The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-01


and Fighting Stock Disport he
fore That 100000 Steel Grand
Stand-But the Management Is
Confident an American Pro-
gramme VIII BE Given.
Nowhere is a high state of civiliza-
ton more apparent than in the amuse-
ments of people. Even in their most
rollicking moods the fun of the most
advanced nations is clean and free
from anything that could offend the
refined, and especially free from any
faint of cruelty. In graver moods the
opera and drama furnish recreation
and instruction. On the broadcast lines,
occasionally Columbian exposition IS
organized, or, covering narrower linn
its, an Omaha exposition or a Mime
sofa state fair all having their anus
ing and entertaining features, but
keeping always to the fore the fact
that humane, refined and cultured,
and not brutal people are to be the
patrons, and that the educational side
and not the mere amusement features
is the real business in hand.
such eXpoSitions are never held by
back-number half civilized nations,
like Spain, for instance. Think of an
agricultural fair at Saragossa or a
Columbian exposition at Madrid. Gen.
turtles would be too short a time to
cultivate in g nation like Spain, that
long ago stopped progressing, and is
to all intentS and purposes dead, a
taste for the things that interest most
deeply the up-to-date citizens of the
United States. Suppose a turn in the
fortunes of war should give Spain
Qxvta O,,t
and the United States should become
a conquered province, what a back
ward revolution would take place. AT
Hamline, for instance, in September,
instead of a grand display of the ag
ricultural products and live stock of
the State-the browning event of a
year of abundant harvests-we would
have a genuine Spanish bull fight un-
der royal auspices. Imagine the COM
modious boxes along the front of the
grand stand occupied by the queen
and her royal retinue, men and women
decked out in finery, and all smoking
cigarettes at the expense of the Min
nesota farmers, who occupy back seats
and upper stories. In front of the
stand. in the great arena, Is bustling
crowd of cowboy toreadors, on buck
ing mustangs, around a tall pole on
which floats the flag Of Spain.
AS the great gates open at the sound
of the bugle and the blare of the royal
trumpets, Henry F. Brown and N. P.
Clarke by order of the queen, lead in
a dozen broad-backed Scotch-topped
Shorthorn sires, with their horns
sharpened to needle points, ready for
comes Sotham with a half-dozen mas |
sive Herefords, with room enough on
each long and slender horn to string a
half-doZen toreadors, and as the
white faces" file into place, Thomas
irwin follows with some vigorous,
high-strung Holsteins; and then come
a succession of Swiss Devons and
Ayrshires. Tyson with his Polled-An-
gus and Stone with his Red Polls have
no place in the fight, their harmless
herds having been converted into
juicy steaks for the royal breakfast;
but yonder comes Prof. Shaw, gnash- !
ing his teeth as he leads forward, by
order of the queen, the toughest dual |
purpose sire that could be found in
the Northwest, and see the smile Prof.
Hacker wears as he brings in a
luckless scrub in place of the high
type of dairy bull he was ordered to
produce.
In the circle surrounding the arena
may be seen Gov. Clough and staff
in irons. seated in the police wagon,
driven by Gen. Weyler, who has i'm
and puts them to torture an hour and
a half before breakfast every morning.
A few rods away stands President
Cooper, with a wide, black band or
his hat the picture of despair, and
near him Dean Liggett wrings out of
his pocket handkerchief the tears shed
yer his busted cattle show. Close by
is Elliott, munching a Duchess apple,
the only thing saved from the mag
nificent display in horticultural hall, all
the rest having been converted into
cider and cider apple sauce, or canned
UP as a winter supply for the royal
palace. On his right is Cooley, with a
few pumpkin seeds in his pocket, his
show of agricultural products having
been confiscated to feed the regiment
of Royal Lancers that do police duty
on the grounds. Close behind come
Story and Fox and Boynton and Bruce
with a few black-faced sheep pelts I'M
der their arms, the mutton having been
shipped in cold storage cars to Mad
rid, the dons having found 1t an i'm
provement on their tough Spanish Me-
rino chops. On the left are Under
wood, lunching on a chunk of cheese
snatched by stealth as the royal serV-
ants carried the whole dairy depart
ment to the royal kitchen. Leslie Par
lin, with a pair of Buff Cochins under
his arm, the rest of the poultry show
d
ference of the Spanish clergy, holding
a two-days session in st. Paul, and
Letson, leading an over-fat Poland
China that was condemned as a lard
hog" all the thinner ones having been
converted into bacon and shipped to
Madrid as samples of Yankee pigs"
On the right appears disconsolate
trio of ladies, with handkerchiefs to
their eyes, who turn out to be tast-
ing committee appointed to award the
prizes on sponge cake and raspberry
jam, but who were ordered out of the
woman's building by a trio of ships
from the queens retinue: and on a
stretcher lies the body of the superin-
tendent Of the art department, who
took prussic acid when the royal work.
men came down and packed up all the
pictures for shipment to Madrid where
they are to be hung in a special gall
lery as samples of high art in America.
AS the bulls are finally let loose In
side the arena, Watson, with span
Of big Percherons, hauls off the dead
carcasses of bulls and toreadors. Ran
dali dictates all the casualties In pure
Spanish for the newspapers, while Nc
Ginnis, by order of the queen, explains
the rules of the fight to the American
ladies in the grand stand The torea-
doris use old United States flags in
stead Of red rags to infuriate the