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The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
THERE'LL BE NO TOMORROW

The clang of the pick swung by T.
Lowry's hired man sounds the knell
of night and we know Vat over be-
yond Dayton's Bluff Aurora is prepar-
ing to write with rosy finger the matin
song of another day. That hope which
springs eternal in the human breast
leads us to look for the morrow which
is so close at hand. All about us
there are evidences that have hitherto
pointed inexorably to tomorrow and
its duties. Constant Reader" and "a
Subscriber" have both furnished ma
terial proof of their abiding interest
In the affairs of mankind; the man
with a scheme to build an auditorium
is at hand with his plans for roseate
future; press agent groans with
anguish because of the obduracy of an
editor who conceives that the public
will not go breakfastless unless it is
permitted to read a really good story
about the coming star; the printers
devil raises raucous voice in petition
for the copy he and his impish prede-
cessors have been clamoring for, for 10.
these many years; the police reporter
on the dog watch inveighs against the
fate that threatens to undo him by i'm
posing the bar of time to the present
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

1t would be a pleasing task for 7 h e
c / O b e to acknowledge personally by
letter or formally through its columns
the receipt of hundreds of letters that
have reached it within the last few
days, containing expressions of regret
that are not the less appreciated and
words of commendation that are not
the less grateful because of the occa-
sion that calls them forth. The great
volume of this correspondence makes
an individual acknowledgment impos-
sible. We must, therefore, be content
with the more distant and colder
phrase, where much more than that
is due.
At no other time, perhaps, has T h e
G b e ever realized so fully its place
in this community and it's hold upon
the men and women of the northwest.
These letters that have come to us are
from all sections, from all occupations,
from all ranks. They carry the words
VI liOSe WHO nave SlllCeTely lONeu L II e
G o b e; who have read it for years
and found it at least an honest and a
faithful guide; who have let it become
a part of the household, and welcomed
each morning the show of it's type as
the face of a familiar friend.
These toward whom our heart is
very tender in the closing hour, tell
us what T h e G / o be has meant to
them; bear witness to its sincerity and
steadfastness; avow it's place in clean,
honorable and alert, up-to-date jour-
nalism. AS we part from all with good
will, so to these especial friends we
render thanks for a recognition which
we have long known and understood,
and which crowns the work accom-
plished. With good conscience and the
hearty good cheer of brotherhood we
acknowledge here the goodbys of all
these friends and the tributes they
have so generously rendered.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
Ugh LIFE

A reviewer has complained that If
some of the present day novelists keep
on putting dukes and duchesses in their
books, the visible supply will be ex-
hausted in a short time. He refers, of
course, to those progressive writer's
who are so fortunately situated that
they are able to put real dukes and real
duchesses. very thinly disguised, irf
their books. OF those other dukes and
duchesses who have pleased the gentle
fancy of Mary Ann there need be and
there will be no limit.
And it's a comforting thought, too,
for where can be found a more well
bred or satisfying lot of people than
this latter fictional type? BY compar-
ison how unsatisfactory appear the
portraits that the great literary lights
have drawn from real ducal material!
The morals of Mary AIMS duke may
not be above reproach, to be sure, but
what flow of elegant language is his,
with what an air does he wear the du-
cal garb. And Mary AIMS duchessi
There is a parsonage for you'll Those
same great literary lights, we are sor-
ry to say, have pictured their duchesses
as being sometimes short and stout or
addicted to rum or with a taste for low
conversation. Mary AIMS duchess
teaches us better. From her we know
that all duchesses are young and beau
tiful and proud. that they put on their
coronets before breakfast and keep
them on and that their simplest attire
is trailing robe of gold brocade stud
ded with precious jewels.
Why should we lament, therefore, if
there should be a dearth in the ducal
market of the realists? What glamor
have the latter thrown about their
dukes and duchesses that we should
desire their multiplication? Soulful
Mary Ann can pin her faith to those
high personages that gid her fiction
and supply her with inspiration for her
waking dreams; but we. alas, who have
dipped into realism have had every
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
LONG DISTANCE NEWS

A Brooklyn young woman has been
surprising and delighting large audi
ences nightly in the east with detailed
information concerning the daily lives
of famous people who long ago Joined
the silent majority. She vouchsafes,
for instance, the cheerful intelligence
that Michael Angelo is still turning
out masterpieces and that his spiritual
istic brethren are entirely satisfied with
his work. Henry Ward Beecher, Alice
and Phoebe Cary and Francis Garrison,
according to this Brooklyn lady who
answers to the soulful name of Pepper,
have organized a reform school in
which the spirits of those electrocuted
in New York are instructed not to re-
turn to earth to move the hearts of
men to murderous intent. Her audi
ences have also been informed that a
congress modelled after the body polite
in Washington meets annually in the
spirit world
Harmless gossip this and stimulat-
ing in way, but we venture to de-
clare that all who have a picture of
heaven firmly fixed in their minds eye
will feel they have a grievance against
the well meaning Mrs. Pepper. The
fascinating thing about the other
world is, or was before the advent OF
Mrs. Pepper. its indefiniteness. The
missionary who assured the Eskimo
that there would be plenty of blub-
Der in the next life did not overstep
the bounds of his authority for the
reason that it was his duty to make
the savage sigh for heaven and blub-
berless heaven would mean nothing to
the arctic dweller. Moreover he
merely offered the information as his
opinion, and he made no effort to sub
stantiate it with vulgar details. And
if you did not want blubber in yours
you did not have to look forward to
blubber.
There is a scot sureness about Mrs.
Peppers attitude, however, that is in
itself aggravating. Even if one were
disposed to accept her information as
correct one would still be apt to ques-
ton the desirability of giving utterance
to it. But one is not so disposed. An
atelier, even a spirit one presided over
by Michael Angelo, smacks too much
heaven of the majority. A reform
school conducted by even such dis
tinguished spirits as the lady has men
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. SUNDAY. APRIL 80. 1905

publication of the story that is to make
his hated rival to writhe with envy.
The conditions are as they were yes
terday and many yesterdays, all fore
casting as many tomorrows and in
spring hope-even as man hopes
when winter wraps his chill mantle
about the earth as a shroud OF death.
but without being able to kill in the
'human mind the knowledge that un-
der the snow there is the germ Of
spring. But the voices of the night
sing no song of the morrow in this
hour-the hour before dawn when
babes are born and old men and news
papers die.
For there will be no tomorrow for
Constant Reader" "a Subscriber"
must conduct the affairs OF the world
through another medium; rosy fin
gered Aurora will continue to linger be-
hind Dayton's Bluff; T. Lowry's hired
man might as we'll break his pick now
for all the chance there is that it will
with its ringing clang evoke from the
toiler in T h Gil o b office the benisons
that have hitherto been bestowed on
the man who wields ii. The spirit of
prophecy which comes with the even-
ing of life, when coming events cast
their shadows before, settles down on
I G 10 b e. 1t sees afar off the re-
alization of the auditorium project in
proud building which fiaunts it's
grandeur before the decaying walls of
the new capitol grown old; airships
have taken the place of trolley cars en-
franchised by hot air; the question
What's the Matter With St. Paul. is
satisfactorily answered; the court COM
missioner has been substituted for the
supreme bench; Constant Reader" has
been abolished by statute. And draw
ing closer to the present there is a
straining of the spirit of prophecy, the
voice of the printers devil stills the
surging of the prophetic soul, and we
know that tomorrow is not to be-that
the precedent of the ages is upset by
the announcement in the GIob office
that all is finished by the writing of
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
THE CHILD CRIMINAL

The fact must be faced that even
without the fostering aid of q Fagin
the juvenile criminal develops and
flourishes in this country. The actions
of boys who band together for the pur-
pose of robbery are understandable to
a certain extent, for vicious books. in
different home training and evil asso-
ciates in part explain them. 1t is more
difficult to account for children like the
milliner's assistant in New York city,
girl in short dresses. who uttered
forged checks against her employers
and spent the money on personal
adornment; or like the girl swindler
in Chicago who has victimized a num-
ber of people.
In both of these cases there was not
only the impulse for wrongdoing, but
in addition to this there was also a
somewhat extraordinary ability reveal
ed in the method Of carrying out plans
that resulted from the impulse And
in one case, at least, neither those who
believe that heredity is the strongest
influence in the development of the in
dividual, nor those who lay great stress
on the Importance of environments
would find any new argument with
which to clinch their theories. The
milliner's apprentice belonged to poor
but honest and respectable family and
her surroundings were decent.
But, fortunately, these are cases
that practical sociologists do not have
to puzzle over for the reason that they
represent the rare exceptions and for
the reason, too, that no conditions with
which they might surround such chill
dren would be apt to affect their per-
verted moral view. The medical pro-
fession recognizes a class known as
moral perverts and to this class the
child criminal with matured talent for
carrying out criminal plans undoubt-
edly belongs. They represent special
cases and need specific treatment.
Undoubtedly, however, the majority
of children come into the world with
no abnormal tendencies toward crime
and any effort that is made to improve
the environment of those who are sur
rounded by evil influences Is bound to
have a wholesome effect. The child
criminal exists, but only in a few in
stances is it discoverable that the con-
ditions which surrounded it's early
youth are not responsible for it's
crimes. AS rule these crimes may be
laid at the door of the parents and the
state.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
FLUCTUATIONS IN THE VALUE OF
LIVES

Life, we have been assured and we
know. is uncertain; but the value that
judges and juries place upon lives is
even less to be counted upon An Illi-
nols court has just decided that the life
OF college boy was worth nothing in
asmuch as he was an expense to his
parents who were supporting him. The
student was killed in a railroad acci-
dent and an effort to obtain damages
called forth the courts UNIQUE decision.
1t will be remembered that the un-
fortunate Pickwicks counsel assured
his client that much depended upon the
judges breakfast. 1t is just possible
that such trivial matters as underdone
bacon or overdone eggs have much to
do with depressing or initiating the hu-
man life market. Certain it is. at any
rate. that the latest quotations are al
ways surprising and that some of them
are very disconcerting.
In refusing to place any value on the
life of that college student, for instance.
the Illinois court has dealt a nasty blow
to the entire college fraternity. By
implication it refused to admit either
that the boy had a future or that his
sudden taking off occasioned his par
ents mental anguish. On the contrary.
it reasoned narrowly and sordidly that,
being an expense, he must of necessity
be nuisance and that, therefore. it
was better for all concerned that he
was dead.
Yet the public knows that there have
been cases where a young and pretty
creature has gone before court or Jury
with a sprained finger and an injured
expression and such a sum has been
assessed the defendant that merely to
reckon the cost of that life from the
cost of that finger made the brain reel,
so large an amount did it aggregate.
So many things seem to influence court
and jury in determining the value of a
human life that it does not seem prob
able that the fluctuations ever will
cease. But occasionally a decision like
that made by the Illinois court reminds
the public that a determined effort
made to suppress foolish manipulators
of the human life market would not be
bad thing and might he affact,,al
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
THE JUSTIFICATION OF BRIBERY

II. Gaylor Wiltshire, presumed from
his association to be an expert in mu-
nicipal affairs, announced the other dav
at a meeting of the National Municipal
league that it was his belief that brib-
cry in municipal affairs could not be
avoided and that neither bribe giver
nor bribe taker should be punished. 1t
does not appear that the members of
the body to which this astounding
proposition was made showed any dis
position to rebuke the speaker for his
plain statement; they were apparently
not shocked nor was there any sur
prise evinced. The incident implies a
terrific arraignment of the present
conditions in municipal life.
Mr.. Wiltshire was a little coarse in
stating it, but it is an undoubted fact
that persons and corporations who deal
with municipalities take into consid-
Grafton and charge off as a part of the
expense of doing business substantial
sums, proportioned to the amount in
volved in the dealings, and that money
so assigned is placed where it will do
the most good. But it must not be as
sCmed from this fact that bribe taking
is not crime from the point of view of
the average municipal official Asso-
citation with deals where undue profits
are taken under city contracts and the
knowledge that somebody is benefiting
in dishonest way is an experience
calculated to wear the fine edge off the
moral sense of the man who enters mu-
nicipal life in an administrative or leg
islative capacity. Many men have be-
come disgusted with municipal politics,
have dropped back into private life
after brief experience with the con-
ditions they felt environed them, but
which presented no tangible opening
for an attack. Still other men remain
in office and accept conditions as they
find them, bunting of the moral sense
permitting them to accommodate
themselves to the situation. And the
honest man protects by his very pres
'ence the rogue with whom he is COM
PEELED to associate
But the condition is not irremediable
as the brutally frank Mr.. Wiltshire inti-
mates; nor is it to be given the cachet
of approval by legitimizing bribery.
An awakened public conscience which
will compel all citizens to perform
their duty in caucus and the polling
booth; the introduction of more mill
tant native honesty into the municipal
offices; the development of a public
spirit that will put the bribe giver and
the bribe taker in the criminal classes
where they belong and the merciless
pursuit of all men who abuse public
trust will do much toward making
bribery dangerous practice. And the
aim of citizenship should be in this di-
rection. 1t is a reproach to manhood
and honesty that an expert in munich
pal government should go unrebuked
when he says that bribery is a neces-
sary part of our municipal system.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
SUNDAY, APRIL 80, 1905
The OPTIMISI


Were it within our power to found and
endow any great institution for the in
struction, the guidance and the en-
lightenment of the people, one test at
least should be applied. Greater than
any dogma or economic orthodoxy or
political righteousness, or even than a
high standard of ethics and aesthetics,
should be the viewpoint of the opti-
mist. In as far as this is a matter of
temperament, it is, of course, like other
natural forces, Interchangeable in
amount. In as far as it is the conse-
Quence Of environment, of education, of
contact Of infuence-and no one could
gainsay their power-it is a growth of
such preciousness to humanity that
too great pains cannot be lavished on
its care
The creative force in the individual,
in society-the generative, molding,
self-perpetuating power-is the belief
in infinite and unceasing betterment
We worship it under another name
when we prate about progress"
meaning thereby as often as not things
desirable and undesirable in curious
mixture; an idol of gold with feet of
clay. But underneath this confusion,
the idea is there. In a dim way, long
before the evolutionary theory was
dreamed or guessed at, the intuitive
divination which is in man had told
him that he was but at the outset of a
long journey and that his path lay up
ward. All they who have walked
worthily have carried that message in
their hearts.
The whole world is trembling on the
threshold of the mighty secret that
not a few. have guessed. This is the
ultimate, dominating, indestructible
mastery of the force which we name
will or soul, for want of definite term
il ology to match defined conception.
Ii viii be accepted when its passport is
vised by science, to whom the multi
tude have dedicated authority to pass
on many things. And the pen of sci
ence' is poised above the scroll in readi-
ness to write.
Her very latest word is Of particles
so infinitely smaller than atoms as to
beggar comparison, and so endowed for
effective work that we must conceive
them as always and with incompara-
BILE rapidity giving off electrical dis
charges and recuperating. At this cli-
max of subdivision the distinction be-
tween force and matter sinks to mere
name and vanishes. Their stuff wavers
and becomes identical Nothing but
fear of announcing too soon a doctrine
whose demonstration will be difficult,
and of enduring the reproach of unsci-
entif1c method prevents the greatest
minds of the world today from resolv-
ing all that the senses know and all
that the mind conceives into different
forms of the one psychic force that
does not SO much pervade the universe
as constitute it.
The tremendous and immediate les
son Of this fact is that we are not
creatures but masters of our fate. The
world wags badly, events happen un-
towardly and peoples rush upon their
destruction not because of some malefic
power, or because blind chance has
turned her wheel to leftward in a pet
but because humanity is not great,
pure, wise and determined enough to
choose its own goal and reach 1t. Down
somewhere in the mass of uniformed
protoplasm there was a force, call it
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30

tlohed has a dreary mundane sugges-
ton. And what transcendent attrac-
ton is there about our own congress
that would make us look forward with
delight to attending its heavenly ses-
sions? We would advise Mrs Pepper.
whose profession is that of medium, to
stick to those little artless details by
means of which other mediums comfort
clients and make a living Her birds
eye view of the heavenly realm will in
crease neither her popularity nor her
bank account.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30

the enervating influence, the debilitat-
ing attack OF a future immune from
poverty and unlimited TO labor. Work
is no curse, but blessing. The only
man who is entitled to live is the work.
er. Give to all the race today a secure
future, ana not only would effort de-
crease and die away. but. unlike the
false and fairylike picture that Bel
lamy drew in his Looking Back.
ward" we should have race of ig-
noble creatures with the minimum of
activity, with weak and unworthy SYM
pathy. resting in an idle present be-
cause the future could not enforce upon
them its inexorable demands.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30
BEAUTY AND THE BOILED SHIRT

We have no faith in the truth of the
declaration that beauty for woman is
TO be found in the washtub, nor hope
that any considerable number of wom-
en- will seek for it there. 1t was a Chi
cago doctor who, addressing the MEM
bers of a woman's club the other day,
gave it out that the secret of beauty
was hidden in the suds of the wash
tub and that it might be the more easily
found if the seeker would fire the hired
girl, drink plenty of water, then exer-
else fervently at the tub. The news
papers have already given much space
to the exploitation of the theory, but
it has not been reported that there is
any extraordinary boom on in the
washtub trade. The dear girls are
shy.
And really we do not blame them.
There may be the best ANATOMICAL and
physiological reasons in the world at
the bottom of the doctors advice, but
we doubt if it will work out. We know
personally a number of very respectable
women who are devoted, professionally.
to the washtub; who spend all the time
that other women fritter away in golf,
tennis, tea, talk and dressing in rub
bing energetically on a washboard: who
do not confine their forms in deadly de-
vices. We do not know these ladies
we'll, but We are fully aware of their
devotion TO the exercise that is to be
to admit that they do not present in
every instance that shining beauty of
face and form that should be the por-
ton of the devotee of the tub-accord-
ing to the Chicago doctor. We regard
these ladies highly. and as necessary TO
the scheme OF domestic economy, but
we have not yet heard that any one
of them has been offered large sums OF
money to pose for the figure or face
by the beauty magazines. We do not
say that the washtub is destroyer of
beauty, but we do contend that we have
not yet been shown that loveliness-
mere physical loveliness, aside from
that of the spirits the certain por-
tion of the woman who exercises at the
washtub.
While scouting the washtub theory
of this particular theorist we might
as well enter protest now against the
giving advice to any woman on the
subject of personal beauty. We have
never seen any evidence that the Chi
cago man was a judge OF female love-
illness; 1t has never been proved be-
yond doubt that the Chicago type of
beauty is the best type. As matter
of fact we have heard OF statues that
were built on Chicago models being re-
jected by outlanders who had never
seen enough of the models to get used
to their standard of beauty. 1t may be
that the washtub would improve the
looks Of the Chicago woman. That is a
matter between the Chicago woman
the doctor and the washtub. AS for
woman as she is known in st. Paul she
will do without the washtub. 1t may
be true that little of rubbing at the
washboard on occasion would help the
figure of the woman who has not
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30

beautiful ducal illusion shattered. We
have had served up such personal de-
tails of their graces' private lives that
even should we come face to face with
a ducal coronet on the street no emo
ton would be aroused. And so if that
reviewer sought to disquiet us by his
warning, he. has failed miserably. What
are dukes and duchesses to us now that
we know that dukes and duchesses are
like us?
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30

enough to do, but that there is anything
in common between the development
of female beauty and the production of
the boiled shirt as an article for the
adornment and comfort of the head OF
the house we do most emphatically
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30

We hasten to deny the rumor that
some foreign missionary society has
found it necessary to notify Hetty
Green that her money is not good.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30

And the discussion so far as it has
gone does not appear to have Glad
dened the heart of John d. Rockefeller
the least bit
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30

Chauncey Depew is 72, and doesn't
look it. but to call him a well pre-
served peach is not the way to make a
hit with Chauncey.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30

Goodby.