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For Iowa: Fair, lower temperature, northerly winds. For Minnesota and Dakota: Fair; lower temperature; northerly winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. Si! I a a 3XI! a 3 Sol! Place of IS Place of 3g Obs'vation. go- Obs'vation.

go 2. 5 a -a St. 29.90 00 Helena 30.02 02 30.10 -42 Ft. Totten La Crosse. 29.96 72 I Ft.

Sully. .30.30 00 Huron 30.28 50 Minuedosa 30.3. 38 Moorhead. 30,28 50 30.00 52 St. Vincent 30.34 30 Edmonton.

29.80 4.6 Bismarck. 80.38 50 50 Medic'eH. 30.12 52 Ft. 30.18 02 Fort Garry The oatmeal trust has gone to pieces. This is good news indeed if there is anything this country is pining for, it is cheap oatmeal.

Admiral Kimbki.ly's report shows that the American tar is made of the right kind of of better stuff than the American ship, in fact. i This is Easter Sunday, and it is in order to make your annual visit to church. The "your" does not refer to newspaper hands, but to people who have new spring harness. At noon Monday there will be just about three times as many people in Oklahoma as can obtain homesteads. The remainder will have to organize themselves into cities and deal faro.

During a thunder storm at Tiffin, 0., yesterday, there was a heavy shower of snails. If Dame Nature had stopped to consider the eternal fitness of things, she would have sent that shower to St. Louis. New York hopes to make more of a success of the Washington centennial than it did of the Grant monument. The constant yearning of the average American to march behind a brass band will help this show out.

The boomers are in sight of Oklahoma, and on Monday next, at high noon, will De permitted to enter. It is to be hoped that somebody will have the foresight to stake out a graveyard early. Times promise to be lively if the ammunition holds out. While protection is the policy, it "would be well to apply it to the ocean service. Rotten hulks should not be allowed to carry passengers, and no ships should be permitted to take on more people than there is a fair prospect of getting across in safety.

It has been decided by one of the high courts that the United States law does not reach outside the mail boxes on the streets, and that papers left on top can only, involve thieves in petty larceny. Still, only those mean enough to put counterfeit nickels in the contribution box would disturb such papers. There is probably some coloring to the little speech of the president to a lot of base ball visitors, when he said he would be glad to go to the game, but his dignity as president would not allow it. Wanamaker might have said it, but the president is too cautious in speech to impugn the respectability of the great American sport. One of the Danmark's lifeboats in good condition was sighted by the British steamer Minnesota on the 4th inst.

The fact that the boat was in good order leads to the hope that the passengers may have been picked up. It is to hope, but the thread in this case seems to be a very frail one, and the probabilities are that the Danmark's 700 passengers have perished. Among the most rational explanations left by any of the parties who have been caught in the suicide epidemic of certain districts, is that of the Philadelphia German. He wrote a note to his beloved wife, assuring her of his pardon, but stating that the last bread she made was very heavy. He had nothing to live for looser.

He ate a piece of the bread, but did not rely upon that alone. Strychnine was sprinkled upon it. The inquest did not determine as to the relative mortuary potency of the two elements. In reversing the adverse decision of Commissioner Black upon the ap- plication for a pension in the case of death by delirium tremens of a man who had suffered no disability in the army, Commissioner Tanner 'said it was possible that the man might have contracted the habit of drinking in the army, becoming a drunkard twenty-five years later. There was no evidence that the man ever drank in the army.

The $50,000,000 a year in. pensions now will. easily be multiplied several times under four years of Tanner. The captious worldly people who are unable to appreciate a truly good man pick at Wanamaker's assumed fellowship with the Almighty in the cause of prohibition, and even quibble at his method of advertising his spriug bonnets. If he has an unparalleled aggregation of colossal wonders, there is no requirement that that part of the dictionary should be left for Barm alone.

If the administration stands on the prohibition platform, Brother Wanamaker is evidently a good man to speak for it. He juns a non-partisan Sunday school, and will sell bonnets and ready-made clothing to Democrats as freely as the politically saved. He is a good man. and has his reward for his labors last year. I Many of the eccentric practices and sports connected with Easter have disappeared as popular tastes have changed.

In the more sequestered parts of the North of England the custom of lifting on Easter is said to be still in vogue. The men parade the streets, two of them joining hands and forcing any woman met to be lifted three times from the ground and pay a small sum or a kiss. On the Monday following the women are allowed to retaliate by lifting the men. It may easily be credited that there is a good deal of sport lin exercises of this sort freely indulged in. It would hardly "do for promiscuous practice in a large city, but in the rural settlements the men would not be likely to abandon it at their own instance.

EASTER. "Christ is risen." "Unto Him shall the gathering of the nations be." The Resurrection being corner stone of the Christian faith, it was but natural that the pioneers of Christianity should deem it appropriate to single out one day of the year to be observed in celebration of the glorious event. Whatever dispute may arise as to the historical correctness of the time fixed for the Easter celebration, there can be no question of the appropriateness of the season. It is the season of Nature's annual resurrection. When the fierce winter winds had swept the earth bare of flowers, of leaves and birds, and heavy skies the leafless earth lay scarred and blackened like a wasted life, cold Annihilation raised her mocking face and whispered "I claim my own." To all human appearances the claim was valid.

But far beneath the earth's frozen breast the resistless tide of Life's electric current flowed on, and with the return of bright spring days we feel the warm hearts of the flowers beating in divine unison, and hear their soft tones reverbrating the joyful resurrection ptean. To the Christian the Eastertide is typical of the that beautiful land by the spoiler untrod where the one known on earth as the angel of death "shines as the angel of life. According to all accepted ideas of the realms of eternal bliss, it is a land of musical groves, and where crystalline streams with a murmurous flow meander through valleys of green, and where the souls that were faithful in this world taste the rich fruitage that hangs from the trees and their brows are fanned by the breezes that blow from the gardens of God. How refreshing it is, then, to the soul of the Christian pilgrim, who feels that he is a stranger on earth, to catch, as he will this bright Easter day, a glimpse of that beautiful, away land which his soul recognizes as the land of its birth. THE AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM.

The Australian system of voting stands a good show to be ground into powder between the upper and nether stones of legislative or, what is probably nearer the truth, legislative dishonesty. The house passed a ballot reform bill which the senate indefinitely postponed. The senate then passed a similar bill, which the house will probably treat in the same way. Thus each branch of the legislature imagines that it will have made a record in favor of ballot reform, and yet have failed to accomplish what the people demanded. However much the members may lay the battering unction to their souls that they are on record in favor of the Australian system, the people will not be deceived by this legislative trick, and unless the senate reconsiders its action on the house bill, or the house passes the senate bill to-morrow, this legislature will be deemed guilty at the bar of public opinion of having deliberately disobeyed the instructions of the people.

The idea that the Australian system is cumbersome, and that its methods are so slow as to necessarily prevent many voters from voting, is a mistake. A gentleman who has had experience as an election inspector, both under the Australian system in Canada and under the ballot system in this country, and has therefore a practical knowledge of the comparative operations of both systems, is unhesitatingly of the opinion that the Australian system is not only less cumbersome than ours, but that it is a successful bar to intimidation and bribery. He says that when he was sworn in as an inspector at a Canadian election, he was presented with his official document of authority, a copy of the election law and instructions, and the poll book containing the names of about 400 voters belonging to that trict. At the polling place there were only allowed behind the railing the inspector, clerk and a scrutineer, or watcher for each political party. An officer stood at the door and only allowed one voter to enter at a time, and as soon as he had voted -he passed "out, and another one was admitted.

The inspector wrote his initials on each ballot as he handed it to the voter, only one ballot was used, and upon it the names of all the candidates, those of different parties being printed in ink of different colors, so that those who desired to vote "straight" could distinguish the portions of the ballot reserved for their party, and make a single cross opposite the entire ticket, instead of making a mark opposite, each name. At one side of the room, opposite the railing, was a desk having a curtain on each side of it: and there the voter, after having received the. ballot, placed cross marks opposite the name of the candidates he favored, and after folding it in such a way that the inspector's initials were visible, returned it to the inspector, to be deposited in the box. The polls opened at 9 o'clock and closed at 4:30, at which time the entire vote of the district had been polled, and the election officers had plenty of time to chat and smoke cigars during the day. In less than hour from I i the closing of the polls the entire vote had been.

counted and the result announced. Most of the voters had voted a straight ticket, and it only took about fifteen I minutes to count the "straights." The "splits" required more time. They have voted this way in Canada for the last fifteen years, and there has been no disposition during that time to return to the old election system. Bribery and intimidation are unknown there, and those who have seen their system I in operation say that our method of i conducting elections appears ridiculous. The politicians oppose ballot reform, but the great body of the people are in earnest in their endeavors to secure it, and they are not going to let up until it has been accomplished.

The Austra- lian system may not be perfect in all its details, yet it is surely the best of all the experiments that have been, tried, and the people are satisfied to have it until something better can be worked out. 7-7' A RIGHTEOUS DECISION. A $25,000 libel suit against the Omaha World was decided in its favor the past week, and in the decision the court dis- pensed good common sense. He held that the editor was not required to ab- solutely know that charges against officials are true. A reasonable belief in their verity ami strong probability that his information is trustworthy relieves the editor from any presumption of malice.

This should be the rule in all I cases. The presumption of malice is I only held in libel suits. The murderer I is not amenable to it. The crime must THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1889. PAGES.

be proven. In some of the states the practice in libel cases is The defendant has to establish his innocence instead of the plaintiff sustaining the charge. In other cases the damages must be shown. In the case of the newspaper retraction should be sufficient unless actual injury is proved. It is very rare that any reputable newspaper will intentionally make charges not believed to be warranted by its information.

The messenger boy feature in most of the cities is an expanding one, and has inspiring possibilities for the faithful young citizens who are alert and let their innate goodness shine out facially. In New York it is becoming quite a fad with ladies to employ these young men as escorts. Instances are reported where their innateness has won the hearts of rich ladies, and they have been put on the rounds of golden stairs. An older one now and then will figure in romance, as the young ladies fall in love with them. They may take up the stale role of the rich papa's coachman.

There is a future for the bright ones. Objection, is raised to the practice that seems to be prevalent in the cities of naming apartment houses or flats after Englishmen. Buckingham, Clarendon, Portland, Brunswick, Windsor, Belvedere and such are common, while one does not find Washington, Adams, Clay, Lincoln, Cleveland, and other historical American names. There is supposed to be a sort of artistoeratic air conuected with the imported names. Last Sunday an impious thief stole the collection from the contribution boxes of the People's church Chicaco, but it did not prevent Dr.

Thomas from putting $250 in his pocket to hand to the People's church in St. Paul for a memorial window, as a recognition of the fraternity and religious mutuality of the two societies. "Play ball has been heard in the athletic gardens of the land the past week, and the national heart has pulsated with more pride and less concern as to tbe duration of street car strikes. A party of nine schoolmarms is re ported among the masses advancing upon Oklahoma. They will display nerve if they succeed in taking in their quarter-sections.

There are numerous applicants for appointment as postmasters in Oklahoma, although there are no postoffics yet. So that there are salaries, the applicants will not care for locations. TOPICAL TALK. The assessment books furnish some interesting data respecting the increase in value of property in this city. Commencing with the assessment of 1860 and coming on up to 1888, one gets a pretty clear idea of the growth of the city by the corresponding growth of values in real estate.

From a tabulated statement of the assessments on business property in St. Paul, furnished by Auditor Kain for publication in the forthcoming annual report of the chamber of commerce, I find that in 1860 the northwest corner of Third and Sibley streets was assessed at $52 per foot; in 1883 it was assessed at $875 per foot. The corresponding corner of Third and Jackson streets was assessed in 1860 at $96 per foot; in 1888 at $1,000. The assessment of comer of Sixth and Jack son in 1860 was $35 per foot; in 1870, $203; in 1880. $250, and in 188S, $900.

In 1860 the northwest corner of Seventh and Cedar streets was assessed at $18 per foot; in 1880 it is $850. On the West side the northwest corner of Ducas and Fillmore streets was assessed in 18S0 at $4 per foot; last year it was assessed at $105. Eight years ago the assessment at corner of Ducas and Fairfield was last year it was $195. And in his report the assessor states that real estate in St. Paul is not assessed for more than 50 per cent of its selling price.

To le lost in the woods is a bad enough fate for a full-grown woman, but when the lost person happens to be a child, and that, too, at a time when forest fires are raging, a feeling of horror creeps over one at the very announcement of the calamity. Such must have been the feeling experienced by Hopewell Clark, land commissioner of the St. Paul Duluth, and his associates, when news was brought to their camp at Sturgeon Lake, last Tuesday, that a five-year-old child of Anton Gitz had wandered away from home two days before into the woods, and had not been seen or heard of since, notwithstanding all the neighbors for miles around had been scouring the forests in search of him. Mr. Clarke was in charge of a company of land examiners or explorers at the time he heard the news, and immediately organized a relief corps under the direction of Messrs.

Hayden and Oldham, and started them out with instructions to make a thorough and systematic search for the child, and not desist until the boy was found. Up to that lime a party of thirty-eight men had been scouring the woods in every direction without discovering a trace of the child. When Mr. Hayden had organized his relief corps he consulted his map before starting out, and discovered that near the Gitz house was a creek, and it occurring to him that the child would be more liable to go down hill than up, he followed the downward course of the stream. At the junction of this creek with another one he found the little fellow sitting by a burning log, a relic of the fire that had swept through the forest several days before.

There the poor little fellow had been in all the loneliness of forest solitude for forty-eight hours, without a mouthful to eat and no bed but the bare earth. Oh, how his little heait must have leaped with joy when he saw the rescuing party, and no tongue can tell the gratitude that filled the hearts of the agonized parents when their long-lost darling was brought back to them in the arms of the brave rescuers. Little Anton said he had not suffered any from cold, as he had a good fire all the time, but he was very hungry. i The Oklahoma excitement indicates that the people of this country are land-hungry. I am inclined to think that it is a good sign.

The tendency within the last few years has beeu for the population to drift away from the farms to the cities until the latter have been overcrowded. Unfortunately, too much of the homestead area has already passed into the possession of the big land for the nation and unfortunate for the syndicates; for more men have Deen losers than gainers by trading in unim- proved lands. It is always a wise policy for a nation to encourage its population in securing homes, for no nation ever yet came to harm by multiplying the number of its landholders I The man wno is tne owner of his home cannot be a bad citizen. He finds an unusual incentive to patriotism by being a stockholder in the nation. If the government could induce the unemployed population of the cities to take up homesteads where lands are open to settlement, to till the soil and gain the increased value thus imparted to their holdings, the industrial problem would be solved and social disturbunces be at an end.

-11 The superintendent of a Brooklyn street car line, who is" in the Bermudas for his health, recently sent to each of ihe 850 employes of the company an Easter lily pluckedfrom "The Garden of the Lord." Accompanying the flower was a card with these woids on it: "May this chaste symbol of purity and beauty turn our thoughts at this season of the year to the contemplation of Him who died and rose again that our lives might be made pure." The next day the tail of every horse in the street car service was decorated with a lily. If IF The street car strike, like the ice carnival, has improved the health of the city. Outdoor exercise is the thing for health, and there is no more wholesome form of exercise than walking. If the street railway traffic were suspended a month or two the doctors would have to go out of business. SUNDAY CHATTER.

The churches will generally be thronged to-day, and appropriate services held. The i natural forces have hastened to spread their spring glories.but have hardly passed the bud- ding assurance. Woman, lovely will be arrayed in millinery glories that even Solomon's royal admirer and visitor did not dream of. The prevalent colors the canons of fashion this year are green, mahogany, with light shades of blue and brown. Beauty and fragiance will entrance the senses, and litt the devout heart toward the celestial conservatories.

It was recently stated in parliament that the first Sunday paper appeared in 17. 0.,, about the time Robert Raikes was trying ty establish a Sunday school in London. The, hostility of the established church and Scot-, tish clergy was equally vehement to both. The newspapers of that day would hardly be recognized as the protoplasm of the modern journals. -7'--' i Recently a presbytery at Rochester, N.

spent several days of steady work on the; cases of a number of deacons who had ordained by a church of that city in spite of the fact that they refused to indorse the doctrines of foreordination and infant dam- nation. Their ordination was finally sustained, but it is hardly credible that any number of presumably intelligent people, should hold to a notion so antagonistic to all righteous and humane thinking as the dam- nation ot infants. Heathen mythology has rarely had room for a notion so revolting. Christ said that the celestial kingdom was peopled wtth infantile humanity, and he held out his inviting arms to them. The time has been when this doctrine was widely held in the church, but it was the spirit of a cruel and bigoted age rather than the church.

It has taken a good while to learn the true spirit of the Master and infuse it through even the professed followers, and there is room for missionary work. "7 Should none of the 720 persons who abandoned the sinking Danmark 500 miles out in the ocean escape the perils of a stormy period, it will break any record of modern times innumbers lost in an ocean catastrophe. There have been a few instances of vessels going down with ail on board and not one escaping. The steamer President sailed from England about the year 1840, and no trace has ever been had of her. She had a large number of passengers, and the loss caused a great sensation at the time.

Fifteen years or so later the American steamer Pacific, in going to England, was last seen among icebergs, and no doubt was struck by one and went down in a moment. The wreck of the Danmark near one of these icy monsters indicate the cause of its disaster, and affords little ground of hope that any considerable portion of its human freightage will ever be heard from. One of the two young ladies who established and taught the first Sunday school in New England died in one of the Western cities four or five years ago, nearly ninety years of age. The school was established iv one of the Massachusetts cities almost simultaneously with a similar work in Philadelphia. The lady often referred to the diffi culties encountered in inaugurating the enterprise, and it is noticeable that the obsttuctors, as nearly as they can be identified, were of the same classes that are now shocked at the Sunday newspaper, and their objections were largely of the same character.

The church doors were shut to them, the clergy discouraged their efforts, and good people generally were unable to see over the traditions and prejudices. It was a desecration of the Sabbath, diverted the minds from the elaborations of the pulpit, and was in the face of proprieties and precedents. It was specially unbecoming for young ladies to put themselves forward so. The great objection was to the use of Sunday for such a purpose. But, somehow, the Sunday school outlived its opponents, and is a pretty healthy institution.

The Sunday paper is getting along pretty well also. i The enforcement of the law restricting the. importing ot paupers is being carried on with some apparent stringency at New York. Out of one recent lot of 4,000 about 200 were set aside as not endowed with needful qualifications for American citizens. The incoming tide is growing stronger of late.

Six or eight thousand land at Castle Garden in a day. frequently. The aggregate last year was 000, the largest number in any year being" 789.000 in 1882. The figures this year will be among the largest. The opening of new lands to settlement will stimulate immigration from over the water, and the Northwest will get a very large portion of the best of it.

According to Kate Field the Prohibition" ists are the greatest distillers of Her theory is that pies and other indigestible articles in the stomach, in fermenting, distill more alcohol than the distilleries. Prohibitionists are great pie eaters and dyspeptics, therefore the largest producers of alcohol; and they pay no revenue to the government. A DAY IN SPRING. What a day yesterday was The first real and tangible evidence of the sweet season of summer. A warm wind that on its wings bore legions of the spirits of spring, and that kissed back into life the verdure that had yielded to the chill caress of a northwestern winter; a Chinook that carried out of the atmosphere the last lingering trace of the long season of cold, and brought the first harbinger of that sumptuous summer in which the Northwest finds recompense for all.

None but a true North westerner can appreciate the exhilarating influences of the first breath of summer that come on such a cloudless day as yesterday. It changes the whole aspect of life. With one touch every recollection of winter vanishes, and with one day the steel blue of the heavens gives way, and no Italian sky could rival the soft, deep azure of the dome that bends over Minnesota. ii With an impulse all the beauties of sum mer leap into life. The breeze one moment carries the suggestion of the rippling waves that wrinkle the surface of White Bear, and one can feel the refreshing air that plays hide-and-seek across Manitou, now heating in the bright sun that touches every ripple to gold and then cooling in the leafy depths of the encircling border of forest.

There is the hazy languor of summer, and the soft fragrance of the ocean is in the air, with its suggestion of the East and its watering places; of moonlit beaches: of darkened serenades, flecked with the light that pours from ball rooms where low voices are not disturbed by the strains of music that float out to meet and mingle with the dash of the surf. And yet it is a spirit of wild unrest these first days of spring a longing for change of scene, for travel. The day-dreams that are inspired by the languor of the first touch of warmth teem with castles in Spain, built rather by inclination than fancy. They are the faint delirium of the fever of spring. They are filled with suggestions of distant of beautiful France, of historic England, of the fabled Rhine, of sunny Spain, of classic Italy, of storied Greece.of mystic Egypt and of sacred Palestine.

It is singular, yet natural, that the budding summer should baing these roving thoughts, and the first chill breath of winter induce thoughts of home and fireside, just as Nature sends out; her children in the summer and folds them to her bosom in winter. "My soul to-day Is far away, Sailing the Yesuvian bay. My winged boat A bird afloat. Swims round the purple peaks remote." Read wrote that on the early spring under the same impulse, and he has given a beauti- ful expression to the wild and restless longing that is characteristic of the spriug. DEMOCRATIC SOLONS.

The Democratic members of the house, few in numbers, but fairly united in action, will return to their homes next Tuesday conscious of having been consistent in their course and faithful to the best principles of their party. There has been no time during the sessionwhen their twelve votes could have changed the predetermined course of the Republicrns; but there have been particular measures where, an opportunity for record being given them, they have not failed to accept it. The bill destroying the iniquitous features of the oil inspector's office would not have passed had not the Democrats voted for justice and right. They supported the civil service reform and the Australian election system measure. They have opposed the increase of official salaries, and on other matters on which the policy of the party has been well-defined they have been faithful, to the trust reposed in them.

A careful study of the roll calls of the inter will ii to show many instances where a Democrat has voted contrary to the faith and principles of his party. Mr. Ives, by his training and profession, has been the orator of the small contingent ana a hard-riding trooper against sumptuary legislation. Mr. Heidemann has lost to opportunity to keep the evidence of their broken pledges before his Republican opponents.

Messrs. Greely, Fuhrmann, Sinclair and Merz have been among the members noted for close attention to their duties and squareness in votings. Mr. Capser, from Steams brought with him the legislative experience of past years, making him additionally efficient iv the discharge of his duties. Scott county has never had a better representative than Mr.

Faricy, and Mr. Kelly has reflected credit upon Houston. Mr. Brown of Sibley has made several good speeches during the session, and Mr. Buell of La Sueur ana Mr.

Haguey of Dakota, to wind up the list, have been strong parts of the limited amount of Democratic material permitted to sit under the dome of the capitol. ll will be well tor the psrty if these twelve men carry home with them the determination to educate their constituents into the great necessity of attention being paid to legislative elections. The country Democracy, once taught the importance of this, could soon wrest the legislative control of the state away from a party so long in power that has reached its dotage. DRAMATIC DRIFT. From minstrelry and horse show last week the Newmarket will rise to the plane of the legitimate this week.

Robert Mantell in "Monbars" and Fanny Davenport in "La will furnish a dramatic bill that ought to please the most fastidious. Both, are well known and favorite stars in St. Paul. To-morrow night Miss Loduski Young will be tendered a benefit at the People's, at which she will appear in the character of Peg Woffingtou in "Masks and and her own photographs will be distributed as souvenirs ot the performance. For the remainder of the week "Silver King" will be repeated, in accordance with popular request.

Maggie Mitchell is a grass widow now, and, of course, she is going to grow younger every day. She is worth 5300,000 and can manage to get along in her widowhood. Still. If she is of the same opinion with the public, she will quit playing barefooted parts and live through the remainder of her days without hard work. The lecture season is upon us, but, thank the stars, we are getting a better class of lectures than usually fall to the lot of communities.

There was rich entertainment in Rev. Joseph Cook's lecture at the People's church last week, and there will be equally as good mental food at the Unity church next Friday evening, where Julia Ward Howe will lecture for the benefit of the Business Woman's exchange. There will be a diamatic entertainment at Cretin Lyceum hall Tuesday evening for the benefit of the Catholic High school. The programme includes a drama entitled "The Blind Boy," a new conceit entitled "The New Noah a roaring farce. "How to Pay the Rent," and some musical selections.

Among the well-known amateurs who will participate are Messrs. J. F. Gehan, J. H.

Donohoe, J. P. Chnstophel, Ed Bennett, William Coiiroy, J. P. Murphy, Ed Dohertv, W.

J. Ryan, J. J. Conroy, Ed Fahey. George Rice, J.

J. Gleason, and Prof. Cong'don. At a dinner held in New York not long ago the guests fell to discussing the authorship of Shakespeare plays. Among the guests was an aged Western gentleman, who said very little and listened a great deal.

Finally he was asked what he thought of tbe question. "Well," he replied deliberately, "of couiseldon't know much about it: but if Bacon did not write those plays, he lost the greatest opportunity of his life." For a this view of the con trovery was received without a dissenting voice. TWIN CITY POINTS. When a mad dog is discovered and killed in St. Paul, his carcass is sent to the soap Did it ever occur to the ordinary mortal what causes cold chills to chase each Mother up and down his back when donning a "biled shirt?" He knows now.

Lake Crystal Union. It has been quite stormy all over the state the past week, but especially so in the Twin Cities, where it has been so Lowry that even gray haired deacons are heard to swear when walking home to Martin County Sentinel. 7.V; i 77. Mr. Lowry wants to connect St.

Paul and Minneapolis by a cable line, and in order to do this ne must cut down Had been less audible excuse for fleecing the men, the riot act would have been read to Mr. Lowry immediately in accordance with the eternal fitness of Owatonua Journal Tom Lowry is one ofthe boss Republicans of this state who made laboring men believe, last fall, that the election of such men as Washburn, one of his partners, would increase wages and make better times for the pror. "Oh. Lord, what fools most mortals are And has it really come to pass that railroad magnates may dictate what society their employes shall or shall not organize or Waseca Herald. Every time an important bill comes up the wine supper is ou deck the night before.

At these orgies voters and influence are bought and sold. They are a shame and a disgrace, and have rendered this shameless legislature even disgusting in its offensiveness. It will never be forgotton. The most weighty matters are put before a committee, the committee meets, and iokes and chestnuts and barroom stories are retailed out by members and attorneys the committees rise and no reports are Glen wood Miunesotian. The great street car strike at St.

Paul and Minneapolis is only what might have been expected, and will not be the only struggle between capital and labor, which the coming four years of the reign of our Republican aristocricy will witness. The situation which led to it was similar to that which has caused all former labor Stillwater Democrat. INHERE AND THERE. The price paid fer cattle in this village is 25 cents per hundred higher than a week ago. The increase in price is said to be due to the passage by the legislature of the "dressed meat" bill.

We find a difference of opinion as to whether the measure will be a benefit or Winnebago News. Those farmers who voted the protective ticket last fall shouid not complain of ihe low price of their cattle and hogs, and the increased price in twine the coming harvest. These same farmers voted for high-priced twine the same as they voted for high-priced clothes, boots, and iliey are now reaping the benefit of their Houston Valley Signal. Senator Scheffer's bill providing for the puiiishishment of drunkards has passed the legislature, and is now a law. ILucky thing it was not in force at the time of the banquet given by the city last Sherburne Star.

Perhaps if we were to have another election to-morrow the Northwestern farmers would vote for the twine trusts and all the other trusts which are fostered by the Republican party and so declared in their platform, but we hope they will profit by the lesson and henceforth shun evil companions. The party that upholds monopolies cannot benefit the farmers, whose every interest lies in the opposite direction. Montevideo Commercial. LITERARY LORE. The fishing article on "The Land of the Winanishe," in the May Scribner, will be Very richily illustrated from sketches and 'drawings by Dr.

Leroy M. Yale and L. R. O'Brien, president of the Canadian academy. The wonderful advances in photography, nave been made possible by the dry plate process, will be clearly and entertainingly treated in the May Scribner, by Prof.

John Trowbridge, of Harvard, who will illustrate some unique results by photographs tflken under most peculiar conditions; binder water, by lamp and candle lights, and by lightning flashes. 'Octave Thanet, who has achieved a reputation as a writer of sketches of Arkansas life, Will contribute a sixteenth century story to the May Scribner. which although "in a new field for her, is of unusual dramatic power. The title is, "The Dilemma of Sir Guy. The Neuter." The May number of the Atlantic Mdhlhly will contain a short aud temperate article by Charles Worcester Clark, entitled.

"Temperance Legislation: Uses and It is full of important facts and suggestions which are exceedingly timely. Mrs. A. J. Woodman, a cousin of Mr.

Whittier, has written a small volume, entitled, "Picturesque Alaska," embodying her observations during a recent visit, aud illustrated with a few views of the more important places. It is now nearly ready at the Riverside Press. The first edition of "..000 copies of Mrs. Burnett's new story, "The Pretty Sister of Jose," was exhausted several aays before the book was published, and a second edition has been printed. This 1 in (romance by Mrs.

Burnett promises to be one of the most popular and sough er of her mature stories. Anew portrait, recently taken, of George Bancroft, will be printed in- the May Book Buyer. The same number will also contain portraits of Ellen Olney Kirk, author of "The Story of Margaret and Sallie Pratt McLean, author of "Cape Cod A personal sketch will accompany each portrait. Houghton, Mifflin will soon publish the first volumes of an illustrated library edition of Thackeray's works. It will be printed from large type, and will contain twenty-two crown octavo volumes, illustrated with over 1,000 pictures from designs by Thackeray and various artists.

It will be more complete than any other English or American edition yet published. The April number of the Riverside Literature series (published monthly by Houghton, Mifflin Boston) contains Emerson's Fortune of tho Republic and other American essays. These famous essays, besides their literary merit, have a great historic interest, and the three of them were delivered in times of great political excitement: "American Civilization," at Washington, in January, 1802, in the presence of President Lincoln, some months before the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation; "The Emancipation Proclamation," in Boston, in September, 1802; and "Abraham at the funeral services, consequent upon President Lincoln's assassination, held iv Concord, April, 19, 1805. Of the other two essays, "The Young Americau" was delivered in Boston in 184.4. and the "The Fortune of the Republic," in the Old South church, iv 1878.

A PRIZE AYE OUGHT TO WIN. Competitive Exhibition of Flour Mill Machinery in Chili. The congress of Chili has made an appropriation for a competitive exhibition of flour mill machinery, which is to be opened at Santiago, Chili, next November, under the auspices of the Chilian Society for the Promotion of The prize of f.20,000. (84,000) will be awarded the successful competitor, whatever his country, by a jury of experts. To facilitate exhibitions, the society above named offers to pay the freight on machines sent and all the costs of testing them: also a second-class passage to Chili and return for the man sent to setup and work the machine.

This liberal offer seems likely to draw into competition the most perfect flour mill machinery to be found in Europe or the United States; and, aside from the prize offered, the manufacturers will have an opportunity of well introducing their machinery into the Chilian market. The government of Chili rightly appreciates the importance of her wheat and flour industry, for Chili ranks among the great wheat-exporting countries of the world, her wheat exports to Europe exceeding 4,000,000 bushels in 1887; it seems desirable to increase the flour exports, which are already considerable, to South American ports and the islands of the Pacific. It is for this reason that the Chilian congress has made a liberal appropriation for a competitive exhibit of flour mill machinery. Withunlimited water power in Chili there seems no reason why much of the wheat shipped abroad may not be first made into flour; the best practical for nuking flour is necessary, and this exhibition will demonstrate which is the best to buy. At the present time there are about 750 flour mills in Chili; but of those, three-fourths have only one set of stones.

The largest flour mills in Chili have sixteen sets of stones; but of the more advanced type there are only three which use the cylinder system of steel rollers for crushing wheat instead of grinding it between millstones; these are of very recent construction. From the earliest times, grinding wheat between two stones has been the universal system until 1875, when the roller system of crushing wheat was introduced at Buda-Pesth, in Hungary. The advantages of this new cylinder system over the old millstone system were so evident that the new system was introduced at Minneapolis in 1879, ami is now in general use throughout the country. It would seem that our American manufacturers of flour mill machinery will now have a fair chance of supplying several hundred flour mills in Chili with the most improved machinery; and, certainly, the arrangements for a competitive trial have been liberally I provided by the Chilian government for those desiring to compete. it is needless to remark that this country, which is the finest wheat and flour country in the world, ought to win the prize for flour mill machinery; but it will be safe to assume that European manufacturers will put forth their best efforts to win the prize at the Santiago exhibition next December, and with it a new and growing foreign market for their machinery.

Consequently, American menufacturers must not spare any effort if they would successfully compete. For further information they can apply to the legation of Chili in Washington or to the consulate of Chili in Boston, or to Gen. K. Johnson, St. Paul.

The Spring Bard in Disguise. Chicago Mail. Co put away your ulster and bring out your new spring coat, for the air's as fine a poem as a poet ever wrote. Its balmy breath and soft caress create the casual wish that you knew some quiet place to go and sit and smoke and fish; or 101 upon a grassy bank and read a bonny book, or '-peel" and "go in swimmin'," with no person near to look; or wander in the timber-land and pluck the fragrant flowers, and fill the happy, happy days with happy, happier hours; or climb a sun-kissed haystack in the bottom land and dream cf that wondrous land of vision, that blossom-bordered stream, which poets like to picture in their music-haunted lines, as purling through those legend-locked and halcyon confines; or clamber up an apple-tree and perch upon a limb, and breathe the blossoms' fragrance as you sing a silent hymn; or with a loved one stroll at eve and inspiration drink from the beauty of the landscape and the banjo's pleasant plink. Your mind insists on riotintr on such a day as a day as full of ecstacy as love's initial kiss.

The old moss-covered, shingled barn's big doors were open wide, While streams or spring's glad sunshine chased the winter from inside, When, past meek Brindle, wondering if grass were growing green. Walked dainty Mrs. Speckled Hen, quite innocent of mien. She scratched a little here and there, as if for that she came. Till, seeing no one was around to spoil her little game, She hopped upon the wagon shaft ana took a last survey.

Then with a strictly business air flew lightly on the hay. Way in a cob webbed corner of the fragrant hay-mow she Prepared with extra care a nest for no one else but me. And snugly nestled in it, while her eyes, outpeeping bright, Gazed earnestly at nothing with a most intense delight Awhile she sat as still as death, then suddenly arose, And, losing all her dignity and crazy to disclose, As females are, a down she tumbled from the mow, Cackling, "Git. git. git-yer-hair-cut" to the startled muley cow.

"Yer-bair-cut git-yer- hair-cut," answered quick the hens outside: Old Rooster swelled the chorus with a man's conceited pride Of taking all the glory. From the racket that they made For little Curly Head to hear I knew that I laid. '7J; ---V; 7: "Oh, papa Speckle's laid an egg. I dit in the mow," Cried out the eager little tot, a-climbing up somehow. And soon I was discovered by his round, blue, searching eyes.

And, held within his dimpled fist, I was indeed a prize. Since then I've had vicissitudes too terrible to teil, And now. on Easter morning, in my rated shell, 1 lie before a maiden, who, in honor of the -day. "7 .7 Will treat me to a pinch of and eat me right C. Dodge.

THE ETO TOWER The Graceful Structure That Looms Up as the Pride of Paris, And Has Become Generally Held the World's Eighth Wonder. How the Remarkable Structure Was Designed and Erected. Some Comparisons That Show the Wonderful Height Attained. The French exposition to be held in Paris this summer promises to exceed in magnitude, interest and variety of features all previous attempts of this kind. And of all things to be seen in the French capital this summer it is certain that none will attract greater attention or excite more discussion than the enormous tower projected, by M.

Eiffel and already nearly completed. In this tower the great French engineer realizes toe dream of a certain M. Cabillet, who, as far bacK as 1845, planned a tower of similar height to be made of stone. In placing before the public this scheme, which was never realized, M. Cabillet issued a short pamphlet, in which he advanced many reasons in support of his enterprise, and in his attempt to prove that the tower would be liberally patronized by the public he said: "Even our ladies who for the past quarter of a century hive been amusing themselves by riding on roller coasters, which lead to nothing and leave no souvenir, would not be the last to avail themselves of an opportunity to be transported to an enormous height where they could comfortably behold the rising and the setting of the sun." From 1845 until the present decade the idea of a great tower remained dormant, and it remained for the lamous civil engineer, backed both by the government and by private capital, to push the scheme to "completion.

So much interest, indeed, did the work excite throughout all France that M. de Lesseps, who was then struggling tooth and nail with his colossal Panama bubble, induced M. Eiffel to identify himself with the canal as a contractor simply on account of the prestige of his THE EIFFEL TOWER In order to give some idea of the magnitude of this exposition, it may be said that over 3,000,000 of square feet on the Champs de Mars are covered with magnificent structures of glass and iron, illuminated by the most brilliant electric lights, and made in every way as commodious, convenient and handsome as the latest modern invention, coupled with the most refined taste, can make them. The Eiffel tower stands at the grand entrance to the exposition, and around it extends the beautiful park of the Champs de Mars, with its cascades, fountains and pleasure gardens. Near it is the 75,000 square feet of space allotted to the United States, in which will probably be found many of the most interesting exhibits of the exposition.

The Edison company alone are spending many thousand dollars on their display, which will embrace all the most recent inventions in electricity. Among other things will be 20,000 beautifully colored electric lights arranged to represent our national flag. Tiffany Co. have also gone to a great expense, and have sent a collection of diamonds and other precious stones which will readily bear comparison with the crown gems of any court in Europe. The tower, when completed, will reach the enormous height of 1,000 feet, and will be by far the largest structure in the world.

In order, to form some idea of a building 1,000 feet high, let us compare it for a moment with the other tall towers in the world. The dome of St. Paul's cathedral in London is 404 feet in height, and that of St. Peter's in Rome 433. The too of the spire of St.

Stephen's in Vienna is ten feet higher, while that of the Strassburg cathedral is 400 feet from the ground. The famous cathedral in Cologne enjoys the destinction of being a dozen feet more than half the height of the new tower. The cost of this vast structure will exceed 5,000,000 francs, of which one-half was contributed by the government, and the remainder by M. Eiffel and associates. The projectors of the affair will receive all the money taken in during the exposition, alter which the tower will become the property of the French government.

At the first grandlanding, which is situated 250 feet from the ground, there will be a supurb cafe and restaurant, conducted by Messrs. Speir and Ponds, the well-known Loudon caterers, and also a variety of little shops and booths devoted to the sale of small souvenirs of the exposition. Four staircases will lead to this landing, and beside these four elevators of American manufacture will inn from the top to the bottom, and it is expected that the whole trip can be made in 7 from seven to eight minutes. The charge for ascending to the first landing will be $1, and to the top of the tower $4. It will be seen therefore that if 2,000 people make the ascent each day, the receipts from that source alone will be $8,000, and in addition to this there will be the profit derived from carrying people to the first landing, and also from the rent of the cafe and shops situated there.

The platform reached by the elevators includes a balcony of square form measuring about sixty feet on each side. There will also be a large outside promenade formed of glass plates in movable frames. In the center of the platform will be a cabin divided into laboratories to be used: for making Above this platform is the highest landing of the tower, the summit of which. contains a lantern twenty-three feet high.in which will be placed an optical system similar to that employed in the finest light houses. There will be a fixed light, and in addition to this two optical projections giving the power of illuminating at will the principal monuments of Paris.

The Engineer, the well-known English author it on such "subject, says that the question of the possible use of the Eiffel Tower for scientific purposes has been often raised, and as yet we have seen no authoritative documents on that head signed any scientific man or indorsed by any learned society, but scientific utility is possibly a secondary object in its construction. The tower will be such a curiosity in itself as to draw many visitors to Paris duiing the exposition. On the Ist of January a book on the Eiffel tower by M. Max Nansouty, engineer, was published in the author gives the names of several leading Frenchmen of scientific importance, who have expressed their approbation of the scheme, but approbation of what is not quite dis- tinctly stated. The author then suggests that the tower may prove useful for strategical observations, as the enemy can be watched when sixty kilometres or more away, as far as the most powerful forts for the defense of Paris.

If Paris should be surrounded, signals could be flashed from the top of the tower to friends outside the lines of the enemy and secret messages given to them optically by a cryptographic method. Possibly, says our author, the enemy might fire howitzers at the top of the tower, although he would have difficulty in bringing them to bear, despite the progress of modern artillery, but the projectile would have no more effect on the tower than a grain of lead thrown against the web of a spidersome bars of iron will be broken and quickly repaired, and that will be all. The foregoing cheerful ideas of M. de Nansouty are suggestive of an anecdote about the Duke ot Wellington. The latter was saio to hate being pestered by inventors, but, nevertheless, one wormed his way into the duke's presence while he was busy writ and said he had invented and brought with "him a suit of armor which was ballproof.

"Put it ou," said the duke, as he resumed his writing. When the inventor had dooned his armor the duke instructed an officer in the room to order a file of soldiers into the courtyard, and. said he: Tell them to load with ball." He once more resumed his writing, and when he looked up again the inventor had disappeared, armor and all. If ever an enemy should be firing with heavy guns at the Eiffel tower, it is to be hoped that M. Max de Nansouty will be placed in charge of the signaling department at the top of the edifice.

Considerable speculation has been indulged in regarding the solidity of the tower, its resistance to wind storms, lightning, etc. The peculiar and practical construction and form of its base insures its solidity beyond all question of doubt. The foundation of each of the four divisions of the base are built four stories under ground and are of solid masonry. The most violent tempest ever know in Paris or its vicinity produced a pressure of less than SOO pounds to the square yard, and the tower is calculated to resist wind to the extent of 600 pounds to the square yard, or in other words to survive a tornado twice as violent as any known in the neighborhood. A great many people, probably belonging to that large class which hide under a bed during a thunder storm, have expressed the opinion that the tower would be an unsafe place on account of danger fromjlightning.

Fortunately, however, the inventor foresaw the objection which such people would be sure to raise, and by an ingenious system of construction the tower has been made its own protector, so that accident from lightning is an absolute impossibility. That the tower will be made the scene of fatal tragedies, however, is more than probable. To people of a certain temperament, and there are many such in France, it will offer irresistible temptations for self-destruction. When a Frenchman decides to kill himself because his girl has gone back on him. he is apt to choose some striking method of suicide.

Mental Phenomena. Pall Mall Gazette. Under the above heading the current number of the Revue Rose publishes an interesting summary of au account recently communicated to the Societe de Biologic by M. Fere, and in which are embodied some of his experiences of the effect of ether on persons at the point of death. It is a well-known fact that the dying are often able to see the principal facts of their lives, which otherwise have been forgotten for many years, clearly and accurately before them.

The reason for this clairvoyance M. Fere ascribes to the sudden modification of the cerebral circulation, which can also be brought about ly artificial means. Thus he fells of a case of a patient who was dying of consumption. He had already lost consciousness, when, having been revived by two successive injections of one gramme of ether, the dying man slowly raised his head and rapidly pronounced a string of words, which no one near him was able to understand, as they were Flemish. After some movements indicating impatience, he made a sign that ho wished to write.

A pencil and pape were then handed to him. and he wrot rapidly three or four lines, also in Flemish. This man, who was a native of Antwerp, had lived at Paris for many years, and never wrote or spoke anything but French; but. when dying, he seemed to be unable to recollect that language. Afterwards it was found that his pencil note was about a debt of of which he had borrowed from somebody at Brussels in ISGB, and which had never been paid.

In another case the patient was dying of lung disease. He had fainted several times, and no longer replied to any questions put to him; his pulse was all but gone, but after an injection of ether he turned his head towards his wife, saying rapidly, "You will not find the pin, for all the floor has beeu remade," which was an allusion to an incident of eighteen years ago. After uttering these words breathing ceased. Perils of Society Girls. Gail Hani ton.

"What are society's perils for young women?" I asked a "society girl," and she said: "In Washington, lack of men." For girls, this is true. There are plenty of men in Washington. Perhaps in no city ih the United States is society worth so much while as in Washington, because so many distinguished men gather there. In no party do you fall to see groups, any one member of which would be worth making a feast for in other cities. But the distinguished men of Washington scarcely come at an earlier period than their early middle life.

They are in Washington because they have already won more or less eminence. They are past the uncertainty, the hesitancy, the unreality of life, and are bent on definite pursuits. The young men, the natural mates for the girls, are in other cities and districts, practicing law, learning to edit newspapers, cantering over cattle ranches, preaching sermons to young women and probably making a poor fist of it, exploring mines earning money, winning fame. By and by they will come to Washington, bnt In that day our girls will not be girls any more. A few of these yovng men are in Washington, but very few, hardly enough to go around.

Consequently, a girl who goes into society encounters the peril of not finding many stimulating minds among her younger comrades. And there are perils of 5 o'clock teas, ruinous to digestion, and always the peril of confounding the cakes and candies of life with its roast beef. "Society" is so fascinating that girls are in danger of forgetting that it is refreshment and rest, not steady work. Quick to See a Point. Majorie (to the new But, Peter, you must not serve without gloves.

me, Miss Majorie. I saw the other gentlemen taking off their gloves for luncheon, and so I took mine off.