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The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11
500 HEARD FROM AGAIN.
Has Announced It's Lake and Rail
Rates.

The belief that the lake and rail
tariff of 70 cents from the Atlantic sea-
board to the Twin Cities, announced
to go into effect on the opening Of
traffic, would not stand without a re-
duction from some quarter, was veri-
fed, yesterday afternoon, when the
500 line took the initiative and COM
pleted arrangements for a differentidi
tariff on a basis of 65 cents, from
all New England points to St. Paul.
The announcement was received with
mixture of feelings by the other lines,
which. up to yesterday, had not figured
on the possibility of new 500 differ
ential. The 500 will apply it's new
rate as soon as navigation opens. The
road will cooperate with the Canadian.
Pacific to Owen sound on Georgian bay.
At the latter point the boats of the Ca
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11

The 500 yesterday issued its summer East
bound lake and rail tariff, taking eneet TO-
dav- The rates quoted are the same as those
of last year viz: s1.1z per 100 pounds e
Buffalo and 81 10 to New York. The tarin
reads via Gladstone, the Minneapolis, ~
Paul and Buffalo Steamship company and
various Eastern lines.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11

Guardmount at Fort Smelling is now held
out Of doors at 8 a. m, followed by con-
cert by the band Those who enjoy bicycle
riding will find ii a morning treat to ride
out, see the ceremony and hear some good
music
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11
O,MuIcahy seeks Freedom.

William O'Mucahy, the former bookkeeper
for the St. Paul and Suburban railway COM
pany, who was convicted Of the charge of en-
bezzement several months ago has applied
to the board of pardons for his release.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11
His Foot Amputated.

r. G. Magoon who was injured while at
tempting to board a moving train near the
Chestnut street depot Friday night had
his right foot amputated above the ankle
yesterday. The physicians were at first Of the
opinion that the foot could be saved but it
was so badly crushed as TO necessitate an
operation. Magoon is laDorer, and former
ly lived in Duluth.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11
TO SEND OUT NO. L TONIGHT.
Northern Pacific Receives EncOur-
aging Reports From Mandan.

The Northern Pacific reported yester-
day that the flood situation at Mandan,
n d., was improving, and that in all
probability overland train No. l would
leave ST Paul at o'clock tonight for
Portland They are making prepara-
tions to that end.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11

The hardy Norseman drank Book
Beer. Great sinew maker Oh, If they
could have tasted Hamms, On draught
or telephone 1852. Is
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11

Delicious! Sinew-building! On
draught or delivered to your home!
Hamm's Book Beer! Telephone 1852.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11
Four Track Series Etchings.

Picture lovers generally, and especially
those familiar with the beautiful scenery of
the New York Central will welcome the op-
portunity of securing, at a nominal price, the
series of photogravure etchings issued by the
Passenger Department of Americas Greatest
Railroad"
These etchings are all printed on plate
paper, 24x32 inches, suitable for framing. The
subjects are as follows:
No. 1-"Wash:ngton Bridge"
No. 2.-"Rock Of Ages, Niagara Falls"
No. sold Spring at West Point
No. E"Rounding the Nose, Mohawk Val
ley
No. 5-"999 and the De Witt Clinton"
No. 6-"The Empire State Express"
No. 7-"HorseShoe Fall, Niagara"
No. s-"Gorge of the Niagara River"
Copies may be procured at the Office Of W.
B. Jerome, 134 Monroe street, Chicago, for
30 cents each, or will be mailed in stiff tubes,
postpaid, to any address for SO cents each.
The series of views is unquestionably the
finest ever issued by a railroad company, and
the absence Of any Objectionable advertising
feature renders them suitable for hanging
III your office, library OF home.
fThe New York Central leads the world
-Leslies Weekly.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11
paul Morphy,-Union Make.

Nineteen years standard; millions
have been sold; st. Paul cigar.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11

of wanagans and is not now handi-
capped in furnishing crews with their
meals as they were at first. Friday
morning another crew was put on and
the work is being prosecuted with vigOr
and dispatch. The log committee of thsa
local log owners has started down
the river to look over the situation, and
as directed by the log owners, will. in
conjunction with the boom company
endeavor to find a a purchaser for the
logs.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11

Hotel Metropolitan is first in season with
all Easter delica les. This famous house never
stood so high as a superior hostelry on Euro
pean or American plans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10
BRYAN,s FOOLISH CONCLUSIONS.

w. ]. Bryan has issued review Of the
recent elections more elaborate than his
expression of the day after. 1t shows an
accession of information, but the same de-
termination to distort the facts and draw
false conclusions. He concludes that 1.-The
elections indicate dissatisfaction with Re-
publican policies and presage the overthrow
of the Republican party. They also indi-
cate that the boiling Democrats cannot long
maintain a separate organization and must
either go over to the Republicans or return
to the regular Democratic party and accept
the platform adopted in Chicago in 1885,
Off-year elections especially those in the
year following a presidential election, are
so we'll understood by the average Ameri-
can that it is surprising to find man who
was once deemed fit for presidential can
didate making such a statement as this. The
Republican party has been in power less
than nine months. The only policy it has
formulated as yet is the Dingley tariff. That
has been in force less than four months
and as far as so important measure can
be judged in so short a time its present
operation and prospective results are en-
tirely satisfactory to the people. Every
body knows and everybody except dema-
gogues of the Bryan type admit that there
has been a vast Improvement in business
conditions since it went into operation and
that the Improvement continues. If the i'm
provement is not wholly due to the new
tariff law, everybody knows that it is in
part, and therefore there is no cause of dis
e
fact there is general satisfaction among all
classes. Capitalists and workingmen, en-
ployers and employees, producers and con-
sumers. wage payers and wage earners,
bankers and their customers, money lenders
and money borrowers. those who own rail-
roads and those who operate them, manu-
facturers. miners, farmers. shippers. mid
dlemen-in short, all classes realize that
there has been a decided improvement in
business since the passage of the Dlngley
law four months ago and are confidently
expecting further Improvement. With what
Republican policy. then, do the recent cleo
lions Indicate popular dissatisfaction? We
challenge Mr.. Bryan to say.
1t is not the province of the Journal to
forecast the Democratic platform in 1900 or
the position of the sound-money Democrats
by that time, but there was nothing in the
recent elections TO justify Mr. Bryan's con-
illusions on these points. In fact, they in
dictate very clearly that the Chicago plat
form will not be the Democratic platform
three years hence, and that the demand for
free-silver coinage at IS to l viii never fig
ure In another national campaign. In the
recent elections it was discarded in New
York. beaten in OHIO. trampled out Of ex-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10
THAT PONTIUs PLATE FAKE.

The New York World, with an air of
great satisfaction. prints the contribution
of a correspondent, showing that the let
ter of Pontius PLATE to Caesar, published
by the New York Journal as a hitherto
unknown manuscript now in the Vatican
archives and copyrighted by the Journal,
was taken, with accompanying comments,
almost word for word, from a volume of
translations published in this country by
two antiquarians ten years ago, and re-
published last year. 1t is shown that this
and several other documents of like charac-
ter are we'll known to scholars and have
long been regarded as forgeries. 1t pleases
the World to believe that it's yellow rival
has been taken in by some enterprising and
INSCRIPTIONS writer and made to pay well
for this ecclesiastical gold brick. This theory
may be true or not. Readers acquainted
with this class of papers will believe it
quite as likely that the fake was perpetrated
knowingly by the editor with the hope that
the article would make a sensation before
it's character. became known. Whether it
was a deliberate sell or not, the fact re-
mains that it was a willing one, since the
tale was not verified, and it serves to il
lustrate anew the irresponsible, untrust-
worthy character of the sensational press.
That it was one paper of the class rather
than another that published this particular
fake as genuine news is a mere incident.
1t might as easily have been the World
which now jeers at its rival. 1t was the
World that recently published an alleged
interview with the Hon. James Bryce
which that gentleman repudiates and de-
clares to be IAN invention from beginning
to end Both cases are examples of the
methods used by papers which do not hest
tate to victimize individuals and impose
upon their own readers. The papers which
engage in such proceedings are in the mi
nority, but they are sufficiently numerous
to cast discredit on the press in general.
Human fallibility makes it difficult to Sc
cure exact facts at all times, but all re-
putable newspapers endeavor to do this and
knowingly msrepresent nothing. They cas-
lily establish a reputation for reliability with
those who know them, but in general es-
timation are forced to share the undeserved
stigma that the irresponsible sheets have
earned. There are people so curiously con-
stituted, however, that they like fiction
even in their news, and the papers with
poster illustrations and Munchausen in
formation are likely to flourish, but the in
telligent public should have the fairness to
discriminate and not distrust the others
that try to print only the truth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10
THE SUGAR BEET.

Now that the subject of sugar beet Gull
ture is attracting much interest it is
pertinent to call attention to two factors
bearing on the question here in Indiana.
First-What has been done? For years
the experiment station connected with Pur-
due University has been studying the adap-
liability of Indiana soil and climate to sue
cessful sugar beet culture Beets have been
grown under station direction all over the
State, and large amount of important in
formation had been secured before the pres
ent national agitation of the question came
on. This year they are testing many lots
of sugar beets and adding still more to the
information already secured. 1t is enough
to say that these extensive experiments
have demonstrated that over much of In
diana sugar beets may be grown which will
contain enough sugar in the juice to war
rant their culture for sugar production. In
other words, Indiana offers a good field for
beet sugar manufacture.
Second-What must be done? If Indiana
is to have one or more beet sugar factories
then two classes of people must be inter-
ested in the subject, viz, the farmer or beet
SIOWSI anu Tie llduuldCluT6T OI sugar, ana
the press is an influential factor in bringing
this about. This subject has been extern
sively advertised in Indiana in the free pub
locations of the station, ten or more thou
sand beet bulletins having been distributed
over the State year after year. and yet
many people are not aware of the i'm
portance of the subject. Both East and
West Factories have inst hean connnIatad
and investors are looking over the country
for advantageous sites for locations. At
Rome, N. Y, the first beet sugar factory in
the State began operations this fall, and at
Denver, Col, a million-dollar factory has
just been completed. If a factory is to be
located in Indiana it should be established
when the field for production is encouraging
and manufacturing opposition slight The
influential business men and investors of
Indiana will do well to look into this sub
ject as a safe and promising field for invest
ment Inasmuch as the practicability of the
scheme in this belt of the United States
has been successfully demonstrated, it will
be we'll to push the sugar factory idea with
vigor rather than delay until factories are
close up to us in neighboring States. No
factory, however, should be erected until
guarantees have been made that enough
beets will be grown to supply the demands
of the establishment. The best sugar beet
factory in the world cannot succeed if the
raw material is not to be had.
Aside from the commercial Importance of
such plant, it has large agricultural
significance. In Nebraska, where land was
worth $40 an acre before the beet factories
were built, it is now held at 500. The farm
ers are more prosperous there than ever be-
fore Not only do they derive a good in
come from their beets, but the pulp refuse
frorn the factories makes a valuable cattle
food.
There is no question but the farmers are.
growing too much corn and wheat for their
own financial good and not enough of other
crops which yield a larger revenue per acre.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10

anywhere. The Democratic platform in 1900
may make some sort of a guarded demand
for bimetallism but it will not attempt to
resuscitate the silly 16-to-1 doctrine of 1896.
on which Bryan made his campaign. Long
before 1900 that doctrine will have been rec
ognized as an impossible plank iii national
platform. and it's former representative and
advocate impossible candidate.
Mr.. Bryan's false Interpretation Of the
recent elections will not deceive anybody.
There is no principle better established in
American politics than that the elections
the year after a presidential election &C
sure to show reactionary tendency and
to carry seeming protest against the uc-
cessful party of the year before. The rea-
sons are obvious and need not be stated.
But they are superficial and ephemeral. and
such elections are no fair criterion Of the
state of public opinion at the time, much
less of what it will be a year or two later.
In national election on national issues,
especially the tariff, silver and money ques-
lions, the Republican party is stronger to-
day than it was a year ago, and will con-
tinue to grow stronger as the soundness of
it's position on these questions becomes more
universally recognized.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10
BETTER THAN KLONDIKE.
The Way Celery Growing Is Carried
On in Michigan.
Detroit Free Press,


Talk about Kalamazoo as a great celery
center" said Mr.. Frank Postal, at the Girls
void House the other day. You ought to
see what we can do up at Evert. l really
of a few dollars and good health could
make himself rich in few years IL he
would locate up there and go into the celery
business. We have many hundreds of acI eS
of muck land that could be bought very
cheap or rented for an insignificant sum in
Osceola county. AS an example, let me
tell you what l did on about thirty rods of
such land: I set out 1000 plants on less than
one-ffth of an acre and raised celery that
brought me $3.50. l did it up in punches of
a dozen and sold it at 25 cents bunch, and
all purchasers declare 1t to be better than
any they ever bought from Kalamazoo
growers. At that ratio, an acre would bring
about $3.50. If that isn't better than any
Klondike would like to know what IS. Inc
land up there is particularly well adapted
for such purpose 1t is rolling, there are
dozens of streams scattered all over that
are always filled with running water, cold
and clear. 1t is a very easy matter to build
a cellar on the side of some of the hills so
a stream could constantly run through 1t,
keeping the bottom moist, so that the cell
ing all the winter. BY doing that 1t would
probably bring better price along In the
winter with a corresponding increase IN
profits have figured out that one man
could easily take care OF I'VE acres with
some assistance in the spring, when the
plants were being. set out and wnen they
fortune in it for any young man with
pluck and perseverance.
At the same time he could put in any
spare time gathering watercress. which
grows wild along many OF the streams in
such profuson that II almost chokes them
up. understand that there IS market
for such green stuff all the time in such
cities as this. and you know II will take
hold anywhere 1t is planted. Talk about
YOUR hard times; II young man has any
git in him such thing need never be
known
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10

A new line of insurance has been intro
duced in some parts of the West and is
spreading. 1t insures against the loss of
registered letters. AS most persons are
aware, the government does not assume re-
sponsibility for the loss of such letters. 1t
throws every possible safeguard around
them, but does not assume pecuniary liabil-
ity. The new insurance does the latter BY
a simple arrangement between bank and
the insurance company, including the pay
ment of very small premium, a package
of currency is insured from the moment of
it's registration to that of its safe delivery
1t is singular mingling of public and pri-
Yate business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10
THE QUESTION OF BONDS.
Individual Surety Bonds Should BE
Demanded of Employees.
New York Financier.

New York Financier.
The several articles which this paper has
published on the question of bonds for Off
GERS and employees of banks seem to be taxi
ing root. At the recent convention of the
Indiana Bankers Association at lndianapo-
lis one of the subjects assigned for informal
discussion by the members was Bonds for
Employees and Officers" The debate, to be
frank was not prolonged, but the fact that
the question was deemed important enough
to occupy a place on the programme is OF
itself encouraging. In urging more BUSH
neSS-h like methods as applied to this matter,
we believe that we have the support of
every conservative banker in the country.
Certainly those whose experience in bank
ing extends over a long term OF years VIII
agree with us in the assertion that private
or individual surety has caused more
trouble than any one thing which dist 5r,rs
was when the matter of surety for employees
resolved itself into the factor of private in
dorsement, generally originating within the
bank, or from sources closely connected
with it. And this, 1t may be remarked in
passing, contributed largely to elnoarrass-
ments following breach OF trust. AS mas
been pointed out, an individual surety bond
is nothing but certificate of character
or, rather. it is given with that understand
ing. If any doubt existed otherwise, there
would not be a private bond in the country
to-day. The custom of accepting quasi
legal Endorsements of this character origi-
mated primarily through the lack of availa-
BILE sources to secure a different and more
binding bond but custom, once established,
is difficult thing TO alter, and TINS Iact
probably explains the slowness of bankers
TO insist on a real bond, now that RESPONSE
BILE corporations stand ready to issue them.
We are not discussing the ethics of hon.
esty in this article, nor should 1T be under
stood that we question the integrity of mod
ern bank officers but the difference be-
tween actual surety, where such guarantee
is demanded, and the mere Endorsement or
character which a private bond implies, Is
so striking as to be comparable only IN the
light of a shadow to a substance.
Modern banking is a business requiring
more than a grasp of technical detail. 1t
demands forethought and provision
against possible contingencies, and this
would seem to resolve the subject of bonds
to the plane of a mere business proposition:
The maxim that 1t is easier to keep out or
trouble than to get out after having once
been involved applies pertinently to this
nn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10

The so-called Citizens Union, of New
York, is plucking up little courage in the
hope that while it did not eject Mr.. Low, its
candidate for mayor, it may hold the bal
Rnce of power in the Legislature. 1t now
claims to have elected eight members of
that body, two Democrats and six Repub-
1icans, and as the Assembly is about evenly
divided between the two parties, the Union
IS hoping its eight candidates will be able
TO fight Boss Platt on one side and Boss
Croker on the other. 1t is much more likely
9hey will be partitioned and devoured by the
Two bosses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10
Decorated Postal Cards.
New York Times.


There is a picture in a recent number of
the Fliegende Batter showing a pretty
Young woman who has just received pos
tai card from her lover, a celebrated
painter. An expression of displcasure is on
the young womans face. as she exclaims.
"He has painted it himself the wretched
man." The reader VINO is not familiar with
the craze in Berlin for collections Of dec
GRATED postal cards will not understand it.
But there is such a craze, and Germans in
this country who have received letters
from friends asking for decorated cards
from the United States were at first at
loss TO know what was desired. But the
postal-card collector is now TO be found not
only the continent and in England, but
in America, though the disease is not yet
strongly marked here There is an infinite
field for the decoration Of postal cards.
Abroad they decorate them with landscapes.
famous buildings and copies Of famous
pictures in the vicinity of the place from
which they are issued. Some Of the first
decorated pos al cards in this country were
brought out 1T the time of the Columbian
exposition They were adorned with expo
sition scenes which were gorgeous, IL not
beautiful The guide-book boys in the White
mountains and other resorts this past sum-
mer besieged visitors and excursionist to
buy cards having views of the Notch" and
Well-known hotels.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10

The Boston Transcript contains long ac-
count of the workings of the woman's prison
fn Massachusetts, which it complacently
says is the only institution of the kind in
the country. The Transcript really ought
20 be better informed The Indiana Wom-
ans Prison and Reformatory was the first
institution in the country where female
convicts were given a separate establish
ment and placed under the exclusive super
vision of women. The Massachusetts, prison
was modelled, at least in part. on the one
hove
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10

United States Judge Jackson. of West
Virginia, seems more DESTROYS of making
sensational decisions than sound ones. 1t
was he who first pushed the principle of
government by injunction to dangerous
extreme and now he has decided that, UNI
der the civil-service law. the transfer of
clerk from one department to another or
from one bureau to another in the same
department is Illegal He holds that the APP
poinrment OF a person to a government po-
sition under the civil-service law gives him
q right in equity TO that particular place.
and that he cannot legally be assigned to
another. This IS worse than quibbling; it
S an attempt to make the law an obstacle
% the transaction of public business. The
csyil-service law was intended to promote
the public welfare, not that Of individuals
a was designed for the good of the public
servicc. not for its embarrassment. It was
not intended to put the interests Of office
holders above those Of the government II