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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17


The errand on which Gen. Merritt goes to
the Philippines is thus far unique In Ameri-
can history. 1t may not long remain so.
There is ample warrant for it. though no
full precedent. Nearest to precedent, per-
haps, was the of California, which was
for a brief time under a military governor
after it had been taken from MeXico.-New
York Tribune.
If Gen. Merritt shall go to the Philip
pines and his expedition shall coop
crate with Dewey's fleet and capture
Manila and the Spanish force and the
general become governor general and
establish a mixed civil-military gov
eminent, still the errand will not be
unique. and there will be precedent for
it. The memory of our contemporary
is sadly defective in carrying capacity.
This is the more striking for the promi-
nent part it's founder bore in the estab-
lishment of one of the precedents. Be
fore we embark on the enterprise Of
governing another people, it will be
well to recall our other former efforts
in that line.
1t is something over a century since
the United States government assumed
the task of governing a number of
subject peoples whom it's pushing in
habitants had crowded out Of their
territory. There had been sharp con-
flicts followed by the negotiation of
treaties which were promptly disre-
garded and repudiated as the invading
wave of settlement encroached again
upon territory solemnly conceded to
the vanquished. Then came, not gov
errors general, but the notorious In
dian agent, quite as dexterous as any
Spanish captain general in filling his
purse with the profits of his post, made
quite aside from his salary and out
side of any authorization in the laws
of his country. Can we say that CEN
fury of experimentation in the govern
ment of the conquered Indian tribes
justifies serene confidence in our abil
ity to govern the mixed races of the
Philippines?
But we made another and more try
ing experiment in government by gov
errors general. Here the Tribune
should have a store of memories at it's
command. We refer to that era fol-
lowing the close of the Civil war when
the party of which the Tribune has
ever been shining and influential
states lately in revolt. 1t is that pc
Rod commonly referred to as the Ere
construction" era. There were generals
of the army acting as governors gen.
eral in each of these states. Under
them, subordinate to and dependent
upon them, were military governors
appointed by the president, followed
later by civil governors and legisla-
lures, elected after a judicious process
of acknowledgment and disfranchise-
ment had eliminated intelligence and
Installed ignorance in the electorate,
and installed by federal troops who
had also served as police force at
the polls We had Sheridan driving
Louisiana legislature out of it's hall:
De Trobriand throwing a Gordon of
troops about group of carpetbaggers
in the state house at Columbia; Grant
recognizing this or that governor, all
eliminating fifty in the theft of the
presidency in 1876. We have had am
pie precedent, and it is not such as to
justify any great degree of confidence
in the Philippine venture
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
They Sowed the Wind.

A century ago the word stood aghast
| at the frightful atrocities of the French
revolution. What it saw was the pro-
| cessions to the gulliotine; the nobility
hunted down like wild beasts; men
and women turned into fends, insatiate
| for blood. What it did not see was the
centuries of oppression of which this
was but the reaction, all their force
compressed into the tumult of a few
years; a mighty river dashing wildly
through the rock-walled canyon that
compressed it's volume While not di-
miilishing it. Something of this reac-
ton lta is now experiencing. The rot
ing Of which we have had meager ac-
counts is the sudden outburst of re-
volt against oppressive taxation and
the eXactiCns of the land owners These
are reaping the whirlwind whose wind
they have been sowing for many years.
How fierce is this feeling, how brutal
ly revengeful, what is it's cause one
gets some conception of from the mar
rative of Barletta, the miller of Miner
veno. He had been as regardless Of
those who ate his meal as are our own
millers who make US here, within the
roar or their mills, pay them the same
price paid for their flour after thou
sands of miles of transport has added
to its cost. Like them, when the bulls
sent up the prices of grain, he promptly
added the Use to his stock. He had a
Thanksgiving mass read in the pres
ence of his employees in his private
chapel, because the Madonna had made
1t possible for him to sell corn at so
f,o,
ers thank no Madonna, but they add
the francs just the same and congratu-
late themselves on having the grain
and flour on hand to give them the
profit CT the rise.
The hungry mob of Minerveno, after
| demolishing the octroi offices, where
taxes We're laid and collected on every
article of food brought within the town,
went to Wreak vengeance on the pious
miller From his house he fired on the
crowd. Undismayed, stirred to fiercer
anger, they pressed on. Then he chang
| ed his tactics. He threw a thousand
| francs in small coin out to the crowd.
He would appease them with beggar's
pittance of what he had thanked the
Madonna for letting him take from
them. 1t was not money they wanted
but vengeance. They pressed up to the
doors of his palace and battered them
down. Barletta, commercial even in
this moment of stress, bargained for
| his life. He offered them francs by
the thousand; told them to take his en-
tire fortune. And tie hoarse reply was:
1--WE want your head And the mad
| dened mob rushed on him and beat
him to death with their clubs; killed
him as if he were a mad dog instead
of only greedy, exacting old miller:
years and years of petty acts of in
justice that missed being criminal re-
acting in one rush and crush of wrath
and vengeance and murder And the
narrator of this volcanic outburst of
pent-up passion says: '"The whole
reighborhood was white with the flour
taken from the mills Is there no
wind being sown in this country that
will some time gather into such q whirl-
wind?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
EPISTLES TO ST. PAUL.

Bill Christian caught turtle. That is hcw
1t all started Mr.. Christian lives at Lake
OWasso, and when a man lives there all the
time he occasionally feels that it is incumbent
upon MIN to do something to keep down the
supply of turtles. Out in those parts the
turtles are so exceedingly numerous that they
nave to build barbed wire fences of many
stianus TO keep them from getting into the
farmyards and biting the chickens Mr.
Christian has to go out and kill a few turtles
every once in while in order to pre serva
the poultry.
WE'LL Mr.. Christian caught a turtle Last
Friday night he went out on Lake Owasso
with friend and SPEAR and the result of
poKlng the spear around was that 1t was
stuck through the off hind fipper of a turtle
who must have been a creature of some i'm
portance IN the world Of turtles. He was a
large turtle and not nearly such gentle beast
as his kind is reputed When the smear wa,
stuck through his paddle he protested to
some extent. but his protest was about as
awaiting as that of Mr.. Valer,aro WeyIer when
he protested against the barbarous feroc,ty
of the uncivilized Yankees Mr.. Turtla was
presently in a fair way to land where Mr.
Weyler landed-in the SOUP He was in
continently yanked ashore and dragged off
to the shamb,es.
Now, 1t is no triHing Job to accomplish tb,
hn
turtle is likely to refuse to push his head
out to the end that you may get a fair
crack at 1t with an AK In the next nIare
when you get the head cut off the turtle Won
find that he never did feel right anyway when
he was going around encountered with a head
and he starts in to enjoy life. But this
true tale has nothing to do with the turtle
without the head. He has probably found
his way into the consomme
What to do with the head was a question
That was soon disposed of, for there are hogs
On the premises and Bill Christian threw the
head into the hog pen.
AS ne remembers it now the eve on the
starboard side of that head indulged in a
deliberate wink when the head landed in
| front OF porcine production weighing some
4oo pounds 1t was Friday night when The
turtles head and the pig got together first
Sunday morning the hired man went ont to
FEED the pigs, and he noticed that the IL rpes+
beauty in the bunch was somehow w,o,g
The hog paid not the slightest attention n
savory paiful of Stops that was roured
into his trough. He looked up with bIase
| expression and grunted in dsdain. The hired
man knew that there must be some hi, o
| wrong, and he at once reported trat th.re
was going to be dead hog on the prerai -es
| in no time Mr.. Christians brother invest, ,
| gated. He went out to the pen and called
| out 'Piggie, piggie," in his mes. seductive
! way. "Piggie' turned a deaf ear 10 in !,
wheeling tones and went on grunting. A
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17

pstchfork properly applied made the hog mad
ana ne got up. view Of the other side OF
the pigs head showed the cause OF his dis
content.
He had tried to- make meal of the head
OF that turtle and the head had tried to make
meal OF the head of the pig. 1t was thirty
six hours after the match started. but up to
Date the turtle head had the best OF 1t. 1t
was fastened on that pigs snout with such
determined grip that there was 10 dislodging
1t with the pitchfork
An hour later. after a particularly vigorous
attack with the fork, the turtle head INDUCED
In wink.
Then the wits of the household were brought
into requisition and about / o'clock lasso
was fixed on the turtle head and 1t was
separated from the pigs face by tearing 1t
away with portion Of the pigs mesa
attached The head was beaten to Jelly and
burned on the edge of the lake. but 1t had
to be dug up six times Sunday afternoon and
shown to ST. Paul fishermen who wanted
proof Of the story. The Philistine.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17

| the last half of the fifth decade and the
| first half Of the sixth, when it's name
and its extensive plats were to be
heard and seen in every real estate Of
| fee in the land; when 1t was the entire
pot for the country 200 miles into the
! hinterland, and it's streets were throng-
ed with grain-laden teams and it's mer-
chants waxed rich. Unlike the isles
of Greece"
The sun of memory gids it yet,
But all except that sun Is set.
But to get back to the Twenty-first
| and Riley and the question before the
house. Riley's face revealed him no
Prohibitionist There was that ruby
flush, that watering eye and that trans
piration of the fumes Of liquor that has
undergone internal distillation that
marked him a doughty volunteer Of the
liquor forces. And valiantly he bore
himself. He made the speech of the
session. He spoke as an expert; as
practitioner whose favorite prescription
was a whisky straight, and as a man
whose own experimentation had had
the widest range, beginning in infancy
and continuing down to the moment
when he offered himself as blooming
Illustration Of the physical, mental and
moral effect of the extracts of rye lib
orally administered He bounded into
| a transitory fame with that speech and
became a more devoted follower of
John Barleycorn than ever. An unap-
preciative constituency dispensed with
| his services as a statesman after that
| one term, and he retired to the shad-
| Ows Of Brownsville and devoted him
| self to the practice of further distilling
| the product of the still.
| The other day curious neighbors,
| wondering at the absence on the
streets of the devotee of alcohol went
| into his room. They found his body
| lying on the floor, half consumed,
whiskers and mustache burned off,
body and clothing burned, tongue pro-
truding and roasted. A lamp was burn
| ing on the table, but nowhere except
en- the doctors body was there sign of
| fire. He had burned out. Doubtless,
| III an unguarded moment, he had put
lighted match too near his mouth, his
alcoholic breath ignited, there was an
| internal explosion, a confagration, and
| Doc Riley was no more, dying loyal to
his faith in the supremacy Of alcohol
among the nourishing gifts of nature;
| dying, we may believe, as he wished
to die, consumed in the flames of the
| spirits with which he had saturated
himself. Anyway, his death was a log
| zeal sequence to his life
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
IN CLUBDoM.

New Orleans has an organization known as
the Women's Half-Holiday association, tho
members comprising it being representative
women of the city. 1t Is the object Of
this society to secure a half-holiday every
Saturday for the clerks instead of having
them work until IL or u o'clock the las!
night of the week. The association trys to
persuade prosperous women to befriend their
toling sisters by making no purchases after
noon. The business men who made
the experiment last summer say that the
clerks work better and are more successful
with the half-holiday plan than without it,
but If one store closes all must
Sir Walter Besant has interested himself
in English womens Clubs and has conceived
the idea of effecting comprehensive organi-
cation according to the policy of the Ameri-
can Federation of Women's clubs Before
proceeding he las made various inquiries
from American women, as to the nature of
these decorations, and Is said to have received
some answers which are not highly compl-
mentary to the wit Of our women, if brevity
is the soul thereof. But in spite of the
lengthy epistles Sir Walter has had to com
municate with men on the subject. When will
American women learn to be brief and to the
point In their answers?
Mrs. Ledyard Stevens, Of New York, is the
president of the commission which will con-
troll the exhibition of American woman's work
at the Paris exposition. Mrs. Stevens receives
salary of $1,000 year for her services ard
will superintend the efforts of the yart Jus
associations forming in the several states
of the United States womens department at
the eyDositiOn
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
THE DEPARTING TROOPS.
written for The Globe

written for The Globe)
Up from the farm, at sound of distant call
When wars alarm cast Ger the land it's pail !;
To gather to greet, to pass in grand re-
view,
To stand. to meet, perchance to fall as SOL
ters do.
In hopeful mind to leave behind all friends
and love.
Expecting here to find again the faith tina,
time must prove,
And parting go to distant shorelines far
away
Where hope is low and deaths destroying
angels prey.
To fight for right-humanity's lesson there to
Within the sight of greater nations and the
reach
OF pagan laws that spurn the Christ and
trample under feet
His righteous cause, His precepts and His
love complete
To bring to light the greatest principle on
earth
The cause Of right-for America today gives
birth
To one great hope, and sets the star of ex-
pectation high
Above the scope of tyranny and of nations
to defy.
And so they go. not for conquest or for gain
To meet the foe-to carry brotherhood to
men
And fight fight an and die die; that wrong may perish
And justify law it does not understand.
Asa P. Brooks.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
GATES DROWNING VERIFIED.
''Swiftwater Bill" and Three Com.
paniOns Lose Their Lives.

"swiftwater RilI' and Three Conn
panions Lose Their Lives.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, May 49,
The details Of the drowning Of w. C.
Gates. better known as "Swiftwater
Bill" has been received here.
The accident occurred at Caribou
crossing, between Lake Bennett and
Lake Tagish, eco miles from Skaguay,
last Sunday.
Two Of Gates companions in death
were women, one of them being Nellie
Lahore, his sister-in-law. The name
Of the other has not been ascertained.
The second man in the quartette was
]. S. M. Wolfe, of Salt Lake city.
Gates partner.
The four attempted to cross on the
ice. Suddenly saltwater Bill" who
was in front, threw up his hands Wild
ly and disappeared from the view of
those on shore.
Wolfe and the women scrambled for
ward step or two, but in an instant
they were in the water with him.
1t is supposed the four were swept
directly under the surrounding ice by
the swift current.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
in WOMAN'S REALM.
FOR THOSE WHO WAIT.

Farewell, brave boys in blue!
Godspeed on your victorious way!
while your loved ones shall pray
God guide and guard you every day.
Our bonnie boys in blue!
Oh. gallant boys in blue!
we've paid farewell with smile and cheer;
AND you shall never know the tear
That flows through all your absence drear.
Oh. soldier ladies true!
Oh. patriot boys in blue!
Where e'er you go by land or sea
Beneath that banner of the free.
There floats the flag Of victoryi
Oh, dauntless boys in blue!
Beloved boys in blue!
we know that some may ne'er return;
But yet our loyal hearts proudly burn
To see those faces set and stern
With purpose firm and true.
Oh, martyred boys in blue!
No freeman's blood eer flows in vain.
Columbia needs not call again:
Remember. boys, the gallant Maine!
Her buried boys in blue!''
Columbia's boys in blue!
Her banner waves above your head;
And by its bars of white and red
She swears the living. shrouds the dead;
Columbias freemen true!
March on, brave boys in blue!
That flag that floats Ger every street;
That fag-has never known defeatl
Beneath that banner true!
Goodbye brave boys in bluei
Good-bye that word so sadly sweet
Means "God be with you till we meet!:
Till home again we proudly greet
Our brave, bronzed boys in blue!
e. Dorsey Anderson in New Orleans Times
Democrat.
Here is suggestion for the little girls
60 af,,l fn he
soldiers The advice is taken from the Chi
cago Times-Herald:
"a good thing to add to soldiers outfit Is
a pocket pin cushion and needle case COM
bined. For this you need four round pieces
of stiff pasteboard, each two and one-half
inches in diameter. Cover the four, each one
with pretty silk, dark enough not to soil cas-
lily. Make pocket on the cover of one piece.
with an elastic to draw 1t tight at the top.
This is to hold buttons for trousers and I'M
derclothing, half a dozen of each kind. Sew
the rounds together two and two. with q
sheet of cotton wadding between. Now make
four flannel leaves, little smaller than the
completed rounds. Sew the two pin. cushions
together at the top fastening the flannel
leaves between them. Fill the rounds with
pins, good-sized ones, and stick the leaves
full of needles threaded with strong black and
white thread. This weighs next to nothing
and is never in the way"
When Spain forbade Cubans to educate
their children in foreign countries and still
did not provide adequate facilities for in
struction at home, the number of philan-
thropic persons who founded and supported
free schools gave clear proof of the pa
triotsm and intelligence of the Cubans. Dona
Antonio, widow of Alfonso MADAM, maintained
free school in the country; Dona Susaha
Benitez insured through the income Of a rich
patrimony the maintenance Of college for
poor girls and boys. Dona Marie Abreu de
Estevez has given $4,000 for the erection of
a theater whose income is devoted to the
maintenance of free schools and public baths
for the poor and Dona Josefa Santa Cruz de
Oviedo bequeathed fortune for the con-
struction of a charity hospital.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
The Cremation of stDoc" Riley

In the Twenty first legislature of this
state there was a contest between the
supporters Of the freedom of the liquor
traffic and its opponents over a propo-
sition to regulate the business by means
of the license method. One of the four
representatives from Houston county in
that session was DR.. j. NJ. Riley, hail
ing from the decadent village of
Brownsville, town that lines the mar
row bench that has the Mississippi at
It's front and the battlements of Wild
Cat bluff at its back. 1t also hangs On
TO the memories of the halcyon days Of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
TODAY'S EVENTS.

GRAND-"Uncle Toms Cabin" S:15.
Observation-Disclosures
Entertainment Manchester PRESBYTERIAN
church.
Wcman's Improvement league, SO2 Summit
avenue, 2:30.
Van Buren School union meets PM.
Graduating exercises, ST. Luke's hospital.
Charity euchre party, Ryan hotel.
Bishop Arnett lectures st. James A. NJ. E.
church PM
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
RIVER AT 8 A. N.
ATLANTIC LINERS.

NEW YoRK-Arrived: Minnesota, London;
Europe, London.
CHERBOURG-Saied Koenigen Luise, New
York
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES: Kowerra. New York.
LIVERPOOL-Arrived: Pavonia Boston,
HAMBURG-Sailed Patria, New York
PHILADELPH Pennland, Liver
pool.
BREN EN-Arriyed: Bremen. New York
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17
"Newspaper English" Edited.


From the Writer
President urges three President urges three
reasons why congress reasons why congress
should not exerciselsh should not for fort
Ilent 10 declare Warin1ght exercise right to
for fortnight.-Bos- declare war;
ton Herald Headline.
Robert Smith wasI Robert Smith was
struck by the south struck by the south
pound passenger tr lin bound passenger train
last night and Instant last night and instant
ly killed MIR. Smith, lily killed. Mr. Smith
1t Will be remembered, 1T will be remembered
met with similar ac- was struck by train
c1dent about a year about year ago near
ago near Scarboro.-l Scarboro.
Belfast (Me) Paper.
copies were sold to copies were sold to a
gentleman in Chicago, gentleman in Chicago,
wapm ne afterwards who he aftsrward
Of the firm Of CHM & Of the firm of CHM &,
Co.-The Kingdom. Co.
Every question putt Every question put
by the defendants at by the defendants at
torneys was objected torneys was objected
to and sustained byito and all the ob1ec-
dom. by the court.
He had prepared, un- His intention until
til today, an outline ftoday had been to
intention which In transmit tomorrow the
VOWED the transmittal report of the court Of
Oh the report OF the inquiry, and to send
court OF inquiry tomor- message Monday or
row, ana messageTueSday recommend
recommending the im-ing the immediate end
mediate cessation ofing of the war
the war on Tuesday or
Wednesday. - N e W
York Journal. 81.
Court calls both she Court calls both her
and Judge Hayden i'm land Judge HAYDEN i'm
moral.-Boston Jour- moral.
nal Headline.
The regular circula-t The regular clrcula-
ton of the New York ton OF the New York
Journal is now over Journal is now more
100000 day, larger than 100000 a day,
by more than 100000 larger by more than
than any other news 200, 600 than that of any
paper. - New York ,Other newspaper.
Journal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-17

Commodore Comiskey's squadron Is
reported to be cruising towards Puerta
Beerville, where an engagement with
the enemy is expected to occur this
afternoon.