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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
"OF SUCH

In the current number of the Scien-
tilc Magazine, a medical writer states
chat between one-third and one-half of
all the children born in the world go
out of it before they are five years old.
This is 4 strange statement for taiS late
day in the history of scientific research
and knowledge of the contributory con-
ditions of life. 1t is fearful Indictment
of the race as an animal institution; but
the sparkling eyes and merry faces are
too numerous for Somber hueS or prOSaic
hOmiletics just at this time. 1t is not,
aside from the view of human grief,
forbidding picture suggested by this
wholesale mortality. The Christmas
Master has said that the translated
little ones are the JOY and light of the
abodeS where there is fruition of
the Christmas foretasteS. The men
who doubted that little children with
put some SacerdOtal Endorsement
go to heaven have gone where
they can learn the error of
their clumsy conception. The little
earthly buds will bloom in the celes-
tial life, and. no possible servitude IN
eXpiatory realms can be presumed of
them. Had they lived and become men
md women, Il good many OF the male
portion would have become dudes,
tramps, SOtS. and worthless generally,
while considerable fraction of the
other sex would have saddened life
as gum chewerS, whiStlers, trifiers with
the adOleScent center of masculine emo
lions; worn tall hats to the theaters to
make bald-headed men swear. or have
done other deplorable things that would
cloud, if not ruin, the life i'll another
sphere. The question as to whether
the loss of the information to be gath
cred in this terrestrial career would be
q permanent or weighty deprivation is
not for present solution. The evidence
is absolutely conclusive that no demerit
marks will be made against those who
do not reach five years in the records of
the new lands to which they are borne
on angelic wings. They must be re
garded as the fortunate who are caught
upward in the bud of life. They will
bloom where there comes no blight.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
OUR ANNUAL REVIEW.

The Twin Cities Of the Northwest
have passed another milestone on the
turnpike road of their marvellous prog
ress, and as they pause to look back
upon the record Of their development
within the last year as it is spread be-
fore them in this Christmas annual num-
Der of the GLOBE they must experience
feeling Of pride and graduation that
the lines have fallen to them in such
pleasant places. 1t is not by the capac-
ity of city's population for horn blow
ing, nor by their Indulgence of a boast
full spirit, that a city's growth is to be
measured. The dimensions of its in
crease are only ascertained by the use
of the plumb line of truthful figures and
the square of unerrin@ statistics. De-
termined by this, the only cor
rect method Of measurement, the
growth made by st. Paul and
Minneapolis during the year 1888 has
in some respects been more phenomenal
than that of preceding years. While
there has not been manifestation of
that disposition to spread out and cover
the earth which characterized the
growth of some former years, there has
been an improvement more stable in its
character, and more permanent in value
than in all the years that have passed.
The growth has been of more decided
metropolitan character, giving evidence
that the people of the Twin Cities have
awakened 10 a full consciousness of
their destiny, as it has all along been
understood by the outside world. 1t
must be remembered, also, that the
record of 1883 was scored in sea-
son of universal financial depression
and business stagnatiOn. 1t was
presidential year. and everybody knows
what that means in our American bust
ness and financial affairs. A cOmmu-
nifty that can hold its own during
presidential year is lucky. The one
that takes one stride III the direction of
progress is exceptional. Yet here are
the Twin Cities of the Northwest dur
ing the year 1888, not content with hold
ing their own. not satisfied with taking
a single step forward, but bursting all
the bonds and limitations of municipal
expansion and metropolitan growth,
have bounded into an era of prosperous
development unparalleled in the history
of cities.
1t isnot surprising, then, that the peo-
pie of st. Paul and Minneapolis should
be proud of the years record as it is
unfolded to them in this issue of the
GLOBE.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
CONCLU SION.

1t is because the GLOBE thinks it
neither right nor profitable to be vain
glorious that we have refrained from
the "padding'' processes so often en-
ployed by the press in getting up their
annual reviews. We have made an hon
est effort to get honest figures. and con-
graduate ourselves that we have sue
ceeded. There is no necessity for the
employment of fiction in writing up the
annual statement of the development of
two cities like st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis. The truth is marvellous enough.
And while we say it with feeling of
mingled pride and modesty, the GLOBE
itself and its publication of the CHRIST
MAS ANNUAL are the surest evidences
of the thrift, enterprise and prosperity
of these TWO great cities.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
THE EROTIC.
ST. PETER.

ST. PETER.
Since Shakespeare's gone; and Byron fed
To regions where unquiet dead
Roam the wastes of Dante's hell,
Tell me, Gabriel, tell me we'll,
What the earth-fools sing of now.
GABRIEL.
The modern erotic, with power despotic,
Now blossoms in heat like Northern
exotic
IT'S questionable rage-a matter of fash
ion
To sing in mad strains of tropical passion.
Take "a tender embrace and heart
'.hotly heeding;''a
A bosom upheaving" and love that is
bleeding"
A soul swashed in terror, ''low- whispered
woman's ''hot breath and lock of her
hair
With the blood of tigress and feeling
Supposed to be caused by an ache that's
internal
Add to this a swish Of the awful supernal
With drop of the hero TO hells eternal,
While lily-white arms and lips ''madly
pressing"
Eyes hot with fire and hands warm ca
ressing
Forsaking the "whirl'' of a commonplace
life,
Go ''madly careering'
With passions veneering,
After the nero in ''Hadean strife"
Burning and sizzling, the twain are united
With thrill unfeit by earth's benighted,
Who. living the life of veal and woe.
Find dearer and sweeter than passions
mad glow"
The lisp of a babe at loves ''breast OF
snow" H. /. G..
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
ACHRIsTMAS MEMORY.

When fair Madge pinned tonight in my coat
a cluster of violets blue,
The subtle, sweet scent to my senses went,
And brought me vision of you.
In an instant l lived again the past
Before I'd grown worldly and wise.
Away rolled the years, and through the hot
tears,
Which | dared not brush from my eyes,
1 saw you again-my love, my love,
With your tender. sweet smiling face.
Madge ran up the stair-you came and stood
there,
Then crept into my arms embrace.
I kissed you once more-the old, wild thrill
Shot through my veins passionately-
Jack called my wife, did you e'er in
your life
Love woman as well as me-"
With a guilty start looked around
Your sweet ghost had quietly gone,
And Madge blonde and far came down the
long stair
Humming lightly an air from ''Nanon."
l flicked the ashes from my cigar,
.'No, dear" with a sigh then said:
A sigh for the hours which those wee blue
Brought back from the past long since
dead. Edith S. Upper.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

ADVANCED IN VALUE.

Real estate has advanced in intrinsic
value, but without special speculative
activity. The great amount of building
which has been done gives stability to
values, and promise of future increase
perhaps surprising anything else that
may have happened. The current in
vestment. which took its highest activ
ity in 1886 and 1887, and ceased owing
to the opposition of Eastern financial
Journals and bankers, modified by its
speculative trend, and which has dur
ing the past two years been turned into
the channels OF conservative gilt-edged
securities. has during the past six or
eight months been going largely into
what might be termed second-class Sc
curities, and when they are exhausted,
as must be the case by the vast amount
CT capital seeking them, there will be
tendency on the part of Eastern buyers
to invest in real estate again, and thus
bring about an active market, surpass-
ing, in our opinion, the period of 1885,
1887.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

dreadful secrets which lie scattered in
the bottom of that illimitable sea. The
maxims of policy, the rules of war, the
ssubtletieS of love, the patient forecast Of
hate, the pangs of remorse, the ready
wages which jealousy always pays to
the miserable being it employs-all
things over which the mind or the
nature of man has jurisdiction, receive
from him their definition and express
sion. excepting those awful topics of
the hereafter, which, of all the children
of men, he, the greatest, has been too
reverent to touch. He knew of the cir
culation of the blood. In instance after
instance he has not only used the terms
of the law with the strictest precision,
but has stated its abstruSeSt princi-
pies with entire correctness. Shakes
peare has created an immaterial uni.
verse which will, like him, survive tho
bands of Orion and Arcturus and his
SONS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

The estimate made by reliable di-
rectory firm places the population of
st. Paul at this time at 1893, 900, and that
at the end of next year it will be $4,000.
Those of us who have the best opportu-
mites for judging are satisfied with the
correctness of these figures. The esti-
mate falls under rather than over the
actual population of the city. The
GLOBE admits that it would be wild fig
uring to estimate the population of this
city, or even both cities, at 100000 by
the year 1900. We are not deceiving
ourselves into that belief, nOr do we
propose to deceive any one else. Yet
we believe it to be very modest esti-
mate to place the population of the two
cities at over half million two years
hence, with the prospect very strong
that by the year 1900 we will have
passed the million mark.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

II Is alleged that a man at IndianapO-
lis has a somewhat substantial back
bone. The other man who will step out
of his way gracefully in March has dis
played more rigid spinal column than
was altogether agreeable to some friends.
But there has been no accurate appraiSe
ment of the value OF a backbone i'll il
public man. Boston, however, has re-
Gently indicated some of its estimate of
the financial worth of the female spine.
In Il suit against a railroad for damage
to the dorsal column of woman, the
jury gave her $4,000, and the higher
judicial wisdom OF the state pronounced
it not an GENERALIZATION. 1t was only an
average spine and an average
Woman-that is, Boston woman,
of coursc-but they vote somewhat
down there. Even Boston man might
lose his head, and everything else of
value to him, in railroad catastrophe,
and his family would get but $1,000
worth of satisfaction out of it. 1t is Il
chiyalric age, manifestly.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
BANKING AND REAL ESTATE.


The banking and real estate statistics
for the year are encouraging. The
shortage in the wheat crop, and other
causes that are apparent, have short
ened the bank clearances for the year.
and yet there is no reduction below any
previous year. If the wheat Crop had
been an average, the bank clearanceS
would have shown an increase in pro-
portion to everything else. Still. money
is plentiful and to be had at easy rates,
mortgages have been paid at maturity,
and the report of debt collections is the
best the city has ever shown, even IN
fiushest times. While there has been
no ''boom' in real estate, the figures
show q remarkable activity i'll the real
estate market. And it has been a
healthy movement, for of the S21, 900, 900
real estate investments here in St. Paul,
there has not been a particle of the
mushroom" business. 1t has been
good hard cash planted in good honest
dirt, and every handful Of the dirt
worth the money paid Tor 1t. The same
is true of the Minneapolis real estate
business.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
I'D. 9A<e>~~1
OUR JUNIOR SENATOR.

1t is the prerogative of Shakespeare
that whatever he stoOpS to touch be-
comes authoritative in quotation. He
is the magistrate of both imagination
and reason. There is scarcely topic in
the universe of human thought which
that marvellous mind has not comprised
i'm its cometary sweep. He has walked
i'm the abyss of human nature and seen
the thousand fearful wrecks. the IN
valued Jewels, and all the lonely and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

If THE experiments being made togen
crate electricity by wind succeed. and
heat for fuel can be elected by electric
agency, the problem of cheap fuel for
the Northwest will be solved, appar-
entity. The farmer uses the windmill
for pumping water; why not attach the
dynamo and generate heat for his house
and stables? The more severe the
storm, the greater amount Of electricity
will be developed. There might be a
difficulty in case there was no wind, but
that seldom happens on the prairies in
the cold season.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

IT Is figured out by the New York
Times that Boston investors have sunk
$50, 600, 600 of their good money in the
Atchison, Topeka Il Sante Fc and Chi
cago, Burlington Il Quincy railroads.
If such is the fact. it would suggest that
their mistake was made in putting their
money in roads that do not penetrate the
new Northwest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC IMPROVE
MENTS.

MENTS.
In looking for evidences of metro
politan proportions the reader will
naturally turn first TO the statistics re-
lating to buildings and city improve
ments. Here they are, and how mag
nilicently they loom up. 1t is not of the
number, so much as of the character of
the buildings that have been erected
during the year, that the two cities have
lust cause to be boaStful. Here in st.
Paul we have added a building frontage
of fifteen miles. with a total eXpendi-
ture of S15,O00,00O, principally in bust
ness blocks that would be an ornament
TO any city in the world. A total ex-
penditure of sSOOOO.OOo, with thirty
miles of frontage, is the years
record for the two cities. st.
Paul has expended 100000 this year
in public improvements, street paving,
street grading, increasing the water
supply and extending the sewerage sys-
TEN. 1t is upon solid foundations, such
as our building and public improve
ment records exhibit, that cities of per-
manent prosperity and enduring quail
ties are built.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

more mature development in this local
ity. the former continues to grow into
comely proportions. The st. Paul fig
ures rest at s44. ZOO, 900 for 1888, gain of
100000 over last years record. with
plans already projected, and many Of
them perfected, to give stimulus to
the manufacturing interests during the
coming year unprecedented in the his
tory of the city. The building up of a
large commercial business in Mime
apolis and corresponding building up
of manufacturing industries here i'll st.
Paul are bringing about an equalization
Of interests between the two cities that
has long been desired by those who had
the welfare of both at heart. and who
have believed that their destinieS we're
common.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

CHICAGO is having run with dain-
ty religious fad, in the way of church
concerts on Sunday-a sort OF pious
opera. Admission is charged and Ii
cense paid as in other shows, and even
those 50 busy in abhorring the Sunday
daily have not manifested disapproVal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
TIE JOBBING TRADE.

Among the most gratifying features
of the years prosperity is the rapidity
in development of our commercial in
terests. The jobbing statistics here in
st. Paul show a business of S11S.OO0,O0O
for the year 1888. being an increase of
s17,OOO.OJ0 over last year. When we
consider that commerce is our destiny,
and that all orr future prosperity must
depend largely on the maintenance of
our position as the commercial center
of the Northwest, we find more COM
fort in the figures which tell of this
great increase of our jobbing trade than
in all the other evidences of one years
growth.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

II Is said that all insurance company
refuses to pay the loss on the driver Of
a nitro-glyccrine wagon i'll the oil re-
gions, because after the explosion moth
ing could be found of him but knee
cap, and that was not sufficient evidence
of his death. Persons insured should
be careful TO keep their parts more to-
ppther.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

are more than mere advertising devices;
they are exhibitions in themselves.
There are some such in st. Paul which
attract the attention of the throngs, and
they all advertise ID the GLOBE.
-
Even in st. Paul there are some
whose Christmas will bring no remem-
branceS, unless those who are more
fortunate are thoughtful and actively
kind.
Before the first Christmas, so far as
the records show, it was said upon
authority never dlscredited that it was
better to give than receive. 1t is good
time to verify it.
-
Last night it seemed as if about all
the population of the city were in the
thr0ngs that choked the ways md
stores where the Christmas goods were
alluring. All arms on the homeward
route were loaded, and there was a
brightness of anticipation in the face
that made the picture peculiarly
pleasing one. Had there been no other
legacy of the Christ than the anniver-
sary woven about His nativity. the world
would still be incomparably happier
and richer in all that beauties and
sWeetens life than it had otherwise
been. One who can catch no breath of
its inspiration is worthy only of pity or
contempt.
1t will give brighter ray or two to
the Christmas light to accept the faith
that the wonderful explorer of Africa is
verging upon civilization and safety,
laden with the mysteries of a strange
land. He will be credited with
charmed life if he comes out of the dark
ness of primitive savagery to the eager
view of ChriStendOm.
~
The interpreter of faces does not
often misjudge when he looks into one
Worn by the man laden with the little
packages that are carried so plentifully
hOmeWard just before Christmas. An
element of goodness and kindlineSs will
have its impress there. The rest of the
year the crust of selfishness and auster-
ity may be over the heart, but it will be
lifted In the Christmas time. An utterly
bad face, with ineffaceable lines of
cruelty, would be an anomaly in the COM
pany of those who remember the sweet
est of all anniversaries in its relations
to the youthful life.
-
The ancient ladies may chill the at
moSphere about them with the messy
legend that green Christmas makes
a fat graveyard" but their mumblings
are not adapted to this latitude. The
conditions for health have never been
more favorable than this winter, and it
is saiubrious fact that the physicians
have had less than usual occasion to
enjoy the delicious atmosphere on
remedial errands. Those who have
trouble with the movements of the
physical machinery must find other
cause to berate than the irreproachabie
weather of this winter so far.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
oyERWoRKED EMPLOYEES.

There is 10 doubt as to the fact that
some of the most serious railroad acct
dents have been due to the overworking
OF employees. This makes it matter of
concern to the public, and efforts have
been made to interpose legal barriers.
The last legislature i'll Pennsylvania
passed an act designed to restrain en-
ployers from eXacting or permitting
more than twelve hours work. A grand
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

AFTER 10000 women had gone to the
ballot box in Boston, nearly all the pull
pits discourSed upon the event as the
inauguration Of new era, and the gen
tie voters were deluged with compli-
ments. One foresaw time in the has
tening future when there shall be "a
female loneliness that shall be the de-
spair of the painter of posterity." Some
examples of it are not unknown III this
city already.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

MARY ANDERSON has planted her
English shoes upon her native heath
once more. not as English shoes, but III
disgust with the high heels which she is
said to have discarded for all time.
MARY is generally sensible.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
RAILROADS.

The railroads have kept pace with the
growth of our commerce, not so much
in the building of new lines as in the
extension of branch roads into new ter
ritory and in the equipment of the vari-
Gus roads to accommodate the increase
of trade and traffic. The opening of the
800" line during the year has marked
an epoch in Northwestern railroad bust
ness.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

ONE of the Boston papers insists, as
an objection to female suffrage and
politics. that they never could nail lie
without MASKING a thumb.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

REV. JOSEPH Cook, the orthodox
Boston luminary, doesn't think that
''Robert Elsmere is a nice book" That
will insure a great sale for it in Boston.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

TRr WEEKLY DAILY = Monday Wednesday
and Friday.)
1yI in advance 81 90 mos. in ady. 81 W
3months, in advance. 81 on.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

DAILY AND SUNDAY.
1vrin advanceS10 90 3 mos. in adv. 81 80
ON in advance ) 90 weeks i'll adv. 90
One month ...S5c.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

Rejected communications cannot be pre-
served. Address all letters and kilograms 10
TIE GLOBE. st. Paul, Mimi.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
CHRISTMAS CHATTER.

Tomorrow night how many little lips
will lisp: "God bless fader, God bless
moder. God bless sister''-then a pause
Then the sweet, young lips devoutly
murmur: "God bless Santa Claus"
And Santa Claus will come, for both
father and mother have seen him.
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The poor you have with YOU, even on
Christmas. Is there home in the city
so dark that no ray of the glorious
Christmas light will not penetrate? If
SO, seek it out and carry the sunshine of
the season with you.
-
Most of the letters now being written
are addressed to old SANTA CLAUS or
Gen. HARRISON. The subject matter is
similar in all. They want to be remem-
bered in the distribution.
A Boston paper says that thousands
of people flock TO that city before Christ
mas solely to view the show window
tableaux, which bring into exercise
very great artistic taste and skill. They
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

SUNDAY ALONE.
lyrin advance. 80 90 mos. i'll adv DOC
6 m. in advance l 90 l mo. in adv. 20c
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
BY LEWIS BAKER.

ST. PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
DAILY (NoT INCLUDING SUSDAY.)
] ST in advAnce.SS 90 3 N. in advances W
& m. i'm ADVANCE 4 90 weeks in adv. l 90
One month.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23

The past theatrical week was all jan
gled out of tune. A dramatization of
Ouida's Moths" was produced with
only limited success at the Peoples,
while the Grand did next to no business
at all. Sol Smith Russell played to small
houses the first three nights OF the week ;
and an audience disgracefully small, i'll
proportion to the merits of the perform
ance, attended the Seibert concert and
Fantasma of Singing Flowers Thursday
night.