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The Cairo bulletin., 1904-04-21

The northwestern high conferred
yesterday morning in the upper lake
region A well-defined disturbance
has moved eastward from the north
Pacific coast and now centers appaT.
entity in western Montana.
The temperature has fallen in the
lever Missouri valley. throughout the
ohio valley. in Tennessee, and in the
lake region, and risen in the Dakotas.
Within the last sc hours precipita.
tion has occurred in the extreme up
per and lower Ohio valley. in Arkau-
sas. Missouri, Nebraska and the Da.
kotas AT the time of yesterday
morning obs ryati0n snow was fall
ing at St Louis. Evansville. Chester
ana Pttsburg and sleet at Mt. Car.
mel
Street Thermometers yesterday reg
istered the following temperatures;
Sa m, Sc; noon, &c, p, m. sc mid
night, %.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-04-21

lf two evils chose der vun least
likely to be talked abouid
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-04-21

Thursday, April q.
Breakfast
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
A MARkETARLE coMMoplrY

Those pessimists who declare that
there is no more chivalry to be found
in the world are guilty of an exag-
geration. Chivalry is still to be had
for a price. The Bryn Mawr college
faculty, for instance, advertised for it
and obtained it. The Bryn Mawr col
lege maiden, who is evidently re-
version to the clinging ivy type, had
been annoyed on her way back and
forth from the station to the college by
rude men who ogled her and college
youths who thrust their odious atten-
tons upon her. To protect her the
faculty sought for and found a chival-
rous young man who, for censidera-
tion, pledged himself to protect the
timorous maiden even at the cost of
his life.
His sort of chivalry is not the best,
of course. but certainly it is better
than none. In the ages usually de-
scribed as dark" knights esteemed it
privilege as we'll as a duty to succor
distressed damsels. But women began
to take an interest in the development
of their muscle and knighthood with
cred. They are chiefly to blame for the
decline of chivalry and they have no
right to grumble now if it is to be had
for a consideration only
1t is just possible, however, that the
attitude of the Bryn Mawr college girl
will prove a popular one and that other
college girls will take it into their
heads to let their masculine friends do
the fighting for them. If this should
happen, chivalry will be saved from
becoming marketable commodity, for
no one can doubt that general call
for protection would rouse the chival-
rous spirit that is dormant in every
masculine breast.
But it is not probable. The coed
appears to delight so thoroughly in
her prowess that it is extremely doubt
ful whether it would ever occur to her
to look to any man for assistance. She
is the SCARED heroine of many a coll
lege fracas, she has grappled single
handed with the bold. bad burglar. she
has dispersed mobs and quelled mu-
tiny. 1t were therefore wiser to con-
slider the Bryn Mawr maiden's timidity
curious expression of atavism and
accept with what complacency We can
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
DEAD FOR A pucAT

Those who have been making secret
campaign of infamous personal de-
traction against John A. Johnson are
not pleased because The Globe has
lifted the lid. AS was to be expected,
decent Republicans everywhere dis.
avow connection with the performance.
We are glad to hear it, and it is just
as well for them to get from under
the load of responsibility
The Republican state central COM
mittee will have none of it. The Pio-
neer Press calls upon The Globe to
publish the charges that have emanated
from Republican sources. T h e Clio b
pleasantly declines. Let those who
brought this monster into the world
father it. It has not been SO care
fully concealed that anybody cannot
discover it's parentage if he wants to.
The Minneapolis Tribune declares that
all Republican newspapers had decided
upon silence and that Republican man
ayers were intent upon choking off
what they felt would ruin them if they
stood sponsor for it. Then they must
know all about it, however strenuously
they may have opposed it; and we re-
fer our esteemed contemporary Of st.
Paul to our esteemed contemporary of
Minneapolis for enlightenment.
The Globe is satisfied with hav-
ing smoked out the perpetrators of this
attempted outrage, whoever and wher-
ever they are It can understand that
the decent men in the Republican party
are disgusted by it, and the intelligent
men fully cognizant of the reaction
it must produce against their cause
wherever it has been made known
The lesson of the event to them would
seem to be of the dangers that lie in
the fraternizing of saints and sinners.
even in politics. The occupation Of
the fiy-by- nights who have been doing
this dirty work is now gone; and clean
men of all parties are to be congratu-
| lated upon the elimination from the
campaign of it's most discreditable
feature. Let us hear no more from
the numerous and busy agents of
slander and personal defilement who
| have been working, for some reason
and with somebody's encouragement
and assistance. against John A. john
son.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30

mated Judge Bum and associated with
him Hon. T. D. O'Brien, than whom
no better lawyer, truer citizen or more
iudicially minded man can be found.
The supreme fitness of these candi-.
dates is admitted. Their election
would still leave the Democratic party
in a minority on the district bench. 1t
would, however, teach politicians and
conventions that the people believe in
keeping the bench out Of politics; that
they are in favor Of pon-partisan
judiciary and will uphold and enforce
this principle upon both parties at
every opportunity.
The effect of such popular decision
would be immense. 1t would estab-
lish the rule of nom partisanship in
filling judicial Office. The voters of
Ramsey county and of Minnesota have
an opportunity to place upon the
bench of the supreme and the district
courts men having no superiors in
those offices, and at the same time to
read a lesson which no party here
after will dare in its own interest to
disregard. The appeal lies to the con-
science, the honor, the patriotic feeling
of every citizen.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
the fact that ehivalry has become a
marketable commodity.
The PLANT OF A PoET

Alfred Austin, England's poet laure-
ate, laid aside his Tyre for few min
utes recently to speak in plain prose to
the British people. Alfred finds that
plain prose is about the only thing that
the British people are willing to pay
any attention to in these days of many
libraries and few poets. According to
the poet, the Britishers are neglecting
the highest poetry. He modestly re-
Trained from specifying whose poetry
he considers the best but it is not
improbable that his audience. squirm-
ed as it recalled the fact that Alfred's
poetry is left to repose neglected on
the shelves in the bookshops.
Nevertheless while undoubtedly,
there was mortified vanity there was
also much truth in what the poet
laureate said. But what is to be done
about it? We can deplore the un-
poetic times we may agree with some
poetical survivor of an earlier period
when he points out how vastly more
appreciative his own age was of poets
and laureate poets, we may acknowl-
edge that we are utter barbarians, but
by so doing we will not make the
poets or poetry more popular.
The age might say in defense of it
self that if a really great poet happen
ed along it would be glad to listen to
what he had to say. 1t might claim
that it was surfefted with the literary
output of the idle singers of an empty
day" But this defense would not be
altogether an honest one. For though
it is true that there is no living poet
today whom the majority acknowl-
| edges to be great, it is also true that
there may be now reposing on some
Carnegie library shelf a volume writ
ten by some divine genius with whom
the age refuses to become acquainted.
Nobody knows because nobody calls
for poetry.
Alfred Austin's scolding may help
the cause of his own poetry in his own
country, but we do not fancy it will
help other poets to a hearing. The
world is concerned today with material
| things and poetry is essentially of the
spirit. So the poets must simly bide
their time. One thing, at least, is GER
tain: Not until the poets of the past
are called for over the library shelves
will the poets of the present feel JUS
titled in believing that reaction in
favor of poetry has set in.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
ouR PEACOCK FEATHERS

1t was an ingenious club woman
who declared the other day that as
the eternal feminine became less and
less in evidence, vanity was also dis
appearing. Her contention was that
an industrial age had little use for
peacock feathers. A Frenchman, how
ever, has found enough vanity in the
world. to excuse a learned article on
the psychology of it, and even we who
are far from Gaul must admit that
much of the industry that is carried on
today is for the purpose of setting off
to the very best advantage these same
peacock feathers.
1t is question, indeed, whether the
age would be quite so industrial if it
were not for this fondness for a vain
show that has always characterized the
people of the world and that charac-
terizes them as much today as it has
ever done in the past. For while men
may work for the love of working, if
-the treasures of mines were to be
locked away. if the product of the
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
The COUNTY TREASURER

All county offices are of Importance
to the taxpayer, but there is no one
office that is quite so important, so
far as the intelligent direction of it
is concerned as that of county treasur-
er. This fact should be borne in mind
by those persons who desire to adhere
to party lines in voting but who are
above, all desirous that there shall be
a safe and wise administration of the
Office which holds the strong box of
the people.
Peter J. Metzdorf has been indorsed
by his political friends and opponents
alike as being at once conservative
and progressive official He has made
many Improvements in an office which,
when he took it, was not in such con-
dition as to command the confidence of
the business man. His predecessors
had been worthy men, but the county
had been allowed to suffer losses
through lax methods. Mr.. Metzdorf
corrected the faults in the system under
which the Office was conducted. He
has his business so we'll in hand as to
command commentator at the hands
Of the public examiner and whoever
else has been brought into official con-
tact with his office. Words of the
highest praise have been bestowed
upon him as treasurer. Wisdom indi-
Gates his retention in the place he has
filled so aeeeptably.
Mr.. Metzdorf has for his opponent
a young and untried man whose only
claim to consideration lies in a nomi-
nation that went to him practically by
default. He has had no experience
that would warrant his employment
in large affairs. No business man
would dream of giving him a place as
administrator of big financial interests.
This is case where the taxpayer
should act the part of the man of
business and retain the good servant
without regard to what his political
Affiliations may be. We look for the
election of Mr.. Metzdorf very certain
| ly and trust that his majority will be
Of such dimensions as to make him
been appreciated.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30

latter that the Prohibitionists accom-
plish good.
Moreover, although the individual
cannot be legisIated good. he is sus-
ceptible to the influence of. those who
publicly avow their principles and
pluckily fight for them. And always
it is the disposition of the public to
accept the most practicable suggestions
made by those who, looking down
from certain height they have obtain
ed, are firmly convinced that the in
dividual does not seek temptation,
that, on the contrary, temptation al
ways seeks the individual. Temper
ance is more widely observed today
than ever before. To realize how
much decenter twentieth century folk
are in their personal habits and their
general mode of life, we have merely
to peruse those literary masterpieces
that give a picture of contemporary
life in the centuries that have imme-
diately preceded our own. And this
Improvement is directly traeeable to
the efforts of those who have not hesi-
tated to raise their voices in the cause
of temperance, even of prohibition.
For while they have advocated some
impossible and some impracticab1e
meas their cappoiop of a5root;o,,
has increased the general knowledge of
sanitary laws and their sincerity has
aroused the individual 1t is because
they have reached him that their eff
fort counts. To be sure he may con-
tlnue and generally does continue to
vote the Democratic or the Republican
ticket, but he represents a Prohibition
victory nevertheless.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30

looms were for use merely and not for
adornment, if rare laces and cunningly
wrought ornaments represented value
merely, as city lot represents it, 1t is
probable the toilers would content
themselves with providing the daily
bread. "A sufficiency for the day would
satisfy the majority.
But human vanity makes revolve the
wheels of commerce and it cannot be
denied that they are whirling more
rapidly today than ever before. Boats
plow the high seas, trains rush across
continents, in dingy offices, in noisy
factories, in shops. in mills and in
mines men toll unremittingly, and it
is all done for the purpose of providing
adornment and surroundings fine
enough to crafty somebody's vanity.
However, if we have not lost our
peacock feathers, we are learning at
least not to depend entirely upon
them. Women do not possess all the
vanity of the world, the club woman's
intimation to the contrary notwith-
standing, but their evident determine
ton to be proud of something besides
their feathers means that these
feathers are to be less conspicuous in
the future. But it is too much to ex-
pest that vanity will be banished en-
tirely. Until the millennium arrives,
at any rate, vain show will doubtless
continue to delight both sexes.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
CONSOLATION FOR DR.. sWAL.
LOW

When the leader of a forlorn cause
shows that he has the courage of his
convictions he invariably wins the re-
speetful admiration of the mass of peo-
pie. And this admiration, though 1t
does not represent support, will not be
despised by the Prohibition party's
candidate for the presidency who is
now touring the country. But if ad-
niration and respectful attention were
all that DIR. Swallow or other Prohibi-
ton candidates who have preceded him
received. he and his party might well
question the wisdom of their successive
campaigns. Politically they have lit
tie to show for these and there is no
indication that the future will be
kinder to the Prohibition party in the
matter of according it political success
than the past has been.
But like all faithful adherents to a
principle, the general acceptance of
which can represent material gain for
no one, the Prohibitionists have the
fact to console them that the public
is really benefited by the plucky fight
they put up every four years. They
are extremists and extremists have
never yet succeeded in persuading the
majority of the people of a country to
accept in their entirety the measures
they suggest. But they have opponents
who are also extremists, and it is in
counteracting the influence of these
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
The RERELLIous wAsTcoAT

When the resplendent Mr.. Joseph
Sedley first burst forth upon the vision
of Miss Becky Sharp history saith that
he wore a red striped waistcoat and an
apple green coat with steel buttons.
But Joseph was early nineteenth CEN
tury and already masculine attire was
beginning to conform to soberer
ideal. That ideal has almost been at
tanned, but those who in their secret
hearts have felt partiality for those
more joyous hues that in times past
have set off masculine pulchritude
have frequently had occasion to re-
joice over the Righteousness of the
.'wes'cut" And now there comes a
piece of news from London which indi-
Gates that the ''wes'cut" is still put
ting up a hard fight.
According to Poole, who is tailor to
the king, London's smart set, or that
portion of it which is masculine, will
son with jeweled buttons. For many
seasons the man who has had an eye
for color and proper appreciation Of
the pleasing effect which artistically
combined hues have upon the conn
plexion has permitted himself much
latitude in. the selection Of the
''wes'eut" which he has worn during
the day. But heretofore there has
been nothing about the evening
"wes,cut7 to detraet from the black
and white effect that has been the Sc
we're ideal of the twentieth century
tailor. The jeweled buttons are dis
tinct departure, but, more than. this.
they are also promise of a brighter,
that is, a gayer hued, future.
For once permitted jeweled adorn-
ments, does anybody believe that mas
culine vanity will stop there? From
a "wes'cut' that is adorned to a
''wes'cut" that is an adornment is but
a step, and were Mr. Lehr to take it
tomorrow there can be no doubt but
that thousands of rejoicing males
would gladly discard the colorless AMI
characterless modern garment that
fashion has dictated shall be worn
with evening dress and would enthu-
siastically attire themselves in rosy
hued brocsdes and bright colored
satins.
Already the king of England has
spoken in favor of knee breeches and
silk stockings. another straw which
shows the way the wind is blowing.
But Edward has ever been a little in
advance of his times In matters sar-
torial, so he can hardly be said to rep
resent the conservative element of his
sex. The best indication, as we have
said before, Of mans willingness to
blossom out in colors is the restless
ness of the 'wes'cut." It's determina-
ton not to remain of one cut or one
color shows Enthusiastically that the
soul of man yearns for more esthetIc
garments.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
Contemporary Comment
Why They Paw corteIyou

Manufacturing corporations and
trusts make contributions, not to testi-
fly their admiration for President
Roosevelt, but to purchase privileges
and imnaunities. They put money in
Mr.. CorteIyou's slot and take out a
tariff duty. This scarcely concealed
partnership between the Republican
party and the favored interests which
think they will find their accounts in
keeping it in power constitutes the pc
culiar offense and menace attending
the use of huge campaign funds. 1t is
a revolving thing, yet no intelligent
man will deny the substantial ac-
curacy of Judge Parker's Indictment.
The plan to buy the lawmaking power
in the expectation of fayors to come,
is as detestable as it is wicked; and
the best way to rebuke and defeat
it is to put a party in office whose
policy is not to have any privileges to
sell to any man.-Evening Post.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
LONG DISTANCE eENEvoLENcE

The modern woman who is also
phllanthropist has far outstripped in
practicality and efficiency the well
meaning but mistaken Mrs Jellyby
She knows better than to send gaudily
decorated handkerchiefs to gaudily
painted savages, and she is not guilty
OF the unwisdom of neglecting small
Jellybys even for the sake of assisting
moral development of the heather
abroad. But according to the report of
Labor Commissioner O'DonneH much
of the modern woman's benevolence
resembles Mrs. Jellyby's in one respect
at least-it is of the long distance va
riety.
His report, to be sure, cannot be ac-
cepted as a criticism of the modern
woman's attitude toward her own sex
That that attitude is a genuinely be-
nevolent one. even the scoffer must ad-
NIT. Such reforms as have been in
stituted for the benefit of working
women have resulted from the deter
mined agitation of the matter made by
more fortunately situated women And
the reforms have been sensible and Of
enduring benefit.
But the individual, and especially the
individual woman, Is so constituted
that it impresses her not at all that
body of benevolently disposed women,
in convention assembled, are consider
ing her wrongs if the members of that
same convention, when they come in
contact with her, refuse to regard her
in any light but that Of necessary
machine. She may owe to some Gus
toner's effort the chair that is placed
behind counter, but if that customer
shows marked condescension in pur-
chasing from her paper of pins, she
will hate the customer in spite of the
chair.
ImpersOnal or long distance benevo-
Ience makes the world mucn more
comfortable place to live in, a better
place. indeed but it accomplishes moth
ing in the way of asserting the sister
hood of all women, the brotherhood Of
all men. Carnegie may exhaust his
fortune giving libraries to deserving
towns, but Mr.. Carnegie knows and
the world knows that his impersonal
benevolence has not aroused in one
human breast spontaneous feeling of
gratitude, the touch of nature that
makes the whole world kin.
So the modern woman's benevolence
accomplishes less than it would were it
always accompanied by kindly per-
sonal interest The absence of this in
terest explains why conventions have
not been able to solve the domestic
problem and why the protest of sales
women, voiced by their employer, has
been a protest against their own sex.
Not until all women realize (many of
them do already, fortunately that. in
the best sense of the expression,
''The ColoneHs lady and Judy oGrady
Are sisters under the Skin,
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