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The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
pemocraox,s Savior.

If rational action could be predicted
IN politics, the Democratic party would
recognize that it's best opportunity for
union and for potency in the election
would come through the nomination of
Richard Olney, the one man in it's list
Of presidential possibilities whose
outlook would, through contrast with
the weaknesses of Roosevelt, tend to
unite the party and to invite the sup
port of the Springfield Re-
publican
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
PERSONAL MENTION

Senator W. H. Stone, of Benson, who
has been spending several DAYS in ST,
Paul, left last night for Hot Springs, Ark.
Ryan W. Grape. Portland, Or:
r; M Hoover, Little Falls: Lewis 6.
wife, Mantorville; P. G. woodward
Anoka; E.. H. Bissette. Winnipeg; Alex
Hisel. Seattle.
Windsor--Robert Carr, Mason City:
Mullen, Langdon, N. D.; c. r.. TruxIer.
Dubuque; w. HI. Kehrer, Des Moines
II c. Denhart, White, S. D.; D. Corcoran,
Watervflle.
left for California, and C. F. Tubbesine
departed for New Orleans and Cuba last
night.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Professionalism at Brown.

Brown is the first college in the land
to place the stamp of authority upon
the practice of permitting professionals
to play upon her athletic teams. 1t is
the worst reflection upon the Judgment
of Brown men that has been cast in
years. The friends of the college must
hope that the alumni will demand an
instant reversal Of such action. Rarely,
if ever before, has a college officially
approved the worst criticisms from it's
rivals upon its own amateur principles.
Providence, Journal
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
PHENlX FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY IS FORTUNATE
1t Loses Only About $250,0O0 in the
Baltimore Fire.
Special Dispatch to The Globe.

Special Dispatch to The Globe.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-The Phenix
insurance company, of this city. loses
but about $25O,000 by the Baltimore
fire, while its monthly income is near
ly $5O0,O0O, it's surplus is 1,7OO, 900,
capital $1,000,000, gross assets $500, :
coo. The Phenix. though one Of the
Oldest, is one of the most progressive,
largest and most solid of the fire in
surance companies. Its losses of $40 -
600 in the Chicago fire in 1871 and Of
nearly $560,00O in the Boston fire in
1872 were paid promptly and without
Inconvenience, though at that time the
Phenix was~ comparatively small to
what it is now
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
A ProhahIe PossihiIitx-

Although Mr.. Chamberlain was un-
doubtedly proud to have his son ap-
pear as the government leader in the
house of commons at the opening of
parliament, still it is quite possible that
the old saying that "if you want job
well done you should do it yourself oc-
Cured to him during the proceedings
Indianapolis News.
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Enlolns Pressmen From strikInn.

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. PA temporary
injunction against the International
Pressmen's and Assistants union was is
sued today by Justice Boring in the su-
preme judicial court of Massachusetts.
The defendants are restrained from bring
ing about sympathetic strike among
pressmen in connection with the prevail
ing contest of the job compositors against
members Of the United Typothetae of
America in this city for a new wage
schedule.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Blow 10 Rlydenburah,s Pride.

DES MONIES. Iowa, Feb. 12-E. s.
BIydenburgh, the modern Bluebeard. sent
to the penitentiary from Eldorado for
killing his wife, has been made a print
er at his new home in the state peniten-
tiary at AnamoSa. Blydenburgh was
taken to AnamOsa by Sheriff Mitterer.
and while en- route was chained to a
horse thief. Blydenburg felt humiliated
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
SuhstantiaIIx Correct.

Except for the fact that the president
opposes the Foraker amendment to the
Sherman law, was never consulted
about it, has repudiated it, and will use
all legitimate influence to prevent it's
passing, the charge that the amend
ment is an administration measure is
substantially correct. = Detroit Free
Press
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13

An English visitor to this country
complains that the American congress
is the worst dressed body of men in the
world. AS the visitor looked at con-
gress from the British point of view. we
will go on believing that congress will
not be at its worst until it orders its
clothes in Bond street.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13

The st. Petersburg Vostoching West
nik-which is not sausage but a
newspaper-says that Russian papers
would have more influence if there were
more newsboys. And there would be
more newsboys if the Russian newspa-
pers had their titles set to music and
taught in the schools.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Thouohtfut Wife

Mrs. A-John, 1t seemed to take you
so long to color your meerschaum with
such little bit of smoke, so 7 put it
where there was a lot of smoke
Mr.. A. (horrifed) )-Where did you put
it?
Mrs. AIN the stove-Chicago News.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Wife Murderer Is convIc+ad

GRUMPY CENTER, Iowa Feb 12-
William E. Sitter was found guilty Of
murder In the first degree by the Jury
mere today. Sitter was accused of muir
dering his wife. They were members of
a Dunkard community. His attorneys
put up suicide theory as a defense.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
USE OF FEDERAL
TROOPS REFUSED
President Explains Certain
Things He Cannot Do
Under the Law.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb II. -
President Roosevelt today addressed a
letter to Gov. Warfield, of MARYLAND.
declining to comply with the request of
the legislature that the United States
troops be sent to Baltimore for service
in the burned district. The president
says he has no legal authority to grant
the aid of troops unless a disturbance
that amounts to insurrection against
the state government exists, and which
the state authorities cannot quell; nor
can the president legally delegate to a
governor authority to direct federal
troops, as was requested by the Mary
land legislature.
BALTIMORE. Md, Feb. IL. - That
Baltimore is to rise from it's ashes. more
substantial, more modern and far more
symmetrical needs no further proof
than was made manifest today by re-
neWed expression on the part of Mayor
McLane and the committee on public
safety and leading citizens that no
building permits should be issued until
plans are completed for realigning GER
tain thoroughfares whose crookedness
and narrowness have long constituted
blemish as we'll as embarrassment tn
municipal growth
There is grim determination visible
on all sides that the new Baltimore
snaH be distinguished among American
cues Ior both its material substance
and its architectural beauty.
The situation appeared brighter to-
day than at any time since the great
catastrophe. The regular transaction
OF business in the Chamber of Com
merce' receipts of grain by elevators
ana the payment Of all checks by banks
were events that established confidence
th11Uughout 1 the business community.
Inc oiIer of New York insurance
company to loan $2,O00,OOO in Baltimore
LOT rebuilding purposes is a striking
Illustration of the readiness Of outside
capital to invest in this city. This
money IS offered at 4 " per cent. free of
commission. Another insurance COM
pany has offered to loan the city S5O0,-
OUO available at once.
The task Of clearing the niles of
brick, mortar and rubbish from the
streets IN the fire scourged district was
pushed forward today with marvellous
energy. 10
The work of emptying the safe de-
post vaults in the ruined buildings has
progressed rapidly. An escort of cav
dIl accompanies the wagons in which
the treasures are hauled. SharDshoot
ers IN plain clothes ride on the wagons
and detectives follow close on the side
walks. Clerks of banks owning the val
uaDles are also on the wagons and have
their hands constantly on revOIvers
IL is impossible to get within ten feet
OF tnese vehicles. The money and Sc
i cuIItles IN these vaults are being car
fled to the vaults Of banks and com
panles that escaped the fire.
DIES MONIES, Iowa. Feb. Estate
Auditor Carroll today issued notice
TO al insurance companies doing busi-
ness In the state that they must make
q statement OF losses suffered in the
baltimore fire and provisions for set
ting them pending renewal of Dernis-
sion to do business in Iowa
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Honorable Woman.

Shes exceedingly honorable" said the
first woman.
'Indeed?" queried the other
"Oh, to the point of eccentricity. Why,
she wouldn't even steal another Woman's
cook. Ledger.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Please Close the Door.

''Do you know anything about the open
door in the East?" asked the man who
was always reading
NO" replied the man with cold feet
and all have to say is if it is as cold
there as here they should close it.''-Chi-
cagO News
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13

They are already beginning to talk
about the spring freshet in the East.
but don't let that urge you to act pre-
cipitately in the matter of taking off
the storm windows.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Quite a Little Distance.

The founders of,tthe government de-
spised pomp and ostentation, but it is a
long jump from Thomas Jefferson to
Theodore Roosevelt.-Savannah News.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
And a Whole Lot of Sleep.

Congressman Williams, the Demo-
cratic leader in the house, says he
doesn't know what a royal flush is. 1t
may cost Mr.. Williams half a months
salary to find out.-Kansas City Jour-
nal.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Among the Merrymakers
No Worry.

-, But" asked the prison visitor, "do not
thoughts of your wife and children some
times haunt you and worry you?''
Nav" replied the convict, ''they can't
bother me any more; I'm in fur life."-
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Merely as a Reformer, However.

1t is rumored that the lid" will soon
be lifted In New York. OF course, Rev,
DR.. Parkhurst will take a peep in
Baltimore Herald.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13

1t takes a catastrophe like the Balti-
more fire to show man what an impo-
tent puny atom he is when it comes to
coping with the forces of nature.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
And Are Liable to Remain So.

The astonishing sthing is that Rus
sell Sage has $150,000, 900, and his legs
are still Of the same Iength-Detroit
Tribune
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Burns Prove Fatal.

Special to The Globe.
SLAYTON, Mimi, Feb 12-Julius
Michaelson died today as result Of Sc
we're burns received at the fire here yes
terday
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13

Little Willie-Say, pa, what does this
paper mean by saying the patient is con-
ValeScfng?
Pa-Oh, it means that he has managed
to outwit the doctor, my son.-Chicago
News.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
A Marvel.

At ethe classics he'd ne'er had chance
But in wisdom he led the whole dance,
ForSooth, he was able
To take time table
And tell what it meant at a glance
Salt Lake Herald
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
They Were That wav Lorn Aoo.

Gov. Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania,
who claims to be sick Of his job, should
now be in a position to sympathize
with the people of that state.-Detroit
Free Press
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
DESERVING the Peerless Loser.

And even Gen. Weaver has gone back
on the free silver idea. Unless Cyclone
Davis and Sockless Simpson remain
true Mr.. Bryan is likely to be left with
out associates.-Nashvil1 Banner.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
Taking No Chances.

IF you had $1,000 600, what would you
do?'
II don't know that I'd do anything" 4"
answered Mr. Ardluc. It'd probably wake
up and find it wasn't so."-Washington
Star,
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13
At St. Paul Theaters

The engagement of "The Cavalier" at
the Metropolitan will close with todays
matinee and evening performance.
Kirke La Shelle's excellent company
and beautiful scenic production of The
Bonnie Brier Bush," with ]. H. Stod-
dart and Reuben Fax in the stellar
roles, Will be seen again at the Metro
polItan for four nights and Wednesday
matinee, commencing Sunday night.
This announcement should give much
pleasure to those of our theatergoers
who have witnessed previous perform
ances of this charming play, and who
have seen that grand old actor, Mr..
Stoddart, in his peerless portrayal of
the stern Lachlan Campbell, and who
have laughed at the philosophical
"Posty." as played by that quaint CO.
median, Reuben Fax.
One Of the recent debutantes Of the
comic opera stage is Miss Cora Taylor,
who sings the leading contra1to role in
"Red Feather" Miss Tracy is a pro-
tege Of Miss Grace Van Studdiford, the
star of the production. which will ap-
pear at the Metropolitan opera house
Thursday evening, Feb. Is.
''The Factory Girl" will close it's en-
gagement at the Grand the current
week with a matinee today at 2:3O and
the final performance tonight.
Melodrana will again hold the boards
at the Grand next week and the occa-
sion will serve to introduce for the
first time here a new thriller, entitled
From Rags to Riches" Joseph SAINT
ley, who is said to be a clever boy actor,
is starred in this production
The Merry MaidenS' company will
close satisfactory engagement at the
Star with two performances today.
The ladies' matinee yesterday was very
largely attended and the women in the
audience evidently appreciated the good
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13

"The Factory Girl" will close it's en-
gagement at the Grand the current
week with a matinee today at 2:30 and
the final performance tonight.
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The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13

DES MONIES. Iowa. Feb -sta+o
Auditor Carroll today issued rotice
TO al insurance companies doing busi-
ness In the state that they must make
a statement Of losses suffered in the
baltimore fire and provisions for set
tilng them pending renewal of permis-
sion to do business in Iowa.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13

The engagement of "The- Cavalier" at
the Metropolitan will close with todays
matinee and evening performance
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13

1t does seem decidedly out of place
to ring in ones politics in assisting the
unfortunate, distressed or needy. But
this is exactly what the Lincoln club,
OF St. Paul, did in sending $3.50 to the
Baltimore sufferers.-St. Cloud Times.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-13

John A. Johnson, Of st. Peter, is be-
ing prominently mentioned as being
pretty good Democratic gubernatorial
timber, and if he says the word the
newspaper men of the Third district
are ready to give his boom a vigor-
Gus sendoff.-Belle Plaine Herald.
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RAILROADS.
SOUTHERN RAIL. WAY.
Schedule effective January II, 1904.
Trains leave from PennsrlVania Sta tion

Schedule effective January II. 1904.
1880 am. Daily. Local for Harrisonburg. War.
lo:5i am. Daily. Washington and Florida Lin.
to Jacksonville, Fla. Dining service.
Ills. am. Daily United States Fast Mall
New Orleans. Dining car service y
4:01 pm. Week Days. Local for Harrisonbure
and way stations on Manassas branch
4:40 pm Daily. Local for Warrenton and Char.
6:S1 pm. Week Days. Southern's Palm Limited
esr between Wilmington coiamsa Ai like an Aug
gusta. Savannah Jacksonville and ST. Augustine
ITO pm. pm. Daily. New York and Atlanta E1.
San Francisco Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
Sunday. Pullman BUFFET service.
$3.50 pm. Daily; Through sleepers and coaches
Washington to Columbia, Augusta, Aiken. savan-
1000 pm. Daily. New York and Memphis Lin.
tied (via Lynchburg). First class coach and sleep.
Memphis: sleeper to New Orleans pniae a csl
io:z5 pm. Daily. Washington and Southwestern
cars to Atlanta and Macon; sieepers to Augusta.
Nashville. Atlanta, Macon, Memphis. New Orleans.
,v Trains aSs,n On Ba .,G Ba IA
6:05 pm. and 11:4o pm. for Leesburg only Sun.
Through trains for the South arrive Washington
642 am. 1862 a.m:. 9:45 am. 1875 a:m:, $3.50
pm, $50 p To0 and $50 Pm daily 1915
From Charlottesyilles rs am. and 9:10 m daily
formation be had at ticket offices. 705 18th
street, Gil Pennsylvania avenue and Pennsylvania
Station. Baggage checked through from hotels and
Phone ie4o P. r. R. Cab Service.
@. h. ACK ERT. General Manager.
s. H. HARDwfCK. General Pass'r Agent
T.. & BROWN. General Agent.
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lima. but the authorities would not accept
those as fair exchange
He Paid the Price.
The man died because he Insisted on
drinking ''aguadiente," the fiery native
brandy. II you drink water and eat pa
nela" coarse, brown sugar in cakes), you
are all right This man would not do SO.
Presently he staggered and sat down, and
when l went to him l found that he was
dead
AS we left the pass we met strong
force of government troops marching to-
ward INA. They had come from Silvia,
the town to which the four escaped SOL
diers had fed and told their story. Gen.
Perez, the commandante there. was hot to
avenge the defeat, but he became the VIC
tim of an amusing little comedy of errors.
He marched ON to.Inza, but the victorious
Indians had followed in our wake, and
they lodged him on the way without let
ting him know they were in the neighbor-
hood. Then they quietly descended on Sill
via, annihilated the small force he had left
tnere, and captured the town. The uIsus-
pect1ng Perez got to Inza, planned a great
surprise, and attacked the place at night
But the government soldiers who fled when
the Indians captured the village had reoc-
cupied it after they left, and the two gov
eminent bands fought and killed one an
other in the darkness for half an hour be-
fore they discovered their mistake.
we got safely back to Cali, after nearly
perishing in bush fire. After paying up
my bond for the stolen horse and the lost
mules l found that had lost over 81, 600
on the trip besides my living expenses and
those of my men.
That was my reward for all those months
OF hardship and peril, and when think
what might have happened-what nearly
did happen-I comfort myself with the re.
hection that I came out of the business
pretty well. But cannot advise anybody
to go down to Colombia and try to make
living there as an itinerant merchant.
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AN AMERICAN TRADER
Tells His Troubles During a
Colombian Row.
AMUSING BUT COSTLY.
A BIG AND USELESS BATCH OF
PASSPORTS.
A Military Comedy Of Errors and the
Bad Times It
Caused.

Written for The Evening Star by Thomas 8. Alex
ander.
If you want to find a short cut to Drank
ruptcy, GO down to Colombia and try to dc
business there in revolution time.
In July, 1902, was living at Cali, in the
department of the Cauca, republic of Co
lo mbia. Hearing that the people in the
next department, Tolima, were badly in
need of cloth goods ard other merchandise,
supplies having become short owing to the
revolution, / bought twelve mules, loaded
them with valuable cargoes, hired poems.
and prepared to set out on the difficult and
dangerous journey to Tolima.
No sooner had got ready than the gov
error of the department issued a decree
that no mules we're to be taken out of the
Cauca into another department unless
81 GOO per mule was deposited with the gov
eminent a guarantee that they would
be brought back. The department it was
cOntended, was running short of mules,
and every available beast was needed for
the prosecution of the fight against the rev.
olutionists. So l had to put up a bond OF
S24 600, Colombian paper money, worth $500
gold, that 1 would bring back my own
EiIles. If l was incopsiderate enough to
sell them, or allow them to die, or let the
government seize them, l would have to
forfeit my money.
But this was only the beginning of my
trC ubles. l had to go before the governor
and the secretary of the hacienda and the
pi ocura tor-iscal and the registrario and
half dozen other officials to swear that l
was a good Catholic, an honest merchant
ard a well-wisher to the government; that l
had never had smallpox or been In jail;
ard that all my family and friends were
equally innocent and harmless people.
Paper Came High.
This done, was allowed to buy sheets of
official note paper, at 81 per sheet. on which
to write petitions for the necessary pass
ports and permits for the journey. There
was bound to be some mistake in the word
ing of the first six or seven petitions. and
they had to be written over again on other
81 sheets. This is one of the delightful
little ways adopted by the Colombian gov
eminent to raise the taxes. Nobody may
correspond with the government except on
these sheets. Of course, the petitions had
to be stamped with numerous and expen-
sive stamps, and when, after weeks hus-
Ting, the passports were obtained, they had
to be stamped also.
At length my strenuous encounters with
the officials were over, and the little expe-
dition was at liberty to depart, armed with
many weighty documents giving 1t the
right to live and move. My n'eh and rode
on for five hours to place called Jamondi,
near which we pitched camp.
AS we were getting dinner ready two CO.
lombian soldiers rode up on horseback and
announced that they had orders to arrest
the "gringo" and take him to Jail. / pro-
tested, but they held the trumps. They
simply leveled their rifles at my head and
told me that if 1 didn't come at once they
would shoot me.
Plenty Company.
They took me to Jamondi and flung me on
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SAILING TO TROPICS.
Hardships Experienced by the Men
Before the Mast.


Before the Mast
From the New York Post.
An attractive story is that told by Laf-
cadio Hearn of voyage from New York
to the Spanish Main in winter, leaving the
city In the midst of cold spell such as
has been experienced this week, waking
each succeeding morning to greet warmer
air caressing his cheek. the water becoming
greener and the sky bluer, until one can
feel the warm languor and righteousness OF
the tropics creep into his very veins as he
reads.
There are, however, many men in this city
today to whom the charms of travel be-
tween the tropics and New York do not APP
peal They are the crews of the many ves-
sells that ply regularly between this port
and the islands that lie off the coast OF
South and Central America, and that coast
itself.
Their calling makes them wanderers. a
week or ten days being a long time to stay
IN port, and then they are off, always for a
climate greatly changed from the one they
are leaving. Changes of clothing are fire.
quent, and the shivering, muffed-up man
dancing around the deck of steamer lying
at pier in the East river. his teeth chat
tering from the icy blasts across the water
so that he can scarcely hold a pipe in his
mouth. will in a few days develop into a
suited and straw hated, idly rolling a Gig
arctic for occupation, and wondering how
he managed to live through his experiences
in New York.
These coastwise sailors can stay in no
port long enough to become accustomed to
the temperature, be it warm or cold let
alone becoming acclimated, and it is COM
mentary on the ability of the human an nal
to adapt himself to MS environment to see
these men, shivering here under a singing
northwest wind and a temperature of 15 to
~ degrees, knowing that within six or eight
days they will be sweltering in linen and
drinking cooling draCghts at temperature
of 30 or 100 degrees and moist atmosphere
that is most unhealthy, even when man
lives in it the year round.
There is no nobility on board one of these
ships when 1T comes to suffering from eli
matte changes, though the engineers and
hremen. naturally, have the least changes
heat at all times, and their only problem
is to take care of their health when they
go ashore. But throughout the ship with
these exceptions there is democracy in
the suffering of the crew. The captain on
the bridge, with the responsibility of the
ship and cargo on his hands, unable to les
sen his vigilance for an instant. suffers even
more, If possible, than the poor rous about
on the forward deck, who has no cares be-
yond trying to keep warm and wondering
how things are going down in the cook s
galley.
1t Is truly a hard life, that of a coast
wise sailor, and the wages paid to men
sailing from this port to South America are
much higher in proportion than those pa d
to other sailors going in and out of New
York harbor. The discomforts of the life.
no matter what the time of year, are the
reasons for that high wage and the men
certainly earn their money.