The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-25


inexperienced reformers have but super
fetal knowledge.
the Following paragraph from a Manila
| dispatch the other day sounds a good
deal like old Spanish days in the Phil
| 1ppnes and Cuba: "Constancia Poblete
and Filomena De Luna, representing the
Womans league. went to the palace,
| accompanied by 500 or GOO native women,
and petitioned for the release of the po-
! litical prisoners. The women mainly be-
longed to the poorer classes" Political
! prisoners" and the palace and men
and women being deported, and yet the
/ Phlllppines are supposed to be under
| American rule.
Bishop Potter and Dr. Huntington are
beginning rerusade against games of
chance In social life, in which 1t is claim
| ed that leaders of society lend them
| selves to the encouragement of amuse-
ments forbidden by law, and what is the
use of raiding pool rooms when such
things are carried on behind doors which
detectives dare not enter? Young men
leave parlors to which they have been
invited with less money than they had
when they entered, and women exhibit
with pride jewels bought with the win
nings of the gaming table," These
clefgymen are not Sensationalists and
| must be commenting upon facts of which
! they have knowledge.
In a brief review of an essay in Mr.
| Box Philadelphia Journal for Ladies. in
winch 1t is wondered why women prefer
basket ball and other games in prefer
| ence to household duties, the Milwaukee
| sentinel says: "When men can explain
why they rather play games when there
Is something at stake than when there is
w nv fIaxv,
! race to going to church, or why they
rather exercise at bowling alley than at
woodpile, or why more fame can be
acquired playing football at university
| or college than by applying oneself to
| study; they will understand why girls
prefer basketball to homework
sun don't sleep so late now
lis spell ago;
RoutS a Teller out O. bed
Five o'clock er so.
Ohio State Journal.
Now that the administration specu,
lators ind that England cannot be
Diluted In the canal treaty they have dis
covered once more that the Panama
| route is much better after all. Between
| now and the meeting of congress the Re-
publican papers will present plenty of
reasons Why the discarded French route
| Is much the better one-if it does cost
| more money. There is not room for two
| canals, and the French have been work
i Ing on theirs while we have been talk
| ing
The librarian of congress, Herbert Put
| nam, says that libraries are growing in
number far more rapidly than are librar-
| lans. He directs attention to the fact
mat While there are now about 5000
| libraries in the country, there are NOT
more than 800 or 600 trained librarians.
| nature aDhorS vacuum" and with
| opportunities for securing this training
| Tor pleasant and profitable positions the
want ought soon to be filed.
me oVerdraWn assertions that ideal
| conditions exist in the Philippines and
Cuba, made by administration officials
| are not warranted by the facts The
| leopard cannot change his spots and the
| zebra his stripes in one season We have
been over hundred years trying to i'm
| prove couple hundred thousand Indians.
and they are still Indians Millions; of
Filipinos cannot be made to accept the
| white mans ideas of things in one wear
nor in hundred of them We are
simply triding with well established laws
OF nature A few generations, of course,
| Will make changes a@as@<
1
time vigor. In letter the other day
ne SAID: Gage, the secretary of the
| treasury, who INDUCES, it seems. in
Dreams of his, being another Chase or
Hamilton, has become suddenly the most
| unpopular quality in our financial cir
cles Before he ruled our manufacturers
| out OF Russia for a few scoopfuIs of
sugar he was regarded merely as a bore
at public dinners and preposterous
WOODEN being. Now he is regarded as
man who has no key or pitch to his ideas.
but soliloquizes in a far-off voice and is
countered by growl.','e
The egg crop last year in this. country
| was estimated at $4,000, O00,O0) dozens.
G'he hen and her fruit yield an, annual
income of $500 100000. This shows what
little things, when aggregated, amount to.
| Us. o, .45i5 noln~ III v15 .
Slxto Lopez. a native Filipino, in n
speech in Philadelphia the other night,
| yclaimed that the "Filipinos, like the
americans, are and of right ought to be
| the sole Judges of their fitness for indie
pendence." Why not?
Plenty to retire on, but nothing to
| retire to-" is an expression used by An
| drew Carnegie, in referring to those men
who, when they get ready to retire from
business, find that, they have nothing but
AlOHey' OIlleSS d man gives attention to
something aside from the sordid pursuit
| Of money, he is poor indeed at the end
of his human career. Happiness and con-
tentment cannot come at the beck and
| call of cash III ~
The Delavan GWis.) Republican, in
looking over its files, finds an editorial
| appearing twentyloyears ago in these
| words: Gen. Go1ley, who has been fight
! ing the Beers in South Africa has been
surrounded, his force annihilated AMI
himself killed at Spietz Kop. Many had
| been hoping that the British lion might
| manage to whip Those poor Beers. They
| had no luck with. the Afghans and need
! a victory over some one pretty soon, on
| account of the moral effect" History
will repeat itself in the Philippines.
/ Emperor William has ordered the Eng
| lish language to take the place of French
! in the public schools of Germany, just
| reversing the order, making French OPP
| tional, and English, formerly optional,
| but now obligatory.
Today, March IS, is the anniversary of
| the birth, in III, of Joachim Murat,
Ronapartist king of Naples. and pro-
| nounced by Napoleon to be the tsbest
| cavalry officer in Europe" He was shot
| for treason, Oct 49, 1915.