The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-14

sports. Spain has already put in twenty
days this April in these sports, and will
, continue for ten days more to indulge in
a hilarity none the less real because the
season should seemingly be one of sack
cloth and ashes. Spain is celebrating the
festival of the Resurrection; she leaves
to America the settlement of the insur-
rection.
To use an Anglicism, comparisons are
bad form. Yet, like the merry chinch bug,
they have their uses. They may be
maIodorous, yet they point a moral, albeit
unadorned with a tail. Over across the
big sea the good people of the United
States, even while preparing to COM
nemorate the day on which the yellow
and red ceased to fly over far Eastern
waters, feel a certain sympathy with the
power which lost SO heavily before Ma
Mia. Over here who is there to grieve
for Montojo and his luekless followers?
Not one.
America wins a lot of islands filled with
half-naked savages who fight pays the
Don $40, 600, 600 in cold cash for the fun of
whipping them into sen1blance of sub
mission, and has the day of triumph
clouded by the long and increasing list
of dead and wounded fallen in the jungIes
and mud fields of Luzon. Spain waits for
the money and meanwhile the entire pc
ninsula laughs and grows fat over the
sports of the post-Lenten season. In
stead Of weeping and wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth because Of the shame and
bitterness of AFFECT defeat one hears this
song: "Bastante, bastante. Viva ell toro,
viva ell matador." ct is enough, 1t is
enough. Hurrah for the bull hurrah for
the bull killer)
Down in Posey county, Indiana during
the Civil war the farmers of certain
neighborhood held a picnic out in the
woods. OF course this was the proper
place to hold it, in the woods. The COM
pany of volunteers from the district had
received a severe licking day or two be-
fore down on the Tennessee river, but
that did not stop the picnic. This picnic
was the scene of the birth of a classic
statement. A youth and maiden, hand in
hand, as is the custom of their kind.
strolled about the booths He was flushed
with Joy, and in a sudden burst of ex-
travagance spake thus to his dulcinea:
"Who cares for expenses when you're on
a frolic? Let's have another cents worth
of cider
MIsFoRTUNES EASILY FORGOTTEN.
The farmer boy and the don play on
the same string. What does it matter
that the navy of Spain is a reminis-
cence-the envious might say 1t never
was much more-is that any reason for
spelling the pleasures of the people?
II the navy is done for 1t will cost mono
of those dollars to keep 1t up. So the
festival of the resurrection is being cele-
brated with a heartiness and gayety
wholly foreign to the thoughts the
rest of the world would deem fitting for
this month in Spain.
This is the way the ball opened out
in Fuenterabia. In order to celebate
the festival of the resurrection, so the
hills read and to augment the joyous
ness proper to this festival, grand
assembly was held one week ago last
Sunday, to witness the Staying of four
fierce young bulls Sunday is the day Of
sport here, be it known, for the people
see mass in the morning and see the
matador slaughter fierce bulls In the
afternoon, winding up the day with
feasting and dancing. Now, these bulls
were specially selected and were of the
most ferocious variety, SO the manages
ment of the ring announced in advance
that the public had no right to demand
more bulls than those announced. The
celebrated matador, Francisco Bernal,
and his company entered the inclcsure
and duly dispatched the bulls.
The happy faculty of forgetting un-
pleasant things is one of the most ap-
parent attributes of the true Spaniard
1t is fate, and none can battle against
it. so 1t Is dismissed from the mind with
shrug and puff of cigarette. None Is
SO impolite as to refer to such things,
hence no notice is taken of the destruc-
ton of the navy, the defeats on land
and the humiliation of the nation. Be
sides the people can get rid of a bur-
den which they have never been abe
to assume, get big douceur for 1t ard
then have the fun of watching the
Americans wrestle with the propositions.
So they fight the. bull, dance the bolero
and fandango and make merry, for to-
morrow you may be in purgatory
WAR DIDN'T. STOP SPORT.
These Andalusians soon recover from