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

commercial men in the jewelry line, he
refuses to accept it unless the owner
signs an agreement releasing the com
pany from damage beyond the stipulated
sum of $50.
During the summer season the baggage
OF many st. Paul people going to their
warm weather homes frequently contains
such artincles as canned fruit put up in
glass jars and the like. For the break
age of such fragile articles and the re-
sulting damage to other articles in the
trunk or package, the railroad company
does not assume the responsibility. If
the owner notifies the agent in advance
that his baggage contains such articles,
the latter refuses to accept it unless a
release from any damages resulting from
breakage is given; if the agent is not no.
titled the owner assumes the responsible
ity. and must stand the loss in either
case.
The baggage department IS Of great
service to local detectives in tracing Grim
mails and fugitives. Runaway women and
eloping couples are frequently appre-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30
Wife Baked Alive.

TWO criminal cases are agitating Paris.
The first is the discovery of a Jack
the Ripper named Henri Vidal, ar ed
rcated man, who has been making a prac-
tice of robbing demimondaines and kill
ing them. He has already confessed to
five murders, and a number of others are
laid to him.
The other case is that OF baker. who.
in order to punish his wifes unfaithful-
ness, forced her into a bread oven and
Slowly baked her to death Then he wrote
a confession. closing thus:
Il would have loved to bake my rival
together with Mary. but she felt my
suspicious and warned him. He is a shoe
maker. May all honest folk shun the
betrayers shop. May the devil get his
soul when he dies. Mary will be found
In the oven. / took off her jewelry and
placed it in the cash drawer counter Of
her nieces."
After taking this sealed note TO the DO
lice, the baker went home and hanged
himself.-New York World.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30
How Baggage is Handled
= at the Union Depot.

Between four and five hundred pieces Of
baggage are handled daily at the union
depot in ST Paul. To accomplish this
work and keep track of all the different
pieces requires an elaborate system, and
the business has been reduced almost to
a fine art.
Just at present, when the hom eseeker
rush is on and people are travelling a
great deal, and, later, during the sum-
mer months. the business Is the heaviest
and many days it surpasses the figures
mentioned above. In it's various aspects
the business of caring for baggage is an
important branch of railroading, and it
may be interesting to the outsider to
learn something of the method employed.
Few st. Paul people have any idea of
the complicated system which makes it
possible for them to check trunks at
their residence and be sure that on
their arrival at their destination whether
it be Winnipeg or st. Louis their baggage
will be awaiting them either in the rail-
way station or at their hotel if they so
elect in advance. Once their baggage is
checked and they hold the receipt of the
railway company for the same, travellers
dismiss all concern regarding 1t from
their minds, for experience has made
them confident that barring accidents, 1t
will be delivered 10 them at their destina-
ton in as good shape as when the trip
was Eegun.
In oder to make sush results possible
there is in the employ of railroads a vast
army Of trained baggage handlers, and
elaborate systems of checking are in use.
Tabs are kept on every piece of bag
gage from the time it sets out on its
journey till it reaches the objective point,
in the shape of records which every new
set of men that handles it is obliged to
keep In this way if a trunk goes astray,
as it occasionally will, it is possible to
trace it with 81 eat dispatch.
No More Smashing.
In handling baggage the utmost care is
used in order that the contents may not
be injured or the exterior damaged.
There is no more baggage smashing as
formerly, when trunks were recklessly
dumped from the trains to the platform
without regard to the frailty of the
piece of baggage or the feelings of the
owner who might be looking on. Travel
ing cases and smaller pieces Of baggage
are no longer thrown about like a foot
ball, but are carefully transferred from
truck to train and from train to truck.
A great aid to the employees in hand
ling baggage carefully is what is known
as the feather bed This is a large
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30
d UCKING AN IN
= DIAN GAMBLER

There may be citizens in Deadwood
who remember Buck Joseph" said the
man with the taper fingers as he per-
mitted a smile to Turk for moment
around the corners Of mis- mouth. .Btck
was full -blooded Sioux Indian but he
had learned a thing or two in his time
one OF EN- was how TO play poker, and
another was how to hold the best hand
He was early on the ground at Dsadwo9d
ana he was winner from the start
mere were some pretty slick gamblers
hanging out there in the old days. They
peneved a good deal in luck, but a good
ueal more IN lingering the cards None
Oh them had Buck JoseDhfs sInfght M
nand, however They tried him on time
known to the profession, but he was sin
anead of the game. As a last resort
they sent over to Abillue. Kan for me
m not going to say what / was doing
over there, but the boys who know me
pest were ready TO bet two TO one that
l doWned Buck at mis- own game.
When / reached DeadwoOd" cOntin-
ued the narrator, Il had $500 cash with
me. Old LO came up smiling with an
equal amount, and We sat down for an
alI-Gay tea party. ] started out as square
as dot depending on luck alone. and i
had lost $500 before l made a change.
Then l went in fer nothing less tsau
hushes, and inside Of an hour gOt INV
money back Buck knew I was beating
nm at his own game, ad he laid for me
On one OF his deals he got four aces
and knew 1t. l got king. queen and
jack Of diamonds. ana it was $5J III come
i drew a long breath and caipped. and
drew two cards to his one. NV hearf
thumped as | found a ten and nine ot d1a-
monds i'm my haud-a straight flash Or
course Buck knew there was only one
hand higher than his, and he came Tor
me vita bets Of 500. He had frt-lds to-
borrow from, and So had /. and iS,rr ta
finally called me we had $1,000 in cash Oa
the table, and he had three ponies. two
sql%s.'s and five papooses up against my
TO yell when l showed my hand. Ills
| yell died away, and he sat there like ii
stone man for five long minutes Then
| ne slowly rose up, gathered his blanket
around him. and as ne walked oilt Nh the
place he said:
" 'Humph! Heap smart white man
heap ass Injun! -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30
IGHTERS -
: Of The rontier
Expert Feats
Of Arms by
Wild Bill and
Buffalo Bill.

back and he fell dead The pony which
the chief had given him made some Wild
plunges and galloped back to camp, max
ing circuit and arriving before the
three Indians did. When it gaIloped into
camp there was great time The chief
said that his son had killed his best
TREND and ordered that when the three
returned they would be put under guard
unul morning. Black Kettle at first de-
clded to Kill all three of them, but thought
better OF it and reduced them to the rank
OF squaws, not permitting them to carry
weapon of any kind. Years afterward
when Custer wiped out the band these
three Indians were still squaws.
McGlnIlis got the soldiers and went in
pursuit of the Indians that had killed
Buffalo BIZ: They intended to bury his
body also, but found nothing but unrecog
nizable bones, the coyotes having eaten
the flesh The Indians were pursued and
defeated in a fight, a large number be-
ing Killed. When the fight began the
German woman ran screaming. She was
shot to death, several bullets striking her
Miss Taylor had judgment enough 10 lie
down In gully and was unframed She
was sent back to her friends by the SOL
diers. Denver Times
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30
When wit Meets wit.

Mr.. John Kendrick Bangs is the proud
possessor of three young sons, the eldest
of whom bids fair to rival his famous
father in wit. The other day Mr. Bangs
took the three boys out for a long tramp,
miscalculated the distance and found he
was firing the youngsters out though not
one of them would confess it. At this
moment they came to a pretty difficult
hill. 1t occurred to Mr.. Bangs to tighten
the boys labors by stirring their magma
tons. so he pretended the hill was San
Juan, and they were to charge up to the
top. All went well till the eldest boy
stopped in the middle of the rush to
blow his nose.
What's this?" said Mr.. Bangs. "A
soldier stopping during charge to blow
his nose? Nice soldier you'd make. Why
ySoud be disgraced forever for thing
"I should think" replied the imperturb-
able youngster, that it would be easy
enough to take your handkerchief and
wipe out the disgrace"
Mr.. Bangs continued his part of the
charge in meek silence.
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day and night shifts, and each man
knows what trains he has to meet and
what work is expected of him, and does
II quietly and systematically. So rapidly
is baggage loaded and unloaded from
truck to car and from car to truck that
seldom, if ever, is train obliged to wait
beyond the time of its scheduled stop on
account of incompletion of the work.
AS fast as baggage designed for ST.
Paul is unloaded from an incoming train,
a record of 1t is made, and later on the
check of each piece is stamped the time
of its arrival. If not claimed imme-
diately it is unloaded from the truck
and stacked up in the northeast corner
of the baggage room in sections which
are designated from to 8 inclusive, by
figures painted on the wall. The section
in which a certain piece of baggage shall
go Is determined by the last figure of
the check number. For example if the
check number is g. 43S. the trunk will go
in section No. g. BY this system the
baggage men know exactly where to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30

Of baggage for transmission free, any
excess of this weight being charged for
at schedule rates. On overweight bag
gage excess checks are placed, local or
foreign, as determined by whether the
piece of baggage is to go over one or
several. lines. If the amount due IS paid
in advance blue excess check is given,
but If it is sent G. o. D., a red check is
issued. Commercial men and theatrical
companies are the most fruitful sources
of excess baggage, and the revenue de-
rived from them amounts to a large sum
in the course of year.
Each station on the different lines has
It's own series of checks, the numbers on
them indicating to the experienced bag
gage handlers the place from which they
were issued. For instance, the series of
checks numbering from 60,OO1 to So, 999
may be assigned to st. Paul, and every
other station on the line is notified OF
this fact. In this way, although local
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30
OLD SAWS RESET.

In the April Era, l.. de " MattheRman
continues his surgical operation On com
monty accepted saws:
Put the shoulder TO the wheel" If
you cannot get some TOOL to do il for
you.
There's many slip 'twixt" the cradle
and the grave.
SILENCE answers much but in Il lam
guage not generally understood.
Everyone of us getteth his desert
somehow, sOmewhen, somewhere. rut
how, when, or where. GOD alone knows
Wisdom is a defense" lack of it Of
fensive.
"a fool and his monez- are soon part
ed" when the fool has friends.
Everyone should sweep before mis- own
door" IL he cannot get someone else to
do it for him.
A friend in need is bore indeed.
proverbs are the wisdom Of the ages"
frequently the wisdom of the Dark
Ages.
''The next best thing to being witty
is to be able to quote anothers VIII as il
It were ones own.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30
How to Collect hooks

Concerning book collecting. John Rurns
writes in the Era:
There are many different kinds of book
collecting, and you cannot pursue them
all with any degree of success But al
though you cannot be all kinds of a book
hunter at once, you can be all of them
one at a time and enjoy it immensely,
providing you are really in earnest for
the time being in regard to the partic-
ular hobby you select.
Fir inStance-if you make up your
mind on Monday morning to steadfastly
collect nothing but first editions of Amer
lean authors, you can spend several very
delightful hours Monday afternoon polk
ing about old book shops, looking for
early Impressions of Hawthorne Holmes
and Whittier. The sooner you proceed
TO poke, after you have made up your
mind, the keener will be the enjoyment
Then on Tuesday it may occur to you
that the old English dramatists would be
an interesting speciality, and if the OPP
portunlty is at hand you will spend con-
siderable money and enjoy yourself ire
mendously.
Assuming that you are sufficiently
versatile, you will have gone IN for steel
engraVingS on Wednesday, and before the
end of the week you will be taking note
cnly Of title pages and margins.
of course the days of the week are
used here in a 1gurative senSe-just as
they are so we are told-in the book of
Genesis Equally, of course, a man could
not be all kinds of a book collector III
six days. That would ruin him mentally
and 1inancially-be burning the candle ct
both ends with vengeance--and there
are more distinct varieties of book
Cranks than there are days in a year
not tc say week.
But whatever special form OF the book
hunters maiady you may happen to
have, you will enjoy it to its uttermost
as long as the fever lasts-as long as
you are in earnest about it. There is
nothing extraordinary in this. 1t applies
to all pleasure giving pursuits
If there is any conclusion to be deduc-
ed from this somewhat rambling perora-
ton it is briefly this: Let your own fan
cy dictate in Your choice of books-"to
your own self be true" Show me your
show me your books and l will tell Won
more about yourself.
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look for trunks when their owners come
to claim them, and do not have to handle
the whole bunch over in search of the
cnes desired.
Unclaimed baggage can remain in the
station for twenty-four hours after it's
receipt without charge, after the ex-
piration of which a storage fee is ex-
acted If baggage remains unclaimed
for sixty days the rule is to forward it
to the general headquarters of the bag
gage department, where the owner can
claim it by paying the accrued fees. After
being kept there for a stipulated length
of time, if still unclaimed, the baggage
is auctioned off after ample notice has
been given.
Economy in Handling.
The handling of-local baggage received
for transmission to out of town places is
done with neatness and dispatch. When
eartman or transfers company delivers
-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30

cushion covered with heavy canvas and
it is used in the baggage room in unload
ing trunks and other heavy pieces from
trucks. Placed on the floor by the side
of the truck, trunks are ended on it
without receiving any injury. At the
union depot the feather bed" is ex-
| tensively used only in the summer months
when business is lively. In the winter
wnen there is less baggage to be handled,
two men are assigned to unload each
truck and as there is more time the
trunks are lifted off and carefully placed
on the floor.
Some of the modern trunks are massive
affairs and when they are full it is no
''cinch' to juggle them about. Two hun
.dred and fifty pounds in weight is ''the
limit" however, and when a trunk or
piece of baggage exceeds this the men
are not required by the company to han
die it.
In transferring baggage from the sta
ton to the train and vice versa, it is a
standing rule that it must be "trucked''
and not rolled.
Perfect Checking System.
Improvement in the system of check
ing in the past few years has practically
revolutionized it and greatly lessened the
possibility of baggage being lost or gong
astray. The old brass checks are a thing
| of the past and their places taken by
paper checks, which are more convenient
to handle and furnish a more perfect
| record of the journey of the piece of
baggage to which they are attached. In
this connection it is interesting to note
| that the system of paper checks was first
| tried in this city for a month as an ex-
pertinent before it was decided to adopt
| 1t. So we'll pleased were the railway Of
| hclalS with the good results obtained by
| the use of paper checks that they decid-
ed to use them and now the system is in
| almost general use
In the paper check system there are a
! number of varieties used to cover all
| possible conditions in handling baggage.
| the two i'll most general use being the
| local check which is placed on baggage
| to be transferred between stations on the
same line, and the foreign check, which
| is brought into requisition when it is de-
sired to send baggage over two different
railway systems
Each passenger Is allowed $50 pounds
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30

a trunk to the station, it is weighed and
loaded on a truck by the porters or bag
gage handlers and checked and record
made Of it by the checkers. 1t is not re-
moved from the truck until placed on
board the train. In this way the baggage
is only handled twice, great sa wing in
time and labor.
In checking baggage the railway COM
pany only assumes responsibility for
damages in the sum Of $150 If passen-
gers have something in their trunks or
cases besides ordinary baggage they must
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30

Experience convinces, See for your
self how quickly tEly's Cream Balm will
cure catarrh or cold In the head. We mail
gists.
ELY BROS. Sc Warren St, New York.
Clifton. Arizona Jan. 20, 1889.
Messrs. Ely Bros.-Find enclosed so
Cream Balm. I find your remedy the
quickest and most permanent cure for
cold in the head, catarrh, etc. Yours
truly, DELE M. POTTER,
Gen. Mgr. Arizona Gold Mining Co.
Messrs. Ely Bros.-zAfter giving your
Cream Balm trial can truly say feel
very much benefited by its use and shall
continue to use it by purchasing from our
Lexington. Ky.
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F. RI

In using medicine to stop pain we
should avoid such as infiict injury on the
system. Opium, Morphine, Chloroform,
destroying the sense of perception, the
patient losing the power of feeling This
is most destructive practice; it masks
the symptoms, shuts up, and instead Of
removing trouble breaks down the stom-
ach, liver and bowels, and, If continued
for, length of time, kills the nerves
and produces local or general paralysis.
There is no necessity for using these
uncertain agents when a positive remedy
like RAILWAYS READY RELIEF will
stop the most excruciating pain quicker,
without entailing the least danger, in
either infant or adult
It instantly stops the most exeruciating
pains, allays Inflammation and cures con-
gestions, whether of the Lungs Stomach,
Bowels or other glands of mucous mem
hv-oy,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30

checks are not inscribed with the name
of the place from which they are issued,
it can be told at a glance at the figures
on it where the baggage came from.
When given series of checks is ex-
hausted the baggage department issues
new series to a station, notice of this
being sent. to all other stations on the
line.
The handling of incoming baggage at
the local station has been reduced to
science, and there is no lost energy or
time wasted. The force is divided into
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30
Paul III. HaVne.

The war stripped Hayne Of all visible
links with the past, all tangible ties with
his Inheritance; his home, his books, his
he1rlOOms of every kind We're swept away
by the devastating tide writes Hamilton
w. Mable in The International Monthly
Out of the universal wreck with which
half the continent to the Mississippi was
strewn, he stepped courageous and reso-
Lutte not to rebuild his shattered fortunes
but to live the life of artist. IIerOiSm
was SO general throughout the South in
those terrible years after the war, when
the epical SplendOr of action had vanished
and left only the bitter realities Of loss
and misery behind, that Haynes cheer
1uI acceptance of narrow means was In
no way exceptional; there was nothing
finer, however, in that universal history
of privation heToically borne, than his
silent renunciation. his cheerful temper,
and his steadfast loyalty. The story Of
those fifteen years at CopSe Hill, over
looking Augusta, and within the circle of
the whispering pines, is one of those high
traditions of the primary of the spirit in
which American history is exceptionally
rich, and which, in the long reach of the
centuries, may be seen to be the finest
contribution made by the earlier Ameri-
can men of letters to higher civilization
on this continent
The seclusion Of Copse Hill bore no such
fruit as did the quiet of Dove Cottage,
Allan Bank, and Rydal Mount, in the en-
chanting atmosphere Of the Eng iSh lakes
where clouds and mountains seem to meet
and part in mysterious and magical COM
INNINGS, but it was every whit as dign-
fed. In the simple house, emboWere6 in
vines, so rudimentary in form and size
that Hayne called it his shanty lie nour-
ished his frail body. and found COM
partnership for his brave spirit in the
shade and the voices of the pines
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30
THE DIFFERENCE.

Had Henley died, his course half rum
Had Henley died and Stevenson
Been left on earth, of him to write,
He would have chosen to indite
His name in generous phrase-or none.
No envious humor, cold and dun,
Had marred the vestare he had spun,
All luminous, to clCthe his knight
Had Henley died!
Ah, well! at rest-poor Stevensoni-
Safe In our hearts his place is won.
There love shall still his love requite:
His faults divinely yelled from sight,
Whose tears had fallen IN BENSON
Had Henley died!
Florence Tarl Coates in April Century.
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, OOKS 0s3o
- AUTHORS
I.anier ana the .scentenniaI ode.v


1t was in the order of things that he
should write the Centennial Ode so
far the only official poetic Interpretation
OF nationality IN the history of the coIn
Try; and the interior and spiritual IN
evitableness of his appearance on thar
occasion IS made clear in the conception
OF his poem, writes Hamilton w. Mdpie
In the International NIonyhly. 1t is the
hymn of the new world and the new
race, in the totality of IT'S experience and
achievements, not in antagDniSm to the
old world, but IN fuldli:nent of the life
Of the race. His skeleton notes Of
single stanza in letter to Bayard Taylor
are significant:
Cavalier and Puritan
Holland
HuguenOt
Wrought. joined hands, welded separate
links into one chain.
Lanier had the depth au1 breadth OF
imagination equal to the fusing of great
ideas; everything he did was Oh a large
scale. He notes in a letter to a friend
the timidity of the verse writer's of the
day; the timidity of the precisian who is
create a work of art; and ne calls atten-
tion to the lapse, by no means occasional,
Of Homer and Shakspere from perfection
of form. From this blightng timidity,
which is the reflex influence of a critical
age on sensitive rather than original
minds Lauier was delivered by the free
dom of great ideas He was not afraid
TO blunder in the vast territory which
opened before him 50 long as he could, by
bold advance, make himself more master
of it's resources.
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assume responsibility for its loss or dam
age beyond the $50 limit.
When the baggage agent is informed
that trunks contain articles of especial
value, as for instance the baggage of