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Gold Filings and bridge work 4 speciality, at
the lowest price; amalgam Filings. soc; full set,
Ct teeth on plates. IS; extracting. either by gas
or local spray, absolutely painless, Soc; with.
out, 25c; all work done by experts and guar
anteed the beet; open Sundays from 10 to
o'clock. mhz2.tf-em
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= FUR NENT-OFE1CBS.
FOR RENT-Rooms suitable for Offices or business
purposes over the Island Of Cuba Cigar Store.
SO 7th ST. NV. iyl4-7t
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FOR SALE on EXCHANGE

FOR SALE ON EXCHANGE.
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-ror suburban place
or vacant ground. excellent 3-story, l1-room
and bath brick; 23x120 to Soft. paved alley: close
Ia lines OF cars. Address EMERITUS PRO-
FESSOR this Office. jyls-3t
TO EXCHANGE-For country place. store with
dwelling and three lots adjoining: prominent
corner; nw.; rooms; bath; m. l.; large cellar;
cheap. E. A. PAUL. G1s + st. NV. jy17-3t
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PROF. BERNARD,

SOC 10TH ST. n. W.
The famous English Clairvoyant and Palmist.
has returned to the city. after extended stay
in New York Consult him business love
and family affairs: reunites the separated, brings
quarrels all right; cause speedy marriages; re-
moves spells and gives luck; 0 to daily; fec.
Soc and 81; sign. jyl7-3t
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. Call at 9l7 1t. for semi monthly bulletins.
THOMAS z. wAGGAMAN.
Vl7-tf ol7 St. NV.
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ron RENT OR sALE-sUBuRBAN.

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SECURE A SMALL TRACT OF FROM 1 TO S
acres near Chevy Chase electric road on Con.
necticut Avenue.
ADVANTAGES:
Public water supply.
Magnificent shade trees.
Rapid transit.
Healthy locality.
Terms very reasonable to these who will build
Several new houses being built BY those
who have availed themselves Of these opportu-
mites.
Pine quality Of granite stone for building ma
LOUIS p. SHOEMAKER,
jy13-d go Ut. NV.
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SITUATIONS wANTED-FEMALE.

DRESSMAKING-Skirts. 500; wash dresses.
sl.25: ehildren's dresses, Sylisfily made, SOC.
Address SEWING, this Office. jy19-3t-em
WANTED-Stuation: general houseYork and
plain cooking. I4s st. NV, BET 4th and
9Th sts lt-em
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WANTED-Place to do general hou.swork in
small family. 1881 Cedar st. NV. Item
WANTED-By a full graduate. position. either
in school private family. TO teach Latin.
French. mathematics, music, English; best refs
Address MISS CROAKER, 1924 18th ST.. Wash
ington. d. c. iy195t
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WASTED-By girl. position to do general house
work in small family; give city reference.
Gil at 1906 Y. ]. ave. NV. Item
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-09

pertinent, his last annual report as
secretary. AS the expression Of large
number of state papers indicates that
the conviction is growing that our in
sane hospital policy has reached the
point where it is breaking down of it's
own weight, review of this report is
timely. The Manitowoc experiment ex-
tends over twelve years, affording am
pie time to give it thorough test and
determine its merits. Recent improve
ments give the asylum capacity for
$50 inmates. The cost of buildings and
real estate-223 acres of farm land ad-
joining the city-has been 500, 1852, or
1904 per inmate, as compared with s729.
the cost per inmate in this state. In
the year covered by the report the
asylum had 148 inmates and an aver
age of 1875, of which number SO were
LEGAL and the remainder came from ten
other counties. which paid for their
support, having no asylums of their
own.
Mr.. Rahr furnishes us with the fol-
lowing statement Of income and ex-
pense for the year ending with Oct.
30, the fiscal year of the institutions:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-09
A COUNTY INsANE ASYLUM.

Wisconsin had the good sense to per-
ceive the tendency of state instf-
tutions to increase in number and in
costliness both in construction and
sustenance, and to call a halt and
adopt corrective measures. Minnesota
still continues a headlong course, either
blindly ignoring consequences or so
controlled by local ambitions, indif-
ferent to the general welfare, as to be
helpless. After two insane hospitals
had been built and filled and cIamor
raised for another. and localities be
gan the struggle for its site, it occurred
to an unusually sensible Wisconsin
legislature that there might be a meth
cd adopted for the care Of these I'M
fortunates that would be more humane,
more logical and less expensive. The
principle having become too firmly
rooted in practice to be reversed that
it is the duty of the state to care for
it's mentally sick, the legislature pro-
vided that the two hospitals already
built should be hospitals in fact, where
the mind-sick could be sent for intel
ligent treatment with a view solely to
determining their durability. When
full treatment demonstrated their
chronic insanity, then the familiar
principle of local responsibility for the
support of the poor was applied, and
the counties, as the next smallest di-
vision, were charged with the duty of
maintaining their own incurables
Enough of the old leaven remained to
modify the principle to the extent of
infusing a measure of state liability
and the state charged itself with the
payment Of $3.50 a week per inmate
to the counties towards the support of
the chronic insane.
This system was adopted some thir-
teen years ago, and one Of the first
counties to accept it was that of Man
itowec. We have received from Hon
William Rahr who has been one of the
trustees since the inception of the ex-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-09

unfortunate the same method must be
followed when there is a real desire
to do honor; but this need not detract
from the interest in the plan, and in
the case of Stevenson there can be no
doubt as to the genuinenesS of the
love that lives in the hearts of those
for whom he wrote. His was a fancy
that attuned itself to age and to child
hood with equal harmony. In the por-
traits that stand as his greatest monu-
ment each may find friend In his
creations is something to appeal to
every Imagination. There is dainty,
poetic fancy for those whose ideal is
the romantic in literature. Character
analysis keen subtle and incisive, ap-
peals to those whose study is the mind
of man. To adventure and to travel,
to humor and to pathos, to the verses
of childhood and to the romances of
maturity his pen lent itself with an
equal power and grace. And through
all his work the fresh, buoyant heart
of boyhood pulsated, as plainly to be
noted in the finished effort Of master
stylist and story teller as in the first
crude work of enthusiastic genius.
But praise of Stevenson is to small
purpose. All that may be said Of a
man in fittest terms has been paid as
tribute to his life and influence by
those who knew him best. There re-
mains nothing to be added to his fame;
no eulogy that has not been spoken.
For the future, deeds and not words
must serve to show appreciation, and
it is this fact that gives its great time
Illness to the step taken by his friends
to fix the admiration felt for the man
in some permanent form. That Amer
lea will be generous in response is to
be expected, and the compliment i'm
piled in the expectation is to the coun-
try and not to the man. 1t is to be
hoped that when the memorial to
Stevenson is completed Americas
share in the work will not have been
Stinted.
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BEHIND THE TIMES.

The charter commission appears to
have fallen short in one of the most
important features of the trust COM
mitted to its care. 1t has adopted an
amendment to the charter declaring
that no ordinance, resolution or meas
ure granting a franchise or authorizing
the issuance of bonds or certificates of
Indebtedness, without the submission
thereof for ratification to the electors
Of the city, should be valid or of any
force or effect unless approved by the
mayor in writing within ten days af-
ter it's passage by the council" The
purpose of this is supposed to be to
throw upon the mayor the responsible
ity for granting franchises 1t does.
however, leave two methods open by
which the rights of the people may be
conferred upon private corporations
without any expression on their part.
If, under this amendment, the coun-
Gil passes such a resolution and the
mayor does approve it in writing with
in ten days, it goes into effect. If the
mayor vetoes it and each house of the
council thereupon passes it over the
veto by unanimous vote, it will, as
we understand the charter arrange
ment, be effective. Thus there are at
least two methods by which public
franchises involving the right to use
the public thoroughfares, or to pass
along or over them, may be conferred
without a vote Of the people. It is one
Of the most excellent and admirable
features of the home rule law, under
which the charter commission is at
work, that it expressly empowers the
commission to insert In the charter a
clause forbidding the granting of any
franchise except for limited term of
years, and then only after having been
submitted to popular vote and receiv-
ing the approval of the people.
Aside from the necessity of making
proper provision for public education,
we have always regarded the putting
into effect of such a regulation as this
as the most important work which the
charter commission could perform The
city Of st. Paul has already had ample
experience of the unwisdom of granting
perpetual franchises or of entrusting
to the common council the power to
grant franchises, whether perpetual or
not. No year passes in which former
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-09
aIAs. POOR YORICK!

Yesterday was sad time for that
past master of politics, that eminent
statesman, Mayor Doran. For weeks,
nay for a year. he has been looking
forward to the reorganization Of the
water board as Republican machine.
Within the last few days his anger
against the president of 1t has waxed
fierce and hot. Was it not reported
that Mr.. Bement had called him an
''old whelp," and can lese majestic of
simply saturated with reverence for
the "hallowed person" of Doran, to
adopt the language of Prince Henry at
Kiel? 1t is true that Mr.. Bement de-
clared he did not say this; and it is
whispered that he even explained thai
he was too familiar with the English
language to call an animal Of Mr..
Doran's age a "whelp;" since there are
other terms more fitting for the aged
and toothless canine. But he was to
be punished, any way; and the oil was
heated and the pincers were ready.
Then came the sad disillusionment.
Yesterday the water board, reconsti-
tuted, as Mr. Doran fondly hoped, to
suit his wishes, had meeting. 1t was
all beautiful and harmonious; lovely
as a summer breeze. 1t met, and re-
elected Mr. Bement president and Mr..
Caulfie1d to his old position; and 1t is
said that Mr. Bryant sat up all night
looking for shooting stars, and that
Mr.. Doran is in a condition of coma
from which nothing short of electric
massage will rouse him. The mayor
himself does not know just who put
the banana peel where it would be most
effective; but he probably does know
by this time what has happened to his
plans almost as we'll as he does what
Mr.. Bement, in common with a vast
think of him. 1t is sad slip; for the
politicians who are looking for jobs
and who run conventions and make
nominations are apt to look askance
at a statesman who Is bluffed on what
appeared to be so simple a proposition
Alas, poor Yorick. The new year opens
gloomily for Mayor Doran, and it may
possibly close without his being able
to discover what hit him.
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his Office calmly and with an even hand
in the interest of the people is rarity
and almost an impossibility
If this ambition could be made i'm
possible to be realized, it might do
something to make the discharge of
public Office a public trust, instead of
an arrangement for private benefit; al
though even the constitutional prohi-
bition contemplated could not and
would not prevent a president from
choosing a residuary legatee and or
dering the administration to his benefit.
The only effective check upon this is a
wholesome public opinion that shall de-
cree to the aspiring executive who
turns his position into a personal ma
chine the failure and denial of his
hopes. That such check is not in
operative is shown by the successive
defeats Of Presidents Cleveland and
Harrison. These warning examples,
however. do not quench ambition or
stop the wheels of manipulations for a
second term. If Mr.. Hanna is defeat
ed, as there is now every probability
that he will be, Mr.. McKinley's hopes
will be cut down in the bloom of youth
and we may have the balance of his
administration conducted with a view
rather to public than to private ends
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-09
THE HISTORICAL sOCESTY's AN
NIJAJ

The annual meeting Of the Historical
society next Monday is an event the i'm
pOrtance Of which is not sufficiently
appreciated. The people of Minnesota
are yet too near the pioneer stage to
be able to fully appreciate the value
of the work of a society engaged in
securing and preserving the material
out of which the future written history
of the state will be made 1t is for
tunate for the state that there were
men here in the early days who were
far-seeing enough to appreciate the
necessity Of an early beginning and
continuous effort. 1t is due to them
that we have now the historical library
in the capitol which has become a
storehouse of the local history of the
state as we'll as that of the country.
1t is 10 small achievement to have
gathered on the shelves of the society
the 59.211 volumes, bound and un-
bound, of historical matter that now
offer their wealth to the student or the
SPSSiollSl' "a ASdluiS vi lle library
that will gain in value and use as the
years come that bring the leisure in
which men and women can indulge
themselves in ascertaining who their
forefathers were and whence they
came is the genealogies, which now
number 1.165. The volumes of local
state newspapers alone have a value
not to be expressed in dollars. The
open meeting in the hall of representa-
tives, with the addresses to be given
should attract a large audience. That
of Gen. Baker on the history of trans
portation in the state will be especial
ly interesting. We bespeak for the
meeting full attendance.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-09
SNUFFING ITSELF OuT-


Gotham society should be careful how
1t cuts itself. Pretty soon it will snuff
itself out entirely, and where will the
country be then? AS the poet says
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade:
A breath can make them as a breath has
made.
But real four hundred, Gotham's pride
When once destroyed can never be sup
piled"
II this sort of thing goes on very
long, 1t is not difficult to discern So
ciety's eventuality, which is more or
nate than Seeing it's finish" though
1t means the same thing. If one step
cuts society down from Greater New
York to 400, and the next reduces the
total to rs, it is easy to see that with
one more division society will be minus
about 1856. Now 1856 is a nice number
and has an aristOcratic sound, but the
minus part of it would be trying, and
it is very doubtful If minus society
would fill the needs of the nation
There are those who will say: Par
don me, but do not see the necessity;'
a remark which once cost an exclusive
Frenchman his head or something, but
that is very narrow view The Unit
ed States might spare President Nc
Kinley or Senator Butler or congress
or Hawaii and still work in a half
hearted way; but without Gotham So
ciety liberty, freedom and equality
would vanish and chaos reign where
order, germans and dinner dances had
held sway. Trade and commerce would
languish and die. Art, literature and
science would be no more. OF the
glories of the Western world nothing
would remain save a minus 3S6, and
that is not enough to command enthu-
siastic patriotism.
Society, no matter what may be its
desires, should not be allowed to pre-
cipitate such a crisis in human affairs.
The law should be invoked if neces-
sary. If the blacklisting and conspir-
acy acts do not cover the case, then
new ones should be enacted. 1t may
not be wise to be too severe on So
ciety, but the republic has q right to
pIoCeGI llSell, anu lnere Is limit OF
safety Society might be limited to
men who have made lightweight mil
lion dollars and to women who have
been to Paris thirty-six times. If this
leaves the social circle too extended,
the figures might be doubled This is
only matter of detail. The impor-
tant thing is that society must not be
allowed to contract itself to such a
degree that some day it may suddenly
so out and leave the nation helpless
and alone with nothing to draw on in
case Of emergency
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perfectly worthless story Of adventure.
to recommend it, and replaced every
twenty or torty-eight hours with
a successor after it's contents have
been gorged.
In this way it is made impossible for
the child either to read carefully and
intelligently, retaining something of
the substance of what is read in his
memory, or to cultivate a taste for
anything that is not volatile and
amusing. The mind is cloyed with silly
tales, just as the stomach may be with
sweets, and the mental injury from the
one is quite as real and more lasting
in its effects than the physical injury
from the other. A child that grows up
under such intellectual discipline finds
that the power Of attention is undeVel-
oped; that memory is permanently in
jured, and that there has been acquired
a dislike for ali forms of reading that
do not titillate fancy without making
any drafts upon the more serious side
of the mind. A child thus unfortunate
is handicapped in study because it is
habituated to skimming and skipping
and forgetting today everything that
was read yesterday. 1t is practically
excluded from the vast and beautiful
realm of literature, because a taste
h.
been formed in tender years and can
never afterward be shaken off entirely.
There is much talk, and it is not wholly
unfounded, concerning the lamentable
lack Of thoroughness in instruction in
the public schools. We believe that a
great part Of this charge rests not SO
as upon the fact that the minds Of
children are incapacitated for thor
oughness by a habit Of examining
themselves with story books renewed
and forgotten daily, until the ability to
grasp a fact and hold it is lost.
1t is obviously out Of the province of
public authorities like directors of the
public library to remedy this evil,
whose root is firmly founded in the
home. Just as the criminal calendar
is filled with men and women whose
first ventures in evil sprang from the
absence Of home care, home tenderness
and home discipline, and whose first
lessons in crime were learned when
they were permitted to run upon the
streets, so are the lists of those in
competent to think great thoughts and
grow from them to the achievement of
great deeds made out from the children
whose careless parents are satisfied If
they love to read, and see no harm
in it if a new story book takes each
day the place Of the old one The ques-
ton is one for the home; and it is
far more serious and far-reachfng
one than our people have yet been able
to appreciate or willing to admit.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-09
THE REPUBLICAN STATE MACHINE

If the Republicans of Minnesota, who
were driven into revolt two years ago
by their disgust with the machine. so
that they barely saved their state
ticket. think that this taught their
bosses lesson. they will learn this
morning how wofully they were de-
ceived. The dose prepared for them
then was nothing to what they will
now have to swallow Then it was a
machine run by men for whom thew
had some respect and in whom thew
had some confidence, for the benefit of
Gov Clough. Now it is a machine run
by Gov. Clough for the benefit of him
self. Then the pill was sugar-coated.
not to speak of gliding; now it is to be
forced down their outlets with nothing
to palliate or disguise it's bitterness.
The story told in the news columns
OF the b e this morning relates
only what the well-informed know to
be the actual facts. This is no mere
political gossip, it is part Of political
history. The machine has already.
nearly year in advance of an election.
decided upon every candidate who will
be presented to the Republican voters
OF Minnesota. It's slate will be offered to
the state convention; and, unless there
IS a revolt, of which at present no sign
appears, the delegates will have merely
to vote for the nominees of the COM
bine and go home. The prime movers
are Gov. Clough and would-be Gov
elnor Van SAINT. They have made I'D
the ticket down to the last place on it.
They have consulted the candidates.
They have promised the places They
have closed their contracts with the
lesser BOSSES for the delivery of the
goods. 1t is an interesting story, and
every word of it is true.
Van SAINT is to be governor. Koerner
and Dunn are to keep their places, and
so is Oar Reese. What is to become Of
CLAIMS Clough is not yet revealed: but
there is more than a suspicion that he
aspires to fill the place of Senator
combination is thoroughly organized
and positively pledged 1t is pretty
piece of work; and in view of the last
election returns, bold one. 1t is no
Democratic funeral; but, aside from it's
audacity, its calm assumption that the
people have nothing to do with it ex-
cept to go to the polls and vote as they
are told may evoke some interest even
among men as accustomed to obey I'M
questionably the mandates Of the ma
chine as are the Republicans of Mime
sofa. The G o b e, first in the field as
usual with the news, publishes this
astounding piece of authentic political
history as the latest and most perfect
development of machine government
and suggests to its Republican friends
that they might as we'll save the trou-
BILE and expense of calling together a
state convention whose work has al.
ready been performed.