The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-18
BRUSH WITH GERMANY.

However, there is no reason to sup
pose it will not all blow over, as ala
the friction between Great Britain and
Germany over the seizures OF the latter s
ships in South African waters. To what
extent that friction went was only known
this week, when blue book giving the
correspondence of the governments con-
cerned was published. The tart demands
of the German ambassador and LORD
SaIisbury's astonished comments at being
thus addressed by a nation in the So
called new dreibund," came as reVe-
lation Had not the matter been COM
pletely settled, thanks to Lord Sails
burys giving away, and had not Great
Britain been so completely engrossed by
the progress of her arms in South Africa,
it would have raised q storm Of indlgna-
ton against Germany fifty times greater
than did Emperor Williams celebrated
cable message to President Kruger after
the Jameson raid.
The correspondence itself shows no evil
dences of reconciliation, but it is learned
this has been effected and also that
rather curious circumstances attended
the negotiations. Whenever the German
ambassador saw Lord Salisbury butter
would not melt In his mouth" and his
words were honeyed, yet when Count
Won Buelow, the German minister of for
eign affairs, spoke publicly, he was anti
British, and when the dispatches which
would, in the nature of things, be pub
lshed, were written by the German side
they were formulated in the same strain.
To quote British foreign Office official,
Germany Haunted US in the face of the
world and curried favor privately"
RATHER SLOW WEEK.
In comparison with the SURPRISING i'm
portance attached to what is taken to be
the addition of the Orange Free State
! to the British dominions, events In
Great Britain this week were highly
uninteresting Parliament has not
distinguished Itself. The most interest
ing feature was the debate arising over
the stop the war; meetings, and the
! accusation against the government of
pallating the suppression of free speech
! by allowing such meetings to be broken
up.
The will of Isaac Gordon, the notorious
money lender, who died recently, cannot
be found and is being advertised for. 1t
| appears this we'll known name in the
English courts, though Gordon himself
rarely appeared, was borne by man
! of only thirty-five, who is credited with
| leaving $5,000,000 On his body was
found 500, ,0O0 and in his Office $135,000 in
| cash This accumulation was due to the
| fact that the banks finally would not
! have anything TO 90 with MS accounts.
This scathing obituary appears In M. A.
P. MAINLY About People,:
"a tall, well-built, erect ruthless, dar>
ing bird of prey, he seemed to spend on
his business OF eXtortion all the passion
which an ordinary human being would
| divide between home pleasure and other
| interests of life. During the last months
he suffered agony from disease of the
! jaw, and when his voice was reduced to a
hideous croak he kept on working fever
ishly at his devils job of breaking up
| homes and hearts"
The eight months which Gordon spent
in Jail when starting in on his usurious
career ruined his health and embittered
| his life. Among his victims he number
| ed clergymen, widows, orphans and
| spendthrifts of all classes in England, and
| he frankly said in court that neither the
tears of the widow nor of the orphan
would have the slightest effect on him
| in pressing a claim.