their errand's purport ere we break the
seal,
with the telegraphic message in Its
yellow envelope, barren Of postmark
to give hint of it's origin, thrust on you
with all the serious significance Of the
urgency the use of the wire implies.
sensations caused by the receipt of
the wire" since electricity has been
made the winged messenger boy of
trade, but the quick, sharp pain of ap-
and the uniformed lad hands the sealed
message from over the wires has not
yet become dulled in home dwellers by
frequency of repetition. When rates be-
by wire the sensation of Tightening
about the heart that comes with the
message to the most of us will vanish.
If letters wind a sorrow round with
circumstances to stay it's feet" not so
with the uninforming envelope that
masks with it's dull face the mysterious
message it enfolds
"But now Fate stuns as with mace;
The savage Of the skies that men have caught
And some scant use of language taught,
Tells only what he must
The steel-cold fact in one laconic thrust"
Lowell Is better than Lanier, gets
SOAhCNAA1t AiCoiCi " OlCSlllClIy dS d USE
full servant, to whose blunt ways we
are not yet accustomed, and the de-
scription is apt both of the servant
and his manner, but it does not more
than lean upon the gate that opens
into the wide field where this Savage
of the skies" is doing his multifarious
tasks for humanity; that remains for
some Walt Whitman to fifty sing.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17
Damages From Overflow,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Representative
Fletcher has been requested to introduce
bill to protect the government against suits
by the overflow Of lands at the headwaters
OF the Mississippi. owing to the construction
of dams for the maintenance of the reservoir
system. The Indians who held title to these
lands have already been paid $150,0O0 for pos
sible damage by overflow. These lands ara
not subject to entry, and it is deemed neces-
sary that legislation to protect the govern
ment be enacted before they are disposed Of
Fletcher has referred the matter to the COM
mittee on Indian affairs.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17
Patents to Northwestern inventor.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.-List Of patents
issued this week to Northwestern inventors
reported by T. d. Merwin, patent LAWYER
91O, 9l1 and 912 Pioneer Press building. St
Paul, Mimi, and Washington, D. c.:
Henry o. Amundson, Clear Lake S. d..
clothes line.
Fred w. Blomiley. Sioux Falls s. D.. ad-
Unstable dental mouth mirror
Leroy 5. Burlington, Minneapolis apparatus
for generating acetylene gas
Patrick E. Graham Millwood, plow attach
ment.
Ole E. Jensen, Clark's Grove hay sling.
ladder.
A. F.. II. c. and G.. Mohrenweiser. Hender-
son. automatic brake for vehicles
John j. Waldner, Freeman, s. D., indicator
for engines.
Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills Company.
Q1imited), Minneapolis Grade mark wheat
flour.
Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills Company
lLimited). Minneapolis, trade mark wheat
-four.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 29.76; thermometer, %; relative
humidity, 9S; wind, east: weather. snow;
maximum thermometer, 80; minimum ther-
mometer, 16; daily range, Il; amount of rain
fall or melted snow in last twenty-four hours,
"a
NOte-Barometer corrected for temperS ture
and elevation. P. +. Lyons Observer.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Forecast for Sun
day: Minnesota, North and South Dakota
Threatening weather and snow; brisk to high
north winds and colder.
Wisconsin-Snow brisk TO high east winds,
shifting to north: colder Sunday night.
Montana-Snows; partly cloudy; west winds.
TEMPERATURES.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-01-17
,adress all letters and teleRrams to
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
TODAY'S WEATHER.

Weekly. One Year 500
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-01-14
The Considerate Visitors.

"Sleepy'' Burke says that when he
is robbing house he always tries to
bring the awakened owner of the es-
tablishment to his senses by explain.
ing the midnight caller is ''only a
burglar who wants his money" This
is reassuring. Until now when the
man of the house opened his eyes to
see masked ruffian holding cold re-
volver to his temples, he always sup
posed that the visitor was the new
minister paying pastoral calls or mis-
long-lost brother, who ran away to sea
twenty years ago, and now returns
laden with heavy coat of bronze on
his cheeks, bag of cashmere shawls
for the ladies and aspray of pink coral
for the parlor table.-ChicagO News.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-01-14
Flute with q War History,

s. G. Skinner is an old soldier living
in West Brighton, who carries as staff
toassisthimin walking an old flute that
has a history. Mr.. Skinner himself
also has history. During one of the
political demonstrations in Rochester
he came to the city accompanied by a
little grandson. He brought his old
wooden flute, now walking stick, with
him, as he goes nowhere unaccompa-
MED by his old friend, which has long
since lost its beautiful voice. In the
year 1861 Mr.. Skinner enlisted in the
army and Immediately went to the
front, taking with him his wooden
flute. He enlisted as musician and
was soon playing the national airs at
the front of Il marching regiment willie
shot and shell fell fast and thick around
him. He was sent TO company |. Nine.
ty-eighth regiment New York volun.
teers, commanded by Justice Adams,
of the Appellate Court, with Captain
Vain in command Of the company
Mr.. Skinner was captured by the reb.
els and was in Libby prison two
months. While there he gained the
good graccs of the Jail authorities TO
such an extent that he was taken to
see Jefferson Davis. This was some
thing, Mr.. Skinner said. that he never
knew of any of the other prisoners be-
ing allowed to do.
After being in the war over three
years he was discharged while on pro-
vOst duty in this city. He says his flute
did him good service while in the war
and is yet helping him on through life's
journey. although in Il much different
way. While a prisoner in Libby Mr..
Skinner said that he lost one pound a
day and was only able to move around
by the aid of his flute used as Il cane.
He says it seems almost Il thing of life
to him and now that, like himself, 1t is
in feeble health, he would not part
with it for gold.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-01-14
SAVED BY HIS FRIEND
WOULD NOW BE IN HIS CRAVE
BUT FOR A FRIENDS ADVICE.
A Wealthy Indiana Farmers Timely
Escape from the Malignant Enemy
that Had Pursued Him for Years.

A Wealthy Indiana Farmers Timely
Escape from the Malignant Enemy
that Had Pursued Him for Years.
From The Netc Era, Greensburp, Ind.
One of the leading farmers of Ripley
County is Jonathan l.. Weis, of Napoleon
Ind. Mr.. Weis is a wealthy and influen-
tial tiller of the soil, and was 4 soldier in
the late war. He was one of the first to
enlist, and SERVED for three years. COM
ing home broken down in health and suf-
fering from rheumatism, which had been
brought on by the great exposure TO which
he was subjected. Although previous to
his enlistment Mr.. Weis had been 4
strong, healthy man, ever since the war
he has been physical wreck, being al
most skeleton. such great destruction
has that dread disease worked upon him.
Mr.. Weis for many years was unable TO
do any work, being compelled TO hire 9th
ers to do his farm work. To New Era
reporter he stated that to-day he would
have been still in the same condition phy-
sically had not friend advised him to try
DIR. Williams Pink Pills. which quickly
and permanently cured him, and to-day
he weighs more, eats more, and can do
more work than at any time since his dis
missal from the army, although at a fair
ly advanced age.
"For years." said Mr.. Weis, ''my pains
weather they were especially severe. l
could sleep but little, and as had no appe-
tite rapidly dwindled away from large
man into almost nothing. consulted diff
ferent prominent physicians and tried sew
eral patent medicines claimed to be good
for my trouble, but none of them did but
little good. AS soon as 1 began taking
DIR. Williams Pink Pills / noticed diff
ference, and by the time / had taken
few boxes l was completely cured. Had
it not been for that medicine l would have
been in my grave long ago."
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blood and restore shattered nerves. They
are an unfailing specific for such diseases
as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, st.
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tism, nervous headache, the after effect of
la grippe, palpitation of the heart. pale
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weakness either in male or female. Pink
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sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents
box. or six boxes for $3.50, by address
ing DR.. Williams Medicine Company,
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