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Thursday', march 21. 1901.
THE BARRY TRAGEDY.
The tragedy enacted on Wabaslia last
Sunday afternoon, resulting in the death
m a most estimable young man is pa^n
iully illustrative of certain peculiarlt.es
cf American social life, to which refer
ence fas very rarely made and for the re
moval or modification of which no effort
whatever is being put forward.
So far as the public knows the tragedy
arose out of the commonplace circum
stance of one young man asking another
for the accommodation of a match. Tho
misunderstanding, arising either out of
the request or its disregard, seems to
'rave aroused the men s worst passions,
and a bitter physical struggle was the
result.
Save in American society alone, it is
doubtful whether two young men of the
intelligence of these, and in the same
rank of life, would have engaged them
selves on a Sunday afternoon in a roujh
and-tumble fight such as followed, or
whether it would be possible to have
such a struggle progress to such a ter
mination, or, Indeed, to be carried on to
any extent in the presence of a largo
number of able-bodied men as observer*.
It is true that on the established
canons of individual conduct there was
tut little recourse for young Barry but
to act as he did. The younsr man did
what any other high-spirited young fel
low would be expected to fe. He d*d
not stop to consider what a wrong he
did himself and nis fr:ends by resenting
the attack made upon him. Were he not
himself the victim of a false and brutal
conception of manljness, he would have
taken account of the time and
place, and refused to have anything
whatever to say to his assailant. Had
>ie done so, however, he would in all
probability have been branded for what
he very plainly was not—a cov-ard.
We boast of our civilization, of our
freedom and equality. But we take no
account in measuring ourselves with
other races of the frequency of such In-
cidents. Considering indeed their fre
faency, the wonder is that so few mur-
Jers eventuate from them. A sharp word
Is almost invariably attended by a blow
and just cuch scenes as took place on
Wabasha street on Sunday afternoon.
Meekness and gentleness of conduct un
der such incitement pass among us for
cowardice. True concepts alike of cour
age and refinement would have prevent
ed any such occurrence. They would have
relieved young Barry from the false ob
ligation which he thought rested upon
him to resent in like manner the ad-
vances made by his antagonist. Physical
prowess is worshiped among us where
moral courage and true dignity of char-
acter pass for poltroonery, or are laugh
ed at as unworthy of men. Our religion
teaches us to return good for evil, to sup
press the animal instinct within us and
to avoid strife at all hazards. wtiile
showing our inability to meet the re
quirements of our own system of Chris
tian civilization, we take great pride in
our self-sacrificing endeavor* to extend
them to other races.
As long as we remain as far removed
as we are today from true ideas of
Christian conduct we will go on preach
ing gentleness and forbearance in per
sonal relations and practicing according
to the standards prevailing among races
lowest in the scale of true civilization;
and such incidents as that which sum
marily removed from life a superior
young man will continue of daily and
hourly occurrence.
3IIMSTER AVIS ADDRESS.
It would b* greatly to -the gain of
Western civilisation if the address de
livered by the Chinese minister at Wash
ington, Mr. Wu Ting Fans, before th-
University of Chicago, could find circu
lation generally among the people of Eu
rope, it is an able, adroit and essential
ly dispassionate discussion of the situ
ation in China with reference to the du
ties and obligations imposed In that
country on Christian civilizatoin.
Bven here in the United States, where
the disposition octets among the mass
of the people to be just as well as toler
crant toward tho Chinese, many false
views prevail as to existing conditions
in China, it is a happy circumstance
that.our national administration does not
make any claim to having a civilizmg
mission on its 'hands in China as in the
Philippines. Indeed, the whole course
cf the administration in China, save as
to one or two instances, has been such
as to meet with the ur.qajtimcd approval
of the African people, ami to entitle
this country to all the credit which
should attach to a disposition to keep
Its i«wja off the internal affairs of an
other nation.
Mr. Wu Ting Fang's /afidreaa will set
aright on. many points almost the most
advanced American, stsde-nt of Chinese
affairs. It presents, of course, the most
favorable Ticw of Chiu^ft habits and cus
tones; hut it is '& view which o»ii'J>£ to be
given the utmost prominence when con
sideration is being had of what can and
cannot be done by Europeans In China to
the advancement of the welfare and hap
piness of the Chinese people. The West
cannot hope to force its civilization upon
the East; if it can, if it proceeds about
the work in the right way. secure tne
assimilation by the Chinese of those
characteristics of European and Ameri
can life which will be of advantage
through the entire civilized world, East
as well as West. The situation has now
resolved itself.
The Hrst requirement on the part of
China and her people to bringing them
selves in touch with Western civilization
is ihe one of adapting herself and them
selves to the main requirement of
modern commercialism. They cannot
continue to exclude themselves from the
rest of the world. They cannot continue
to play dog-in-the-manger toward the
great natural wealth which their country
embraces. They are too far away from
the currents of European civili2ation to
make the danger of their absorption by
the younger civilizations a menacing one
at least for many generations to
come. They have but now to follow the
example set them by their kindred, the
Japanese, in availing themselves of the
opportunities offered to engraft upon
their system those requirements which
will place them in complete touch with
modern progress.
The mass of the Chinese people, what
ever may be said of the higher classss,
and whatever claims may be put for
ward on behalf of Chinese civilization,
are steeped to the lips in ignorance and
superstition. It is not their fault that
such should be the case. It is the fault
of those who have ruled them, and to
some extent of the civilization which,
was the subject of Minister Wu's ad
dress in Chicago. The uplifting of tlie
Chinese masses will be one of the results
of a more complete adoption by the Chi
nese of Western habits of life.
It is easy to define the duties of West
ern civilization toward the people of the
East, and it is well that those duties
should be borne in mind; but it is not to
be forgotten that there are the duties
which Chinese civilization owes to itself,
the disregard of which has been the most
potent factor in producing the existing
state of things. If Minister Wu's opin
ions could be fully exerted in making
those duties known and understood by
his countrymen and their rulers he would
be doing a work which in importance
would far transcend the splendid work
which he lias dove during the past year
and over to set his people right before
the people of this republic.
ARBITRATION THE ONLY SOLU
••-'••■■ TION. " .
The full meaning of the term "Chinese
puzzle" was never generally understood
until within the last six months; and it
seems that even now the world Is not
fully alive to the intricacies of. the Chi
nese puzzle now in the hands of - the
powers.
Whether this puzzle can be worked out
peacefully by diplomatic agencies, or
whether war alone is capable of unrav
eling the tangled skein, is the ques
tion that is today confronting civiliza
tion.
So varid and far-reaching are the na
tional interests involved in the settle
ment, that an agreement among the rep-
resentatives of the powers is next to an
impossibility. An attempt by one or more
of the interested powers to force upon
China their claims, would .end in a gen
eral conflict which would involve direct
ly or indirectly the great powers of the
earth. Since the relief of the legationera
and the occupation of Pekin, there has
been little progress made toward an ad
justment of the situation. A few leaders
of the Boxer rebellion have been execut
ed, but the crucial point-the adjustment
of the claims of the powers against
China—has not been approached. Un
der the present arrangement there Is no
basis on which to begin. The representa-
tives of the powers have no authority
to act but as advisors of their govern
ment. The amount of damages demanded
by certain powers is so grossly extortion
ate that they will meet with, not only the
determined opposition of China, but of
the other powers also. Germany
leads the list with a demand for 530,000,
--000, and the claim is not yet complete.
The United States would like $23,000,00^
but even this would be subject to change
upon a showing of the amount which
China will be able to pay.
On the other hand China will have a
counter claim against the powers and
especially against Germany bn account
of the punitive expeditions which have
been sent out to loot and burn the ino£
ffnsive villages. More unarmed Chinese
have been murdered by the allied troops
since the occupation of Pekin than
would be necessary-, on the theory of a
life for a life, to balance the account
against the Boxers for the death of all
missionaries and converted natives. For
these wanton ravages under the direc
tion of the commanders of the allies
China has a just claim for compensation
against the powers, whose troops were
paxtieeps eriminls. Will the powers in
their individual capacity acknowledge
this counter claim against themselves?
No. Such a concession would be equiv
alent to condemning their military acts.
There is only one thing to be done
only one way to work the puzzle that
justice may be done, and that is to sub
mit the whole matter to the high court
of arbitration at The Hague. If this be
done, the peace convention which opened
with so much promise and which ended
in the establishment of a court of inter-
national arbitration, nothing more, will
have accomplished an end worthy of the
ambitious name it bore.
Every foreign soldier, except the lega
tion guards should be removed from Pe
kin. The Chinese court should be in
vited to return and take up the broken
thread of government; the conflicting in
terests of the powers should be submitted
to that civil tribunal and all rights de
termined, -not as between the conqueror
and the conquered, but as between
friendly nations among which there have
be'-n mutual wrongs.
This is a ca.se for concession and com
promise, aot one for redress and x-eialia-
THE ST. PAUL OLOBE, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1901.
tion. The financial Interests of the pow
erß Involved, as well as those of the
world at large, demand that China
should be revived, not crushed. On hef
rights as well as those of Christendom
let an impartial court paas judgment.
THE POPE'S TEMPORAL. POWER.
This talk about restoring the temporal
power of the pope is apt to revive a con
siderable amount of dormant prejudice.
To the average American it recalls times
when the popes made and unmade kinga
and held the destinies of empires in their
hands. Of course, in the first place, such
conditions would be quite Impossible in
this modern age; and in the second place,
the conditions referred to, existed more
in the fertile immagination of the writers
of pseudo-historical "anti-popery"
novels, than in reality.
Still, the term "temporal power" la
perhaps unfortunate in its associations,
especially as it does not really express
what is desired. The city of Rome and
surrounding tract of country which the
pope ciaims, and of which his predeces
sor was deprived by one of the moat ar
rogant acts of injustice perpetrated in
modern times, is perhaps as large as
Ramsey county. That the possession o?
such a limited territory would not be
"power" in any sense, is quite evident.
What the pope really needs is some
place, however small, the neutrality of
which might be guaranteed by the pow
ers, where he might reside and direct
the affair 3of the church in absolute
safety from outside interference. If the
pope Is the subject of any king, the nat
ural conclusion is, that that king will
use his influence over the pope to further
his own ends. Such attempts have been
made in the past and have been fruit
ful sources of trouble in the churco^
Moreover, in case of a war between Italy
and some other power, conditions might
easily arise that would make It very dif
ficult to continue the necessary commu
nication between the pope and the vari
ous branches of the church.
For these reasons, the place where the
pope resides should be absolutely neutral.
Theoretically, this place of residence
might be anywhere, as he would still
continue to be bishop of Rome, practical
ly, the pope does well in insisting on his
claim to the territory that has belonged
to the papal see ever since the early pa.t
of the Middle Ages, and the people of
which would today, if given the privilege,
vote almost unanimously for a restora
tion of the old order of things.
CUBA, MANCHURIA, COHEA.
The United States has its Cuba, Rus
sia its Manchuria and Japan may protlt
by their example. The complications in
the far East have reached the acut*
stage. Whether it is owing to the diplo
macy of Li Hung Chans: or to the nat
ural evolution of events, is of small mat
ter—the results will be the same. Whiley
there has been a universal sentiment
against the partition of China amony the
powers, there has been in the minds of
those who know the laws of national
protection, a conviction that Manchuria
must sooner or later come under Russian
control. In that event the same law of
self-protection would make the domina
tion of Corea essential to Japan.
Li Hung Chang, no doubt, saw all this
with the clearest of vision, when the
present arrangement with Russia was
made. It was infinitely better to grant
a suzerainty over Manchuria to Russia,
and if need be abandon Corea to the
safe keeping of Japan, than to suffer
further indignities at the hands of the
allies led by Germany. The concessions
cost China nothing, they were demands
that could be enforced within the pale
of international law, and they would
serve to detach Russia and possibly
Japan from the concert of powers, .fur
ther, the concessions to Russia regard
ing Manchuria could not be consistent
ly opposed by the United States, because
they are essentially the same as those
demanded by the United States of Cuba.
The law of nations and common sense
vill support the United States in its de
mand that a stable government must be
maintained in Cuba, even to the point of
armed intervention. Besides the commer
cial interests which the nation has in Cu
ba, there is the more important question
of public safety which demands that the
greater nation possess a certain degree of
ultimate authority over the destiny of the
island. To even a greater degree is Rus
sia interested in a stable government for
Manchuria. Through this province ex
tends the trans-Siberian railroad, with
its Pacific terminus at Port Arthur. The
whole structure of transcontinental trans
portation depends upon the stability of
the government of Manchuria. In the
present condition of the Chinese govern
ment, this Russian suzerainty over Man
churia is not simply a phase of the Sla
vonic policy of territorial aggression, but
is essential to the material development
of the Russian empire.
The position taken by Russia, as out
lined by Count Cassini, is Impregnable.
The Platt amendment, embodying our de
mands upon Cuba estops the United
States and renders our protest against
Russian Influence in Manchuria nit. Ja
pan, with Cuba and Manchuria as prece
dents, can and will assume a suzerainty
over Corea. The considerations which
led Russian diplomacy to oppose tne ab
ecrption of Corea by Japan at the close
of the Chino-Japanese war have disap
peared with the occupation of Manchu
ria. England, notwithstanding her agree
ment with Germany to preserve the in
tegrity of the Chinese empire, with the
forcible subjugation of the Boer repub
lics not yet complete, cannot consist
ently oppose, either morally or by force
of arms, these demands of Ru3»ia and
Japan. There are left, then, among the
powers, only Germany, France, Austria
and Italy who can, with any show of
consistency, protest against the action
of Russia, as a breech of the concert of
p<iw(!- ' China, and such action by
eith< i.em must be construed as
purely ... ~h and not dictated by friend
ship for China. Wha.ever our posi
tion may be with reference to the broad
question of tne integrity of the Chinese
empire, we are compelled tm admit that
the cause of civilization and industrial
progress will be best served by a Uua-
sian suzerainty over Manchuria and by
Japanese control of Corea.
CIGARETTES VS. GUM.
The question for the opening evening
of the country debating society will no
longer be: "Resolved that the pen is
mightier than the sword." but will be
that newer and more important ques
tion: "Does cigarette smoking or gum
chewing have t&m worst effect upon th«
average man?"
Nor will this question be confined to
the debating society in the "deestrlct"
school. It has already become a burn-
Ing question of'the day—it is occupying
the attention of our grave and reverand
law-makers at the capitol. It seems that
there the question takes a somewhat
dilTerent shape. Is a man who holds a
bit of tobacco between his fingers a big
ger fool than the man who "chaws" a
quid of gum? that i» the question.
We are inclined to think this is all
a matter of taste. We know of a few
full grown men who smoke cigarettes
who are not fools, and we have heard
that there are in the universe men who
chew gum and still retain a semblance of
rationality. Of this the proof is not the
most positive, but in the absence of
proof of insanity or Idiocy the presump
tion is in their favor.
From a social and artistic view point
we think that the champions of the
cigarette would have the better of the
argument. Remember that this remark
is comparative and can not be taken
as a compliment to the cigarette or Its
smoker. A cigarette.stuck into a man'a
face may not permanently disfigure It.
It (the cigarette) don't last long and the
observer gets a few moments rest while
another is being rolled, but the gum
chewer is a perpetual motion machine—
his jaw works unceasingly; he takes no
rest and will give none to those within
sight of hearing. He is a public dis
turber; he works upon the nerves of all,
irrespective of sex, color or previous con
dition of servitude. No human being
can remain long in the presence of the
habitual gum cliewer without exhibiting
unmistakable signs of insanity.
It la alleged that the cigarette smoker
goes insane; the gum chewer drives
others insane. It is alleged that the
cigarette habit is a Just ground for di
vorce; it is known that a gum-chewing
wife has driven many a good man to
drink. It is said that the cigarette habit
develops the "cigarette face,' hollow and
emaciated; the gum-chewing habit dis
figures the countenance by exhibiting to
the whole extant world the entire work
ings of the digestive system. Who has
not observed the young lady gum-chewer
on the street cars, evidently working her
passage, and wonderingly gazed at the
cavernous recesses exposed to the%ght
of day. Who has not conserved the man
—but here we draw the curtain of silence.
If woman, lovely woman, makes a guy
of herself by chewing gum, what must
one expect when the ponderous jaws of
a man are put to this bootless struggle
against—nothing.
We do not believe in sumptuary laws.
We believe that with the ordinary re
strictions imposed'by society, men and
women should be allowed an unobstruct
ed choice in what' they may eat, drink
and wherewithal they will be clothed,
but we do think -that the public *um
chewer should be abated as a nuisance.
If a court upon inspection cannot pro
nounce him a nuisance, tnen ought there
to be a statute declaring him (we mean
both sexes) a public nuisance, so that
any aggrieved citizen could at his pleas
ure Carrienation him.
Russia is sawing wood.
Will they fight ? They would like to,
but they "dasn't." •
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There is one good thing about th<*
traitor; he seldom gets a second chance.
It seems that the principal product of
the Philippines is nice places for papa
boys.
It is not the loss, of life in French
duels that has caused France to fall be
hind Germany in population.
The situation in China is simply a huge
powder magazine. 'If some idiot will
only strike a ms>tch,,it will go off like a
bunch of cyclones.
Pennsylvania has a law requiring cas;s
of consumption to be reported to ttxe
board of health, and providing for the
fumigation of premises where consump
tive patients die.
It is reported that Schwab sang himself
into the good graces of Carnegie and
thus paved hi 3 way to that million-dollar
job. And still some people claim that
romance is dead.
If the Filipino should accidentally hear
now we lynch, mob, hang, shoot and cre
mate the "inferior races" here in this
country, he would probably stampede and
take to the cane swamps again.
The American is always ready to shoul
der a gun and protect the flag whenever
his country needs him, but he does not
enthuse when it is a question of going to
a distant country to force upon an un
willing people a form of government as
despotic as that of the sultan over the
Armenians.
Roosevelt says he does not like the ap
plause of the gallery. That reminds one
of the Southern darkey who used to go
around telling people that he didn't like
chicken, but the? way the fowls used to
scoot when they saw him coming rather
gave him away.
St. Paul's "Big .Tjiree" are so emphati
cally the "whole thing" that other Re
publican leaders'ttiroug'hout the state are
beginning to wonder/ where they are at.
They begin to realise that th«y may be
ornamental to tHeir party, but they can-^
not be useful to.themselves except by the
grace of Schiffmann r Reese and Warner.
Two rural beauties in Ohio got into a
quarrel over th& attentions of a young
man, and one ofthera stabbed the other
one and punched several holes clear
through her. It (is (p be hoped that the
young man had 'sense enough to take to
the woods. And, by the way, Clarence
Darrow, of Chicago, is lecturing on the
idea that "woman is an inferior being. '
Industrial despotism paves the way for
political despotism. The trust is tne
father of the empire. The people that
weakly submit to being bled by a trust
will submit just as weakly and meekly
to being ground down under the heels of
despotism by an emperor. The nation tnat
hasn't the pluck and energy to protect
itself against being robbed financially
will be robbed of ita liberties, too, beroro
long. The logical result of the trust Is
the empire.
Advices from Cass Lake state that con
tractors authorized to operate under the
"dead and down law" have been cutting
the green timber. The disposition to loot
is evidently not confined to the troops of
the allied forces in China. It is to be
hoped that Indian Agent Mercer will
yank the guilty parties up with a sud
denness and dispatch that will make
their hair stand on end. Such public rob
bery cannot be punished any too se
verely.
Ministers in the East have started a
crusade against gambling, and they de
nounce the kind practiced by church peo
ple in their own homea, as well as the
variety that is indulged in by sinners in
the dens of iniquity. No doubt, the for
mer cultivates much of the taste that
leads to ruin in the latter. Moreover,
from some of the tales that are told. It
would seem that many church people in
the East could give cards and spades to
the bland Aii Sin with all his tricks and
his ways.
The burden of newspaper comment
upon the report made by Profs. Parnam,
Gardner and Seligman on the Stanford-
Ross incident, is reflected fairly by the
New York Evening Post when Jt says
that the finding of these eminent edu
cators "shows beyond doubt that, in
spite of various pretexts, evasions and
equivocations of President Jordan and
other defenders of the dismissal, the one
decisive influence was Mrs. Stanford's
determination that views which she con
demned should not go forth from the uni
versity."
"Patriotism and agriculture should be
taught side by side to farmers," said Gov.
Van Sant in an address before the Farm
ers' institute at Stillwater yesterday. We
had always thought that they already
possessed both. The governor also made
some remarks on the Philippines, sayjng,
"Every man, regardless of whether his
skin is white or brown, should be a free
man." Much depends on what the gov
ernor understands by a "free man." If
he means that all those who live under
the flag are entitled to the rights and
privileges which It is supposed to rep
resent, then, of course, all Democrats
will heartily agree with him, but the
administration is likely to put him down
on the blacklist as a traitor and deport
him at the first opportunity.
THURSDAY'S GLOBE GLANCES.
Today, March 21, Is the anniversary
of the birth, in 1763, of Jean Paul Richter,
a popular, quaint and original German
author; of Henry Kirk White, in 1785, an
English author and poet; of Benito Pablo
Juarez, in ISO 6, president of Mexico be
fore and after Maximilian. He was an
Indian.
Wisconsin has become one of the lead
ing cigar leaf tobacco growing states in
the Union. Last year 1,000 farmers in
the central part of the state, in Rock,
Dane, Vernon, Crawford and other coun
ties, produced about 50,000,000 pounds, for
which they received an average of 6 cent 3
a pound. Tobacco requires a rich, sandy
loam, and as there is good deal of that
kind of soil in Minnesota the crop could
be made a profitable one here.
Maps of the Algoma Central railway,
to be built from Sault Ste. Marie to
Hudson's bay, are headed "Railway that
Runs Farthest North." What's the mat
ter with the White Pass road in Alaska
and railroads in Scotland?
Prof. Patrick, of the lowa state uni
versity, recently delivered an address on
"Profanity," under tho headings: Ist,
Why do men swear? 2d, When they <fo
swear, why do they use the words they
do? He concludes that men swear be
cause it is a relief to anger, and if they
didn't do that they might do something
worse. The use of words and things
sacred is to startle or shock hearers.
—o—
Armour & Co., of Chicago, will deliver
on April 1, in New York, the largest con
tract for supplies for a polar expedition
ever taken by an Arctic explorer. The
contract was awarded by Evelyn B.
Baldwin, who will head the expedition to
the North pole which will start about
June 1, and will consist of 200 tons—ffcn
carloads—of specially prepared food
stuffs, which it is expected will last
Baldwin and his party twenty-seven
months.
Last year this country Imported 2,590,
--725 pounds of ho-ps and exported over 12,
--500,000 pounds, and the value of the for
eign hops was $700,000, and our hops
brought in a little over $1,010,000. Quite
a difference in bulk and value. Why?
—o—
A prominent foreigner in an interview
in New York the other day said: "Your
trusts cheapen production, but they only
cheapen the price of the product to the
consumers abroad—not at home." He
then enumerated things made in this
country that sold in Europe at from 10
to 40 per cent lower than they did here,
after paying rail and ocean freights.
—o—
Prof. George D. Hcrron, formerly of
the Grinnell (Io.) college, is organizing a
social commonwealth. The other night,
in a lecture in Chicago he said: "If you
wish to do the supremely spiritual thing,
if you wish to do the holy, truly de
vout, Christian thing, if you wish to take
up a consecrated task which will enrich
your life as it enriches those about you,
cast in your lot with those who seek to
establish a co-operatVve commonwealth
and to further the cause of socialism.
Constant self-seeking is the essence of
misery. Liberty consists in living out
side one's self. There is no possibility
of separating one man's good from an
other's. We must have a society in
which we are not absorbed in the strug
gle of getting our daily bread before an
era of happiness, of Christianity may be
ushered in. Nature has provided lavish
ly for us all, and a few have got the en
tire supply. There's no sense in thi3 con
stant anxiety as to how men shall get
enough to eat and wear. Misery, wretch
edness and unhappiness are not the
source of goodness, of spiritual bless
ing."
The river and harbor bill, talked to
death by Senator Carter, of Montana,
had one item in it of J3C0.000 to rebuild
and repair dams which form the reser
voir at the headwaters of the Mississippi
In the northern part of this state.
The liquor that is sapping the life of
the French people—absinthe—is being ex
tensively imported into this country.
Last year's Imports reached 2,000.000 gal
lons.
The Grout bill, framed in the interest
of pure butter and common honesty, and
which passed the lower house of con
gress by a large majority, but was killed
in the senate by the friends of the beef
tallow trust, will be brought up again
next December. The National Dairy
union has made an appeal to the dairy
men of the country to let their congress
men and senators understand that they
have not given up the fteht to make tho
artificial butter men sell their stuff for
what it really is.
Congressman Hull, of Dcs Molnes, 10.,
in a recent interview justifies the army
increase, and says it took four years' con
test in congress to put the Unfted States
in line with the rest of the world in the
matter of organization of the military
and of the government." No Republican
would have dared to have made that
statement during the recent campaign.
It has taken four years to put the "gov
ernment" where It is, in the hands of
the trusts. Capt. Hull, in his reasons for
a large army, did not enumerate tile
number of sons he had holding commis
sions in the army, nor did he proclaim
the fact that he was president of the
Philippines Lumber and Development
company, and that a prospectus of the
company, issued last summer, set forth
the fact that his company had already
secured valuable timber concessions and
explained that the labor problem was
easily solved because ©f the abundance
of Chinese labor. An army is needed
in the Philippines to help protect the
syndicate in thei*. exploiting schemes
—o—
Abraham Lincoln, in a speech delivered
in October, 1854, said, in referring to
slavery: "I say that no man is good
enough to govern another man without
that other's consent." He had no thought
then of his country doing that thing.
—o —
English papers are now advocating the
manufacture of beer from beet* roots, and
£Xtensive preparations are being made
to give the suggestion a thorough prac
ticable trial. The beet abounds in the
sugar juice, but it is stated that the
cost of separating It from the gums
acids and salts Is somewhat expensive
and would result in a higher price being
charged for the, beer. On the other hand
the principal recommendation in Its favor
is that Its utilization would dispense
with the employment of thosS *tngerou 8
substances conducive to arsenical poi
soning.
A solar engine is in successful use at
Pasadena t Cal. The heat is concentrated
upon the boiler by a reflector 33 feet at
..pe nf°?4t nd IS feet at the bottom, made
up of 1788 small mirrors. It has the ap
pearance of a wind mill: The boiler
holds 100 gallons or water and sustains a
pressure of 200 pounds to the square inch
Jne steam passes to an engine and re^
turns condensed to the boiler, so that it
is constantly full, and runs all day with
out an engineer. The oiling is also auto
matic.,. The ■■' heat concentrated by the
mirror disk melts copper in a short time
and sets wood on fire in an instant Its
use will extend in time to the cloudless
sections of the arid regions of the West.
The editor of the Rural Northwest of
Portland, Ore., says: "The writer can
well remember when it was the universal
belief in Minnesota that the northern
half of that state, excepting a narrow
strip along the western boundary would
never sustain enough population to be
worth figuring on. During the past ten
years the population of what was then
supposed to be barren wastes, from an
agricultural standpoint, has grown more
rapidly than any other agricultural dis
trict in the United States." Yes and
every year increased knowledge of' Min
nesota confirms the belief that it is one
of the greatest all 'round states in the
L nion.
I
More attention Is being given every
year to the growth of nut bearing trees
The value of nuts as food is becoming
more generally understood.
AT THE THEATERS.
METROPOLITAN.
There is no gainsaying the fact tha.*
Arizona" is the greatest American play
ever written. It represents Augustus
Thomas' best work, and it is full of the
color of the locality in which Its scenes
are laid. The dialogue is brilliant, th?
action rapid, and- the situations most
Mvidly realistic. "Arizona" will continue
as the Metropolitan's attraction for the
remainder of the week, with a popular
priced matinee on Saturday.
"The Dairy Farm," Eleanor Merrons
charming story of country life in the old
village of Hurley, in the state of New
York, in the '50s, comes to the Metropoli
tan for a return engagement for the week
commencing Sunday next.
GRAND.
"Ix)st in the Desert" is doing an excel
lent business at the Grand this week, in
spite of the handicap of the big blizzard.
The only remaining afternoon perform
ance of the engagement will occur Satur
day at 2:30.
Alberta Gallatin, who appears at the
Grand the coming week in "Nell
Gwynne," is bringing to St. Paul the
reigning theatrical success of two con-
THE GOLDEN IDOL. I
—BY FERGUS HUME!,. •/ Ji
"I carn't. Miss Wliarton 'as it."
"Miss Wharton! How did she get it
Surely she has not been up here?"
"No, she ain't," retorted Nebby, "but
she sent fur it. Yuss, sent 'er brother
Philip. Oh, I knows 'im. He come an' 1
guv 'im the ticket." : -;. ;
"What ticket?" asked Jlnfou, restrain
ing himself with difficulty.
' "The pop-shop ticket. Y'see, I couldn't
get no cash outer ole Daw, so I had to
pop it. The cove at the pop-shop sez as
I stole it, but 'c thought 'ed make a 'aul
out of it, so 'c gives me jus' wot 'c liked,
an' sez as 'ed 'and me over to the cop
pers else. I got the cash an' lived on it,
I did, till the bloomin' cab messed me. up.
Then I come 'ere an' Mr. Philip 'c came
'ere, an' said as Miss Norah wanted 'er
idol back agen, or she'd put the perliee
outer me fur stealin' it. I never did see
sich a row."
"And you gave him the ticket?"
"Yuss, I did. 'Ed 'aye made trouble
else, an' I couldn't 'a got it out agen,
an' I didn't want no trouble. Th"en ole
JsCfel she was in a rage about it too,
she was."
"Jael!" Jinfou ground his teeth. They
all seemed to have stolen a march on
him. "When was Jael here?"
"Came this mornin'. She wanted that
idol, too, but I tole 'er I guv it Mr.
Philip, I did. She went away in a rage,
she did. Oh, my didn't she! Oh, no!"
"Did Mr. Philip say he was going to
take it to his sister?"
" 'E did. She kin put it on the mantel
piece, she can. 'Taint no good else as I
kin see," said Nebby, chucking.
. Jinfou looked at. him closely. "What do
you mean, Nebby?"
But the boy was seized with a sudden
fit of caution and turned away. IBs head.
" 'Ere, you jus' leave me alone, will yer?
I ain't goin'ter saly no more." ;
"Listen to .me," said the Chinaman,
bending** over him and speaking In a
whisper. "When you leave here you will
be poor. Mr. Gaskell: has gone away."
Jinfou. had heard this from Teddy. "He
has gone to be a missionary. You will
have no friend. Now, tell me everything
you know about the Idol and. give me
what you have and I'll pay you ten
pounds."
"Give you wot I 'aye!" repeated Nebby,
uneasily. "An' wot d'ye think I 'aye?"
"You have what I want. Yon know you
heard Young-L.o tell the whole story to
Mr. Gaskell. Very well; I was Tun?-Ui's
friend, and I know the story, too. Now,
will you answer my questions?''
. "Tip us tire blunt fust!"
- The ■ Chinaman was quick to gather
what . he . meant. •. He ' produced a ten
pound note and laid It on the counter
pane. JSiebby's eyes sparkled, and his
thin fingers gripped the note convulsive
ly. Then he hesitated//"Marks 'ud give
me more," he muttered.* .
"Marks wont have anything: mere to
do with you.' said JJnfou. ever smo >th
and bland, but Infernally In earnest.
"He's in quite enough trouble already."
" 'Bout that murder?" faltered the boy.
anxiously.
"Yes, about that, murder,"' said tho
Chinaman, seizing th* advantage.
"I never 'ad nothing to do with that. '
whimpered Nebby.
"If you didn't, bow did you know in
idol was stolen? You told Jael!"
"I wos 'angin, about the Rincml's bo«*?
arter Mr. Vyse went, tux' I 'ea.r<l ore Dyke
GLOBE'S CIRCULATION
FOR FEBRUARY.
[Advertisers will note that the
average daily circulation for Feb
ruary is nearly 1,000 over that of
January.]
"Ernest P. Hopwood, supenntendsnt of
circulation of the St. Paul Globe, being
duly sworn, deposes and says that th«
actual circulation of the St. Paul Globs
for the month of February, 1901, was
as follows:
Total for the month.. 504,400
Average per day 18,014
ERNEST P. HOPWOOD.
.v,S^o S uribed 4nd S7/orn t0 befor» m<s
this 28th day of Febuary, 1901.
H. P. PORTER,
Notary Public. Ramsey Co , Minn,
IKctarialSeal.]
FURTHER PROOF IS READY.
The Globs Invites any ons and evsry
one interested to, at any time, makea
full scrutiny of its circulation lists and
recosds and to visit its press and mail
ing departments to check and keep tab
on the number of papers printed and th»
disposition made of the same.
tlnents and of the season. The company
assisting Miss Gallatin is said to be an
excellent one.
STAR.
People who appreciate a higrh-class
vaudeville performance should see "The
.folly Grass Widows" at the Star theater
this week. The olio is strong. Alien and
Ailen are clever acrobats; Hodge, Hay
ward and Lancaster give a ridiculous act;
Gussle Vivian is a pleasing cantatrice;
Howard and Moore are among the best of
Hebrew dialecticians, and Ward, Brad
burn and Murphy are a clever trio in a
mirthful way. The living art pictures ar«
elegant, splendidly posed, and are pro
duced in the height of electric effect. The
whole show bears the imprim of goai
management, and shows that no pains or
money have been spared to produce a
splendid burlesque attraction.
Special features will be added to the
performance of the Jolly Grass Widows
Saturday evening at the Star theater.
Yonngrer's Army Record.
To the Editor of the Globe: Your
Sunday's pen prints a column and a
half article, about the Younger brothers,
in which the writer states that the father
of these cut throats was a lineal descend
ant of Light Horse Harry Lee. of Revo
lutionary fame, but doesn't trace his
genealogy back to the Revolutionary
hero. It would also appear from the
article that they claim that Cole Young
er's father was murdered by Union
soldiers in Missouri during the Civil war.
This assertion is not proved either in
the article and it is "false. Cole Younger
never was a Confederate soldier, but was
a ho^se thief, guerrilla and murderer of
Union soldiers who were unfortunate in
being captured by him and his guerrilla
comrades, and such Union soldiers were
invariably murdered when captured.
These guerrillas would rob and murder
people whether of Confederate or Union
sympathies and would dress in the uni
forms of the captured Union soldiers they
had killed, when they would rob and
murder and thus throw a stigma on the
soldiers of the Union army serving in
Missouri.
And it is further stated in the article
that the Younger brothers were conduct
ed to Minnesota by a Minnesotan, that
the vast sums of money for which they
went to Northfield belonged to Jews and
that these Jews had no real funds in
the country.
Thi3 is a lame excuse for their attempt
to rob the bank at Northfield. and is a
poor plea in extenuation of the murder
of the poor Swede shot by these cut
throats or their companions on the
street and of the murder of Cashier Hey
wood, who was cruelly killed in the
bank. Well, the legislature has at last
passed a law by which the Youngers
can be paroled if the governor and board
of pardons concur, and, if in the near
future, these distinguished guests of the
state, in the prison at Stillwater, are
paroled, would it not be proper that the
legislature, before they adjourn, pass an
act appropriating money enough to erect
a monument upon the capitol grounds
commemorating the heroic deeds of Cole
Younger and his companions in the
Northfleld raid?
Sauk Rapids. March 19, 1901.
a-tellin 1 a copper. I don't know nothink
about the murder, anyway."
Jinfou gave the screw another turn.
"Well, I hope you'll be able to persuade
the police of that. They have been asking
about you."
With a subdued howl Nebby plungd
his head under the clothes. The sis.er
heard him and approached to terminate
the interview.
But Nebby came out from his retire
ment, and besought her to allow him a
few more minutes, which were duly
granted.
"If I give you wot yer want, will yer
keep the coppers away?"
"I will. You will be quiet safe, and rich
too."
"I'm wlllln'," said Nebby. "Wot d'y
want to know?"
"Did you unscrew the idol's head?"
asked Jinfou, anxiously.
"Yuss. I did that afoi'e I popped It.
Yung-L,o said the Iding-place of the
oth'r'uns wos written on a paiper inside.
I foun' the paiper but It was written In
sich rum-lookin' print, I could make
nothink of it. If it 'adn't bin fur that
I'd 'aye got tho whole bloomin" lot of
'em—l wos dead nuts on them things."
"Have you the paper?"
"Yuss. an' the key. I didn't give it to
Mr. Philip—not me. I know'd it couldn't
be,no use to Miss Norah!"
"Where are they?" asked Jinfou,
scarcely able to retain his eagerness
Xebby slipped a lean hand under his
pillow and pulled out a brown paper
parcel laboriously tied with string. "I
kep it by me," he said, in a whisper. "I
wos goin' to give It to Marks. He'd 'aye
got the paiper put right by a Cliinky.
an' we'd er 'alved the swag. V.re. you
go 'alves wi' me!"
Jinfou took the paper and examined it
closely before he answered. After unty
ing the string, ana removing fold after
fold of paper, he dakl bare a slender stoel
key wrapped In A piece of linen. On this
—a narrow strip of gr< at length—wore t^e
Chinese characters in vermillion. Imper
vious as he was, the Chinaman felt his
heart beat w*l<lly. now tnat h« was face
to faoe with what he had sought for so
many years. The gods would go back to
the Canton Temple after all—ftnd through
him!
"Go halves with you!" he Slid, re
wrapping the linen. round the key and
putting it into his -pocket. "No, Nebby.:
there are no halves In this matter I "
have given; you - ten pounds and I will
promise you shall not get into trouble
•with tin; police. With that you ought to
be •wel! content. "But-— ■" Jlnfou was ;
seized with a sudden conviction that the:
: boy had more to say. "If you've any.
thing else to tell me I'll, give you an- ;
other sovereign.'' . .
"Right 'yare. Chuck It out; 'cos I know
-srhere Mr. Philip is!"
Jinfou threw him the coin. "Where?"
This waa most Important, smoe even
what he now possessed was useless with
out the idol Itself. . ■
"E's at '- Graveseud! I tole 'tin _'o
couldn't «it them other, 'uns without me; :,
an' as '» see' I know'd summat. ,'« tolo
me to wrtte 'Im at Gravesond^reen
Man. . Nelson > street— as I ken write • •;>
over much, though . the teacher taught
me to do a bit v ./'"•■; ; :
. "That's.all right," said Jinfou. "Good
bye, my boy."
(To Be Continued Dally.)