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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
AT THE THEATERS.

OF the many excellent performances given
by the Giffen-Neill company during it's So
journ in St. Paul this summer that of 1.-The
Private Secretary last evening proved the
MOST amusing Gilette's farce is undenia-
bly, bright and clever, it's situations ingeni-
ously contrived and its dialogue replete with
witty repartee. The farce is too well known
to require further comment.
The performance merits. emphatic common
dation. The leading roles were happily en-
trusted to those artists best qualified TO re-
veal their possibilities. 1t cannot be D that
the farce has any single chief character. 1t
has two, Benson CattermoIe, the rich uncle
from India, and the Rev. Mr.. Spaulding, he
of the influenza and the goloshes. These
roles were played respectively by William F.
Owen and John B. Maher, and played I'M
commonly well. Old Cattermole is easily the
best character in which Mr., Owen has ap-
peared during the engagement. Cattermole is
prolific of possibilities, and Mr.. Owen de-
velops every one of them artstically and eff
fectively. His Cattermole is flesh and blood
portrayal of a clustering, yet jolly, we'll fed
old fellow. who detests milksop, and opens
his heart to a young man human enough to
sow few wild oats. AS soon as he discovers
that his nephew is not the young curate, but
one of the boys, he indeed becomes that
young mans "friend from India" Mr..
Ovens representation, so refreshing in its
spontaneity and so rich in humor, was a
constant delight to the senses.
Charles Kents Marsland was characterized
by the same thorough appreciation of the
niceties of dramatic art which has marked
his work in other roles which were much
more important to the action of the plays in
which they participate.
Mr.. Maher also impaired a distinct indi-
viduality to the role of the eccentric Mr..
Spaulding. His. makeup was exceedingly
conformity Herewith. His every appearance
was areeted with roars of laughter.
The other roles were in satisfactory hands.
Miss Kate Blancke is to be commended for her
effective characterization of Miss Ashford,
who believes in spirits and longs to behold a
medium. James Neill, who appeared in the
role of Douglas Cattermole, the lively young
nephew, who impersonates the private sec
rotary, gave pleasing performance. In the
character of Gibson, the tailor. who aspires
to soar in the atmosphere of genteel society,
Arnold DAILY found opportunity for creating
a scene in that society, of which he made eff
fective use.
Edythe Chapman and Jenny Daily the latter
D. new acquisition to the company, fulfilled
roles of the farcical type. Miss Lila Howell,
also a recent acquisition, entirely &C
ceptable in the character of Mrs. Spauding,
the wife of the curate and the mother of his
five small boys.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02

it's spirit where 1t has not got foot
hold, that gives to the enemies of the
reform all the encouragement to per-
severe that they have. But we predict
that they will wait long and vainly for
a revocation of the orders of President
Cleveland. They have destroyed what
ever chance there might have been by
the very fierceness of their rush and
their clamor for the few places at the
disposal of the president. They have
pursued and pestered him for them and
have thus warned him of what he
would have to endure should be abate
one jot or title of the defenses of the
system.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
BRIDE IS A WIDOW
NICHOLAS SCHAEFER'S HONEY
MOON WAS OF BUT TWO
MONTHS DURATION.
THEN HE CUT HIS THROAT.
WIFE WOKE UP LAST NIGHT tn
FIND HERSELF ALONE IN THE
WORLD.
LONG SPELL OF MELANCHOLY
eliminates in the Tragic Departure
of the Victim From His Fam
cied Troubles.

Nicholas Schaefer,a grocery clerk liv-
ing at 342 Pleasant avenue, killed him
self shortly before II o'clock last night,
by cutting his throat from ear to ear
with large bread knife. The deed was
one of determined purpose, for though
the knife was dull, jagged implement
the suicide accomplished almost instan-
taneous death Schaefer had been mar
ried but two months. He was hard
drinker and of late had given signs Of
mental arrangement. Coroner Nelson
viewed the body and decided an inquest
unnecessary.
The dead man was tWenty-nine years
Of age and lived with the family of
Jacob Bauer. Mr. Bauer raised Schaef-
er from a boy and gave him employ
ment at his grocery store at CO Wini-
fred street. Last May Schaefer quit
the employ of his foster father and
went to Window, Mimi, where his
father conducts a small farm. While
there he became acquainted with
Miss Gill, whom he married. He then
brought his wife to st. Paul and again
went to work for Mr.. Bauer living
with his wife at his employers home.
For several days Schaefer had been
| melancholy and startled his wife and
friends by his strange talk.
Early last evening he complained Of
feeling i'll and cook a ring from his
finger, insisting that his wife wear the
circlet He retired about 10 o'clock,
and at a quarter to u Mrs. Schaefer
Weakened to find her husband missing
from her side. She was much alarmed
and feared the worst, but hoping her
apprehensions were grOundless she
started to search for her husband. The
bed room door leading down stairs
into the kitchen was open, and on de-
scending Mrs. Schaefer was Mortified to
see a large pool of blood on the floor.
The door opening into the yard was
ajar, but the young wife could go no
further and called to Mr.. Bauer to
continue the search. Going into the
yard, Mr.. Bauer found Schaefer about
| fifty feet from the kitchen, lying prone
upon his face, cold in death Turning
the body over, he found a ragged cash
across the throat completely severing
the Windpipe, which told the story.
How the man managed to walk the
distance from the kitchen to where his
body lay is mystery, as it was appar-
ent from the great amount of blood en-
the floor of the room that he must
have almost bled to death before open
ing the door. The knife was found be-
side a small rocking chair in the
kitchen, upon which the suicide EVIL
IDENTIFY sat while drawing the blade
across his throat.
Mrs. Schaefer's mother lives. at Mer,
riam Park.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02

decision of an arbitration convention
that this was unlawful on our part and
that we owe reparation, the refusal of
our congress to pay the damages agreed
upon and the extremely offensive tone
adopted by our state department In it's
correspondence with the representa-
ttves of England, she goes to the
limit of tolerationSin once more agree
Ing to unite with us to reopen this
whole question for the sake of prevent
Ing the entireyextermination of the fur
bearing seal. 1T seems to us, also, that
the United States government comes
out of these events with little enough
credit to awaken in us some sense Of
shame Surely, we are old enough and
powerful enough and respected enough
now to abandon the attitude of brag
ana buster and offensive swash-buck-
lerlsm that was excusable in a new
country struggling for admission to the
society of the great powers, and it re-
flects only upon ourselves now that we
are admittedly in the front rank of the
nations of the world
1t is not a pleasant thing to take
a lesson in conduct from Great Britain,
but she has certainly administered one
to US, in this sealing affair particular
~, and in the general conduct of dip
lomatic correspondence between the
two nations for the last three years.
we would concede nothing of national
right, we would gain much in national
conduct, if we were to drop the lingo
attitude and try to remember as a ma
ton, that courtesy and generous deal
ing are indicative of strength and Of
character, while their opposites have
always been associated with weakness
and low civilization.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02

One of the largest loaning firms of the
East gives it out as a fact that the farmers
of the two Dakotas have paid off over fifty
million dollars of hers1hortgage indebtedness
within the past two years.-Litchfeld News
Ledger. -
been bemoaning the Sad fate of those self
same farmers, crushed, robbed, oppressed and
trodden down by Democratic free trade. Don't
you begin to think you were good deal of a
humbug2
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
BEER HIS PASSION.
Alexander BOessow Spends $4,000
Trying to Quench His Thirst

MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 31.-Alex-
arder Boessow, aged forty-four years.
died here today. from delirium tremens,
after having spent a fortune in an
efford to satiate his thirst for beer.
Boessow was a native OF st. Peters
burg, and is said to have been the
son of a wealthy nobleman. He was
years ago on the death of his father.
Having heard of the fame of Mil
waukee beer, he came to this city to
spend his money, and is said to have
been on a continuous jollity with the
foaming amber from his arrival in this
country until his death. On Monday
he received a draft for $500. the last
installment of his fortune He imme-
diately started out to spend the money,
and for two days was crazed with
drink. He died this morning at AT
Third street
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
BURIED THEIR CAsH-8EARER.
Henry F. r. Wits Lodge BrcthrS RI
Pay q Inst Tribute.

Banner Lodge No. 4. A o. U. W..
had charge of the funeral of the late
Henry F. f. Witt, which was held
yesterday afternoon from his home,
236 East Tenth street The honorary
pallbearers were Robert A. Smith,
William Pitt Murray, George Benz,
Adam Finck, William brewery, E. F..
Hughson, A. r. Kiefer and j. J. Nc
Cardy The active pallbearers: F..
V. Hyderstaedt, NJ. Detfel, Max
Schwab, H. B. Robinson, James Smith,
AL. A. Tuchelt, A. H Arosin and
Charles ReichOw.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
SHE MAY GET EVEN.
Atlanta Society Is Aroused in'Dread
of Having a Negro Neighbor.


ATLANTA, Ga, July 31.-Peachtree
street is just now in an agony of sus-
perse over the threat that Mrs. w.
H. Smythe will rent her residence. No.
400, to Renry Rucker, the colOred man
recently appointed revenue collector for
Georgia. Maj Smythe wished to be
revenue collector under President Nc
Kinley, but was turned down in favor
Of Henry Rucker, colored who got the
Office.
1t was then developed that Rucker
had as indOrsing him the names of
nearly all Maj. Smythe's fashionable
neighbors. This is what has angered
Mrs. Smythe, and she writes from her
summer home in Virginia that she was
thinking about renting her Peachtree
street home to Henry Rucker, as some
of her neighbOrs seem to prefer him as
collector to her husband, and she want
ed to see whether they would apprc-
c:ate him as highly as a neighbOr as
they had indOrsed him so strongly and
enthusiastically for office.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
COAL SHIPMENTS LIGHT.
Northwest Threatened With "a Fuel
Famine.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 1-Thc ship
ments of coal westward by lake from
this port show a falling off of 225, 00G
tons as compared with last year to this
date. The receipts of grain, including
flour in its wheat equivalent. aggrc-
gate since the opening of navigation
93,94S, 1876 bushels, an increase as COM
pared with last year Of $1,000, 900 bush
els. At this date last year the lake
receipts of grain were largely in excess
of any previous year in the history Of
the port.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
JULY WAS WET AND HOT.
Mean Temperature Two Degrees
Above Normal

In his review of the prevailing
weather for July, Observer Lyons
says:
The weather conditions at st. Paul and
vicinity during the month just ended We're
remarkable only for the excessive rainfall;
and the stage of water in the Mississippi
river was considerably above that of any
other July in the last twenty-five years:
The average July rainfall for the last
twenty-siX years is 1926 inches; the fall last
month was 6.35 inches, or not far from twice
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
OUR TRADE WITH CURA

The agricultural department has COM
piled the quantities and values of our
trade with Cuba for the ten years,
1SM96, making it possible, with it's
separation of agricultural from nom
agricultural products exported, to see
how far BIaine's policy provided mar
kets for our wheat, flour, pork and
other products Of the farms, and also
to see whether this increase Of mar
kots was shared by other industries
not mentioned by Mr. Blaine 1t also
furnisheA evidence OF the contention
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02

We would IKE to know if the Pittsburg
manufacturers, who are now ciamorng to
reduce the wage scale 10 per cent are the
same fellows who said they would raise the
wages of their employees 10 per cent providing
Mckinley vas e.ec.ea--Lc Roy Independent.
Same fellows; same old rang; same old
story: same lot of suckers caught by the
same old bait.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
TEE DAILY GLOBE
is PUBLISHED EVERY DAY
AT NEWSPAPER ROW,
COR. FOURTH AND MINNESOTA SIS.

Address all communications and make all
remittances payable to
THE GLOBE CO., st. Paul, Mimi.
Complete files of the G o b always kept
on hand for reference.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
GENERAL OBSERVATION

united States Department Of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau, Washington, Aug. l, GAS
D. m. Local Time, s p. IN. 18th Meridian
Time.-Observations taken at the same mo-
ment OF time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02

To send in your coupons at once for
they are void after the second day.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
BELLwoOD's FORMER CAREER.
Was One Wf II Gang of Partisan
RInclkmailers. X Is Hinted.

HINC4AIII-tTIVIN' II II IIIIItV-NI'
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-William :.
Bellwood. who is confined in the Tombs
prison on a charge of having swindled
Marsus & Co, jewellers, out of $4,000
worth of jewelry and spent the money
at the races, refused to admit today
that he was Guillaume Balensi. who
fed from Paris two years ago, when
he was one of a coterie that fastened
themselves on Max Lebaudy, the young
millionaire, whose death revealed q
story of blackmail and eXtortion that
was the talk of the two continents.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer. 1892: mean temperature, IS;
relative humidity, -; wind at s p. m, north
east: weather, clear; maximum temperature,
50. minimum temperature, &c; daily range,
lg: amount of precipitation in last twenty-four
hours, -.
RIVER AT s A. NJ.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
PnNabIe in Advance.

Daily ana Sunday, per Month 80
Daily and sunday, Six months %2.T5
Daily and sunday, One Year $500
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
TnnAY,s WEATuER.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-Forecast for Mon
day: Minnesota and the Dakotas-fair
cooler; northerly winds.
Observation-Disclosures fair; slightly warmer
in eastern portion; light variable winds.
Iowa-Fair; slightly cooler; variable winds
becoming northerly.
Montana Generally fair; northerly winds.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02
RIVER AT S A. NJ.
THE WALL Is UNBREACHED.

-FaI ~IIse.
Note-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. P. f. Lyons, Observer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-02

n~iJv ONLY, per Month 40
Daily Only, six Months $50
Daily Only. One Year $500
Sunday Only, One Ienr %'."o
Iy-.c7.I,.. One Year $I.GO
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-09-10
Baseball Batting,

The ideal batter puts into his stroke,
first, body motion; second, upper arm
motion; third, forearm motion, and
fourth, wrist motion. The stroke begins
with strong body swing, which is fol.
lowed by the motions of the upper and
fore arm respectively, and ends with a
short, quick snap of the wrists. AL
though this is the analysis of the ideal
stroke, it j. not precisely the one that !
would recommend for the majority Of
amateurs. To get all the motions to
their full extent against good pitchers
requires an ability TO judge the ball
more quickly and accurately than anna
teurs, with few exceptions, can do.
The wrist and arm motions can be con-
trolIed more easily and quickly than
the body swing, 80 that if most Of the
latter Is left off the batter has greater
chance of Judging the ball accurately.
l therefore think, as accuracy is abso-
lutely essential, that batters should lie
coached to use but little body swing. In
other words, they should be coached
not to slug" and try for home.runs,
but TO meet the ball squarely for line
singles. When You see batter, as of
ten have, strike at ball, and from the
force of the stroke be turned completely
around, you have seen one who is guilty
Of two breaches of correct batting prin-
ciples. First, having entirely sacrificed
the important arm and wrist motions,
he has, with stiff arms and wrists, de.
pended entirely upon a powerful body
swing. And, second, he has lost his bal
ance and therefore all batting form. 1t
will be well to bear in mind that
against any pitcher "A good, clean hit
can be made, even without any body
motion, if the bail be hit squarely and
with IA quick arm motion and snap of
the wrists Harper Round Table.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-09-10
The Charm of a College Room.

A college room Is "a delightful place.
Its occupant for the time being is its
master. He can do as he will in it
lock his door and be not at home, adj
NIT all corners, sit alone and read or
study, or sit with his congenial friend
and talk out whatever he may have the
good fortune 10 have in his mind. One
Harvard graduate certainly, who found
many pleasures of very varied sonts in
college, remembers very few with such
a sense of solid comfort duly taken as
certain talks had in college rooms with
good men, though young, about letters
and life and people, The immediate en-
viIonment and the greater world on the
brink of which all college men stand
Music has charms, superlative charms,
in college too
In this same graduate memory there
are few musical associations more con-
soling than the memory of what he
heard, half asleep in a chair before q
fire, while a good musician who was
his classmate sat at his piano in the
corner. Some Of the calmest and most
peaceful memories of college are the
best. The more boisterous pleasures Se
smile TO recall and wonder as we re-
member them at the vigor and the folly
of youth. But about those quieter
streaks of happiness there was no folly
and they involved no remorse -Edw ard
s. Martin In Scribner'A
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-09-10
CHINESE SOLDIERS.

A young man from my native town
entered the army, and by diut of hard
fighting and real merit rose to the rank
of brigadior general, but with HIM ut
every promotion rose his brother, whom
l will call ", who had not met him
for years and who WAS peacefully occu-
pied as cook III distant opium den.
This is how il was done. The soldier,
after each engagement III which he dis
tinguishcd himself, reported imaginary
deeds of valor performed by his brother,
and his word was taken. One day tho
cook in the opium den, who had never
even seen a battle, read his name III The
Gazette and found TO his surprise that
he had attained the rank of colonel in
the imperial forces.
Military service is in many ways
very remunerative to the officers. They
enroll any men they like, and they al
ways draw the pay for many more men
than are actually in the army. About
20 per cent of the full number of men
nominally serving and for whom pay is
drawn is the average strength Of the
forces, even under Ii Hung Changes
comparatively honest officers, while
elsewhere 100 men on paper usually
mean but 40 or 90 in the flesh. On re-
view days the officers engage a sufficient
number Of soldiers by the day TO make
the army look all right. But there are
other sources Of profit besides dealing
in dummy soldiers. The live ones have
to wear uniforms and to eat, and both
food and clothes are supplied at eXtor-
tionate prices by the officers so that OF
the taels per month paid by the gov
eminent for each soldier, about onetifth
or less reaches the pockets of the men.
All this refers TO the braves" who are
only engaged during wartime and are
disbanGed the moment the fighting IL
over wherever they may happen to be
and nearly always without the means
of returning 90 their homes, thus keep
ing W The supply Of armed robbers all
over the empire.
As TO the soldiers Of the standing
army IN times Of peace, they are, with
the exception of the MantchCo garrison,
so wrctchodly paid that its strength ex-
lists only on paper. The men enlist and
regularly draw their pay-3 shillings
per mouth-and have scarcely any fur
thcr connection with the military serv-
ice. The few tLat 90 on duty llt,, city
gates live cLjncly on brides. Tho Nan.
chu force under the Tartar general, on
the other hand, is we'll paid, but these
soldiers do no fighting They are only
engaged in guarding the city against
Chinese rebels. They live in separate
quarter to that occupied by the Chinese,
on whom they often make unprovoked
attacks. Thus fights between the Chi
nese and the Tartar soldiery are Of COM
mon occurrence, ana as these Tartar sol
diers are not under the jurisdiction Of
the civil law their outrages invariably
go UNPUBLISHED. Naturally there is no
love lost between the city guards and
the native Chinese. -English Exchange.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-09-10

The fall of silver doesn't seem TO pull
any of the agricultural products down
with it Not only have wheat, tobacco,
wool, and meats advanced in the face of
a p per cent. fall in silver, but now it
seems certain that corn will go up too
Statistician Snow of Chicago, who holds
high rank as a crop expert, says this
years corn crop will fall nearly 800 ,000,-
600 bushels below last year, and as
Europe is taking four times as much
corn from us as she ever did it means
higher prices for this article.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-09-10

Senator Tillman has told the people of
New York State that they are mistaken
if they think there are any signs of pros
perity throughout the country. He
speaks of the wave of business and
agricultural activity now sweeping over
the country rs n "hOt- balloon affair,
and that when the reaction comes the
country will be worse off than ever. He
predicts an early collapse. Wheat, he
admits, has risen, but he says ii is simply
due TO speculation, and that the market
has been manipulated for the purpose of
furthering the political ends of Mark
Hanna. In any event, he says the
people of New York are made TO suffer
by paying increased prices for bread.
Such statements might be amusing If
they were not simply idiotic. Does the
Senator suppose that anybody will be-
ieve him? The wheat crop of last year
was ,430 900, 900 bushels, and the Corn
Trade News" of Liverpool, estimates
the the present years crop at 2,39S, OOO,-
900 bushels. Any politician or states
man who could manipulate the price of
wheat, affecting over 1900, 100000
bushels, to the extent which wheat has
risen during the past year, would be IN
deed worthy the name of statesman.