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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04

erty, against $so,OoO,o0o when the last
budget was compiled.
This City Comptroller Betz thinks
should permit a reduction of the tax
levy to 20 mills. Last year the levy
was nearly 81 mills. Another aid in
bringing about the reduction will be the
100000 worth of Improvement bonds
recently authorized by the council In
making up the budget for 1894 there
will be that much less to raise by tax
alton
Last year the amount raised by tax
alton was trifie in excess of $1,000
600. This was for city purposes. This
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04

every available janitor and decorator
under him at work on the rooms, and
they are being put in order as fast as
possible.
including yard men. carpenters and
painters. twenty-eight men care for the
city hall and court house, and all Of
them are kept busy. The corridors are
cieaned twice day, and oftener dur
Ing bad weather. by one crew of men.
while another cares for the offices.
When they are not employed at this.
window cleaning calls fer their time.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04
The finding of a number of availa-

The finding Of number of availa-
bic office rooms by the court house
commission last Friday may result In
their immediate repair and fixing up
Tor occupancy. Most of them have
been used for lumber rooms, and there
mas been no necessity of cleaning
them. The space under the roof never
was hnished, the contractors leaving
it filed with rubbish and mortar
Up to date there has been no call
for this portion of the building. but
now that it offers splendid Chance
for storage purposes, orders will likely
be given to have it put in condition.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04

year an effort will be made to reduce
the amount. but Comptroller Betz does
not think it can be done. Demands for
aid in the shape of appropriations are
being received from every section of
the city and he thinks it will be i'm
possible 10 ignore many of them.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04
ROOMS ARE BEING FIXED
FOR SCHOOL BOARD
City Hall Crew of Janitors, Painters
and Carpenters Get Busy.

When the school board is housed on
the top floor of the city hall it will
have one of the best suites of rooms
IN the city. Custodian Cramsie has
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04
Brakeman Hur. While COUPLING Car,

1919 W'''S (SoP'ig Vars
j. I. IIaniey. a brakeman Of the Rock
Island. residing al 1913 Sixth street south.
Minneapolis, had his right forearm badly
crushed while coupling cars yesterday aft
erneon at iaser Grove. lie suffered great
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04
MAY KEEP TAX LEY
RATE DOWN TO 20 MILLS
Increased Valuation and Bond Issue
Likely toitessen the Burden.

In the spreading of the tax ley for
1904, st. Paul viii have the benefit of
over $s4,000.00O worth of taxable prop
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04
Complete Restaurant,
Fixtures and Furniture
in f;rst-class order for sale in part or whole
Wabdshd Lunch Room,
451-A53 Wahasha 81.

ly nom loss of blood before medical aid
could be secured for him. He was brought
to ST. Paul on train and taken TO ST.
Joseph's hospital in the police ambu-
lance.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04

Innings
You want good Innings, of course.
Not necessarily high priced Innings,
but something you can rely on for
wear and yet good looking. Come
Monday for these under priced lin
ings. New-just in-32-inch fast
black moreen skirting.
Actual regular value, 40c VeBT
yard. Monday, only. @T~
Special lot of silk finished fancy
satin stripe mercerized moreens,
sold previously at 60c
yard. Monday, special, VAT
at observation-disclosures. @@OA
Italian luster cloth, black or colors;
good value at Csc a yard. 20
Special price ............. EOC
Spun glass finish Innings, the best
made, and either black or ~
colors. Special price. ....., klAC
Fast black, soft finish percaline,
very good 15c value. w
Special price ........... GlC
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04

Ihese Jouvin gloves have just been our
later in style than these The button glove now the
this winter
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

geese, chickens, ducks, turkeys
and few goats. But of all the
birds l ever saw, those hospital
canaries are the champion singers.
They commence to sing as soon as
it gets light in the morning and
keep it up until night, and they
often wake up in the night and
MARBLE few notes. Z
GAS for those things they call
singers in the printing Office
we'll, you might as we'll get cou-
pie of yellow chickens and put
them in a cage and call them sing
ing canaries, for they could sing as
we'll as the ones they have now
81 did not have the honor of
meeting the gentleman who called
himself a bird fancier, and who
intimated that the hospital birds
were 'doped,' but I should say that
he finished small bird and bot
tie or two at The MIRRORS expense
before making his decision. I
will wager my months salary that
he was given years subscription
to the paper free of charge.
"For any further recommends
tions we refer you to Sinbad, who
has seen several birds in his day.
G.. [. F."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

A Musical The Balder Chorus,
Service male double quar-
tette composed of residents of
Saltwater and directed by Mr.. G.
@. Peterson, sang two numbers in
the prison chapel during the SER
vices Sunday morning. The Choir
us is composed of good voices, is
we'll trained and sings with pre-
cision and musical intelligence.
The singing was highly appreci-
ated by the congregation.
For the first time since it's Or
ganization, quartette selected
from the band played for the men
to march in and out of the chapel.
This will probably be the regular
thing until the orchestra is COM
petent to play in public.
The services were conducted by
the Rev. Mr.. Schermerhorn of
Minneapolis, who was introduced
by Chaplain Kennedy. All the
inmates of the institution were
present to hear the sermon.
During the services the prison
choir sang the Pilgrims Chorus
from "Tapnhauser."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

Ice Gold It is rather cool bath
Water Bath. ing in the waters of
Lily lake these frosty mornings
but there is one man that does it
and enjoys the plunge. He will
keep it up, too, later in the season,
even when he has to break the ice
to get into the cooling water, says
the Saltwater Gazette.
The man that does this every
morning is we'll known in the city
and is one of the citizens employed
in the shoe factory at the state
prison. His habit of taking q
morning plunge in fresh, cold wa
ter, has been kept up for years,
summer and winter. In winter,
when the rivers and lakes are froz-
en- over solid, he takes his bath in
cold water, either in the woodshed
or wash house of his dwelling.
Years ago this man was afflicted
with rheumatism, the sciatic kind.
For three years he was unable to
work and spent most of the time
in bed, 80 bad was the ailment
He was recommended to try cold
water baths as remedy and COM
piled with the directions. In a
short time he improved greatly and
after a few months persistence
was entirely cured. Since then he
has kept up the bathing, winter
and summer, every day, and now is
a strong, vigorous man. For a
year or two he took his plunges in
the st. Croix. Now he lives near
Lilly lake and takes his baths there
until the lake freezes over. In
cold weather it is merely plunge,
but in warmer weather more time
is spent in the water, but the bath
is not a long one at any time. He
is hearty in commencing this as a
remedy for rheumatism such as be
had and as a means of improving
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

Low Mutterings The following
OF Delirium. communication
from one of the hospital inmates
reached The MIRROR during the
week:
"In regard to an article in last
weeks MIRROR about the canary
birds in the hospital, we wish to
say that our birds still have the
honor of wearing large blue rib
bons on their cages, showing them
to be the champion singers around
this berg. And if those old, cracked
voiced canaries in the printing
Office can outsing our birds, we
will be only too willing to present
them with the ribbons.
'The ribbons were placed on our
cages by the worlds most noted
bird fancier, Mr.. John began, who
has had the honor of awarding
more prizes to singing birds than
any other living man. In discuss
ing the question, Mr.. began said:
"sI have been in the bird bust
ness most of my life and have
studied the habits of every kind
of a bird. I have taken care of
canaries, hooking birds, parrots,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

Movement of Four new pris-
Prison Population. oners uara ra-
ceived and one was returned for
violating his parole during the
week. There were no discharges.
There are 564 inmates of the
prison, of whom 4O1 are in the first
grade; 148 in the second, and fif-
teen in the third.
The last register numberis 1l43.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

The first snow of the season fell
Monday morning. It came dur
ing the course of a drizzling rain
and melted as soon as it touched
the ground.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

The November meeting of the
prison Bible class was held Sun
day afternoon. It was we'll at
tended and several papers pertain
ing to the course of study were
read.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12
LOCAL NEWS.

NOTICE:-An unsigned letter
addressed to Miss Nellie Kennedy,
Minneapolis, is being held in the Of
fee. It will not be mailed until the
writer makes his identity known to
the authorities.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

Binder Irvine collections since
Aug. l have been 1884, 941. It is
estimated that the receipts of the
current year will exceed 100000,
whereas those for the year ending
July 81 last, were $685., 862.53.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

E. 0. T., 1046:-The Chicago
Record-Herald does not publish a
weekly edition.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

The outside walls of the new
dollhouse wings are more than half
way up. If good weather prevails
the roof will be in place by the
first of the year.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

The new engine was started
Monday morning and is now furn-
ishing the power for all the shops.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

At a meeting of the Board of
Pardons held Tuesday, the SEN
tence of F. Fl :, 5585, was commit
ed from seven to five years.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

the general health. He says that
he spent hundreds of dollars on
many remedies without effect but
got the desired relief from cold
water bathing.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

There were only two sick men
in the hospital Tuesday, which is
the smallest number of patients
for many years.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12
KILOGRAMS,
f.. M.

II f. M.
The Tammany organization is a
fox in a tigers clothes.
Writer'S cramp very seldom af-
fects the poets arm; it generally
attacks his stomach.
If we could see ourselves as 9TH
ers see US, probably we wouldn't
look SO often in the glass.
When Butch blows into that big
brass horn be looks like a fellow
that is pulled up about something.
A man doesn't add any strength
to his own character by trying to
pull down and besmirch the good
name of another.
The professional lobbyist wakes
fat on the soft shelled Holsters that
the people send to represent them
in the halls of Congress.
A writer says there is nothing
in Dowieism, but Elijah has proved
that there is at least good living
in it for himself and family.
There is at least one bad habit
most men are addicted to that a
term in prison will cure, and that
is the vulgar habit of eating pie
with knife.
[ have noticed that the fellow
who goes to sleep in church in
variably does so just few seconds
before the man who takes up the
collection starts on his rounds.
Travelling through the country
with an educated pig charging an
admission fee of ten cents is a
great scheme to put little school
children on the hog for their pen
MES.
A Chicago coal dealer has been
sent to, Jail for three months for
giving short weight. This sentence
may serve as an eye opener and
teach him to see the error of his
weighs.
It is hard for a woman who has
gone wrong to bury the past, as
there are so many ghouls of her
own sex who will dig night and
day in an effort to unearth the
corpse.
A Chicago landlady is looking
for a man who claimed to be a
preacher and who jumped the city
owing her three months board.
He evidently belongs to that new
religious sect known as the Holy
Jumpers.
An Englishman says the men
behind the American guns at the
battle of Manila Bay were Eng
lishmen. If that's true It's strange
that John Bull didn't use some of
those expert gunners in South
Africa.
A news item says that an Anoka
man who invented spanking ma
chine was himself the first to ex-
pertinent with it and thatitspanked
him so hard it nearly beat his
brains out. The inventors brain
must be located in a queer part of
his body.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

The occupant of cell 511 wishes
to exchange the San Francisco
Examiner for Butte or Denver
paper.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

Guards McFall and Sullivan are
away on furlough. Guard Powers
returned Sunday.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12
FACTS AND FICTION -
~ FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

garas Murphs the Caaveras
Big crs mind as the two places
and the worst meals The anartihca outdoor
does develop high consideration
woman who travelled all Europe
where had
was wonderfully good, way
talked and thought
pas through the mining belt
as we the meals were tit to eat and where they were not
rudy face clouds By its light Murp looked like
its arcade the same concentrating of light and life
up when our arrival shook them from the angud their
lips feather s hand
There of
have local e It has the
within its borders the air of living prosperous
village When the sponge
set about cutvag its ranches
compact efupportng independent
Not that it marked by particular
ocaon There oetbin ht th ,d y f p@u Oh tae
pawg gives power quickly
and dries brown without spirited up
parched SOIL
country quiece sort of idle
soveny stenes The spirit has invaded
all At intervals another generally nobody
had ambition to Down the length the little
similarly high they get
spiral of issuing from under their
hat brims N0' '-'A
Big This
we did at in the morning greatly the Indignation
insisting the advantages starting nothing
evidently regarded az
They it fifteen miles from Big
road foot deep by
the enormous lumber teams that traverse it. At first beauty
water
half forests with and frs shooting
the of their slaughtered elders;
clothed ascending files of pines pointed tier above pointed tier
notified trunks of the yellow
dreamy whispers to The stretched
quiet the underbrush thin Now then the ink
scattering the dogwood white blossoms light
that dignity of mighty trunk and messy limb
grow elongated woodland among great
and frs that without them
speak low Now and then, sad seake
the extraordinary and mysterious
up earth
eigned about breath ernfn
land knocking the silence
cone fell
zephyr passed above and oan sounds harmonious
followed it.
giants days. says There must have been
Looking the as where and
underbru
stroll lift listening
its mate
the things suggestion
and vitality They standing thus Moses led
peent n of Britain passed
their beautifully
the color of their trunks fresh and bright Coming
hide They do old perennial
the strong and juicy in them and their sucked ng
ons from % sst had difficulty
e Ss sa % @ on @ that day s sed s 5
delayed
ss Ss
Sse Ell
ss @ @ ws
were cvce between
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

A news item says that an Anoka
man who invented spanking ma
chine was himself the first to ex-
pertinent with it and thatitspanked
him so hard it nearly beat his
brains out. The inventors brain
must be located in a queer part of
his body.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

PRISON OFFICIALS.
BOARD OF CONTROL.
j. A. MARTIN, Chairman st. Cloud
8. w, LEAVETT, Litchield
0. B. GOULD, WinOna
Il. w. WRIGHT, Secretary
RESIDENT OFFICIALS.
HENRY wOLFER, warden
j. 8. GLENNON, Deputy Warden
n. G. COLLIGAN, Asst. Deputy Warden
II. w. DAVIS. Clerk and Accounting Officer
r. NJ. BORDwELL, Steward
B.. MERRILL, Physician
MISS MARY MCKINNEY, Matron
B. j. KENNEDY, Protestant Chaplain
CHARLES CORCORAN, Catholic Chaplain
PRISON AGENT.
j. 4. BARNCARD, st. Paul.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

It is hard for q woman who has
gone wrong to bury the past, as
there are so many ghouls of her
own sex who will dig night and
day in an effort to unearth the
corpse.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

An Englishman says the men
behind the American guns at the
battle of Manila Bay were Eng.
lishmen. If that's true It's strange
that John Bull didn't use some of
those expert gunners in South
Africa.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-11-12

A Chicago landlady is looking
for a man who claimed to be a
preacher and who jumped the city
owing her three months board.
He evidently belongs to that new
religious sect known as the Holy
Jumpers.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-17

washington, Dec. 16.-The report OF
Messrs. Conrad and Bonaparte on the
charges made by S. w. Tulloch, for
merly cashier of the Washington City
postofice, against the administration
of this office, was made public to-day.
Under instructions from the President,
the report views the Tulloch charges
from a legal standpoint"
The tendency to evade answering
these charges evinced by those reply
ing to the Postmaster Generals re-
quest for such answers, the report says,
is illustrated very forcibly by the
charges against Perry S. Heath. for
mer first assistant postmaster general,
which have been made public hereto
fore, and his answer to them.
1--WE consider this answer" it con-
tinues. altogether insufficient, and no
less unsa tisfactory in substance than
in FORM"
Continuing, the report says the re-
vision of Postmaster Willetts accounts
of itself is sufficient to show that Mr..
Heaths official record is not so clear
as to defy suspicion. 1t adds:
Moreover the confidential report OF
Inspector in Charge Smith, and the
special report of Inspector, Little, tend
so strongly to sustain some of the
most serious charges made by Mr.. Tul-
loch against Mr.. Heath, that 1t is quite
impossible to dispose of these charges
nv calling them lies out of the whole
CLOTH The reasonable inference TO De
drawn from Mr.. Heath's complete FAIL
ure IN meet fully and explicitly accu-
stations. which as Postmaster General
PAYNE very Justly admonished him.
charged him with many acts or doubt
ful propriety,' added to the facts APP
nearing from the record evidence lald
before us oblige us to say that at least
a strong prima facie case is presented
of wilfull and reckless disregard by
the late first assistant postmaster
general of obligation imposed on MN
nv the regulations of his own Depart
mont as we'll as by the statutes OF the
IToited states: and we feel it our duty
70 add that suspicion of his personal
Integrity must be inevitably aroused in
ouy Judgment by an impartial consid-
Grafton of the facts submitted 10 us,
and of his plainly inadequate explana-
tons" 80 IT,
The report takes up in detail the
charges of improper appointments OF
subordinates and improper disburse-
ments of public funds, as contained
in the Tulloch charges, and after an
alysis, concludes:
$50 far as is indicated by the papers
submitted to us, the persons directly
respon ible for these fraud mt npioy-
nents were Messrs. Perry $. Heath and
George w. Beavers. neither OF whom
Is now in the public service. 1t seems
clear. however, that this responsibility
extends, in some measure, to the late
postmaster General, who appears 10
have at least tolerated the practice
after notice of it's existence, and 70 the
late and present postmasters at Wash
ington, each of whom appears TO have
accepted the transfer to his ONCE OF
A number Of persons thus employed
without, so far as Is known, any pro-
test or pressure. -
The report comments on Audltor
Castles apparent readiness 20 dlsre-
gard the usual safeguards against un-
authorized expenditures" In passing ac.
counts for employees, the character OF
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-17

was a practice in frauden legis, and
officials guilty of it thereby established
their own unfitness for public en-
ployment.
Eighth. The employment Of SOCIAL
ed 1aborers to do classified work
was clearly illegal and, under the ex
press directions of the civil service
rules to be punished by dismissal from
office.
Ninth. An agreement by any public
officer with any person whether in or
out of the public service at the time
that the latter shall receive the emolu-
ments of public employment under
pretense of being employed without
rendering any services to the govern
ment, constitutes q conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States.
Tenth. The detail of Thomas w.
Gilmer to different work Of lower
grade and at a reduced compensation
by F. A. Vanderlip, then acting secre-
tary of the treasury under all the
circumstances attending it, was APP
parently unjust and oppressive, and
certainly disastrous to the public in
terest, since it would be generally and
naturally understood by those cogni-
zant of it as a punishment inflicted on
a faithful public servant, who had by
the honest discharge Of his duty, in
CURED the enmity of active and infiu-
entail politicians. 1t seems to have
been preceded by no sufficient inquiry
on the part of Acting Secretary Van
derlp and would render proper an in
vestigation Of the latter's conduct were
he still in the public service.
Eleventh. While we express no opin-
ion as to the propriety of Seymour w.
Tulloch's removal fom the office of
cashier by Postmaster Merritt, his re-
moval was clearly regrettable in the
public interest, as leading naturally
10 the belief that the cashier had been
in fact removed for his failure to
comply with irregular and even IL
legal demands upon the funds in his
custody.
1--WE very respectfully recommend:
First That a thorough investigation
be ordered, If it has not been already
ordered, (a) of the administration of
the Washington postoffice, (b) of the
administration of the New York post
office, and (c) of the administration
of the office of the First Postmaster
General within the past three years.
Second. That carefully chosen
small commission be appointed by the
President to report a plan whereby
the work of the offices of the control
Ter, and of the several auditors may
be removed from all political, personal
or other extraneous influences.