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The times., 1898-10-26

Atchison preferred continued one of the
leaders of the market yesterday. People
who have studied the earnings statement
of the road carefully are at a loss to ac-
count for this and for gain OF nearly a
point and a half in the price of the stock.
The increase in the gross earnings of the
road was little over 5000 for the month
of September and this was against a
heavy increase in operating expenses
which put the balance far on the wrong
side The gross earnings of the road for
the three months ending September 30 in
creased only SS5, 900. The operating eX-
penses of the road for the same period in
creased 1897, Gee making the total decrease
in income $4,000. There is nothing at
tractive in this in any light.
The earnings of the St Paul road for
the third week of October and for the
month to date exceed those in any year
since 1892 by a generous amount. The in
crease for the week has already been
commented on in this column. The in
crease for the first three weeks is SS57, 900
more than last year and $4,000 more than
in any of the last six years. This is one
of the earnings statements that gives un-
adulterated satisfaction. The grangers
were notably strong yesterday, St Paul
advancing a point, Rock island point
and half, and Burlington the same.
There was rumor in the street yes
terday that the Doscher refinery Will be-
gin business today with a heavy output
Immediately There is a tip out that some
of the insiders intend to send the price
of Sugar stock down sharply Immediately
when the announcement IS made that the
Doschers have entered the field. How
long this movement will be allowed to
go is, of course, a matter for the insiders
to decide 1t does not seem probable,
however, that Sugar will keep above par
long if the price of the refined sugar is
put down any further.
The earnings of Canadian Pacific for
the third week of October declined $3.50
There has been an increase of S1.1lS,00O
since the 1st of January. The earnings
of Wabash for the third week of October
declined Sis; from July there has been
an increase of s2Si, 1000. Denver and Rio
Grande, third week of October, increase,
SIG O0O from July /, $4,000. Northern Pa
cific September gross earnings increased
s29S. 600: net increase, $3.50. 900. Total net
income increased $4,000. Southern Rail-
way, net increase for the third week of
October, s117,0o0
There is a rumor that there will soon be
The times., 1898-10-26
Heavy canvas, &c yd.

Double thick all linen black and
gray canvas for 3-ic a yard dur
ing this sale. 1t has never retaiIed
for less than u 1-2c yard before
that is. for this same quality.
The times., 1898-10-26

MONEY TO LOAN on D. @. real estate; caysbls
in snail monthly installments. JOHN z.
WALTER. WILSON WILLIAMS. 1871 2 St rs.
iy23-tf
The times., 1898-10-26

MONEY TO LOAN at and 1-2 per cent in sums
Of $1,000 10 $4,000 on d. C. real estate: pay
of and per cent mortgages and begin anew;
all transactions conducted with economical con-
sideration for borrowers. WA. H. SAUNDERS
CO., Ho7 st. NV. se2A-tf-em
The times., 1898-10-26
Money to Loan

HONEY TO LOAN ON APPROVED CoLLAT.
ERAL-So delay. YEEKES & BARER,
Rooms 40 to "A. Metzerott Bldg. lIIo s st
tel2-ts
The times., 1898-10-26
Waist lining, TIC yd.

Fancy figured fast black waist
lining, for 3-tc a yard. The very
same quality which retails at I5c
a yard always.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15
purpose in the war times a generation

purpose in the war times generation
ago.
The first measure of internal taxation
adopted by congress after the out
break of the Civil war became law
Aug. 5, 1851. For nearly five years the
efforts of the legislation were directed
to increase the returns from internal
imposts by finding new objects of tax
alton, or by modifying existing rates
for revenue ends. 1t was not until 1866
that the first serious attempt to reduce
these taxes was made, and between
July, 1866, and July, 1868, laws were
passed reducing, by more than $173,-
900, 900, the revenue obtained from inter-
nal sources. How extensive was this
system of taxation can hardly be eX-
pressed in few words. Whiting in
1875, the commissioner of internal reve-
nue. said:
IAN elaborate system of internal
taxation was set on foot, which reach
ed nearly every species of manufac-
ture, trade, profession and occupation,
and embraced many articles which
were specifically taxed, the incomes of
individuals, firms associations and cor
porations, documents of various kinds,
thirty-one in number, subjected to a
stamp tax and laying heavy hand
upon legacies, SUGGESTIONS, and the
gross receipts of those operating
steamboats,, ships, barges, canal boats.
stage coaches, toll-roads, ferries and
bridges, and the gross receipts of rail
road, express, insurance and telegraph
companies; upon lotteries, theaters,
operas, museums; upon banks and
bankers; upon trust companies and
savings institutions, and upon occupa-
lions, fifty-one in number. requiring Ii
censes from those who carried them on
varying from $40 to 5000. 1t may be
doubted whether there ever existed
in any country a system of taxation
so comprehensive and minute in it's
Details
Great Revenue Secured.
In less than five years the revenue
obtained from these taxes reached the
sum of 1910 9O6, 9s4-more than twice as
much as was collected under the in
ternal revenue system of 1897, when
only a few of the duties remained in
force.
It Is to part of the war scheme
that Mr.. Dingley proposes to return.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15
STATE UNIVERSITY NOTES.

The Dramatic club met Friday and elected
Its officers for next year.
The S. C. A held its last meeting for the
q oo-s le9 ding the service.
There are about fifteen students left at the
farm who are attending classes in the scien-
tiRc course at the academic school.
The University of Minnesota tennis tourna-
ment tournament begins on May 16, at the
Minneapolis Tennis club courts Park ave-
Nwyman A. Clark of the Y NJ. C. A. OF
Rio Janeiro, addressed the S. c. A. last
week.
Prof. Hayes, of the. agricultural school. is
conducting a series OF experiments in test
ing the varieties of wheat and the rotation
- Of different crops.
The annual reception given to the law
graduates by Dean Pattee a delightful
occasion. A large number of young ladies
of the university were present.
Charles F. Keyes, graduate of the uni
versity and at present a student in the law
department, has been appointed to a position
as instructor in the school of agriculture.
The faculty of the engineering department
have recommended to the board of regents
the appointment as professor of mechan.c ca
engineering, Prof George w. Fiathen, o.
Perdue university.
The rehearsal Of the second and third ac's
of the senior class play Friday showed tina
the play is 10 be success, and will probab
60 ahead of anything of the kind before pro-
duced by state university students.
Freshman and sophomore students ,whC
are doing shop work in the engineering schoo
will visit the c.. NJ. & st. P. railroad shop:
Monday on a tour of inspection. They will
be attended by their instructors.
The lecture given by Prof West las
week was an interesting one. 1t was a his
torical sketch of Spain from the mingling o
the aborigfnes, Romans, Moors, Jews, Celt:
and Franks to the present time.
The park commission and Supt. Guile o.
university buildings, are wing with eact
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15
MACALESTER NOTES.

Mr. Gee, who has been the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Gaskell, has left for his
home in Rock Island. Ill.
The sophomores defeated the freshmen
IN a game of base ball on Thursday by a
score of II to 81
B. Oimon, OF Superior, was a visitor at
Manchester on Monday.
Mrs. A. NJ. Short and daughter, of La
Crosse, Wis, were the guests of Miss Mae
Wilson last week.
James Anderson left on Wednesday to
spend the summer in England.
The student Volunteer band gave a picnic
at Lake Harriet on Friday.
Prof. John Hall sprained his ankle while
playing base ball Tuesday.
Miss Marion Lutz visited Manchester last
Tuesday.
"A musical and literary entertainment
for the benefit Of the church will be given
in the church next Tuesday evening. 1t Is
hoped good audience will be present, every
thing having been done to insure a success
full programme.
Miss Lily Watson will leave for her home
in Illinois Monday. Ill health is the reason
for her withdrawal from college.
Mr. and Mrs. F. f. Douglass and fam
lily, of Willow City, have moved to Macai.
ester.
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washing of cancelled stamps, and even
the repeated use Of stamps. although
they clearly bore the marks of two
ana even three successive cancella-
tons. In evidence of some frauds. n
was pointed out that the revenue from
stamps was $15. 239,1s2 in 1867, and only
$14, 046.613 in 1868. There was a full re-
coVery In 1869, when S15,505, 492 was OBJ
tanned, but Mr.. David A. Wells. then
special commissioner of the revenue.
thought the Legitimate revenue from
stamps ought to be at least s25, 600. 600
year" The new regulation requiring
all stamps to be so placed on the in
strument Of writing as to exhibit the
entire face of the stamp, was thought
to have produced an additional income
or Sl,0OO,OO0, as 1t put stop to a prac-
tice Of covering the supposed half of
one stamp by the attachment of an
other, when in fact the stamp was cut
in two, and one half used to represent
full stamp on another instrument.
The revenue from stamps reached it's
highest mark in 1869, and, beginning
with that year, 1T began to decline.
Repeal of Stamp Duties.
The first real exemption was that on
receipts, and the act Of June, 1872, re-
pealed all documentary stamp duties
under Schedule B (Which did not in
clude proprietary articles and matches).
except that Of 10 cents on bank checks,
drafts or orders. These changes reduc-.
ed the revenue from stamps by one
half, for the sum collected in 1872 was
15,296,471, and in 1873 only $7,130,93
This amount was not again reached I'M
til $780, and the total collected never
passed $7,570,000 in any one year before
the repeal Of the remaining stamp du-
ties in 1888. Nearly one-half the income
obtained in 1882 ($7 1853, 18O) came from
matches CS3,272, 256), and another large
item was obtained from bank checks
G2, BIS, 455). Proprietary medicines made
up the balance (S2,1S6,236). In these
latter figures the commissions are in
cluded. 1t was in 1872 that the stamp
duties gave the largest proportion of
internal revenue. H.6 per cent of the to-
tai, and from that year to the repeal
Of the last stamp duties they gave
about one-twentieth of the total In
tcrnal revenue.
The Dingley measure is calculated
to give an annual income of $50, 900, 900
from stamps, and there is little reason
for doubling that this expectation will
be attained. The growth of corpora
lions and business activity offer wider
field for applying stamp duties, and
the inclusion ofisome new features
holds out promise of additional rev.
enue.
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wAGE-EARNERs, CONCERT
To Assist the Red Cross Society in
Their Noble Work.

Arrangements have been nearly completed
by the managers of the Peoples church to
lieder-singer, give one of his famous wage
earners' concerts" in ST. Paul, the entire net
proceeds to be given to the st. Paul branch
of the Red Cross society, as the wage-earn-
er's fund for this Grand and patriotic cause.
The management of the Peoples church will
give their vast auditorium, containing moro
than 1000 seats, for this concert tree of
charge. .- mn, 44aof.4
Max Heinrich is the originator of ''the
wage earner's concert, now so famous in the
East These concerts are given for the small
sum of SO cents ffor JthsI wage Garner only,
no one else being admitted During the past
season it became the custom of many of the
most prominent business houses, and manu-
factories of Boston to give their employees
tickets to these grand recitals. Philadelphia
has followed in the wake of Boston, where
Max Heinrich gave three to wage-earners only
a short time ago. ,~.ri 'h-t
In these he was assisted by his beautiful
daughter, young woman who not only pos,
sesses a wonderful mezzo-soprano voice, but
who by a certain charm of manner wins
friends wherever she sings. Their wondrous
rendering of the national airs will not only
cause the hearer to remember the Name -
but will also cause him to remember Min
nesotas own boys, the sufferings of some of
whom this fund may alleviate.
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cause of this, and it can he charged up
directly as an effect of the war.
With all the increase, In groceries,
breadstuffs and provisions it. Is re-
freshing to note that dairy products are
on the decline. Butter has gone down
3 cents in two weeks. Even a greater
decline has been expected, but the late
spring Is keeping the price Of butter
up. Eggs can still be bought for 10
cents per dozen.
A loaf of bread cannot be bought for
less than 5 cents in the city. Seven
cents is charged by all the small bak-
cries. The large concerns are, how
ever, enabled to make bread for cents
per loaf, as they bought large guam
titles OF Hour prior tothe advance. Just
as soon as this supply is exhausted
bread In ST Paul will go emerrily up in
price, and, if flour keeps on in it's up
ward flight, the ST. Paul housewife will
nave 10 pay 10 cents per loaf before
another thirty days. 9:a
The bread business In st. Paul Is
practically In the hands lof the combi-
nation which makes the, local price.
canned meats, with the exception of
corned beef, have advanced 20 per cent
right through 1e.
Fruits and garden truck are about
the same as last spring. The war or
anything else does not seem to effect
materially the price Of this class of
goods.
There will probably be still further
advances In all staple, lines of gro
ceries in the future.
If you are boarding you had better
engage board for a year in advance.
II you can secure it at the same old
price. go
VIII Stay With His Mother.
Judge Otis yesterday afternoon discharged
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15

voices, protests and writs, express and
telegraph. The taxes were small,
ranging from 1 cent to $40 and over,
and We're graded according to the
amount of transaction involved The
first stamps were issued in September,
1863, and few months trial of the
system proved it's availableness and
clearly indicated the more profitable
objects for revenue. In the twelve
months ending Sept. so, 1864, the sales
amounted to $3.50, 668, and more than
one-haf of this value was represented
by stamps of less than 40 cents.
Stamps for Everything.
Only in the first few months of the
system were the accounts so kept as
to show the specific distribution of the
revenue among the different objects
taxed After that, the accounts were
combined, so as to show the total
amount received under the two sched-
ules of stamp duties, including as well
written instruments. as matches, pho
tographs, cards and proprietary arti
cles. The stamps ordered from the
printing companies were divided into
three .iasses-general, proprietary and
those printed on checks, or legal pa
pers; but this division Is too general
to give any indication of the principal
items. Only occasionally can a single
source be shown.
The income from stamps continued
to increase, and after September, 1854
matches became subject to a tax. The
receipts for the first full year of on
eration-1S64-wer $5,714,775; and for
the second year, 1865, they were s1O,-
$685. 27, of which the commissioner be-
lieved $1,00O,O00 to have come from
matches. The year 1866 gave a Salts
factory Increase, s14257, S37, a part of
the additional revenue coming from
the Southern states. The details Of the
stamp schedules were somewhat mod
flied in August, 1866, by making affi-
davits, receipts for the delivery of
property, appeals, wrlts and other
original processes, exempt from duty,
and by IMPOSING tax on bankers and
brokers' sales of stocks, bonds, etc.
This addition proved to be trouble
some, inasmuch as the bill or memo
randum Of sale was unnecessary for
the passage Of title, and the law was
disregarded Another obstacle en-
countered was the counterfeiting and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15

other in planting trees the campus. Mr..
Guies line of work is along the walk lead
ing to main hall from Fourteenth street,
while the park commissions is along Mid
way There has long been a need of trees
along this roadway, and the commission bids
fair to Guido any attempts on Mr.. Gules
part.
-Profs. MeDougal, Nachtreb and Heller
will spend the summer months In the West.
collecting specimens for their departments.
Prof. McDougal will go to Arizona, where he
viii spend three months in the region of the
Colorado mountains and the mile deep.
canyon OF the Colorado river.
The entertainment which Is to be given by
the lnusical element Of the university Nom
day evening, Will be truly delightful affair
The Mandolin and Glee clubs will render
several beautiful selections and the male
Quartettc of the medical school will also
assist. Senior Perera, under whose leader
ship the Mandolin club has become such a
success, will be the soloist.
Now outdoor sketching has begun among
the art students, and Miss Burgess classes
go out every morning. Some Monday the
class intends going down the river a way
and spending the forenoon. Seniors finish
their work next week and intend devoting
considerable time to outdoor sketching the re-
mainder of the term. The class will be con-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15

fully, If not more, than Is per cent over
the price prevailing two months ago.
The three-fold influence of war, the
generally limited supply Of all staple
food articles in this country and the
largely increased foreign demand, have
all had a tendency to force the price
of necessities of life upwards.
Many people will attribute the high
price Of groceries to the war, but this
is an erroneous impression. The war
has had stimulating effect upon the
market, and especially upon provisions.
but the rise cannot be laid entirely
at the door Of war.
AS a large retail grocer expressed
1T yesterday: The market was eayly
in the spring just at a point where a
small influence one way or the other
would send the market a good ways in
either direction. The extra demand
for provisions caused by the war was
the last straw that the market would
bear. The lard market has advanced
over 40 per cent in two months, and
pork, mess beef, hams and bacon have
advanced from Is to 8. per cent in less
than two months.
1.-The reason war has effected the pro-
vision market so visibly was because
! upon pork, bacon, hams and beans.
With a demand for daily rations of
125000 men of this class Of groceries,
and just that much OF a falling off in
the demand for the more fancy gro
ceries there could not help being a
large increase in the price. This was
not entirely the cause of the upward
tendency of the provision market. The
wheat market had had a stimulating
effect on the price of provisions
The G has prepared the fol-
lowing schedule of the advance in the
price of food stuffs since the publica-
ton Of the report by the Maine board
of inquiry:
March 2S. May II. Per Cent
Advance.
-Four 800. ..........s4 IS So 65
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1t will be noticed from the above ia
bic that potatoes have advanced 41k
per cent in value. The crop last year
was not large one, and the potatoes
did not keep well during the winter,
as, when dug, rot existed in the center
of nearly all the common grades, which
has increased until large proportion
of the crop in storage became worth
less. In view of this the high price Of
potatoes cannot be attributed to any
great extent to the war.
Beef has gone up % per cent in two
months. The butchers bill is no small
item in every household, and the in
crease on all other fresh meats will
bring the average up to about Is per
cent increase.
Canned corned beef has been subject
to the largest advance. 1t has gone
up 65 per cent in two months. The large
demand by the volunteer army is the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15

yesterday morning, alarmed the police and
kept them searching for the origin of the
discharge until daylight.
1t was apprehended that some one might
have been shot, or, more likely, the ex-
plosion was more of a muff1ed sound, that
burglars had blown safe, and a careful ex-
animation of every store in the vicinity was
made.
After several hours anxiety 1t was dis
covered that the explosion had occurred at
the clothing store of Floan & Leveroos Sew
enth and Sibley streets, where a clean cut
one of the large plate glass windows.
Subsequent investigation by the police
showed that several young men, who had
possessed themselves of a quantity of fire
side the building, when the recoil threw the
unexploded part of the cracker through the
window.
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THE SONG OF THE BATTLESHIP.

with Acknowle dgments to Mr.. Kipling's
Banjo.)
You can speed cruiser out OF range Of shots;
A torpedo boat can strike and dodge again;
The gunboats hug the harbor near the forts
And pelt them with heavy iron rain.
l put right out to sea and force the fight,
lead the squadron where there's hell to
And when hostile navy comes in sight
You should see me get my heavy guns in
play.
With my booming booming, booming. bang
ing shot
Oh, its thunder in the turre.s and on deck!
So keep the guns a-roaring till they're hot,
So / throw the shot and shell that make the
wreck.
When the moon is hidden underneath cloud.
And the hostile little "stingers Of the sea-
shroud;
When it's best to make your will on beaded
knee;
When the anxious searchlights glare along the
Till the crinkled ocean shines like living
sparks;
You may sleep If God was pleased to make
you brave,
Or lie awake and SILVER at the sharks
With my booming booming, booming bang
ing guns
oh, the rafting rapid fire in the tops,
So we sink the little monster as she runs.
When take the open ocean for fight:
When my steel-dressed sides are painted
solid black;
When a nations hostile warships come in
sight
And we settle which shall sink and which
come back.
oh. the angry roar CT mighty rifel guus,
Oh. the turret thunderbolts that shake the
keel
When the shells screech with flying weight
And swift sure shot rip through the tent
pered steel.
With my booming, booming, booming bang
ing guns!
I am Justice: am Vengeance for the weak
Minos and Rhadamanthus Joined in one
/ am Fate, and naught escapes me that
seek.
When Diplomacy has argued to It's end.
When an ultimatum doesn't do the work.
I'm the Prophet which the God OF Nations
sends.
When us time for something sollder than
Then / fill my grimy bunkers fore and aft.
Cram my magazines with powder to the
I have thirteen-inch persuaders; I'm the craft
That does the business when the letter.
writing stops.
With my booming booming booming bang
ing guns
1 can argue with the strongest foe that
An ambassador. Of twice five thousand tors;
A diplomat with armor-piercing notes.
When the nations are at peace through all
the world:
When they celebrate rulers holiday;
When ships trimmed and battle flags are
furled
When the fighting squadron takes time for
play.
Then I speed my loaded cutters toward the
town.
oh, the larks that fighting sailors have
ashorc
So I bank my fires; let my anchor down;
Forget my signals and the 10y of war.
Oh. my booming, booming, booming banging
gunsi
In battle time they always speak for peace.
I'm the sign of the Millennium. Howeer tho
crcle runs,
I'm the voice CT Nations. telling war to cease.
Luther B. Little, in New York Sun.