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 Dear Santa Claus-I am going to tell vou what I want Christmas. want the Yout4's Companion for a year, trip to Little Rock, Little Women and Grimm Fairy Ta,es 2 Wishing you a Merry Christmas, am Yours TrustiHgly,
 Carrie Hinemon Dear santa Claus-Au the nice things that You brought me last Christmas were burned up, and l don't know what I want, but be sure and bring me a doll bed and some hooks. These are all want. I hope you will not forget me.
 Yours Trustingly,
 MABLE BRADY. Dear Santa Claus-Please give me a doll with black hair, a pony, a doll bed, apples, candy, a sailor doll and a baby dolL
 Victoria Grace Dear Santa Claus-I want nice gun, some shot and powder to shoot in it. I want you to please bring me niae cart. want you to please bring me nice neck tie. some ap- pies, some oranges. some nuts and some fireworks.
 Your Boy,
 Ira Lockhart Dear Santa Claus-Please bring sister and myself a willow rocking chair and please trim up the Christ mas tree. l will go to bed early. That is all l care for.
 Your Little Friend,
 Madeline Wesche. P. S.-The number of the house is 330 East Sth.
 Dear Santa wish you would go by Coles and you will find doll dressed in pink and bureau to put my own clothes in. I'd like to see } our book with children's names and your six reindeers. your toy iron and Miss santa and a few fire crackers. Good bye.
 Your Little Girl,
 Olivia Alexander,
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Suggestions for Holiday Gifts. Thousands of Pretty, Sensible and Useful
 Articles For Xmas Presents.
Holiday Gloves.

"Trefousse' this is the latestnovelty in kid gloves, they come in N0 0C all lightshades dark binding 0E(1 and stitChing,3 and buttons Mousquetaire gIoveslfor evening and party wear, cream & 0E0a0 m ll51.s black, s5 F X ls button El0U T 0lUU Our leading brands Foster, Paul < Co.'S kid gloves in black and colors William, S1.00; Fowler. S1.50; Fosterina, S175.
 Misses and chfldrens kid 1 m gloves sizes 1 to s, per pair........ ItlIII Ladies black silk mittens will go at
 5Oc. z5e. SI.0O. @I 50
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Shoe Department.

Beautiful line of mantel orna- vaces, water jugs, etc. in real Bisque.
 Latest novelties in Xmas chatelaines, pocket books, belts, etc CoIlarettes in crepe Lisse chefon lace and feather.
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DEAR SANTA eLAUs-Please bring me an 4. B, C. book, doll with long hair, stove that will cook, and 9 red rocking-chair; a sure-enough piano and a new doll for Helen:some apples, grapes and bananas, and a lot of picture books-ten or eleven.
 LILIIE PuUpOT.
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Cobana, She finest of all coffees. at II 2S J. II. Talbot & Co.
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Dear Santa Claus-Please= bring me knife, wagon, @ box of tools, a cup and saucer, a top and some fireworks and some fruit.
 Harry Woodbridge.
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Dear Santa CIaus-Please give me a doll with black hair, a pony, a doll bed, apples, candy, a sailor doll and q baby doll.
 Victoria Grace.
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DEAR SANTA GEABs-Please bring me q little steam boat that runs by steam, q toy steam engine to wlnd up and run by itselfi nuts, oranges and candy. FBED MCMuLAN.
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Dear Santa Claus-I thought l would write you a short letter though it is very late. Please bring me a pair of Iittleearrings and what you think will be useful 10 me.
 Your little girl,
 Gladys Langford.
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DEAR SANTA Please bring Q doll and doll buggy a cooking stove and a cradle, also a ring and a chair, st of furniture. Please bring brother train and a set of blocks. Hive on south Pine street,
 Respectfully yours,
 ETNA GANMnUT..
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We especially pride ourselves the quality juvenile footwear A. Pnesmeyers Young America school shoes which we positively guarantee solid GoOdba children shoes weights any amount of cheaper grades The list complete with out mentioning nice assortment of boys chdens underwear hats caps rubbe rubber boots gloves sweaters hosiery etc. The wants d our narer friends have been looked here are few tidbis
 All of our best cIoaks at tcost
 Dress Flannelette all colors,
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Dear santa Claus-I Wa0t book. the name of it is Little Women. I want two or three games, and one or two plants, I mean the seed.
 Your Friend,
 Mary Kate Riley.
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DEAR SANTA CLArs - Sometimes they call me baby, but ] ain t a baby, Pm BOY
 I want you to bring me q gun that will shoot bullets and ball that will bounce and q Boy doll and a bicycle WILLIAM C WARE. My DEAR SANTA CLAUs-You never have failed to come to see me and you must not forget me this time. I want doll buggy, a little bu- reau and a set of dishes and doll bed l live on East Sixth avenue. Now don forget to come.
 MAY WARE.
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Dear Santa Claus Please bring me nice doll, story-book and lots ofcandy, oranges, nuts and apples and l will be so much obliged and love you always.
 Your loving little girl,
 Beulah l. Singleton. 4l4 West Fifth avenue.
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Dear Santa GIaus-I want you to briIg me some fireworks. some candy and some nuts. Don't you forget to bring them. Santa Claus, send me your picture, 1 want to see how you look.
 Jor1nE reby-
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Dear santa Claus-I want you to bring me a doll buggy with blue top and little cook stove, a washing outfit and broom, and a doll with black hair and a dresser and wash ing stand, some chairs, a sofa and a trunk. Goodbye, santa.
 Yaur little friend,
 Birdie Lee Smith, 204 East Second Avenue.
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DEAR SANTA CLAus-I thought I would tell you what wanted for Xmas l would like set of doll furniture, a cradle for my doll to sleep in, and a great big doll with long curly hair.
 Now don't forget to come.
 Tour iiutle girl,
 FTf4 NCNIEIAN.
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P. S.-The number of the house is 330 East Sth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Base ball is still the national game.
Golf, cricket and tennis have all had an
inning some time during the season
just closing; but the great interest
among lovers of athletics has been for
the game which America has developed
and at which America can beat the
world. The sensational finish in the
National league has, in some meas
ure, created an artificial interest just
as would an unusually close contest
in any other branch of sport; but the
tremendous crowds that witnessed the
deciding games and the attention paid
by the general public to the outcome
prove that a good share of the en-
thusiasm was only developed and not
created by the unusual conditions
With the history of the last ten days
in mind, it can be stated safely that
base ball is not on the wane 1t closes
the season of 1897 more popular than
ever before and more firmly fixed as
the great and characteristic national
pastime.
The closing series of games has done
something more than afford the fans
chance to cheer or weep. The charge
has been made that brutality was slow
ly growing to be a feature of the game
and that there was no way in which
it could be eliminated. Numerous f1s-
tic ARRAYS on the diamond during the
course of the summer gave some color
to this charge, but the decisive con-
test between Boston and Baltimore eff
fectuaily disproved that such unpleas-
antnesses are a necessity. With more
at stake for the clubs and for the in
dividual players than in any base ball
games ever before played, there was
not, so far as the Geographic accounts
of the series show, any display of III
nature. 1t was good, clean, hard, gen
tlemanly ball, in which both sides
played to win, but played fairly. Base
ball can be conducted without rowdy-
ism or brutality, as a test under the
most trying conditions has proved.
Assured that such features can be
eliminated, the public is likely to insist
that they be conspicuous by their alb
sence in future.
1t appears that the best club has won
the honors for this year and that it's
title to the championship is unclouded
The friends of the fallen heroes were
the first to cheer the coming cham
pions. The season closes with an
abundance of enthusiasm and good ma
ture, and with the prospects for the
coming year brighter than ever before
The publics toast to the departing
base ball year is IT'LL we meet again"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

4
met in public session and discussed
certain fundamental problems of the
framework of the constitution; the leg
islative branch, WHITTIER single or BIZ
cameral; the execu tive. whether cloth
ed with wide or marrow powers and
responsibilities; the functions the city
should assume and what remit to pri-
vate enterprise, and so on. Then. as
their work progressed and the ques-
lions narrowed down, they submit GER
tain large quesT ems to the public and
invite their discussion in open meetings
held in various portions of the city
There the various matters are discuss
ed fully, their merits and dement's
shown, and the public enlightened as
10 the questions upon which, later,
they are to pass judgment at the polls.
Here we have as near an approach to
the old New England town meeting
ruie as the conditions of our larg4
cieles' permit. There is awakened in tho
minds of the citizens a sense of self.
rule and responsibility, and we have 2
school in city government in operation
The people are fully Informed of tho
plans proposed and have the opportu.
nlty OF expressing their opinion in adj
vance OF the final expression of iudc-
ment. Who can doubt the value of
snchra method or it's infinite superior
lty over the old way? Mistakes will be
made in the first creation of such con-
stitutlons, but they will be immensely
superior to charters. and there is an
education in it that will correct errors
by the wisdom gained by experience
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

the area of any now existing power.
The treaty Of peace, after this bloody
war for the principle just stated is
over, expressly renounces it and tears
it to bits. Greece was not permitted
to annex Crete. Turkey is allowed to
make virtual addition of the Greek
province of Thessaly to her dominion.
By this treaty the Turks are not oblig-
ed to evaeuate Thessaly until an inter
national financial commission shall re-
port that Greece has fulfilled all the
conditions of the treaty, including the
demand of vast cash indemnity: and,
even then, if a single one of the six
powers refuses to approve the commits
sion's report, nothing can be done.
Everybody knows where Germany
will stand She has been the secret
ally and instigator of Turkey through
out, and the sultans troops will never
move out of Thessaly until Germany,
as Well as Turkey, has been coerced by
the arms of Europe. Therefore, the
net result of the interference of the
powers is not, as was asserted, to pre-
serve the integrity of the Ottoman en-
pire. 1t has been to add to the terri
tory of that empire the fair province
of Thessaly and to reduce both the
territory of Greece and it's position in
Europe to practical nonentity for the
sake of Turkish aggrandizement Small
wonder it is that Mr.. Gladstone has
been aroused once more to an indict-
ment of this policy of shame and blood
The world will agree that he has stated
but fairly and moderately the situation,
in words that have something of his old
intensity of earnestness and power:
The pain, shame and mischief of the last
two years in the Eastern policy transcend
concerning them. The sum is this:
''Firstly-A hundred thousand Armenians
have been slaughtered with no security against
a repetition and with greater profit to the
assassins
.'Secondly-Turkey is stronger than at any
time since the Crimean war.
tThirdly-Greece is weaker than at any
time since she became a kingdom.
''Fourthly-All this is due to the European
concert, that is, the mutual hatred and dis
trust of the powers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
THE TREASURY AND THE An
VANCE AGENr

we feel constrained to call a4ta,,4.
once more to the remarkable treas,,rv
statement for the month of Sen+e,,
Der. We understand, from the most
reliable Republican sources that
prosperity is here" There is no
doubt about it now; there is no moro.
reason for postponement of the good
times, and we have a right to expec,
the realization of conditions predicted
by Republicans to express itself in the
financial condition of the nation. The
explanation that revenue is deficient
because of increased importations in
expectation of the new tariff going into
effect is also getting to be out of date.
The month of September is, in most re-
spects, reasonably fair test. There
was less revenue from sugar and less
from wool, probably, than there will
be later on, but the difference is not
great enough to affect the statement
seriously. Notwithstanding this, we
find that the official statement exhibits
an excess of expenditures over re-
ceipts for the last month alone of 3d.
425.717 This is the deficit for months
fair working of the Dingley bill. For
the three months of the fiscal year
which have now expired, the deficit IS
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
ONE LESSON LEARNED.

The trade reviews Indicate that the
country at large has learned the les
son that ''booms," so called. are about
DIS dangerous things to play with as
would be jumping jacks stuffed with
dynamite. Under the influence of un-
usual conditions, in no way related to
party policies and entirely independent
OF legislative enactments, the CONNER
cial cloud which has hung over the
United States has lifted, and there Is
everywhere promise of better things.
In days not so far in the past but that
most people remember them distinctly,
the tendency would have been to crowd
the Improvement until there was at
least the semblance of boom. Not
so in the case of the present revival.
The effort of those who have most at
stake has been to keep the rising tide
in proper bounds. There has been no
effort to belittle the gain in business.
but the almost universal advice has
been to go slow and avoid the reckless
madness of speculation which must be
followed by inflated values, strained
credit, and, in the end, disastrous
reaction
The most marked gain of the present
upward movement of trade is in legiti-
mate and not in speculative markets.
Stock securities, it is true, have scored
rapid advances; but the future has not
been discounted with the same free
dom which has been the case in for
mer rallies after periods of long de-
preston. America, in fact, has gone
very slow, and it is notable that, dur
ing a greater part of the time London
has shown more optimism in the mat
ter of railway and industrial securities
than has New York Every buying
movement in the financial center of
America has been responded to abroad
Any timidness that may have been dis
Election of the same spirit at home.
Foreigners have full faith, apparently,
in the future of America, and are
ready to demonstrate it when properly
encouraged
This may seem aside from the ques-
ton, but it is in the stock markets that
booms originate. From them as a CEN
ter, the speculative spirit spreads until
it is almost universal in it's scope Peo-
pie buy beyond their ability to pay,
contract obligations which they can
meet only in case there is no reaction
and generally take leave of their COM
mercial senses. Towering trade castles
are built upon the sands, ready to top
pie with the first rains of adversely
The result when the speculative spirit
is unchecked, is as certain as it is Sc
rious. Periods of Initiation must have
an end. Safety lies in their having
no beginning This is the lesson which
it seems has been learned. The school
ing certainly has been severe enough
to fix it thoroughly in mind. If it has
been learned, the result is some COM
pensation for the trade perils of the
months that have passed. Booms are
bright and sunshiny things while they
last, but they make very disagreeable
history
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03


over $2s.Oo0,o0o. The receipts of the
treasury from customs in the month
of September were So. 400, 600 short of
those of September, 1896 Thus we
have, in a year of good times in a
year when the Republican policy has
been carried into final effect. in q
month in which it's scheme for increas-
ing revenue and wiping out the deficit
has been in operation, decrease of
nearly So, 50o,0 goo in revenue on customs
duties, as compared with the same
month in a year of universal depres-
sion, of the stagnation of business con-
sequent upon national campaign and
of Democratic free trade
The argument could not be stronger
The proof that it was McKinleyfsln
in 1890 that was honest, and not Nc
Kinleyism in 1896, is before the caNn-
try. The earlier Mckinley bill pur-
ported to be what it was-"an act to
reduce revenue 1t did reduce reve-
nue. to such an extent that receipts
year of the Harrison administration by
$70,000000. This same policy, carried
still further in 1896, was bound to still
further reduce revenue and increase
deficits. Yet this was put forth by the
whole Republican party as a revenue
breeder, and their excuse for postpon-
ing financial legislation until the new
tariff act could be put into effect was
that adequate revenue must be pro-
vided for the relief of the treasury
That adequate revenue, we see now, is
S3,400,000 short in a single month, and
there is no reasonable prospect OF
changing the balance to the other side
of the account.
Protection and revenue are incompat-
ible in terms. The policy of the Re-
publican party would be less repre-
hensible were it not for the hypocrisy
with which it has been accomplished
The country was told that a special
nue. must be raised. The facts show
that revenue has been lowered far be-
yond the worst estate of the German
tariff act. The Dingley bill means the
biggest deficit in our history, and, SOON
er or later, the destruction of the
splendid increase in our export trade
produced by lower rates, and another
issue of bonds to protect the gold re-
serve. This is the plain showing Of
the September treasury statement, i'll
Guiding an increase, in this time OF
prosperity and of high protection, of
over $3,000,00O to the total principal
of the public debt. Such a showing as
this made during the Cleveland adj
ministration was the subject for a Re
publican howl from one end Of the
country to the other. Suppose the Re
publican editors tell us now how de-
clining revenues and mounting deficits
and debt statements happen to be the
Accomplishments of their policy and
their period of power.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
THE EASTERN SITUATION

THE EASTERN SITUATION.
The Eastern question is further from
right settlement than it has ever
been. The war between Greece and
Turkey, instead of being helpful, and
contributing to the ultimate arrange
ment that must be reached between
Turkey and the other powers, has
set the hands back on the dial through
the progress of several decades The
end of it is that Turkey is more pow
erful and more arrogant than ever,
and that Greece is reduced to- a con-
dition of helplessness such as she has
scarcely known before since the days
of her ancient glory. Dissatisfied as
her people were with their status I'M
der the former order of things, they
must find the present still more intoI-
deep discomfort throughout the country
at the present time, that finds it's ex-
preston in frequent changes of min
istry and vacillation in political policy
The instability of the Greek char
acter is, indeed largely to blame We
have seen, within two months time,
a whole nation, apparently, rising in
arms to clamor for war against the
oppressor of the Christian. We have
seen that people practically forcing it's
sovereign and it's legislative body to
begin hostilities We have seen it
urge forward war preparations and
drink of the intoxicating elixir of ma
tional pride and hope. We have seen
it turn upon the very people
who had been endeavoring 80
carry out its WILL and threat
en- to wreak upon them it's discomfort
and humiliation. The same crowds
that would have mobbed the king and
assembly if they had refused to make
war upon Turkey were ready, little
later, to mob them because they had;
and there does not seem to have been
a sober second thought as to the de-
fects in the Greek character and the
wretched nature of the Greek govern
ment, which were largely responsible
for disaster
Again the picture in the glass chang
es. and we see this same people, con-
ouered and compelled to submit to
harsh terms of peace, once more throw
ing the blame upon their own govern
nlent and acting like some beast which,
when wounded or entrapped, vents its
helpless rage by decorating it's own
body. There seems to be little help
or hope for Greece until her people
recognize how far they themselves are
responsible for their misfortures. Those
inisfortunes are, indeed, very great
The terms of the treaty of peace that
has been approved by the powers are,
or ought to be, uncomfortable. The ma
tions of Europe have done shameful
thing. They took the side of Turkey
AGAINST Greece, on the pretense that
the map of Europe must not be dis
turbed. The territorial possessions of
the sultan were not to be curtailed
even by the loss of the island of Crete
a mere speck upon the map. To
maintain this position, the guns of the
Christian nations Numbered their
bloody reproaches upon Grecian forces
assembled in struggle for freedom.
They regretted, said the ministers of
the so-called Christian nations, the re-
sponsibility, but there was no other
way to preserve the peace of Europe
than to oppose a stern refusal to the
proposition to add to or subtract from
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
WHAT THE FOUNDERS INTENDED.

The board of education of Minneap-
oils, hampered for funds, between the
alternatives of disseminating night
schools for the coming winter and dis
charging teachers engaged in giving
instruction in what the Tribune old
fogyishly terms "fads,' accepted the
former. Whereupon that reincarnation
of Dickens philosopher with the one
eye that revolved, searching the hori-
zon like the flash of lighthouse, OBJ
serves that 1T must also be admitted
that there are many things being
taught which were never intended by
the founders of our government to be
included in the curriculum of public
school education
Thinking that we might have read
carelessly the intentions of the found
ers of our several governments, as cx-
pressed in their foundations, the fed
eral and state constitutions, we have
again gone carefully over them to as
certain what things the founders in
tended should be taught We find
absolutely nothing in either the
immortal Declaration of Independ-
ence nor in the constitution of 1887, nor
even in the amendments the watchful
Jefferson procured to be made. nor in
those added when Republicans were
putting UP breastworks for the protee-
ton of the man and brother that
=
Of provisions for what should be taught
therein.
Turning to the lecord left by
those later founders who framed the
tans are securely guarded in all such
rights as the legislature does not care
to deprive them of. we can find only a
general obligation laid upon the legis-
form system of public schools recit-
ing as the reason that the stability of
a republican form of government de-
ponds mainly upon the intelligence of
the people . Section 3, of article 8, re-
euires the legislature to make provision
by taxation or otherwise for "a thor
ough and efficient system of public
schools in each township in the state;''
but that falls short Of prescribing or
even advising what shall be taught.
There is a. plain inference to be drawn
from the bill of rights and the amend
ment to section that the founders in
tended that nothing of religious ma
ture should be taught; but that is pure
ly a negative matter, and we ind no
where positive Injunction or even an
intimation of the opinion Of the found