The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-12

third day, and when it became positive
ly known that Balmaceda had been de
feated, messengers hidden in all the priu-
cipal cities galloped at break-Deck speed
to warn their friends III country towns
and scattered haciendas Millions in
coin Instantly vanished into underground
hiding places. Women and children were
hurried off to camps on the eastern
frontier. Whole villages We're deserted
by their human inhabitants, and Senior
Salinez's yacht slipped out under cover
OF darkness.
And not a day TOO soon A civil war
rivalng the saVagery of the SiCilfan Yes
Pers blaZed up from Patagonia to the
Peruvian border. The number of non
combatants maesacred in the course of
the next fifteen months has been esti-
mated at nearly 10000, and not all cap
tives were as lucky as President Bai1na-
ceda, who anticipated the fury of the
mob by voluntary death, and, like the
old Morse sea king, gioried in the chance
to share the fate of his brave followers
Call him not alone who dieth
Side by side with gallant men,
In the times of the Germanic empire
elections more than once caused an IN
ternational excitement. There were five
pacific kaisers, and others SO aggressive
Iy warlike that their nefghbors did NOT
enjoy a weeks respite from tribulations.
Italy was their tavorite cockpit, and pre-
texts for invasion could be found ready
made by espousing of the cause of the
GuelpIis or Ghibbelines, who were per
petually harassing the sell Of the afflict-
ed peninsula.
NO APATHY POSSIBLE.
The nomination of Frederick Barba-
rossa threw the Guelph cities of }1cm-
hardy into fever of trepidation. Dig
ging and trending was pushed with an
energy as if King Alaric had arisen from
his river grave, but several cities were
still at work, with their ramparts half
finished, when Our Fritz did cross the
Alps at the head of some $4,000 freeboot-
ers, who at once proceeded to tackle the
problem of benevolent assimilation
Apathy about election returns was not
well possible when a man risked to have
to Jur6p out of a third story window in
stress of politics, or export his savings
on a race horse, with the champions of
expansion at his heels
The election of Francis of Lorraine start
ed the long series of Silesian wars that
came near trampling the debatable terri
tories into desert before Prussia and
Austria got done with each other A
hundred years later the mere nominate
of Prussian prince for the vacant throne
of Spain unclaimed the dogs of war on
the Rhine, and probably sealed the doom
of the Latin races.
The election of the successors Of St
Peter, too, often decided the fate of dy-
nastfes on the other side of the Alps.
though Rome naturally was the center CT
the far-spread excitement. The artisans
Of the river side quarters used to impro-
wise holiday and assemble near the
Ponte Vecchio, while the conelave of
cardinals was in deliberation, and the mo-
ment the decision became known the cliff
of the Seven hills echoed a chorus of
deafening whoops: "The Florentine's got
IT.; 'The Milanese has ft!'' or whatever
the result might be. Then general rush
for the city palace Of the successful can
didate. Doors were forced. an entrance
effected somehow or other, and every. hrt Q
movable dragged out as a time-honored
perquisfte Of the mob and a. sacrifice To
fortune that would insure the good luck
of the new pontiff.
But still more worId-wi6e settlements
were initiated in the same city at a time
when the election of an ambitious consul
was liable to start the partisans of his
rival on the war pat Horace Greeley
was probably right that the Dixie re-
volt had become unavoidable a year and
half before the nomination Of Abraham
Lincoln, but there is no doubt that the
election of Felix Syila was the direct
cause of murder grim and great. F"
raging for years in the coastIands of
three different continents.
F. D. Oswald.