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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
Lost and Found.

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
LOUISIANA and LUZON
N. Il. LANGF0RD CITES PARALLEL
FEATURES AS TO BOTH
ACQUISITIONS
BOTH BITTERLY OPPOSED

Yet, He Says, Where Would the
United States Be Now but for Its
Prompt Acceptance of the Deal
Made with Napoleon, Who Fore
saw the Greatness of the Coun-
try Coded to. the United States,
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13
Big shark Caught in Jamaica Bay.

A shark that had been in Jamaica
bay, Long island, for several days was
finally caught and brought ashore. He
was ten feet long and weighed $50
pounds. Jamaica bay fishermen saw
the shark many times and tried to
catch it, but it always took their lines
and bait. In one case 1t nearly took
a fisherman, too, who, in his zeal TO
get the monster. allowed himself to be
dragged into the water. Some persons
living on the shores Of the bay breathe
easier now that the shark Is dead.
Alarming stories were told while II
lived that it belonged to a species OF
West Indian sharks that have legs and
crawl up on the land at night and steal
chickens and babies. Some of the resi-
dents would not have been surprised
after what they heard of 1t IL 1t had
held up train and picked out the fat
test passengers aboard for its supper
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13
EnterCrising.

Frequent interruptions by peddlers
and agents Of all sorts are naturally
looked upon by busy men with any
thing but equanimity. over the door
Of lawyers Office in Boston hangs a
skull and cross-bones, and underneath
is the simple inscription: This was a
book agent" 1t is said that the hint
has been of value to many subsequent
visitors. When a man has acquired a
national reputation, the unwished-for
demands upon his time assume alarm
ing proportions. The persistence Of
unwelcOme guests seems TO recognize
no obstacle Mark Twain once told
Rudyard Kipling an amusing story Of
one of the worst of his prosecutors,
and Mr. Kipling has given it to Ameri-
can readers in his recent volume,
From Sea to Sea-" Il spend" said
Mark Twain, nine months of every
year at Hartford, and people come in
and call at all hours. The fifth man,
one day, was the only one in the
crowd who had a card OF his own. He
sent up the card, Ben Koontz, Hanni
bal Missouri l was raised in Hanni-
bal. Ben was an old schoolmate of
mine. Consequently l threw the house
wide open and rushed, with both hands
out, at a big, fat, heavy man, who was
not the Ben | had known, nor any
thing like him. But it is you, Ben,'
said; you've altered in the last thou
sand years The fat man said We'll
I'm not Koontz exactly, but met him
down in Missouri and he told me ~ be
sure and call on you, and he gave me
his card, and'-here he acted little
scene for my benefit If you can wait
a minute till get out my circulars.
am not Koontz, exactly, but | am trav-
cling with the fullest line Of lighting
rods you ever saw l shut the door
He was not Ben Koontz, exactly, moi
my own schoolfellow, but had shaker
him by both hands, in love, and haC
been bearded by lightning-rod mar
in my own house."
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

fire. The sea WAS not rough. But
Admiral Dahlgren, from the deck OF
the flag steamer Philadelphia, saw her
gradually sinking, and finally she
struck the ground, but the flag still
noated above the wave in sight OF the
shipping. II was afterward found that
she sank from weakness through in
juries in previous service. Her plates
had been knocked loose in previous
times. So you have in nerve and mus
Gle, and bone, and dimmed eyesight,
and difficult hearing, and shortness or
breath, many limitations that you are
gradually going down. 1t is the serv-
ice of many years ago that is telling
on you. BE of good cheer. We owe
you just as much as though your life
blood had gurgled through the Soup
pers Of the ship in the Red river eX-
petition, or as though you had gone
down with the Melville off Hatteras.
Only keep your flag flying, as did the
illustrious Weehawken. Good cheer,
my boys! The memory of man is poor,
! and all that talk about the country
never forgetting those who fought for
it is an untruth. 1t does forget. Wit
ness how the veterans sometimes had
| TO turn the hand organs on the street
to get their families living Witness
how ruthlessly some of them were
turned out of Office that some bloat Of
a politician might take their place.
Witness the fact that there is not a
man or woman now under forty-five
years of age who has any full appre-
citation of the four years martyrdom
of 1861 to 1865, inclusive. But while
men may forget, God never forgets.
He remembers the swinging hammock.
He remembers the forecastle. He re-
members the frozen ropes of that Janu-
ary tempest. He remembers the ampu-
tation without sufficient ether. He re-
members the horrors of that deafening
night when forts from both sides
belched on you their fury, and the
heavens glowed with ascending and de-
scending missiles of death, and your
ship quaked under the recoil of the one
hundred FOUNDER, while all the gun
ners, according to command, stood on
tiptoe, with mouth wide open, lest the
concussion shatter hearing or brain.
He remembers it all better than you
remember it, and in some shape re-
ward will be given. God is the best
of all paymasters, and for those who
do their whole duty to him and the
world, the pension awarded is an ever
lasting heaven.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13
Un to the Mushroom's Mouth.

One of the stories of the late Victor
Cherbuliez, the French-Swiss man of
letters, illustrates finely the true spirit
of the publisher BuloZ, the editor
of the Revue des Deux Mondes, once
had at his country house in Savoy a
numerous company of literary people,
one of whom was Cherbuliez. Cher
buliez contributed regularly, every
other year, a novel to the columns of
the Revue, and a story of his was at
that time running in the periodical.
The guests had been out for a walk,
and had amused themselves with gath
ering mushrooms, which were cooked
for dinner. AS the company were sit
ting down, it occurred to one of the
party that undoubtedly some OF the
people who had taken part in gather
ing the mushrooms knew nothing
about them, and that there might be
poisonous fungi in the collection. This
reflection so affected the company that
all the people present, with the excep-
ton of Cherbuliez. declined to partake
OF the dish. He alone attacked it, with
gusto. Thereupon Buloz showed sud
den and intense alarm. "Cherbuliez!
Cherbuliez! What are you about?" he
exclaimed. Remember that you
haven't finished your story in the Re
vue!" Greatly to his relief, the mush-
rooms turned out to be innocuous, and
the story was finished.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13
JUSTICE IN THE TRANsvAAL.
How Justice Is Rugged" by Men of
Iiurgher Stock.


The following incident in the admin
istration of justice in the Transvaal
speaks far more eloquently than a hun
dred petitions in denunciation OF the
entire judicial system. The Belfast
tar and feather case will be fresh In
the memory of most people. A JUS
tice of the peace, who was, of course,
a burgher and several other inhabi-
tants of this little Transvaal dorp-in
which, by the way, there seemed to be
evidence Of the customary state of inn
morality prevailing-co an
unprovoked assault upon certain per-
sons, including a defenseless woman,
who, it is needless to say, was not a
Transvaal subject. Tar and feathers
were used, and altogether the case
says the Cape Argus, was about as dis
graceful as it could possibly be. The
culprits were tried by a Landdrost from
another town, a man who at any rate
made some attempts to meet the JUS
tice of the case Coetzee, the ring
leader of these Belfast rowdies, and a
justice of the peace, was sentenced to
Pay me VI LDD anu Nllutl 81 oAA
months Imprisonment, and the others
accused were variously dealt with. In
each case the penalties were light
enough when the details and character
Of the offense are considered. But
nothing Is easier than to rig" JUS
tice in the Transvaal if only the in
terested parties are of the beloved
] 1lsvv ], I'LL afeynn
doubtless backed in influential quar-
teTs, appealed to that excellent institu-
ticn, the High Court, with the result
that his term Of Imprisonment was re-
duced from six months to one. But
I the matter did not end there as it
should have done, and with Coetzee
being sent off to do his thirty days.
Coetzee tried another racket He got
UP a petition to the executive council,
and the chief justice, whose name, X
will he we'll to remember, is Gregorow-
ski, consented to suspend the opera
| ton Of the revised sentence until the
executive had decided on this petition.
| The executive has now entirely quash-
ed the term Of Imprisonment. and this
! JUSTICE VI tHc peace, NHO DIOhc TIC
law in a most disgraceful manner and
urged the others on, has not served a
single day in Jail. The executive has
also reduced the penalty in the case oil
! the other offenders. 1t is this sort o!
/ thing that breeds contempt for the
very name of justice as administered in
J the Transvaal. 1t will soon become
| impossible to get a Boer punished, nc
matter what his offense. We venture
to think that there would have been
precious little clemency had the Of
Tenders not been burghers OF the
state. 1t is doubtful whether in such
a case this distinguished chief justice
would have suspended the operation
OF the judgment of the high court. Bu
the woman's name was O'Neill anC
the offenders name was Abraham
Coetzee, and that makes all the differ
ence. This government" says Mrs
Schreiner-and it was printed in blacl
type-"is convinced that no grount
whatever exists for active interference
in the internal concerns Of that repub
lic."
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

1t is reported from Portland, Ore,
that packers of salmon on the coast
are declining to accept further orders,
and a majority of them will not be able
to fill contracts already taken; some,
it is declared, will fall short from 20
to 80 per cent. The pack of salmon
on the Columbia river so far this sea-
son is about 1876, 900 cases, the smallest
pack on the river in twenty years,
Last year at the same date the num-
Der of cases packed was slightly in ex-
cess of 265,000. On the Frazer river
the total pack to date is not, accord
ing to conservative estimates, more
than $4,000 cases, against 245,000 cases
last year. On the Puget sound the
packers may be successful in reaching
the output of last year Last years
pack aggregated 100000 cases. 1t is
estimated that the pack at Rivers in
let will be from 20 to 80 per cent less
than last season. The Skeena river
pack will, however, be above the aver
age. The estimated pack for 1899 on
all points on the coast, including Alas
ka, is, in round numbers, 1000, 00C
cases.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

"Never pardon a public servant who
is dishonest" said Gov. Roosevelt the
other day, just because he is of your
own party, or because he gets appro-
priations for your district With
those words he hit the mark as surely
as did any of his rough riders with
their bullets on San Juan hill, and it
was a more important mark even than
theirs.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13
The Power of Habit.

How are you getting on with your
asked Miss Cayenne.
WELL" answered Willie Washington,
IL can run the machine all right, but
It will be a long time before | can get
over saying 'geddup' and whoa to It,"
-Eashiassca Star.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13
No Troubls Mt All

Grimes-I should think it would be
awfully hard to write a sea tale. Tin
son-Not at all. You only want to
speak of a cloud no bigger than a
mans hand and to say that the boat
was as far off as you could toss a bis
cuit.-Boston Transcript.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

Since the opening of the free en-
ployment bureaus in Chicago, 1856 per-
sons have applied for employment and
6,O5s people have called for labor of
various kinds. These figures show that
the bureaus fill want and are making
a snccess of the new law.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

hold also the ships" AS we will never
know what our national prosperity is
worth until we realize what it cost, |
recall the unrecited fact that the men
of the navy in all our wars ran espe-
cial risks. They had not only the
human weaponry to contend with, but
the tides, the fog, the storm. Not like
other ships could they run into harbor
at the approach of an equinox or
cyclone or a hurricane, because the
harbors were hostile. A miscalcula-
ton of tide might leave them on
bar, and a fog might overthrow all the
plans of the wisest commodore and ad-
not on the land ready for an ambu-
lance, but at the bottom of the sea, as
when in our civil war the torpedo blew
up the Tecumseh in Mobile bay, and
nearly all on board persisted. They
were at the mercy of the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, which have no mercy.
Such tempests as wrecked the Spanish
Armada might any day swoop upon the
squadron. No hiding behind the earth
works. No digging in of cavalry spurs
at the sound of retreat. Mightier than
all the fortresses on all the coasts is
the ocean when it bombards a fiotilla.
In the cemeteries for Federal and
Confederate dead are the bodies of
most Of those who fell on the land.
But where those are who went down
in the war vessels will not be known
until the sea gives up its dead. The
Jack tars knew that while loving arms
might carry the men who fell on the
| land and bury them with solemn lit
urgy and the honors of war, for the
bodies of those who dropped from the
ratlines into the sea, or went down
with all on board under the stroke OF
a gunboat, there remained the shark
and the whale and the endless tossing
of the sea which cannot rest. Once a
year, in the decoration of the graves
those who fell on the land are re-
membered but how about the graves
of those who went down at sea? Moth
ing but the archangels trumpet shall
|
were gathered into naval cemeteries OF
the land and we every year garland
tho sod that covers them; but who will
put flowers on the fallen crew Of the
exploded Westfeld and Shawsheen
and the sunken Southfeld and the
Winfield Scott? Bullets threatening
in front, bombs threatening from
above torpedoes threatening from be-
meath. the ocean, with it's reputation
of G,OOO years for shipwreck, lying al
around, am | not right in saying il
required a special courage for the navy
in 1863, as it required especial courage
in 1898?
1t looks picturesque and beautiful t.
see a war vessel going out through
the Narrows, sailors in new rig sing
ing
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

Adelina Patti, Baroness Cederstrom,
says that she will not come to Ameri-
ca this year. This is cruel OF the peer
less songstress, whose farewell tours
used to be recognized and highly APP
preciated annual features Of the oper-
attic concert stage.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

The family Is the foundation OF the
state. and in studying the equities OF
public burden bearing, governments
have not lost sight of the bachelors.
The addition of % per cent to their as
sessed valuation by the grand duchy OF
Hesse is initiated in effect, it seems, by
the tax law in Kansas, a citizen there
who supports only himself being rated
at the common valuation and 5000
more. The bachelors liberty is made
part of his taxable property. Such an
ordinance may not always encourage
matrimony,' as the Hesse law con-
templates, but the legislators probably
meant to tax bachelors, not so much
for privilege as for stunning privi-
lege.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13
The Work of slaves.

Women do the mining in Colombia.
No man with any self-respect can be
induced to engage in that occupation,
because in Spanish times it was the
work of slaves.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13
"A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep!"

the colors gracefully dipping to pass
ing ships. the decks Immediately
clean, and the guns at quarantine
firing a parting salute. But the poetry
is all gone out of that ship as it comes
out of that engagement, its decks red
with human blood. wheelhouse gone,
the cabins pile of shattered mirrors
and destroyed furniture, steering
wheel broken, smokestack crushed,
hundred-pound Whitworth rifle shot
having left its mark from port to star
board, the shrouds rent away, ladders
splintered and decks plowed up, and
smoke-blackened and scalded corpses
lying among those who are gasping
their last gasp far away from home
and kindred. whom they love as much
as we love wife and parents and chill
dren.
O, men Of the American navy re-
turned from Manila and Santiago and
Havana. as well as those who are sur
vivors of the naval conflicts of 1868
and 1864; men Of the western gulf
squadron, of the eastern gulf squad
ron. of the south Atlantic squadron,
of the north Atlantic squadron, of the
Mississippi squadron, of the Pacific
squadron. of the West India squadron,
and of the Potomac fotiila, hear our
thanks, Take the benediction of our
churches. Accept the Inequalities of
the nation. If we had our way we
would get you not only pension, but
a home and a princely wardrobe and
an euuipage and a banquet while you
live, and after your departure a cata-
faloue and a mausoleum of sculptured
marble. with a model of the ship in
which you won the day. 1t is consid-
cred gallant thing when, in a naval
fight, the flagship with its blue ensign
goes ahead up a river or into bay
| its admiral standing in the shrouds
watching and giving orders. But
have to tell you, o veterans OF the
American navy! If you are as loyal
to Christ as you were to the govern
ment, there is a flagship sailing ahead
of you. Of which Christ is the admiral
and he watches from the shrouds, and
the heavens are the blue ensign, and
he leads you toward the harbor. and
all the broadsides of earth and he'll
cannot damage you, and we whose gar
ments were once red with your own
blood shall have a robe washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb
Then strike eight bells! High noon II
! heavenl
While we are heartily greeting ant
banqueting the sailor-patriots just nov
returned, we must not forget the vet
Grams of the navy now in marine hos
pitfalls. or spending their old days ii
their own or their childrens home
steads. oh, we veterans. | charge yo'
bear up under the aches and weak
nesses that you still carry from tn
war times. You are not as stalwar
as you would have been but for tina
nervous strain and for that terrific ex
posure. Let every ache and pain, in
stead of depressing. remin you o
your fidelity. The sinking of the Wee
hawken off Morris Island, Dec. 6, 1868
was a mystery. She was not undo
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

A dispatch from India says that the
British government has concluded ne
gotiations for taking possession OF
Delagoa bay November 1. This, If cor
rect, will be a severe blow to the
Transvaal, which will then be shut off
from an outlet by land or sea. If the
purchase has been made Portugal is
likely to have exacted a high price for
the seaport. At one time it was Of
fered to the British for $4,000, but
with characteristic stubbornness, eX-
pecting to get it for nothing, they took
the case to arbitration, when it was
promptly awarded to Portugal by Mar
shall MacMahon, president of France.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

France now has the Deroulede eX-
animation on the tapis. Perhaps she
will have two or three political trials
next year and use the exposition as 4
supplementary amusement.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

A brilliant and beautiful Chicago
sculptures has married portrait
painter. This is certainly an affair OF
art and heart.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

From the way things are now trend
ing it looks as if the next big combina-
ton to embark in business would be a
trust of anti-trusters.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

Some women's love is limited to the
size of a mans pocketbook and her
ability to handle the contents.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

Scientists say the food of the flu
ture may be in the form of capsules.
This is concentration followed by ex-
pansion.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

Some people are equally as disagree
able as the truth.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

The divorce Judge plays into the
hands Of the secondhand furniture
dealer.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

If money could only induce people
to be good, what a jolly word this
would be.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

The anu1lt doctor nyes Oh the fat OF
the land.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

The upward tendency of the price Of
beef makes it easy to believe that the
COW actually did jump over the moon.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

Everything comes to the man who
waits" but it's different with some
women.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

The might OF ignorance often dis
counts that of the truth.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

Hope is a bubble the unsuccessful
man blows and blows until it bursts.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

A true love knot is said to be the
top-knot of woman's happiness.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

A barber says a mans whiskers are
always cut down in his youth.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

sold nv Grant Holden. Nola
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-12
ST NEW YORK.
Ruling Prices i'm Produce at the Sea-
board,s Commercial MetrOpoIis.

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NEW YORK Jan 11-Flour-Receipts A. 464
closing shade frner, with the late bulge in
wheat. Winter patents, $S.55@3.65 Corn meal
firm. Barley malt steady. Rye steady.
Wheat-Receipts, 1872 600 bu; exports, POS, ASS bu.
Spot firm; No 2 red, SOAc, f. O. b. afloat to ar
rive. Options opened weaker, bears held control
most of the day by reason of scant speculation.
selling, but were finally alarmed over big clear
ance and export developments. Prices in the last
hour, therefore rallied sharply and closed SsQ12c
net higher, with the undertone strong. March,
773sG7S5sc, closed at 1880.
CCrn-Receipts. ~, 625 bu; exports 134, 100 bu.
Spot firm; No. ? 432s@437sc, f. o. b. ahoat. OPP
tuns opened easy with wheat, but displayed sub
sequent strength on large clearances Liverpool
firm at sc net advance. May, 41$sQ417sc, closed
at 415sc.
Oats Receipts $4,000 bu; exports, 1885 bu
Spot quiet; No. , 33lRc; No. white 35Ilc. Op-
lions neglected and nominal.
COtton-seed OLA strong undertone was re-
ported and higher prices asked owing to scarcity
of desirable grades and another advance in lard.
Prime crude, 1S1sqlslac; prime crude, f. o. b.,
171ac; prime summer yellow. 23d231ac; off summer
yellow, 21l2Q22c; butter grades, 2SQ29c; prime
winter yellow 29Q3Oc; prime white, S0c.
Coffee-Options opened steady at unchanged
prices, ruled exceptionally dull with easier under
tone, under local liquidation, European and Bra
I'll accounts being unsatisfactory and local spot
demand not sustaining feature; some selling
for realizing caused weakness, but local covering
prevented any considerable decline. with full re-
cepts at Rio and Santos neutralized by liberal
warehouse deliveries in this country; closed
steady from unchanged to points lower Sales
1850 bags, including March, $3.50; April size
September, 6q6.o5ci October l6.o5c December.
No Jobbing, 71sc; mild quiet but steady; Cor
sugar-Raw firm and held higher; fair refining,
8 1S-i6c; centrifugal 90 test, 5-i6c; moasses
sugar 9-16c; refined steady.