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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30
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When Doctors Disagree, Etc.

To the Editor of the Globe:
Without the least hope of ever seem :
the old hypothetical question of tuEer-
cular contagion settled, your correSpon l.
ent solicits indulgence of a few words of
reply, not so much to the main question
as the one leading from 1t.
Bacteriolcgfsts with a class of path9ln-
gists have shown great tact in their au-
thoritative assertions upon purely theo-
retical subjects, while sadly deficient in
maintaining the field against criticism.
They begin and end with theory, over
looking the advice of Cullen-"you will
not find 1t possible to separate pract. c.
from theory altogether; and, therefore,
if you have a mind to begin with theory
l have no objections. To rend ar
It safe it is necessary to cultivate theory
to it's full extent and as for their
theory, it has simply become dogmatia
without a scir tillation of positive evil
dence that can even neutralize the off,
hand remark of England's great surgeon
the late Lawton TAFT: ''Were it so, Wco
of US could escape?" This remark places
the question upon natural grounds and
about equally understood (D by one
learned pr feSSion as another
However, the writer will insist that
no disease which originates spontaneous
ode novo) can be contagious dependent
upon natural law conditions for develop
IHeiI ike the stream can not rise above
the fountain. Admitting, for argument,
the contagious character of the disc Sc
it becomes a grave question for the leg
tslator to tax the people for a hospital
for this special class of unfortunates
already taxed beyond good reason by
numerous eleemosynary institutions.
There is a limit of duty of the state
as of individuals in the measure of pecu-
MARY relief to the poor sick. Yet it IS
notorious that when the poor Iaborer
becomes stranded by family sickness,
every dollar doled out by the county
board is counted twice. The Legislature
never had the moral right to build ami
endow an insane hospital free to all
without money and without price. Peo-
pie of means should support their IN
fortunate friends, not the state-then
new asylum would not be required every
five years the state would support about
one-fourth, and another fourth would be
cared for at home, where they ought to
be- p Barton.
Inver Grove, Jan. 29.
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Thinks Lynchinr .yustiaob,e

10 the Editor of the Globe:
In your issue of Jan. %, you say if the
mother of Jennie Bosschieter had kept
watch of her daughter and known what
company she was keeping, the crime
might have been averted. Had not the
fathers of those men better look after
and train their sons? 1t would be a dis
grace to brutes to call them brutes.
You have but very little condemnation
for them, and none for the sa,oonke eper
that sold them the drug, knowing what
they wanted it for. You are terribly
indignant because a negro is burned to
death; you have no pity for the parents
of poor working girl murdered in a
worse way than being burned. Pearl
Forbes was an honest working girl on
her way home from work when muir
dered, and you know the other girl would
have been murdered If her cries had not
been heard. You say the crime of 1nuc-
der had not been proved on the negro
When the father of the girl asked him
If he killed his daughter he did not deny
1t, only said you have the wrong man
OF course, he would say that if guilty
Burning at the stake is just punishment
for such wretches. The law will only i'm
prison them a few years and then par
don them SO they can commit the crime
again. That will be the way with those
New Jersey fiends, and any one who
has sympathy for them ought to be i'm
prisoned with them.
An Old Subscriber.
St Paul, Jan %.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30

this country, put into legal shape by the
best counsel obtainable." Poor, innocent
Senator Frye, in these few words he re-
vealed the parentage of the child he SO
bcastfully claimed but moment before
for himself. 1t was the Legitimate child
of the shipping men, which Senator Frye
in his innocence laid on the door step of
his friend Marcus Hanna. 1t was gen.
erous of Frye to assume the parentage,
for the chiIds sake, but the change with
the accompanying facts will. not help
the future of the foundling-it is doomed
to an early grave. The good often die
young.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30

could be insisted on If opposition were
offered.
As long as the public assume the task
of constructing and maintaining the cycle
paths it seems as if the task of securing
individual subscriptions to the work must
necessarily be difficult The cycle tag in
S.. Paul has represented little more than
an individual expression of appreciation
OF the effort made to promote the ea:oy-
ment of riders. Unless it can be m ,de
carried. The problem is how to make
it more than that without invoking conf
puisory public agencies. The right Of
free access to roads and sidewalks can-
net he sainsaid. The question is what
regulation can be made to apply to tie
use OF the paths by cyclists, to be en-
forced either by police officers or the Of
fcials of the cycle association, which will
be effective in securing the necessary
contributions.
A state tax on the owners of bicycles,
such as is now suggested, the proceeds
of which will be devoted to the estab-
lishment and maintenance of local paths,
seems in the last event to be worthy of
trial. 1t will probably be found effective,
so far at least as the cities are concern
ed Its enforcement, however, in dis
tricts in which no cycle paths exist or
can be built from the proceeds of such a
tax would necessarily be somewhat bur-
densome. If in such districts it could be
made applicable generally to the improve
ment of the public highways it would be
relieved of this disadvantage
1t might~be worth while for the local
association, while trying to settle upon
some final method, to advocate the en-
actment of city ordinance which would
make the paths part of the city sidewalks
and reserve them for the use of pedes-
TRANS or Of those who possessed them
selves of cycle tags. The possibility of
pedestrians resorting to the paths to
any such extent as would embarrass rid
ers is altogether remote. Such an ordi-
nance, we believe, could be enforced,
and bicycle riders who have not suti-
cient sense of right or se1f-respect to
induce them to meet the trivial cost in
volved might thus be made to do their
duty.
This city and county have certainly
been liberal enough in the expenditure of
their funds in establishing cycle path
system to entitle them to demand that
the Individual bicycle riders shall bear
their share of the cost
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30

two deaths in six months from srnaIlnox
They had better take their chances,
OF dying of smallpox at the deadly
rate of four year than to poison their
blood and break down their wall of de-
Tense against numerous and more dead
ly diseases and run the CHASTITY risk of
sowing the seeds of PROLONGED troubIe,
in the fair flesh of their little ones and
my advice to them (given free to them.
but at some professional expense to nv
Selt) Is to decline and resist VAGINA
ton in any shape. We laugh at African
hoodoos, but practice a fetch ourselves.
The practice called vaccination is but a
grotesque superstition, and has been
weighed in the balance and found both
worthless and dangerous, as it neither
prevents nor mitigates smallpox, and does
cause disease and suffering"
And, further replying to the second
cause, viz; Whereas, vaccination is
the recognized protection against SMALL
poX, ETC." let me give the testimony OF
Or. l.. j. Keller, who was physician-in-
chief for the Austrian system Of railways
at the time of the epidemic of 1928, and
therefore had the general oversight of
JI,OVO employees with their wives and chill
dren There were 2,627 cases Of small
pox, of which 469 died. DR. Keller draws
the following conclusions from his exDer-
fence during this epidemic:
First--"Generally more vaccinated than
u u,,,o 1;,S; persons were attacked by
characterization did not protect
from smallpox, and did not lessen the
general mortality"
Neither vaccination nor re-vac4
clhatlon exercised any favorable influence
upon the mortality Of smallpox"
And may I add some figures by an
Nngl1sh government official that prove
that in the first ten years after the en-
1orcement of compulsory vaccination in
England there occurred SO SIS deaths from
smallpox, and during the second ten
years there occurred Ass deaths from
smallpox. The increase in population
Tor the first ten years was per cent,
ana Tor the same period the increase Of
oeath by smallpox was 50 per cent. For
the second ten years the population in
creased III per cent, and death by small
pCX l2O per cent. Now, as to the dire
consequences that follow vaccination, we
hope later in your columns to SHOW that
the people are not so ignorant on that
matter as they are supposed to be by
some of the doctors, nor can the people
at large much longer be kept in the
dark. j. w. Grigss
President Anti-Vaccination Society
St Paul, Jan. 20, 1901.
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At THE THEATERS.
METROPOLITAN.

''The Rogers Brothers in Central Park
is making a record Of big business at
the Metropolitan this week, and the show
is giving even better satisfaction than
wall Street gave last season: the in
dications are that Gus and Max and the
seventy-five others will leave ST. Paul in
a very happy and contented frame of
mind The results of this engagement
are especially gratifying to Mana ger
Scott, as indicating that his patrons VIII
support big attractions when he brings
them here, and the Rogers Brothers bus
mess will encourage other big organiza-
lions to visit the Twin Cities. Still Mr..
Scott SO far, has had no occasion to turn
any ticket buyers away, ard there are
plent Of good seats to be had for
the remaining performances. The first
matinee will be given this afternoon, and
the Rogers Brothers will continue at
the Metropolitan all the week, with the
usual matinee Saturday afternoon.
Next week Dan Sully in 1.-THE Parish
Priest"
HENsCHELs, SONG RECITAL.
A large audience was present at tie
Peoples church last evening to hear
Mr.. and Mrs. Georg HeascheI in their
song. recital. A most cordial reception
wtss given the artists, whose previous
appearances in st. Paul have made them
many friends. For the Henschels, it IS
evident song spells pare melody not
vocal gymnastics. Each number on the
lengthy and varied programme last even
Ing appealed to the emotions far more
than to the intellect, and every number.
aria, ballad, lullaby or foIS-xong met
With a quick gresponsiveDess from the
audience. The programme offered 4 feast
satisfying to the most faStidious music
lovers, and an added charm was give !
the recital because of Mr.. FenscheTs
thoroughly sympathetic accompaniment
The grave and the gay, the plaintive am
the rollicking, the songs for those that
would weep and the songs for those that
would laugh found a place or last night S
programme.
Particularly enjoyable were the duets.
The solemn chant of Jacob and Benjamin
from Mehuls Joseph and the light. gay
badipage of Blondel and I.auretta from
Gretry's Richard Occur de Lion,' show
ed the versatility Of the singers. Later a
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30
Broken at the Wheel.

Notes and Queries.
In the diary of that remarkable man,
Gen. Patrick Gordon, who left Scotland
IN 1901 poor, unfriended wanderer, and,
when he died, in $685. had his eyes closed
by the affectfonate hands of his sorrow
ing master, the Car, Peter the Great,
the following entry is to be found, under
GATE Hamburg, March o. 1865:
This day, a man and a woman, a
burger of the toWne being the woman5
master, for numbering, were carted from
the priSone to the house where the muir
der was committed; and there before this
house, with hottie pinsers, the flesh was
torren out of their armes, and from
thence were carted to the place of JUS
tice without the towne, and there broken
and layed on wheels"
An instance fifty years later than those
quoted at the last reference is recorded
in the Correspondence of Mr. Joseph
JekyH. MURRAY, 1894.) In April, IT'S,
from the balcony of his lodging at Or
leans, Jekyil saw a criminal broken on
the wheel In a letter to his father q.
49, he enters infinitely into the sickenirIg
details, adding that 'the crime Of the
unfortunate creature was burglary, as
we learnt from his sentence, which Is
posted up at every corner of the streets"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30
KEEPING UP TEE PATHS

The problem of defraying the expense
Of the construction and maintenance af
the cycle paths from the pockets of thosa
Who use and enjoy them will soon be I'm
again for discussion. Our local wheel
mems association has shown the utmost
good sense and forbearance in the Of
forts of its officials to promote the idea
that IN right and justice individual wheel
men and women should meet that ex-
pense. If the efforts of the association
nave not met With the success which
should have attended them. 1t certainly
is not for want OF tact, intelligence or
devotion on the part of either members
or officers.
The b e has always been disposed
to think that the difficulty is the result
of thoughtlessness on the part of riders.
rather than Of any well defined disposi-
ton on The part of the mass Of them to
avoid what in every respect Is a reason
able charge The difficulty Is, for all
that. no small one. The Minneapolis
method of meeting It has, we believe,
been comparatively effective. although
II is more than doubtful whether 1t should
be enforced except when all other
methods fail, or whether its enforcement
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30
PERTINENT OR PARTLY So.


Mrs. Nation, of Wichita, has called on
Gov. Stanley, of Kansas, and the gov
ernor has ordered wire fly screens to put
over the office mirrors.
For simon-pure righteousness, Gen.
Dewet seems to be the boss of them all.
unless, possibly, 1t is that eminent
Omahog, Patrick Grove
While the epicurean Minnesotan repairs
to his roof garden to Gull luscious straw
berries for his matutinaI repast, the
sh1verlng denizen Of sunny Maryland is
swearing at neighbor Jones, who borrow
ed the family snowshovel last April.
The editor who said that Mrs. Nation
had seance with the governor must
have been misled. Mrs. Carrie will have
nothing to do with spirits.
The Kansas City robber who invaded
the Standard Oil company's office in
broad daylight and got $500 was either a
desperate fit for the gallows or he did
not receive an adequate reward. Senti-
ment locally seems to be divided.
=
Since DR.. Ohage accused F. A. Pike
and his confreres of writing in dragons
blood, the secretary of the recent Demo-
cratic campaign committee has felt like
real st. George with his wings clipped
to fit the exigencies of local politics
Unless present indications are woefulIy
misleading, Tams Bixby's tomahawk Will
be flashing like Telegraph on the hill
tops of the First and Third Minnesota
districts during the campaign of 1902
Mayor Ames, Of Minneapolis, seems to
have inserted a pucker- string into that
end of his administration which was sup
posed to be wide open.
Can the new school of Journalism at
the state university have been establish
ed to provide a fat job for recent Mayor
Gray, of the Mill City?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30

want at a lower price than their Eu-
ropean competitors, with the additional
advantage of cheaper transportation on
account of their geographical position.
The upshot of all this will, in his opin-
ion, be that eventually the entire Chi
nese foreign trade will shift into Ameri-
can hands to the exclusion of England
and Germany. These countries, he says
will insist upon the open door in China,
but the time will come when practically
none but Americans will use It. From
this he draws the conclusion that the
task of civilizing the Chinese should be
turned over to the Americans; that, as
they are the ones to enjoy the music.
they should also be made to pay the
piper.
The Englishmans views are, no doubt.
greatly overdrawn, but still there is much
truth in them. Our trade with China
has been growing very rapidly of late
years and the growth would certainly
have been much greater had we a com
petent merchant marine to handle it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30
A SENSIBLE PERFORMANCE.

The experience of the people of Chicago
| during the last summer and indeed
| throughout the entire building season
of last year with the contending claims
| of employers and employees was such that
it will remain g. warning both to the en-
ployes and employers for many years
| to come
1t does not matter now to anybody
save to those Immediately interested that
the hricklayers and stonemasons at a
recent convention at Milwaukee declared
that strike to have been irregular. The
| dispute continues whether it was strike
at all or a lockout. That dispute may
be settled some day; but It's settlement
of loss and will not repair the infinity of
trouble and violence. which was engen-
| dered on all sides and which will embit-
ter the relations of the men in the build
ing trades and their employers through
out this generation in the big Western
city.
In view of the disastrous results in
Chicago, and of the possibility which
always exists Of permanent unsettlement
of industrial conditions in every commu-
nifty through lack of understanding be-
tween employer and employee it is pleas
ant to learn of the amicable adjustment
which has just been effected between
the members of the Carpenters Union of
this city and the members of the Build
ers' Exchange. That understanding In
wolves an express agreement upon the
scale of wages, the hours which consti-
tute a days work, and on many of the
other particulars which are usually made
bones of contention by unreasonable men
among both employers and employees
The agreement thus entered into has
been accepted in the most unreserved
spirit by both sides; it extends for one
year from April 1st next, and is the re-
suit of mutual concession.
good many years ago there was
trouble in this city between the local
carpenters union and the local master
builders association, the recollection Of
which still abides with the community
That time there was so much said and
done by both sides that was unwise that
the wonder really was that worse results
by far did not eventuate. But the re-
suits such as they were were utterly I'm
justifiable, and could never have been pro-
duced had the men of that day entered
on the consideration of their relations
toward each other i'll the spirit which
has prevailed in the adjustment of the
present agreement
Carpenters and builders are pretty
much the same kind of material as other
folks. They have their own understand
ing of their rights and prerogatives, and
are no more and no less willing to stand
by them at any hazard Approaching
each other in the spirit of unreason. of
personal prejudice or with a sense of
injury done or threatened, the possibility
of amicable understanding is killed. 1t
is so in the case of every labor dispute
which has taken place here and else
where for the past quarter of century.
The men of the building trade of st. Paul
have set an example to their brethren
in other cities and to the members of
all other crafts, employers and employees.
alike, such as If followed, must be pro-
ductive of kindred results.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30
OUR FUTURE TRADE WITH CHINA

An Englishman. having visited the Pa
cifc coast of the United States, has writ
ten an interesting letter to an English
periodical. In which he discusses the fu-
ture of China. He admits that at the
present time the interests of Germany
and England are sufficient to warrant
them in taking part in pacifying China.
but he claims that this interest is small
and constantly decreasing when compar-
ed with that of the United States. He
maintains that the American people, with
their unlimited resources and constantly
improving methods and machinery, are
capable of supplying all that the Chinese
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30
INNOCENT SENATOR Enrn

Senator Frye, fearing that the peculiar
aroma which fingers about the renuta tio,,
OF Senator Hanna would prevent a num-
Der of senators from supporting the shin
subsidy bill, and also deprive the meas
ure Of that popular support, without
which It cannot pass, deemed it his dutv
to announce to the world and especially
the people Of the United States that the
original bill was his legitimate child-bans
Of his bone and flesh of his flesh That
being in Paris. doing duty on the Filipino
purchase commission, he was consumed
With fear lest this we'll beloved child
should not be born in time to take ad-
vantage of the particular star, under
whose influence he had planned It's ma
tivity, and therefore prevailed upon his
good friend Mark Hanna to not only
bring the child into the world on schedule
time but give it his name and make 1t
his heir. Senator Frye does not claim
that this child is without blemish but
he, With parents prejudice, thinks it
will average up with the children of other
senator's.
Senator Frye naively announces that
he gathered the wise men together and
asked OF them Of what a subsidy bill
should consist. Tie wise men of whom
Mr.. Frye took counsel were the owners
of great steamship iines-.nen who knew
the needs of the merchant marine from
actual expelience-the rren who woald
reap the benefit should the proposed sub
sidy- biz become a law. In the language
of Senator Frye, THE BIN today repre-
sents the essence OF the beet thought of
the Inost experienced shipping men OF
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30


Renowned in letters, famed in art,
The age recedes; of many thing
Won for mans good from natures heart
Who will may sing.
The glories of the faded years.
I rather backward CHANGING mourn;
the deeds Ill done, the Wrongs, the tears,
OF the age outworD
Red wars that reeked with biood of man,
Wide wandering license, scepters rent,
Fierce guile that threats the Vatican
These l lament
Where is thy glory. stainless free -
City of cities. queenly Rome?
Ages and nations kneeied to thee,
The Pontif's home.
Woe for time of goddess laws.
What faith. what Loyalty a;,ides?
Torn from the s!lrines the ancient cause
To ruin glides.
Listen, how Science wildly raves
Around the affairs overthrown;
Brute nature. with the world for slavce.
IS Gcd alone.
Not made in Gods OWE Image row
Is man-tis thus the wise dispute
But sprung from. one same cell, they vow,
Are man and brute. O
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-30
Some Anti-yaeclnation Figures.

Some Anti-VaeciHatfOn Figures.
To the Editor of the Globe:
There are some GgnoranD people who
would like to submit, to the readers OF
your paper (Which SO plainly set forth
in recent editorial that there are two
sides to this subjecD some facts that,
while not generally known, are still with
in the reach of the members of the Ram
sey County Medical society, and laymen
as well.
Replying to the first clause Of the res
olutions passed last evening by the above
society, which says: There is great
danger of a spread of an epidemic of
smallpox throughout the United States, -
would submit the following from letter
Of w. B. Clark, M. D., of indianapolis,
Ind. (where their health beard is trying
to scare people into being vaccinated)
to the health board of that state writ
ten Sept. S0th last, in which he refers
to their semi-annual report that shows