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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-06
STORlETTES.

In Berlin when one pays his fare to the
conductor of a street car he receives a. tick
ct. which is soon afterWard collected by an
inspector, who boards the car at fixed
point. One day, just as a joke, Mark Twain
paid his fare fifteen times on one trip, each
time throwing the ticket out of the window
or under his seat as soon as he had deposited
the regular fare with the conductor. A few
minutes later the inspector would get on the
car and demand tickets all around Of
course Twain had none to show, and had to
buy another, apparently with reluctance. The
performance amused the American, dumb
founded the conductor, who had never met SO
reckless passenger, and tickled the native
passengers who thought the foreigner we'll
punished for his negligence. BY this modest
investment material was obtained for capt.
tai story. which Melted Mark Twain Just $500.
Ladies Home Journal.
King -Wf,lem III. of the Netherlands, the
father ofSthe young Queen Wilhelmina, mar
ried second time when he was well adj
vaneed in life; and in order to please his
amiable young Wife, purchased a very beauti-
full service of Sevres porcelain for ordinary
use in the palace
AS 1t was costly, he wished to have it pre-
served. and accordingly gave orders that any
servant who should break injure one of
the pieces might expect immediate dismissal.
One day a servant went to the young queen
greatly distressed. He had broken one of the
delicate teacups- He had been in the king 5
service for many years. and was heart-broken
over what seemed to him the prospect Of be-
ing dismissed In disgrace.
The queen tried to comfort him by suggest
ing that the cup could be mended, as it was a
clean break, and the two edges could be put
together with cement. The servant shook
his head, and remarked that his majesty had
a sharp eye, and would be certain to detect
the crack in the cup at once.
The queen told him to mend 1t as well as
he could. and to be careful to serve the cup
to her that afternoon In the kings presence
at tea-time. The servant followed her diree-
tons, and with )trembiing hands filled it
with tea and served her. The queen turned
aside, drank the tea, and rising suddenly
from her chair. let the cup fall upon the
floor. where is was broken into fragments.
Think of me al one. of the most awkward
of your majesty's. servants" She said. with
humility. 81 have broken one of your prec-
ious Sevres cups. You. must discharge me at
service 'o1-
The arbitrary old king was amused by her
demure manner, and considered the accident
a very good joke. The poor servant. stand
ing behind the tray, cast a grateful look
in the direction Of the queen who had protect,
ed him. He remained in the service of the
king, who never learned the truth about the
broken cup.
The consideration which Queen Emma dis
played for the feelings of a servant was q
proof of her kindness of heart After the
kings death she became regent during the
minority Of the young Queen Wilhelmina. and
won the confidence and sympathy of her
Dutch subjects by her unfailing tact and
miability-Youth's Companion
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IN WOMAN'S REALM.

to represent the muse Of Paris in the great
national fete, is a milliner Her choice
WAS the result of competition which was
open to all France. Mile. Curots beauty Is
typically Partisan. Her figure is small, round,
graceful and she is but IS years of age. The
national fee was intended to mark the
progress of France and the centenary Of
Michelet and Mile Curot was pronounced
the most attractive figure in the whole af-
fair. She is now in demand by theatrical
managers, and as model for artists. Mile
Curot is destined to reign fer time as the
Partisan goddess of beauty in succession to
Lame de Pongy and Clero de Merode.
The marriage rites of Burmah bear away
the palm of simplicity. There the dusly lady
must undertake duties of courtship. She
sees a youth whom she deems calculated to
make her happy, and forthwith offers him a
sick of candy If he accepts her proposal
he promptly eats the token OF affection and
they are thereby made man and wife. There
is no further ceremony and no witnesses are
necessary. In the act of eating alone this
most primitive marriage rite consists. But
if, on the contrary, the youth is not willing,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-06
FLYING EMBERs.

Lady Blessington, who was accorded the
name of 1.-THE gorgeous" when Prince Louis
Napoleon, the last emperor of the French
was an exile in London, was remarkably
courteous to him, extending her hospitality
In the most lavish way. After his accession
to the throne of France she was in Paris
Tor season, and, somewhat naturally, looked
forward to an invitation to the Tuilleries
Time passed and none came. But at
sumptuous ball given elsewhere the emperor
passed in full splendor of his triumph.
Catching sight Of his benefactress he smiled
and asked: "Ah. Lady Blessingtoni You
remain in Paris for timer Eyes, sire. said
she; and you?'-San Francisco Argonaut
Princess Angelina, nearly 100 years old and
the youngest daughter of old CHIEF Seattle
Tor whom the Washington town is named ia
said to be great fayorite among little chill
dren, who. listen with eager ears to her
wonderful stories Of the past grandeur of her
race.
Parrots are being put to practical usa
In Germany. They have been introduced into
the railway stations. and trained to call out
the name while the train stands there. thus
saving people the trouble of making Inquiries.
Mile. Ernestins curot. who was chosen
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ment, public charities, work among soldiers
and sailors legislative department, penal and
reform work and the educational department
all working toward one ideal-a nation,
temperate in all things.
AS has been said before in these columns,
this will. be the first convention since the
death of Miss Willard, ana it is net inap-
propriate. therefore, that the first day shou d
be known as memorial day. It will be
sad day, for no woman ever more deep
ly mourned for than is the late champion OF
the worlds w. c. T. U.
The crusade celebration will also occur
Friday, coming in the afternoon, and In the
evening the delegates and guests,
numbering more than one thousand, will be
given formal but royal welcome. The i'm
preston has gained ground that an admis-
sion fee will be charged-a circumstance
which has caused much annoyance to the
local committee. All the sessions will be
free. but number of the seats have been
reserved, and these are being sod to help
to cover the heavy expense of the conven-
ton. yet the majority of the seats are free
and the house is open to all.
There is no part of the programme which
does not promise interest, but there are many
features which stand out with marked promi-
Fence and call for special mention. In the
first place Friday night Gov CIough will
and ex-Gov. Ramsey will greet them in be-
half of the city. Then Sunday the majority
OF the pulpits in the Twin Cities will be oe-
cupied by prominent women in the orgini-
cation, the regular Sunday sermon being de-
livered by the world evangelist, Miss E. w.
Greenwood in the Peoples church, Sunday
afternoon.
Monday the vexing question of the Chicago
Temple will be discussed-perhaps settled
and on that day the citizsns will have
chance to hear Mrs. Carse the champion OF
the great woman's building. The settlement
of this question has much to do with the
prospects of the candidates for the presi-
dency. Mrs. Stevens, acting president, and
candidate for reelection, opposing its reten-
ton, and Mrs. Durham, standing by Mrs
Carse. The election of all the officers will
occur Tuesday.
That guests may have their queries prompt
~ answered the local managers have arranged
to have the entertainment committee sta
toned in the kindergarten rooms of the Peo-
pies church The information bureau will
be on the right of the second floor entrance.
The committee on hotel and boarding house
rates will be found in the main parlor and
the postoflice in the adjoining parlor In
these rooms noon dinner will be served each
day during the convention.
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"a Wounded Name. /"

The usual Southwest, the usual
young officer, the usual conspiracy
against the young officers good name,
the usual stupidity on the part of su-
perior officers, the usual justification
after the usual heartbreaking sus-
pense, make up the usual army novel
by Capt. Charles King. "a Wounded
Name" is a fairly good story cut on the
old lines. It has only ono unusual fea-
ture-the heroine is not faithful to the
hero, through good and evil report.
trusting in him when his own mother
would doubt his faith. when his father
{ would disown him and his country
refuse his service. We expect this In
Capt. Kings heroines and have good
reason to resent the hckla flirt he offers
us instead, and, even during the pres
emit strained relations with Spain. the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-06
"GNLY JEs' A Niger"

Hush an quit your cryin, quit your sryin,
baby mine,
Fo' de mist is on de hillside
An de stars begins ter shine
No use cryin' TO- you daddy,
Fo' We .bof' is left fo'lorn,
An he's sleepin' neat de palm trees
On de hillside at San Juan.
He was only jes' niger, but he answered
to de CALL
An de white folks fit beside him.
An de white folks seen him fall;
An he's sleepin' on de hillside
Neat de Southern moons sof' shine
Whar' de bloody charge was ended
He wiped out de color line.
Edmund Day in the Detroit Tribune.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-06

Uncle Sans new possessions may demand
representation on Old Glory. but the fact is
that on the- flag as at present designed there
is scarcely room for them. The last addition
of states has so filed the field that the stars
are too small and so crowded together that
they no longer stand out distinctly when the
Guilty could only be overcome in the present
design by charging the field; but this would
destroy the proper proportions of our stand
ard A design for new flag has been sug-
gested. The many-polnted star with blue
field on q background Of red and white
stripes Is not unlike the conventional sun
burst The arrangement of the stars within
this center is the design of John F. Earhart,
OF Cincinnati. one of the first In this country
to take up the subject Of flag reform. Mr..
Earhart's design Ia full Of meaning. Tia
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is deeply interested. If two jump toward each
other 1t means rivalry, while If the nuts
named for the young woman and one OF the
men burn quietly, side by side, there is no
doubt that Cupid smiles upon them, and they
will be married at an early date.
If a youth would know his marital
prospects the three dishes test is considered
unfailing. Blindfolded he is led into room
and placed before a table upon which are
three dishes, one being filled with clear water
and one with coffee, while the third is
empty. The aspirant- for information is
then told to dip his left forefinger into one
of the dishes. If he dips into the clear water
he is to marry a maiden; if into coffee,
widow, and If into the empty one, he is fors~
ordained to remain single
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w. c. T. U. CONVENTION.
Sessions to BE Free to All, and Full
of Interesting Features.


Without doubt the largest convention Of
women which hiss ever met in St. Paul will
open Friday in the Peoples church. 1t will
not only be the largest convention, but in
many respects the most interesting, since it
will bring together women of national repu-
tation and sum up the work accomplished
by one of the broadcast organizations in the
land-the Woman's Christian Temperance
union.> Five hundred regularly appointed
delegates, representing every state in the
Union, will express their opinions and cass
their ballots on questions Of interest to more
women than the organization counts among
its members The public is wont to think
of the w. c. T. U. combining its efforts
entirely to the suppression of The liquor trlf-
fc. This is a mistake. Those who will visit
the great gathering for the first time this
week will discover that within the associa-
ton there are well developed branch organ
izations, known as the social purity depart
ment, flower mission, evangelistic depart
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inner cluster represents the thirteen states
which created the Union. The surrounding
Der equaling THAT of the states admitted
to the Union UP to the close of the Civil war
this cluster typtfyng the Welding together
OF the Union. The outer circle contains the
new states.
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romantic introduction of a slip of
young Spanish maiden Is not enough
to satisfy our discomfort.
"a Wounded Name" by Capt Charles King
Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago $1.25.
For sale by the st. Paul Book and Station
cry company.
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Little. Brown Co., Boston. $3.50.
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Shepard, Boston. $1.25.
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colt Spofford. Little. Brown & Co.,
Boston. $125. For sale by the St. Paul
Book and Stationery company.
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The annual convention of the New York
Federation. which held it's last session. Fri
day. was attended by nearly a thousand
delegates. That the programme was not
stereotyped was proved by the fact that
much time was devoted to the consideration
OF the women tailors' strike which developed
in New York city just previous to the con-
Vention.
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The Virginia enterprise., 1898-11-11
SOLD "LOHENGRIN" FOR $50.
The Great Composer Got Small Remu
neratiOn for His Operas,

"When-in the '5Os-Wagner's works
began to spread through Germany, one
town after another Eut THE Flying
Lohengrin' on its theater's programme,
writes Richard Wagners bographer in
the Ladies' Home Journal. AT that
epoch theaters in Germany gave no per
centage whatever. The only obligation
the law imposed ON them was to buy the
score. The price of the score was fixed
in each special case between the theater
and the author, and varied according to
the population of the town and the sue
cess expected. Once the score was
bought, the theater had no further obi-
CATION toward the author. Wagner usual
ly got from $40 to $50 for a score, and
rarely $120. What Wagner got-once
for all-for 'Rienzi,' The Flying Dutch
man, 'Tannhaeuser' and 'Lohengrin'
amounted, therefore. all told. to something
like $50 to 500 from each theater which
put these works on the stage.
Another source of income ought to
have been the sale of the scores to the
publishers, several of whom have made
fortunes with them. But the fact that
Wagner was always in want of money
put him in a disadvantageous position.
Tristan for example, was sold for $500,
and 'Lohengrin' for $780,
The Virginia enterprise., 1898-11-11
Making "Puluue'' in Mexico.

In ELEVEN Months in Mexico and Cen
trail America" in the International, the au-
thor, Lambert de Sainte- Croix describes
the process Of puluue making or gathering
in Mexico. He says:
LAS we We're impatently waiting for our
train, other trains passed, loaded with
nothing but pulque, for the whole region
is covered with fields of maguey from
which the drink so priced in the country
is made, and which is cultivated with in
credible ease, bringing in rich profits both
to the landowner and to the railway COM
panies. When the plant is ripe, they cut
into the cabbage-like center, and insert in
the opening an empty gourd, from
which the workman sucks the air through
Il tube: The liquid then rises into the yes
sci and the harvest is made. The juice is
taken to the hacienda, where it is allowed
to ferment for a very short time; it is then
put in reservoirs iii special cars, and in a
few hours it is in Mexico. It generally
reaches the city about 3 o'clock in the
morning; the taxes are quickly paid, and
special cars carry it to retail and whole
sale dealers. BY 6 o'clock in the morning
there is nothing left of the immense guam
tity of liquid, everyone supplying himself
as if it were milk, which it Slightly resem-
hes in cnlnrN.
The Virginia enterprise., 1898-11-11
BABIES WITH BLEACHED HAIR
Physical and Moral Detriment Done
to New York Tots

Bleached blondes of years and up are
becoming common in New York-sO COM
mon, in fact, that medical men have be-
gun to talk about the matter and inyeigh
against the abominable practice. One of
these physicians is quoted as follows:
IF l were going to inaugurate reform
in this city l should begin with certain
sWeil matrons who are instilling into their
children the germs of physical and moral
ailments. l refer to these mothers who
are bleaching the hair of little children,
hardly more than infants in arms. Wher--
ever one may turn in New York the dis
agreeable contemplation of arti6cially- col
oreQ hair on the heads of innocent tots
is forced on him, and the increase Of the
bleaching is really alarming, for it is moth
ing less than the harbinger of bodily and
moral infrmities.
"1n the first place, the bleaching of chill
dren's hair is almost certain to result in
diseases of various sorts. In the second
place. 1t is meant as a deception which,
sanctioned by maternal authority, the only
law of right or wrong known to the child,
must convince the tot that it is right to
deceive, and so prepares the way for a
long list of moral offenses which spring
from duplicity. If the sense of right and
woman to prevent her inculcating such
pernicious. principles in the heart of her
children then there should be some legis-
lative enactment to protect them.
''1n an hours walk in Broadway You
will pass at least half dozen little people
who are just in the wane of babyhood and
whose naturally black or brown hair has
been bleached to sickly, dirty, lifeless
yellow. So far from contributing to the
physical beauty of the child, it is de-
traction and must provoke the protests
and opprobrium of all right t-thinkink per
sons.-New York Press.
The Virginia enterprise., 1898-11-11
Soon Tire of a Pretty Face.

"A clever woman, provided she be not
sarcastic and too fully alive to a sense of
her own Importance, is generally an aI.
tractive one. Men may be charmed f3r
a time by a pretty face. but they soon
tire OF mere prettiness. Nor does it fol
low that all women of good sense and
sharp intellect are necessarily plain.
Bright thoughts enliven the most ord;-
nary face until the reflection of the mind
shining out in all it's radiance makes ore
forget that the features are not pure Gre
clan, and leads us to believe that such a
woman is in reality great beauty.
The vivacious creature of varying
moods and quaint fancies is the one to
charm. A man forgets the type of beauty
she may or may not possess, so interested
does he become in the pleasing study of a
mind that renders her face ever winning.
irresistible and pleasing, because like the
surface of lake, there comes a change
with every varying motion.
The attractive woman should cultivate
the mind, for grace of soul and educa-
ton of spirit count far more than limpid
eyes, rosebud mouth and Il dimpIed
chin. She should be ever teachable for
there is not one iota of lovablenesss in the
man or woman who thinks he or she
knows it all.-Boston Herald.