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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

1t is now proposed to make New
York city of boxers. An "angeI" has
been found who wants to establish
Fftzsimmons as instructor of a new
athletic club in Gotham.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26
BULLETIN OF
THE ST. PRUI LOBE
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1897.
N.eather for Today
Slightly Warmer.

Slightly Warmer.
PAGE L.
Attempt to Knock Out the Tax Levy.
WOIcOtt Explains Japan's Plan.
Hunter Cannot Be Senator.
RumOrs That Levees Were Cut.
PAGE 2.
A. o. U. w. Lowers Age Limit.
Women Condemn the KinetOscOpe.
Plea for Pardon for H. r.. Richardson
PAGE 3.
Minneapolis Matters.
Tariff Talk in the House Ended.
Nelson Bankruptcy Bill In.
Congressional Work.
Log of the MayfOwer Returned.
saltwater Affairs.
PAGE 4.
EDITORIAL.
New Fusion Party in North Dakota.
Municipal Nominations.
Northwest News.
Soldiers Home Vindicated.
PAGE s.
Senate Passes the Hastings Bill.
House PASSES New Jury Law.
Work of the Legislature.
PAGE g. -
Net Losses in Stocks. &,
Bar Silver, 82 3-4c.
Cash Wheat In Chicago, II 3-4c.
PAGE z.
Millers Defeat Colts.
American Handicap Shoot.
Cyclists Break From the L. A. w.
Sporting Gossip.
Wants of the People.
PAGE 8.
ShufeIdt Not to Be Ousted.
News of the Courts.
Last Chapter of the Charter Bill.
WeIls-FargO Company Returns.
Antitrust Decision Affects Railways
News of the Railways.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

Are the fellows who declare the story
of Jonah and the whale untrue and
Adam and Eve a pair of myths 60
ing to construct new Bible in place
of the one they are tearing to pieces?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

The sugar trust is to spend from
$2O0O,OOO to $5,000,000 for a beet sugar
project in Colorado. Who said silver
was the only big product of the Gen.
tennial state?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

Secretary of State Sherman is mild
hammered old man, to be sure. He
hasn't declared war on anything at all
in spite of the fact that he has been
In Office three weeks
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

They call Mark Hanna the Warwick
OF the administration. Who knows but
that later he will be known as the
scapegoat Of the administration?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26
EVENTS TODAY.

Meta Parisian Romance, S.I5.
Grand-ShalI We Forgive Her, S.15.
CapttOl-LegisIatur 10.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

MuSkrats have taken the city of
Waltham, Mass. 1t looks as if they
had a bad bargain at that
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

1t is announced that Chauncey M.
Depew has iritis. 1t wouldn't have
done for the doctor to say that Mr..
Depew had a chunk of mud in his eye.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

Jerry Simpson gave the Republicans
OF the house a good nut to crack yes
terday. He said: "If the Republicans
desired to do something practical for
the farmers, why did they leave hides
on the free list?"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

Reno, New, proposes to erect a
twenty four-foot ring within the walls
of building intended for a Jail. That
seems appropriate enough.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

The Seventh district will have chills
and ague. when it looks at that new
reappOrtionment bill
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

Gov. Pingree has been referred to in
the Michigan legislature as a dema-
gogue. How could the legislature
have found that out?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

After the senate gets through chop
ping the arbitration treaty to pieces, it
will be so unlike the original that John
Bull will have to be introduced to it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

The signs Keep off the grass" which
are just peeping through the snow,
seem strangely out of place
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

Gov. Black is trying to dethrone
Senator Platt as boss of the New York
Republican machine" Ungrateful
wretch
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

Maj. Mckinley is overlooking Mime
sofa and Texas with about the same
regularity. -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

that $50, 100000 reserve speak up a lit
tie louder?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

Larissa tomorrow morning, leaving at
o'clock in order to avoid a popular
demonstration.
Canea, March 25-The admirals Of
the international fleet have addressed
general order to the international
troops, welcoming them to Crete, and
adding: I'VE exhort you by your con-
duct to set an example before the Gre
tan people whom the powers charge us
to protect and promptly to save them
from the horrors of civil war
CONSTANTINOPLE March 25.-- The
Turkish squadron has left the Dar-
danelles, part of the ships proceeding
to Smyrna and the remainder 10 Sa-
loniea. '>."tt
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26

Constantinople, March 25. - The
Salisbury started today for Cinez,
where Queen Victoria is staying TIE
premier will travel via Paris, where
it is expected, he viii have an inter-
view with M. Han5taux, the French
minister for foreign affairs, on the
Eastern situation. AT this interview,
1t is believed, the question of partici-
patton of France in the blockade of
Greece will be decided. His 'ordship
will not arrive at Nice until Satul day
next Fse
In the house of commons today the
parliamentary secretary of the foreign
office, George N. Curzon, replying to
question on the subject of the Cretan
blockade as applicable to the British,
said that both British and American
ships carrying cargoes belonging to
Englishmen or Americans, and des-
tined for the interior of the island of
Crete, were liable to be visited
searched and the delivery of the car
go prohibited, if in the opinion Of the
admirals such delivery was calculated
to prolong the disorders in Crete. Mr.
Curzon added that the sanction under
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26
Christians BOmbarded Both by the Turkish Ships and
the Foreign Fleet.
Tremendous Sensation Created in Athens by the News
Prince Constantine Ordered to the Front to Take
Command of the Army-Step Thus
Taken Is MOmentOuS

CANEA, March 25.-At o'clock this
evening the insurgents succeeded In
blowing up the block house at Malaxa
with dynamite. The whole structure
is now in flames, and the Turkish
war ships are bombarding the insur-
gents.
The advocate., 1897-02-10

Features Of the Inheritance Law UncOnstitu-
tiOnal.
Judge Carter, in the Cook county
court, Chicago, lately passed upon an
important law. The decision pro-
nounced the inheritance law, enacted
by the Illinois Legislature last winter
unconstitutional. The ground of the
decision, as stated, was that the law
makes classification of inheritances
which is not uniform.
The inheritance tax law places in
one class parents, husband, wife, child,
brother, sister, wife or widow Of Che
The advocate., 1897-02-10

supposed to be, the rails about which so
much is being said just now, though
these are far from being the first or only
rails ever made by Abraham. The sons,
in-law were tempoT arily settled in other
places in the country" Nincoln's works,
vol. l, p. 640.)
Hollands "Llfe Of Lincoln" Opp. 39-4O)
throws light on this subject as follows:
"Their journey was difficult and to-
dious in the extreme. They found the
rivers swollen by the spring rains, and
through such mud as only the rich soil
of the West can produce, the OK teams
dragged the wagons loaded with the en-
tire personal effects of the emigrants.
One Of these teams was driven by Abra-
ham. Taking northwesterly course
they struck diagonally across the south
ern part OF Indiana, making toward the
central portion Of Illinois. After jour.
ney of about 200 miles, which they made
in fifteen days, they entered Macon
county in that State and there halted.
The elder Lincoln settled spot on the
north side of the Sangamon river, at the
junction Of the timber land and prairie,
about ten miles westerly of Decatur.
Here Abraham assisted his father in
building log cabin, and in getting the
family into condition Of comfortable
life. The cabin which still stands (l865)
was made Of hewed timber, and near it
were built a smoke house ana a stable"
Hollands "Life Of Lincoln" says fur
ther:
"When the cabin and outbuildings
we're completed, Abraham set to work
and helped to split rails enough to fence
in lot Of ten acres, and built the fence.
After breaking up the piece of inclosed
prairie and seeing it planted with corn
ne turned over the new home to his
father, and announced his intention to
seek or make his own fortune. He did
not leave the region Immediately, how.
ever, but worked for hire among the
farmers, picking up enough
to keep himself clothed, and looking for
better chances. tt is remembered that
during this time he broke up fifty acres
Of prairie with four yoke of oxen, and
that he spent most Of the winter split
ting rails and chop2ing wood"
ITO be cORtinUed.)
The advocate., 1897-02-10

son, hus band of the daughter, or chill
dren adopted, and upon each of these
leVies a tax of 81 per hundred on any
gift or bequest passing to them, pro-
Viding that if the estate Is valued at
less than $4,000 it is to be exempt
from the tax.
When the beneficial interest in any
property passes to an uncle, aunt,
niece, nephew, or any linesl descend
ant Of the same, the tax is increased to
50 per hundred for each $1OO in excess
Of $4,000 received by each person.
These constitute the second class
named in the act.
All other cases not included in the
two classes mentioned are subject to
different rate-on all estates of $4,000
or less, So for each 800; over $4,000
and not exceeding $4,000, $4 per hun
dred; over $4,000 and not exceeding
$4,000, $5 per hundred; over $5O,OOO,
So per hundred. In each of these
cases a bequest not exceeding $500 is
exempt.
1t seems that Judge Carter would
sustain the distinctions made in the
first and second clsssifications. On
this point he said that the classified
tiOn which places parents, husband
and wife, brother and sister, in one
class, has sanction in reason for the
moral claim of collateral descendents
and strangers is less than that of kin
dred in direct line. The court said
the exemption In the first class, as well
as the exemption as to the second
class, must be held to be valid.
The mistake was in the third clsssif.
cation, which the court held to be un-
equal and unjust. "Under the law as
it was passed." the court said, ga per
son who is entitled to legacy of $10,-
OO1 is taxed $4,000, and will actually
receive only $9,6OO.96, while a person
who has legacy of $4,000 is taxed
$500, and actually receives $9,7OO, or
about 300 more than the person who
under the will was entitled to the
larger legacy. Again, the person who
receives more than $4,000 is taxed
$500 on the first $4,000, while the per-
son who receives only $4,000 is taxed
$500 on it,"
The case will be taken to the Su-
preme court; but there can be little
doubt that this part of the law will be
finally pronounced invalid.
1t is not because an inheritance tax
law is not needed, but simply from
a want Of proper care in drawing up
its provisions in detail. A Just law
will meet generally felt want and be
supported by the people.-FGrm, Field
and FiTeSide.
The advocate., 1897-02-10

You can convert your Republican
neighbor If you get him to read a little
good literature this winter. Get him
to take the ADVOCATE.
The advocate., 1897-02-10

migrstions of men have been westward
Except when DETECTED by barriers which
they preferred to cirCumvent than
surmount, the respective races have
followed their accustomed lines of lati-
tude.
The principal causes OF DETECTION have
usually been geographical impediments;
or, the divergence Of isothermal lines
from the parallels Of latitude. In such
cases men have mostly preferred the
lines Of their accustomed climatic con-
ditions. Thus when crossing the Atlantic
from Europe to America, there was a
marked tendency to veer southwark, be-
cause Of the increased cold of the
American coast as compared with the
European. Yet this change of direction
has had it's laws of deviation. Northern
and southern nations have preserved
their relative positions in America as in
Europe. The Englishman, the Scotch
man, the German and the Scandinavian,
as a general rule, have settled the north
ern and central parts Of North America,
while Italians, Portuguese, Frenchmen
aud SpaniRrds have gone further south,
cOurting the same skies and sunshine
which they left behind them. The many
individual exceptions to this rule which
have arisen from individual and special
causes, do not disprove, but rather con
firm it by the attention they attract
Having arrived in America, the same
general laws Of migration have been OBJ
served, with important devlations only
for special reasons. New Englanders
moved westward through New York
along the line Of the lakes into northern
Ohio, until they struck the treeless
prairies. Having no stomach to attack
even the narrow plains of northwestern
Ohio, they turned south ward and joined
the PennsylVanians, the Virginians and
the Carolinians in their march westward
through the southern woodlands towards
the Mississippi river. Thus the forests
Of Kentucky and Tennessee, and of
southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and even
Missouri, were invaded half century
before the settlement Of the prairies OF
the latter States. Though the explora-
tions Of Joliet, La Sale and Marquette,
in the seventeenth century, began in the
North and extended through the great
prairies from the st, Lawrence and the
Great Lakes down the Illinois and Miss
issippi rivers to the Gulf Of Mexico, yet
the rich treeless solitudes remained un-
settled for nearly q century after the
occupation Of the adjacent forests had
commenced. And the settlement of St,
Louis antedates that of Chicago two
thirds Of century.
The barrier Of the Atlantic had
checked the march of migration for un-
known ages, The barrier of the cold |
had caused divergence to the south |
from Old England to New, and to regions
still further south Then came the
barrier Of the dreadful prairies. Their
terrors seemed insurmountable. Though |
flanked on the east, south and southwest
by numerous settlements, at Marietta,
Sandusky, Toledo, Cincinnati, Vincennes,
Kaskaskia and st. Louis, the great
prsiries remained invulnerable. 1t was
not believed that they could ever become
the homes of civilized men.
The advocate., 1897-02-10

1
Lincoln. In the family Of Thomas Lin
coin there was tall, bony, muscular
youth by the name of Abraham, whom
nature seems to have marked as seconC
'Father Of the faithful" He had more
than the usual enterprise, pluck and
ambition OF the regulation" back-wOods
man. Though be was an adept in every
species Of woodcrRft, ana was able tc
chop trees and split rails, and to "hoe
his own row" generally, with tire best
Of them, yet bis higher aspirations aid
not run in that line. Instead Of taking
to his gun and proving himself the best
shot and the typical buntsman Of his
region, able to "bring down his buck on
the rum" or to pick out the eye OF q
squirrel, or chip off the head of wild
turkey from the top Of the tallest tree,
he courted the knowledge to be found in
books. Every stray volume within a
circle of ten miles from his fathers cabin
was eagerly hunted up, borrowed, read
and digested by young Abe Lincoln. He
also sought knowledge by travel. At the
age Of nineteen he joined in a trip by
flat-boat down the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers to New Orleans. The outside
world was a revelation to him. When
he returned, he was one Of the most
"trRveled" men in his neighborhood.
The appetite thus enki1dled must be
fed. He could never Rfterward consent
to spend his whole life chopping and
burning logs, grubbing out roots and
"sprouting" the newly cleared lands,
among stumps and briars, for the merest
living Of homlny, hoe-cake, bacon and
maple syrup. He desired wider and
richer fields to conquer Nature had,
at last, prepared "Julius Caesar" for
the invasion and permanent conquest Of
the Illinois prairies. Abe had heard Of
that new and unoccupied empire, and
was eager for the industrial war to begin.
In the summer Of 1929, the Lincolns
said to Dennis Hanks, relative Of Abe's
mother, Ego and reconnoiter," in the
language Of Scripture, "go and spy out
the land" Dennis, born pioneer, with
horse, dog and gun, made the trip in
safety and returned with goodly report
Of that veritable "land Of Canaan" Abe
could now begin to see light in the
future.
The Lincolns spent theswinter in prep
arations for the move. They we're to be
accompanied by the two married daugh-
ters Of Mrs. Lincoln and their husbands
and families. Including Abe, his step
brother, JohnstOne, and the families of
Hanks and Hall, there appears to have
been eight adults and five children,
thirteen persons in all. BY the first Of
March all were ready to start.
THE LINCoLNs MIGRATETo ILLINOIS. THE
CONQUEST BEGUN.
l will let Abraham Lincoln tell the
story Of the removal to Illinois himself,
as he related it to his biographers in
1860. Speaking Of the matter in the
third person, he said:
March l, l930-Abraham, having just
his twenty-frst year, his
father and family, and the two families
OF the two daughters and sons.in-law Of
his step-mother, left the old homestead
in Indiana and came to Illinois. Their
The advocate., 1897-02-10
THE CONQUEST OF THE PRAIRIES
BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND
WHAT CAME OF 1T.
BY JOHN DAVIS.
Copyrighted by John Davis, lS9G)
continued from last UCck.

THE LAWS OF MlGRATIoN.-THE BARRIER
The advocate., 1897-02-10

OF THE PRAGRIEs.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-30
FAILURE TO FRUIT.
IL Is nm Indication That Tree II
Not I'm Good Health.

The fruiting of an orchard is the end
of its culture, and everything should
tend to this end. A failure 20 fruit al
proper age and in the right season is a
sure indication that something is
wrong and that something ought TO be
done. There are a number of causes for
a full-grown tree not fruiting, and il
will be good plan TO investigate, ascer-
tain the cause, if possible, and apply the
remedy.
In some cases trees may have too
much head and will exhaust them
selves. nourishing their foliage at the
expense of the first buds, but this is
the exception. Generally a tree lacks
plant food rather than an over-supply.
and the application of well-rotted
manure will remedy this. Sometimes
there is a lack of lime or potash in the
soil. Bone dust or wood ashes make a
good fertilizer when mineral elements
are lacking, as there may be an excess
of moisture in the soil and drainage
may be the necessary remedy. Prun-
ing and thinning out may be necessary
when there is an excessive growth of
top. The soil may have become packed
and hard. so that the tree cannot make
as thrifty a growth as it should. and
cultivating or digging about the roots
may be necessary. With proper care
the tree can be made 10 bear good fruit.
quality being of more Importance than
quantity. and if. after proper RENE
dies have been tried. the trees fail to
yield good fruit. the quicker it is cut
down and another one is planted in its
Face the better. Allowing tree TO
oyerbear one year will be the cause OF
its not bearing the next. The tree so
exhausts itself in maturing the ex-
ccssive yield that rest is required in
which to recuperate. Thinning in good
season IS the remedy for this. while
better grade of fruit is secured.-N. J.
Shepherd. in Farmers Voice.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-30
COMMENT AND GOSSIP.

Denver paper remarks: THE forth
coming harvest of cereals threatens to
be so large that it will ruin the farm
ers." And probably the same paper
would have been just as quick TO pre-
dict ruin if the crop outlook was poor.
Hardly as far as Colorado isconcerned,
where crops only grow by irrigation.)
Tie report of the state geologist of
Indiana for the last year predicts the
failure of natural gas in the near fu-
ture. The territory that now pro
duces natural gas includes a region of
$500 square miles, and no new discov-
cries have been made or are now like.
ly to be made. A decrease in the press
ure was first noticeable in 1895. and it
is still diminishing.
There is an all-around man in Terre
Haute, Ind. The Express of that city
says: "Elder Y. I. Sweeney. state fish
commissioner and for 20 years pastor
of the Christian church at Columbus,
who delivered the baccalaureate ser
mon for the normal school in this city,
Is talked of for the republican nomina-
ton for congress in the Fourth district
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Mr.. Holman"
The Hospital Guarantee association OF
ST. Louis, just formed. insures against
sickness. Upon payment of a smar
monthly sum guarantee is given to
pay expenses in case of illness, and
give a certain per diem as well. There
is to be no regular hospital institution
with a staff of medical attendants, but
subscribers may choose their own ply
sicians or be sent to any hospital al
the expense of the association.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-30
GOSSIP OF FOREIGN LANDS.

Gen. Robert Macleod Fraser. of the
British army, retired, an old gentleman
of So years of age, was knocked down
and killed by an omnibus on the Edge
ware road.
A lock of hair of Agnes Sorel, the
mistress of King Charles VII. of France,
"a tawny blonde lock taken from her
tomb at Loches, was sold in Paris re-
Gently for 140 francs.
Prof. Peter Ritter Won Turner, OF
Leoben in Syria, one OF the greatest
authorities in metallurgy and founder
of the local mining academy, died re.
Gently at the age of 50 years.
Plans for building lateral canal ia
the River Loire so as TO make the river
navigable have been taken up earnestly
In France. The canal will be l5C miles
long and will cost 120, 100000 francs.
M. Ballot, 1O4 years of age and. as
he believes, the last survivor of tho
French soldiers that fought at Water.
loo. was the guest of honor at the Wa.
terloo banquet at Cherisey, in the de.
Cartmcnt of the Yonne.