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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-24
TURKS STILL HOLD PREvEsA.

THE TOWN BATTERED BY GREEK SHELLS. Bur
THE CITADEL. STILL STANDS.
Berlin. April "a telegram received here
from Constantinople says that, while It is true
that the town OF Prevesa has been partly de-
stroyed by the guns of the Greek warships and
those Of O battery which the Greeks erected, the
citadel of Prevesa Is not damaged. and is still
held by the Turks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-24

In Greece all able-b bodied males tweny-one years
old and upward liable to be called on for mill
tary service The total service is for nineteen years
OF which two years with considerable terms OF
leaves Of absence) must be passed with the colors
eight and seven years arc then passed In tho re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-24

ART Bey has hitherto been one Of tho staff OF
Chamberains.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-24
JOHN WANAMAKER
Formerly A. T. Stewart Co., Broadway 4h 9th and 10th sts
MONTENEGRO'S ATTITUDE.

serve and the remainder of the total term or nine
teen years is passed in the militia or LandWehr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-24

Athens, April 23.-It has been decided to call
out several classes of the Landwehr, or militia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-24

STRENGTHENING THE GREEK ARMY
SEVERAL CLASSES OF THE MILITIA TO BE CALLED
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-24
SUCCESSES CLAIMED BY THE GREEKS.
THE SITUATION IN TIIESsALY AS VIEWED
FROM ATHENS

THE SITUATION IN THESSALY AS VIEWED
FROM ATHENS.
London, April 23-The Greek Charge DAFT
flares here has received a dispatch, dated from
Athens to-day, giving the exact situation on the
Thessalian frontier from the Greek point OF
view. 1t is as foows:
I'm Thessaly, in the direction OF Reveni and
Boughazi. our forces have penetrated into
Turkish territory and have advanced toward
Damasi
"An the attacks of the enemy have been re-
pulsed in the direction of GritZovali.
"Our army has occupied a strong position at
Matt. where there has been fighting since yes
terday. The Turkish attacks have been re-
pulsed
"The Greeks had to retire from Nezeros, fall
ing hack on the Derchi, strong position, which
they are now defending.
I'm Epirus. our army is advancing and has
captured Fort Imaret, Fillipiada and several VIII
lagos ,, c,
@The Greeks have also occupied Salagora,
cantllrIng three cannon a number OF guns and
a Quantity Of ammunition and provisions.
"irhe army is now advancing northward.
"SKOUZES Minister of Foreign Affairs"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-24

The retrea. Of the Greeks from Nezeros is prob
ah,v no calamity. Hearing that Platamona was in
danger. Edhem Pacha sent TO its rescue an army of
10 900 men These the Greeks intercepted at Neze-
ros and held in check until their feet had done its
r.orL Then the Greeks retired from NeZerOs, quite
wiling that the Turks should go and muse
over the ruins Of PlatamOna, when II was too late
tn save that place. In fact, the more troops the
Turks sent to Patamona. and the faster they go,
the better the Greeks will be pleased For there Will
be lust SO many fewer Turks before Tyrnavo and
IariSSa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-24
Bloomingdale Bros,
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into the street and heard her side OF me cas;ched
large number of people stood around ana Mas sar-
the scene on the Sidewalk with interest InYs,rsfs
ing was finally adjourned for week,; Mas
Crane holding Cox In 500 In tho mean Time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-24

COLONEL JOHN s. MOSBY NJt"'D
Richmond. Va. April 23.--coonei John . - vtr.
was thrown from buggy at the universv NAV
xtnia this afternoon and received = CUT ""'S
seriously injure one eye
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

would very likely have secured, trial
in the cities of the Northwest. 1t is
very desirable to secure funds for the
building of cycle paths, and such inn
provement of street surfaces as will
be grateful to wheelmen. City councils
are little inclined to furnish these sup
plies of their own motion, and have
looked about for some new source of
revenue to be tapped in the interest of
wheeling Naturally, the wheel itself
suggested one. and so the idea has
been to license the wheel and turn
the license received into a fund for the
construction and repair of ways for
bicycles.
The Illinois court says that this can
not be done. The language of its de-
cision would seem to make it Of general
application in other states as well. It
relies. not upon anything in the con-
stitution or statutes of Illinois, but
upon general principles of law. 1t says
that only an occupation can be licens-
ed. A city council may license theat-
rical representations, or the business
of running bill boards, or Of operating
system of hacks. In such cases the
concrete representation of the license
pays the tax, but it is contributed
merely for permission TO run the bus
mess and as a charge upon the bus
mess itself For this reason you could
collect a hack license, because the hack
is used for carrying on business that
can be licensed but you could not i'm
pose a similar tax upon the same We
hicle owned by a private individual
and devoted to his personal use.
There is no such Occupation" as
wheeling in the legal sense of the term.
The wheel is the private property of
an individual who uses it for his bus
mess or his pleasures. AS such it can
come within the reach of the tax gath
erer only as a part of his personal
property and Jumped with other assets
in that schedule.
The decision Is eminently satisfac-
tory and sound to the lay mind. Wheel
men, as individuals, have been eXcep-
tlonally generous In this part or the
country in contributing from their pri-
vate means to funds for performing
work that is really the business of the
public; namely, the Improvement of
the public highways SO as to fit the use
and convenience of the vehicles that
pass to and fro upon them. To place
a special impost upon the wheel and
collect, by compulsion, dollar year,
or any other sum, from the rider of a
bicycle for the benefit OF the public
treasury would be a species of sump-
tuary legislation most Objectionable in
principle. 1t is probable that the rule
laid down will be followed everywhere,
and that the tax collector will be foiled
in his assault upon the wheel.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

himself down to the inevitable end.
The economic condition of India is
not to be denied. Behind the boasts of
civilization, underneath the foundations
of great railway and commercial sys-
TENS, back of a national land tribute
that emulates the worst horrors of
rack-rented Ireland, there stands this
horrible goblin of people in despair.
What civilization has done for them is
to submerge them as a people. The
certain death before their time, and
the only question that the average ma
tive need ask is how many years the
strength of his physical constitution
will enable him to bear the excess of
labor and the deficiency of food which,
even in the best of times, are the COM
mon portion of all.
Thus England's problem in India is
there, but of a greed at home that has
glutted itself without hindrance or
remedy for more than forty years
Crimes like these bring their penalties,
and the debt must be paid. If this be,
as it seems to be- true presentation of
the case, it is neither a local nor a
general mutiny that England has to
face; but an economic situation that
cannot be cured by anything short of
an economic revolution.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

souls; 1t would have got much further
OH without them. They are the inert
mass that impedes the march of re-
form; they are the buttresses of abuse.
In private matters they are the discour-
aged and disheartened, whose pluck
went down forever in the first encoun-
ter with disappointment; and, where
they do not become a social burden,
become society's hewers of wood and
fetchers of water; cogs in the wheel
instead of motive power driving it. The
spirit that sustains is not in them
What is it? A school, such as is our
of the world. One finds there the same
varieties of human nature that make
up the larger, outer world, with its
features of strength and weakness; its
the end is gained, and it's nobleness
that measures action by the standard
of right; it's unselfishness that over
looks the private for the common good;
d lllIle TepuDllC IN the df1alrS or It's
several class organizations, and
greater republic in the organization
that includes all classes Out of some
contest with the more ignoble or
thoughtless natures that ended in his
defeat there came one of the lads to
find, in his brooding over it, the spirit
that sustains. Away on his vacation
his commonplace book came to light,
and the following lines found in it have
been sent us by one who regards their
literary merit, but in which we find
the spirit that renews effort after de-
feat and makes possible the uplift of
humanity:
That battle is not wholly lost
Which, nobly fought, ends in defeat
Let no one count the paltry cost
OF effort spent, nor seek retreat
From that position whose defense
Finds in this hour no recompense"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22
THE MILK IN THE coCoANUT.

People who can put two and two to-
gether are thoroughly convinced that
the earnestness of the street railway
people about getting their ordinance
through the council without delay, and
the little scheme, that the G o e
alone exposed and frustrated, to have
it railroaded through The council within
forty-eight hours of the time when it
was first presented to the people by
the G o b e, exclusively, arise from a
conviction that it is now or never. 1t
is the new charter that rises porten-
franchises. 1T is that which gives
warning to the, holders of existing
franchises that they must make hay
while the sun shines. The home rule
most important and valuable section,
which authorizes, the charter commits
sion to lay effective restraints upon the
enterprising individuals and corpo-
rations that smell u profit in the free
use of the public thoroughfares.
The charter commission will have
power 10 place in the new instrument
of government provisions restraining
and regulating the exercise of fran
chises, whether granted by the author
ity of the city or that of the state.
They can forbid the granting of any
perpetual franchise by any city council
On any terms whatever, which is as it
should be. They can ordain that no
exclusive franchise creating a monopo-
ly shall be given until the proposition
has first been submitted to- the vote
of the people and approved by them.
This is also as it should be-. Finally,
they say that even with such popu-
lar, approvaAs the life andc limit of any
such franchise shall be ten years
There can be nc manner Of doubt
that, with such a commission as has
been appointed and especially in view
of the demands of the street railway
company and it's supporters, such pro-
visions will be incorpori ted in the new
charter. To head them off by securing
concessions that will pass into vested
rights before this charter can go into
effect is vital to the greatest franchise
beneficiary of st. Paul-the city rail-
Way company. Therefore, we have it
and it's satellites and minions, even
unto the third and fourth generations.
engaged in a two-fold warfare against
the adoption of a new charter and in
behalf of unheard-of privileges, Iiber-
ties and rights to the company.
This is the milk in the cCcoanut. To
postpone the making of charter that
will save the peoples rights against
aggression by limiting the use and
terms of franchises, and to go to the
limit in making demands for conces-
sions while yet there is in effect a char
ter that permits it, and in office a coua-
ell whose constitution holds out g. bea-
con of hope to, the aggressor, is the
present plan of action. 1t is for public
opinion to defeat it and save the best
interests of st. Paul by fighting to the
death the new street Railway ordinance.
and by urging forward the work of
charter construction that will undoubt-
eddy put an end forever to these under
ground attacks upon the property and
interests of st. Paul
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22
LICENSING BICYCLES.

The supreme court Of Illinois has
passed upon an exceedingly interest
ing question in denying the right of the
common council of Chicago to license
bicycles, and exact uniform fee from
all owners before they could use them
upon the public streets. The practice
is one that has been resorted to in
many cities as a. means of raising reve-
nue.; and, but for a doubt Of it's confor-
nifty to that part Of our constitution
requiring equality Of taxation, it
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

interviewed prepares his interview,
porter merely to convey it to the pa
per.
It's utilities are manifest and various.
Statesmen and politicians-for one
must Observation-Disclosures their constit-
uents quickly, and effectively by means
of it. Administrations find it useful as
a feeler to- ascertain how the public
will receive some projected policy, COM
municated generally by some high
Official" who remains nameless. If the
opinion be adverse, the project is aban-
doned and the administration avoids
a mistake 90 If favorable, it carries it
into effect hopublic approval.
Public men occasionally raise issues
of veracitya between themselves and
their reporters by denying the anthem
ITCHY of an Interview which gets a
reception different from what they ex-
pected. Then there comes out a sweep
ing denial, with more or less of injured
innocence's Indignation. This has hap
pened where the reporter received a
prepared interview written out by the
subsequent repudiator. Usually the re-
porter bears the odium in silence, Il
mistake that will be corrected later
when papers attain the knowledge that
public men are much more depend
ent than they, and that pa
per's reputation for accuracy and
truthfulness is quite as valuable
to it as is the public mans to him.
Then the interview will have reached
solid ground, be out of the morass of
doubt as to it's authenticity in which,
even yet, it founders.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

The sheriffs and their deputies who
are dispensing the strikers in the coal
regions of Pennsylvania and West Vir-
GINA have no doubt as to the intent
of the injunctions they are enforcing.
When they find the strikers march
ing" along the highway in proximity"
to the property of the mine owners,
they assume that they are there for the
purpose, "by intimidation, threats, men
aces and opprobrious words" to pre-
vent the employees from working or to
induce" them to quit. They there
upon read the riot act, swing their
billies in the faces of the marching
miners, stop their progress and compel
them to dispense. To be sure they have
done nothing unlawful" nor acted
'unlawfully," but the unexpressed pur-
pose of the writ is to prevent their do
ing lawful acts, and the sheriffs and
deputies execute the writ in its spirit
Since courts have ceased to use that
good writ only where plain and ade-
quate remedy does not exist in the law.
we have come to have government by
injunction, and, as it is the habit of
courts to absorb and extend jurisdic-
ton, we may expect to have ever more
and more this sort of government. 1t
is but a natural and inevitable out
growth of paternalism.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

Any coal user whose bin is not ac-
cessible by a chute from the street
can get, by the comparative method,
very good idea Of the merits of the
demand of the miners for an increase
of their wages from 81 to 50 cents
ton. Earning this "a cents means the
days spent deep in the earth, with
the risks of fire damp, of falling walls,
working in bent posture picking down
the seams of coal, with only a dim
miners lamp to furnish light. Com
pare this with the 25 cents charged
such a buyer for carrying a ton of
coal from the wagon that delivers 1t to
the hole opening into the coal bin in
the cellar, a distance Of few feet. If
the miners pay is adequate, then the
carrier in st. Paul is vastly overpaid.
If the latter's pay is just, then the
miner is shamefully underpaid.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

out ION the bosom of the palpitating
air." and soothe their nerves and who
gentle slumber again To the closing Of
their weary lids. Even funerals have
their advantage to such men in
their invitation to sober reflection on
other things than briefs and markets
and two-dollar tariff on lumber. But
the serious question is, has society
reached the point where the church is
nuisance to the home?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

The esteemed Minneapolis Tribune is
greatly exercised in it's mind over the
appearance of a pamphlet of adver-
Using matter the opening sentence of
which reads as follows: "St Paul. the
capital Of Minnesota, still, as of DID, the
metropolis of the Northwest, has ex-
listed little more than half century"
Whereupon the editor of the Tribune
breaks out 'nto a storm of interroga-
ton points to question the title Of St
Paul to the designation metropolis"
and to declare that not it. but Mime
apolis, can lay rightful claim to the
honor. The Tribune writer then pro-
ceeds to give his own definition of
metropolis, and says that we use that
word in speaking of New York, for in
stance, because 'ft has the largest
population and largest assessed valua-
ton and has the biggest business" 1t
claims, in these particulars, precedence
for Minneapolis over St. Paul, and
therefore dubs 1t the metropolis of the
Northwest.
If our contemporary would cease
evolving from it's own consciousness
definitions Of terms and would look for
those already laid down and accepted,
it might make fewer plumbers The
word metropolis" is defined by Web
ster as follows: "The mother city; the
chief city Of kingdom, state or coun-
try" In its fundamental meaning,
then, as 'the mother city," the word
metropolis not only can but must be
applied to st. Paul in speaking Of the
Northwest It is, by priority of set
tlement and the records of early his
tory, the mother city of this state and
section. 1t is, moreover, as it has been,
"the chief city" We do not know Of
any warrant for declaring that chief
city must necessarily contain the
largest population or have the largest
assessed valuation. A great many ele-
ments, such as the extent of city linn
its and other local influences, enter
into this New York Is the true me-
tropolis of this country not merely
because it is the mother city In a no.
eN"'AN oSAAoC, iiOI ilCAClJ DSSduSc II Ids
the largest population and assessed
valuation, but because it is the center
of commerce. of literature, Of art-in a
word, Of the highest development of
thought and life in this nation.
The illustration is fortunately cho
sen. because, if the act constituting
Greater New York had not been pass
ed, Chicago would probably even now
have passed it in population. Yet who
would think, in that case, of speaking
Of Chicago as the metropolis" of the
United States to the exclusion of New
York? Philadelphia is a city of i'm
mense population, large assessed valu-
alton and great business interests
Think for a moment of speaking of
Philadelphia as metropolis" even if
the civilization of the state of Penn
sylvania were such as to make a me-
tropolis possible. Leaving aside con-
troversies cbout population and sta
tistics of finance, the common accepta-
ton Of the term permits US to say
truthfully chat st. Paul is, as it has
been, the metropolis of the Northwest
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22
THE SPIRIT THAT sUsTAINS.

No matter with what high hopes and
courage, nor under what fair auspices
one sets out upon the journey of life,
he is sure to find that 'mankind's an
unco squad" and that GO a. your views
may come to naught when every
muscles strained" Ambitions fail of
fruition; ventures bring diminished re-
turns where they do not prove entirely
profitless; friends break under the test;
the fly ever in the ointment; the cup
ever with it's drop of gall, right for
ever on the scaffold, wrong forever on
the throne" Disappointment comes
early and often across the path the
young spirit enters on with bright
hopes, high aims and serene self-con-
fidence, to trip it,3defeat it and disci-
pline it. Right appeals to it and it
casts itself into some glorious cause for
human right againsthuman wrong, sides
with Truth and shares "her wretched
crust" braves the ridicule that stolid
conservatism or tintrenched wrong
hurls, and, in the bitter conflict, learns
how strong is prejudice, how invulnera-
BILE Is ignorance. ;.
In these hours of humiliation and de-
feat that come to all, whether in af-
fairs that concern humanity or them
selves alone, what is it that sustains?
What is it that, makes further effort
possible? Why do not all submit with
placid resignation to conditions that
seem immutable? Many do. They find
swimming with the current easier than
breasting it; siding with wrong more
profitable than opposing it. The world
never got on with the help of such
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

Room 1. Glover building, ought to secure
an agricultural reporter to inform them
that threshing has not yet commenced in the
western states and farmers are not in the
haolt OF shipping their wheat before it Is
threshed.-Herman Enterprise.
Some tn ngs are excusable to Room editors.
but what about the ounces who print the stuff
right in the region where the binders are
rafting around the fields cutting grain?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

The South Dakota chicken law expires on
the 18th. and the chances are that a great
deal of gunpowder will be burned by our
local nimrods next Sunday.-Jasper Journal
However mistaken the Journal is in saying
that the law expires" on that date. there is
no question that numbers of South Dakota
chickens will.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

In his criticism of our national guard Gen.
Bend overlooked Gen. Bend.-Rush City Post
Gen. Bend, sab. could not unbend 'to think
SO brainsickly Of things" And, bending
again to immortal Will: How is't with you.
that you do Bend your eye on vacancy?"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22
Myrtle Wants a Divorce.

Myrtle Miller has begun an action for di-
yorce in the district court against Gust Mil
Ter. The couple were married in St. Paul
June A. 1885, The complaint alleges that the
defendant has treated the plaintiff in a cruel
an absolute divorce and the custody of her
child. girl nineteen months of age.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

Perhaps there is connection between the
recent numerous hold-ups in the suburbs of
Washington and the destitute Office seekers
left unprovided for by Mr.. McKinley.-St.
Coud Times.
Mckinley is somewhat of a hold-upper him
self. Likewise a letdowner.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22
TODAY,S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Aug. H.-Forecast for sun
day: Minnesota and North Dakota-Partly
cloudy. except showers in northern portion;
SouthweSterly winds. 80
WiscOnsin-Partly cloudy weather, with
showers in northern portion; light westerly
winds.
South Dakota-PartIy cloudy weather; vari-
able winds.
Montana-Fair; northwesterly winds.
TEMPERATURES.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer. SO.0S; mean temperature. &c;
relative humidity "; wind at p. m west;
weather, partly cloudy; maximum tempera-
ture IS; minimum temperature. SO; daily
range %; amount of precipitation in last
evenly four hours O.
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