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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-26

MISS .AllC6 VMdy DGll6 USTl anu U1II
H. McCleary, both Of st. Paul, were mar.
ried Tuesday afternoon at the residence
of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
J. Herbert, of Ashland, Wis. Archdeac con
Jenner, of st. Andrews Episcopal church.
Ashland. performed the ceremony. Miss
Henrietta McAllister, of this city, was
maid Of honor, and F. w. Clark, of ST.
Cloud, best man. The bride wore lace
trimmed white Swiss frock made en-
train. Miss McAllister was gowned in
pink taffeta over pink organdie. A we'd
ding supper was served to the relatives
and friends, and a reception was held.
Mr.. and Mrs. McCleary will be at home
after Nov. 10 at 6s2 East Fourth street.
The Ashland club will give it's second
dance Of the season Thursday evening,
Nov. 9, at Sherman hail.
The Lady Foresters, Court st. Anne de
st. Paul, No 1884, gave a large dancing
party last evening at Central hall
Brose's orchestra played for the dancing
Over $50 couples were in attendance, the
grand march being led by Mr. and Mrs.
N. Cournoyer. On the reception commit
tee were: Mrs. Trudeau Mrs Gunlein
Mrs. Savaid, Mrs. N. Cournoyer, Mrs.
Jennie Lavocat and Miss Pellequin.
The Tourist club gave its second dane
ing party of the season last evening alta
Sherman hall. Over 200 couples were in
attendance. Koehler's orchestra furnish
ed the music.
Mrs. Elsie Pope, of Ashland avenue,
entertained at supper Sunday evening.
Covers were laid for eighteen.
Mrs. Thomas Culligan entertained at
luncheon yesterday at her home on Day.
ton avenue in honor Of Mrs. Hay, Mrs.
Mead, Miss Hay and Miss Mead, OF At
lanta.
Mrs. John FREEDOM, of Hazelhurst Wis,
who has been visiting her mother, Mrs.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22
A

Resolutions have been introduced in
both houses of congress by democrats
declaring the policy which the United
States should adopt regarding the Phil
ippines. All of them propose that the
Filipinos shall be given Independence,
but as to the course TO be pursued and
the conditions to be required prelimi-
nary to the granting of independence
there are wide and important differ
ences in the democratic plans.
The resolution introduced by Senator
Bacon of Georgia disclaims any dispo-
sition or intention on the part of the
United States to exercise permanent
sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over
the Philippines and declares that
when armed resistance to the author
ity of the United States shall have
ceased within said islands and pence
and order shall have been restored
therein it is the purpose and intention
of the United States, so soon thereafter
as the same can be practically and
safely accomplished, to provide the OPP
portunity and prescribe the method for
the formation of Il government by and
of the people of the Philippine islands,
to be thereafter independently exercised
and controlled by themselves" The
government formed and erected must
be competent and worthy In the iudg-
ment of the United States to exercise
the powers of an independent govern
ment.' In other words, the United
States shall prescribe the form of gov
eminent which the Filipinos may cs-
tablish and if this should not be nc
| ceptable or satisfactory TO them, which
more than likely il would not be, Of
course the exercise of American author
ity there would be maintained. The
resolution introduced by Senator Till
man proposes to let the Filipinos cs-
tablish Il government with our Friendly
! assistance 1t declares that 1--WE are
opposed to the retention of the Philip
pine islands by the United States and
that 1t Is our purpose to consent 10 the
independence of the Fillpinos ms soon
as Il stable government shall be estab-
lished by them and toward the prompt
establishment of such government we
pledge our friendly assistance" This
does not contemplate any dictation on
the part of the United States as 10 the
form of government. 1t recognizes the
right of the Filipinos TO form their
own government, the only condition
being that it must be stable but who
is TO determine whether the govern
ment that should be established pos.
se.ssed the requirements essential Ia
stability? Manifestly If we demand !;
stable government we must assume
the right or duty of debating its form
and character and this would be M
interference with the independence OF
the FilipinOs, who would he required
10 live under II government which
suited our ideas, whether agreeable Il
them or not. How much better would
this be than giving them a liberal sys
TEN of civil government on American
principles and under our authority?
The resolution introduced In thu
house by Representative Williams OF
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22
BRITAIN WAKING UP.

Philadelphia Times: Great Britain has a
serious proposition in South Africa. The War
office has awakened to the fact.
Globe Democrat: The appointment OF
Roberts as commanders chief OF the British
forces in South Africa and of Kitchener us
his chief of staff shows that the Salisbury
ministry is g~rasping the Importance of
bringing the best men in its military service
to the front in this crisis.
Minneapolis Journal: There is an old saw
about not swapping horses in the middle Ct
the stream. But the British seem determined
to do so. They are going to s~upplant Bull
Ter with Roberts, or, at least. TO put Roberts
over Butler in supreme command.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: The new program
Of Great Britain is'a definite acknowledge
ment of the prowess and devotion shown by
a handful of Dutch farmers fighting in the
freemen's spirit for their affairs and their
fires. 1t signs and seals the g~randest testi-
monial given in this century 70 the heroism
of true republicans in resentlng oppression
and Furnishing the oppressor.
Philadelphia Record: 1t is easier for the
London newspapers to raise a cry for the
immediate dispatch OF reInforcements to
South Africa than it would be for them to
state where the men are to come from, The
v al blhN' 40 AlI'AhfAb " thS " ifA'~NNA Aio
in a Seventh division, and proposes to
mobilize an Eighth; but the Sixth division,
which is getting ready for embarkation, was
gathered from the tag ends of the army and
militia reserves, and from this one can
guess OF what sort of material the succeed
ing musters will be composed. Practically
the whole effective army of Great Britain
is nov in South Africa or enroute thither on
transports, and IL this force shall not be able
to whip the Beers the jig is up.
Boston Globe: Not alone in battle does
this martial peasantry move us TO won
der, but in all the numerous and c~Xactlug
details of war-making they earn the tribute
Of our establishment. Far into the enemy's
country they have FASTENED TO meet his ag-
gressive columns There, with three widely
separated armies, they have fought him and
held him in check. All the while themselves
living in almost a desert, they have dis
played tho ability to supply these
distant forces with food and ammunition
Apparently neither their comm 'ssary NOR
their ordnance department has been d.
moralized by this task. which has be-
wildered the greatest OF governments in time
of war,
Portland Oregonian: The ability of a race
of brave marksmen behind entrenchments
to make a formidable resistance to assault
by the very best veteran ~soldiery is a fact
familiar to all persons Of historical in
telligence. The repulse Of the British
regulars twice by our embattled farmers
line at Bunker Hin; the dreadful repulse OF
Wcllington's "Peninsular "aT' veterans,
y II 1000 strong under Pakenham, by 5000
kentucky and Tennessee hunters and Indian
fighters at New Orleans; the destruction
by Hofer and his riaemen in the ranks OF
Marshal Lefebre's corIs OF Napoleon's army
In the denles Of the Tyrolese mountains
the successful resistance to the Russian
army offered by the Turks under English
officers at Pleyna, are cases in point
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22

Personal AND OTHERWISE.

So England is 20 send two Irishmen to
South Africa to save the empire.
w. D. Howell, jr, a nephew of the nov
elist, is a candidate for the recording clerk
ship of the Ohio senate.
Generals Roberts and Kitchener are en-
pected to remember that they are going to
fight white men, not black ones.
EX-Boss Pat Gleason of Long Island City
is reported to be a bankrupt with assets
about 4 per cent of his liabilities.
Admiral Dewey has been sent five pianos
by different firms and is said to be at a
loss what to do with the instruments
The top of a desk from Norwich univer-
sity, Vermont, in which Admiral Dewey had
cut his name while a student there. sold in
Boston the other day for $25.
Those people who have foolishly FASTENED
into print TO express their opinions that the
new century begins with the year 1901 must
seriously regret it row that Emperor Will
liam has declared for the year 1900.
Senator Pritchard of North Carolina bears
such a striking resemblance to Congress-
man-elect Roberts of Utah, that the two
might easily be mistaken for twins. They
are of the same build and cast OF features.
Something new in robbery comes from
ltIIt fidule, luu., where TWO men WHO ell
tered the house of Father Stanton, applied
to the priests feet an electric battery they
had brought with them and kept it there
two hours, causing him great pain.
Whether it is another development of the
new woman movement or not, Mrs. Samuel
Lord of New York has succeeded in having
herself elected a member of the Essex
County Country club, which had always
been supposed to be for men only.
The report comes from Paris that General
MERCER, who figured so prominently in the
Dreyfus case, is a candidate for senator at
the approaching January election from the
department of Loire Inferieure. 1t is gem
orally believed that he will be elected.
Senator Bate OF Tennessee, like the late
Senator Harris, will not tell his age. He
must, however, be nearly 20, for he was a
soldier in the Mexican war. Altogether
eleven members of the senate have passed
the scriptural limit, while three or four are
within easy approach of it.
Rev. DR.. Sevallow, Pennsylvania DO
litical preacher, makes the awful charge
that President Mckinley occasionally takes
a glass Of wine with his dinner. Surely
the reverend doctor cannot object to one
sevallow? Perhaps the president neglected
to pass the bottle when the doctor called
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22
GOLD BILL"

st. Louis Globe Democrat trepD: II IS
seldom that any party in tbs house can
show an absolutely solid front. The unani-
nous republican support Of the gold stand
ard was an admirable start in the businc IS
OF the session,
Philadelphia Record Cdcm): one mo {
gratifying feature Of the voting in the house
was the courageous stand taken BY eleven
democratic congressman who cast Their
votes with tho majority. other demo 'ra $
refused to vote. The only democratic con-
gresham from Philadelphia, Hon. william
McAlcer, voted for the bill, and in so v ting
honorcd himself, his particular const tuency
and the state.
Springfield tMass.) Republican dnd l.
That such a measure could pass the hous'
by a majority of forty ia a most striking
demonstration Of the great change which
has recently comc over the country respect
ing the question of money standards.
Hardly four years ago the average repub-
liCau member from the west would no more
have dared to stand for the single gold
standard than to call for the payment OF the
rebel debt.
New York Sun (rep): The bill now goes
to the senate, where it will be materially
amended and returned to the house. \ CON
ference between the two bodies will then be
called for and in that conference 1t is to be
hoped that the bill will be purged e the
Crudities and imperfections which now dis
figure it, and he reformed into symmetrical
and logical shape. As 1t stands, 1t is a
bungling piece of work, disgraceful in its
details to the body which has passed il.
Philadelphia Ledger lind. rer.O: The
outlook for sound money could not be better.
There is every promise that congress will
pass some remedial measure before the end
of the session fixing gold as the standard
and increasing the volume and fexibility Ct
national bank note circulation and that in
doing so the way will be prepared for a
crushing defeat in November of Bryan and
the 16 to / free silver coinage heresy. The
currency question is not only in a fair way
toward settlement, but toward being settled
both right and permanently.
New York World Cdem.): Scarcely less
significant than the republican unanimi.y
was the vote of eleven democratic represen
tatives for a republican caucus measure, in
direct opposition to the last platform of their
party. This vote was a manifestation of con-
science and courage and OF a purpose tC
return to traditional democratic principles
which must have a wholesome effect upon
the party. 1t is a notification that the demo.
Gratis of the east, without whose votes sue.
cess in the nation is impossible, will never
tie themselves to a corpse
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22

RIGHT TO THE POINT.

Chicago Record: Mother-Ch!ldren, shall
| buy u laCe-paoer angel FOR the top of the
children Din loud chorus)-No; git a candy
one!
Chicago Tines Herald Little Wllic-Pa,
is a tinanCicr a man who can make lots OF
money?
Washington star: Il suppose you are
looking Forward to your vacation with muon
Yes" answered the congressman, sup;
thing, 1t gives a man a chance 70 get home
once in a while and do some work.
through the art galleries they halted in
front Of a 2 saIG RiS6r. female fgHreS,i s ,o,.
]aiogue, this is Truth: Truth, allow me 10
present my friend. Mr.. Brooks. | believe
you two have never met before
indianapolis Journal; q though! the Fill
pinos were vanQuished last X"
qu.5ih%ssdi. Wont they E''i make AXE; tlne .AmSri-
Cans?'
read the treaty between Uncle Sam and the
Sultan of Jolo.'
Indianapolis Journal: He-Marie, l think
We had better economic n little on our
She-Well, Edwin. ! fancy we can all get
just as sick on 50 cents worth of mincc-
meat as we can on y worth of fruit cake
Chicago Post: PA. how much money
have you got fer Chris'mus"'
"Woil, pa, | can't tell what t. ask SANITY
Claus fer I'm l know how much money
you've got"
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Die you read
the list of the officers of the Sultan of
Jolo's court who are TO receive salaries
from Uncle SAM
Yes"
queer names. aren't they?'
Yes
II suppose. that Dato Joakanain is the
| cOurt lester"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22
STOP THE FARCE.

On the first day of July the office or
clerk of the district court ceased to be
an unlimited fee office. Under the new
law. which went into effect then, all
receipts of every description collected
by the district court clerk were to be
turned into the county treasury II the
clerk of the court allowed an income
not to exceed $1,000 a year for his serV-
ices.
When this change took place The Bee
urged the Board of County Commission
ers to appoint competent accountants TO
check up the office and strike the bal
ance, so that Il settlement might be
had. Instead of acting on this SuS-
gestion the board has been content to
accept the report made by the clerk for
himself. which may or may not be
correct.
Within the next two weeks the office
will be turned over to the newly elected
district court clerk and another and
final settlement will have to be made.
1t is now currently reported that work
of checking up this important office is
to be delegated to parties who are
VIGOROUSLY incompetent, if not as notori-
ously crooked. one of these parties
holds his position as Il reward for dirty
work done last year in the hire of the
present incumbent. To have the office
checked up 10y such Il party would be Il
farce. if ii were not Il scandal on the
taxpayers.
The Board of County commissioners
owes it to itself and the people Of Doug.
las county to protect the public interest
whether the bond of the clerk is good
or worthless. The commissioners are in
duty bound to ascertain how much, If
| anything, the county is entitled to col
| lect from the outgoing officer. If. after
| IA careful auditing, the office is found 10
be in good shape and all moneys due to
county and l%itigants promptly forth
coming, well and good. If there is. Il
deficit or a dispute over what is due
| either side, the Don we know it the
better.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22
rrrrRE rLNANcIAL hMplRE.

'H''
In his speech on the currency bill,
one VI the ablcst delivered in support Of
that measure, Representative Brosius
of Pennsylvania. chairman of the house
committee on banking ana currency,
said: Financial empire is coming our
way. We are advancing with leaps and
bounds to the position Of n creditor
nation. Power and dominion in the
financial world follow the course OF
commerce and manufactures. The
sceptcr is passing from the old to the
new world and New York viii supplant
London in the near future. American
credits in Europe are putting Il differ
ent face on the great questions OF
finance the world over. We are loan
ing money abroad by the millions and
we are very near the point where we
can hold the reins of financial power
on two continents
That this is not an overdrawn state
ment of the present position of the
United States in the financial affairs Of
the world will he made apparent by a
study of recent events. The growth OF
this country in wealth during the last
two or three wears has been without
precedent in our history and probably
has no parallel in the history of any
other country. This has placed in our
hands Il vast amount of available CAPT
tai, only Il small part of which is rep
resented by the stock of gold. amount
ing to nearly 81 100000 600, which is
greater than that held by any other
country. \ few years ago, in the demo
cratic times, Europe was drawing upon
the United states to liQuidate our own
indebtedness upon the other side. The
gold that then went out represented the
settlement of Il trade balance that vas
against us. The gold that has recently
been exported and that which may he
sent abroad is not to settle an unfaN-
orable trade balance, but to meet an
urgent demand from England for tinnn-
cial aid. II is II reversal of long-prc-
vailing conditions-London looking to
New York for help and offering liberal
inducements therefor, instead of New
York being dependent upon London.
The United States is today in a
stronger position financially than any
other nation in the world and this be-
ing so. there is every reason to expect
if we shall become involved in no in.
te%rnational difficulties to disarrangt
our financial and commercial affairs
that the prediction that New York vii
supplant London as the worlds tinan
cial center will be fulfilled in the nenl
future. Certainly if Great Britain
should have demands upon her financial
resources beyond those of the wal il
South Africa-and there is no certaint!
that she will Mother loss of the tinan
cial scepter would be inevitable, nor il
it improbable that this will result from
the war she has on hand, If it shall h'
protected. Whenever the end of hostili
ties TO come there is likely to be Il re
action damaging to British interests.
The United States is moving steadil!
forward, increasing its industries ant
its and adding to its wealth
with every promise of Il prolonged err
of material progress and prosperity. \,
one who intelligently studies the situa
ton can doubt that financial empire i
coming our way"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22

The Cubans at Havana have wei
coined General Wood with glad acclaim
and every manifestation of joy. But
lust how long he will be able to satisfy
them is IA matter for speculation. Your
Cuban is always inclined TO go into rap
lures one minute and II frenzy of rage
the next when his desires are crossed.
General Wood has been successful in
handling affairs at Santiago, yet he will
find his present task more difficult. All
the ambitious politicians of the island
are now gathered mt Havana, and they
are n combination sufficient to make
any mans life one prolonged nightmare.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22
War Spirit Abroad.

The war spirit is contagious among Eu-
ropean nations and it will go hard if the
continental powers shall fail to find some
cause of offense against a foreign antag-
onist while Great Britain is studying the
problem Of punitive warfare in South Africa.
France is already at loggerheads with China
over the delimitation Of territory on the
Tonkin border and troops are in the fed
on both sides, whilst half a dozen or more
French warships are enforcing the authority
of France on Kuang Chou bay. There are
80, 900 disciplined Chinese troops in oppo-
sition to French pretensions, and the in
cipient quarrel may expand eventually into
portentous proportions.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22

OUR COUNTRY'S EARLY FOES,
Formidable Fighters by
American plOnccrs.

Formidable Fighters Encountered by
American Pioneers.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Now that the Filipino resistance has
virtually ended and the record Of the re-
bellion is made up, it becomes plain that
Americans have met, among the barbarous
or semi-civilized races, much more formida-
BILE foes than those which they have en-
countered in Luzon and the adjacent islands.
In 1853 an army of 1900 British regulars
and Virginia militia, all under the Command
OF Braddock, was met and overwhelmingly
beaten by a much smaller force of Indians
and French, while Braddock was on the way
to. attack Fort Duquesne, on the site OF the
present Pittsburg. The battle would pos
sibly have had a different result If Brad
dock had followed the advice Ct his aid, the
young Colonel Washington, who was then
making his entrance into history. In fact, II
was Washington and the Virginia militia
who eaved the ontiTe army from annihila-
ton. 1t was very plain, however, that the
men whom Braddock met were much more
formidable fighters than any whom Aguinaldo
has commanded. At Bushy Run, in western
Pennsylvania, in 1863, in the Pontiac war,
Colonel Henry Boquet, with 500 men, fought
a two-days' battle with a smaller force Of
Indians, and finally defeated them. He did
this, however, by resorting to an old Indian
device OF feignlng to retreat and thus lead
ing the savages into an ambush.
But even the American frontiersmcn
themselves were frequently very hard
pushed by the Indians, In Lord Dunmorc's
war Of IVA, which was virtually the be-
ginning Of the revolution, at the battle Of
Point Pleasant, at the mouth OF the Great
Kanawha, 900 frontiersmen under General
Andrew Lewis, a gallant and experienced
soldier, were nearly beaten by the hawnee8
Of about the same number under CoTnstalk.
The Shawnees were eventually defeated. but
they had fought with such skill and effect
that Lewis was unable to follow them, and
they r~etreated at their leisure TO the north
side OF the Ohio, In the whole of that cam
paign, although. in one phaFe and another, It
was participated in by Boone, the Shelbys,
SEWER, George Rogers Clark and others,
famed subsequently, as fighters on the
fr- ntior, the only generalship shown was by
Cornstalk. At the battle Of the Blue L.ichs
in 1852, in which Boone was one Of the
commanders, a picked body OF Kentuckians
were ambushed and defeated by a smaller
number OF indians, Harmar. 10 1850, with
! a good-siaed army, fought a drawu battle
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-22
AN LYRIC.

80 .H.
Baltimore American.
A pretty girl,
With witching Girl
Was belle of "A city in Arkansas.
\ callow youth
Exclaimed: ''ln trOuth.
You're the iairest maid | ever sas.'
The maiden said,
With bushes raid.
go way" likewise get OUT and "pshas!n
The lad said: Through
My heart have yOugh
Sent l~ongines that WIN ever gnas.'
And then he cried:
''Oh, be m! 0riCd.'
The maiden murmured, ASK my mas"
So he inquired,
With love inSDuired,
If mamma d be his ma-in-las.
The mother sighed
And then repl.ghcd:
Perhaps you'd better see her pas
Her father seized
The youth, displcized,
And rudely smote him on the jas.
With manner rough
Papa did cough
The lad until his flesh was ras.
I'm nearly dead"
The poor youth Sead,
When next the maiden fair he sas.
"Oh, tell me true
What has hurt yue?
She asked. He said: sas your pas"
And thus we see
That there can bee
joys in loves course in Arkansas,