The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-15


state, the bug man" went out to fight
it. He found the farmers fighting the
invader with prayers. They went in
professions to their churches and i'm
plored divine help. The entomologist
knew that the gods helped them who
helped themselves. He went to work
and taught the farmers how to fight
their enemy effectively. He told them
of its habits; how the female buried it's
eggs, how the young, when Matched,
dug their way up to the surface, and
how, if the ground infested were plow-
ed deeply, the young would perish be-
fore they could reach the air. And
the farmers went to work and the
grasshopper scare passed away. And
so it will be this year, If the farmers
will oppose their little enemy with the
methods that science teaches. The day
has passed when his appearance causes
general dismay and when he can car
ry widespread havoc in his train,
A London paper says that the boy king Of
Spain amuses himself by drilling a company
of guards in the grounds Of the palace, and
in one of the apartments are toy models to
the extent of 100 or more men and officers
OF the various regiments CT the Spanish
forces. These are placed in formation BY
two three veteran officers detailed to i'm
press the delights of warfare upon the young
monarch. and often they are presented as
fighting troops, and practice various maneu-
vers and perform sham battles against an
other crowd of toy soldiers supposed to be
Americans. and which of course have to SUI
fer defeat at the hands of the boy king.
He has also models of different warshps
floating in one of the palace lakes, and. in
fact, every possible means is being taken to
instill into the mind of the royal
child that his mission is to de-
fend and some day, if possible. to
avenge his country. When the little king
becomes fractious-and even royal boys can
be naughty-he is punished by being forced
to witness the American dummy soldiers in
fct thrashing on the Spanish, carefully
arranged, of course, by the aforementioned
veterans in attendance. The little king also
likes to trot at the head of company of
boy soldiers sent from. time to time to play
with him in the palace grounds, and he is
happiest when permitted. as a special con-
cession. tc beat drum they march past.
The recent payment by China of its war
indemnity to Japan is thus described by
Hong Kong correspondent Of the London
Chronicle: about the governor, the
deputy governor and the chief cashier re-
ceived the representatives connected with the
transfer of the balance of the Chinese war
indemnity to Japan in the bank parlor. They
included Sir Halliday Mccartney and Mr.. T.
Y. Lo, representing the Chinese minister and
Mr. Namaya and Mr.. Kioke. representing the
Japanese minister; the managers CT the
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking corpora
md Mr.
manager of the bank. The proceedings
opened by the chief representative of the
Hong Kong bank presenting check for f11,-
O0S,S57 los Cd to the Chinese minister, who
at once placed 1t to the credit of his gov
eminent at the bank. The Chinese minister
then presented another check for about 49,
5O0,000-the largest on record-in favor OF the
Japanese government. This payment finally
settled all Japanese claims on China in re-
gard to the war of three years ago. There
is one demand left to be fulfilled-viz., that
by China in requesting the withdrawal Of the
Japanese troops from Wei-Hai-Wei, and upon
evacuation British troops will take over the
port"
New York recently saw big American flag
suspended from a rope stretched between the
SUBMITS of two church spires, and was dis
posed to regard that method Of elevating the
the metropolis has been outdone in this line
by the people of Gordon, little village in
Schuylkih county, Pennsylvania. The ratri-
OTIS living there decided that nothing less than
two mountains would do as supports for the
sacred emblem, and they went to consider
able trouble and expense in order that on
Memorial day they might have a 1ag-rais.ng
of sort without precedent The village lies
in a narrow valley, with sides rising steeply
to great height, Two convenient peaks
were selected and a steel wire was carried
from one to the other and hauled as taut as
the means at hand would permit. The points
of support were $50 feet above the village
streets, but the sag in the wire wasted 15)
feet, and when, in the course of yesterdays
exercises huge flag pulled along the
slender bridge to the center Of the gorge it
hung about 500 feet above the heads of the
chesrng crowds.