Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — Uncle Sam's Sultan. [ARTICLE]

Uncle Sam's Sultan.

According to current advices onr Sultan of Sulu is an ardent civil service reformer. He never discharges a wife without cause.—lllinois State Begister. The Sultan of Sulu, it seems, is greatly under the influence of his mother. If his twelve wives also have influence, petticoat government is evidently what Uncle Sam has to reckon with in that quarter. —St. Paul Pioneer Press. No one will contend that the Sultan of the Sulus is not blessed with a level head. He confesses in an interview, that if the Americans had not found him when they did he would have hunted up the Americans. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Sultan of Sulu may have a trifle too many wives, but in other respects he is a better American than some of the residents of Boston.—Kansas City Journal. In giving the Sultan of Sulu a fat salary the Government might have been actuated in. part by the* knowledge that it takes a good deal of money to buy hats for twelve wives.—Rockford Star. It is safe to say that Edward Attan-