The Saint Paul globe., 1898-08-16
in the basement, safe from the sudden attack
Of sneak thieves.


| Of sneak thieves
! The New York Evening Post says: In the
| confusion of tongues regarding Porto Rico
and the Philippines we perceive no demand
for the annexation Of Cuba, although this
island, regarded as a cash possession. is
worth more than all the other material OBJ
Jects involved In the war. 1t is a rich and
beautiful country. and can be made as sa-
lubrious as any In the world. It is a civ
tlized country. and 1t lies at our doors. We
have large interests In it and our trade with
1t Is large and win soon be enormous. Yet
we went to war with Spain under solemn
promise not to annex the island, or to do
| anything with 1t except to restore peace and
leave the Inhabitants free and independent.
and it will be all the more gratifying If we
have the cooperation of the Cuban insur-
gents to that end instead OF their hostility
Among his possessions Grover Cleveland
has fine farm near Princeton, N. j., and at
the solicitation Of a former student of
Princeton university he has set aside sixty
five as a school farm for boys from the
city slums.
There will be no suggestion Of the average
Juvenile reformatory in connection with this
pan for saving bright boys who would other
wise grow up in atmosphere of vice and
crime. Instead Of conflning the boys to one
large building, so suggestive of penal iusti-
tuition cottages will be erected and occupied
by small groups of the boys. The belief is
that the farm soon will be self-su tanning.
as 1t is desired to avoid all appearance of
charity.
number of other practical men are asso-
ciated with the movement, among them pub
lie educators, who Will see that the boys re-
ceive sound educations.
The widow Of the late Robert Louis Steven
son and married children, Mr.. and Mrs Lloyd
Osbourne, and Mrs. Isobel Strong recently
made a visit to Edinburgh, where they were
interviewed by representative of the Ed-n-
burg Evening Dispatch. One of the first
questions propounded to the Stevenson-Og-
bourne Strong group was, What about the
Old house at Samoan To which Mrs. Lloyd
Osbourne replied well of course, my
mother has it still on her hands. We would
like to sell it; and, as matter Of fact, we
have got numerous offers for it. But we don't
want to throw it away; and if suitable pr'ce
Is not obtained why we will just let it stand.
But l think it is very likely we shall part
with it soon. 1 left Samoa about fifteen
months ago. and my mother and sister about
seven months ago. The principal object my
mother had in coming to this country was
to assist Mr.. Sydney Colvin who as IS pretty
well known, is writing the life and edit, ,ng the
Letters of Stevenson. We have been in Lon
don for some time on this miss on. You can
quite uilueTSLdHQ LQaJ many Oei1Cate QuSStfOnS
arise in connection with the publication OF
letters which were written to private friends.
Susceptibilities might be ruf1ed and feelings
injured. unless the greatest care were taken
and Mr.. Sydney Colvin is naturally very glad
to have the assistance of Mrs. Stevenson in
the task of selection"
lished?"
We'll. it is hoped they will be brought
out in the end Of 1899. They will be pub
volumns, and will consist of 1000 words of
the life and 100000 of the letters. 1 dent
know If you have heard that Scribner has
letters, before they appear in book form;
and the first of them will appear in that
magazine in January next. and the series will
go on until the end of the year."
The king of Sweden sets aside every second
Tuesday On which any one of his subjects
may cali on him. The only formal ty requ!r-
ed is to send in ones card, the visitors being
received when their turn comes in the order
of arrival.
The situation in which England finds herself
in the Chinese controversy is very clearly
described by a writer in the Contemporary
Review for August The cardinal fact of the
whole situation in the far East is that If the
programme that England has laid down is
to be carried out and not abandoned with
much humiliation. she stands committed to
an immense future empire n China. As
Lord Salisbury has said, the English govern
ment does not ask for cessions of Chinese
territory or seek to engage in commercial
ventures. But the English government will
support its subjects when they engage in
these speculations, and it is in precisely this
way that the dominion of England has been
enlarged First the English trader, and then
when the natives of the countries which h.
penetrated turned him, the English SOL
dier This has been the history of the Eng
lish empire IN India, and this will have t.
be the history of the British empire in China
II the policy which has been announced is
to be carried out. The Understanding with
the Chinese amounts in effect to a British
protectorate OF the great Yangtse valley, COM
pr,sing nearly three-sevenths of China prop
er, and supporting a population estimated to
number 1S5.o00,o 600. 1t is conceivable that if
the Chinese government were capable of eff
cient action, 1t might accept the protection
! CT England, and in that event a successful
resistance might be made to the aggressions
OF other powers. But the Chinese government
Is thoroughly rotten, the Manchu dynasty
effete. and the Indications are that the Eng
l1sh protectorate is not desired. In India, af-
ter the French were driven out England had
a free hand, and has had to meet only in
ternal opposition. In China the case is very
dlnerent To maintain a Chinese empire is
going TO be much more Of task than te
mainta n an Indian empire and those who
have England's prosperity most at heart NAV
Weii tremDle at the task which the limoges
are laying out for her.-New York Evening
Post.
Ex-President Harrison will make several
speeches, it is announced during the Ind;ara
campaign, which will be opened by the Re-
publicans on Sept. 10.
A story Is told OF Prince Bismarck whom
he visited London far back as 1S43 He
was taken by his entertainers to the noted
brewery OF Messrs. Barclay & Perkins, as
was a certain Austrian general on another
memorable occasion. His reputation as q
Deer drinker lad preceded him. and his hos,
presented him with an enormous tankard of
old ale The size of the breaker conveyed
a challenge. which the young champion of
the Prussian Junkers was not slow to ac
cept This is his own account of what fol-
lowed, as told by him to Sir Charles Dixie.
| L seized the tankard," said he. "and T
thought of my country and drank to Prussia
and tilted 1t till it was empty. Then 7
thanked my entertainers-courteously I hope
and succeeded in making my way as far as
! London bridge. There I sat down in one Of
! the stone recesses and for hours the great
! bridge went round and round me-
! The New York Herald says: Prince Her.
pert met all the emperors overtures with
| nrm dignity, and to all his imperial demands
for Berlin funeral and a burial in the o.
thedral and the rest he opposed his fathers
simple wishes. And the wishes of the dnad
chancellor have prevailed against the de-
mands of the living kaiser.