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The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

will be ample for years
ito come.
The greatest gain fFean such a change
would be to our educational system
itself. Nothing has irapaired # more
than this genial and kind hearted
smethod Of pushing pupils forward ac-
Fcording to the number of years they
5have been in the course, rather than.
according to their actual requirements.
Nothing will increase educational vail
ues more than to make entrance to
the high schools a real privilege, and
the course in them a. complete eduea-
tion in itself.
The taxes swell just because schemes
like this are allowed to GO through
without public protest. If we had a
new Jail building to put up over
again, would our people allow an III
board to squander any such amount
as they have? A few years hence, ff
these ambitious high school projects
are carried out. the people of st. Paul
will be clamorfng for relief from tax
alton and demanding a revolution in
public policy. Let them look to pre-
vention instead Of cure We call upon
every friend Of real education, upon
every taxpayer desirous to lessen
rather than increase the weight Of his
burden, and upon every man who has
the weil-befng and prosperity Of the
whole city at heart to appear at the
meeting Of the school board on Thurs
day, and to speak his. mind. This is.
a case where the best good of the public
service and the interests of public econ
omy go hand in hand.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
TIE BAR RESPONSIBLE

All this debate about the proper
time for making judicial nominations
IN political conventions, with a view
to the purity and independence Of the
bench, Is apart from the mark. II
amounts to next to nothing. Hardly
ever is the question considered serious
ly, and hardly ever decided honestly.
These nominations are arranged by
majority of a committee or of a party
convention exactly according to what
that majority thinks would best suit
it's own plans. If 1t can afford to
throw cut a high flown word Of disin-
terestedness and appear to put the
interests Of the judiciary before every
thing else and thus help to put through
its own slate, it will do so. If, on
the other hand, the judicial nomfna-
tions are needed to help It In its pro-
gFamme; they will be used for that
purpose ruthIesslY.
/. The blame for this practice lies not
upon the politicians. They are acting
and viii continue, to act after their
kind. It would be absurd to expect
anything else from them, and. they
would probably not be successful as
party managers if they were swayed
too far by sentiment. AS T h e Clio b e
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THE PASSING OF THE EPiANo GIRL

Time was when the Young Person
was taught to do .tatting. to knit and
to crochet. and to play "The Maiden'ss
Prayers and "Silvery waves on the
piano. In the general scheme Of her
education there were always some de-
viations, of course, from the prescribed
course. Often the tatting was omit
ted; sometimes real lace work was sub
stituted for the erocheting; in many
cases the knitting was not part of
the curriculum In the finishing off
school. But "The Maiden,s Prayer"
and "Silvery Waves" could not ba
dropped with impunity from that cur
riculun, and every house that boasted
the new upright or the old-fashfoned
square" was bound to hear the wall
Of the one and the ripple OF the other
If 1t boasted a Young Person.
Mr.. Huneker,- who tells what he
knows Of musical temperaments in
book called "Overtones,' comments,
but not regretfu1ly on the passing of
the piano girl Slaves Of the ivory
he calls her and her kind, and he de-
elares that whoever it was that made
athletics fashionable for women signed
the emancipation proclamation for
those slaves. Incidentally, he or she
signed the proclamation for many 9TH
ers besides. 1t was signed for the dis
tracted professor whose business it was
to cultivate a taste for music in those
who had no music In their souls. 1t
was signed for the next door neighbor
who possessed neither a Young Per-
son, an upright" or a Square" but
unprintable opinions Of all three. II
was. signed for music lovers generally
and for the pater fanilfas whose love
for a quiet home was stronger than his.
pride in the musical achievement of his
offspring.
But Mr.. Huneker is wrong in ascrib--
ing ali the credit for this unregretted
emancipation to athletics. They have
had an influence, to be sure, but the
passing of the piano girl is due largely
to the modern custom of specializing.
1t is no longer the fashion to turn out
young women all of a pattern. Indi-
vidualities are carefully studied and
no unwilling Young Person is driven
to the piano. Therefore today there
is no widespread diffusion of piano
playing. In the olden time "The Maid
ems Prayer" and "Silvery Waves were
the favorite pieces" because they fit
ted the Average But it is the dispose
ton today to ignore the Average, so It
has become possible to substitute
opuses for pieces" The girl who
could achieve nothing greater than
"The Maiden's Prayer does not both
er her head about the piano at all She
goes in for golf or studies medicine or
paints pictures or makes superior
bread. For like everyone else. the
modern Young Person is specialist
and does not waste her time acquiring
that which viii bring her no return
IL she plays the piano It IS because she
loves music and finds that Instrument
the best medium for expressing her
love.
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ADVERTISING THAT PAYS.

The board Of aldermen did good Job
in turning down hard the resolution to
appropriate $1,5O0 to- pay for PAM
phlets advertising theacity at the worlds
fair. Money so expended would SIM
ply be wasted. The price quoted was
out of all reason, but that is less i'm
portant, because the whole project Is
anttquated and behind the times.
! There was an era in the early days
=of advertising when pamphlets and cir
culars had value. They were new
to the public. people actually exam
ined them through curiosity, and they
were real advertising mediums. To-
day they are mere litter. They are
thrust into the hand of an unwilling
recipient, who holds them a few Sec
.onds as a matter of mere courtesy, and
then throws them into the first corner
or upon the street. Not one person IN
hundred ever opens one, and not one
in a hundred of those who do is In
duenced by anything within. The thing
has been so done to death THAT interest
in it has completely disappeared.
1t is true that ST. Paul does not
advertise enough. It is true that tyis
city has fallen behind Minneapolis
principally as an effect Of our dfIatorf-
ness and lack Of appreciation of mod
ern methods In advertising. We are
saying only what any student of ad-
vertising in the modern sense admits
when we declare that such advertising
can be done now effectively only
through the daily newspapers of a city
itself. The time has been in the past
when other methods brought results,
and the time may come again IN the
future. But the wise man advertises
for today and tomorrow only, and the
wise city does the same
For today and tomorrow, at any rate,
1t is the daily newspaper alone that
counts in the advertising line. The city
clS a CITY IOL dQV6CtlS6 ulr6cLlY
anywhere at home or abroad. Keep
that money in the emergency fun.1,
and give US cleaner streets and more of
the things the city really needs. Our
municipal interests can be better for
warded by liberal commercial adver-
tising in the daily paper than by
100000 a year spent on schemes that
have had their day. Men not only build
up their own. business directly, but add
immensely to it indirectly by building
up the community as a whole when
they advertise in the newspaper.
Lengthy experience, backed by the ex-
ercise of the best ingenuity in the
whole world, has proved that no other
form Of advertising except through
regular publications, such as daily
newspapers and monthly magazines,
either counts or pays.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

country and the summer commuter be
none the worse for it. But, whereas
ne may exl1it over the acquisition OF az
bath room. and celebrate when a fur
mace is installed, he can only view with
distrust the slow but insidious en-
scroachment of rigid etiquette and cold
fcImality on the very region that IS
supposed to bar out both When the
living room of the lake cottage is cut
up into a reception room. library and
drawing room, the male summer COM
nuter knows that his freedom is men
aeed.
But even the summer commuter can
not have his cake and eat it, too, al
though if any man deserves that prfvi-
{ Iege it is certainly he. Perhaps if it
were given him to decide, his decision
would be in favor of introducing the
flesh pots into the promised land and
abiding by the consequences. But the
decision is not his If he happens to
have a wife, sister, mother, aunt or fe-
male cousin. He is in the hands of one
Of these and she Is sure to have an
honest contempt for the Omarian ideal
Of simplicity in the furnishings Of a
summer paradise. loaf Of bread,
jug Of wine and book Of verse will
net transform a wilderness for her.
Fortunately, the encroachments Of
eonventfonaIfties cannot rob the sum-
nler commuter Of all the pleasure to- be.
derived from a summer residence at
the lake, and Il is these pleasures that.
the man who remains In the city loves
to contemplate. For 1T is the man who
stays In town who has the greatest re-
spect for the spring exodus He IL is
who Is sure that happiness may be
pursued with success In trolley car or
suburban train and who avows each
summer that next summer he will take
up the chase.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
Contemporary Comment
The Capture Of the Iowa DELEGATION.

4 sHS @aPSuTS OF the iowa DSIeqatIoTs
I. Iowa is a great an dimportant stats.
but 1t does not nominate or elect Dem
ocrauc presidents. The Iowa Democrat
- very hungry person, and his
-ealshce comes before not at or after
the feast. To the great majority Of
soper-m1nded observers the action of
the Democratic state convention is in
comprehensive. 1t adopted a Hearst
platform, instructed it's delegation to
the 81. Louis gathering for the yellow
peri! candldacy and clinched matters
oy forcing through the unit rule.
What the galleries and some of the
delegates thought Of the proceedings
and their true inwardness was frankly
lndlcated by the interroga tions and
compliments addressed to the masters
or the ceremonies. Whatever conserv-
aflVe men felt about Bryans radical
ism, his candidacy never suggested
such questions as "How much?" One
cannot read the accounts of the con-
Vention without a sense Of humilia-
tlOn and shame.
To consider the so-eaIled platform
or IT'S omissions would be as absurd
a. proceeding as any the Iowa yellow
brigade has been guilty Of There are
tInes when reason seems to have de-
parted to the beasts. The Iowa Demo-
Gratis have not acted like rational be-
1ngs, and objections based on logic
or principle would be misdirected The
candidacy they profess to favor is an
impossibility, and if they had stopped
TO reflect they would have realized
this fact. But what has reflection to
dc with the Democratic yellow peril?
One word. however, about Mr.
Bryan's neutrality Urged by the
leader OF the minority to give the con-
ventfon hint Of his. own prefer
he wired the following bit; OF oracular
Wtsd0rn: The convention should in
struct. IL majority agree upon a can
didate and desire Instructions" How
brave and helpful! And Mr. Bryan has
been appealing to ministers OF the gos-
pei and talking about morality cour-
age and conscience eampafgns!" Will
he now hire a hall and; analyze the
Iowa platform and the candidate who
stands on it?-Ghicage Evening Post.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
THE JouRNEYs OF LIBERTY BELL

There are good souls who regard
with disapproval the sending Of old
liberty bell on trips around the coun-
try. There are others who love to
have their patriotic feelings stirred by
a glimpse of the old revolutionary
relic and who think it eminently prop
er that since they cannot afford to go
to the bell, the bell should be brought
to them. Should any disaster over
take it, those who belong In the first
class would have an excellent oppor-
tunity to say, 'I told you So" But
unless the bell should be stolen (and
there would be no object In such
thievery) or unless the train which
carried it should suffer a most dsas-
trous wreck, there will be no oppor-
tunity Of saying this And either con-
tfngeney seems most remote.
The interest aroused by these jour
neys OF liberty bell would seem to
indicate that a very warm regard for
it exists In the heart of the majority
Of people. Now the publicity that has
been given to tales of corruption in
public life and especially IN the gov
ernment Of municipalities prove that
the general public needs to have
its patriotism aroused. Would it
not be a good idea, therefore, In
view Of the effect liberty bell has
upon the people to keep 1t moving all
the time? AS test it might be sent
out to Colorado, where patriotism
seems at the lowest ebb. It has been
promised to st. Louis and, en- route,
Minneapolis is to have a glimpse of
it, so that those two cities which, ac-
cording to Mr.. Steffens, need patriotic
citizens very badly, win have an op-
portunity Of showing just how strong
an influence the relic is able to exert.
Those who believe that the bell
should remain at home will probably
point out the fact that the people of
Philadelphia. have had an opportunity
of gazing upon it, free Of charge,
for many years, and that, in spite Of
their privilege, corruption exists in the
city and in the state. But liberty bell,
like the prophets, may be without hon.
or in it's home city and yet exert an
influence for good In other towns. II
the bell should prove an antidote for
the poison of graft, it would not be a
bad idea to. send other colonial and
revolutionary relics and documents on
journeys through the country. The
Declaration Of Independence exhibited
in a glass case might succeed where
the liberty bell failed The experiment,
certainly. would do no harm, and Ho
one can deny that conditions demand
strenuous measures. Better the peri
patet1e relic than rampant corruption.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
ATTENTION. NH. CARNEGIE.

What goes to constitute hero? Is it
the spectacular deed performed on the
impulse of the moment before the mind
has had a chance to review the con-
sequencesg Or is it the dumb, pa
tient service rendered day after day and
week after week and month after
month in the midst OF conditions most
trying? If 1t is the latter which con-
stitutes the true hero, then is James M.
Case, erstwhile manager Of the Mar
tha Washington hotel Of New York
city, entitled to Mr.. Carnegie's consid-
eratioI1s
The Martha Washington is a wom-
ans hotel. It's guests average five hun
dred of the gentler sex. Dogs and ba-
bies and men guests are barred. These
were the conditions that confronted
Mr.. Case when he assumed the mana
gership of the hosteIry. Since the ho-.
tel opened IN March, 1903, Mr.. Case has
served the five hundred cheerfuIIy
self sacrificingly. and, as recent events
have demonstrated, most satisfactorily
A disagreement with the management
resulted last week in Mr.. Cases resig-
nation;- and the five hundred, to a
woman, raised up their voices and i'm
plored that that resignation be re-
considered. When he remained OBJ
durate, It Is said that the i've hundred
gave themselves up to unrestrained
weeping.
1t has frequently been declared that
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
Would Hear From Bryan.

Much has been said, and by no one
more than Mr.. Bryan himself, about
the silence Of Judge Parker. 1t is true
that the people would like to hear from
the judge on several points, and 1t is
equally true that on one point in par
ticular they would also like to hear
from Mr.. Bryan. 1t is not difficult, as
rule, to move him to articulate speech,
but on the one matter concerning
which the public curiosity, If not In
terest, is keen he. persists In maintain
Ing a silence as dense as Judge
Parker's. Probably by the time the
latter is ready to tell the country his
political creed Mr.. Bryan will be pre-
pared to reveal his personal candidate.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
cALL THE RoLL

OffEE IrIE FfOGEa
r. G. Dunn has taken the lid of. So
bitter has become the fight for the
governorship. In which he is now en-
gagged, SO furious the onslaugE1ts made
upon him, that he has been provoked
into reprisals. He now charges openly
that Judge Collins, In his effort to get
upon the supreme bench, sought and
received substantial financial assist
ance from railroad interests. He has
carried the war into the enenay's coun-
try, and the end is not yet.
What interests, us most. what is of
most moment to the. Democratic party,
and what the whole people OF the
state should most earnestly consider, is
the extent to- which this most despica-
BILE system Of grating has become q
part of Republican politics in Mime
sofa. For, whatever may be the truth
or falsehood of the particular charges
now being banded back and forth,
who does not. know that they spring
from the foul muck Of an established
political practice. This has become so
much matter of habit that men who
think themselves honest and respect
able no longer regard it with abhor-
renee.
How much company, and what ex-
allied and Pecksniff1an company could
sbe found In Minnesota for such sim
neFs! How far has 1t become the
custom for the politician to look upon
corporate interests as his proper prey,
and to draw upon them unbiushingiy
for his campaign fund The modest
dernand is advanced courteously, with
the insfnuation OF bIackmaIl behind It
I'm the fact that the beggar, should he
De refused and still catch votes among
the people, will use his authority to
revenge himself at the cost OF prop
erty interests declining to buy his
favor. How would Minnesota appear
today II answers had to be given to
the calling Of such roll Of disi1onor?
Locate man who is loud upon the
stump or off it in Remuneration Of cor
porations, and in nine cases out Of ten
you will find a man who has taken the
pay of corporations and Joined in the
fight upon them only when his drafts
were no longer honored.. 1t is those.
whose appeals to be bribed have been
turned down who make the most furious
denouncers; and so true is this that the
one can fairly be taken as a sign and
confession of the ether.
Never was time more opportune for
Democratic success in Minnesota than
this. The breach in the Republican
ranks is too wide to be closed. The
feeling is too bitter for eoneiliation.
The worthlessness of all that the party
relied upon for capital has been dis
closed. The people are nauseated with
the revelations that have been made
They are appalled,. at the impudence of
men who ask for Office on an issue of
hostility to corporations while they are
besieging corporate doors for financial
assistance. Away with the corrupt
and corrupting influence. Let US have
an end Of ''hoId-up" men as we'll as
"hold-up" measures; a return to the
plain honesty of Democratic rule, which
will regard every interest and every
man with. clear, uncoyetous eye. The
incident which is now the talk Of the
whole state should be the precursor Of
a great Democratic victory.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
A Baltimore Johnnle's Reading.

Sunday School Teacher-Johnnie Wise,
you have probably read in the papers OF
the police getting after those who were
Of business open on Sunday. Do you re-
member anything you ever heard from the
Bible that would apply to that?
Johnnie Wtse-Yes m.
s. S. T-What was it, Johnnie?
r. Wand even Solomon In all his
glory never made a raid like one Of these.
Baltimore American
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
The uneasx Ralkans

After all the talk about European
interference there will probably be
none. 1t is an ugly affair for the Eu-
ropean powers to handle. Public sentf-
ment is undoubtedly on the side of the
revolutionistss while the powers i'm.
agine that their interests are bound up
in the maintenance of Turkish integ-
rity. They regard the Balkans as a
tinder box, which may set Europe in a
blaze if they intervene, and such inter-
vention must necessarily entail serious
expense and loss Of life in addition to
the perplexing problems which are sure
to grow out Of the interference. It is
probable that the parties to the con-
fict will be allowed to fight it out un-
molested. until one or the other is ex-
hausted.-BaItimOr American.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
Among the Merymakers
"sAY wHEN."

She was the coIonePs daughter,
A maiden fair and free,
But not ayerse to water,
As many colOnePS be.
With all NV art I woOed her.
l prayed her to be mfnes
I pleaded and pursued her,
And still would she decline.
Until one night occasion
Again arose, and then
I said, without evasion.
My dearest girl, say when!'
A colonePs daughter-credit
Be unto him for aye
Before she thought she said 1t
And named the happy day!
New Orleans Times-DemocFat.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
GOT TO COME.

Write it with the lightnin'-
Beat the thunder drum!
Dreamed about the Good Times
Till we know they've got to comeI
May not be tomorrow
Yet we'll have our day!
Winters sure to borrow
Blossoms O. the May!
Somewhere skies are sunny
Weather never grum!
Hives, they need the honey,
An the honey's got to come!
Atlanta Constitution.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08

Justice" said Mrs CorntOsseL Some Of
the folks that was to town said he told
'em he was on the water wagon now"
'"Thats good news"
''Of<course it is, It shows the boy amt
afraid of work. If he can't find anything
else to do, he'll drive sprinkling cart. -
washington Star.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-08
What the Editors Say

Well stated by the st. Paul Clio b a:
"One article ofTh Globe ~ IournaI-
'lstle Faith is that the details of public
executions are unfit for publication.
executions should not be public.
Death is great and solemn event.
unht for sensational ribaIdry. What a
vie criminal eats and wears in his last
houfs, how he sleeps and the little in
cldehts OF his taking off are not news.
Accounts of them minister to a. de-
pIdVed. curiosity and are Fepulsive to
3n Igntnnhded tied people. Their general cir
culauon, being wholly without warrant
Aor any news values, is indefensible be-
cause tending to the announcement
and increase of crime. Therefore m h
"a 10 prints and will print only the
pare facts concerning these events -
Waseca County Herald.
The coal trusts, meat trusts. steel
trusts and all the other trusts have
been assured that Philander Knox will
not run amuck. In other words, this is
presidential year and they will not be
disturbed. Everything viii be at a
standstlll until after election, Smoot
will not be disturbed until after elec-
tlon. Justice will be blind in just one
eye until after election. 1t strikes one
that the inactivity preceding elections
Is form of corruption or cowardice
that IS contemptible.-St. Peter Herald.
The editor of the Lake City Repub-
ican, in speaking of Cow Van SAINTS
political future, says he would not be
surprised If the Jolly captain should
yet ascend the steps Of the national
capital as one Of Minnesota's repre-
sentat1ves in the United States senate"
We do not agree with the Republican,
put incline to the opinion that the
Jolly captain will return to. his RATS
and his steamboats.-The Independent
q (Madfson1 Press.
What will be done next? It is re-
ported that a company near Clearwater
is going to manufacture syrup from
pumpkins, which is claimed to closely
resemble maple syrup in color, flavor
and sweetness. Nothing is to. be vast
ed, as the skimmings are to- be made
into vinegar and the seed into salad oil.
The farmers are to receive 50 per ton
for pumpkins delivered at the factory.
-Chatheld News Democrat.
The Minneapolis Journal says that
"a period OF business reeessi0n, mod
crate yet general, is upon the country"
This is a rather diplomatic obituary
notice of the much vaunted Republican
rosperity.-Perham Enterprise.
If Buckman doesn't get home pretty
soon his fences won't need fixing
there won't be enough left to- fix. Col.
Foster is a pretty busy man and he Is
doing his work Brainerd
Arena.
Judging from the way Brer Miller,
of Luverne, is going after McCleary's
scalp about the seed distribution, he
must have some designs on the job Of
entative-Edgerton Enterprise.
The brass band attachment to the
Van SAINT administration must have
been dispensed with since the recent
court decision in the merger case
Buffalo Lake News.