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The suburban citizen., 1901-06-22
Comfortable Heritage.

Near Marquette, Wis, an old man
has lived for several years in a tree.
He is a frst-class cabinet maker, and
when he came to Marquette from De-
troit, he took up his residence in the
hollow trunk of q tree near the town.
The tree is a huge linden, sawed OF
about fifteen feet from the ground,
and in it the occupant has brought to
bear his accomplishments as a work
man. He has cut a door and window.
The inner walls of his home are celled
end papered. A circular seat extends
round the room from door to window,
and there is a comfortable File Of furs
that makes a luxurious bed The place
is warmed, when warmth is needed,
with an oil stove. The man plays
fifteen different musical instruments,
and with these and books entertains
himself and his visitors. Some people
will perhaps be ready to say that
man who plays fifteen instruments
ought to live in hermitage.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-22

AINTENANCE is important
with any road, as no style
Of construction is sufficient
ly permanent to admit OF
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-22
F,rs, Wedding This Century.

The first wedding celebrated in the
twentieth century is said to have
taken place in Okayama, Japan. Two
American missionaries were being
married on December 81, when mid
night o,ruck, and the ceremony was
concluded during the first minute of
1901.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-22
An English railways Parcel Service.


In England the Great Eastern Rail.
way has perfected q system of subur.
ban parcel delivery that works admir-,
ably. From the outlying districts foi
a radius Of 100 miles-an agricultural
country in the main-the passenger
trains bring into London and to the
neighboring sea resorts all kinds Of
produce packed in boxes Of definite
size and shape which are furnished by
the company at from four to eleven
cents. The service fee is moderate,
eight cents for less than twenty
pounds, two cents additional for each
five pounds up to sixty pounds, above
which the fee is twenty-five cents.
Stamps affixed to each package show
prepayment. The company publish
two pamphlets, one giving the names
Of producers who use the service; the
other, the names Of season-tlcket own
ers who are in constant need of such
produce The success Of the plan was
immsdlate. The Worlds Work.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-22

Howltzers are steel breech-loadine
weapons, weighing 25OO pounds, and
having length of six feet ten inches.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
Evidences of Reform.

New York Times
We note with pleasure two indications
that Americans, who were late in ac-
curing the tip-giving vice, but who made
UP for lost time by carrying it to an
excess paralleled by no other people,
have now repented of their sin and are
joining in a general revolt against the
evil custom. So far has the reform
progressed that the palace car porters,
hitherto the most successful as we'll as
the most ruthless and persistent of the
wretched army of tip hunters, are medi-
tating general strike for the substitu-
ton of honest wages in the place of aims
and blackmail Their representatives
say that, while % cents used to be the
ordinary reward for their attentions to
the wearied and dusty traveller now the
usual donation is Is cents-when it isn't
10 cents or a kindly but Unacceptable
Thank YOU AS the porters cannot live
on wages alone, while the scale of pay
ment remains as it is, they clamor for
an advance from the employing corpora
lions, and have suddenly arrived at the
conclusion that dependence upon tips is
unworthy of real men, black or white.
That is the first evidence of reform. The
second comes from Europe, and is to
the most generous of tip givers, have
of late manifested a highly economical
disposition in this respect, and are now
declared by cabmen, porters and hotel
servants to be the least profitable of
their clients. Let the good work go on.
OF course the new development in Ameri-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07

in the army were expected to refrain
from making public comments upon
other officers in either branch of the
service. We have heard before, as also.
doubtless had Capt. Schley, Of the ex-
istence Of such a regulation, but It was
long time ago, and, judging from the
recent volubility displayed by officers Of
a rank much higher than his in CRITICS.
ing and denouncing his fathers char
acter and conduct, we and he had good
excuse for assuming that the old rule
had been quietly revoked by somebody
with power to do so. Such IL seems Is
not the case, and Capt Schley was Sc.
lected as a proper person upon whom to
demonstrate the fact that the regulation
is still in existence. Well, the reproof
won't injure him seriously. and neither
he nor we can deny that his remarks
were injudicious and deserving of repre
hensive attention from his superiors. OF
course, now that the departmental nota-
bilities have become so jealous in de-
Tense of the official proprieties, they will
have the newspapers Of the last two or
three years looked through oy somebody
with good eyes, and action like that In
the case of Capt Schley viii be taken
against every officer who has given pub
lie expression Of his hostility to the
commodore who was on the Brooklyn
when Cervera came out of Santiago
harbor. That will make everything all
right
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
QUE Loc4L COIL nomnrNr

The bids received by the several city
departments within few days for fuel
for use during the coming winter show
very clearly that the people are once
more in the grasp of a coal combine.
Public intelligence for some time past
has made it reasonably clear that close
as has been the alliance of the coaa
barons of Pennsylvania, the spirit and ex-
ample of trust organization has found
still further vindication among them,
and that during the coming winter the
paople will be made either to freeze or
sFeat blood through their exactions.
The prices quoted in the bids show not
only the existence of the combine of the
head bandits; but that the local small
fry have formed a combine. within a
combine and that in their aggregate, as
in their individual capacity, the people
are expected to pay the prices and to
submit to whatever form OF extortion
they may think proper to impose.
The action of the park board in con-
nection with bids presented in response
to its advertisement is the only way
available in which to protect the public
even partially against this form of pub
lic oppression. By going out in the open
market, as Commissioner Hamm sug-
gested, there may be an opport unity to
secure coal as required at less than the
very evident price agreed upon by at
least the body of the local competitors
in the bidding.
1t is shame that such a necessity
should be imposed on the public. No
doubt the system of letting such con-
tracts to the lowest bidder is not always
attended by the best results; but the
choking off of all competition, such as
has been practically effected in the bid
Ding for fuel supplies for the department,
is such public wrong that no tolera-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
1IAKTNG CABTER DIsG0RGE.

The action of the federal prosecuting
authorities in taking steps to attach
property in the name of Capt Carter,
which was beyond all reasonable doubt
acquired from the proceeds of his rob-
berries of the government represents the
complete resort to all the remedies open
to the government against Carter and
his co-conspirators
Since the administration was forced
into the prosecution of this wealthy and
influential criminal a public example has
been offered which must in is ultimate
consequences operate to the great ad-
vantage of the public service. The idea
has received altogether too extensive
acceptance that if a man will only steal
amounts large enough, and is backed by
influential connections, he is certain to
escape the consequences Of his robberies.
Carter was himself for a long time a.
living representative Of the correctness
Of this theory; and no doubt he
would have ended his days without ever
having made the acquaintance of jail
officials in a professional way had it not
been for the influence of the press of
the country which united in the de-
mand for his prosecution and punish
ment.
Even then 1t is doubtful whether any
thing would have been done to inter
fere with the continued round of Capt.
Carriers club obligations were it not for
the fact that his original conviction was
through the medium of a military court
martial, and that he mad to deal with
army officers rather than civilians and
politicians as would be the case were
he convicted regularly in criminal
court and before a jury.
The legal proceedings just inaugurated
In Savannah, if successful, will enable the
federal government to recoup itself some
of the tremendous loss occasioned by
Carriers dishonesty. 1t viii moreover
be the most fitting supplement that can
be conceived of to his conviction and i'm
prisonment. 1t will be an effective blow
moreover at his co-conspirators: and it
VIII involve as full and complete vim
dication of public justice as has ever
been realized in this country in the case
of a notorious and extensive public thief,
since the days of Bill Tweed
The 10 e does not know anything
about the personality of. those who are
charged with these prosecutions in
Georgia. They are necessarily partisan
Republicans in politics, circumstance
which. of itself does not offer any par
ticular assurance of success, more espe-
cially in view of what is doubtless the
fact, that in that section and community
the talent of the bar could be sought
much more effectively among the mem
bers of the Democratic party. The OPP
portunity, however, is a great one. If
these attachment proceedings are sus-
tanned; and the property involved is
made available in satisfaction of judg-
ments obtained against Carter and his
confederates, the United States attorney
of the southern district of Georgia will
have placed himself high in the scale Of
professional eminence and success.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07

ton which is in progress In Colombia
and Venezuela is for the purpose of unit
ing the three contiguous republics,
Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador into
one nation. If the report be not true,
it ought to be. Rumor charges that Gen.
Castro, president of Venezuela, has en-
tered into a plot with Gen. Uribe-Uribe
of Colombia to overthrow that govern
ment and combine the three nations
named, with Gen. Castro at it's head.
A number of conflicts have occurred
between the government and insurgent
forces in Colombia, and a recent dis
patch from the governor OF Panama ac-
cuses both the president of Ecuador and
Nicaragua, as well as President Castro,
of being in plot to aid the revolution
lists.
What is needed IN that section of the
world is Spanish American Bismarck
who has the courage and the ability to
unite the warning republics into an har-
monious Latin republic. The time will
come when self-defense will dictate such
a course. The balance of power in South
Ameria is being threatened by the rapid
rise of Argentina and Chile Already the
dispute between Peru and Bolivia with
Chile threatens the peace of the con-
tinent. The same tactics by which Chile
obtained and holds the provinces OF
Tacna and Arcia in violation of treaty
stipulations is evidence of a dangerous
preponderance of power in those agrees
sive Spanish Yankees" A combination
such as we mention would bring Chile to
terms without the Intervention of a court
of arbitration.
If the report of the combination prove
to be true, we hope for the good of the
country it may succeed. 1t ought to be
accomplished without force, but if that
be impossible, let the necessary force be
applied, if it will result in a stable gov
eminent like that of Mexico We of the
United States have an interest in our
Southern sisters to the end that vigor-
Gus, progressive and stable government
be secured and maintained.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
OF SOCIAL INTERES 7

Miss Mary Bass, whose marriage to C.
DlXWeIl thompson will take place Thurs
day evening, Aug. Is. at st. PauYs Epts-
copal church, was the guest of honor at a
linen shower given yesterday afternoon
by Miss Warner, at her home in the AL
bion.
Mrs. Frank Boyce, of Cedar Rapids
was the guest Of honor at a whist party
given yesterday afternoon by Mrs. J. p
Larkin, at her home on Virginia avenue
Mrs. j. s. Whitacre will entertain at
luncheon today in Mrs. Boyce's honor
and Mrs. Bronson, of Saltwater. will en-
terrain Friday afternoon for Mrs Boyce
Miss Burtis. of Marshall avenue, was
the hostess yesterday at a basket picnic
given at Minnehaha Falls in honor Of
Miss Tilton and Miss Taylor. The guests
were Stanley Hall girls
The board of managers of the Day
Nursery met yesterday at Relief hall
The matron's report showed that 500 chill,
dren were cared for during July. Mrs.
l.. A. Moore was named visitor until Aug
10, when the nursery viii be closed until
Sept. 3.
The st. Paul Chapter, Order of tho
Eastern Star, will give a social next Fri
day evening at the Sterile residence, 654
East Sixth street.
Miss Pitts, principal of the Irving, and
Miss Blackman, of the Longfellow school,
are visiting Buffalo and other Eastern
points.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Leigh Siexas
OF Floral avenue, will leave for the East
shortly, to be gone for month.
Mrs. c. E. Stone. of Crocus Hill. is
East
Miss Florence Dalrymple, of Summit
avenue, is in North Dakota, visiting
friends.
Mrs. P. c. Storh, of Grand avenue, is
visiting friends out of the city.
DR.. Edgar E Nelson left st. Paul last
evening for Wallace. Idaho. where he will
open dentistry offices.
The gagement is announced of Mis-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
at THE THEATFRS.

The Criterion company at the Metro
politan this week is giving the best per-
formances of "Uncle Toms Cabin" ever
seen in this city. The singing and dane
ing of Swanee River quartette scores a
big hit at every performance Uncle
Toms Cabin" will continue as the Critic
rion's bill for the remainder of the week,
with matinees this afternoon and Satur-
day, ait which souvenir pictures of May
Buckley, in the character of Ned, the boy
walt, in the The Black Flag" will be
distributed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07

Katherine Clifton SouthaI of St An
thonk Park, to Mr.. Allan Porter Abbott,
OF Butte, Mont. The marriage will take
place the latter part of September.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert 'Drouet will leave
81. Paul Friday evening for New York
where Mr.. Drouet will begin rehearsals
in Leo Deitrichstein's play; 1.-THE Last
Appeal The play Will be produced
Sept In Philadelphia;
Mrs. George Kusterer and Mrs. Mar
SHALL Of Boston, who have been the
guests of Mrs Frank Schlick Jr., of
Dayton avenue, have returned home
Mrs. George Markham, Of Lincoln ave-
nue., is entertaining Mrs McCrossan, OF
Madison, Wis.
The Misses Sternberg, of DAYTON ave
nue., are visiting at Yellowstone. Park
Mrs. Grier NJ Orr of Merriam Park, Is
entertaining Mrs. Holloway and Miss
Holloway, of Omaha.
Mrs. Lucy Comstock, of Western ave.
nue., is at Bald Eagle lake.
Mrs. Noble, of Western avenue. Is en-.
PERTAINING Miss Warner, Of Park Rapids
Mrs. Frederick 'Weyerhaeuser, of Sum
nit avenue, is entertaining Mrs. Rudolph
WeyeFhaeuser, Of Cloquet.
Mr. and Mrs. G. e. Ives of Hague
avenue, will leave Sept / for-Chicago
where they will reside.
Mrs. Laurence Brennan and Miss Clara
Brennan, of Burr street, have gone to
Milwaukee and other Eastern points.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Hadley and chill
dren, of harrington avenue, will go East
, this week to spend the remainder of the
summer
DR.. and Mrs. Patterson who have been
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers. of
South Exchange street, have returned to
Kansas City
Mrs. George Mems, of Virginia avenue.
is entertaining her sister, Mrs. E Par
ads, Of New York.
Mrs. Edward FeIdhauser left yester-
day for Denver.
Miss Ellen R. Cook has gone to Alaska
to spend the remainder of the summer.
Mrs. Charles EckweH, of Igleharr
street, will leave this evening for Buff
falo.
Miss Merriam, of Bedford street. is en-
PERTAINING Miss Haas. of Winona
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07

can character will excite much rage and
scorn in the minds of all those innumer-
able employers who have been making
their customers pay twice-once to the
employers themselves and once to the
servants nominally in their employ-for
all services in the slightest degree per-
sonal but the excitement Of these in
dividuals will soon die away and every
thing will be better all around No
money will be saved to be sure, by the
abandonment of the tipping system, but
there will be a vast increase of self
respect among those syho give as we'll
as those who take the serYile fees
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
ion whatever should be extended to it.

ton Whatever Snould be EXTENDED TO IT,
Without a serious manifestation of an
tagonistic public feeling there can be
be no thought of an effective remedy
The action of the purchasing committee
of school board supplies in making the
award in favor of the lowest aggregate
bidder, rather than of the bidders who
several contracts, offers some small
measure of relief But detailed bids
presented in that particular case show,
notwithstanding the refusal of certain
close approximation as to make it very
plain that the public have little or no
reason to congratulate themselves on
the way chosen by the committee out of
the difficulty. The coal combine is there.
as it is in all the departmental bidding
for fuel thus far had
The evil in this case has it's root so
deep in social and economic inequality
and wrong that it is practically useless
to discuss the remedy A remedy there
is, but, as desperate cases require des-
perate remedies it may with propriety be
declared that the true remedy in the
present state of public opinion would
be regarded as desperate in itself. Since
the public themselves are the sufferers
and the remedy lies at their hand to
apply whenever they are ready, the bur-
den of refusing to consider it must of
course be left to rest on their shoulders.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07

AS a general proposition, the world is
too much governed. The burden of main
tanning the governing class, including
the military, has always been the prime
cause of the peoples suffering To re-
duce the cost of an adequate govern
ment to the minimum is the great de-
sideratum of modern civilization. This
has been the trouble with the British
colonies, but they are rapidly consolidate
ing into national trusts, thus doing away
with the dead weight of number of use
less organizations. Such is the difficulty
with the British West Indies, there be-
ing four distinct colonial organizations
where one would be ample 1t costs as
much to govern a couple of islands with
a population of 100000 as 1t does to run
the state of Texas.
Nowhere is this weakness more ap-
parent than in Central and South
America. Contiguous states with SIM
liar interests and speaking the same
language should be under one govern
ment. Homogeneity of speech, nation
ahty, and interest should act as bond
in national combinations. Germany and
the United States are shining examples
of the cohesive force of language, blood.
and similar material interests.
There appears no good reason why
Mexico and the Central American states
should not be under one form of gov
eminent, neither is there any reason why
Colombia, Venezuela. Ecuador, Peru and
Bolivia should not combine and form the
United States of South America
1t is reported that the present revolu-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
CAPT. sCHLEY MUSTN'T TALK.
New York Times.

New York Times
Admiral Schley's son, an army captain
stationed at Fort Douglas, in Salt Lake
City, made within the hearing of a re-
porter the other day the not very sur
prising or obviously seditious remark
that he thought his father was pretty
good man, all things considered, and that
he expected the admiral to give some in
teresting testimony before the board of
inquiry completed it's labors Those are
not the captains exact words, but they
give the effect of what he said. Strange
ly enough, they attracted instant atten-
ton at Washington, and the captain was
hastily and sternly informed that officers
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
Instinct w Reason.

Good News
Teacher-Now. do you see the differ.
ence between animal instinct and human
reason?
Bright Boy-Yes m. If we had instinct
we'd know everything we needed TO Win
out learning it; but we've got reason. ana
a fool
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
what Hurt Him

Washington Star.
Il shall sue him for libel" said the
man who is making large sums of money
out Of the credUlity of the masses.
For what?"
He called me a common swindler. It's
pretty hard for a man who has worked
as hard as I have to be original to be
referred to az common -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
A sI.nrn-Tonnnea woman

Somerville Journal
Mrs. Wickes-When my husband says
anything I have to take II with a grain
of salt
Mr. Hicks-When my wife says any
thing / have to take il with a good many
grains of pepper.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07

had abandoned. If they should come
they were assured they would be arrest
ed as Migrants and put on a rock pile
for an indefinite time. This was some
what drastic, but Mr. Brown is no doubt
mighty man. Now comes the report
that the city council of McKeesport will
spend 100000 in. city improvements. such
as paving and other necessary works
that have been neglected, waiting until
this time. This is to be done to give
the strikers employment until snow flies.
McKeesport is somewhat of close cor
poration it seems
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
Hnd Wet Hin nefore

Milwaukee Sentinel
Weary-Hel!o. Shyboyl 1 saw you going
into a restaurant yesterday.
Shyboy-Did you? Why didn't YOU call
me- and we'd have had lunch together?
Weary would, old man, but I was
broke.