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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30
SELLING -1ronon TO mrNnRs

A great deal of gratuitous and not
wholly accurate information has been go
ing the rounds Of the local press with
in the past few days regarding the sale
of liquor to minors. 1t is printed with
the apparent sanction of the Sacred
Thirst society of this city; but on its
face it is the product of the rather strong
prejudices and vivid imagination of an
individual member of that organization
We are told that the Sacred Thirst So
ciety, which is a most commendable body,
is determined that it shall put an end
to the sale of liquor to minors This is
most excellent thing to do 1t is es-
pecially a most needful thing, if the
spokesman or spokeswoman of the Sacred
Thirst society can find with such ready
facility young girls and boys lying drunk
around the saloons. 1t would be better,
however, to devote more attention to
precision of statement and less to local
political effect when the effort to pro-
duce the reform mentioned is seriously
engaged in by the Sacred Thirst people
or any other person or persons.
The Sacred Thirst society should keep
out Of. politics, especially local politics.
1t will find it's legitimate aims advanced
more surely by doing so, than by the
other course.
No matter what the origin of an honest
movement to put an end to the evil prac-
tice of selling liquor to children may be,
the G l o sympathlzes with it, and
VIII do everything in it's power to pro-
mote it. Any saloonkeeper or other per-
son who will sell or give liquor to a
young person of either sex so as to pro-
duce or promote intoxication commits a
crime not only against society but against
God, and any system of law is iniquitous
which will operate to shield him.
to this matter. A young man not quite
twenty-one years of age may stand at the
bar and drink repeatedly without the
saloonkeeper having any suspicion that
he is dealing out liquor to a minor. lie
certainly cannot be said to be serving it
to child The prosecution of a saloon
keeper under such circumstances is an
act Of very questionable justice.
Take the other case of the minor who
is sent to the saloon to buy a can of
beer or any other form of drink for
friend, parent or guardian, and where
the liquor is palpably not for the con-
sumption of the child. If the Sacred
Thirst society has set itself to putting an
end to that practice it has undertaken g.
somewhat stiff contract
The G o believes that children Of
tender years should be kept out of
saloons, and that any person who wants
drink ought to go and buy it or go with
out it. They certainly ought not to make
any child the vehicle for carrying It TO
them. But there are many thousands Of
persons in this and other communities
who do not view this subject as the
Gil o e or the members of the Sacred
Thirst society regard it. They do not
see any inherent evil in man, woman or
child going into a saloon or drinking
beer. They believe they have right
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30
THE THIRST FOE DIET

We have heard much of the
thirst for gold. The evil inAu-
ence of the yellow metal has
been the theme of many homily
designed for the moral betterment of the
race. Man has done much to obtain
gold. He has shaved he has risked his
life in combat with wild beasts and wild
er men; he has braved the frosts of the
arctic circle, and the blazing sun of the
equator. He has even taken life and
become an outcast that he might hear
the soft click of the golden beauties in
his pockets.
But the thirst for gold is not the only
thirst that seems to have taken possess
sion of the human family The thirst
for dirt seems equally as Unsuitable I'm
der the copper heavens of the Indian
territory, with the thermometer regis
tering 100 in the shade more than $1,000
people have been waiting for a chance 10
get piece of dirt. The fact that only
one in thirteen can, by any possibility
succeed, has made no difference in Tho
determination of the whole mob to stav
and trust to fortune. The gambling in
stinct Of the average American is RAM
pant. Thousands win seek the reputed
gold fields, well knowing that not more
than one in one hundred will make a
strike 1t is game in which there is
but one chance in enc hundred of win
ming but they are willing to take that
chance.
Is dirt SO precious then that 165.cOo peo-
pie should wait months for the p5or sat
isfaction of gambling on a chance Of one
to thirteen, of securing a chance to
file ON government quarter section of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30
THREATS OF KIDNAPPING
WEALTHY FARMER ALARMED FOR
HIS DAUGHTER'S SAFETY.

NATION, ILL.,, July 29.-Two thousand
dollars is the price demanded by unknown
persons from Richard Hearn, a wealthy
retired farmer of this city, for the safety
of himself and only daughter Maud9,
aged thirteen years. A week ago Hearn
received a letter in which the writer de-
manded that the money be placed in a
tin can at the southeast corner of the
Episcopal church Hearn treated it as a
joke, but a second nissive stated that
failure to comply would result in the
girls abduction and his own death. When
both letters failed to bring the money, a
third letter was sent which so alarmed
the father that today he revealed the af-
fair to the police
The last letter said that this was
Hearns final opportunity, for he and the
girl would both be captured and the for
mer would witness the horrifyKhg spec
tacle of his daughter, with her eyes burn
ed out and heart cut from her body. Then
he would also be killed.
Hearn is worth $75,00O but thinks best
not to accede to the eXtortioners de-
mands His daughter is not allowed to
leave his side, and while the police are
trying to capture the would-be kidnaper,
the residence, will be closely guarded.
Several persons are suspected by the po-
lice.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

more avenue, Tuesday evening, July 30,
instead OF at the home of Mrs Alex
van Praag, on account of the serious
iiiiifSs OF Mr. van Praass father.
DR.. Roselfne Ryan. of Kent street has
returned from visiting her sister in
Mrs. F. Petzinger and children, OF
portsmouth, Va, are spending the sum
mer with her mother, Mrs P, Young, of
Miss Elinor Dickinson, of Ashland ave-
nue., left last evening for New York
Miss Elsie Pope of Ashland avenue,
Is spending a fortnight at Prior Lake.
Mrs. L. H. Well and the Misses Stern
berg, OF Dayton avenue, have gone to
Yellowstone.
Mrs. Charming NJ. seabury and chill
dren of Ashland avenue, are at From
tenac.
Miss Lillian Mccarthy, of Pleasant av-
enue, and Miss Ella Clark, of West
Tenth street, left last evening for the
East
Mrs. J. Dent, of Dayton avenue. is en-
tertaintng her niece, Miss Ethel Far
quhar, of Pennington, MINI.
William R. Dorr and family are occu-
plying cottage at Newcastle island off
Portsmouth, N. II.
Robinson, of Kent street, will leave this
week for a months visit in Fargo N D.
Mrs. Barry and the Misses Barry, of
the Kittson. are expected home this
week from Europe.
Miss Martha Schriber, of West Robbie
street, will go East this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward j. Jones, of Lin
coin avenue, viii leave this week for
New York.
Miss Salmon, of Keokuk, Iowa, is the
guest of Mrs. Marcus, of Central Ter
race.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Johnson, of West Su-
Kittson
Miss Warner, of the Albion. has re-
turned from an absence of several
months in the South
Mr. and Mrs. Schuback of Ramsey
street, are entertaining Mr. and Mrs.
Adolph, of Detroit, Mich.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30
4 SEYSELEsS STRUGGLE.

1t is doubtful If ever a strike pre-
vailed in the United States involving a
great range of industrial interest in
which the public has appeared to take
as little concern as that On which the
employees of the United States Steel
corporation have engaged. 1t IS locked
upon as a purely personal controversy
between employer and employee. with the
merits or dement's of which the general
public has no reason to concern itself.
The United States Steel corporation
has virtually a monopoly of the steel
and tin manufacture of the country. The
Amalgamated Steel Workers are en-
deavoring to secure a monopoly of the
supply Of skilled labor in that industry.
That the former is unwilling that the
latter should share with it the privilege
of monopoly is a matter of interest en-
tirely to the parties concerned. The
public has as little attachment for the
one set as for the other realizing, as
most thoughtful men do, that the crea-
ton Of the monopoly in labor will not
release consumers from any form of ex-
action which is now being practiced on
them, but may result in making those
exactions still more onerous.
We are told that the contest is about
to end The end will be achieved, it is
said, through a compromise equally ac-
ceptable to the parties concerned. 1t is
hard, however to understand how any
compromise can be agreed en- short of the
defeat of either Of the opposing forces.
If the United States Steel corporation
is able to conduct its mills free from the
dictation Of the Amalgamated society,
and the mills of that concern continue to
be operated in any measure by those
who are not in their ranks, the compro-
mise effected will be a defeat of tho
strikers. If on the other hand the steel
corporation removes its non-nion en-
ployes or forces them to join the Anal
gamated body in every instance, in or
der to hold their positions, the victory
viii certainly be with the men.
How any compromise is poss 1ble on
such an issue as this no intelligent man
can pretend to understand. 1t may be
that President Shaffer can satisfy his fol-
lowers that some gain had been made on
behalf of the men or of organized labor
by maintaining the existing conditions
for so long. and without having achieved
the original object sought, which is the
enforced unionization of all the mills
owned and operated by the steel corpora
ton; but the general public cannot read
lily be deceived. Whatever end is reach
ed win be one as the Glob has al
ready minated, which will have bear
ing only on the private interests invo!v-
ed, either in favor of one side or the
other
1t is to the general interest that this
apparently senseless contest now in prog
ress between the two Industrial organiza-
lions should come to an end. If the
steel and tin operatives of the United
States are to avoid the discredit cast on
their brethren in Great Britain. of hav-
ing handicapped their employers so as to
cause them to lose in the race for in
dustrial supremacy, they will have some
more definite understanding than they
now seem to have as to what conditions
of employment are needful to their own
prosperity and success.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30
OF CIAL INTERES T

Invitations have been issued by Mrs.
Haldor Sneve for dancing party to be
given Thursday evening at the Stickney
of Miss 1Shauck of Columbus, Ohio.
Judge and Mrs. Shauck and their daugh-
ter are the guests Of DR.. and Mrs.
Sneve.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Maybelle Cumming, of Sioux Falls, to
Truman S. White Jr::. of this city.
A company of twelve Minneapolis
young women was entertained at
luncheon Saturday by Miss Marshall, of
Goodrich avenue. Miss Grant assisted
the hostess.
Miss Married. Wilson entertained a com
pany of twelve at luncheon Saturday at
her home on IgIehart street, in honor of
MISS Cook of Hudson, and Miss Wilson,
of Minneapolis.
The engagement is announced Nof Miss
Amonde Harriet zahm, daughter of Mrs
b. F. Zahm, to John Mckee Heffner. The
wedding will occur Aug. q
The Universahst church will have a
new pastor Sept. l, Rev. H. B. Taylor
call to the pulpit. Rev. A. n. Alcott, of
Minneapolis, has been conducting servi-
ces at the Church Of the Redeemer for
several years.
The Home and Foreign Missionary
Society of the Clinton Avenue Methodist
Church will give a picnic Friday after
noon at Como park. The members of
the society will entertain their husbands
at o'clock supper to be served in the
pavilion.
Miss Louise Obenauer is entertaining
her mother, Mrs. Obenauer, from the
South They have taken the Stedman
house on Portland avenue for the sum-
mer.
Mrs. Haldor Sneve, of Summit avenue,
will have as her guest this summer Mrs.
F. D. Banning and children, of st. Louis,
Mo
Diamond Lodge No. Is. Daughters of
Honor will give a lawn social at the
home of Mrs. Fred Smith, SO West Fill
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30
AT THE THEATERs.

The CriterionI Stock company at the
Metropolitan has scored another big sue
cess in THE Two Orphans" with May
Buckley in the leading role of Louise.
the blind girl. 1.-THE Two Orphans" will
be the bin for the entire week, with the
usual matinees tomorrow and Saturday
afternoons. Wednesday matinee will be
a souvenir performance, and each lady
in the audience will be presented with
an autographed picture of Miss Buckley.
This evening, as a compliment to the
G. A R. posts of the two cities, the Min
nesota State band will give a concert OF
patriotic numbers. The programme:
March-''HaiI to the Spirit of
Liberty" Sousa
Overture-''CoIumbian 49,. .WeoIf
Baritone Solo-"Old Folks at
Mediey-'+War Songs of the Boys
In Blue" .......................L aurendeau
Grand Naval Potpourri. .................H Hall
Patrol 1.-The Blue and Gray ..... Dalbey
Home, Sweet Home" .Nehl
March-''The Eagle of Freedom" Selling
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

more or less worthless. surface OF the
earth? 1t would seem so. On the face
of it, the thirst for dirt is as intense
as the thirst for gold. But the people
congregated at FL Reno cont want this
land. Not one in ten who are success
full will keep his holdings two years.
What is it then that takes them to that
region and keeps them in line? Excite
ment and the novelty Of the position. The
hope of getting something for nothing.
1t is the same consideration that keers
dozens of women in line before a store
that has offered to sell, at certain
early hour, a few articles at a reduced
rate, to a limited number of the first
corners.
The fact that the government has de-
MED these lands to the settler has fired
his imagination. He has pictured these
reservations as land literally flowing with
milk and honey 1t is the ideal spot on
earth, because it has been forbidden. The
government has been keeping it's children
from these jam preserves until their
mouths water for just a taste of that
had been open to anyone who desired to
go in and take possession of that god
forsaken country, no one would have
thought of leaving his happy home for
such a place.
Old Missouri, Arkansas and bleeding.
grasshoppery and droughty Kansas all
have finer lands than these of the Kiowa-
Comanche reservations, still unoccupied.
Minnesota and Wisconsin have thousands
of acres of land far superior for home
purposes to the best offered by the gov
eminent in this great lottery and yet you
cannot drive the would-be settlers upon
them-they have been too freely offered.
What will the 1872 OC0 disappointed home
seekers, now waiting in FL Reno, do when
they learn their fate? They have no
money and nothing to do The Gil o c
has heretofore called attention to the
reservation at this time of the year,
time when no crop can be raised for the
coming winter. This is not the first
time this self-same blunder has been
made. Oklahoma was opened in the lat
ter part of May, too late to put in a crop
for that season. The result was much
suffering among those without money,
and that class was in the majority. What
will become of the $4,000 who do not get
allotments? This is bound to become a
serious question. 1t rs possible that the
surrounding country will be able to alb.
sorb them, and keep them alive, but the
drought in the Southwest has, no DOUBT,
discouraged many who would gladly como
North, where the grass is green, at least
through the summer months. 1t might
be worth the attention of the railroads
and the state immigration authorities of
Wisconsin and Minnesota, who are inter-
ested in settling our vacant lands, to
offer some relief to those who show evil.
dences of thrift. Those who are willing
to work could be Of use in the harvest
fields Of the Dakotas and Minnesota. The
thirst for dirt can be slaked. and pros
porous homes built in the beautiful lake
regions of Northern Minnesota and Wis
consin. One hundred and f1fty-two thou-
sand immigrants, eager for land, is
bunch worth going after.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30
INTERESTING CABLE MESSAGES.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The anxious seat is just now rather a
full bench. Several hundred young men
yes, several Observation-Disclosures the
country are waiting in fear and trembling
the result of the college examinations. 1t
seems almost universal that no matter
how uniformly high a young man may
have stood in his preparatory school
classes, he must pass through this period
of anxiety. Last year at this time a
certain well-brought-up young man took
his final examinations for Harvard.
Though secure in his belief as to the
result, his father shared, to certain
extent, this anxiety and, having arrang-
ed to go abroad, insisted that cable
should be sent him as soon as the re-
suit was known. To save cable tolls it
was arranged that a single word should
be sent; yes" if the applicant passed
and mo" if he had failed
Arriving in London paterfamilias be-
came engrossed in businessman other
matters and promptly forgot this ar
rangement, so that he was sorely puzzled
when in due course of time a cablegram
somewhat as follows was handed to
him:
Henbrow, London:
Yes. Henry Brown Jr.
NOW Wllat ulu tHdL yes mean! II was
not code, word and it was not in an
swer to a cabled or written query. Hence
came the necessity of finding out, and
promptly there went back the following
cable:
Henbrow, Cambridge:
Yes. What? Henry Brown.
And with equal promptness came back
the dutifulVanswet:
HAnhrov london.
Yes, sir! Henry Brown Jr.
When this whole circumstance had been
ventilated the story was told in a Lon
don club, ind another American gentle
man present recalled little cabling
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

North Dakota is either down in the
cellar or up in the garnet. Just as the
pious were giving thanks for the many
blessings showered upon them. and when
the miser had figured up his profits from
his immense wheat yield, along comes a
forty-hve- mfle-a-minute storm which
blows things towel, the ground, and
dashed the hopes of the flickertails. We
will hold our breath until the next in
stallment comes along.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30
RAINS ARE WIDESPREAD
SOUTHWESTERN DROUGHT A THING
OF THE PAST.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-Oficial adj
vices to the weather bureau are conf1rma-
tive of the press reports of the prevalence
of rains over the corn belt since last
night, with cooler weather than yester-
day. During the past twenty-four hours
rain has fallen very generally over that
section, with some few exceptions, no
tably Southern Ohio, Kentucky and
Southwestern Nebraska. While not very
heavy in amount, the rains are described
officially as pretty fair for summer time
At Kansas City there was over an inch
of precipitation; from a quarter to al
most two inches in various parts of Iowa.
in Nebraska the rainfall was fair; in
Eastern and Northern Oklahoma There
were some showers, and in Missouri they
were pretty fair. Showers are predicted
for tomorrow east of the Mississippi river
and fair weather west. Temperatures in
the corn belt We're generally above 30
degrees. but in some localities they did
not get so high, and were not above IS
degrees except in some few localities. For
the next day or two temperatures will
be reasonably moderate, as compared
with those of the past heated period.
In many sections of the Middle Atlantic
states there have been high temperatures
today, but in Northern New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and New York they were re-
duced today as a result Of showers In
Washington the weather has been exceed
ingly oppressive today, the thermometer
registering maximum of 81 degrees, with
an unusual degree of humidity in the
atmosphere.
TOPEKA, Kan, July 29.-Tn the place
of dry weather reports, ruined crops and
hot winds in Kansas, now comes news of
copious rains, -unfordable streams and a
restoration of confidence.
Most of the rains have come to the
eastern and central parts of the state
but tonight the reports from the west
show the rain has extended clear through
to the Colorado line.
PHOENIX, Ariz., July 29.-With the
past twenty-four hours very heavy rain
storms have covered all Central and
Southern Arizona and extended down into
Mexico. In some parts of the Salt river
valley the storm assumed extraordinary
proportions, and in the western part a
very large amount of water fell. At
Glendale the wind partially wrecked sew
eral buildings. In the extreme southern
portions rain has caused destruction Of
several miles of track on the New Mexico
& Arizona and the Arizona & Southeast
tern roads, and some delay has been
caused on the Southern Pacific. The dam
age will be offset by the greet good which
the rains will do to agricultural ana
stock regions and to forests in the noun
tains, where fires have been creating
havoc.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

"Our Commerce to Southwark" is the
euphonious caption of an article in
contemporary. We learn from reading
the statistics therein contained that the
article has Something to do with our
South American trade.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

Fhe engineers are completely at sea, ow-
ing to the fact that it is positively
known that Teddy Roosevelt has not
crossed the bridge fer a month.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

Sampson evidently forgot his letter re-
questing Schley to remain at Cienfuegos.
That will not feaze Sampson little bit.
He will just say Schley forged the let
ter and that will settle It,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

The Rev. Newell Dwight Hills has
been forbidden to cross Brooklyn bridge
unless 1t is deserted by other passen-
gers. The bridge cannot stand the aw-
full weight of the Hills brain.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

Chile has fatty refused to come into
the Pan-American congress unless she
can have her own way Is it not about
time to give that little Spanish imp the
marble heart?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

Long has given the Sampson rooters
the tip to lie low until Sampson goes to
bat. If he makes hit then whoop- er-up-
to-beat-heH.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

Notwithstanding the partial failure Of
the corn crop it will be double the value
of any other crop in this country.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

scarcity of ministers Of the gospel
is rumored. Can it be that some fe..
low on the Chicago Board of Trade has
run a corner on that commodity? There
is one way out of the dilemma, if it is
an actual shortage and not a corner.
The remedy is the church trust.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

George KEENAN, has been ordered ont
OF Russia. He will feel this to be
doubly humiliating owing to the fact the
Beveridge seems to be in close social re-
iations with the car. How could the
car from that fair mountain stray to
feed and batten on this moor?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

1t is said by the Republicans that Rep
resentative Babcock is taking water
This is strange, very strange! Last win
ter the same Republicans averred that
he had stopped over. Can it be that
he is taking water in order to get full
that he may slop over again next win
ter. He ought to be pumped when he
gets home.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30

The cause of the breaking of the sup
porting bands of the Brooklyn bridge still
remains mystery. The theory that
the accident was owing to expansion