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for long time dragged through the
courts and decision finally reached
to literally carry out the provisions Of
the will. The treasure was therefore
sunk in the presence of the executors
and the 100000 was paid to the son.
Another instance of freak wills was
that of Symons Lacey, one of Eng
lands largest coal operators. Mr..
Lacey was in endless trouble with his
workmen and in sheer disgust directed
his heirs to set the Ednyfed pits on
fire and let them burn until the work
ings were completely destroyed. After
his death efforts to set the will aside
were under way, with good prospects
for success, when the Ednyfed pits did
catch fre-whether by accident or
design will never be known-and be-
came what they have since remained,
blackened ruin.
1t is hoped there will be very much
less of this sort of thing in the future.
and there are signs that this will be
so, as there is a growing tendency
among wealthy men to dispose in
large measure of their holdings be-
fore death.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-07
ALFONSO THE BAD.

Alfonso XIII, king of Spain at
eighteen, is out looking for new towns
to paint while his mother, the pious
Christina, sits grieving at home over
the waywardness of her boy. And
perhaps the mother, acting under the
purest of motives, may to some ex-
tent be to blame for the wildness of
her son. All through his childhood
up to the day that Alfonso was
crowned king, the queen regent kept
him from evil influences and did not
even let him see a bull fight, the
Spanish national sport. The child was
constantly surrounded by devout peo-
pie and his teaching was all along
religious lines. 1t is stated that daily
the mother and clergymen with whom
she surrounded herself offered up sup
plications to the throne of grace that
the young king should live along right
lines.
When the crown was placed upon
his head and Alfonso realized he was
his own master, like tiger unleashed
after long confinement, he rushed
forth into the vortex of life with a
scarlet tinge, and ever since he has
disgraced himself and scandalized his
kingdom. In his tour through the
country he has almost hourly done
such extraordinary things that he has
been the sensation of both the court
and the common people. Efforts to
reason with the young man have been
without avail, and of as little use
have been the attempts to scare him
wita The story that he is so frail he
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-07
LADY WARWICK'S GREAT
SCHEME,

Much interest has developed in
both Great Britain and America in
the plan of the Countess of Warwick
to make a new opening for educated
women, by training them in the light
er branches of agriculture-cookery
housewifery, laundry and dressmak-
ing, dairy and poultry farming,
flower, fruit and vegetable gardening.
Lady Warwick started with capital
of $500, but she wants $4,000 to
build an agricultural college for wom-
en-. She makes general appeal
through the New Liberal Review for
August for funds to carry on her
work. With an endowment of $3.50, 900
Lady Warwick thinks she could found
college which would be ample for
the present. At the present time I6S
students are attending the courses of
training. One of the important
things taught is to find quick substi-
tutes for everyday necessities; for
instance, the making of yeast from the
potato.
AS a sort of branch of the work,
Lady Warwick has founded an agri-
cultural association for women, with
the Woman's Agricultural Times as
its official organ She announces that
one of her dreams for the future is
that several women shall take a cot
tage and several acres of land to start
with, so as to form women's agri-
cultural settlements in various parts
of the country. She would have them
work it on the allotment system as a
market garden or horticultural farm
or small dairy farm, combined, per-
haps, with bee keeping or fruit grow
ing. Her college once built, Lady
Warwick believes the women could
build their own laboratories, supply
their own teachers, and rent two hun
bred acres of ground on which all of
the practical work could be done.
The Countess of Warwick is a
woman of great enthusiasm, magnet
ism and intellect, and to bring to a
successful issue a scheme of such
comprehensivenes she is the right
person in the right place.
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BudWeiser ad der Jtate Fair.

meinselIuf to der extents uf two bags
uf peanuts, und dare We vos SLIDING
side by each in der grand standt
munching peanuts und enchoying our
sellufs lige nobody bud me und der
putter can. Und such bunch uf eat
ing places. Louie, you hat no ftea dare
vos so many. We boarded ad Wilbur
TibbiFs barbecue und Id yos greadt
place. "How many pool tables dit he
haf?" set Louie.
"Mein gracious, Louie" set, you
will be in der crazy house alreatty.
Chust because set Something's aboudt
barber cues you imachination id vos
pool house. Now a barbercue ISIS a
blaze ware dey roast a lot uf oxens und
Sleeps in a trench filed NIT fire. Viii
bur hat der Fort Smelling band playing
popular rag times und music und you
paid twendy-fife cents to der Coliseum
fund to ged in ware you ged all uf der
dark or vite meat, vIch you can eat,
und der band thrown in for nodding.
You shouldn't miss i'd"
''How aboadt der ponies?" set Louis.
"Such headache" I set. bud do you
know. Louie, I don't belief got run
for der monies. 1 am as game sucker
as effer run away nit hook und
neffer holler efen uf / am geschwindel-
ed, so don't tage id as kich, as / am
chust trying to tell you mein exper-,
fence as veil as der heart breaking
circumstances will permit. chust set
to meinseIluf, I will pick ub a leedle
easy monies on der ponies So I
IMAGES a get away from der Mutter,
because she don't belief in no horse
racings, und 1 vent oudt ware dey mage
der bettings. I voS LOGGING for some
uf dose 'goot' dings ven vas APP
preached by Won uf dose touters who
vispered in mein ear dot l should play
Chessie B, a feefty to Won shots for
place. He set, She can't lose. Her
chockey tolt me on der side dot he vos
booked to vim today Now hat a friend
in Hoboken whose Wife'S name vas
Chessie B, do dot gate me some
I hat nit der exception uf a cubble
uf niggles in der watch pocket for
streedt car fare. I hat a ticket vich
set 81 900 to $780, Chessie B to vim.
Chust think uf so much monies all ad
Won time, und vas fickuring on a new
automobupple for me und der Mutter,
und how I vos going to surprisal her
nit Won uf dem. Wy, Louie, ven dose
ponies got to der post hat to unbutton
mein weslit und holt on to meinselluf
because mein heart vos in such a Wild
state up pilpitationing. Ad last dey
got away und Chissie B vos maging a
fine race uf id efen ad der three
quarters she vos ahet und vos doing
noply in der stretch ven along comes
Cabbage und wins der race by head.
Immediately threw off a few convul-
sions at fife tollars threw, und as
I started to run away der touter headed
me off und set, 7 knew Chessie B
would ged place. Now, uf you will
cash your tigget will take mein Bit
"eVot are you talking aboudt,' set,
7 played Chessie B to vim und you hat
got yours alretty. See?' Chez! LouieJ
bud I vos fierce nit dot touter. Den
run back to der Mutter.
"vy, Fotter,' she set, 'Vot ISIS der
matter, i'd such longness you hat on
der face, aind't id?' managed to ex-
PLANTATION meinselluf, but id vos such
closeness.
Louie.
"Yes," I set. bud for few minutes
T vos rich man.
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LABOR FIGHTS IMPERIALISM.

The glamor of war, the romance of
flashing arms and heroic feats, the
jingoism of national glory on CORY
fields may deceive and win the sup.
port Of the average half-earnest citi-
zen who has an easy struggle in life;
but it has no; power of allurement for
the worlingman, who pays for the
doubtful glory.swith his blood and with
political and economic oppression.
The Trades Union congress of
Great Britain right on the heels of
British victory over the Beers, reg
listers its vehement protest against
wars of conquest. and the Boer war
in particular,,ssin the following vigor-
Gus English:w
That this congress of British trade
uniOnists places on record its unquali-
fed disapproval of the wal. against the
Grange Free State, and the Transvaa al
extending the franchise and, the protec-
ton of industry was not the real cause
of the dispute, but the mere shield to
territory and replace we'll paid white labor
with unpaidss partially enslayed blacks
and Asiatics. 20
Furtner, IIlIS congress TeaIIlTInS us COLI
tinued hostility to all wars of foreign ag-
gression which only tend to enrich the
sinister figure of cosmopolitan finance,
whose main object is to hold the work.
ers of all countries in universal, social
and economic servitude.
The American workingman has not
had the bitter experience Of his Eu-
ropean neighbors on this score, but
it is safe, to say that the earnest
wage-earning voter the world over
feels about wars of conquest and the
general imperial. and colonial policy
very much as above expressed by the
organized Workingmen of Great Brit
ain. shs
There is Sno question whatever in
regard to the attitude of all European
born workingmen in America. The
German-American the Irish-Ameri-
can, the Polish-American, the French
and Observation-Disclosures working
men of this country feel deeply on
this question. They recognize that
war and labor are at eternal outs.
They knowit that Imperialism means
class distinction and class power.
They know that the more democratic
are the institutions of the republic,
and the less ifnperialistic, the greater
are the rightsfa and opportunities of the
working class under the American
constitution and the American flag.
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HEAT AND REVOLUTION.

Students of political and economic
affairs on the Western continent are
wondering what is to become of that
large population in and around the
Caribbean sea. Always turbulent,
these denizens of the equatorial re-
gion appear to be getting further and
further away from any attempt at
the observance of law Everybody
seems to work on the theory that
he is right and everybody else is
wrong. So it is that whenever an in
dividual thinks he has been injured
in property, person or dignity, he does
not, like a Minnesotan, apply to the
courts for redress, but buys big rifle,
a good supply of bullets and dag
ger or two and goes forth to square
accounts with those whom he be-
lieves to have trod upon his corns.
At this time there are revolutions
in Venezuela, Colombia and Haiti, and
nearly all of the other little repub-
lies are in a constant state of turmoil,
nobody knowing on going to bed at
night whether or not there will be a
revolt against the government be-
fore the rising of the sun of the fol-
lowing day. Cuba, too, although re-
Gently made a republic under most
favorable prospects, is overhowing
with a spirit of restlessness indie
alive of firearms and rebellion against
the constituted authorities.
There are varying views as to the
cause of this perennial turbulence
among the peoples of this section of
the world. Not a few ascribe the
trouble to race, and yet others to a
general laxity of morals. In meas
ure either of these probably has a
bearing, but temperament is frequent
ly largely a matter of temperature.
The Central Americans and the West
Indians live in the neighborhood of
the equator. It is difficult to have
cool-headed men in climate which is
excessively hot during most of the
twelve months of each year. Heat
causes irritation, not only in body,
but in mind. Under the scorching
rays of the tropic sun men act on
impulse rather than reason. The dis
position of the overheated individual
is to crush whatever is between him
and the goal of his ambition. The
sun is the arch enemy of equipoise.
The Caribbean sea contingent is under
solar spell.
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IpARE NOT Try.

Few, have heard grow gracefully old:
The words hold ever the sting of truth;
Grace, with the flowing locks of gold,
The flashing eye and the youthful mold,
Seems to depart with years and youth.
I cannot, I know, grow gracefully old;
The wild sand waste is not for flowers;
NV tongue would wag like foolish scold,
My senseSI driveL my heart grow cold,
AS I sat in the corner and counted the
hours. n
T have wrought with the seasons hither-
ward borne,
Searched my soul with critics view,
A hobby, a habit, uprooted and torn,
Before the ruts had deepened and worn,
That might roll on with the broad and
I sought young hearts and they gave to
Their loyal trust, their hopes and fears,
A glimpse that thrilled as sight of the
A kiss that was sweet as the flower to
the bee
A love that was whispered with smiles
and tears.
So little had to yield and give.
For the great glad gifts they sent, in
truth,
1t hath been such a joy to love and live,
They have heaped my measure, shaken my
sieve,
Have fed on my altar the fires of youth,
That /, forgetting the long years flown,
Though eyes are dim and the hair grown
gray,
For brave. strong arms are about me
thrown,
Ny young heart. seeketh and finds its own,
And the slope of the hill is the best Of
the way
The wild sand waste Is not for flowers,
I gain no grace as the years unfold,
would driver and maunder of bygone
AS sat.tsi the corner and tailed the
hours, -
And so-and sso-I shall not grow old.
&C. ]. GreenIeaf.
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People and Things

| ginning instead of at the end. His
wife has a prejudice against boat
rides which will last through her life.
An old man from the interior of the
state who came In to the fair. yerv
nearly faiSed riot on Como car on
his way to see the greatest fair ever
held anywhere. He had just been in
forming young man who sat in the
seat with him that he knew a thing or
two himself: Il amt no greenie," he
said with a pleasant smile, "and I
amt been into town for twenty years.
so / promised my old woman not to he
led astray by no confidence men," he
chuckled. I'D like to see any fellow.
get cent out of me. I'm pretty slick
myself" Just then the conductor came
struggling through the dense crowd to
get the fares; the old man handed out
a dollar with worried air. The con-
ductor took it, put it in his pocket, and
just that moment the car stopped and
he ran back to the door and hoped
off the car to lift lot of babies on.
The old man from the interior rose
from his seat with yell and made for
the door, "Stop thief" he shouted.
Get that fellow with the cap on, he's
got my money!" The car was in an
uproar, the conductor was much
mystified, and for moment there
was a small riot. The old man, still
yelling, jumped off the car, took the
conductor by the back of the neck
just as policeman arrived breathless
upon the scene. He refused to arrest
the conductor until he knew what tho
trouble was. BY this time the con-
ductor and the old man were having a
fight, the former not knowing what it
was about, but resenting the manner
in which he had been jumped upon.
Finally the young man who had been
in the seat with the stranger worked
his way through the crowd and eX-
planned that he knew what the trouble
was and everything was settled after
the irate conductor gave back the
change. The old man from the in
terror Gained down while everyone
laughed all the way to the fair grounds,
but he refused to believe that he would
ever have seen his money unless the
policeman had arrived. Il amt taking
no chances in the city," he remarked,
"and when a Teller takes my money
and starts for the door, go after him
every time" The incident did much
to enliven an otherwise dull ride to the
fair.
Mr. Rukard Hurd gave a party
Thursday evening. There were no
cards and no gloves. 1t was CONVEX
sasione, or shower. A great many
attended in the hope that it was sill
yer tea.
1t is reported from England that all
the coronation odes are in and a large
number of them are also out. Alfred
Austin has been heard from and sew
eral other real poets, but where, oh
where, is the ode of our own Weakly
Mape? Is it possible that it is still
owed?
When once filed Moslem grave is
never re-opened. If political graves,
in this country were similarly treated
several persons would now be at rest
NAB.
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WEATHER FOR TODAY.

Minnesota-Fair Sunday; warmer ex-
cept near Lake SUPERIOR Monday show
ers, with cooler in west portion; fresh
south winds.
Upper Nichigan-Fair in west; showers
in east portion Sunday; Monday showers
and warmer; fresh south winds.
Wisconsin Sunday; warmer in
west portion; Monday showers; fresh
south winds.
Iowa-Fair warmer Sunday; Monday
fair.
North and South Dakota-Fair, warm
er Sunday; showers and cooler at night
or Monday.
Montana-Partly cloudy Sunday; prob
ably showers and cooler at night or Mon
day.
ST. Paul = Yesterdays temperatures
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul. p. F. Lyons, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at o'clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation: Highest temper
allure, II lowest temperature, so; average
temperature, co.. daily range, 81; barom-
eter, 90 Sc; humidity, g.; precipitation, 0;
ID m, temperature, &C p. M, wind,
west; weather, partly cloudy.
YaStnr6aV'c
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cared to literally live UP to the terms
OF the viii so4hey each selected an
other partner
The nice question arises over de-
murrer on the part of one of the per
sons MENTIONED for matrimony in a
will of this character. Breaking Of
wills is a&serious matter, because If
found vulnerable in one particular
they usually are so in all. 1t can be
seen that complications both ludi-
crous and grave could arise from
requests of this strange character.
For instance, if one woman has a
grievance against another, she can
square accounts to some extent by
willing her her husband. On the
other hand, if woman gets such a
bequest, she is not really obliged to
accept the gift. 1t is always possible
to turn piece of property that is
not wanted over to the public admin
istrator, who is not debarred from
offering it at public sale to the high
est bidder. Of course, if husband
is considered slave he cannot be
sold, but if an ordinary chattel,
point might bealnade that he could be
disposed of for money considera-
ton.
1t is plainly up to New York hus-
bands to find out where they stand.
If henceforth, they are to be consid-
cred chattels they are in constant dan
ger of being disposed of by the wife
with the same freedom as of her jew
elry or her millinery. Anyhow, it
should be at least established through
the courts that if wife. can will
husband, a husband has an equal privi-
lege of bequeathing his wife.
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think vos going to miss der chance uf
mein life, yes? saw all my olt An
heuser Busch friendts from Sleepy
Eyes, Prowns Valley und Shakopee, und
last but not least, Reuben Plue, NIT
der vitkers fon Anoka. Such crowds
as dare vos ad dot Fair standing
around in punches und tearing ub their
coin init dot Wild extravaganza und
abandoning uf a ebay Gould or Van
derbilk. Id vos. a fright der way dey
led go uf their monies. Some uf dem
did nod efen see i'd get away ven some
pickpocketer made a touching uf id.
Uf course der detecatifs vos all dare
LOGGING wise und wondering ware dey
vos going to ged on ad, aAretty. Talk
aboudt shows, Louise, der life stock
took der cakes. F~neffer saw such cat
ties as dose Schleswig-Holstein Men
dotas vich took der plue Ribbon und
mein oldt landtsman, Adolph Morgen-
blau, vos der habby man vich belonged
to dem. met Adolph down at Laub-
enheimer's Won night und We hat few
between us. I don't know chust how
many, as lost der count, but Adolph
vos singing Der Wacht am Rhine all
der time until I told him he could be
pinched alretty, ven he led go. Der
Sleeps und horses und ponies vos fine.
I got bumped on der ponies, bud I will
tell you about i'd later.
at also vos in der Vinmens Building,
und dare vos such an exhibitionings
vich I neffer saw before. Ach! Louie.
such a collections uf abbles, peaches.
spineh cakes. pickles, blums und chel-
lies uf all kinds vich neffer saw be-
fore. Heinrich Pumpernickel, uf Eden
Valley, took der prize. He hat some uf
der finest heads uf Saurkraut vich
hat ever hat der pleasure uf bitine
into. Der Mutter Pumpernickel yos
dare in all uf her glory. You know,
Louie, i'd only comes vonce year und
id ISIS der only time dey are on earth,
und ven dot time comes they simply
tear demsellufs loose und led her go.
Dey don't efen stop to count their
Dare vos only Won thing, Louie, dit
nod lige aboudt der fair, und dat voS
der grand standt bitzness. In der feerst
blaze, Everybody except der best play
ers hat to pay twenty-five cents to ged
in. vich ISIS all right, bud afder you
ged up stairs der feerst thing you see
in der face ISIS reserfed seats, SO cents.
Now I belief i'd ISIS wrong to charge
feefty cents to ged in der grounds,
twentdy-fife cents to der grond standt
und den throw dem down for feefty
cents more to ged a good seat in der
grand standt. Ids lige taking Id away
from a blind man, und i'd shouldt nod
be so. Me und der mutter, by der grace
uf a cubble uf yellow tickets, got IN
free, for noddfng, und seperationel
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-07
WILLS OF ECCENTRIC MEN.

The death of a Californian named
Henderson the other day, who left
will directing that his houses, barns
and ranch be made food for the flames
as soon as his funeral was over, once
more calls attention to the theory that
genius and madness are seldom far
removed from each other. AS a rule
these directions that property be de-
stroyed are so ridiculous that the heirs
and the courts find no difficulty in
reaching the conclusion that the person
who made the will was suffering from
insanity, and hence that the document
could have no force in law or equity.
An instance came up at Faribault
couple of years ago. An eccentric
man of that city left $4,000 or
$4,000 in greenbacks which he or
dered burned at his death. His wishes
were, however, completely ignored,
and the money placed where it would
at least do some earthly good.
History, on the other hand, records
several instances of the carrying out
of the provisions of these queer wills.
DR.. Tobias Borthwick, of London,
known as "the wealthy hermit" accu-
mulated a fortune of over 100000,
but he converted ali of it except
100000 into ancient jewelry, tapes
tries, beaten goldware and modern
gems. All this treasure he directed
to be sunk off the coast of Anglesey,
asserting that, as there was hardly a
gem or valuable in the collection
that had not been the object of some
crime or other or might in the future
be so, it would be better for mankind
at large if the whole lot were done
away with. This will, absurd in every
particular, would have been upset ex-
cept for a provision that DR.. Borth-
Ewick's son should receive the 500, 900
I if he carried out the wishes of the
father in all details. IF he refused to
do this, the whole was TO be divided
among three charitable institutions.
"A tangle of large proportions resulted.
The heir expressed a Willingness to
give up his interest in the estate, but
as the will affected several parties, it
was held that it could not be set aside
in favor of anybody. The matter was