The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-08
PERTINENT OR PARTLY so.


1t now develops that Louis Francois
Menage, Of Guaranty Loan fame, was in
Galveston during the tidal wave, but es-
capped unframed. When this news
reaches the quiet homes of penniIess
widows in Vermont and New Hampshire.
who saw their fortunes wiped out in
that wreck of bogus notes and other
fraudulent devices, it will not be surpris-
ing IL, in previously devout homes there
spreads to some extent heretfcaI re-
spect for the popular but irreverent say
ing that 1.-THE devil takes care of his
own"
It is a tradition of the supreme court
OF the United States that no attorney
shall address it except in black clothes,
and they do tell a story about an absent
minded lawyer in an important case,
who, appearing without the regulation
garb, was hurriedly assisted by the court
attaches into black Prince Albert be-
longing to some one about the building.
But attorneys and every one else have
gotten into some laxity about observ-
ing this rule in the presence of ordinary
district court judges. In the future, how
ever, III Minneapolis at least, more or
less decorum will have to be observed.
A clerk in the Office of the county audi
tor there, summoned to bring some rec
ordS into one of the court rooms, neg
lected to don his coat, but entered the
court room In his shirt sleeves.
Judge MCGEE, who was presiding-he
has been a judge nearly three years
promptly ruled that this was an offense
against the dignity of the court so the
line III the Mill City is closely drawn
Judge Hicks, a decade ago, was wont to
be somewhat insistent on the observance
of a proper respect for the court, but
the new generation has gone beyond his
limitations.
se ses Aas
The sugar trust cut prices on granu-
lated sugar from $615 to S. Is in New York
city last Wednesday, the greatest cut,
it is declared, in the history of refined
sugar. This proves several things.
1t proves the contention of the pro-
motors of the trusts, that by economy in
methods of production and agencies of
distributions they can sell cheaper than
individuals could, and perhaps cheaper
than they, the trusts. do. unless the cost
of production and distribution dropped
suddenly forty points last Wednesday.
This would be a hard blow to Mr. Bry-
an, who says the trusts are a bad thing,
but it also goes to indicate that Mr..
Hanna was not let in with the cut at all,
as the fact that the cut is uniform es-
tablishes the existence of a trust, or
a combination as effective as trust
But the Commercial Bulletin, of Min
neapoiis, which perhaps knows as much
about sugar as any paper in the North
west, inclines TO the belief that the trust
did not have either Bryan or Hanna in
mind when it made the cut. 1t seems
some sugar brokers who aroused the dis
pleasure of the trust and owners of
Western beet sugar plants. which have
not yet been absorbed will be caught
heavily in the reduction. Then the
trust can push up the price the same
40 cents-if it wants to. After election,
perhaps.
T. Country Ciubbe-Did YOU read about
that New York bunco man who swindled
seventeen grangers on Broadway in one
day, and then was caught en- the next
enc and arrested?
L. Golf Hazzard-No Fell down on the
eighteenth green, did he?
At the rate at which the price of beans
is advancing. attributed largely to the
army and the mining camps at Nome,
the Nome miner of the beaches viii soon
be mere second-rate class, compared
with the aristocrat who owns patch
of beans.
w. G. McMurchy.