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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

The G. 10 e has found frequent oc-
casion 10 refer to the ill-advised and
often dishonest character of certain of
the legislation recently adopted and
aimed at the trusts Much of that sort
of legislation is not desired by it's
authors to accomplish any result which
may be hurtful to the trusts. Some of
1t, on the other hand, is the product of
an earnest but wrong headed notion Of
the way in which the evil should be treat
ed
A singular instance of this latter kind
of legislation is that adopted by the Mis-
souri, legislature 1t contains the follow
ing provisions;
ANY purchaser of any article or com
modify from any Individual company or
corporation transacting business con-
trary to the preceding sections of this
act Shall not be liable for the price or
payment pay OF such article or commodity.
any suit for such price or payment"
This is, of course, sheer dishonesty 1t
ought not to be tolerated for a moment
by any community which possesses even
elementary notions of right and wrong.
Yet, strangely enough, the constitutions
ality of the law containing this provis-
lon has been sustained by the supreme
court of the state which. enacted it.
This is a plain attempt to legalize lis
told that in case they succeed in obtain
ing credit from a trust they need not pay
the deht, nor can it be enforced against
them. The adoption of such a principle
is fraught. with infinitely greater danger
to the welfare Of society than the evil
which it is aimed at.
OF course the law in practical effect
like all such laws can have no practica
effect. The trust Will not need to give
credit. 1t can sell for cash without any
interference from any direction. The
hardship would necessarily rest upor
those who deal with the trust rather thar
on the trust itself.
The reasoning of the court which gives
this decision is palpably bad The trust
- N'AAt Ne~7S was VI SelillECu OQlSlue AllS
souri, AMI the opinion of the court holds
that the law of comfy between the
states does not give unlimited power tc
given state to dispose of the franchise
of acting as a corporation in another
state. 1t adds that the granting of a
franchise for the purpose of avoiding
the laws of other states would be &
fraud both en- the state granting the
franchise as well as on the state other
state in which the charter was sought to
be operated under. This may all be: but
two wrongs never make a right.
And if the state of Missouri can find nc
other way of preventing the operation
within its limits than that of setting q
premium on dishonesty and the avoid
ance of Just debts, it would be far bette,
for it to leave the trusts organized unde,
it's own laws or those of other state.
s alone
OF course, an appeal will lie in this case
to the United States supreme court, ant
there is no good reason to doubt tina
that tribunal will make short work O
ouch immoral doctrine.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
Breen Iran DTinaI.e0sa

MENOMINEE, Mich, May 12-The deal
Tor an option and lease of the Breen iron
mine between the owners and the Min
nesota Iron company was consummated
today by 5. B. Sutton, Menominee range
agent of the company. and Attorney a.
l.. Sawyer, representing the stockhoId-
ers. The option is for one year, and ac-
June 1. The life of the lease is thirty
years, the mining to be carried on under
a graded royalty, the same as in vogue
with the Chapman udington and other
pig mines. An option for a lease of the
Emmett mine, adjoining. the Breen and
other lands, was also given for short
time to the same company.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
THOSE SPHERES OF INFLUENCE.

The cable dispatches make public the
terms of the Identical notes exchanged be-
tween Russia and England relative to
the spheres of influence of these nations
respectively in China. The document is
OF the highest International impor lance,
but it is doubtful whether it states more
than the merest skeleton of the under
standing reached by the two nations in
regard to their interests in China.
1t is not an insignificant circumstance
that while this arrangement is being pub
lished Rear Admiral Sir Charles Beres-
ford is observed pleading with intense
earnestness in the columns OF the North
America Review for May against the
adoption of the sphere Of influence policy
in China, which he distinctly designates
as dishonest" and urging the United
States to engage with England and Ger
many in the establishment of the open
door policy in the Orient. Much that
Lord Beresford says will react upon him
and his influence in the world Of British
diplomacy. 1t is clearly a revelation Of
which his superiors in Office will not at
all thank him for making public.
In entering on the new plan Of action
in the Orient, England has evidently be-
come convinced that the United States
are not at all likely to engage themselves
in any joint arrangement with any nation
regarding Oriental trade or political pol
ICY
The arrangement between Russia and
England, so far as it is revealed in the
document mentioned, shows that Eng
lands sphere of influence, in the ordinary
acceptance of that expression, is to en-
Russia is to include the territory north
of the great Chinese wall. Each promises
! to abstain from interfering with any rail-
road, and, we apprehend, any other form
| of concession made to the other within
| it's sphere. The avowal of the purpose of
| the two signatories of an intention to
refrain from interfering in any way with
! the sovereign rights of China is simply
| " ne FeSdTueu DIS q piece VI ulplOIIld llC
humbug OF this there can be no higher
proof than is afforded by the fact that
il making this comfortable arrangement
! England and Russia simply ignore the
| right of China to participate in 1t in any
way.
The significance of the affair to the
American people is not so great as it Is
! to other European nations who are GER
tain to assert their claims to concessions
made to them within the spheres of in
| fluence thus marked out. If the arrange
ment does not ultimately result in seri-
Gus European complications 1t will be
| surprising. All that the United States
| looks for now is that they may have
| access to the markets of the sections thus
parceled out. Just what arrangements
will be made, and how far these two pow
ers will go III asserting the power assum-
] ed through their arrangement, will de-
eide the question as to the drawbacks
or otherwise which are destined to attend
our effort to establish trade with the
! Orient
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
DEATH In A WRECK
Continued from First Page.

gentlemen, though badly shaken up, were
uninjured. Senator Penrose did not know
how many passengers of the rear cars
were killed or injured, but said when the
train left the scene those needing atten-
ton were being cared for by physicians
and residents of the neighborhood. He
said he learned that several were killed
and many badly injured, but as to the
number he could not say. A few of those
whose injuries were slight came on the
wrecked train, which left soon after the
accident. and the more seriously Injured
were left at the scene and were to be
sent to Reading.
TWENTY BODIES BROUGHT IN.
The second relief train left Exeter at
2:50 a. m. 1t brought to Reading twenty
additional bodies. The names are not
yet known. Most of the seriously In
jured were brought here on the first re-
lief train. The rest of the injured were
taken to POttstown and Norristown
The north-bound track has been cleared
and the first train through to this city
from Philadelphia was the Buffalo ex-
press, which left Philadelphia at II 20
p. m.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
maryland. My Maryland,

To the Edior of the Globe:
For the benefit of ''W. A. p" who
wishes to know about the song entitled
Maryland, My Maryland" may 1 con-
tribute the Information that it was writ
Ten by James Ryder Randall. a native
Of Baltimore, in April, 1861 while he was
engaged on newspaper in New Orleans.
The melody is a German folk Song, 20
Tannenbaum. 1t is also found nearly
In it's present form in an interlude I'm
Mozart's first mass. 1.-THE Girl I Left
Behind Me" is an Irish air, in existence
since before NO. and for over one hun
dred years has been the parting tune In
the British army and navy, or whenever
regiment or ship leave a town or port
where they have been stationed
"A. S. J.
Saltwater, May H.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

buy, only the smaller are buying. Prices
are said to have been generally advanced
with higher demands from interior hold
ers. But it remains question whether
sales of 10, 499. 900 pounds for the week
against 5.269, $50 In 1892 and only little
more in 1897 will prove profitable The
market for wooden goods Is waiting for
evidences of demand. which do not yet
appear and the delay in getting the new
combinations into working order causes
some hesitation.
Failures for the week have been 165 In
the United States against pa last year,
and 2S in Canada against "a last year.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
DEATHS OF A DAY.

CINCINNATI, o., May 12.-Moritz Al
bert jacob, for twenty-five years presi-
dent of the Cincinnati Fret Presse died
today at his residence in Fort Thomas
He was stricken with apoplexy and never
regained consciousness.
one of the best known attorneys in the
state, died in the court room at Mauuo-
keta, during trial this afternoon He
was county attorney Of Jackson county
LONDON, May 12.-Mr. Herbert Lloyd,
of Edward Lloyd. limited, the proprietors
of the Daily Chronicle, is dead.
PARIS, May 12-M Henri Bocque. the
dramatic author, is dead, aged sixty-two
years.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
POULTRY TRUST FORMED.
rec of the Largest Dealers I'm the

Three of the Largest Dealers I'm the
West Eject Combination.
FORT SCOTT. Kan, May 12-The three
largest exclusive poultry aud produce
dealers of the West have just effected
combination I'm this city with a view to
controlling the market in the seven
states where they operate. They are
Il. B. Jean, of Wichita, Kan; W. b.
Hurst & Co, of this city. and w. B. Red
fearn. of Springfield, Mo-. whose shipments
of chickens and eggs alone am, unit to
trainloads daily.
They have incorporated under the laws
of Missouri with paid-up capital OF
$500, 00O Each of the three concerns stakes
666 shares of 500 each. and Mr.. Hurst
takes 1000 shares. The remaining shares
are divided among employees. The Of
fees will be consolidated at Springfield.
Mo.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
Monthly Export Statement.

WASHINGTON, May 12-Tbe monthly
statement of the exports of domestic
breadstuffs, provisions, cotton, cattle and
hogs and mineral oils for the month of
tistics, shows as follows: Breadstuffs
$751; 1856; decrease, as compared with
April. 1898, about $12, 2sS, 600; cattle and
hogs, s., sol. 362; decrease, $1S5, 900; provis-
ions, So, $50. $50; decrease, 81 800. 900: cot
ton. $7,765.5S1; decrease, Sc, $50, 600; mineral
oils,$ 4,267,075; decrease, $500, 600 Total,
50. S52, 1854; decrease. SIC, 100000 For the
Ten months of the previous year the
total exports of these products were
s617, 079957, against 1914. 443, 236 for the cor
responding period in 1898
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
DECLARES A JUBILEE.
Bull Is Issued by Pope Leo AnnOun-
cling m Important Event.

ROME. May PA papal bull was pub
lished today in the presence of the chap
ter OF st. Peters and a few other persons
announcing the first ordinary jubilee OF
Leo's pontifcate. The last was in 1874.
during the lifetime of Plus TX. The bull
promises plenary indulgence to all Cath
Ole residents of Rome, who shall visit the
four basilicas twenty times between now
and next Christmas, and to pilgrims who
shall make ten such visits. Catholics I'M
able to come to Rome are enjoined to
make the jubilee by visiting the local
churches prescribed by the diocesan au-
thorities. 1t is expected that 100000 pill
grims will visit Rome during the jubilee.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
PEACE PLAN SECUTED.
German Professors Say 1t VIII Have
No Direct Results.

BERLIN, May 1.-THE Tageblatt has
collected the opinions of eminent German
university professors on the approaching
disarmament conference at The Hague
with the result that all but one express
themselves as unfavorable to 1t.
Prof Theodor Mommsen, of Berlin. de-
scribes the conference as "a printers err
ror in the history of the world" adding
that ION such errors one does not write
commentaries.
DR.. Fischer, professor of philosophy at
Heidelberg, has neither faith nor hope in
the work of the conference.
DIR. Labaud, professor of law at Strass-
burg, says that the discussion will be
barren, and that the best safeguard
against war is commercial rivalry.
Dr. Paulsen, the eminent professor of
moral philosophy at the Berlin university.
is also among the scoffers at the cars
plan.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
little over 100000 pounds in these last

little over 100000 pounds in these last
nine months.
There are many causes that have con-
tributed to this result. Undoubtedly the
well meant efforts of the secretary to help
have had the usual effect of making men.
dependent upon being helped more and
more. The stimulus to individual effort
was weakened. But other causes have
this great shrinkage. Foreign tastes, so
different from ours that butter that suits
them would be discarded here, have not
been generally studied and consulted by
enough higher than here to leave mar
gin of profit sufficiently large to make
shipments pay. That our butter can,
when intelligently made, find ready sale
the reports we published recently of the
sales of the Albert Lea creamery. What
that creamery has done in establishing a
market in England, that takes all the
butter it ships. can be done by other
creameries if they will
1t has been suggested by the manager
of one of our railways, whose road runs
into a growing dairy region, that ten or
twelve of the best creameries of the state
should unite in making export butter
suited to English tastes, of the best pos
sible quality, massing their consignments
to lessen the cost of transport and hand
ling, and thus enlarge the opening made
| by the Freedom county creamery and es-
tablish Minnesota butter there on as
firm a basis as Minnesota wheat has.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
missionary society selects omcers,

BALTIMORE, Nd, May 12-The clos
Ing session of the eleventh annual con
vention Of the Woman's Home and For
eign Missionary society of the general
held this afternoon. At the morning ses-
sion the following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. Alice G. Bond, Salina.
Kas.; vice presidents, Mrs. j. F. Hart
man, Altoona, Pa, and Mrs. S. s. Waltz
Louisville, KY; recording secretary. Mrs
M e: Wirick, Emporia, Kan; CORE
ris, Baltimore; treasurer, Mrs. v
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
TRADE is FAVORABLE
BRADSTREErs SUMMING UP OF
CONDITIONS FOR THE WEEK
IN GENERAL LINES
IRON AND STEEL STRONG
Increased Activity In Building Lines
Is Reelected In Heavy Sales OF
Lumber at Prices Tending Up
ward-Bank CIearings surpass
All Records for This Week of the
Year.


ward-Bank CIearings surpass
All Records for This Week of the
Year.
NEW YORK, May 12.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say: Reports as to trade con-
dltions are generally of a favorable tenor,
notably among them being advanced quo
tat1ons for many grades of iron and steel,
increased activity in building lines, re-
Elected in heavy sales of lumber at prices
tending upward; 1rmer tone in the cot
ton goods market, sympathized in by the
raw product; bank clearings SURPRISING
all records for this week Of the year, rail-
road earnings maintaining recent gains,
and business failures, as for some time
past. down to the minimum. Offsetting
these, in some measure, might be cited the
reasonable quieting down of wholesale
distributive demand, particularly for dry
goods and clothing, but most notable of
all, the further weakening of cereal
values. rejecting the Indifference of for
elgn buyers in spite of the definitely con-
ceded fact that our winter wheat acreage
has been considerably curtailed, lowered
quotations of hog products and some
shading of prices in sugar. copper and
| tin. If conditions of demand, supply,
| Invisible wheat reserves and foreign crop
| advices did not favor lower prices, the
government report might have been re-
! garded as a bullish publication. The weak
ness of the market under the circum-
| stances, may therefore be regarded as
rejecting the feeling among foreign con-
! sumers that good crops abroad and the
| refilling of depleted reserves from last
| years yield will furnish wheat in plenty.
| Wheat. including flour, shipments for
the week aggregate 3,284,1S2 bushels,
against 3.4840S1 bushels last year, 1916, :
543 bushels in the corresponding week of
1898; 2,1SS,S75 bushels in 1897; 1903, 225
bushels in 1896, and 1885,, 513 bushels in
1898. Since July 1 this season the exports
of wheat aggregate 203O5S,S48 bushels,
| against 81 bushels last year. Corn
! exports for the week aggregate 2,O77, 27O
| bushels in this week year ago; 1898, 1874
bushels in 1897; 1,66S,5S1 bushels in 1896
| and 1,21O,72S bushels in 1895. Since July
l this season corn exports aggregate 49,
2l8oO7 bushels. against 163 6O2, 564 bushels
during the same period a year ago.
business failures for the week number
l6S against 164 last week, $50 in this week
| a year ago, 251 in 1897, 265 In 1896, and 21O
In 1885, Canadian failures number 81 as
| against % last week, % in this week a.
| year ago, 81 in 1897, 81 in 1896, and % in
1886.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

Commencing toiAorrow night at the
Grand opera House, True S. James and
his company will open weeks engage
ment, presertiHg fof the first half of the
week "A Royal Prisoner and the last
half of the week Don. Caesar de Bazan''
Special featurSs s4pr this engagement
have been arr5hgsd for in the shape of
the celebrated Autobiography, one of the
most successful of. the motion photng-
raphy machines.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
Honey often AduIterated.

committee on pure food investigation de-
voted most of the day to the subject of
honey and it was shown by expert tes-
timony that not only was glucose used
to great extent for adulterfng that ar
ticle OF food. bur that jobbers were u.s.
ing fraudulent methods in handling the
trade for honey substitutes. 1t was also
shown that glucose was not necessarily
deleterious to health when used as an
.adulterant
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
Musicians elect ooacers.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May 12-The Ma
tional League of Musicians met in annual
convention at the st. Charles hotel to-
day, twenty-four locals being represented.
The following officers were elected:
President George Nachman, Baltimore,
Md. secretary, H. 8. Beissenherz, In
dianapolis, Ind. treasurer, Charles Mel
Der Cincinnati o.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
officers Assigned.

WASHINGTON, May 12.-The following
assignments of officers recently promoted
are announced; Col. Theodore A. Bald
win, to the Seventh cavalry; Col Adna r.
Chaffee, to the Eighth cavalry; Lieut..
Col Francis Moore, to the Tenth cav
airy, and Lieut.. Col. Henry w. Vessels
Jr to the Third cavalry
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
Sash. Door and Blind Trust,

CHICAGO, May 12-The interests en-
braced in the sash, door and blind manu-
facture of Chicago have combined and on
or about Aug. next, it is stated. the
plants of the various concerns will be
taken over by a corporation probably to
be named the American Sash and Door
company. There are forty-four mills en-
gagged in this industry the combined ap-
praised value being approximately ST.
f0O 000
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
FAST MAIL WRECKED
Only One Man Was Fatally Injured
in the Crash

UTICA, N. Y, May 13.-At 2:S5 this
morning New York Central Train No. 30.
the Southwestern limited, while in the
yard in this city. was run into by Pan
American Express Train No. 81, resulting
in the destruction of a Wagner car, an
express car and the engine of the latter
train.
The wreck caught fire, but was eX-
tinguished by the local department. Har
ry Neat, of Buffalo. assistant superin-
tendent of the Wagner company, was so
badly hurt that he may die. He is at
a hospital. No one else was hurt.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
Missing steamer Come In.

SANTA CRUZ. Cal. May 12.-The
steamer Ellhu Thomas, for which tug
boats have been vainly searching for
week. arrived at this port today unds
sail, her machinery being disabled All
on board are well
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13
henderson, a pankrnpt.

NEW YORK, May 12-David Hender-
son, theatrical manager, who lives at
the Hotel Lincoln. this city. has filed a
petition in bankruptcy. The total liza
bilities are $130,S64
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

Great Britain purchased 81, $50, $3.50 worth
of American wheels in 1898, all of which
shows that John Bull knows a good thing
when he sees 1t.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

If Tom Reed really cleaned out all the
passengers at poker en- his trip over to
England, he must have counted his kings,
aces, queens, etc, in manner similar
to the way in which he used to count in
q Clio
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

Boss Plat notes with pain that Rough
Rider Roosevelt is making rough house
in New York state politics
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

Sheath and bloody 'oonds! The Repub-
hcan party, according to Chauncey De-
pew, will undoubtedly adopt a plank
condemning trusts" This is an innova-
ton las is" an Innovation
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

If American people are already utter
ing seditious language, what will happen
to us when the presidential campaign of
1900 is opened?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

If Mr.. Atkinson has been circulating
"seditious literature" why does not the
government proceed to prosecute the
congressman who uttered the ''sedition"s
which is comprised in the "seditious lit
erature" circulated by Mr.. Atkinson?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

We may have to call him Cincinnatus
Mckinley. The White house grounds are
to be planted to corn aud potatoes
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

Those London editors will be highly edi-
fed by Tom Reeds remark, so soon as he
landed on English soil, that he had ''come
away from newspapers But Reed al
ways had a blunt way of telling the
truth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

New York is ready to blow the dinner
horn Whenever Admiral Dewey gives the
signal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

George Golfer has not announced that
he will go on lecture tour, but Mrs.
Georges place out in the center is vacant.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-13

And now they they are naming the ba.
bies Dewey Funston