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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02
4 STEP FURTHER. DOCTOR.

1t is a pity that the Rev. DR.. Smiths
position as the head of large religious
congregation evidently prevented him
from speaking out as plainly as he would
wish regarding the present degraded con-
dition of ofice-holding politics in this
which we publish this morning, was adj
mirable 50 far as it went; but it didn't
go far enough.
1t is hopeful sign when well known,
leading Republicans, like DR.. Smith and
Gen. Sanborn, are aroused apparently
to the shameful significance of the sway
of the Republican local machine. The
advice they offer may or may not be fol-
lowed by a considerable number of de-
cent citizens. There would be much more
likelihood of such an occurrence, how
ever, if DR.. Smith and Gen. Sanborn and
others like them would put city before
party and proceed to remove their Goats
in the interest of the taxpayers and the
good name of the city.
L.
machinery of local politics. He knows
something, too, of the personality of
many of the men who run his party's
machine in this town. He derived his
knowledge through an ardent determlna-
ton to take a good citizens full part in
the discharge of the duties of his citizen
ship. He knows that the Fourth ward.
to which he referred in his address, is
no exception He knows or ought to
know that the degradation is not con-
fined to election day or any other one
day: that it is an essential result in the
operation of the local Republican ma
chine in more wards than one.
Does DR.. Smith know anything about
Republican politics in another ward that
his church Adults on-the Fifth ward?
Does he know anything about Republican
politics over in the Sixth ward where
active Republicans are so entirely good
that they do everything but hold their
political gatherings in the church? Has
he ever wandered among the sand dunes
of the Ninth ward, when the bunghole
of the Republican key has been agape?
If he hasn't he will get much enlighten-
ment by sending a reliable and observant
friend to attend any of the meetings of
the organization in any one Of these
wards He mustn't go himself, for local
Republican corruption and blackguardism
is of the shrinking variety.
Let Dr. Smith by all means keep up
his addresses on the subject of the
christian Citizen He will do much
good. The Christian citizen, we are. told
quite frequently, is invariably a Repub-
lican in his politics. If in the pursuit of
his party's success in st. Paul he is hav-
ing recourse to the places mentioned by
DR.. Smith, it wouldn't be bad idea if
DR.. Smith came out f1at-footed and tod
the public so. 1t might aid in giving
new complexion to the youthful safes
manship which finds the control of ward
politics under Republican auspices in st.
Paul so exciting and remunerative just at
this time.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02
Roosnv EFT. THE REFoRMEa.

Gov Roosevelt is evidently not yet
through with the canal frauds Of his
PARTY ir New York, which he endeavored
recently to dispose of so lightly. He was
elected on his promise to punish the canal
robbers His first response TO the popular
demand that he fulfill his promise, after
having crawled behind the findings of two
lawyers whom he appointed to 'investi-
gate" was that "the charges of corrup-
ton were baseless and discreditable in
the highest degree to those making them
The troublesome subject has not, how
ever, been allowed to rest here. His pre-
decessor, Gov. Black, had done his share
in the exposure of those frauds and in
the effort to secure the punishment of the
perpetrators of them. So, now, an
associate official of Roosevelt in the gov
eminent of New York, the state comp
troller, has taken the subject up where
Roosevelt sought to lay it down, and has
declared his opinion officially that the
changes of plan, which increased the cost
of the work on the canals, and through
which the thievery of something like
million of dollars was accomplished, were
mot only effected in a manner IN
authorized by statute but were consum-
mated in direct violation of the plain and
express provisions of the statute itself"
The prospect of furnishing these canal
rogues is now so remote apparently as to
be beneath serious consideration They
will pass unscathed. They took time by
the foreloclz by going into a Republican
legislature beforehand and securing such
changes in the existing law as placed
them beyond the reach of the criminal
authorities III connection with the robbery
that they then had in contemplation But
what they did subsequently, as the comp
troller points out, in authorizing the con-
tractors to do work on which the fraud
ulent claims are based, was done without
the consent of the canal board, and was
therefore in violation of the express pro-
visions of the law, which they had over
looked.
The state comptroller accordingly points
out that claims against the state aggre-
eating something like 100000 made on
account of such work are illegal.
Thus is the pupil of Boss Plat, the very
much vaunted rough rider and reformer,
shown to be, either consciously or I'M
consciously, an abettor of the public rob-
bers whom he pledged himself before
election to send to Jail, and the charges
of corruption against whom, after cleo
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02

As matters advance toward a climax
in China the politics of the situation is
becoming much clearer than in the earlier
stages Of the efforts of the humanitarian
nations of Europe to save John China
man from himself.
Within a few. days Russia has ad-
vaneed to the front in her China policy
by declaring TaIien Wan a free port;
that is, free trade port, to which all
nations and the ships of all nations can
come to do as much of the trade Of
Eastern and Southern Manchuria as they
can get to do.
Talen Wan will be the real Eastern
terminus of the great trans-Asiatfc Rus
sian railroad line. The proclamation is
equivalent to saying that all the sur
rounding country is open to settlement,
and that Russian protection will be ex-
tended to all who embark their fortunes
within the Russian sphere of influence.
This is the open door, about which
SO much has been written and so little
understood. We were assured that Rus
STA was about to close up the Chinese
world by constructing modern Chinese
Ee!1 ST commerce, and that if we failed
50 ally ourselves with England we would
bqcrifce every chance we had to par
Tictpate in the trade of the Orient
We now know how little there is in all
this. All European nations are on a SINH
lar plane in their dealings with the
Chinaman. They are all maurauders.
Russia is the only one of the marauders
who has not come from a far-off land
to plumber; the only one which has even
the slightest shadow of a right to be in
the country at all, or which can have
any natural sympathy or affinity with
the Monaghan race
Americans will naturally ask them
selves the question, What have we done
to enable us to avail ourselves of the
opportunities thus presented? The an
swer, Of course, is-nothing whatever
We have done nothing, and we are not
preparing to do anything. We are sink
ing deeper and deeper in the blood and
mire of the Philippines, ostensibly to give
us superior vantage ground from which
to prosecute our commercial policy to-
ward the Orient. AS a matter of fact
we are but unfolding a gang of specula-
tors by expanding the lives and treasure
of our people, and we are not lifting a
finger to encourage, nor placing a dollars
worth of assistance at the disposition
of a single American citizen anxious to
maintain trade with the Orient.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02
CLEVER RUsE
by Which II Berlin Restaurant
Keeper Brought BUSINESS.

New York Times
Advertising for wife or husband is
the regular thing in Berlin, particularly
IN the lower middle classes and it there
fore was the less matter of marvel when
people read in we'll known Berlin news
paper the following notice:
IA young lady % years old. who is
ready and able to support a husband
wishes to make the acquaintance of a
good-looking gentleman, with a view to
matrimony"
The young lady in question was, how
ever, in such a desperate hurry to get
married that she wrote personally to
large number of young men, mostly in
the more modest walks of life, asking
them each to meet her at a given hour
in certain restaurant, the means of rec
ognition to be white pink Needless to
say the young fellows were true to the
romantic tryst, and, one by one, silently
and eXpectantly made their appearance
in the restaurant at the appointed time.
each with a fresh white pink in his but
tonhole. 1t was not long before they be-
gan to notice the fact that there were
white pinks ''to burn in the favored es-
tablishment, which had seldom enjoyed
such popularity, and before a half hour
had elapsed an Indignation meeting, flu
rious in character, was in progress. The
white pinks" came to the very natural
conclusion that mine host had adopted
the ingenious ruse in order to fill up the
empty places at his tables, and did not
hesitate to apprise him of their opinion,
which, however, he promptly repudiated,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02
QUEER FISH,
With Skin Like an Eel, Identified
as q ssShark Sucker"

with Sk1n Like an Eel, InenIHeU
as 'sShark Sucker"
Baltimore Sun.
Mr. James II. Gale, of COLCHESTER Beach,
Md, recently submitted a queer-looking
fish for Identification. 1t was caught near
Colchester.
The specimen was about 16 inches long
and had skin like an cells, seemingly
entirely devoid Of scales. The body was
elongated, tapering behind the lower jaw
was longer than the upper, with the head
decidedly f1attened. Above the head was
quite a long oval disk, presenting from
the middle of both sides oblique trans
verse cartilaginous plates, arranged like
the Stats of a Venetian blind.
On the middle of the under surface ware
spine-like projections connected by short
bands with the skull and verteb~ae. The
thin upper margin was beset with fine
teeth. By means of this apparatus, partly
suctorial and partly prehensile by the
hooks, these fishes attach themselves TO
rocks, ships, and the bodies Of other
fishes, especially sharks. They are thus
when fastened to ships or fishes trans
ported where food is abundant, and often
from the tropics to temperate regions
They do not feed on the fish to which
they attach themselves, but on small fish
and floating animals.
Mr.. George M Bowers, united States
fish commissioner, says of the specimen,
which was forwarded to him.
"It is the species commonly known as
shark sucker sucking fish and 'remora'
(Echencis naucrates). 1t ranges from
Cape Cod southwark to the tropics
and is not uncommon on our coast, ana
in the Chesapeake bay. The peculiar
structure on the upper side of the head,
suggesting the sole of a rubber shoe, IS
a modification of the dorsal fin, by means
of which the sucker attaches itself to
sharks or other large fishes, apparently
causing them no inconvenience, and feed
ing on the remnants of the sharks meas
There are number of other species found
on our coast, but this is by far the COM
moneSt and best known
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02
4 ROYAL CRICKETER

What with the international yacht race.
the inter- university football games the
return Of volunteers from San Francisco
and the gubernatorial election in Ohio,
affairs promise to be as lively during the
coming autumn as one could wish. There
will be no dearth of excitement; in fact,
it is getting so nowadays that scarcely
a month is without an event at once
stimulating and of more than passing
interest
In addition to the attractions mention
ed, more or less diversified in their no.
culiar charms, we have with us Prince
Ranjitsinhji and his team of Englisb
cricketers They have already opened up
the season in Philadelphia. OF course tbA
Quaker City modestly discIaims all nra-
tensions to winning any of the pamoe,.
but as the Public Ledger conservatively
voices this position, ''we can learn soma
thing about cricket, and may feel assured
that we will witness some good eamac >,
Prince Ranjitsinhji, himself, is consider
ed a cracker-jack at the game. He is
an Indian prince, who has this year scor-
ed 1854 runs, and is not yet out of breath
His average is nearly 65 runs per in
ming. Some of the players who accom-
pany the prince are classed among the
besa in the world, and all are men Of
brain, Drawn and wide experience with
bat, ball and wicket. Six of them have
scored centuries, and c.. L. Townsend.
second best man in the eleYen. made 224,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02
INNOCENT LIFE
Led by the Humble Inhabitants of
Rural Tennessee.


Rural Tennessee.
New York Sun.
I'm no state In the South, and [ travel
in all, are people in the back districts as
guileless as in Tennessee" said New
York business man to Sun reporter. 1
fancy that most of the stories of their
sim1,le nature are true. In some manner
they get an linking of what the world Is
doing, but that is all they want. They
do not trouble themselves with inquiry.
They DO not know the meaning Of an
Interrogation point as applied for 1nfor-
nation. I was in a town III the eastern
end of the state where a strager Is us
much of sight as a circus parade.
woman rode III to the door of q store
and looked out from her sunbonnet; the
merchanl went to the door just as he
was, in his shirt sleeves and a pair Of
nankeen1 overalls held UP by rope.
:" How dy, Miss Sarey, won't ye light?
Nas his salutation.
:" Reckon not today, Dave. Pap's down
with the yallers agin and wants We to
send i'm some of them new bitters We
was tellin' hi1u about The young woman
showed her bonnet back on her head and
took me in as she talked to Dave.
We mean Trust Scllnapps, Miss Sarey,
I reckon said the merchant.
" That's It, Dave, cause Pap said they
waste be charged up.
Then she readjusted her bonnet, picked
up the reins, dug the heel of her shoe
into the flank of her rag, and as the
rag loped away Miss Sarey looked back,
and, pointing TO me. called out:
Say, Dave, when are you goin' to
kill it?'
''The merchant apologizeG to me or
thought he did by saying that he reckoned
[ was the fust man that ever come to
these dtggin's in pair of shoes that had
no tannin''"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02
MONKEY SENSE.
How Two Apes CO-Operated and
Finally Got the Fruit.

Forest and Stream.
There has beer a recent discussion
whether animals have reason The ques-
ton seems to me much like discussing
whether dawn is daylight, but L am not
proposing to debate it. l only wish to
call attention to the fact that the num-
erous instances of intelligent animals,
made famous by your correspondents, are
all dogs! Blood is thicker than water.
Please record the following instance OF
intelligence and other equally admirable
qualities in another race, somewhat
nearer to US on the family tree. Dogs
are only mammalia. Monkeys are
primates.
A friend who was cncamped in the
woods recently witnessed the following
occurrence: A troop of monkeys, which
seemed to be picnic party under the
charge of chaperones, came to cross
creek by his camp. They came along,
travelling as usual, from tree to tree by
interlacing limbs, and at the creek side
soon found some vines which made a sus-
pension bridge There was considerable
shylarking going on In the procession, but
the chaperons marshaled all across the
bridge except two. These two had lodged
behind trees and palpably and deliberately
got left on purpose, and when the rest Of
the picnic was safely out of sight they
selected a nice narrow seat, where they
sat extremely close together, apparently
deer in conversation and as happy as
could be. After short time the larger
one spied a fruit hanging not far below
him, and began to reach down to try and
get it. His reach proving too short, he
took twist with his tail around the
limb and swung for it.
Rut even his tail was too short, and the
fruit still hung foot or more out of his
reach. His smaller comrade saw the diff
Guilty and solved it at once. She grabbed
the tail firmly, loosened it from the limb
while at the same time her own tail took
q turn around it, let her comrades tail
twist about her waist, and then, all
securely braced and anchored, she reached
down until she had lowered him in reach
of the fruit. He gathered it, and in a
minute was back at her SIDE and they
were eating the fruit together. What dog
could have ever figured through problem
like that, beginning with getting left by
the picnic? And what dog would have
failed to eat the whole prize him self, only
| growing at his comrade to keep off? But
| blood VIII tell
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02
MY LADY's STILL ROOM.

Years ago all great houses possessed
what was known as the still room, where
essences, scents and remedies were made
under the direction of the mistress of the
house. Flowers We're grown for perfume
making. Dur ng hot summer our grand
mothers would have carefully cut and
made use OF the sweet briar, roses, elder
flower, musk, bergamot, thyme, mint,
rosemary, sweet verbena and lavender
which nowadays are rarely seen in the
gardens. Above all they would have car
cd for the jessamine, which is the object
OF all perfumers' search.
The cultivation of jessamine TODAY is
carried on at Grasse, France, and the
principal perfume makers receive from
ten to twelve hundred weight day.
The English climate suits the lavender
better than any other in the world 1t
was the old custom to use lavender to
perfume the bath. Elder!lower water was
Used as cooling wash for the face. A
favorite perfume made was called Bou-
quet de la Refine d'Angleterre, and was
made from roses, violets, tuberoses and
orange flowers, and naturally was very
strong.
The perfume considered the most re-
freshing was Rondeletia, and was made
from lavender and cloves. Jessamiase and
patchouly produced a novel scent, also.
Although pure water has ever been the
best and sureSt means of preserving the
skin in health, yet we find that women
of all times, as at present, have required
some means by which to assist nature
to restore the skin to it's youthful
freshness, to correct the evils of town
life and to impart to the face the bloom
of health The fashionable ladies of
town used to make an emulsion of roses
which we read "cleanses, softens and
brightens the skin, yet is as harmless as
an April shower on the yerdure of
spring" Milk of almonds, milk of cucum-
Der and extract of elder1owers were all
largely used and high were the prices
given to favorite still-rcom maid who
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02
EXPERTS ON TRADE
DELEGATES TO THE COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS AT PHILADELPHIA
REACH NEW YORK
PARTY Is TO VISIT CANADA
Colonies Desire to Confer with
the Authorities of the Dominion
ON the Subject of the New Pacific
CabIe-SuccessfuI Solution OF the
Labor Problem Is Reported.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-Quartered at the
Waldorf-Astoria are several distinguished
officials who arrived on the steamer New
York today. They are delegates to the
national export exposition and CONNER
cial congress, which will convene in Phil
adelphia on October 10.
Pember Reeves, who is accompa MED by
his wife and daughter, is the general
agent in London of New Zealand,
where, as minister of labor he secured
the adoption of a compulsory arbitration
law, which he claims has brought peace
and prosperity to New Zealand. 1t pro-
vides for the settlement of trades disputes
without barbarous methods
Disputes between capital and labor"
said Mr.. Reeves today, "are acted upon in
New Zealand by the state tribunals, Of
which there are several and from any
one of which appeal may be made to the
central tribunal. AS a result of this law
we have had no strikes or other labor
disturbances in New Zealand for over
five years.
II have not the time to go into this
grave and momentous question now, but
[ am going to speak on the subject at
Cooper union, and l shall read a paper
on capital and labor and arbitration be-
fore the Twentieth Century club in Bos-
ton
t.After we delegates get through at the
Philadelphia congress we shall go to Can
ada to confer with the Dominion govern
ment officials with reference to the pro-
posed Pacific cable, which will connect
Great Britain, Canada New Zealand and
Australia.
"All the delegates are pleased to learn
this morning that war has not broken
out between England and the Transvaal,
as we are anxious for peace and an ami
cable adjustment of affairs"
Gen. the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke,
agent general of Victoria at London and
formerly chief commissioner of crown
lands in Victoria, said he expected to re-
ceive his instructions regarding the Phil
adelphia congress within a few days.
Sir Andrew will call upon Admiral
Dewey, whom he knew when Dewey was
a MILDLY in the Mediterranean, and who
Sir Andrew thinks should have been left
in the Philippines until peace had been
restored there.
Sir Horace Tozer the agent general for
Queensland in London, is accompanied
by Lady Tozer. He said that the dele
gates to the commercial congress are
here because Great Britain is anxious
to foster the steadily increasing political
and social relations between England and
the United States.
J. A. Cockburn, general agent in Lon
don for South Australia, was formerly
prime minister. and has carried many
portfolios of the South Australian colony.
Dr. Cockburn will read a paper before
the congress on the products OF Soush
Australia.
The secretary to the British delegates,
Dr. Andrew Berry, nephew to the distin-
gufshed Sir Graham Berry, former pre-
mier of Victoria, is also with the party.
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not out, in one of his justly celebrated

not out, in one of his justly celebrated
innings.
Against the Philadelphians' twenty-five
the Englishmen pit but eleven men, and
SO far have experienced no difficulty In
capturing all the games. They are likely
to continue this indefinitely. Cricket is
not one of our strong points, and hereto
fore all the visiting teams from England
have found soft and easy marks in the
American teams put in the field. The sit
uation has been much the same as it
would certainly be in England were we
10 play the strongest club in the National
Base Ball league against a nine picked
from England's best
Still, the United States is always ready
70 entertain visiting cricketers from Eng
land, and the reception accorded Prince
Ranjitsinhji and his athletic team is fully
as cordial as such reception has ever
been in the past.
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and. his friends Loyalty taking his part. a
frst-class row was soon a-brewing.
When late at night the restaurant was
closed the white pinks" continued their
demonstration" in front of the hosiery,
with the natural result that a dozen
broken heads soon needed looking after
at the nearest accident station. The po-
lice finally succeeded in quelling what
promised to become a small riot and con-
fscated a number of the letters which
were the cause Of the unusual popularity
Of the restaurant in question, but 1t has
not yet transpired whether the real mis-
chief-maker was a lovelorn damsel or a
too modern innkeeper.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02
DO GLADYS.

The fairest flower that ever dared to
blow
Is outcome by thy Cheeks red glow;
The sweetest honey bee did ever sip
Is yet outdone by thy sweet lip.
The brightest stars that ever graced the
sky
Are dim comparelrto thy bright eye;
Where'er ! amra whereer thou might be.
My thoughts are ALWAYS. Gladys. dear
of thee. Robert f. Shores.