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4 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1599. Associated Press News. OITT SUBSCRIPTIONS. liy Carrier |1 mo I 6 moi [12 moe Dally only 4 0c *3.25 i i . 0 0 Dally and s-.nday.. •5 0 c 2.75 5.00 Sunday ._„ ...16c .75 1.60 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. by Mail |1 mo I 6 moi | 11 mc# Dally |. STT $1.60 $1.09 Daily and Sunday.. .850 3.00 4.00 Sunday 7 6 1.5» Weekly | .75 1.00 Entered at Pcsfofflce at Sc. Paul. Minn., at tecocd-Clags Matter. Address all conimunl fcliocg and make all Remittances payable to I"HE GLOBE CO.. St. Paul. Minnesota. jinonymous roannunleatlonn not Dotlced. Re jected manuscripts will not ba returned «■ --less tcTompauJK) by postage. BRANCH OFFICES. New York 10 Bpruc» St Chicago Room 809. No. 87 Washington »t SUNDAYS__WEATHER. Fair. United <..i'.s WcMtihcr Bureau.— MINNESOTA Fair: westerly winds. NORTH DAKOTA -Fair; westerly winds. SOUTH DAKOTA— Fair; westerly wiuds. WISCON SIN !" ir; fregh southwesterly winds. IOWA riy winds. MONTANA— PartIy < :. weather; southwesterly winds. Buff;' --11. 84-36; Chicago, 36-40: J6-55; Montreal, 34-34; New York, 4J-4J: Pittsburg, 44-6 C. ST. PAUL BUREAU— The following, talu-n I rime (S o'clock Waahlng .- a relative B&stement of the local conditions for the twenty-four h iure win n The observations were taken: Barometer. L'l'.S; 1 : mean tnuperature, . umidlty, Si: wind at S p. in., northwest; weather, partly cloudy; maximum temperature, ;;.'; minimum ;■ inrxr^ure. 22; tount cf preeip tat lon (rain end melted sr.awi in lest twenty-tour hours, 0. N •, Barometer corrected for temporatuie a: 1 : .;■ ::. —P. F. Lyons, Observer. Tho Condition of Our Schools. '"Five old woman that lived in the eh. io. •■■.;:> had so many children she didn't know what to d>." was not more BOrely \ :xi ■ ! than the St. Paul school that must poive the problem of pupils, at an average per capital for $420,000. The Question is more like the poor man's, children nnd funds pre- Bent a kpotty problem of inverse ratio. is the matter? Is St. Paul so that she cannot scrape together enough money to maintain her schools? Not at all, but she Is Impeded by the lew. which forbids her levying more than 2V* mills upon each dollar of as sessed property. The very olivious remedy would be, when a shoe pinches, to take It off. But the difficulty in the present case is that the 2% mills limit, nsible for the discomforting pinch. is an Integral part of our city charter, which the citizens a short time since declared to be a fairly comfortable shoe and refused to discard for a new One. It will lie recalled that this charter was siv^n to the city by the legislature before the cities had home rule and ivhen tho property valuation in St. Paul •was SIJti.QOO.OOO— a fact which made the limit for the school levy seem war rantable. When, however, the valuation was towered to 506,000,000, the school revenue fell far short of the require ment, while school needs continued to Increase. Proceeding to find relief by the pro cess of elimination, the apparently simple device of getting the legislature to amend the law must be abandoned for the reason that by an amendment to the constitution of the state "the legislature may repeal any existing special or local law, but shall not amend, extend or modify any of the same." The repeal of the St. Paul school law as a whole is not desired by the citizens, and, as amendment is im possible, relief must T>e found in gen eral legislation which shall. In effect, remove the iVi-mill limit. It is possible, as will be found upon investigation of our laws, and upon consultation with competent and con servative lawyers of our city, to get legislation applying to cities of a cer tain class, for example, to cities of over EO.OOO inhabitants, which would afford relief to St. Paul. Shall this bill be framed to raise the limit of school levies in this class of cities or shall It be framed in such a Tray as to permit the cities in question to tax themselves for the amount which they deem neces sary to the proper maintenance of their schools? The chamber of commerce proposes a bill permitting an additional levy of one mill, when necessary, to be ap plied exclusively to the erection of Bchool buildings, purchase of sites, re pairs, furnishings, etc. The criticism made upon the propo sition is expressed by a member of the teachers' association, who said: "But what is the use of erecting new build ings? That will not help St. Paul out now, for where is the money to come from to pay teachers, janitors and coal bills, when it is more than prob able that the existing schools cannot be maintained for the full school year?" A sort of compromise, coming from citizens and teachers, is that the bill be amended to read "one and one-half mills, one-third of which be applied j to the erection of school buildings, j etc." Either of these bills would make the co-operation of Minneapolis necessary, and, as there is abundant j evidence that the Twin City has been cramped with her four-mill limit, it is reasonable to assume that her support can be secured in favor of the bill. Right here it may be interesting to con, pare the school levies made by various cities throughout the state. I Duluth has 9; Winona, 12 3-10; Fergus Falls. 24; Moorhead, 17; Renville, 28; HanEato, 29; St. Paul, 2%. Framing a bill to suit the conditions and needs of different cities, even though they are of the same class, in euch a way as not to do violence to the constitution of the state, demands care and skillful manipulation, and Bhould not be undertaken without com petent legal supervision. A prominent lawyer of the city has given It as his opinion that the bill should be so framed as to permit the city to tax itself. As conditions are now, there is little reason for the legislature's limit upon the council in the matter of a school levy. During the time when the school board could pledge the cred it- of the city for any debt which it might make for the maintenance of "the schools, thus, in effect, combining the levying and spending powers, It was but fair to the taxpayers that there should have been a. reasonable limit. But now, when the council must make the definite appropriation and the school board dispense it, thereby making a separation between the levy ing power and spending power and shutting off all reasonable fear of job bery, there is small wisdom in limit- Ing the council, since it would have nothing to gain and much to lose in making excessive and extravagant ap propriation*. Moreover, this precau- , tlon is based upon the unaccepted supposition that a council would deal unfairly with the taxpayers If it could. But something must be done, and that immediately. The existing un certainty Is ruinous to the schools and Injurious to the city. The atmosphere of suspense in which the teachers live Is depressing them and is demoralizing the pupils. Moreover, it has injured the reputation of our schools abroad — a fact which has a baneful effect upon the business standing of the communi ty. St. Paul has already too long made a poor mouth to the world, and, if she Is to rehabilitate her dignity, vigorous measures must be taken speedily. Good teachers will not stay where their positions are held but from month to month, and command de creasing salaries, and where they make an involuntary contribution to oblit erate a yearly deficit. Finally, ignoring the question of health, overcrowded and poorly ven tilated school rooms are not conducive either to good discipline or good mor als among the pupils. Gen. niles and Gsn. Eagan. There can be i:o division of opinion among fair-minded men generally as to the merits of the controversy be tween Gen. Nelson A. Miles, command ing general of the army, and Commis sary General lOagan. The wonder is that the politico-military condition of • affairs associated with the war depart ment should have been capable of pro ducing so out-and-out an exhibition of official laxity in the mere matter of discipline alone as that reflected in the conduct of the commissary general. President McKinley is reported as ! "deeply wounded" over the occurrence; but the executive wound cannot pos sibly be so deep as that sustained by the American people when they con template the conditions prevailing in this branch of the military establish ment of the country which render possible so free an insult on the part of a subordinate officer tc the highest | in military rank In tho service as re ; fleeted In the deliberate attack by Gen. i Eagan upon Gen. Miles. A contemporary appears to find some excuse in the statement that Gen. Eagan is an Irish man, possessed of a hot. temper, but j this is an undue reflection upon, the i Irish race. The Celtic blood Is I acknowledged, to be somewhat warm; but it is none the less controllable in comparison with that which flows in the veins of some of the representatives of the Anglo-Saxon race. Further more, in this instance the discipline of I the service, if properly recognized, should have been a bar to any such ! exhibition. The real basis of all this trouble will be found to exist in that peculiar qual ify of debauchery which up to this time has proved from a system which invites the accretion of political activities in the conduct of our national military service. The secretary of war is the civil head of his department. In i the nature of thing.? his selection is j based, in a larger or smaller measure, j as the exigencies of the situation may be, upon his political importance in the party which he represents. The one gigantic mistake of Abraham Lincoln was in his original selection of a sec retary of war. Simon Cameron had been a candidate for the presidency I before the convention which bestowed upon Mr. Lincoln its choice of a nom inee. In the largeness, and at the same time the simplicity of his nature, ha determined, when making up his cab inet, to select for his advisers those men who had been his political rivals. He was cautioned against the choice of Mr. Cameron; but in order to allay all party friction, an Important element at that time associated with the suc cess of his administration, he insisted upon assigning the Pennsylvaniaan to the place. But Mr. Lincoln was prompt in the discovery of his error and equal ly prompt in rectifying it by effecting Mr. Cameron's resignation when he wag convinced of the fact that the money-making proclivities of the lat ter predominated over his sense of un selfish patriotism. Mr. McKinley had no such reason for his selection of Gen. Alger. It was a personal choice, based, it is popularly believed, upon a sense of personal monetary obligation growing out of re lief alleged to have been extended by Gen. Alger to Mr. McKinley in a pre vious pecuniary transaction unfortu nately involving the latter. The impro priety of the choice was commented upon at the time the appointment was made; it was emphasized more es pecially by the results of incidents di rectly growing out of the conduct of the war. Some of those incidents are associated with the contracts for the provisioning of the army, the supplies furnished in connection with which be ing now subjects of dispute. The feel ing has in many quarters prevailed that Influences controlled by Secretary Alger were largely instrumental in the awarding of those contracts, and that the commissary and quartermaster's department officials looked, in the as sumed discharge of their duties, rather to the approval of the political head of the department than to the general good of the service. The attitude of Gen. Miles has been one of dignified and almost exasper ating reserve since the first intimations of departmental troubles were heard; and it was perfectly patent, when he went before the investigating commis sion with h!s mass of documents, and was permitted to so promptly gather these up and retire, that his testimony was not of the kind that the commis sion was really looking for. But Gen. Eagan was moved to indiscretion by this action and proceeded to denounce his superior as "all kinds of a liar." It is no wonder that President Mc- Kinley feels "deeply wounded." He had previously directed the secretary of war to grant absolution in advance, so to speak, to all those In the service who should properly testify. In de livering his violent insult to the com manding general. Gen. Eagan clearly overstepped the limits of the decree of absolution. The affair is likely to have the ef fect of bringing out all the unpleasant truths associated with the malodorous business, and doubtless to the disgust of Secretary Alger, as well as of the president himself. Nelson Dingley, of Maine. The death of Representative Kelson Dingley, of Maine, must, In the nature of things, prove a serious loss to the Republican side of the national house of representatives. The acknowledged leader of that party on the floor as chairman of the ways and means committee, he was, moreover, a man who won and maintained his title and influence upon his merits as a gentleman and a legis lator. His advancement was ' an in stance of natural development upon purely intellectual lines, much after the manner of that of one oC his predeces- THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY JANUARY 15, 183 9 sors in the same offlde. the Hon. Wil liam L. AVilson, of West Virginia. Both men possessed many of the same char acteristics. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, Is another representative of the same type, and the comparison might Jjg ap propriately carried back to the late Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia. All alike of frail physique, their success was achieved by their combination, of intellectual vigor and nervous energy, and all were equally possessed, In a striking degree, of that simplicity of manner and directness of speech which command respect and afford Instinc tively an assurance of personal as well as political sincerity. These qualities, once already recognized, are always barriers against successful partisan as sault. It matters not whether Mr. Dingley was the putative author of a tariff measure which many believed unwise in its provisions, or that Mr. Wilson was alike the putative author of another similar law which many be lieve was more productive of generp.l benefit to the country at large than that which succeeded it, both these dis tinguished men shared alike in the high, esteem of their colleagues on the floor of the house of representatives and in the friendly regard of one another. Mr. Dingley was an excellent type of use ful citizen and industrious statesman, as distinct from the mere politician. Kipling's Critics. Mr. Kipling's latest woik Is a series of stories depicting English school boy life. Like nearly everything he has ck ne it is being severely criticised. Bee tle, Stalky and McTurk, his heroes, are making many friends, but likewise many enemies. It seems Mr. Kipling's fate to have his poetry parodied and his prose probed. Against Stalky et al. the critics urge that the incidents are trivial; that the boys are vulgar, and that Mr. Kipling, as their author, is responsible for both the morals and manners of his proteges. But this is hardly fair. A a a matter of art the only question involved is the accuracy of the characterization. If the normal English school boy talks slang that is brutally frank and makes war on the masters and the surrounding farmers, Mr. Kipling is not to blame for paint ing him as he is. Realism in art Is the actual question in controversy. The technique of the painter is not con demned if he adheres to. the realistio and not the ideal. The writer is en titled to the same consideration. His taste in the selection of subjects is a nia'lter for legitimate question*, but be cause the "material does not please the ■ treatment is not necessarily bad. Admitting that the English lad of the public school is as Mr. Kipling paints him, and this is not questioned, the adventures of Stalky et al. are quite as clever as the average of Mr. Kip ling's work. His characters are cer tainly boys, not pretty dummies In tailor-made clothes. A friend has said that In depicting them Mr. Kipling has been renewing hia own boyhood. | There are few men, however they may condemn, who will not do as much in reading the narratives. What a tearful thing an ice palace would, be this year! Mr. Dingley'e tariff bill did not die with him, more's the pity. At least let us hope that the umpires will play a little better ball this year. The leading ? in Montana: Has Mr. Clark (Mr. Daly) enough to land the toga? The appropriateness of wearing the Spanish colors at half mast this year is not subject to argument. The oil burned in Minnesota for the next two years will have a Democratic stamp. Shake, Mr. Heinrich! When It comes to saloons the "side door" policy is quite satisfactory to several people in each community. The Chicago Chronicle says "iron stiffens." Isn't the Chronicle joking? Real iron wouldn't do a thing like that. Now they are talking of Grosvenor for governor of Ohio. Isn't the Buck- I eye state entitled to a better fate than that? For the next twenty-four hours the curlers will not be satisfied with any weather report that does not bring ice in sheets. Agulnaldo has Inspected our battle ships, thirteen-inch guns and such of ten enough, it would seem, not to want to fight Uncle Sam. Thirty thousand dollars looks like a pretty high price for the kind of sena tors we get from Montana, By the way, where Is Tom Carter?, Gov. Scofleld. of Wisconsin, frothed at the mouth at such a rate over rail road passes that he forgot to mention Wisconsin's famous "doodle" book. Cleveland. 0.. Jan. 14.— The temperature dropped 26 degrees here today In 55 minutes. It had not been reported in St. Paul that Mark Hanna had gone home for anything. The "string fiends" of West Superior have burled a woman alive. The only way West Superior can rid herself of this sort of thing is to bury the "string fiends" alive. Now it is reported that they are burying the hatchet down in Cuba. This doesn't help Cuba. It digs up the hatchet faster than it buries It. Somebody is wanted who will lose the Cuban kid ax. U. S. Grant is having the fight of his life to be elected senator from Cali fornia. The sons of their fathers gen erally find the roads over which their paters bowled so smoothly full of the muddiest kind of mud. The newspaper gang at Washington tried to hold Mr. Carnegie up before the country as the most philanthropic man that was ever born in any land. They sent out a story that he was willing to fllg right down Into his jeans and give $20,000,000 for the freedom of the Philippines. When Mr. Carnegie was shown the story he wilted and said in a whisper: "Nonsense! Sheer non sense!" I do not understand that any one desires anything but the ultimate independence of the Philippines.— Senator Foraker. So we have paid Spain $20,000,000 for the privilege of setting the Filipinos up in business for themselves. But isn't there injustice here to somebody somehow? If we pay $20,000,000 for such a privilege in the Philippines, ought we not to pay Spain another $20,000,000 for doing the same thing in Cuba? By the way, it begins to look decidedly as if the umpire of this game were getting rattled. Epistles to St. Paul. The ra<-t is not generally known that Ab stract Clerk John Sehulze la the only farmer holding vii ofiloe unfer the county. How over. 'Mr. Sohulze Im3 a prosperous egg fac tory In full operation at hia home out at VVliito Bear, with over 300 hens constantly employed. Tho office-holding farmer Is quite an authority on the suibjeet of egg culture, uud recently engaged In a discussion with. Prcbatft Cleric Harry Sundbsrg about the s!z.- iif the double-yolked variety. Yesterday Farmer Sehulze brought three of hia largest double-yolkrd eggs down town, carefully wrapped up In a hiimMterchlef, In order to Efhow Sund'berg how It was. He went up etalra with hia little .bundle during the after noon and bumped against the vault door In the probate court There was no demonstra tion, as billed. • • • A short while a;go County Auditor Johnson made an alleged election bet an excuse for giving a banqu&t to sonte of the newspaper boys. During th» heat of tho occasion, which wag held at the Windsor, th.c Eighth ward statesman abstracted the reportorlal star from a disciple of eloventh-story Jour nalism. Mr. Johnson accoutred himself with the badge of bralms after the feast, and sal lied forth to test its virtues. Incidentally ho drifted Into a Superior street musio hall j and was enjoying the music when- the owner of the star happened along. Like the right ful 'heir In the m«lod'ramias, the newspaper man was in hard, luck, and -was held up by the doorkeupor, who refused to reoognlzo Ihlrn. Finally the dispute at the door became bo warm that Jo-huaon was called up to iden tify the man who claimed to be from the name paper. Witti unblushing effrontery Johnscn sized up the real newspaper man and told tho doorkeeper, "I don't know him, but I think ha sells taps on Seventh street." • • • Senator Prank B. Daugherty, of Duluth, possesses, among other virtues, a considerable lnteresj la the rising generation, so when the other morning he found a small boy rid ing up and down in the elevator at the Mer chants' hotel he greeted him with a cordial "Good morning, governor." "I'm not the governor," replied the young ster. "'My pa is Senator , of O ] county, and he wears a high collar now." • • • It is reiwrted of Sheriff John Wagener that Nio Wehr, Henry Haenel and some others once want on a deer hunting expedition with him, before the start for which aM their friends wore instructed to put in reauisitlons for a piece of venison, or bar, as their tastes might direct. The entire party brought back one deer, and it is currently reported that the argument as to who killed that one was so hot that it malted the snow in tho woods, until Col. Hajgne!, who has consider able weight of his own to carry, resigned his claim to Wahr and Wagener with, the r« mark: "Well, if you fellows killed him, why don't you carry him out?" The colonel afterwards told a friend: "Of course, I knew I killed him, but I was foxy, and they had to do the work." • • » "Freddy," observed the mayor yesterday, gazing at the ceiling of the executive cham ber. "I believe my memory le getting pretty poor already." "It Is better hta-t way than to have It keeping you awake nights," replied Sir. Ham mer, thinking of his water board disappoints ment, or rather non -appointment. "But it Is no Joke, Freddy. I think mayb« that I have held office too long already. You see this young fellow that died th« other day took a dope of some kind at a bad placet run by some one named Wllllard. I think now, Freddy, that I had heard the name before. Same rude disrespectful men cams up hero and told me about the place.FreiMy, and then I forgot it already. There were come other places, too, I think. I did no* remember anything about these places when they asked me about the grand Jury report. I have forgotten them several times since. Freddy, what Is a failing memory a sign of?" —The Philistine. Gov. Lind Makes a Hit Gov. Lind's head is level on education. H« says high schools should be complete In themselves, and not merely a means for get ting Into the state university. Our schools have too long been run simply as auxiliaries of the university, the education all being shaped with a view of being followed by a higher education, which to many is unobtaln. able on account of the great expense.— Blue Earth County Enterprise. f * • The message la an able and Interesting one, and highly creditable to our new executive. He makes but few recommendations that have not already received consideration by members of the legislature. Nearly all of thorn, however, are meritorious and, we hope, will be favorably acted upon. We are greatly pleased with the message, the more salient suggestions and recommendations of which follow.— Grant County Herald. • * • Gov. Llnd didn't rip the shingles off the old state house with his message, nor tear up the dirt his before-electlon friends Indi cated he would do. He read a very conserva tive, sharp, clean message, which In tone end diction ought to be more pleasing to Re publicans than to those people who ran his campaign. — Wlndom Reporter. • • • So far Gov. Lind has made five commenda ble appointments, and no doubt will give as good satisfaction as if some Republican gov ernor had made them. In all five appoint* ments the appointees are men fully capable of filling the positions with credit.— Morris Republican-Times. Klplliis to Julia Marlowe. Rudyard Kipling sent a* a Christmas pres ent to Julia Marlowe a copy of hia latest book, "The Day's Work," with thia vers» In autograph on the fly-leaf: "When skies are gray Instead of blue, With clouds that come to dishearten; When things go wrong, as they somatlmes do In life's little kindergarten, I beg you, my child, don't weep and watt. And don't, don't take to tippling; But cheer your soul with a little tale By Neighbor Rudyard Kipling." New Mexico's Claim to Statehood. The argument that New Mexico should be kept out of the union of states because a large proportion of Its people are Spanish speaking people can no longer hold, wih«n the authorities at Washington are bent on forcing Malays and Kanakas and all sorts of barbarians into American citizenship. — Man chester (X. H.) Union. A Stay in Proceeding!. "That was hard on Mrs. De Style. ** "How so?" "Her traveling dress was so expensive that sihe had to give up her trip and stay ut home." — Judge. The I'tiNt-l'riiiMllul Spouter. With Mr. Ohoete in London, Mr. Porter in Pari3 and Mr. Depew in, Washington, the field In New York seems to offer unrivaled oppcrtunitlea for young men struggling to get a foothold as^ accomplished dIn«TS-out. — Chicago Record. ; Yen. or Nay. Here's a choice 'extract from the timeliest poem of tile season: . Oh, say. Will thera tver come a day Wtui* they Will lay Quay AwayT — Boston Herald. V. !!<•«■ lira kl»s. "Do you think jjou^ave any chance with her, Regy?" "Of course t do. She says herself that I'm one of her -chance acquaintances." — Detroit Frse Press. , 51 A Valid ExeuHO. "Please excuse William from school to day," wrote the boy's mother to the teaoher, "aa he siat un late last night studying his -lessons and Is too sleepy to come today." — Philadelphia North American. Feature* of ttte Case. Only the man who iias experienced a black eya can appreciate a Cyrano de Bergeracian beak.— uetrou Fre« Prea*. Current Verses. ABIG-FOOT, THE PLAYHOUSE BEAR. (Four hundred yards after Kipling.) Whenever I go to the playhouse I sit In the endmout chair, So little I reok of the rubber neck or the girl with the Eiffel hair. But, oh, at each fall of the curtain, ordained by some law accurst, A portly wretch on tho quarterstretch la seized with a raging thirst; He wailes all over my Trilbys; he Jumps on my cherished corn; His lumbering tread Would rouse the dead far better than Gabriel's horn. By hie shoes wl'll ye know the monster, box toed, brutal and square. And make ye no truce with Ablg-foot, the niian that walks like a bear! I'd rather bo bit by the trolley, tho' It rended in« limb by limb, Yea! Let me ba caught 'neath the Jugger naut, but keep me away from him. One ruljfht, at tho fadl of tlie curtain. Tie took me by surprise; I was reading jos'tu in the programme; I did not lift mine eyes. Nearer and nearer he tottered; he hoisted his hocf and then — I have not waltzed with women; I probably won't again. So mark, -when the orchestra tooteth; then is the time to byware! Take y» no chance on Ablg-foot, the man rtiat walks like a b«tr! — New Orleans Times-Deniocrat. GOMEZ lTi THE BALL ROOM. Gen. Maximo Gomez danced polkas and mazurkas at a bait in Kemedlos last Satur day. — Havana dispatch. Tiring of war and war's alarms. Grizzled and gray and tanned, Maximo Gomez drops his arms, With never a sword in hand; Now as he comes, they rush the drums— And hark to the ball room band. Doddering dancers, sprites, soubrettes. Maids of the ballet sere! What are your pitiful pirouettes When Gomez dances here? Heeling and toeing, gracefully going. And this at seventy year! Limbs for the hardest of marches built To galloping measures haste; Spirits that never were known to wilt Swell in a coat gold-laced; Hands that were made for grasp of hilt Circle a woman's waist. Saraband, schottische and mlnueti Shuffle, and slide, and twirl; Polkas are easy for even a "vet"— Glad is the waltz's whirl. Jlaximo reads rewards for his deeds In eyes of a Cuban girl. — J. OK. In New York Press. UNITED I This country, she's united From mountain tops to sea; A man's "at home" from Georgia To classic Kankakee! There's nothin' now to vex us Or part our hands again. For "Dixie" rings from Texaa To wooded wilds of Maine! This country, she's united To face the storms that blow; With flags end guns her loyal sons March 'gainst the common foe I t There's nothin' now to vsx us. For Peace resumes her reign; Three pheers for Georgia— Texaa, And hip-hurrah for Malnel — F. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. THE MAD MULLAH OF SWAT. Mad Mullah on &n autumn day Traversed the desert grim and gray, Scalinig the peak of the highest hill. Looking for somebody fit to kill. Fierce were hits warriors and fierce waa ha. Keen the bright edge of his snickersnee. Why does he carry his head so high? What the ambition of this old guy? None can interpret the prophet's dream. No one is on to his bloody scheme. Something or cither is out of whaok, Something is gone that ho wants brought back. Is it ambition or pride or what Worries Mad Mullah, the Shah of SwatT Whare Is the great Ahkoond of yore? Where are the English men-of-war? Where Is the Mauser with powder-breath T Where the great cannon that speaks of death? Mullah, Mad Mullah, will yield to shot Dying as game as he lived— that Swait. —Nebraska Stats Journal. HOW IT COMES IN MISSOURI. A pain in the spins and a headache, A cold till you scarcely can think, Your nerves with the edges all ragged. And the whole world aa sable as ink; Oh, what makes this life not worth living, And the soul in despondency dip? Alas and alack! You are bound to the rack. For you're right in the swim with the grippe! Is the sun shining bright o'er the landscape T Its beams have no beauty for you! Is the wintry air frosty and bracing? A shiver falls to your due! Not a pang of remorse but you'll suffer. Not a pain, but your body will nip; Desolation and woe To their fullest you'll know, For you're right in the swim with the grippe! —St. Louis Republic. EVOLUTION. He used to wear long, flaxen curls And collars nlre.ly trimmed with laowj And maidens used to stroke his head And say he had an angel's face. (Ten years have elapsed.) Today his hair is coarse and straight His countenance is freckled, and Tobaoco stains lurk on his lips. While he can swear to beat the band. — Cleveland Leader. ALL THAT'S LEFT. Sagasta heaves a heavy sigh. Like breezes o'er the prairies. And hoarsely says, wifih moistened eye, "We still have our Canaries. "The Carolines, the Philippines, Our 111-luck never varies; Are tv« discouraged? By no means— We still have our Canaries." — Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Hobson Autograph. The sterling fame of Hofoson's niaino AH others did eclipse, Aad as It stirred our hearts 'twas heard On everybody's Hp 3. Though maidens fair did everjwher* Proclaim, in patriot tone, ThaJt 'twould rot bless their lips unless Impressed there by his own. — Boston Courier. The Prevailing Fashion. Here's to the mm who 13 clear out of style; Though pleasure oft gives him the slip. At present his face wears a radiant em I la. For he haan't been ill with the grip. —Washington Star. Whi Touched. He kissed her rather suddenly, And, though surprised was sße, She only blushed a little bit. And said, "That's one on me." —Philadelphia Bulletin. Winter Joys. The lover now finds his brain awhirt. And he rushes to his fate; For who can resist the cuddlesome girl, 'L/ongside of the parlor grate? —New York World. Once General* Always Generals. It Is said that preparations are being mad* to muster out a score or 30 of unnecessary volunteer generals. This 13 no bar to their titles, in which they have a life e3tate, as their neighbors will discover many a time and oft. — Chicago Times-Herald. Would Ilnvc Been a. Great Help. There is no telling what heights of achieve ments Lucretia Borgia mlg'ht have reached if she had only been able to use the United States mails.— Philadelphia Bulletin. \o Donbt About It. Without regard to what Gen,. Miles has done or said, the uniform of Eagan should be husked off with as little delay as possible. Eagan is a boor. (;i(h in Pernia. Cats are held in great reverence In Persia. Tho shah alone has fifty of them, and each ' cne has an attendant of is own, with a special room for meals. STbB9 tb? shah travels the cats go also, being carried by men on horae jiNick, PHILIPPINE PROBLEM EX-SKNA.TOn GEORGE F. EDMUXDS WHITES A LETTER OX THE FILIPINOS HOW SHALL WE TREAT THEM If They Become Part of Our Coun try, They Must Come, in an Clt izeiin SnßKf«(lon Tliat the Fil ipinos Be Left to! Govern Tlicin selve* as Best They May, With (inaranlees of Order. George F. Edmunds, one of the ablest statesmen in the Republican party, for many years its leader in the senate, has written the following powerful let ter to the New York World: I state what (with all respect to others) appear to me to be the presant chief aspects of the Philippine question. There are certain truths about the archi pelago that neither the zeal of religion, nor philosophy, uor sentimemt, nor policy can escape. Sams of those are: WHAT THE PHILIPPINES ARE. 1. These 1,200 islands, more or less, aro In the heart of the tropfos and occupy a region of seas nearly 1,000 miles long north and south and about 300 miles wide. They are about 7,000 miles distant from our Pa cific coast and are about 14,000 miles distant from our Atlantic ccast via. the 3uez canrtf, controlled by a foreign power. Only a few of the Islands are large enough to play any important part in the problem. These are Luzon, Camariuea, Mindoro, Samar, Leyt9, Panay, Mindanao and Palawan. The In teat encyclopaedias estimate the area at about 114,00 i) s<iuara miles and the population at 7,000,000. 2. They have all the climatic evils and disease* of tropical countries and are fre quently afflicted by violent hurricanes and earthquake*. They are, as all human ex perience has proved, absolutely inea<pable of being colonized and built up into communi ties of Americans or of any of the peopls of cool climates. 3. They are already inhabited, as already stated, by about 7,000,000 of people— being more than 60 to the equarn mile of the vih^U area of all the island*. The population, therefore, Is already denser than that of the state of Michigan. The population ia com posed of Spaniard's, other Europeans, English and Americans, half-castes, Chinese, Mala/a Japanese and aboriginal natives. Of the total of all this conglomerate of races the Europeans and Americans compcoe loss than 2 per cent after more than 200 years of Euro pean occupation, and very few of those wore born there. Even in Manila, ihe capital, 67 per cent of the inhabitants are Malaya 30 per cemt are Chinese and hilf-brecda, Span iards; Spanish half-breeds and Creoles 3 per cent only, and of other white men only a trace and of white women substantially none. 4. The five or six islands of the group of any considerable size are already fully pop ulated by the races and mixtures above men tioned. 5. They are people who never have been and never can be in need of or the consum ers of American productions to any apprecia ble extent. 6. The islands are very fertile and produce principally the fibre known as Manila hemp Coarse tobacco, coffee, sugar and tropical fruits; and they ha-.'e extensive forests of tropical woods analogous to those of the va,?t forests of Central and South America. 7. These resources comprise the jnly value of the Islands except that of furnishing a location for fortresses and naval stations for a nation ambitious to become the poliiioal and military mistress of the world. A new Alexander or Napoleon, if he possessed in exhaustible resources of men and money, might wish for them for this purpose. DEWEY'S MISSION AT MANILA. 8. Tha sincerely professed and sole purpose of Che war was to make Cuba a free and independent state. Admiral Dewey did not go to Manila for purposes of conquest at all. He went there with his gallant iHtle fleet to capture or destroy, if he could, the Spanish fleet. He did it in a way that astonished ths naval powers of the world. But he only acquired military control of the bay and city c-f Manila and its environments. Nearly ail beyond that was in possession of an Grgani«d rebellion against Spain. 9. At that time, and long before, an activ* and powerful rebellion was in progress in the islands, and so far as present information goes it now holds rway over a lar;je part ot Luzon and Quite or nearly tne whole of Panay and of other large didtrfots of tr.cse principal Islands. It appears to be truu that the rebels co-operated with our forces in the overthrow of the Spanish rule at Manila under the Impression that our operatlnni at Manila were not to help Spain put down the rebellion and then take possession for our selves, but were only to cripple the Spanish power as an incident of war in m-luglng Spain to renounce its control ■. f Cuba, which congress had said in its decoration in re spect to Cuba was its 3ole purple. 10. That the people of the islands who were carrying on the rebellion ir. order to bo free and independent do im desire to be annexed and to become a territorial depend ency o* the United States of any kind, and that they intend to resist annexation appears to be Indisputable. WHAT IS TO BB DONE? What I have said so far will not, I take it, be disputed by any intelligent person. What then in the present state of affairs is to be done? Are we to make war upon tho peole of the Philippines as Spain was doiivj, in orde- to subject them to our dominion? This apparently we must do to make them a people (whether citizens, subjects or slaves) of the United States. To justify this "a, decent res.jajt to the opinions of mankind" should c.jmp'3l our gov ernment to state definitely the grounds upau which W8 make the attempt We have as sured the nations of the gljte in the most solemn manner possible thai we made war not for conquest or extended dominion, but solely to set the people of Cuba free— of whom congress declared that "th»/ w--.ee and •f right ought to be free ani inaependent. ' tablish and maintain. At that very time the Philippine rebellion was stronger and better organized than that of Cuba. Recent events have proved that the Philippine rebels are as capable of self government as the people of Cuba. When the United States aided in the attainment and recognized the independence of the Spanish provinces of Central and South America our government did not set itself up to be tho final judges of whether or not they were ca pable of self-government, although it was perfectly well known that self-government by the people of those provinces could not be such, and never could be such, as the races and inhabitants of temperate zones could es- WHAT CONQUEST MEANS. To force our dominion, then, upon the peo ple of the Philippines would be in opposition to the ever-living principles on which our own nation was founded, and under which it has in a little more than a century grown so great in an ever-increasing native and ho mogeneous people, established in a temper ate zone of the earth, end capable from this cause of continuous development in Industry, increase of knowledge. In social order, Jus tice and morality. If we now proceed to con quer (as probably we can at last, although Spain has failed to do it after more than a century of effort), what shall we say to them is the motive of our conduct? How are we to explain It to the world, hav ing "a decent respect for the opinions oi mankind," as Jefferson and our fathers thought necessary in our Declaration of In dependence? Can we be justified in forcing by the sword our particular and excellent ideas of govern ment, morality and religion upon these peo ple, as Mahomet did In his religious wars and as Spain did in her early operations on this continent? How will such of our "bishops, priests and deacons" and religious newspapers as have appeared to favor the scheme find authority in the greatest and best of all books that have ever been given to mankind — the .New Testa ment — for this new enterprise now proposed for our republic? STATUS OF THB FILIPINOS. All the people of these Islands who were the subjects of Spain will become cltlssens of the United States by the mere act of cession unless the treaty of cession should provide that those who wished could remain subjects of Spain and aliens as to the United States. This has been a necessary rule of Interna tional law for hundreds of years; and the rule Is founded upon the obvious fact that the people of every country or of any part of it must owe allegiance to and be subject to the government of some sovereign power, be It a tribe, or emperor, or king, or repub- j lie, and must, unless they are slaves or serfs, have the rights of such. But a republic can have no subjects. Its people must be either citizens, slaves or aliens. If aliens they are the subjects or citizens of tome other power which Is bound tn pro tect them. The transfer, therefore, of the sovereignty of Spain over the Philippines to the United States makes all her subjects fct once citizens of the United States. If citizens of the United SUivs, the; have all the rights that belong to othftr cltlzene in the territories, whether on tin mainland or pn islands of the sea. Neither geography coi distance has anything to do with It. THE POWER OP CO.VQRBSa The constitution of the United States pro vides for the government of territories as well as for government within the states. In the states the autonomy Is fixed in respect of all tho three departments ot the govern ment—legislative, executive and judicial. In the territories congress i 3 loft free to regu late, subject to the constitution, the mean* of government according to its discretion But fundamental and other private right* are, and always have b*en, as secure under and by force of the same constitution in the territories an In the s'atea. Ths consti tution secures bith, only by di^erent meth ods of exertion. Congress may Invest tho po litical government of a terrKi'y In a single person If it chooses, and confine the Ju dicial power to a single Judge If It iilu's, t u t it cannot authorize- the? polities] Kovereor to make a law that injurious/ affecta per sonal rights differently from such laws oe conxro-.s may rightfully make for the citizens of a state. It rannot authorize a territorial Jud«?» to condemn a man unheard or to deal " v.-lth his person or property, otherwise than by that due process of law which the cow'iaii >n se cures to all the peopde who owe nlleaiam o to the United States or are within its'eove reign power. It cannot say that no eltlz<n reading in a state shall lalgra.e t.i a terri tory, or that a citizen or some iian'cular class of citizens residing In a territory sha't not mlgrar« to a state. It short, the rnn- Btitutlon does operate ai.-l iiave full fores m our territories in the respect* that effect the personal and civil rijjYs of all. This fundamental priavlp'e (sclf-ev'.ieut oo our republican theory of government) baa been constantly recognized and acted upoa by the suprr-me court >f the Unite.! SLatea. Congress, there/ore, cann >t lawfully pre vent tho migration of any •:itUen residing n the Philippines (and every Spanish subject therein becomes one by force of the treaty) to bur states any more than It can lawfully I prevent the migration of citizens of tho states to the Philippines. It Is not well i then, to shut our eyes to dangers of this | character that attend such acquisition cf ter ritories fully populated by such peoples p» those of the Philippines are known to be. WHAT WILL THEY DO TO US? There are other considerations, both hu mane and financial, that cannot be Ignored. If the people of the Philippines, both civi lized and savage, must be subdued to our Christian government by force of arms, how irany American lives and how much Ameri can treasure ought to be sacrificed to that end? Rapidly developing events seem to shyw i that a military force of at least 50 QOO men j must be kept up on land in those Islands in order to our obtaining an effectual supremacy And this force must be supported by many naval vessels, with their crews, etc. To keep up such an establishment It la evident from tl'6 experience of Spain and from that of other nations carrying on such operations in the tropics that a constant current of supply and reinforcement both of material and men must go en. Besides the casualties of battle with foes (some of whom Spain has not been able to subdue in 200 yoars of effort) there is also the constant and unconquerable toe of the tropical climate and the oiseases always pres ent in It. And besides this no troops from tha tem perate zones can long endure the effect of such a climate, and they must therefore ba withdrawn to some cooler latitude at very short periods to recuperate. The English in India happily have the Himalayan hills with in comparatively short distances, to which their troops are sent at frequent intervals to escapo the exhaustion of the tropical sea coast. But our troops in the Philippines must be transported by sea four or five thousand miles to- reach the salubrious shores of Cali fornia and Oregon. To accomplish all this the annual and continuous expenditure of millions upon millions of the earning 3of our people must go on indefinitely. A CONDITION AND A THEORY. But we are now confronted with both a "condition" and a "chc-ory." The executive has concluded a treaty by which Spain has ceded the sovereignty of the whole Philippina group, of which she had actual pos=es=ion o* only a small fraction, and in many parts of which her dominion had been absolutely over thrown, and in other parts of which she never had auy dominion at all, mnny of Ihe Islaad3 having from the first until today been in habited by Independent tribe* over which Spain never had any actual dominion. In dealing with this treaty ihe yenuta 1* supposed to be as free to act ac : >. ding to its own judgment as the president was fret to act according to his In negotiating it. The senate aiay decline to ratl'y !::o tz.-i-ty, which la the present state of affaln would produce a situation • xtreuielv embarrauinc. But if the senate believes the treaty to be wrong It wiU doubtless have the :ourage to reject it and to face the consequences. The senate, however, may consider that while Spain ought to depart from the Phil ippines and renounce her dominion there, the United States ought not to .issuma her sovereignty, such as It was, against the ex press will of the people oJ the islands. And in view of the evils likely to follow even If those people desire to become a part of the United States, the eenate can amend th< treaty po as to provide substantially, as the scheme has boen as to Cuba, that the peo ple of these Islands should be left to gov ern themselves a* best they may. with such guarantees for order and personal safety of the Inhabitants as shall be adequate to th» preservation of order. Such a guarantee can be presently enforced at Infinitely less cost I of blood and treasure than our undertaking to assume and exercise sovereignty over ths islands. In such a case every material benefit ot trade, commerce and of political expediency can be attained. I make no comment In respoct to the price of J20.000.C00 provided by the treaty to ba paid to Spain for the Islands. In view of the gravity of the other aspects of the sub ject it is not worthy of notioe. Space in a newspaper or magazi le does not permit a full consideration of the subject, and I fear that I have already extended this letter too much. Very truly yours, — Oeo. F. Edmunds. TO DISCUSS_LUMBERING. State Historical Society nt Ita An nnal Meeting Tomorrow. The Minnesota Historical society will hold Its annual meeting at the capitol building Monday evening. At 7:30 o'clock the society will meet in ita rooms for the transaction of business, and, at 8 o'clock, adjournment will ba made to the hall of representatives, where the addresses will be made. Former Gov. Alexander Ramsey will deliver the president's address. W. H. C. Folsom, of Taylor's Falls, will give the "History of Lumbering In the St. Crolx Valley." It is announced that Daniel Stanch field, of Minneapolis, who was the first lumberman in the years 1847 to 1850 on the upper Misaisslppi river and its tributaries, is preparing an article on the history of "Lumbering in the Up per Mississippi Region of Minnesota," to be given to the society within a short time. Y. M. C.JL NOTES. GoaMip of the Xcw Qnnriprs t»n Went Flfrli Street. The educational branch of the Y. M. C. A. will be opened Monday. Jan. 23. The classes as now arranged are large and made up of a studious member ship. The gymnasium classes are rapidly growing. The attendance of the senior classes averages forty, with about the same for the juniors. The new bombardment game Will l>a played in a contest Tuesday evening between a Minneapolis and a St. Paul team. The game is played with basket balls and Indian clubs, and has only lately taken a foothold in the "gyms" of the "West. PROMISES _AN INQUIRY. State Innane Hospital Manußrr* to Look Ip Wlnqulst Cane. Nora lodge. Knights of Pythias, of Minneapolis, has received a communi cation from J. W. Mason, president of the board of trustees of the St. Peter asylum for the insane. The letter Is in regard to a request sent by the lodge for a full investigation of tho circumstances surrounding the death of Adolph Winqulst, a member, who died "recently at the hospital. At the time there were persistent rumors to the effect that the patient had been maltreated. President Mason states that the board will meet next week and that the matter will be thoroughly sifted. In view of the serious allegations. President Mason says he thinks the board should have been permitted to have a representative present at tha post mortem examination-