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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03
4 RE1L CITY SIZING.

One of the utterly unwarranted
sources of municipal expense which have
been maintained apparently without seri-
Gus thought of disturbance for many
years is represented by the enforced pay
memt by the city of interest on different
classes of obligations. These sums, con-
sidered in connection with the costs Of
unnecessary litigation in the past, orig
mating in the demagogic effort of GER
tain city officials to win a reputation for
themselves as reformers, might as well
be thrown away as to have been ex-
pended for the purposes indicated.
One of the first reforms inaugurated
in our local fiscal system was that
which enables the city and the own
ers of property affected to be saved the
assessments for Improvements. City
Treasurer Bremen was prompt to set
about devising a scheme whereby this
could be done under the authority grant
ed in the charter. The result, as set
forth in these columns, ought to be graf
flying to all classes of citizens except
alone those who manage to get such
forms of obligations, public and private
in their hands and make them the
means of extortion.
The payment by the city of a higher
rate of interest than thatrat which its
certificates of Indebtedness are negotiat-
ed represents in all cases, no matter
what the apparent necessity for it may
be, a drain on the city resources the
continuance of which represents criminal
romissness on the part of those officials
under whose direction it is realized, or
to whose official knowledge it must i'm
mediately come when no effort is made
to avoid it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

through two whole days in Chicago he
felt that he did not deserve this
MY friend" he sternly demanded of
the steerer, as he blushed with shame,
will you please tell me honestly what
there is about me that convinced you 1
was one of them?"
The steerer attempted to explain, but
the man from Minneapolis picked up his
bundles and walked with bowed head out
to his train.
Uncle Hiram was making a tour of the
high buildings while waiting for the even
ing train to Shakopee, and his route land
ed him in the middle of the crowd wait
ing for the football bulletins. The bulletins
were slow in coming and small band
of students decided to while away time
with the fayorite rush.
Uncle Hiram was studying the signs in
the window trying to figure out the ex-
element when the first rush started. He
did not see the V until the leader struck
him and then down he went In a heap
With a look of injured innocence he
picked up the bucolic frame and slowly
begn removing the dust signs.
Excuse me-" he said, as he touched
the man standing next to him on the arm
'.but kin yeou tell me what in thunder
alton this is all about?"
why, it's football game, answered
the man.
Uncle Hiram scratched his head and
then looked after the rushing up the
street. WELL" he observed, as he watch
ed three of four others go down before
the rush, Eve heard about them air foot
ball games ter hum. but darn my gallus-
ses If I thought the police would let them
air bloonin' idiots assault plain citizen
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

He was from Minneapolis, but the clos
ing moments of his second day in Chicago
found him still unable to collect on his
accident policy, and he was feeling mighty
high and cocky. He had lodged beer
wagons, trucks and drays for two whole
days, had picked the right car every
time, had paid 10 cents for small beer
In the Great Northern bar, and now hav-
ing found his way back to the Grand Cen
trail depot without tie assistance of a
single policeman, he told himself that
they would have to bring on a town big
ger than Chicago if they intended to start
him in the Rube list
The fall that trails the high and
mighty feeling arrived just a minute
later
He had purchased magazine and had
settled himself down in chair to wait
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03
NOT UNWILLING TO WoRK.

Except when Influenced by a too pien-
tiful supply of firewater the noble red
man Of fiction is not altogether unwilling
to work. But a brief contact with the
forces of civilization taught him to de-
cline arduous toll if his benevolent Uncle
Sam would provide for all his wants
gratis
practical Illustration of the DISPOSE
years ago on the Crow reservation in
Montana. For some time an effort mad
been made TO induce the Indians to go in
for farming on more extensive scale
to grow crops for the market. They
did not take kindly to the idea and lit
tie progress was being made. About that
time the government agreed to dig sew
eral large iTigating bitches on the
reservation with a condition that the
common labor should be performed by
the red men. There was much doubt IN
the minds of many as to the possibility
of getting the required number of labor
ers, for the prevalent belief that the IN
dian was a natural born loafer was
in the vicinity.
Work was begun, however, and the
Indians were paid off in cash every Two
weeks They swar1ned around the super,
vising engineer and overwhelmed nm
with demands for work They did NOT
object to work when the returns were
so prompt, but the long wait for the SELL
attractions.
For some time the Indians on the Crow
reservation ditch insisted on being paid
off in silver The value of paper money
was not understood by them. Gradually.
however, they came to understand 1t,
and then they would take nothing else.
bought large, long red leather pocket
book, of which he was as proud as q
small boy of his first red-top boots.
1t was but a short time until they
learned the security afforded by leaving
their money in the safe with the agent
AT first they would come around ire
quently and demand a look at their
money, in order to convince themselves
that it was safe And the agent had TO
show them the Identical money they mad
left with him; other bills of equal &C.
nomination were not sufficient. In a rev
months they had mastered the whole
subject, however, and they are as expert
in counting money today as their white
neighbors.
They are willing to raise cattle for the
market, for the life is to their liking, and
| they will work at odd jobs when the
| pay is prompt, but their evolution into
contented farmers will be slow.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03
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The Rise and Growth Of Weahh
BY E. BENZ ANDREWS, l. D.
BY E. BENZ. ANDREWS, IL. D.

sequently given way to shiek, nabob or
lnclpient king, this dignity is placed In
power by the will of the most wealthy.
The political condition of affairs thus es-
tablished having endured long, comes 20
De deemed natural in the sense of di-
vinely ordained
With these changes arises the initial
unrest of civilization, accompanied by its
numberless relatively artificial wants.
Won Baer dates civilization from the
tanning of the sheep Manners become
more refined. Mems occupation leads
them to observe natural phenomena.
People are much together. Arts SCI
ences and statelier religious observances
gradually arise.
Many examples of pastoral peoples
could be named-the Hycsos. who invad-
ed Egypt about 2100 B. c.; the Arabians
and the Turks, VINO overran the Eastern
Roman empire. In Arabia and Abys-
sinia the nomadic is still the prevalent
mode of life. So 1t is upon the great
pampas Of South America. But Central
Asia has been the nomads' favorite
home, there where the parents of all the
historic peoples of Europe are supposed
once to have dwelt as shepherds Here,
too, according to the view still most
prevalent, the Hindoos and the Persians
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[ome side
: Remarks

Having stored the lawn mower we must
now begin to hunt the snow shovel. Life
is continual round of pleasure.
With Young Corbett" on the vaude-
vile stage, Schley on the lecture rostrum.
and Nordica and Nevada singing rag
time" what is this great world coming
to?
We have all heard of an INSPIRED pen,'
but it remained for Dentist ST. Clair, of
New York to discover an inspired type
writer" He is founding a new religion
revealed to him through the medium, ne
asserts, of such an instrument. Gle fails
to mention the make.) When he af-
firms that he is not much of an expert
with the typewriter and calls his Bible
"Oahpse' we are willing to believe it
bears the earmarks of the new hand.
Queen Draga obstinateIy refuses to be
divorced by mutual agreement even
though 'she gets her alimony just the
same" and the sum is 14,400 year. The
king might try the Daasch plan of free-
ing himself, which consists of getting
your wife to elope with someone else
while you elope with the someone else's
wife This costs only $1,000, at least that
is all Mr. Daasch paid his wife, and it is
preferable to the Mcknight method 1t
beating her to death. as this is apt to
lead to awkward results for the survivor.
Director Campbell Of the Lick observa-
tory, shakes his head mournfully, and de-
clares he saw no comets on Thanksgiving
Evidently he did not celebrate as enthusi-
astically as the Chicago professors who
did see comets-or was it two comets :?
Director Campbell, though, admits that
he has occasionally, only occasionally,
seen things he calls tailed meteors.'
That is right, Mr.. Campbell; open con-
fession is good for the soul, SO long as
you do not tell your wife.
A man in Philadelphia has evolved an
entirely new and original theory as to
why the young men Of that city do not
attend church. He has written to an
editor there and explains it on the ground
that there are no barber shops open on
Sunday and the Philadelphia young man
does not like to go to church looking
fright This is very ingenious and we
might be prepared to believe it, if the
theorizer viii first prove that the Phil
adelphia youth does not go to see his best
girl on Sunday afternoon and offers the
same excuse.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03
sHortD INSPIRE DEMOCRATS

The decisions of the United States in
the diamond rings and Dooley cases. So
called, are, OF course. in line with the
decisions in the Downes and De Lima
cases, in the PRONUNCIATION of the doc
trine that the constitution does not fol-
low the flag unless congress expressly so
DEGREES
Judge Brown, in the diamond rings
case. commits himself to the doctrine
that the Philippines became domestic
territory on the ratification of the Paris
treaty of peace, and that no duties were
collectible on goods imported into them
from the United States or on goods ex-
ported from them to the United States.
This same doctrine he declared in either
the De Lima or the Downes case. It he
10 b c cannot now say which But in
declaring it he parted company with his
judicial comrades Shiras, Gray, White
and McKenna, who stood with him in
declaring that the flag did not follow
the constitution, and he agreed with his
other associates who had insisted that
the flag did follow the constitution.
Judge Brown is the deciding factor in
all these cases; and his decision in the
diamond rings case coupled with his
0ietum in one of the earlier cases, to
the effect that the insular possessions
became domestic territory after the
treaty of peace is of the most far-reach-
ing Importance. While he goes in an en-
tirely different direction when he de-
clares that congress has the right-as he
declared in one of the Porto Rico cases
Ito pass a law authorizing the levying
of duties on merchandise out of and into
these insuar possessions, he remains
committed, and with him the majority of
the court, to the doctrine that the in
sular possessions became domestic terri
tory when the treaty of peace was rati-
fed, and that congress could by law
make the constitution operative within
them.
The practical effect of all this is: When
we have a Democratic congress to enact
law and Democratic president to ap-
prove It, extending the operation of the
constitution to our ex-sDanish posses
sions, or a sufficient Democratic congress
sionaI majority to pass such law over
the veto Of Republican president, the
cobanfpion Is thereby made to follow
the fag. ard The natives Of those islands
thereby beeenc invested with all the
rights ard i'nmunitles guaranteed TO
American citizens under the bin OF
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03
WEATHER FOR TODAY.

Minnesota and Iowa-snow or rain
Tuesday; Wednesday probably fair and
warmer: northeasterly winds.
Wisconsin-Fair Tuesday and probably
Wednesday, except snow fiurries along
the lake Tuesday; fresh north to north
east winds.
North Dakota-Fair and warmer Tues
day; Wednesday fair; southeasterly
winds.
South Dakota-Snow and colder Tues
day; Wednesday fair and warmer; varia-
bic winds.
Montana Generally fair Tuesday;
Wednesday snow in western, fair in east
ern portion; variable winds.
Upper Internationally fair Tues
day, except snow f1urries along the north
shore; Wednesday fair and warmer; light
variable winds.
St Paul = Yesterdays observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau. ST. Paul, P. F. Lyons, observer. for
the twenty-four hours ended at O'Clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation: Highest temper
ature, 20; lowest temperature, Is; average
temperature, Is; daily range, 5; barome-
ter, 30.1S; humidity, 80; precipitation. Oh
p. M, temperature, 10; p. M, wind
north; weather, cloudy.
YeSterJav'c rTemnerat1IreS--
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

for the train for home. Into the chair
beside him dropped man of the people,
a Iaborer whose hands showed the signs
of honest toll. The laborer hitched his
chair over close to the man from Mime
apolis.
Say" he began, in a hoarse whisper.
The man from Minneapolis lowered his
magazine and turned
Say said the laborer again, Il WIZ
down de stairs jes' now an finds de
sparkler.' Here the laborer paused and
uncovered a beautiful 18-cent Montana
diamond set in brass circle. If youse
wants to buy here's your chance.
1t was an awful blow to the man from
Minneapolis. He would have handed the
bunco steerer 81 bill without single
protest if by so doing he could have
avoided the little incident. After living
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03
BRITAINs PAFIsG TIE pTpER.

The dangerous position which the tory
government occupies on the subject of
the South African war has within the
past forty-eight hours been brought out
with striking force. The Butler demon
stration, attended by the indications Civ
en- of the governments willingness to
consider terms of peace, tends to show
that Mr.. Chamberlain's control on the
pulse of British public sentiment grows
weaker daily,
If there were only an effective opposi-
ton in existence, instead of the present
two or three warning factions into which
that opposition is divided, it would not
be difficult task in the coming session
to secure hostile division on some one or
more of the votes on the several questions
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03
involving the governments attitude in

involving the governments attitude in
South Africa.
Many, have been disposed to look at the
refusal of the Beers to consider terms as
involving national suicide. Indeed, with
the unqualified statement of Lord Sails
bury borne in mind, that England would
not leave in existence even shred OF
the former Boer independence, the main
tenance of the unequal struggle by the
Boer leaders seemed little short of GRIM
inal. But today, as ever in his history,
the pocket nerve is the great sensitive
center of John Bulls national system
The tremendous fall which has taken
place in all forms of British securities,
government as well as Industrial, since
the opening of the Boer war, is showing
results
Yesterdays London quotations showed
British consols selling as low as 901z.
American 2 and per cent registered
bonds sold in the same market at lOS1A,
while American per cent registered
bonds sold at 1897 At the opening of the
South African war-just before the pub
LEGATION of the Bcer ultimatum. this Brit
ish security sold at 1881.
These are desperately suggestive fig
ures. They more than justify the belief
of the Beers that ultimately England
would be glad to see the present par
barous warfare brought to close, ana
the consequent drain on the national re-
sources ended.
According to the London Bankers Mag
! azine. which it may safely be assumed
is not at all disposed to overstate the
| case, there has been net decrease In
| two years of over s143,oo0,ooo in the
value of 925 listed British securities.
The position of the government until
| recently has seemed impregnable. The
| Liberal opposition which revolted against
fectuaIy silenced. Only few more than
| ordinarily daring men like Stead and
/ Labouchere have been willing to take
the responsibility Of being denounced as
traitors, with the result that at least the
Rosebery wing of the opposition has
been long regarded as to all intents an
ally of the government
The developments of the immediate flu
| ture in British politics may safely De
looked forward to with the utmost hope
! fitness by every believer in the Boer ma
tionality.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03
TUESDAY, DEC. 8, 1901.

Another of the poor monomaniacs who
deprived themselves of everything in or
der to acquire wealth died recently at
Kalispell. Now his beloved relatives
whom ne had no use for in life, are com
ing to the front willing to become rich
through the accommodating spirit he
showed in boarding for their advantage.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

Several thousand bills have already
been introduced in the house, thereby
showing how widespread is the profound
conviction that in order to establish that
pass a law declaring it to be SO.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

All baseball players who have played
on any grounds to which an admission
fee is charged or at which gate receipts
are divided will hereafter be excluded
from playing in a college team There
may be some doubt as to just the exact
scope of this rule 1t may safely be as
sumed, however, not to put ban on col
lege society men dividing gate and box
Office receipts among themselves for in
nocent amusements like singing, playing
the banjo and other purely intellectual
ventures during the winter months.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

of the state who was tryin' ter mind
his own business. It's about time we
started legislation, that's what ihain-
tain.
No one explained to Uncle Hiram, and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

That woman who committed suicide be-
cause her name was Damn seems to have
had a good deal more of fear of the
name than of the process. If there is
any virtue in certain religious doctrines
regarding suicides she is having by this
time a somewhat unpleasant experience
of what there is in name.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

Why do church and other religious So
cieties always burn their mortgages when
they get out of debt? Can 1t be because
that is the cheapest way they know of
to indulge in hot time over the event?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

The Belgian Socialists have forced the
chamber of deputies to adjourn indefi-
nitely because that body refused to con-
slider universal suffrage resolution
They, moreover, say that they will H.
definitely prevent any business being done
by that body. The Belgian Socialists
are all right. Any body of men that
commits itself to such a refusal ought
in charity to be prevented from further
showing it's own idiecy.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

rights, and the unconstitutional and I'M
American system of government now
maintained in those countries is brought
to an end.
To this end all Democrats should exert
themselves. 1t involves the success of all
the contentious of the party on this sub
ject. 1t saves the free institutions of the
country from the shame of being further
exhibited before the world as in intent
and spirit an absolute government in the
treatment extended to the residents of
our territorial possessions.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

The reports as to Miss Stone had the
decency formerly to alternate-being one
day that she was dead, and the next that
she was well and happy. But of late
they seem to be without even this saw
ing grace. Yesterday the public was
treated to both descriptions of report by
cable, the one set as positive in declar-
ing her dead as the other was in declar-
ing her alive. If Miss Stone survives
she has strong vital forces.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

Holding a train up for $76 and by due
process of law at that, would be a won
derful performance anywhere outside OF
Oklahoma. But in that land of marvel
Gus achievements the transaction is. of
course, even more than ordinarily tame.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03
TO OUR FRIENrs

Anyone unable to scct.g..
copy of t II G o b G c:s aay
railroad train leaving or en-
tering ST. Paul viii confer u
favor On the management by
reporting the fact to the bus
mess office. Telephone, Main
1865.
Subscribers annoyed by ir-
regular or late delivery of
II IN G L o b Will confer fa-
vOr on the management by re-
porting the fact to the business
OFF,. Telephone, Main 1865.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

that has been offered by the Star this
season, and number of the specialties are
Of more than ordinary merit.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

E-er Lord md Master.
An original play in four acts. BY Mar
tina Morton. Presented at the Metro
politan theater last night for the first
time in st. Paul by Herbert Kelley and
Effie Shannon and a strong supporting
company
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

Arizona" renewed it's very great pop
That city, and entertained a theater full
of enthusiastic people at every perform
ance. In this connection it Is interesting
to note that Kirke La Shelle is about to
complete deal for presenting this typical
American play in London
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

y.
1t is doubtful if e. H. Sothern would
leave New York for months but for the
fact that the attraction booked to follow
Virginia Harmed, in .'Alice of Old Vim
cenres.' Mr.. Sothern has the hit of his
career in IF 1 Were King, but even to
prolong his metropolitan run-which IS
the 1lrst desire of all stars-will not con,
slider the postponement of his wife's steI-
lar debut on Broadway. Reports agree
that Miss Harmed. in alice Of Old Vim
cennes, has scored a gratifying success
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03

Adelaide InuTStOD, one Ol the most
bewitching and popular of the female
stars, is to be seen at the Metropolitan
Thursday In her very successful pay,
Sweet Clover The title, which dilates
the nestrils with the delicious perfume
of the fields suggests the reputation of
purity which the play possesses. The
opening act shows the exterior of the
heroine,s country home in Connecticut, set
mid fields of waving clover blooms of
purplish pink.
The Grand opera house was filed last
night with a. large audience to witness
the performance of "McFadden. Flats"
which is holding forth at that playhouse
the current week This farce has been
seen here a number Of times in the past
All persons interested in matters musical
will remember the great gloom that was
spread over this country and the WORLD
when it was reported that Nine. Nordfca
was mortally ill with typhoid fever in
London during the summer of 1897 She was
Obliged to cancel all engagements, and
among others the state concert at Buck
ingham palace At one time the singer S
life was despaired of, and daily Inquiries
from the queen and all classes caused
the posting of bulletins as to ner condi-
ton A good constitution and indomita5 bic
will aided in the final triumph of life.
Mime. Nordica will appear at the Peoples
church tonight.
Scribners Gay Morning Glories blossom
ed out again before two full houses at the
Star Yesterday, and there seems to be
no danger Of their meeting with a frost
during their stay in st. Paul. The enter
tainment is fully up to the equal Of any