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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26

dieate the rate of increase or loss as
well as if the cash market value were
taken. 1t is proper that the relation of
assessed wealth to population should
be given in connection with the re-
lation of these institutions and their
occupants and expenditure for them
to population. We therefore give the
following table of assessed values, pop
uIation and per capita amount:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26

The knitting mill at Mankato, employing
from so to 100 hands, made an assignment last
week with liabilities placed at So, OG0. Such
failures are to be regretted. as they shake
confidence in the sagacity and business ability
of the men who engage in these enterprises
and discourage others from undertaking SINH
lar business yentures.-Albert Lea Enterprise.
1t also tends to shake confidence in the
efficiency of hundred per cent protection to
build up. foster and maintain knitting mills.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26
and per capita amount

II 1eEEe" OI t1IEse Isaas7t9 71IO" , 7fI1eH
that we have a steady increase in the
number of state institutions; three
fold increase of the ratio of their in
mates to population; an increase of
two and a half times in the ratio of
the biennial cost of maintenance to
population, with a per capita valua-
ton Of taxable property Sc less in 1896
than the average of the twenty-six
years. 1t again appears to be ''a con-
dition. not a theory, that confronts US"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26
WEATHER For TO-DAY.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-Forecast for Sun
day: Minnesota and Iowa-Fair; colder; west
to northwest winds
Wisconsin-G Generally fair; colder; light
westerly winds.
North Dakota and South Enthusiastically
fair; probably colder; variable winds.
Montana-Fair except light rain in extreme
western portion; southwest Winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau, Washington, Dec. 20, 6:4S
p. m. Local Time, p. m. 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, 1897-12-26

Occasionally some poor, feeble-minded NOR
tai gets muffed at some imaginary wrong and
orders their paper stopped, and seem sur
prised.-Le Roy Independent.
Probably some finlcky scholar, over fastidi-
Gus in matters of grammar. who sticks to the
exploded notion that verbs should agree with
their substantiyes in person and number, and
whom the editor of the Independent properly
regards as poor. feeble-minded mortal"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26
Is WAITED IN GLASGOW,
And He Is Not Homie Prince Char
lie, Either.

Charles Macy. a young man raised
in this city. was arrested by Detectives
Murnane and Calvin yesterday upon in
formation from Glasgow, Mont. where
it is alleged he is wanted for grand lar
ceny. The telegram did not state the
particulars of Nacey's alleged offsnse.
but merely requested his apprehension
and that he be held until the Montana
authorities could send an officer to take
him back to Glasgow. Macy was ar
rested at the home of his parents on
West Seventh street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 1904; mean temperature, %;
weather, clear; maximum temperature, 80;
minimum temperature, 13; daily range, 10;
amount of precipitation in last twenty-four
hours. 0.
Note-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. p. f. Lyons, Observer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26

time brings in its revenge" Peace
hath her victories no less renowned
than war;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

PnyabIe in Advance.
Dniiy and Sunday, Per Month '"0
Daily and Sunday, Six Months S-''"
Daily and Sunday, One Year pow
Daily Only, Per Month ----- Az
Daily Only, Six 'dOnths $500 %%'~"
Daily Only, One Year paw"
Sunday Only, One Year $500 9I'Oo
Weekly, One Year ------- $A'O"
Address ali communications and make all
remttances payable to
The GLOBE CO.. st. Paul. MINI.
Complete files of the o be always kept
on hand for reference.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26

Sunday Only, One Year $500 $3.50
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
WIT u WIZARD.

Bill Nye's Clever Trick ON Prof. Herr
mann. the Magician.
A few years ago, Bill Nye and Herr
mann, the magician, met for the first
time in q small Ohio town. They
stopped at the same hotel, and 9
given seats at the same table in the
~dining-room. They bowed politely and
began talking about the weather, each
believing that the other did not recog-
nize his vis-a-vis. just as Nye raised
his knife and fork to cut a dish of let
tuce salad, Hermann uttered q cry Of
protest. Excuse mc, sir" remarked
the wizard, ''but / thought I saw some-
thing queer there in your lettuce"
The humorist carefully looked over the
salad, leaf by leaf, but found nothing,
and again raised his knife to cut it.
Again he was stopped by a sharp cry
from Hermann, who added, apologet-
ically: 81 beg a thousand pardons, but
there is something there. Excuse me"
and he pointed to a large ~lettuce-leaf,
| raised it, and disclosed underneath a
| magnificent diamond cluster ring.
Nye slowly picked up the ring, and,
without the slightest manifestation OF
surprise, drawled out: This sort Of
thing has gone just far enough. I'm
continually shedding diamonds wher-
ever 1 go. Day before yesterday ! lost
a solitaire in a sugar-bovd in Pitts
burgh, and in Cleveland this morning
the c~hambermaid, in sweeping my room
found three or four nor It 10 posi-
lively giving me brain-fag to keep track
Of these things, and I'm going to give
it up as a bad job" Reckoning to q wait
ress, he slipped Herrmann's ring into
her hand and said: Here's q triie fol
you. Keep it to remember me by it;
yours" It took the owner Of the ring
about half a day to it-Sa1
Francisco Argonlut
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
PARAaRAPAIc POINTERS.

Mr.. Hanna ID still hot after the
right sort Of senators.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The republicans have not vet en-.
planned how increasing taxation is 90.
ing toHreform the currency.-Kansas
City Times.
1t is 30 easy for a party to forget
it's platform that we are afraid the u.
Publicans will diEremember that thew
made . few pledges to the people,
Atlanta Constitution.
When a republican grows noisy
In his talk about trusts, he can ba
fuieted by the suggestion that all ar
ticles manufactured by trusts be put
on the free list.-Louisville Post.
The report that Hanna has eivep
for the adoption OF certain meas
ures by congress and has fixed the date
OF the extra session indicates that Han
is laboring under the impression
that his syndicate bought the United
States.-St. Louis Republic.
Senator Thurston, of Nebraska
has a. such a ree as a railroad loh-
oyist that no n could have been much
surprised when he recently suggested
the abandonment by his party Of ali
pretense OF currency reform in order "a
win silver votes for protectiou.-Buffalo
Courier.
-Ihose gentlemen who used to fiji
ne ar with discordant bowls about Che
wilson tariff bill WHY note that under
is operations for the present fiscal vear
imports e not only decreased.
which is n good thing, but our er,
will show IN increase Of approxi.
nately $5o,oOO,oOO which is another
Wheeling Register.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

A L.
But II you ever saw . white man thot
needed q good soft place to lay down
and laugh all over, it was me 81 The
Cross Roads on last election day.
1t was way long in the shank OF the
evenin before old man Dick Wallace
showed up to vote, and when he did
come he brung with him ell the marks
and signs Of fight. He was black and
blue in spots, and all bunged and
bruised up to a scandlous extent Some
Of the boys wanted to know Of him
where he was when the cyclone passed.
and old man Dick responded back and
said:
"Well, boys, I have jest naturally had
a most hellatious bad fight"
Now, as everybody knows, old man
Dick Wallace is one of these good, lazy.
good-for-nothin kind of men, and didn't
come from fghtin stock nohow. So
the crowd was powerful surprised to
hear the news, and at onct the boys
wanted to know all about the fight.
"It wa all on account of politics,
no doubts-whteh I have been stickin
my finger in the pie considerable here
of late" says the old man. sBut atany
rates. way long in the dead hours Of
last night three men rode up to my
house and hitched their horses and
wanted to see me in a hurry. When /
responded to the call they met me at
the door, they did, led me out through
the front gate and took ms of down
there in the woods, and tied me to tres
and beat me up scandlous."
"Was that ALP"
Eyes, thank the Lord, that was all, =
says old man Dick, "and / tell you, boys,
it was a most hellatious bad fight"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
Ha ..NTuat of stralnt ner.,.

Il
Along in durin of the summer and fall
campaign Col. Bob Milligan has madE
BIC stump speeches, more or less, fol
the cause of free silver and the people
And now consequentially the colona
is knocked out and laid up for repair
with various and sundry complaint
of the throat.
AS for me and Col. Bob-we have beeI
friends and fellow servants clost AMI
constant from way back there in oF
young and gallin days. But here 4
late he always puts me in mind of Ton
Billy Simpkins and his old army mur
ket.
Years and years ago Tom Billy hal
one of these old long army muskets
which stood about six feet and thre9
ak handles to the first peckelmOod
hole. And the way Tom Billy ia
could shoot with that old muskst was
plum marvelsome to behold.
whenever you see me tRowlong
Bebsey acrost my shoulder Ggo IoEsn
into the woods somethiH1gs Dounu 70
drap and there is neat PoS rlghs
now" Tom Billy WEI won 70 say.
s'She never f~iclers id she never falls,
Rufe. Every tint draw a bead and
pull the triggep4ere is death and de-
strnetion abroA in the land"
But onct 1Pon a time I met UP with
Tom Binvdown there at the bridge IN
Bear erik swamp. He had his 'long
RetsevI with him, but in his hand no
gam[he brung. and he was loOkin
povFerful down in the mouth. When ]
belt him up and wanted to know what
in the name of love and mercy whatwa a
the matter, with a sad and trembliu
voice he told me that 'long Betseya
had fickered and went back on him
that whereas he use to cali for fresh
meat at every fire, he couldn't take hel
and hit the side of a meetin house now,
"What in all the round discovered
world do you reckon has got the mat
ter with her all of a student. Tom BIZ
ly ?" says I.
"Raley, Rufe, I couldn't say for Ger
tain what is the matter with her" say
Tom Billy, in a sad and chokin voice
''but the other day I shot her uphill
and hit a lightwood stump, and l reckon
I must of straint her."
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
rho ..xa,ler Doc clause

/ was right smart tickeied the other
day in regards to a red-hot political ar
Rifcation which was goin on over at the
Cross Roads between Blew Scroggins
and Lige Runnels.
In the main time, you must recol-
lect, Lige he had took and jumped the
fence in the general fall election and
wouldn't vote for the reglar democratic
congressman. Whereas, Blew was say
in everything he could think Of, except
his Sunday school lesson, to Lige and
givin him the all-overest draggin you
ever heard tell Of, perhaps.
sligo Runnels,' says Blew, "many
and many's the time / have heard you
stand on the ~housetops, as it were, and
preach forth the doctrines of all-wool
democracy. Many and many's the
time I have heard you swear by the liv-
in and the dead that you would vote fol
a yaller dog il the democratic party
put him on the ticket Now, whatel
yer got to say?"
"No doubts but what you have heard
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
THE o 70 SUFFER.


Mckinley TRx8tiOn Exempts the Capt.
talist,
In none of the republican schemes
for increasing the revenues is there
q suggestion of restoring any of the
repealed taxes on wealth. New and
higher taxes ON clothing, food and
shelter, but no taxes on Injuries, on.
accumulated wealth or active capital
This is the McKinleyite programme.
1t is proposed to restore the barbar-
and cruel tax on wool, to increase
rue on WOolens,bU-xwasS baro-raues
on crockery and glass, to reimpose
duties on lumber, eggs, potatoes, onions,
cabbage and hay, but to continue the
exemption of wealth in every form.
In 1866 the internal taxes collected
on manufactures, aside from whisky.
beer and tobacco, aggregated $122,ooo,-
600. They were all repealed.
Other taxes collected from wealthin
that year were: From incomes, $751;
O71,932; from banks, railroad COM
panies, etc., $13,279,142; licenses, $1s,-
o3S,097; gross receipts-from 21s to 3
per cent.-of publishers, telegraph. ex-
press and insurance companies, steam
boats, ferries, stage coaches, theaters.
operas, circuses and museums. $1O.-
OBJ, 7o7; legacies and SUGGESTIONS, ST.
17o,97s; stamps, ~$15,O44,373. All those,
one after another, were abolished at
the instigation of wealth's lobby.
There were other small taxes, like those
OF salaries Of public officials, on pass
ports, ETC., the proceeds Of which bring
the total OF internal taxes repealed Inn
mediately after the war up to $24O,OOo,-
BOO.
This exemption OF wealth left the
whole burden Of the cost OF the gov.
eminent upon consumption-main1y Of
common necessities Of the people.
And this is where the party bossed by
Mark Hanna, with Mckinley as its
.igurehend, deliberately proposes to
the burden.
# il shall do this, the history Of 1890
will repeat itself in the elections Of
IS9s.-N. X. World.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
REscuINo PEACHES.
OF $4,000 Spent In Halls Orchard ~
Destroying Worms.

SUM OF $4,000 Spent In Hale Orchard "a
Destroying Worms.
The great Hale peach orchard. III
Georgia, covers 1,O7s acres, 600 Of which
are in bearing trees, and the remaindew
in nursery stock. There are avenues
running north and south through tbc
orchard 500 feet apart, with 4 croaa
road every 1000 feet. There are two
large packing houses 100 feet lonp ana
40 feet wide and two stories hiph ana
a lodging houke or hotel has lust hee,
built for the help.
Last year some 400 helpers camped
IN barns, wagons, tents, etc. AL picking
time about 500 men and women. CHIEF
~ colored, and rs horses and mule
are employed, while SO men Ara 81
mules ~ employed the year round
az the lodging house oor and heaa
are free and board costs $3.50 4 vyaaIr
while families and parties can furniah
their own food and have IL cooked a.
themselves If they choose.
his year the curculiO attacked the
peaches and Mr.. Hale waged PROMPT
war upon the insects, jarring tie trees
2 catching the insects III sheata
tackled to light semicircular hnor
frames. Two On these were brouDht
together about a hsae, which was s4sr3ca-
by q rubber-padded club. and the In
scots which dropped were then throgvr
INTO buckets and carried by boya ID
barrels in wagons and drawn away Il
De urine by the stung fruit which
dropped with Them. Fifty men were
busy Q nearly two months. from
eariy April onward, at this work, which
cost $4,000. Butwhile in other orchards
rom 60 to 30 per cent of the fruit
lost. and in some orchards the en-
tlre crop, the Hale orchard alone ad
= 1uil crop, and many Of the trees we've
90 overloaded that they required se-
Garden.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
a PLEpoE REDEEMED.
How Republican campaIgn Rronalssa Arc
nnlnlfna

49, NV
Fuintfod.
The most comfortable theory we have
Jet een advanced Is that which has is
origin with the Carnegie Steel com
pany. That company has issued a notice
TO the effect that it viii continue to
pay the same scale OF wages during 1897
that il has paid during 1896.
The comfortable theory that goes
along with this notice is the announce
ment that the refusal of the company
to raise wages is, in itself, a virtual in
crease OF the wages Of 5000 men on ae-
count of the reduction in the price of.
products. This reminds US Of the &
ricultural genius who tied green spec
tacles on his mule and Ia that way in-
duced him TO eat ahavings. The idea
was original and unconventional, and
we have heard nothing to equal it I'M
til the publication Of the Carnegie an
nouncement that e refusal to increase
wages is, in faetwhen regarded rightly,
q virtual increase.
It is to be hoped that the men win
take the theory as kindly as the spec
tacled mule IS said to have done, for It
would be sad indeed il there should be
any doubt or duhiousness III regard 01
the theory which the Carnegie COM
pany presented 10 its workmen as q
Christmas gift. Discomfort at this time
would be a poor return to make for the
great victory that has been won for
sound money" and projections poor
return for the great wave of prosperity
that is said to be preparing to food the
country, having already begun its work,
il the New York newspapers are to be
believed, the day after Mr.. McKinley's
election.
Consequently, we would advise the
Carnegie men not to examine too closely
the theory that has been thrust upon
their attention, but to take it serious
ly, and go about their business feeling
that they are richer and better off than
they were before they discovered that
a decision not to reduce wages is, in
effect, an increase.
1t may now be claimed, and with ex
cellent reason, that a reduction of
wages is no reduction at all, but mere
ly a substantial evidence that although
q reduction has been made, the wages
remain precisely the same. We trust
it will be long before this logical de-
duction from the Carnegie theory is
putinto actual observation-disclosures Con-
stitution.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20

HurtdI monty is usually gained
in one Of two vi: Either by govern
ment favor in tbrm of Legislative ad-
vantages, or bytroad discrimination
In the form OF Hial rates or rebates.
Usually both ahtages are enjoyed.
II the states Ned severe penalties
upon railroadstlty of discrimina-
tiona and uponporakions and indi-
viduals enterlnAto combinations to
regulate producl or prices, the trusts
and monopolieduld be badly Grip
pied. The mdoly combinations
could be almo$eeded out Of the
states by the e1ement of the prin-
ciples Of commaw. Let congress.
in addition to nhg laws to prevent
the operation $usts within the
scope Of federathority, adopt the
rule that %evergfcle handled by a
trust or combint shall be placed on
the free aist aIe corner stone OF
monopoly will Hocked out. If the
republicans arefere in their pro-
fession OF a desi smash the trusts,
here IS an opd-Sk Louis Re-
public.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-20
The HOur1la Courier.
EASTON DUvAL, Publisher.
HoUMA, LOUISIANA
SIZE elpEp HER rlME.

he Fold Her AN About 3 Wonderful
Creek and Got q Pointer In Return.
Perhaps the most popular man cor
nected with the Yellowstone Park
Transportation company is Capt. E. G.
Culver. of Gardner. In addition to the
duties of justice of the peace, he makes
q daily trip on the park train and per-
sonally interviews every man boy,
woman and child who travels ON it. He
is a walking encyclopedia of park infor-
nation. He knows the height of every
peak, the altitude Of every important
location, and can give you Prof. Hay
denis theory of the parks geological
formation. Besides all this he is q
prince of good fellows and has fund of
humOr which sometimes carries him
away when touching up descriptions
and legends of the park.
Some time ago ~the,captain had an
perience which was too good to keep.
and he gave it away to a friend in town.
He was going from the springs to Gin
nabar, and there were three very bright
young ladies on the coach. One OF
them asked If it were customary to have
So many mosquitoes in so high an alti-
tude. The captain assured her that it
was not unusual; that they were i'm
creasing year by year; that no mos
quitoes were ever known in the park
until. about eight years ago, a New
Jersey schoolma'm had carelessly in
closed some in her trunk and let them
out at Mammoth Hot springs, when,
libe rabbits in Australia, they became
an increasing pest.
All agreed that it was remarkable,
but one girl seemed to carry a.smile of
kncredulity. AS the conversation con-
tAnued, Mr.. Culver was asked what he
considered the most remarkable thing
in the park. He said that if beauty and
grandeur were to be left out of the
count, he thought the most remark
able thing was Alum creek, a Gttle
stream putting into the river between
the falls and the lake. Originally, he
said, the distance between the hotels at
the lake and the falls vas &c miles, but
when they commenced to sprinkle the
road between the two places with water
taken from Alum creek some years ago.
they soon found the distance between
the hotels shortened by about eight
miles. AS the hotels were then only
about 10 miles apart and the road still
shrinking, the superintendent ordered
them to use no more water from Alum
creek. And then the captain told an
other little legend about the creek that
was quite well authenticated. Last
year, he said, a party went through the
park on a camping tour, and a young
lady with them came into the park
wearing No. 8 shoes. After camping on
Alum creek two days and bathing hel
feet she went home wearing a pair Of
No. 2 CATERS.
At this point the girl with the in.
credulous smile said to him:
"Don't you think it would be a good
plan to battle your head in that creek
. time or woP"-Livingston Post.