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4 The St. Paul Globe THE GLOBE CO.. PUBLISHERS CfFICTAL r l-£*nr*(v>i>»*!\2EfiL2!, \ CITY OP Paper " : <G*^|g||g|p£> - St . Pau: . Entered at Postofflce at St. Paul. Minn., as Second-Class Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS Northwestern—Business, 1065 Main. Editorial. 78 Main. Twin City—Business, 1065; Editorial. 78. fmj . — -; - -_- — CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS By Carrier — Monthly Rate Only paily only 40 cents per month ally and Sunday 50 cents per month Sunday 20 cents per month > — COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS " By Mall. | 1 mo. |6 mos. |12 mos. Bally only 26 $1.50 *3.00 ally and Sunday .. .35 2.00 4.00 Bunday 20 1.10 2.00 EASTERN REPRESENTATIVE W. J. MORTON. 150 Nassau St.. New York City. 87 Washington St.. Chicago. THE ST.PAUL DAILYGLOBE'S \u25a0 circulation Is now the larg- est morning circulation in St. Paul. liAORE copies of the St. Paul '"' Globe than of any other morning newspaper in St. Paul or Minneapolis are delivered by carriers to regular paid subscrib- ers at their homes. THE St. Paul Sunday Globe Is \u25a0 now acknowledged to be the best Sunday Paper In the North- west and has the largest circu- lation. A DVERTISERS get 100 per ** cent more in results for the money they spend on advertising in The Globe Ih.in from any other paper. "THE Globe circulation Is ex- \u25a0 elusive, because it is the only Democratic Newspaper of gen- eral circulation in the Northwest. A DVERTISERS in The Globe ** resch this great and daily Increasing constituency, and it cannot be reached in any other way. DESULTS COUNT— \u25a0* THE GLOBE GIVES THEM. THURSDAY, FEB. 2, 1905 THE PEOPLE AND THE STREET RAILWAY Tbe G!c be baa little Bear .that the campaign which the street railway company has tarried on without inter- mission for so many months to secure the immense prize that it is after will avail. For just as many months The Globe, representing the opinion of very nearly the whole community, has been following on its trail. Every phase of the question has been pre- sented and ev< ry danger pointed out. Corporation Counsel Michael has stood like a rock for public right, and to him more than to any other must credit be given for the strong position in which we stand today. The mem- bers of the council with very few ex- ceptions have stood by the people, and the people themselves have not beon slow in expressing their wishes to their representatives. All the members of the council have now been placed on record by inter- views in our columns, and it is reason- ably clear where they will stand at the final conference to be held a week hence. The labors of the street rail- way company have been incessant and severe. It has used threats wrirre it thought threats would be effective, and smooth Avoids and promises where these would not avail. It has captured a few weak-kneed citizens, to whom a crumb thrown scornfully today means more than a fortune to- morrow. It has dazzled the eyes of a few persons owning or interested in idle real estate along some of the routes where extensions are proposed. It has caused a little wavering on the part of a few members of the council who will doubtless return to their original opinion, unless they are pre- pared for an unpleasant time with their constituents. It has not carried its point; and we believe it impossible that it should. There is but one thing for the city to do; as The Globe has maintained from the outset, and this is to adhere to its present position and carry on the suit against the street railway company to the end. Eet us not for a moment forget that the real stake contended for is a vast sum of money ranging from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000, according to the growth of St. Paul and the increase of street travel. That is what the gross earnings tax wi!l amount to for the thirty-five years that the company's franchise has still to run. It is an enormous amount, and we do not blame the street railway company for trying to escape payment if it can. We should do something more than blame the members of the council if by any act of theirs this evasion should be made possible. No man who votes in favor of it wili ever be able to expunge that record. We have absolutely nothing to gain by any form of compromise. We are speaking now with reference to the imposition of the gross earnings tax. If the company should consent to that, it might be worth our while to confar further. A compromise that omits the gross earnings tax is not a compro- mise at all, but a sheer surrender. The people of St. Paul will not listen Jo it The company has, indeedj offer- Ed nothing In exchange. As The Globe has repeatedly shown, its so- called concessions are merely proffers of what it wishes and has already de- termined to do in Its own interest. The people have nothing to gain by yielding and everything to win by standing fast. Already several meetings have been held and others have been called to consider this subject before the con- ference on Feb. 9. We hope that the people will come together in every section of the city and express them- selves so forcibly that no member of the council will dare to disregard their commands. We can promise for our part that any who are unfaithful to their trust will not be allowed to drop into oblivion or have their act passed unremarked. No greater responsibil- ity has perhaps been placed upon any city council than that which rests upon the present body in the present crisis. The rights of the people must be maintained. "Bathhouse John" Coughlin is a candidate for mayor of Chicago stand- ing on the platform, "Lift the lid and keep it lifted." There in more of men- ace to the ambitions of other candi- dates to the mayoralty in that plat- ! form than is apparent to the man who is not acquainted with the people of the dear old town of Chicago. THE NEW REIGN OF TERROR It is apparent that Russia is once more in the grip of the reactionaries This is according to the inevitable law of the swing of human nature from one extreme to another. The grant of any measure of liberty or reform by a government absolutely despotfc tyrannical for centuries fires a revolu- tionary spark among the people. The slightest assertion on the part of the people of their mere rights as human being . provokes a new scourging anl multiplies mass s. The peo*ple of Russia were unpre- pared for the opportunity that came to them ten days ago. Had they been educated into the necessity of Imme- diate and persistenl action, had they been hardened by despair, as steel is tempered, they would have gone on. By this time the air of Russia would I black with Finokf ;md her soil soaked with blood, but liberty woirtfl have been on its way. Un- r> ady as they were, unequal to tho great and sudden emergency, they have fallen back into a more unhappy estate. At the same time, the authori- ties have been provoked to new dem- onstration of their power and to the accomplishment of a bitter revenge. We shall hear grim news from Rus- sia from this time on. Every promi- nent liberal will be marked for punish- ment. Every man who sympathizes with the people will have to hurry into concealment or exile. All the rigors of the worst regimes will be repeated. The authorities see retaliation in this. Despotism in Russia is ultimately doomed, but it may be made to last through the day of the tyrants who now hold sway. They can maintain themselves for a brief space only by exercising unsparingly their power. To execute, to search, to imprison, to exile, to shoot down upon the spot all those who question ttyeir autocratic right is their only hope of salvation. There is and there can be no middle ground. The czar, weak-minded as ho is, terrified, incapable of governing himself, cannot do other than surren- der his work to the strong hands that surround him. These hands are red with human blood, and more must flow while they harry the country into a temporary submission. This will last until the patience of the people is utterly broken; and then they will rise again, and this time to some purpose. Until then one of the darkest pages in all the evil history of Russia remains to be written. Gen. Trepoff is not so anxious to get close to the great, throbbing heart of the Russian people that he is going a-slumming all by himself. WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE The attempt is still going forward, for some inscrutable reason, to jam the new code prepared by the statute revision commission through the legis- lature. Portions of it are being re- ported and there is a strange anxiety, for which we do not pretend to ac- count, in many quarters to have them adopted. The bulk of the legislature seems still to linger under the spell of the strange delusion that it is com- pelled by some inscrutable obligation to do something with this revision at this session. C)n that basis it is pre- paring to adopt the whole or a part of the motley work. If it shall do this, it is our purpose to see that it carries proper responsibility. There is no reason why the legisla- ture at this session should take any action upon the work of the revision commission, and there are many rea- sons why it should not- No harm can come from delay. This legislature is just as free to go upon its own way and pass, amend or repeal such laws as it thinks necessary as any other legislature assembled in the history of the state. As far as its freedom of action is concerned, the revision com- mission might never have existed. All this extraordinary notion that it must do something with the code before it is free to act on general legislation is a delusion and a myth. On the other hand, the arguments against action are so cogent as to convince at once any rational mind. It has been proved that the propose, code is full of practically revolution ary changes. It has been proved that these are so many in number and so thoroughly scattered throughout the work, without anything to indicate their presence, that nothing but a verbal comparison of the new law with the old, a matter requiring months to complete, would malce It safe to adopt any portion of the com- mission's conclusions. One change after another has been exposed, ro radical, so unnecessary, so amazing in its character, that only the wildest and most daring mind could conceive of adopting this work or any portion of it without a searching inquiry. The Globe has taken the lea-1 and borne the brant of the battle in disclosing the imperfections of the re- vision commission's work. This is now acknowledged on all sides. For some reason, inexplicable and unim- aginable by us, the Republican news- papers have stuck their heads into the sand whenever the code was men- tioned. This is not a party fight. We do not care whether the members of the commission were Republicans or Democrats. We know only that their utterly improper and dangerous prep- aration cannot be accepted by either Republican or Democrat except at hi.^ own peril. To proceed with the adop- tion of this code at this session is no less than treason to the state, v i may entail unnumbered ills upon its people. Against that we protest; anl if it be done those who do it must ac- cept responsibility. The fining of a man in the sum of $10 for swearing through a telephone looks like an attack by a suborned judiciary on th^ right of free speech. A man who pays the telephone price ought to be allowed to choose his own language. MEN, WOMEN AND PHOTOGRAPHS Nowadays, to judge from their simultaneous appearance, the man who writes a book takes the precau- tion to inclose a photograph with his manuscript. Xo one, indeed, abreast of the times and desirous of having a ca- reer would think in these progressive times uf starting out upon it unpho- tograjjhed. Women rested loi Accustomed to distributing their coun- terfeit presentments among their inti- mates only, it was difficult for them to get used to the thought of having their pictures stared at by an undiscrimi- nating public. Moreover, there was al- ways to deter them the awful thought that the photograph would not turn out well when printed. Marie Corelli, we believe, held off longer than any other woman in the public eye. She was willingto give pen pictures of herself as the heroine of her own novels, but a photograph—perish the thought. But within ihe year Miss Corelli, vowing she would ne'er consent, con- sented. Her photograph was publish- ed. N But now that women have become used to seeing their pictures in the newspapers and the magazines, a few publishers have come to the conclu- sion that the victory won in persuading them is, at best, of doubtful value. One literary magazine that has been making it a point to publish the pic- tures of all bluestockings who have achieved success in the literary world, complains that these writers are not willing that the same photograph shall be used twice. Whenever a new book is published by them, they insist on a •new photograph. And this wail has drawn expression from a few newspa- per editors. One of the latter admits that he has received sharp letters from women calling him to task for reprint- ing photographs of them in gowns that, because of their antiquated style, are telltale. Most fair minded people will admit, however, that in this matter of the publication of photographs men have much the better of it. To judge from the pictures that are published of him in the newspapers, the politician of to- day looks exactly the same as he did twenty-five years ago. His picture as it appears year after year mutely tes- tifies to the fact that he has discovered the fountain of perpetual youth. Not so with his prominent sister. Every woman knows that the photograph ot herself ages much more quickly than she does. She knows that the picture taken of her ten years ago makes her look ten years older than she does at the present time. Her protest, there- fore, to magazines and newspapers that whenever she paints a picture or reads a paper or publishes a book, some old photograph showing her twenty years older than she really i9 shall not be resurrected, would seem to be justified. Chivalry demands that In every case a new plate be made from a x>rand new photograph. A Kansas City paper claims that counterfeit $100 bills are circulating in that town. The claim will be eyed askance by those who know Kansas City advertising methods. It is ob- viously based on a desire to make the public believe that there are real $100 bills in circulation there. Perhaps this obvious disposition on the part of the federal authorities to tie cans to the Hon. T. Bixby and the equally Hon. John Goodnow Is in- spired by a desire to get them back into Minnesota to take up the work of reorganizing the g. o. p. in these parts. | Contemporary Comment T Women Ballot Box Stuffers Yet they falsified tally sheets and stuffed ballot boxes with a free hand. The legislature can expose the frauds of the female electors without sub- jecting them to penalties for felony. There may be those who object to this, believing that a woman who corrupts the ballot box should take pot luck and jail with men who do the same. But let us at least lift our hats to the gal- lantry of Colorado.—San Francisco Call. Our Export Trade But even the president, when it comes to devising plans for expanding our export trade, gets no further than to suggest the appointment of six com- mercial attaches in foreign countries. Reciprocity has been consigned to the limbo of forgotten things in the senate. Its twin brother, tariff revision*, may have gone into rapid decline at the White house.—New York World. Troubles in Russia It is_ much more difficult in these days to start a revolution that it was a century ago. but If these obstacles are overcome the revolutionary forces, when they once succeed in establishing their ascendency, are likely to set no limit to the extent to which they can, and will develop their cause.—Boston Herald. Officials' Silent Tongues It now comes from Washington that Secretary Shaw will be permitted to serve out his four years only on condi- tion that he remain in Washington and keep his mouth shut. This may not be true, but it is not inconsistent with other decrees by which others were si- lenced.—Galveston Daily News. Kashgar and the Russians n Russia Withe* to advance upon India and did not care to pass through Afghanistan, Persia or Beluthistan, it would be ii'-cessary to find a route throush .Eastern Turkestan. In that event Kashgar might be of some mili- tary value.—Chicago Tribune. Plea for Railroad Passes There is one thing to I>. said in favor r»f r;n , irs — these gentlemen would spend more time at Harrisbiirg emu ting dubious laws if they 'li'l not have free transportation home.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Jerome for Monte Carlo Jerome, of New York, is the only man who might seriously claim the ability to break the bank at Monte Carlo if he bad nothing else to do. — Chit ago Record-Herald. She Knew the Combination lr Cassie gets out on ball there is no hope for the remaining Ohio bankers I in their safes and pull the doors shut after them. —Birming- ham Age-Herald. AH of Them Are Wise in Art BoatOM is happy l.i^.;uiS'> experts have declared its Velasques portrait genuine. But every Bostonian knew that at Brat glance. — Chattanooga Times. What the Editors Say The proposition appears to be made seriously that the legislature ought to adopt the entire code us preserved by the revision commission, without stop- ping to see what is in it. The idea is so monstrous and so repugnant to ev- ery thoughtful consideration of the in- terests of the state that one could not at first realize the enormity of the proposition. Enough has already been discovered in the report of the commis- sion to indicate that it ought to be ex- amined with the utmot care.—North- field Independent Minnesotans who have visited tlv? new state capitol complain of the smallness of the interior apartments. It is f-aid that the niches for the busts of distinguished statesmen are so small that there is not a single one of them large enough to hold the bust of ex- Gov. Van Sant, providing the bust is made according to Van Sanfs estimate of his own size.—Faribault Pilot. Clothed with a little brief authority, a country pumpkin with a certificate of election as a representative in the legislature is made to believe when he reaches St. Paul that he is some pumpkins, and after the smooth ones get through with him he comes back home about the humblest unit in a grand sum total. Sic transit gloria.— Bemidji Sentinel. The St. Paul Globe says that a South Dakota legislator has a bill to provide for the protection of jack rab- bits. That leaves only the cacti, among the important products of that great country, unprotected.— ApptetOß Press. A feminine newspaper was to have been started in New York this month. The Idea, however, was given up owing to the ability of women to deliver the news verbally.—Chutfield News-Demo- crat. Some of the state papers are charg- ing our wife with writing the "Men's Column" in the Herald. They better not do it to her face. —Sauk Center Herald (Frank Eddy, Ed.). If Got. Johnson is made of the right material he will use the veto on several graft measures introduced at this ses- sion of the legislature. — Norwood Times. \u25a0i TODAY'S WEATHER a ft WASHINGTON, D C, Feb. Fore- cast: Minnesota. Upper Michigan and Wis- consin—Fair, continued cold Thursday; Friday fair, warmer; fresh west winds, diminishing. North Dakota. South Dakota. lowa and Montana—Fair, warmer Thursday and Friday. St. Paul — Yesterday's observations, taken by the United States weather bu- reau. St. Paul, W. E. Oliver, observer, for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last Barometer corrected for tem- perature- and elevation. Barometer, 30.72; relative humidity, 82; weather, clear; maximum temperature. —12; minimum temperature, —21; daily range. 9; mean temperature. —16; 7 p. m . temperature. —15; wind at 7 p. m., northwest; precipi- tation. 0* -' \u25a0 Yesterday's Temperatures— •BpmHigh| »SpmHigh Alpena. 6 16 Huron ...-18 -12 Battleford ...-16 -12! Jacksonville .54 .. Bismarck ...-20 -18 Kansas City . -4 10 Buffalo 14 24 Los Angeles.. 60 62 Boston .:•.... 24 26 Madison -14 -2 Calgary ......26 -26 Marquette ... -6 2 Charles City.-16 -12 Memphis 24 32 Cheyenne ... -4 0 Medicine Hat. -24 -IS Chicago 10 -2 Milwaukee -10 0 Cincinnati .. 18 24 Minnedosa ...-22 -8 Cleveland ... 14 22 Montreal 6 8 Denver 4 10 Moorhead -18-12 Dcs Molnes..-12 -6 New Orleans. 52 56 Detroit 10 18 New York ... 24 26 Devils Lake.. -22 -lSlOraaha -14 -6 Duluth -16 -12 Pittsburg .... 22 32 El Paso 64 72 Qu'Appelle ...-22 -14 Edmonton ... -8 -2 San Francisco 54 56 Escanaba ... -4 6 St. Louis .... 10 IS Galveston ... 62 56 Salt Lake ..:. 44 46 Grand Rapids 4 12 S. - Ste. Marie. 2 12 Green Bay .. -8 0 Washington .. 26 30 Havre -28 -22 Winnipeg ....-24 .. Helena .......10 -8 - " Vr' ; •Washington time (7 p. m. SL Paul). ,-Below, zero* - / --_v THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1905 At St Paul Theaters Among the Merrymakers Snide Lights on History When r/iatrimony Is Frenzied Correctly Classified New Use for Phonographs Twice Three Feet STILLWATER An Oriental atmosphere will settle about the premises and on the stage of the Metropolitan when "A Chinese Honeymoon" opens its engagement to- night. "A Chinese Honeymoon." unlike most of the musical farces from Lon- don, has only one dramatist, George Dance, and one composer, Howard Tal- bot. although in the American presen- tation there are several interpolated numbers. In writing the book George Dance took suggestions from the old 1-rench comic opera, Fleur de Lis." The score is full of bright things,whkh this city is sure to enjoy, among them being 'Roly Poly," "A Paper Fan." "I Want to Be a Lidy," and "Oo Long Li." The usual Saturday matinee will be given. Frank Campeau, whose picturesque characterization of Trampas. the bad. bad man In 'The Virginian." which will be seen at the Metropolitan opera house next week, gains the undying disfavor of all the matinee misses, is a young actor whom fate and physiognomy seem to have agreed to keep in the ranks of stage "heavy man" for all time. Campeau is a young man. a good actor and a personable, pleasant sort of a fellow in private life. who has ambitions, as have most heavy men, to some time reform and emerg- ing from the turgid depths of stage in- iquity to shine in the lens-centered limelight as a virtuous hero who saves the maiden, pays off the mortgage and gets all the applause in the last act- It is as Trampas, however, that his sinuous iniquity tinds its most artistic exemplification. Campeau is French- Canadian by heredity, American by birth, a brother of a famous baseball player and manager, and possessed of an idea that some day he will j-lay v real hero who should be typi< ally Amer- ican because he will be an Ametkan Irtdian. Lovers of wholesome fun will find it in Broadhurst & Carrie's latest offer- ing, Fritz and Snitz," at the Grand, with Mason and Mason, the German comedians, in the leading parts. The • tan full of catchy music and pretty girls and is presented by a ca- companj of comedians. Alison and Mason and Delia Stacey, iik the burlesque on a baseball game, furnish much merriment Prank Hayes, in hia ilty, finds favor. The runs the entire week, including a matinee Saturday. The seat sale for "Williams and Walker begins at the Grand box office this morning at 9 o'clock for their en- gagement for a week, commencing Sunday matinee. Only a few weeks have elapsed since these comedians and their wives, Mrs. Lottie Williams and Mrs. Aida Walker, together with their large company of colored artists, were playing in England. King Ed- ward and his royal wife' Queen Alex- andra, heart! of their fame and com- manded them to appear before them. Jesse A. Shipp and Will Cool are au- thors of "In Dahomey." The Tiger Lilies coin-, .my is giving an excellent show at the Star and the man are i rally as- tonishing people who remember E dow. •*Thc youth who fired the Ephesian dome had just gained everlasting fame." "But I would trade it all," he remark- ed, "if I could live long enough" to get a crack nt the Chicago city hall." - Which proved that he was one who loved his How men. Louis XIV. had just uttered his famous remark. "L'etat c'est moi." £:\ \u25a0 Cardinal Mazarin laughed in his sleeve. '"Let him think so," said the wily Ital- ian under his breath. "But if he should attempt to revise the tariff he will soon lind that .1 am the Joe Cannon to his Roosevelt." Chuckling to himself he mixed a fresh tumbler of eau sucre. — Chicago News. s< ;i!i <i bids ;<n>i proposals will be ceived at the Elite Matrimonial Bfl Dp to noon Friday for ihbteon ti:;> French counts, pedigrees guaranteed; six \u25a0*>> KnK- lish lords, titles unimpaired and l'ully War- ranted, and one (1) Italian pri> t:al aorta only jiartlv mortgaged. Bids may be for all or any part. I'romi livery. No deposit required. High-class opportunity for Pittsbuig. Chicago or Cin- cinnati speculators.—Puck. "Do you own any steamboats, yachts or launches?" asked the assessor. "No. si;." \u25a0 Any carriages, wagons, buggies, carts, bicycles, automobiles' — "Yea, a bicycle and an automobile." "Huh. huh. Then you also <-om»* under the head of tacks-dodgers."—Kui.sas City World. An enterprising German has patented a device for fitting phonographs to doors. As a customer enters the door of a shop a voice will call out: "Flour is cheap** today." "New consignment of spe- cial quality mincemeat just received; try some." and similar Invitations.—Talking Machine News. "I'll bet you haven't got what ymi might call a yard attached to your city • house." said Btxbbobs. "Indeed?" replied Townley. "It's equal to two ordinary yards." - "In siz»»V "Yes. It's six feet"—Philadelphia Led- ger. Marks of Civilization "Why don't you think better of our civ- ilization?" "Because." answered the Chinese of- ficial. "I can't see anything it has done for us except to introduce the two-stt-p and the automobile."—Washington Star. Her Mind Not Genuine "Harold!" began his wife in a furious temper, "my mind is made up" — "Mercy:" Interrupted her husband. "Is that so? I had hoped that your mind at least was your own."—Detroit Free Press Just the Thing v Forsyte—l'll take this horn. Salesman—But that one's out of order. It wont blow. I'll— Forsyte—l know. That's why I want it. It's for one of my own children.—Phila- delphia Press. Floyd Sherrard, a son of Matt Sherranl, residing on a farm in the town of Grant was shot accidentally by Walter Randall. a six-year-old son of Mrs. Vene Randall but the attending physician says the boy will recover unless complications arise. The Sherrard boy, twelve years of age, was playing with the Randall boy in the kitchen at the home of Mrs. Nathan Fair- banks, and the Randall boy picked up a small rifle and pulled the trigger. The boy "didn't know the gun was loaded" and was almost frightened to death when his playmate fell to the floor. The bullet en- tered the right breast, flattened on a bone and, deflecting, came out under the right arm. Wlnford Stussl, while driving a hack team down the Myrtle street hill, had a runaway. The horses crossed the North- ern Pacific tracks near the union depot, overturning the hack, and Stussi was thrown to the ground. Two of his ribs were broken. ANNOUNCES THE FATE OF MRS. ROGERS TODAY Gov. Bell Will Decide Whether or Not to Grant Reprieve MONTPELIER, Vt.. Feb. I.—Wheth- er Mary Mabel Rogers, now occupying the death cell at the Windsor state prison, will die on the gallows next iriday afternoon as ordered by the court, in which she was found guilty of murdering her husband, Marcus Rogers, or be granted a reprieve, while the supreme court is petitioned for a new trial, will be announced at Water- bury tomorrow by Gov. Bell. Today's hearing presented the un- usual spectacle of five officers of the law charged with inflicting the death penalty, pleading with the governor to delay their duties. The petitioners al- leged that Leon Perham, now serving a life sentence for complicity in the crime, had recently confessed that he had lied on the stand, swearing away Mrs. Rogers' life to save himself from the gallows; that he and not Mrs. Rog- ers administered the chloroform, and that there was hereditary insanity in the Rogers family. PLAINTS AND ANIMALS ENGAGE SCIENTISTS Assistant Secretary Hays Helps Breed* ers' Association Along CHAMPAIGN, II!.. Feb. I.—The sec- ond annual meeting of the American Breeders' association began here today. The department of agriculture was represented by Assistant Secretary « "let lft. Hays, who is also secretary of the association, and Drs. Herbert J. \\ebber and George L. Moore. There are present many of the most promi- nent agricultural scientists of America and Canada, besides practical animal and plant breeders. An important point developed today is that, by breeding, bacteria for all the leguminous crops, such as alfalfa, clover and cou ,v be produced that will bo specially adapted t.> di ent types of soil. Tho object of the as- sociation is to Bolve the problems upon which the profitable production of animals and food-bearing plains de- Calls «Hubby Lazy and Brutal CHICAGO, Feb. l. — The runaway marriage of Lillian Russell's daughter Dorothy. has ended in the divorce ts. In a petition filed today Ab- bott L. Einstein, the husband, is cl <-.| with being extravagant, lazy and brutal. "He refuses to work, and lam compelled to suppoit him," she says. Failing to y from his v .-ife it is dec!.--..), Einstein took $2,000 worth of her diamonds and spent tho pro- ling. Six weeks is alleged to have i his w;. - i y an( j t0 have her many other times. Twice v is \u25a0 \u25a0 he threaten d her with a revolver in d about money. Grocers Aro Alert v FORK, Feb. I.—Fifteen Bl ? vere : "d at the annual meet- .;s ol the \ ari- • 't.- wholesale - itions comprising the National Whol iation. n was decided l!;at • iffve committee shall at once cull the wholesale grocery trade of the country to organ- . general movement for self-pro- n. Tho consensus was that every effort must be made to bring the jobber and manufacturer into closer touch. An exe<ut: ittee was chosen of which J. F. Kelly, of St. Paul, is a mcml News Condensed Northfleld, Vt.— Count Peretta de la Rocea. commissioner representing France, and Commissioner Jose de J Paul of Venezuela, had a . preliminary meeting here with Frank M. Plumley, the referee who will name the award in claims Of France against Venezuela. New York—After ten yean of labor and Hi.- expenditure of J9;*OO,OO0 the nei Cornell dam, near Croton idson from which this city wiii draw largely water supply, has been com it Is the largest piece of masonry In the world except the pyramids. Rer-o. Nev.— William Andres and Wil- liam Jones, prospector?, report the dis- covery of another strange cave In South- rn Nevada. The cave has be plored to a depth <>f 800 ;'• \u25a0\u25a0 t and snowa evidence of a prehistoric race. Budapest—Emperor Francis Joseph re- d Premier Ttexa in audience in Vienna. The latter handed the emperor the resignation of the Hungarian cabinet The emperor has summoned Count Julius Aadrassy, opposition leader, to Vienna. Gettysburg. Pa.—Dr. William Press of Baltimore, ha* been appointed t<> nil the vacancy in the presidency of tlv General I.nth. ran Synod of America, caut?< d by the d<.ath of Dr. K. j. Wolf, of Gettysburg. hington—The attorney general holds that a patented device of a company em- ix.iiyiiiK the return postage idea cannot be adopted by the postmaster general un- less congress gives him specific authority. Xt\v York—Plans for providing 7". \u25a0el 1 children of New i'ork with ;i warm meal at the beginning of each day, con- ceived by Commander Eva Booth, of the SaKation Army. had been put into oper- ation. Chicago—A temporary injunction against the city was issued by Judge Grosscup, In the United Slates circuit court, restrain- ing city officials from enforcing an ordi- nance fixing the price of ga.s at To cents. Constantinople—The Turkish forces have routed the rebels investing Sanaa and •la Yemen, province Arabia, and re- i the besieged garrison of Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Havana —President Palma formally de- dared hla allegiance to the Moderate party. This means his candidacy for a second term and probable re-election. Washington—Frederick I. Allen, com- missioner of patents, will be continued in that office. It had been rumored he con- templated retiring soon. Chicago—Actual control of the Chicago City Railway company has bpen trans- ferred to the Morgan-Field-Mitchell-Val- entine syndicate. Now York—Richard Croker ha? arrived from England to attend the funeral of his son Frank, who was killed.while speeding his automobile. . Oberlln. Ohio—President T. D. Beckwith, of the closed Citizens' National l>ank. Ls slowly finking and is likely to die at any moment. Abbeville. Ga.—Bailiff W. H. Livingston was killed and five persons were wound- ed as the result of a feud over a line fence. Birmingham. Ala.—The nineteenth an- nual convention »of the National Associa- tion of Brick Manufacturers has opened here. Washington—The government receipts In January were $43,410,285 and the ex- penditures $49,G28,2V9, a deficit of $6,218,- --014. Chicago—Attorney Victor R. O'Shea, on trial charged with the killing of his wife, was convicted of manslaughter. The petitions that are being circulated asking the district court to apoint a com- mission to revise the Stillwater city char- ter, are being generally signed, and the required 220 names will be had In a day or two. John J. KHty has gone to Chicago and St. LiOuif, intending to be absent ten days. Fort Worth. Tex.—Twenty persons were injured. two seriously, in a collision be- tween a freight train and a street car. "Washington—Representative Samuel W. Smith, of Michigan, is critically ill of pneumonia. fICHT ON SPECIAL MAIL FACILITIES Same Old Controversy Bobs Up In House on the Post- office Bill WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. I.—The postoffice appropriation bill occupied the attention of the house the major portion of the day. The usual fight on special mail facilities on trunk lines cropped out. Mr. Moon, of Tennessee, arraigned those Democrats supporting the proposition, charging them with favoring a subsidy which would bene- fit their sections, while at the same time inveighing against the Republic- an party for its attitude regarding subsidies in general. The house dis- cussed proposed legislation looking to the regulation of railroad rates, the principal remarks being made by Messrs. Shirley (Ky.) and Sibley (Pa.). The postoffice bill was amend"- -cd in several particulars, the most im- portant change consisting in the transfer of the inspection service of the department from the fourth as- sistant's office to that of the postmas- ter general. Messrs, dark (Mont.), Dillingham and leller continued the discussion of the joint statehood bill in the senate, Mr. Dillinsham supporting the meas- ure as it stands and the other two sen- ators contending for amendments and the right of the four territories to be admitted as so man. m . Clark expressed the opinion that the time had come for abolishing the ter- ritorial form of government, except in Alaska. Senator Quarles introduced a resolution requiring the census bureau to collect statistics relative to mar- riage and divorce. Injunction Bill Is Killed WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. I.—The committee on the judiciary today ; to postpone Indefinitely the fur- ther consideration of the bill prohibit- ing the use of injunctions and restrain- big-orders in labor disputes. The tion was taken by practically a party in the committee. A motion to "reconsider the vote and lay that ac- \u25a0 n the table." which Is the parlia- mentary method of making it impossi- ble to bring the subject up for consid- eration in the future, also-was agreed to. Prepares for Cattle Quarantine WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. I.—Tho house committee on agriculture today authorised a favorable report on a bill directing the secretary of agriculture a quarantine in any state or • he shall determine the thai cattle or other live stock are ted with contagious >. The l)iil prohibits transportation companies from transporting li\" stock from quar- antine sections except under specific regulations to be provided by the sec- retary. A penalty of a fine and impris- onment is i>ro\ ; Shortens Course at Annapolis WASHINGTON, D. «'.. Feb. I.—Rep- tative Foss (111.) Introduced a bill In,lay to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the personnel of the navy. It shortens the course at the naval academy until 1913 to three years. One year's sea duty after graduation is required instead of tu<>. as at pres- ent. The a^e of midshipmen entering the academy is fixed at from fifteen to seventeen years. The bill creates ;i rye list,' on which captains who have readied the age of sixty years shall be placed. This age limit is gradually reduced to fifty-live. Grants for Agriculture WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. I.—The agricultural appropriation bill was re- ported to the senate today. It carries $6,787,170, an increase of $206,710 over the bill as passed by the house. The principal items of increase are $71,- --f>4o for the bureau of animal industry, $45,000 for tho bureau of plant indus- try, $27,260 for the bureau of forest reserve and $20,000 each for Vx> bu- reau of chemistry, the weather bureau and for public roads. Remove the Miles Snag WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. I.— The house provision in the army bill limit- ing the pay of retired officers strictly to the ret|re<3 pay of their rank was settled today in conference by tho sen- ate conferees accepting the house pro- vision in principle. The wording was so changed that there can be no doubt that such officers shall receive the retired pay to which their rank entitles them. Promotes Publicity WASHINGTON, D. C Feb. I.—The house committee on the judiciary to- day authorized a favorable report on t% bill requiring: all corprations engaged in interstate commerce to make an- nual reports to the commissioner of corporations. An amendment was placed in the bill exempting common carriers from its operation, as rail- road arc required to report to the in- terstate commerce commission. New Privilege for Settlers WASHINGTON, I). C, Feb. I.—The senate today passed the bill amending the land laws so as to permit settlers on the public lands to make transfers for public uses before completing title. PREFERS NEW BILL TO THE HEPBURN MEASURE But Congressman Lind Thinks Esch- Townsend Bill Could Be Improved Globe Special Washington Service 1417 G Street WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. I.—Rep- resentative Lind regards the Esch- Townsend bill as a great improvement on the Hepburn bill. 'That bill was vicious," said Gov. Lincl today. He went on to say that he regards it as improved in that it gives the rate making power In un- equivocal terms to the commission, the rate to be made operative after thirty days and to be open to review within sixty days. The Hepburn- bill per- mitted an appeal to suspend the com- mission's order in regard to rates pending a final decision. Gov. Lind thinks the bill should be amended so as to make it dear in the trial of each appeal in the court of commerce that the court shall not disregard evidence presented to the commission, but be based on the case before that body with what new testimony may be re- garded as essential. Gov. Lind consid- ers the private car evil, by which re- bates are still given, to be more im- portant than anything in the Esch- Townsend bill, and thinks it should be amended to cover this matter. —Walter K. <Mark. Death in a Street Car GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. I.— Six persons were Injured, four probably fatally, tonight when a passenger train crashed into a street cur. The latter was tossed fifty feet. Miss Nellie Folkarksim, John Quist, Motorman VV. C. Gardiner and Miss Mary Ooslios will probably die.
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THURSDAY, FEB. 2, 1905
THE PEOPLE AND THE STREETRAILWAY
Tbe G!c be baa little Bear .that thecampaign which the street railwaycompany has tarried on without inter-mission for so many months to securethe immense prize that it is after willavail. For just as many months TheGlobe, representing the opinion ofvery nearly the whole community, hasbeen following on its trail. Everyphase of the question has been pre-sented and ev< ry danger pointed out.Corporation Counsel Michael hasstood like a rock for public right, andto him more than to any other mustcredit be given for the strong positionin which we stand today. The mem-bers of the council with very few ex-ceptions have stood by the people, andthe people themselves have not beonslow in expressing their wishes totheir representatives.
All the members of the council havenow been placed on record by inter-views in our columns, and it is reason-ably clear where they will stand at
the final conference to be held a weekhence. The labors of the street rail-way company have been incessant andsevere. It has used threats wrirre itthought threats would be effective,and smooth Avoids and promises
where these would not avail. It hascaptured a few weak-kneed citizens,to whom a crumb thrown scornfullytoday means more than a fortune to-morrow. It has dazzled the eyes of afew persons owning or interested inidle real estate along some of theroutes where extensions are proposed.
It has caused a little wavering on thepart of a few members of the councilwho will doubtless return to theiroriginal opinion, unless they are pre-pared for an unpleasant time withtheir constituents. It has not carriedits point; and we believe it impossiblethat it should.
There is but one thing for the city
to do; as The Globe has maintainedfrom the outset, and this is to adhereto its present position and carry onthe suit against the street railwaycompany to the end. Eet us not for amoment forget that the real stakecontended for is a vast sum of moneyranging from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000,according to the growth of St. Pauland the increase of street travel. Thatis what the gross earnings tax wi!lamount to for the thirty-five yearsthat the company's franchise has stillto run. It is an enormous amount, andwe do not blame the street railwaycompany for trying to escape paymentif it can. We should do somethingmore than blame the members of thecouncil if by any act of theirs thisevasion should be made possible. Noman who votes in favor of it wili everbe able to expunge that record.
We have absolutely nothing to gainby any form of compromise. We arespeaking now with reference to theimposition of the gross earnings tax.If the company should consent to that,it might be worth our while to confarfurther. A compromise that omits thegross earnings tax is not a compro-mise at all, but a sheer surrender.The people of St. Paul will not listenJo it The company has, indeedj offer-
Ed nothing In exchange. As TheGlobe has repeatedly shown, its so-
called concessions are merely proffersof what it wishes and has already de-
termined to do in Its own interest.The people have nothing to gain byyielding and everything to win by
standing fast.Already several meetings have been
held and others have been called to
consider this subject before the con-ference on Feb. 9. We hope thatthe people will come together in every
section of the city and express them-selves so forcibly that no member ofthe council will dare to disregard their
commands. We can promise for ourpart that any who are unfaithful to
their trust will not be allowed to dropinto oblivion or have their act passed
unremarked. No greater responsibil-ity has perhaps been placed upon anycity council than that which restsupon the present body in the present
crisis. The rights of the people mustbe maintained.
"Bathhouse John" Coughlin is acandidate for mayor of Chicago stand-ing on the platform, "Lift the lid andkeep it lifted." There in more of men-ace to the ambitions of other candi-dates to the mayoralty in that plat-
! form than is apparent to the man whois not acquainted with the people ofthe dear old town of Chicago.
THE NEW REIGN OF TERRORIt is apparent that Russia is once
more in the grip of the reactionariesThis is according to the inevitable lawof the swing of human nature fromone extreme to another. The grant ofany measure of liberty or reform bya government absolutely despotfctyrannical for centuries fires a revolu-tionary spark among the people. Theslightest assertion on the part of thepeople of their mere rights as humanbeing . provokes a new scourging anlmultiplies mass s.
The peo*ple of Russia were unpre-pared for the opportunity that cameto them ten days ago. Had they beeneducated into the necessity of Imme-diate and persistenl action, had theybeen hardened by despair, as steel istempered, they would have gone on.By this time the air of Russia would
I black with Finokf ;md hersoil soaked with blood, but libertywoirtfl have been on its way. Un-r> ady as they were, unequal to thogreat and sudden emergency, theyhave fallen back into a more unhappyestate. At the same time, the authori-ties have been provoked to new dem-onstration of their power and to theaccomplishment of a bitter revenge.
We shall hear grim news from Rus-sia from this time on. Every promi-nent liberal will be marked for punish-
ment. Every man who sympathizes
with the people will have to hurry intoconcealment or exile. All the rigors
of the worst regimes will be repeated.
The authorities see retaliation in this.Despotism in Russia is ultimatelydoomed, but it may be made to lastthrough the day of the tyrants whonow hold sway. They can maintainthemselves for a brief space only byexercising unsparingly their power.
To execute, to search, to imprison, toexile, to shoot down upon the spot allthose who question ttyeir autocraticright is their only hope of salvation.
There is and there can be no middleground. The czar, weak-minded asho is, terrified, incapable of governinghimself, cannot do other than surren-der his work to the strong hands thatsurround him. These hands are redwith human blood, and more mustflow while they harry the country intoa temporary submission. This willlast until the patience of the people isutterly broken; and then they will riseagain, and this time to some purpose.Until then one of the darkest pages inall the evil history of Russia remainsto be written.
Gen. Trepoff is not so anxious to get
close to the great, throbbing heart ofthe Russian people that he is goinga-slumming all by himself.
WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLEThe attempt is still going forward,
for some inscrutable reason, to jam
the new code prepared by the statuterevision commission through the legis-lature. Portions of it are being re-ported and there is a strange anxiety,for which we do not pretend to ac-count, in many quarters to have themadopted. The bulk of the legislatureseems still to linger under the spell ofthe strange delusion that it is com-pelled by some inscrutable obligationto do something with this revision at
this session. C)n that basis it is pre-paring to adopt the whole or a part ofthe motley work. If it shall do this,it is our purpose to see that it carriesproper responsibility.
There is no reason why the legisla-ture at this session should take anyaction upon the work of the revisioncommission, and there are many rea-sons why it should not- No harm cancome from delay. This legislature isjust as free to go upon its own wayand pass, amend or repeal such lawsas it thinks necessary as any otherlegislature assembled in the history ofthe state. As far as its freedom ofaction is concerned, the revision com-mission might never have existed. Allthis extraordinary notion that it mustdo something with the code before itis free to act on general legislation isa delusion and a myth.
On the other hand, the argumentsagainst action are so cogent as toconvince at once any rational mind.
It has been proved that the propose,code is full of practically revolutionary changes. It has been proved thatthese are so many in number and sothoroughly scattered throughout thework, without anything to indicatetheir presence, that nothing but averbal comparison of the new lawwith the old, a matter requiringmonths to complete, would malce It
safe to adopt any portion of the com-mission's conclusions. One change
after another has been exposed, roradical, so unnecessary, so amazing in
its character, that only the wildestand most daring mind could conceiveof adopting this work or any portion
of it without a searching inquiry.The Globe has taken the lea-1
and borne the brant of the battle indisclosing the imperfections of the re-vision commission's work. This isnow acknowledged on all sides. Forsome reason, inexplicable and unim-aginable by us, the Republican news-papers have stuck their heads into thesand whenever the code was men-tioned. This is not a party fight. Wedo not care whether the members ofthe commission were Republicans or
Democrats. We know only that theirutterly improper and dangerous prep-
aration cannot be accepted by eitherRepublican or Democrat except at hi.^own peril. To proceed with the adop-tion of this code at this session is no
less than treason to the state, v imay entail unnumbered ills upon its
people. Against that we protest; anlif it be done those who do it must ac-cept responsibility.
The fining of a man in the sum of$10 for swearing through a telephone
looks like an attack by a subornedjudiciary on th^ right of free speech.
A man who pays the telephone priceought to be allowed to choose his ownlanguage.
MEN, WOMEN AND PHOTOGRAPHSNowadays, to judge from their
simultaneous appearance, the manwho writes a book takes the precau-
tion to inclose a photograph with hismanuscript. Xo one, indeed, abreast of
the times and desirous of having a ca-reer would think in these progressivetimes uf starting out upon it unpho-tograjjhed. Women rested loiAccustomed to distributing their coun-terfeit presentments among their inti-mates only, it was difficult for them toget used to the thought of having theirpictures stared at by an undiscrimi-nating public. Moreover, there was al-ways to deter them the awful thoughtthat the photograph would not turn outwell when printed. Marie Corelli, webelieve, held off longer than any otherwoman in the public eye. She waswillingto give pen pictures of herselfas the heroine of her own novels, buta photograph—perish the thought.But within ihe year Miss Corelli,
vowing she would ne'er consent, con-sented. Her photograph was publish-
ed. N
But now that women have becomeused to seeing their pictures in thenewspapers and the magazines, a fewpublishers have come to the conclu-sion that the victory won in persuadingthem is, at best, of doubtful value.One literary magazine that has beenmaking it a point to publish the pic-tures of all bluestockings who haveachieved success in the literary world,
complains that these writers are notwilling that the same photograph shallbe used twice. Whenever a new bookis published by them, they insist on a
•new photograph. And this wail hasdrawn expression from a few newspa-per editors. One of the latter admitsthat he has received sharp letters fromwomen calling him to task for reprint-ing photographs of them in gownsthat, because of their antiquated style,are telltale.
Most fair minded people will admit,however, that in this matter of thepublication of photographs men havemuch the better of it. To judge fromthe pictures that are published of himin the newspapers, the politician of to-day looks exactly the same as he didtwenty-five years ago. His picture asit appears year after year mutely tes-tifies to the fact that he has discoveredthe fountain of perpetual youth. Notso with his prominent sister. Everywoman knows that the photograph otherself ages much more quickly thanshe does. She knows that the picture
taken of her ten years ago makes herlook ten years older than she does atthe present time. Her protest, there-fore, to magazines and newspapersthat whenever she paints a picture orreads a paper or publishes a book,some old photograph showing hertwenty years older than she really i9shall not be resurrected, would seemto be justified. Chivalry demands thatIn every case a new plate be madefrom a x>rand new photograph.
A Kansas City paper claims thatcounterfeit $100 bills are circulatingin that town. The claim will be eyed
askance by those who know KansasCity advertising methods. It is ob-viously based on a desire to make thepublic believe that there are real $100bills in circulation there.
Perhaps this obvious disposition onthe part of the federal authorities totie cans to the Hon. T. Bixby and theequally Hon. John Goodnow Is in-spired by a desire to get them backinto Minnesota to take up the workof reorganizing the g. o. p. in theseparts.
| Contemporary Comment TWomen Ballot Box Stuffers
Yet they falsified tally sheets andstuffed ballot boxes with a free hand.The legislature can expose the fraudsof the female electors without sub-jecting them to penalties for felony.There may be those who object to this,believing that a woman who corruptsthe ballot box should take pot luck andjail with men who do the same. Butlet us at least lift our hats to the gal-lantry of Colorado.—San FranciscoCall.
Our Export TradeBut even the president, when it
comes to devising plans for expandingour export trade, gets no further thanto suggest the appointment of six com-mercial attaches in foreign countries.Reciprocity has been consigned to thelimbo of forgotten things in the senate.Its twin brother, tariff revision*, mayhave gone into rapid decline at theWhite house.—New York World.
Troubles in RussiaIt is_ much more difficult in these
days to start a revolution that it was acentury ago. but If these obstacles areovercome the revolutionary forces,when they once succeed in establishingtheir ascendency, are likely to set nolimit to the extent to which they can,and will develop their cause.—BostonHerald.
Officials' Silent TonguesIt now comes from Washington that
Secretary Shaw will be permitted toserve out his four years only on condi-tion that he remain in Washington andkeep his mouth shut. This may not betrue, but it is not inconsistent withother decrees by which others were si-lenced.—Galveston Daily News.
Kashgar and the Russiansn Russia Withe* to advance upon
India and did not care to pass throughAfghanistan, Persia or Beluthistan, itwould be ii'-cessary to find a routethroush .Eastern Turkestan. In thatevent Kashgar might be of some mili-tary value.—Chicago Tribune.
Plea for Railroad PassesThere is one thing to I>. said in favor
r»f r;n , irs —thesegentlemen would spend more time atHarrisbiirg emu ting dubious laws ifthey 'li'l not have free transportationhome.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Jerome for Monte CarloJerome, of New York, is the only
man who might seriously claim theability to break the bank at MonteCarlo if he bad nothing else to do.—Chit ago Record-Herald.
She Knew the Combinationlr Cassie gets out on ball there is no
hope for the remaining Ohio bankersI in their safes and pull
the doors shut after them. —Birming-ham Age-Herald.
AH of Them Are Wise in ArtBoatOM is happy l.i^.;uiS'> experts
have declared its Velasques portraitgenuine. But every Bostonian knewthat at Brat glance. — ChattanoogaTimes.
What the Editors SayThe proposition appears to be made
seriously that the legislature ought toadopt the entire code us preserved bythe revision commission, without stop-ping to see what is in it. The idea isso monstrous and so repugnant to ev-ery thoughtful consideration of the in-terests of the state that one could notat first realize the enormity of theproposition. Enough has already beendiscovered in the report of the commis-sion to indicate that it ought to be ex-amined with the utmot care.—North-field Independent
Minnesotans who have visited tlv?new state capitol complain of thesmallness of the interior apartments.It is f-aid that the niches for the bustsof distinguished statesmen are so smallthat there is not a single one of themlarge enough to hold the bust of ex-Gov. Van Sant, providing the bust ismade according to Van Sanfs estimateof his own size.—Faribault Pilot.
Clothed with a little brief authority,a country pumpkin with a certificateof election as a representative in thelegislature is made to believe whenhe reaches St. Paul that he is somepumpkins, and after the smooth onesget through with him he comes backhome about the humblest unit in agrand sum total. Sic transit gloria.—Bemidji Sentinel.
The St. Paul Globe says that aSouth Dakota legislator has a bill toprovide for the protection of jack rab-bits. That leaves only the cacti, amongthe important products of that greatcountry, unprotected.— ApptetOß Press.
A feminine newspaper was to havebeen started in New York this month.The Idea, however, was given up owingto the ability of women to deliver thenews verbally.—Chutfield News-Demo-crat.
Some of the state papers are charg-ing our wife with writing the "Men'sColumn" in the Herald. They betternot do it to her face. —Sauk CenterHerald (Frank Eddy, Ed.).
IfGot. Johnson is made of the rightmaterial he will use the veto on severalgraft measures introduced at this ses-sion of the legislature. — NorwoodTimes.
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WASHINGTON, D C, Feb. Fore-cast:
Minnesota. Upper Michigan and Wis-consin—Fair, continued cold Thursday;Friday fair, warmer; fresh west winds,diminishing.
North Dakota. South Dakota. lowa andMontana—Fair, warmer Thursday andFriday.
St. Paul — Yesterday's observations,taken by the United States weather bu-reau. St. Paul, W. E. Oliver, observer, forthe twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clocklast Barometer corrected for tem-perature- and elevation. Barometer, 30.72;relative humidity, 82; weather, clear;maximum temperature. —12; minimumtemperature, —21; daily range. 9; meantemperature. —16; 7 p. m . temperature.—15; wind at 7 p. m., northwest; precipi-tation. 0* -'
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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1905
At St Paul Theaters
Among the MerrymakersSnide Lights on History
When r/iatrimony Is Frenzied
Correctly Classified
New Use for Phonographs
Twice Three Feet
STILLWATER
An Oriental atmosphere will settleabout the premises and on the stage ofthe Metropolitan when "A ChineseHoneymoon" opens its engagement to-night. "A Chinese Honeymoon." unlikemost of the musical farces from Lon-don, has only one dramatist, GeorgeDance, and one composer, Howard Tal-bot. although in the American presen-tation there are several interpolatednumbers. In writing the book GeorgeDance took suggestions from the old1-rench comic opera, Fleur de Lis."The score is full of bright things,whkhthis city is sure to enjoy, among thembeing 'Roly Poly," "A Paper Fan." "IWant to Be a Lidy," and "Oo Long Li."The usual Saturday matinee will begiven.
Frank Campeau, whose picturesquecharacterization of Trampas. the bad.bad man In 'The Virginian." whichwill be seen at the Metropolitanopera house next week, gains theundying disfavor of all the matineemisses, is a young actor whom fate andphysiognomy seem to have agreed tokeep in the ranks of stage "heavyman" for all time. Campeau is a youngman. a good actor and a personable,pleasant sort of a fellow in private life.who has ambitions, as have most heavymen, to some time reform and emerg-ing from the turgid depths of stage in-iquity to shine in the lens-centeredlimelight as a virtuous hero who savesthe maiden, pays off the mortgage andgets all the applause in the last act-It is as Trampas, however, that hissinuous iniquity tinds its most artisticexemplification. Campeau is French-Canadian by heredity, American bybirth, a brother of a famous baseballplayer and manager, and possessed ofan idea that some day he will j-lay vreal hero who should be typi< ally Amer-ican because he will be an AmetkanIrtdian.
Lovers of wholesome fun will find itin Broadhurst & Carrie's latest offer-ing, Fritz and Snitz," at the Grand,with Mason and Mason, the Germancomedians, in the leading parts. The
• tan full of catchy music andpretty girls and is presented by a ca-
companj of comedians. Alisonand Mason and Delia Stacey, iik theburlesque on a baseball game, furnishmuch merriment Prank Hayes, in hia
ilty, finds favor. Theruns the entire week, including a
matinee Saturday.
The seat sale for "Williams andWalker begins at the Grand box officethis morning at 9 o'clock for their en-gagement for a week, commencingSunday matinee. Only a few weekshave elapsed since these comediansand their wives, Mrs. Lottie Williamsand Mrs. Aida Walker, together withtheir large company of colored artists,were playing in England. King Ed-ward and his royal wife' Queen Alex-andra, heart! of their fame and com-manded them to appear before them.Jesse A. Shipp and Will Cool are au-thors of "In Dahomey."
The Tiger Lilies coin-, .my is givingan excellent show at the Star and the
man are irally as-tonishing people who remember Edow.
•*Thc youth who fired the Ephesiandome had just gained everlasting fame."
"But I would trade it all," he remark-ed, "if I could live long enough" to get acrack nt the Chicago city hall."
- Which proved that he was one wholoved his How men.
Louis XIV. had just uttered his famousremark.
"L'etat c'est moi." £:\\u25a0 Cardinal Mazarin laughed in his sleeve.
'"Let him think so," said the wily Ital-ian under his breath. "But if he shouldattempt to revise the tariff he will soonlind that .1 am the Joe Cannon to hisRoosevelt."
Chuckling to himself he mixed a freshtumbler of eau sucre. —Chicago News.
s< ;i!i <i bids ;<n>i proposals will beceived at the Elite Matrimonial BflDp to noon Friday for ihbteon ti:;> Frenchcounts, pedigrees guaranteed; six \u25a0*>> KnK-lish lords, titles unimpaired and l'ullyWar-ranted, and one (1) Italian pri>t:al aorta only jiartlv mortgaged. Bidsmay be for all or any part. I'romilivery. No deposit required. High-classopportunity for Pittsbuig. Chicago or Cin-cinnati speculators.—Puck.
"Do you own any steamboats, yachts orlaunches?" asked the assessor.
"No. si;."\u25a0 Any carriages, wagons, buggies, carts,
bicycles, automobiles' —"Yea, a bicycle and an automobile.""Huh. huh. Then you also <-om»* under
the head of tacks-dodgers."—Kui.sas CityWorld.
An enterprising German has patented adevice for fitting phonographs to doors.
As a customer enters the door of ashop a voice will call out: "Flour ischeap** today." "New consignment of spe-cial quality mincemeat just received; trysome." and similar Invitations.—TalkingMachine News.
"I'll bet you haven't got what ymimight call a yard attached to your city
• house." said Btxbbobs."Indeed?" replied Townley. "It's equal
to two ordinary yards." -"In siz»»V"Yes. It's six feet"—Philadelphia Led-
ger.
Marks of Civilization"Why don't you think better of our civ-
ilization?""Because." answered the Chinese of-
ficial. "I can't see anything it has donefor us except to introduce the two-stt-pand the automobile."—Washington Star.
Her Mind Not Genuine"Harold!" began his wife in a furioustemper, "my mind is made up"—"Mercy:" Interrupted her husband. "Is
that so? I had hoped that your mind atleast was your own."—Detroit Free Press
Just the Thing v
Forsyte—l'll take this horn.Salesman—But that one's out of order.
It wont blow. I'll—Forsyte—l know. That's why I want it.
It's for one of my own children.—Phila-delphia Press.
Floyd Sherrard, a son of Matt Sherranl,residing on a farm in the town of Grantwas shot accidentally by Walter Randall.a six-year-old son of Mrs. Vene Randallbut the attending physician says the boywill recover unless complications arise.The Sherrard boy, twelve years of age,was playing with the Randall boy in thekitchen at the home of Mrs. Nathan Fair-banks, and the Randall boy picked up asmall rifle and pulled the trigger. The boy"didn't know the gun was loaded" andwas almost frightened to death when hisplaymate fell to the floor. The bullet en-tered the right breast, flattened on a boneand, deflecting, came out under the rightarm.
Wlnford Stussl, while driving a hackteam down the Myrtle street hill, had arunaway. The horses crossed the North-ern Pacific tracks near the union depot,overturning the hack, and Stussi wasthrown to the ground. Two of his ribswere broken.
ANNOUNCES THE FATEOF MRS. ROGERS TODAY
Gov. Bell Will Decide Whether or Notto Grant Reprieve
MONTPELIER, Vt.. Feb. I.—Wheth-er Mary Mabel Rogers, now occupyingthe death cell at the Windsor stateprison, will die on the gallows nextiriday afternoon as ordered by thecourt, in which she was found guiltyof murdering her husband, MarcusRogers, or be granted a reprieve, whilethe supreme court is petitioned for anew trial, will be announced at Water-bury tomorrow by Gov. Bell.
Today's hearing presented the un-usual spectacle of five officers of thelaw charged with inflicting the deathpenalty, pleading with the governor todelay their duties. The petitioners al-leged that Leon Perham, now serving alife sentence for complicity in thecrime, had recently confessed that hehad lied on the stand, swearing awayMrs. Rogers' life to save himself fromthe gallows; that he and not Mrs. Rog-ers administered the chloroform, andthat there was hereditary insanity inthe Rogers family.
PLAINTS AND ANIMALSENGAGE SCIENTISTS
Assistant Secretary Hays Helps Breed*ers' Association Along
CHAMPAIGN, II!.. Feb. I.—The sec-ond annual meeting of the AmericanBreeders' association began here today.The department of agriculture wasrepresented by Assistant Secretary« "let lft. Hays, who is also secretaryof the association, and Drs. Herbert J.\\ebber and George L. Moore. Thereare present many of the most promi-nent agricultural scientists of Americaand Canada, besides practical animaland plant breeders.
An important point developed todayis that, by breeding, bacteria for allthe leguminous crops, such as alfalfa,clover and cou ,v be producedthat will bo specially adapted t.> dient types of soil. Tho object of the as-sociation is to Bolve the problemsupon which the profitable production ofanimals and food-bearing plains de-
Calls «Hubby Lazy and BrutalCHICAGO, Feb. l. — The runaway
marriage of Lillian Russell's daughterDorothy. has ended in the divorce
ts. In a petition filed today Ab-bott L. Einstein, the husband, is cl<-.| with being extravagant, lazy andbrutal. "He refuses to work, and lamcompelled to suppoit him," she says.Failing to y from his v.-ife itis dec!.--..), Einstein took $2,000 worthof her diamonds and spent tho pro-
ling. Six weeksis alleged to have
i his w;. - iy an(j t0 haveher many other times. Twicev is \u25a0 \u25a0 he threaten d her witha revolver in d about money.
Grocers Aro Alertv FORK, Feb. I.—Fifteen Bl
?vere : "d at the annual meet-.;s ol the \ ari-• 't.- wholesale - itions
comprising the National Wholiation. n was decided
l!;at • iffve committee shall atonce cull the wholesalegrocery trade of the country to organ-. general movement for self-pro-
n. Tho consensus was that everyeffort must be made to bring the jobberand manufacturer into closer touch.An exe<ut: ittee was chosen ofwhich J. F. Kelly, of St. Paul, is amcml
News CondensedNorthfleld, Vt.—Count Peretta de la
Rocea. commissioner representing France,and Commissioner Jose de J Paul ofVenezuela, had a . preliminary meetinghere with Frank M. Plumley, the refereewho will name the award in claims OfFrance against Venezuela.
New York—After ten yean of labor andHi.- expenditure of J9;*OO,OO0 the neiCornell dam, near Croton idsonfrom which this city wiii draw largely
water supply, has been comit Is the largest piece of masonry In theworld except the pyramids.
Rer-o. Nev.—William Andres and Wil-liam Jones, prospector?, report the dis-covery of another strange cave In South-rn Nevada. The cave has beplored to a depth <>f 800 ;'• \u25a0\u25a0 t and snowaevidence of a prehistoric race.
Budapest—Emperor Francis Joseph re-d Premier Ttexa in audience inVienna. The latter handed the emperor
the resignation of the Hungarian cabinetThe emperor has summoned Count JuliusAadrassy, opposition leader, to Vienna.
Gettysburg. Pa.—Dr. William Press ofBaltimore, ha* been appointed t<> nil thevacancy in the presidency of tlv GeneralI.nth. ran Synod of America, caut?< d by thed<.ath of Dr. K. j. Wolf, of Gettysburg.
hington—The attorney general holdsthat a patented device of a company em-ix.iiyiiiK the return postage idea cannotbe adopted by the postmaster general un-less congress gives him specific authority.
Xt\v York—Plans for providing 7".\u25a0el 1 children of New i'ork with ;i warmmeal at the beginning of each day, con-ceived by Commander Eva Booth, of theSaKation Army. had been put into oper-ation.
Chicago—A temporary injunction againstthe city was issued by Judge Grosscup, Inthe United Slates circuit court, restrain-ing city officials from enforcing an ordi-nance fixing the price of ga.s at To cents.
Constantinople—The Turkish forces haverouted the rebels investing Sanaa and
•la Yemen, province Arabia, and re-i the besieged garrison of Sanaa, the
capital of Yemen.
Havana —President Palma formally de-dared hla allegiance to the Moderateparty. This means his candidacy for asecond term and probable re-election.
Washington—Frederick I. Allen, com-missioner of patents, will be continued inthat office. It had been rumored he con-templated retiring soon.
Chicago—Actual control of the ChicagoCity Railway company has bpen trans-ferred to the Morgan-Field-Mitchell-Val-entine syndicate.
Now York—Richard Croker ha? arrivedfrom England to attend the funeral of hisson Frank, who was killed.while speedinghis automobile. .
Oberlln. Ohio—President T. D. Beckwith,of the closed Citizens' National l>ank. Lsslowly finking and is likely to die at anymoment.
Abbeville. Ga.—Bailiff W. H. Livingstonwas killed and five persons were wound-ed as the result of a feud over a linefence.
Birmingham. Ala.—The nineteenth an-nual convention »of the National Associa-tion of Brick Manufacturers has openedhere.
Washington—The government receiptsIn January were $43,410,285 and the ex-penditures $49,G28,2V9, a deficit of $6,218,---014.
Chicago—Attorney Victor R. O'Shea, ontrial charged with the killingof his wife,was convicted of manslaughter.
The petitions that are being circulatedasking the district court to apoint a com-mission to revise the Stillwater city char-ter, are being generally signed, and therequired 220 names will be had In a day ortwo.
John J. KHty has gone to Chicago andSt. LiOuif, intending to be absent ten days.
Fort Worth. Tex.—Twenty persons wereinjured. two seriously, in a collision be-tween a freight train and a street car.
"Washington—Representative Samuel W.Smith, of Michigan, is critically ill ofpneumonia.
fICHT ON SPECIALMAIL FACILITIES
Same Old Controversy Bobs UpIn House on the Post-
office Bill
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. I.—Thepostoffice appropriation bill occupiedthe attention of the house the majorportion of the day. The usual fighton special mail facilities on trunk linescropped out. Mr. Moon, of Tennessee,arraigned those Democrats supportingthe proposition, charging them withfavoring a subsidy which would bene-fit their sections, while at the sametime inveighing against the Republic-an party for its attitude regardingsubsidies in general. The house dis-cussed proposed legislation looking tothe regulation of railroad rates, theprincipal remarks being made byMessrs. Shirley (Ky.) and Sibley(Pa.). The postoffice bill was amend"--cd in several particulars, the most im-portant change consisting in thetransfer of the inspection service ofthe department from the fourth as-sistant's office to that of the postmas-ter general.
Messrs, dark (Mont.), Dillinghamand leller continued the discussion ofthe joint statehood bill in the senate,Mr. Dillinsham supporting the meas-ure as it stands and the other two sen-ators contending for amendments andthe right of the four territories to beadmitted as so man. m .Clark expressed the opinion that thetime had come for abolishing the ter-ritorial form of government, except inAlaska. Senator Quarles introduced aresolution requiring the census bureauto collect statistics relative to mar-riage and divorce.
Injunction Bill Is KilledWASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. I.—The
committee on the judiciary today; to postpone Indefinitely the fur-ther consideration of the bill prohibit-ing the use of injunctions and restrain-big-orders in labor disputes. Thetion was taken by practically a party
in the committee. A motion to"reconsider the vote and lay that ac-\u25a0 n the table." which Is the parlia-
mentary method of making it impossi-ble to bring the subject up for consid-eration in the future, also-was agreed to.
Prepares for Cattle QuarantineWASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. I.—Tho
house committee on agriculture todayauthorised a favorable report on a billdirecting the secretary of agriculture
a quarantine in any state or• he shall determine the
thai cattle or other live stock areted with contagious >. The
l)iil prohibits transportation companiesfrom transporting li\" stock from quar-antine sections except under specificregulations to be provided by the sec-retary. A penalty of a fine and impris-onment is i>ro\ ;
Shortens Course at AnnapolisWASHINGTON, D. «'.. Feb. I.—Rep-
tative Foss (111.) Introduced a billIn,lay to reorganize and increase theefficiency of the personnel of the navy.It shortens the course at the navalacademy until 1913 to three years.One year's sea duty after graduationis required instead of tu<>. as at pres-ent. The a^e of midshipmen enteringthe academy is fixed at from fifteen toseventeen years. The bill creates ;i
rye list,' on which captains whohave readied the age of sixty yearsshall be placed. This age limit isgradually reduced to fifty-live.
Grants for AgricultureWASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. I.—The
agricultural appropriation bill was re-ported to the senate today. It carries$6,787,170, an increase of $206,710 overthe bill as passed by the house. Theprincipal items of increase are $71,---f>4o for the bureau of animal industry,$45,000 for tho bureau of plant indus-try, $27,260 for the bureau of forestreserve and $20,000 each for Vx> bu-reau of chemistry, the weather bureauand for public roads.
Remove the Miles SnagWASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. I.—The
house provision in the army bill limit-ing the pay of retired officers strictlyto the ret|re<3 pay of their rank wassettled today in conference by tho sen-ate conferees accepting the house pro-vision in principle. The wording wasso changed that there can be nodoubt that such officers shall receivethe retired pay to which their rankentitles them.
Promotes PublicityWASHINGTON, D. C Feb. I.—The
house committee on the judiciary to-day authorized a favorable report on t%bill requiring: all corprations engagedin interstate commerce to make an-nual reports to the commissioner ofcorporations. An amendment wasplaced in the bill exempting commoncarriers from its operation, as rail-road arc required to report to the in-terstate commerce commission.
New Privilege for SettlersWASHINGTON, I). C, Feb. I.—The
senate today passed the bill amendingthe land laws so as to permit settlerson the public lands to make transfersfor public uses before completing title.
PREFERS NEW BILL TOTHE HEPBURN MEASURE
But Congressman Lind Thinks Esch-Townsend Bill Could Be Improved
Globe Special Washington Service1417 G Street
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. I.—Rep-resentative Lind regards the Esch-Townsend bill as a great improvementon the Hepburn bill.
'That bill was vicious," said Gov.Lincl today. He went on to say thathe regards it as improved in that itgives the rate making power In un-equivocal terms to the commission, therate to be made operative after thirtydays and to be open to review withinsixty days. The Hepburn- bill per-mitted an appeal to suspend the com-mission's order in regard to ratespending a final decision. Gov. Lindthinks the bill should be amended soas to make it dear in the trial of eachappeal in the court of commerce thatthe court shall not disregard evidencepresented to the commission, but bebased on the case before that bodywith what new testimony may be re-garded as essential. Gov. Lind consid-ers the private car evil, by which re-bates are still given, to be more im-portant than anything in the Esch-Townsend bill, and thinks it should beamended to cover this matter.
—Walter K. <Mark.
Death in a Street CarGRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. I.—Six
persons were Injured, four probablyfatally, tonight when a passenger traincrashed into a street cur. The latterwas tossed fifty feet. Miss NellieFolkarksim, John Quist, Motorman VV.C. Gardiner and Miss Mary Ooslioswill probably die.
