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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30

sistant Superintendent of the department
of public instruction, and Miss e. T.,
Adams of the North Side high school
Minneapolis.
The two days conference will close
Tuesday evening with a concert by the
famous Kneisel quartette. of Boston.
From a musical standpoint the season
of 1901-1902 has been an interesting one
and, on the wholed satisfactory one in
st. Paul. We have not had grand opera,
to be sure, but there have been some fine
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advocating a shorter tunnel at a
higher altitude. 1t is obvious that a
tunnel at high altitude involves steep
approaches, and the lesson taught by
the three Al pine tunnels already con-
structed is that the cost of the haulage
of trains up steep gradients nuIlifies
the initial saving effected by making
the perforation as short as possible.
The Mont Gents, the ST. Gothard nd
the Arlberg tunnels attain great
heights, and their approaches are no.
torious for their severe gradients.
For example, the Mont Gents has a
maximum altitude of 4,248 feet above
sea level, and the gradient on the
Italian side is ! in 80 and that on the
French side / in 40; the Arlberg
climbs up to 1900 feet, and has bad
banks at the eastern end, which Sc
riousIy interfere with the ventilation
of the tunnel as well, when the wind is
in that quarter; while the ST. Gothard
reaches it's summit at an altitude of
3,788 feet, and its steep approaches on
either side involved the construction
of 50 short helical tunnels, with an ag-
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QUEEN IS NEAR DEATH.
Young WiIheImina of Holland Has
Relapse and Is in Grave
Condition.

The Hague, May Sit was an
nounced from Castle Loo at midnight
that Queen Wilhelmina bad been pre-
maturely confined at six o'clock Sum
day evening. Prof. Rosenstein, DR..
Roessingh and the other doctors were
in attendance. The queen suffered
intense agony. At II o'clock Sunday
evening the condition of her majesty
was described as critical, and small
hope for her recovery was enter
tanned.
The sudden and unexpected denoue-
ment of the young queens illness was
unexpected here, as up to Saturday
night it was generally believed that
her majesty was completely out of
danger. Her strength, however, had
been completely taken away by her re-
cent attack of typhoid fever, and she
was unable to recover from the shock
incident to her sudden illness of Sun
day evening. The streets of The Hague
are filed with anxious, sorrowing peo-
pie, anxious for bulletin bringing
ray of hope from the castle.
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Rural Delivery Novelty.

Uncle Sans rural delivery has
brought out many peculiar things.
At one point on crossroads in In
diana a number of farmers, in order
to make it convenient to them
selves, as well as the mail carrier,
have rugged up a contrivance which
is decidedly novel. Here 16 farmers
are served, and each has his mail box
mounted on an old wagon wheel,
which has been set on top of post.
The 16 boxes lie around the edge of
the wheel, and when the carrier
comes he simply has to get out of his
wagon and give the wheel turn to
make the boxes which he wants come
before him. It is a miniature post
Office out of Chicago Inter
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MINERS MAY STRIKE.
Conference in New York Results in
Dfsagreeme nt-Order Calling Out
$4,000 Men Expected.

New York, May 5.-Orders to 147, 900
miners in the anthracite coal region
TO 90 on strike are expected on We'd
nesday. Negotiations between the OPP
orators and delegates of the United
Mine Workers have failed absolutely,
and the question will be submitted to
the miners themselves. A meeting will
be held in Scranton Wednesday to con-
slider the matter. President Mitchell,
when asked point blank if there would
be a strike, replied: "The situation
looks very threatening" AS Mr. Mitch
ell is regarded as one of the most con-
servative of labor leaders this remark
is significant. When asked what had
taken place at the conference, Mr..
Mitchell replied that there was little
to tell except that the operators had
refused to grant any concessions what
soever to the men. They would not
agree that wages should be raised,
that the union be recognized, or that
coal should be weighed at the pit
mouth.
Announcement was made Saturday
afternoon that the negotiations had
failed and all hope of further confer
ences had been abandoned. Upon their
return home the delegates who came to
New York at the invitation of the Ma
tional Civic Federation to confer with
the presidents of coal railroads rep
resenting the operators will report to
the district organizations that nothing
has been accomplished, and the whole
question will then be left for the men
to determine at the Scranton conven-
ton.
In addition to the 147.C00 anthracite
coal miners who would be affected by
a striIle. there are about 100000 soft
coal miners. many of whom belong to
the union. and who might be induced
to join the anthracite miners.
Philadelphia, May 5.-Senator Han
ma, in an interview, characterized the
situation in the anthracite coal re-
gion as extremely delicate. and for
that reason said it would be unwise
for him to express an opinion as to
the probable result of the meeting
of the executive committee of the
United Mine Workers for the three
anthracite districts called for next
Wednesday, at Scranton, Pa, by Ma
tional President John Mitchell. Sen
ator Hanna said he was officially no.
titled Sunday by Ralph NJ. Easley, sec
rotary of the National Civic Fedora
ton, of the statement issued Satur-
day night by President Mitchell in
New York He Immediately wired
Mr.. Easley instructing him to refrain
from calling another meeting of the
Cancellation committee, as that pro-
cedure would be useless in view of
the latest developments.
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poverty, and by sheer force of elo-
ouence spurred them to prodigies OF
self-sacrifice, in the end greatly in
creasing their wages and privileges
and aiding to force general education
upon the country parishes. He had
been in America had known Beecher
and a host of others whom | knew.
and when / boldly walked past the
guard at the door of the congress and
engaged him in talk he warmed to the
subject.
We were sitting away back under
the gallery; before [ was fairly
warned the old man was delivering
at me a stump speech, and the con-
gress was thrown into confusion.
don't remember much of what he said.
He told me that in the providence of
God he was enabled to do the work he
had done only because his grand
father, man of unusual force, had
bought in freehold a cottage at Bar
ford, near Shakespeare's town; for
if Arch had not this foothold on the
soil, not parish in England would
have harbored him. Not three farm
laborers in the country owned their
own homes.
cts the passons," he roared, while
the chairman banged with his gavel
for silence, chat are the worst foes
Of progress. From their pulpits they
look out Sunday after Sunday, sleek
clad and full-bellied, and preach the
Gospel of content to men who know
as little as themselves that to half
their fellow Britons content would be
a crime if it were possible"
Neither Arch nor any of the other
leaders, so far as / know, was ire
ligious; on the contrary, most of them
were devout, but / think not one be-
longed to the Church of England.
Many had developed ability for public
speaking by serving as hedgerow
preachers aSter a hard weeks work.
And, to speak of a very different ca
reer, Frank T. Bullen, author of ''The
Cruise of the Cachalot," was trained
in rhetoric in the same stern school.
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dous bass voice issuing from mighty
chest down which flowed a coal-black
beard two feet long.
l don't suppose that Abraham then
dreamed he should ever come TO
America to study industries. But ne
has just done so, and has gone nome
to proclaim to British trades union
ism that the American worklngmen
are right to welcome modern machln-
cry and the utmost rapality of pro-
duction; and that British workmen
must emulate their example If they
do not want to see Britain falling stlll
farther behind.
Abraham is one of the most inter
esting men / ever met. He was
working miner in his youth, like Burt
and Crawford, and to have risen from
that to a seat in parliament is more
of feat than it might be in this
country Members of parliament re-
ceive no salary, and Abraham, Craw-
ford, Joseph Arch, Broadhead, Burt,
Mawdsley and other laboring mems
members since their day, have all been
salaried by the workmen they repre-
sent.
British workingmen may have fallen
behind in the race of production; they
were already falling behind when
made a careful study of their indus
tries now IA years ago; and Abraham
is right in supposing that lack of ma
chinery is largely responsible. But l
have never yet seen finer men than the
representative labor leaders of Eng
land. There was no type" of leader.
Crawford was lean and snappish,
Broadhead and Mawdsley shrewd men
of business, Burt a quiet, mild-man-
nered fellow with a little air of de-
cision. Joseph Arch, the oldest of
them all, was to my mind the great
est.
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FATAL COLLISION.
: wO Killed and Nearly Fifty In
jured in Il Wreck on the Ii.
& o. Railroad.

Connellsville, Pa, May 5.-Two were
killed and 45 injured, three probably
fatally, in bad head-on collision be-
tween an emigrant train and fast
freight near lockwood, on the Con-
nellsville division of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad Sunday. The two trains
dashed towards each other on a
straight stretch of track and this fact
alone averted what would have been
the worst wreck in the history of the
road. The dead are: A. d. Venture
and Nicoli Sakiei, two Italian emf
grants. The fatally injured are: B.
F. Smallwood, newsboy on the emil
grant train, married and lives at Cum
berland, crushed through the body,
hurried to Western Maryland hospital
at Cumberland; Dominica Pedazhoi,
Italian, bruised and crushed through
the body, badly cut about head; w. H.
Hensel, brakeman of this place, has
badly sprained legs from headlong
jump down over the bank into the Cas-
selman river Forty-fve Italian emf
grants. the majority of them men. were
injured, but none of their injuries are
serious.
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teoric rise to affluence through the or
ganization of the steel and wire trust
made him known in the east; then he
came here to do a little polite gam
bling on the street. For the moment
New York was too rapid for him, but
he went abroad, nursed his losses and
soon recovered them by reckless spec
ulation. Gates himself says that Bel
mont called him an unpleasant name
on one occasion and he proposed to
get even.
August Belmont, son of the man who
so long bore that name on the turf and
in the street, is the only one of the
three brothers who pays any attention
to business. Perry and Oliver Fl. p.
Belmont are society butterflies, each
of whom has welded the divorced wife
of a richer man after some little scan
dal. Both have political leanings
which August does not share. 1t is
hardly secret that the younger Au-
gust Belmont is not his fathers equal
as a financier. 1t would be remarkable
if he were.
Tie problem with all great fortunes
is not how man of remarkable
genius is to get one, but how his aver
age witted descendants are to keep it.
OWEN LANGDON
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A soft heart and hard head make
an excellent combination, but hard
heart and soft head-well, that's
Chicago Daily News.
"a $24,00O,000 nickel trust has just
been formed in New Jersey" Say,
they'll be putting the pennies into
a trust next" Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
rs it true that man is as old as
he feels?" asked Highfier. That's
what they say. Why?" Because, if
it is, must be about so this morn
ing."-Chicago Post.
Weary Willie-"I had er soft snap
de odder day, Dusty" Dusty Walk
er-"How wuz dat, Weary?" Weary
Willie-"Got chased by er dog wot
didn't have no eth.'-Chicago Daily
News.
Loafer-'Any chance of job o
work ere, mister?" Foreman-"No.
We're not wanting any more hands
now" Loafer-''Well, the little bit
o. work I'd do wouldn't make no
e!"-Punch.
ring some women nOVellSUS NAVE
great power of diction." Pong-"In
their home life I'll bet they show
still greater power of contradiction
Baltimore Herald.
81 tell you that poet is genius"
GA genius? Why, his stuff is the worst
I ever read" ST know but why do
you call him genius?" Because
he succeeds in selling it."--Philadel-
phia Record.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-@one swallow
does not make spring" Mr.. Grim
sonbeak-"That's ridiculous" Mrs.
C.-"Why is IL ridiculous?" Mr.. c.
Because one swallow does make a
spring. I've seen it spring from one
twig to another" Ohio Journal.
young man. said the solemn
looking stranger, ''do you drink in
toxicating beverages?" "Not with
strangers" said the young man, as
he moved away. Thus it will be seen
that our best intentions sometimes
strike a logical snag. - Baltimore
News.
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NAP sAowINe The SYMPTOM ROAD AND 1uNNEL

gregate length of "a miles. The plan
of the Simplon tunnel, however, has
provided that the track should not
be taken to a greater altitude than
2,31O feet above sea level; the Swiss en-
trance at Brigue being $3.50 feet, and
the Italian one at Iselle 2,07G feet above
sea level.
Commencing at the Brigue entrance,
the tunnel ascends for a distance OF
10000 yards to the summit of 2,31O
feet, the ruling gradient being in con-
sequence the extremely gentle one of
/ in 500. The track is then level for
a distance of SAC yards, after which
it descends for 1000 yards to the
Italian exit; therefore, on the latter
section the ruling gradient is l in
al. Now, the altitude Of the Swiss
entrance is exactly the same as that
of the rail-level at Brigue station, the
present terminus of the Jura-Simp-
lon system, distant 99A miles from
Lausanne; hence, on this side of the
Alps the extension of the line for a
distance of two miles, unimpeded by
hill or river. is an easy matter. On
the Italian side, however, the differ
ence in altitude between the entrance
at Iselle and the present terminus of
the Mediterranean railway at DOmO
D'Ossola, 111s miles distant, amounts
to 1866 feet; and for two-thirds of
the distance the new line has to fol-
low the steep and narrow bed of the
Diveria, and finally, when the valley
becomes too steep for the grade,
plunge into a short series of helical
tunnels in order to fulfill the engi-
neers' ideal that no gradient on the
approaches must exceed 1 III 14O.
Therefore, on the Italian frontier
the works outside are of far more
difficult and expensive character
than they are on the Swiss.
In boring the tunnel itself serious
difficulty had to be taken into con-
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The News Condensed,

Mrs. Ulrich Leger, of Gilmore, while
celebrating her golden wedding an
niversary, was stricken with paraly-
sis and died two hours later.
During heavy rain, hail and cleo
trio storm there was shower OF
wild ducks at Altoona City. A dozen
ducks were picked up near the sta
ton.
Wisconsin will have public build
ings as follows: At Superior, $175,-
600; Baraboo, $4,000; Wausau, $780,
600; Green Bay, $4,000; Fond du
Lac, 100000.
The large haypress and warehouse
of w. N. Killen, of Cato, was de-
stroyed by fire. Grain and hay
valued at $4,000 was burned.
Mabel I. Shaw, aged 20 years, OF
Racine, was instantly killed while
attempting to cross the railroad
tracks.
Five business buildings were de-
stroved and several others damaged
by a fire in Gratiot. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000.
Bones supposed to be those of a
mastodon were found in a gravel pit
of the Milwaukee road at La Crosse.
H. B. NJ. Peacock, one of the lead
ING grain dealers of the state, died
at Beaver Dam, aged go years. lie
owned eight elevators.
The strike in the Tilmany paper
mill at Kaukauna, the biggest tissue
mill in the world, he's been settled
This ends the labor trouble in the
Fox river valley.
Herman Heese, murderer of Hell
moth Bergman, committed suicide by
hanging in the county Jail at Milwau-
kee.
The associated lodges of Sparta,
Viroqua, Cashton and Bangor cele-
brated in Sparta the eighty-third an
niversary of odd fellowship.
The strike at the Winnebago Pa
per company's mill in Neenah has
been settled, and the men have re-
turned to work.
Capt. Robert Z. Bradford, of Chip
pewa Falls, has been notified of his
aDDointment as Indian farmer at the
Tongue River Indian reservation.
Martin Olein, farmer at Marsh
field. paid a fine of S25 and costs for
watering milk which he delivered to
a creamery.
Burton and George Clement. broth
ers, residing in Beloit, have invented
a rifle which they are about to sub
NIT to the army ordnance board.
The two-year-old son OF. Charles
Ericsson died in Marinette and less
than a minute after the death of the
bow another son was born in the fam
lily in an adjoining room.
As William F. Kamp was shoveling
coal dust out of wagon in the Cox
Brothers company yards in Milwau-
kee, he got under the huge coal
hopper and was suffocated by the
dust. He leaves a widow and two
children.
r. Ferguson. of West Superior, be-
lieves he has made valuable dis
covery of copper in township 81,
section 10, on the south range.
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POWERFUL ON BRASS.
Wind Instrument Player Who Blew
Bu1Ses Into the Horn, Large
or Small.

"The most powerful player on brass,
in one way, that [ ever knew" said
veteran bandmaster, according to the
New York Sun, twas a young Bulgari-
an who, years ago, belonged for a short
time to a band that I was leading in
the little town of West Jugby Junction,
Mich.
He was likely young fellow in every
way; presentable personally, intelli-
gent, a good reader of music, very
good performer on the B-fiat cornet,
more than fair on the barytone and
not at all bad on bass horn; and we
counted him a decided acquisition to
the band; but it wasn't long before
we found chat he was too powerful for
us.
''The man next him in the tenor
rank, the front line, of the band was
the first to discover his wonderful pow
er, or rather the wonderful effects of
it. When one day marching along next
to him in the band at the head of pa
rade he suddenly heard the Bulgarian's
cornet GO off the key about half a
note, and looking around toward him
he saw that his cornet was all out
of shape. The Bulgarian had blown
it dubious at a number of points, and
the only wonder was not that the cor
net was off half a note but that the
player could play on it now at all.
"We1l, not to burden you too much
with the details, we tried him then on
a barytone, thinking that on a larger,
heavier instrument like that, one in
which there was more space to fill, to
begin, with, and which was built of
heavier metal, there would be less dan
ger of such results. And we thought,
besides, that with experience he would
come to modify his playing somewhat,
and that he'd be all right sooner or
later for sure.
''But it seems that he was so car
ried away by his own enthusiasm that
he didn't know himself at times just
how powerfully he was blowing; and
so there was no telling really just what
at the end of one weeks practice on
it we found that he had blown a new
BARITONE all out of shape.
"Then we shifted him to the bass
horn; we thought we'd try him on
that anyway, but in one nights playing
he blew our bass horn right out
straight. And then we had to let him
GO.
''When he played with ordinary pow
er he was beautiful player, and we
hated to part with him; we had none
too many such in the old band in those
DAYS, but we couldn't afford to keep
him supplied with instruments.
"Whatever became of him I never
knew. Most likely he never got again
such a chance as he did with us. There
were not many country cornet bands
in those days that would have let him
straighten out more than one instru-
ment. And so I suppose he must have
got discouraged finally in his attempts
to belong to a band and turned to farm
ing or some other occupation, and
very likely now he is dead.
"But I've often thought that if we
had the Bulgarian now in these days
of sensations we wouldn't fire him,
we'd feature him: Great bass horn
solo by Nicholas Stormio, who plays
the great horn out straight as he
plays;' and we'd have made fortune
out of him"
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gloomy pass, however, is said to have
been used as an international thor
oughfare as early as A. ID. 20G, under
Septimius Severus, and to have been
provided with numerous stations and
relays for a primitive posting service;
but this is very doubtful, for one
place, in the VedrO valley below the
village of Simplon, was impracticable
in quite recent times, and a great
amount of blasting must have been
performed in making the high road.
There can be no doubt that it was eX-
tensively used from the thirteenth
century EDWARDS, especially in the fiji
teenth century, when the Swiss were
trying to annex the Val D'Ossola. In
the middle of the seventeenth century
an enterprising Swiss merchant, by
name Kaspar Stockalper, dominated
the trade over it, insuring the safety
Of transit by a guard Of 10 men.
The construction of the splendid
road over the Simplon was decided
upon by Napoleon Immediately after
the battle of Marengo, while the recol-
lection of his own difficult passage of
fresh in his memory. The work was
intrusted to the eminent engineer M.
Ceard, and commenced on the Italian
side in 1900, and on the Swiss in 1901.
For five summers 5000 men were en-
ployed on it, and by the autumn of
1905 Napoleon was able to receive a
satisfactory answer to what had been
his constant query since the COM
mencement of the colossal undertake
ing: lie canon, quand pourra-t-il
passer lie Simplon?"
The project of railway tunnel I'M
der the Simplon first occupied the at
tention of engineers nearly so years
ago. 1t was, indeed, the first route
projected for an Alpine tunnel; but
since the machine drill was not per-
fected until 1861, the scheme, after
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Fear HydrOph obia.

Farmers residing in the towns of
Center and Magnolia, in Rock county,
are expecting an outbreak of hydro
phobia among their dogs, cattle and
sheep, on account of a trip through
these towns of dog suffering with
rabies. He went about ten miles be-
fore he was finally killed. The farm
ers have taken vigorous methods to
suppress the disease, and have killed
IA dogs that were known to have
been bitten. There is more hydro
phobia this spring among cattle,
horses and sheep than has been
known in years.