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railway commission has never yet been
so much as asked to put it's power in
force. All over England the short haul
is habitually charged more than the
longer haul in which 1t is included;
WhereVer-tO use the phrase which the
Interstate commerce commission OBJ
jccts TO, but which apparently the su-
Dreme court competition
justifes the lower long haul charge"
For instance. Exeter to Plympton as
miles SIS. 3d., to Plymouth (52 miIes)
Is. led, to Lidford (75 miles, Is.
Or, again, another Great Western in
stance, on the main line up to London,
Exeter to Ellington OPT miles, los, to
Didcot Q42 niles les. 3D., to Reading
Q58 miles, lis. Cd, to Slough Q76 niles
1Ss. Cd, to SOuthall Q85 miles 19s, to
Paddington terminus Q94 miles, 15s.
Sd. In fact the differences of rates to
local stations are even greater than
here appear. For there are innum-
cradle special rates, always as 1 have
here quoted. available at the great
towns but not at intermediate road
side points.
That such a method Of rate making
is not only tolerated" in this country.
but taken very much as a matter of
course l have already said, and l be-
lieve we are entitled to regard Eng
land as forming "a part Of the civilized
world"
Personally I should like to go fur
Their and ask why it should not be re-
garded not merely as tOlera BILE, but as
right and proper. Assume. for exam
pie, which is not denied, that Is. 10d.
is reasonable rate to Plymouth Why
should not Is. be charged to Lidford?
Doubtless the Great Western would
like to charge more, but it cannot, as
Lidford is only thfrty-six miles from
Exeter by rival railway route Sup
pose your long and short haul clause
put in force, 1t is impossible to mag
inc the Great Western reducing it's
rate on the important traffic to Ply
mouth in order to retain it's share of
the petty business of Lidford. The
Great Western then would simply put
up the Lidford rate to the Plymouth
level, and so. in fact. go out Of the
Lfdford business altogether. And yet
the interstate commerce commission is
not, L fancy. q believer in the advan-
tages Of abolishing competition.
l ought to apologize for occupying
your space with a discussion of which
L had fancied a somewhat elementary
proposition. But really one so often
sees the equity of principle underlying
the long and short haul clause assum-
ed as self-eVident that I cannot re-
frain from asking what is the founda-
ton Of economic or commercial Justice
on which 1t rests. That where circun-
stances are the same rates should be
the same. we can all agree But wher.
competition exists. are the circum-
stances the SAME? And if so. what
prevents competition from being cir
cumStance?
I see that the interstate commerce
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
UNIQUE QUESTION.
What Is an Omce-HoIdinG Woman
to Dc With eHr Husband
These Days.

What IS a woman holding public
office going to do with her husband 2"
Is the question that Mrs. Clarence A.
Eyler. the new matrOn Of the State In
dUstrial School for Girls, at Trenton,
N. j.. is now propounding to herself
and the world. says the New York
Journal. And. looking at the storm
cloud, which her own solution of the
problem has raised on the otherwise
peaceful sky, she adds with a Sigh:
Can it be possible that a public
stewardship shall have the power to
part what God has united?"
Thousands of women all over the
country situated as Mrs. Eyler is. are
watching the matter with intense in
terest, wondering whether it shall be
made impossible for them to receive a
public position that requires residence
at the institution served without re-
nouncing the tender ties that unite
them to their husbands. If a married
man has the right to bring his wife
along to his new quarters when step
ping into the superintendency Of some
great institution, why shall not a mar
lied woman in a similar position have
the right to demand quarters for her
husband also? And they turn anxious
faces toward the trustees of the indus
trial school, waiting for the oracular
utteranCes that are to flow from the
lips of said trustees.
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first application, SO far as know. of that
mlschleyous principle. 1t would not be
self even at this late day. only that Bint-
I'M and Bryan have been laid under sus-
picion and Heaven knows how many in
nocent persons besides. I hope it will be
charitably. remembered that we were all
younger then, though for my part l wish
II were so now. As ever, yours for the
Union, Edwin F.; Wnodrnan
st. Paul. Jan. Is
The court, in passing judgment. can
not refrain from Expressing it's sur
prise at this Unexpected revelation OF
a vein of poesy under the grave ex-
terror Of the staid and matter-of-fact
secretary of the Omaha; but. in con-
sideration of it's early suppression and
continued stern repression, and that it
was clearly a case Of damnum absque
tnjuria, the Puritan maiden not hav-
Ing accepted the proffered arm of the
captain, the court will impose no
,severer sentence than that the captain
read the poem at the next meeting Of
the Loyal Legion and that 1t be in
scribed upon the records of the order.
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FOR WOMEN EXCLUSIVELY
An Immense Apartment House VIII
BE Built,

New York Cor. Chicago Tribune
At last New York is to have g woman e
bui!ding-not a grand hotel. but a tenement,
where working woman struggling along en-
st or So week may rent a snug little apart
ment, run her own household, and be happy.
A. I. Stewart tried the experiment of a
wcman's hotel years ago. But he made ru.e
against cats and dogs, canary birds and men.
and his experiment was failure. Now
some men and women who like to be public
spirited and at the same time get per cent
interest On their money are to try the ex-
pertinent. They belang to the City and Sub
urban Homes company.
DR.. E. r. L. Gould is the president He
left position in Brown university to take
up the work. Samuel D. Babcock, Charles
Stewart SIN tn, Adrian Iselin Jr.. D. O. Mills,
Isaac N. Se.igman, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
George J. Gould, ]. Pierpont Morgan, Seth
Low and many other rich people, men and
women, are. interested.
About a year ago the company bought a
pot of land in West Sixty eighth street ex-
tending through to S.xty-ninth street. There
the company is putting up a group Of tene-
ments Every room Will have light and air,
and there will be 375 OF these apartments,
With i've stores the ground floor, and
every convenience known. The westerly
bulcing on the Sixty-nini n street front will
be exclusively for f-support:ng women.
The company has 81 900 go and is ready to
dCub-e or treble It as soon as the SUCCESS of
its work is assured.
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The years Of happiness and youthful
tragedy spent in the old rectory-for,
of course, Betty's father is a clergy
man-furnish the best part of the book.
When Betty grows up the plot becomes
stormy and loses most of its charm in
hackneyed melodrama.
c'The Cedar Star, by Mary E. Mann. R.
F. Fenno & Co. New York. $1.25. For sale
by the st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany.)
'Shakespeare's Men and Women" is
an everyday book arranged by Rose
Porter. AS its name indicates it par
takes of the character of a birthday
book, with the quotations selected from
the inexhaustible mine of Shake
speare's descriptions of men and wom-
en-.
The initial quotation is aptly chosen:
20. wonderi
HOW many gcodly creatures are there herei
HOW beauteous mankind is! brave new
That has such people int"
C'Shakespeara's Men and Women" an every
DAY DOCK. chosen and arranged by Rose
Porter. E. R. Rerrick & CO.. New York.
s1.25)
Beautiful Women Of the Poets" is
a compilation by Beatrice Sturges Sc
lections from the least of the poets
and the g-:a test, descriptive Of types
OF women, are brought together with
considerable taste and judgment The
volume is neatly gotten up. with
heavy paper and CHEEKY binding, and
will recommend itself to those in
search of belated gifts.
ntSad 8ea all FL Women Of the Poets" com
pied by Beatrice Sturges. E. r. Herrick
& Co., New York. s1.25)
Mr.. A. N. Homer has written a 70
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06


Among the Sioux Twenty Years
Before the Journey of the Priests.
AT the January meeting of the State
Historical society the address of Gen.
j. H. Baker assumed advanced ground
on one important historical question;
no less than that of the original dis
covery Of the territory encompassed
within the present boundaries of Min
nesota, and the causes which brought
about that event.
Gen. Baker stated that he had aban-
doned his position of twenty or more
years ago in a former address to the
society when the claim was advanced
that the Jesuit fathers led the way
from Lake Superior and through Wis
consln to an original discovery of this
state, for one which does not longer
admit Of the discovery of the Missis-
sippi above st. Anthony Falls by Fa-
ther Louis Hennepin, Michael Accault
ard Anthony Auguelle, in 1880.
This position is based upon the more
recent discovery of the papers Of a
Frenchman, Peter Esprit Radisson,
who. with his brother-in-law, Sieur
des Groseilliers, were the first Euro
peans to traverse Minnesota territory,
in 1859.
The Radisson papers were discovered
in the Bodleian library, at Oxford, and
in the British museum, at London, and
were. In 1885, published by the Prince
society of Boston.
AS may be presumed, Sieur Raids
son, being a FTenChman and writing
in English, the papers are quaint and
very difficult to thoroughly understand,
since the names used and the dates
depended upon are obscure and uncer-
tain. There are, however, a number
of descriptions and data which can be
we'll understood even by the casual
reader Notwithstanding the statement
of Edmund T. Slater that 'in the use
Of words and in the structure Of SEN
fences" the papers conform to no
standard of English composition.
NJ. RadissOn was born at st. Malo,
France. and emigrated to Canada in
May. 1851. Several voyages were I'M
dertaken, during one of which the
brothers, as they called themselves.
reached a point on the south shore of
Lake Superior. called by the Ojibway
Indians Shaw-ga -wa-ma-kong, on the
maps the modern Chequamagon bay.
Here they constructed a cabin ard aft
erWard extended their voyage toward
the southwest as far as the region i'm
medIately south of Mile Lac lake, to
an encampment of Sioux Indians. and
thence they crossed the upper Missis-
sippi river, not far from the region OF
Sank Rapids and proceeded TO the great
prairie region of the west.
The description which Radisson gives
of the lodges of the Sioux. or Nation
Of the Beef which they saw on the
great plains indicates that they cross
ed nearly or quite the entire state.
starting from a rendezours somewhere
between Kettle and Snake rivers not
far from the present Hinckley, pene-
trating westward to a point where, in
the absence of wood, moss was used
for fuel, at a village said to contain
1900 Indians. There is one expression
which might be taken to mean that this
village was not far from the pipestone
quarries of Cattinite, famous in Indian
legendary history. Whether these two
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06

The verse itself is forceful and flowing,
and well adapted to the spirit of the
poem.
The little volume is very daintily
bound in white vellum and gold.
c'The Temp taticn,' by Charles w. jerome
Printed on the press of Morett Bros. & Co.,
Minneapolis. 50 certs)
Dreams in Homespun" is a collec-.
ton of verses by Sam Walter Foss. Mr..
Foss has already published two vol
umes or humorous poems. and has at
tanned prominent place in the estima-
ton Of the admirers of the school of
Will Carleton.
The present volume is of the same
character as its two predecessors, and
contains some good popular verse, fire.
quently clever and striking and always
full of the humOr and pathos that find
a welcome in newspaper columns and
the back of magazines.
Mr.. FOSS has been compared, by SONS
of his admirers, to Eugene Field, but,
while some of his poems are not below
some of Mr. Fields, the mass of his
verse is not of the same quality. The
comparison with Mr.. Carleton is along
safer lines.
Foss. Lee & Shepard. Boston. $3.50. For
sale by the st. Paul Book ard Station ry COM
pany)
ga School History of the United
States" by John Bach McMaster, is
very highly recommended We quote
from the prospectus:
THAT Prof. McMaster possesses un-
usual qualifications for writing school
history of the United States will be
recognized by every one. His extended
studies in the field of American history.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
From the New York Railroad Gazette.

From the New York Railroad Gazette.
In the official summary of the elev-
enth annual report of the interstate
commerce commission printed by the
Railroad Gazette on Dec. %, there is q
reference to English law and practice
as to long and short haul AS the
commission has apparently miscon=
ceived our law and misunderstood our
practice, and as every one will agree
that foreign precedent can only be
valuable if it is correctly cited, per-
h9ps | may in a few words state the
actual facts.
The commission says: mo English
court has ever yet held that the words
same circumstances in the English
act relate to competition" and then,
after stating that in trans Missouri
territory the long haul rates are now
lower than the intermediate rates, it
adds: ut Is believed that in no other
part of the civilized world is such
proceeding tolerated"
Now, the only English act relating to
railway traffic in which these words.
same circumstances, occur. is, to the
best Of my belief. the railway clauses
consolidation act. 1916 This act. by
section 80, provides that ''all tolls
shall be charged after the
same rate in respect of all
passengers and goods passing
only over the same portion of the line
OF railway under the same circum-
stances" In other words, it applies
only where the hauls are identical, and
has no apDlication-as has been ex-
pressly decided by the house Of lords
where the hauls are different, even
though the one haul be included in
the other.
The only statutory notice of this lat
ter subject is in section 81 CD of the
TTraf fio of Of
provides that "the court of the com
missioners shall have power to direct
that no higher charge shall be made
to any person for services in respect
of merchandise carried over less dis
lance than is made TO any other person
for similar services in respect of the
| like description and quantity OF mer-
| chandise carried over a greater dis
lance on the same line of railway" 1t
| will be seen that this subsection is
| merely enabling.
To the best Of my knowledge the
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Frenchmen penetrated the prairies as
lar as the Dakotas, will probably never
be known, as the descriptions left are
Indefinite and somewhat bewilderirg on
that point.
Thus it is quite definitely ascertain
ed that the travellers named were the
first Europeans to reach and discover
what is now Minnesota and its popu-
ious bands of Sioux Indians. and their
business was trade and traffic in peltrv
and furs, in which they led the way.
Gen. Baker has preached another
subject of historical Importance. no
less than that of the true meaning Of
the name. Minnesota, and it's deriva-
ton. The claim is advanced with some
showing of proof that it is of Ojibway
origin, instead Of Dakota. But on that
question the proof is probably by no
means as clear as the Radisscn manu-
script on the question of the original
discovery Of this state and further light
upon the question is absolutely neces-
sary before Gen. Bakers ideas on the
subject will become substantiated.
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his experience as q teacher, and the
phenomenal success of his great work,
"A History of the People of the United
States, all combine to mark him as
the man who could write successfully
and satisfactorily the ideal history OF
our country for schools. The same
force and insight, the same skillful and
vivid characterizations which are so
conspicuous in the authors larger work
are here found in this text book. In
general. 1t may be said that in this VOL
ume the school children Of America
have book which will give them a
real and vivid conception of their coun-
try's history, of the origin. nature and
significance of it's institutions, and of
the proper sequence and Importance of
each essential incident and feature.
from its beginning down to the present
year"
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commission further states that pool
ing does not appear to be much re-
sorted to in England, and under con-
ditiOns there existing there is little or
no occasion for it." In paper which
L had the honor to contribute to your
columns a few weeks back, [ showed
that in fact pooling is a good deal re-
sorted to, and that agreements to
maintain equal rates are quite univer-
sal.
But with all respect, I should have
thought that from the American point
of view the important thing was not
the extent to which English railways
do in practice pool, but the fact that
they are able lawfully 10 enter into
pools when, where, and how they
please, without public control, without
even public notice. and that there is
no desire on the part Of any section
Of the public to abridge this liberty
which has not been found by expek-
fence to work any public injury.
Exeter. England, Jan. 5, 1898
w. NJ ACWORTH
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06

Many persons cannot take
plain cod-liver oil.
They cannot digest it.
1t upSets the stomach.
Knowing these. things, we
have digested the oil in
SCOTS Emulsion of Cod
liver Oil with Hypophos-
Phites; that is, we have
broken it up into little glob-
ules, or droplets.
We use machinery to do
the work Of the digestive
organs, and you obtain the
good effects of the digestcd
oil at once. That is why you
can take SCOTS Emulsion.
SOC. ard $500, ali druggists
SCOTT BOVINE, Chemists, New York
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
If I'd call you Hattie, my dear"
Relinquish a corp ralcy there.
And accept captaincy here?
Were this pleasantly thus carried out
l venture twould ne'er be thought harm,
That even a Puritan maid
Should have hung on captains armI

were thfs pleasantry thus carried out.
venture 'twould ne er be thought harm
That even Puritan maid
should have hung on captains arm!
There were Salems and Salems even
in those days and which one of then,
held Harriet that damsel had left un-
stated; so the captain sent the poem to
ms home paper, the Monroe Wis,
Sentinel, In which it was duly pub
llshed. The editor CHANGING the Mas
sachusetts Salem as being the one
Wherein Harriet dwelt--that state then
supplying large portion of the shod-
dy biouSes and shoes that briefly sery-
ed the cause of the Union, attesting at
once the Thrift and patriotism of the
noble band of army contractors,-sen
thither copy of his paper containing
the poem to Harriet. And there the
matter rested for five and thirty years.
Meantime, changes had come all
around and one of them had carried
the editor Of the Sentinel now eighty
years of age, to the editorship of a
paper in a New York village, and to
MIN came, last November, a letter ask
ing who was the author Of the lines
to Harriet that had appeared in his
paper in 1863. The editor started a
tracer among the several persons who
mad sent contributions from the army
during the war. Several pleaded not
guilty, one because he was then a
young husband who Loyalty wrote all
his sonnets to the little wife back in
Wisconsin. A letter from Salem
whittier he sent tracer for Harriet.
told how she had married one not a
soldier and was still living, keeping
the poem among her treasures. bur
saying that she had written her name
on the Slip and put it in the blouse on
the chance that her soldier brother
might find it.
But authorship, as we'll as grayer
offenses. will out, and when q cooy OF
the Sentinel, containing the account
OF the search for the author of the
lines to Harriet, came to the home or
e. E. Woodman, of this city. once the
young infantry captain, now secretary
of the Omaha railway company, the.
accusing poem met him face to face
Tor the first time since its birth thirty
I'VE years ago, and demanded Of him
that he iegitimatiZe it. Being a frank
and honest man, he plead neither not
guilty nor sought shelter behind the
statute of limitations from this youth
ful 1ndlscretion, but threw himself On
the mercy of the court in plea or
guilty, duly set forth in the following
letter.
My Dear Booth: On reading the Sentinel
this evening, l was asto1ished to CINE upo1
the Hattie Bartlett verses, because the in
cldent happened to me. 1t was | who drew
the blouse ard wore it, who found the name
in the sleeve, who wrote the verses as
bit of fun and sent them to the Sentinel
Carr. 1t appears. did all the rest the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
Electricity" by John Munro, with a chan
ter on WIRELESS Telegraphy"

The Perfect Human Being" is the subject
Oh an article in the current number Of Har-
per Bazar 1t forms the first of a series on
Itled Health and Life" contributed by
Or Grace Peckham Murray. The same num-
per contains second paper on The Mothers
LIBRARY, by Mrs. Margaret e. Sangster Re-
slaes the Paris letter, there is a budget ~
Gossip at Washington" and hints Tno1
Parlor Entertainments'' and the ssOiniO-
Room Glass and Silver" a very LARGO as
Sortment OF fashions is represented incIudJno
faIlsian evening gowns and calling. street
anu dinner costumes. with cut paper Dat+er7s
IL lovers .a1 Of the natural world are promised
Two delightful papers by John Burr6nghs in
tne iouth companion during February. In
Tue nISt OF ihese. The Wit Of a Duck" tina
i naIuran i shows how a homesick brakes
IoIeiy Journey gave proof that it possessed a
very prominent bump OF locality" In 3
second article Mr.. Burroughs describes the
cunning OF some familiar birds and the doll
STUPIDITY of Others To the February nur1rar
OF the Comrarion will aIs) be cont ibrr ed Ionr
stories OF the peril and heroiEdn of ICcomntiVa
engineers. the beginning OF a serial sfOrv nv
MarSuerite Tracy. 'Ferieda Fairfar
Writer" and article by Pros. \. s Sb 1.taH'
OF Harvard, on The Depths of the Earth ;;
The Hon. William Waldorf Aston will CON
trioute an lmrOr;ant article to an early mum
Der OF the Pail Mall Magazine on Lob,
JACOB Astor.' The article will be illustrated
ana promises to be of exceptional interest tn
American readers
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-06
JUVENILE PHILOSOPHY.
P3ckings From the Intellect of Little
Plato Smith.
From Puck

from PUck.
dunno which like best-"Iyanhoe" or
gingerbread.
If a girl couldn't cry her BRAND soak all
to pieces.
You can't tell ma any woman ever died Of
Old age.
Some way or other I can't seem to make
Shakespeare's pieces go into my head.
Jimmy Jones has got chilblains on his
stomach now from eatiu' too much ice cream
Pas mighty cross to me when he's got
tn rheIm1tizm. Cues he thinks he herited
1t from me.
Nobody says things when Bob Bamby wears
money.
What's tn use of 'busin' tn dudes? When
wear q new neckte l can't hardly think
what my name Is.
Once ma had a spell when she couldn't
sleep 'Bcsh!' says pa; tn way to cure In
sunny Is 10 go to sleep an forget you've
got it."
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Messrs. D. Appleton & Co.'S February an
nouncements include "A Voyage of Consola-
ton" by Mrs. E. c. Cotes (sara Jeanette
Duncan; Eastern Journeys" some notes Of
Jerusalem. by the late Charles A. Dana; The
Broom OF the War God" a story of the recent
war between the Greeks and Turks. by Henry
Noel Brailsford: "A Prince of Mischance, !"
by T. Gallon; "A Passionate PILGRIM by
Percy White; new edition Of Evolution and
Effort" by Edmond Kelly, with a new preface
treating of recent political events In New
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