The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-20

Tor another socltdolasor RI snrino nm a.
detenseless country?'' " 80 -
~ IWa11s WI, the Chinese represents tive
4ac+i,,as tston' is being guarded by de-
49,. 20 our government fears that he
may NC assaulted or assassinated.
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Allor tne long suspense and the columns
- o1o s14lsa 'ional stories that have come
t tte raL,bIi lhelr death, eagerly read by
nc p1oic' the ministers to Pekin are
saIe. Gut OF hundreds of bushels of chaff
sent from China there was 81. occasional
grain Of truth.
interest," IN the Boer war and Col.
hooseVeIts record as 1.-THE hero Of San
tlaso Is getting a little frayed around
A calculation sent out from Washington
eiVes tne total expenditure to date by
the United States in the Philippines as
$io6, 7IS,e9V, exclusive of 2,400 men killed
In battle or dead of wounds or disease
The Cuban war cost a little above $780,
UJo'Voo. Thts may eorue back in the form
OF trade, but it will be a long time.
One only needs Ito look over the tele-
graph columns of a daily paper any day
and If ne happens to be in thoughtful
mood the inquiry naturally arises:
What is civilization?' The most farnil-
lar names today are those of prize fight
ers and soldiers Under the guise of
sport two men can beat each other to
insensibility and then divide the money
paid to see them fight. Two plain eit1-
Zens who settle a difficulty by hsticun
are arrested and fined, and mayEe lra-
prisoned. One citizen, regardless of the
affront, cannot challenge another citizen
to fight a duel without being liable to
term in the penitentiary Put the nation
people Of another nation, guilty or not
guilty of insulting the agglessors
Aug. 20 is the anniversary of the birth.
in 1898. Of OK President BENJAMIN Har-
rison. at South Bend, o.; Of Sebastian
MartineIli CS4S), apostolic delegate of the
pope to the United States; of Paul Dance
QS52), editor Of the New York Sun.
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The Republican national committee will
not invite Tom Reed to speak this CAM
paign. From his sarcastic utterances
about the administration It is decided
that the ex-speaker is "a live wire and
his old party leaders have decided that
it is better not to "touch him"
There was one thing about John ].
ingalls, and that was he did not have to
depend or trade upon title or rank. He
was major in the army, Mckinley s
rank and later lieutenant colonel, Roose-
velt's rank.
Now that Minister Conger has been
rescued. will President Mckinley order
cur troops away from China? The rescue
was the mission aof the troops to that
country. No, the troops will probably not
be ordered away-the administration
wants a hand in restoring order and
giving China. good government"
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Aug. 90, 1745, was the birthday OF
Francis Asbury, the first Methodist
bishop cons&crated in America. The
same day Of the month in 1875 was the
birthday Of Valentine Mott, the famous
American surgeon.
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The Tacoma Ledger says, "a battle
royal is now on between Ignatius Don.
nelly's bone-eating trogiodyte and Henry
Watterson's horned lion Of plutocracy.'
This is the last week for prize fighting
in New York. Sept. the new Law
against public exhibitions of pugilisn
takes effect. Managers expect to max;
arrangements just across the line in Con
necticut or New Jersey.