The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11

last season over 2O6o,06O tons.
/ O.
The story of the rise-and the fall, as
seon as the victims are rescued-of Cape
/ Nome Will read like a dream of tragic
] fiction. The government has ordered
| transports there to bring away the sick
and destitute. When full told it will be
"a case of
sit you down.
Ana let Sne wiring your heart; for Sc I
If it be made of penetrable stuff"
The engagement of Miss Fiji Potter, Of
/ New York to Jimmie" Still1nan, whose
father is president of a bank having
$loi,OO0,000 resources, has been duly an
nounced in the New York papers with
whole pages devoted to pictures of tih
and jimmie Ard thus runs the world
| From all reports wild birds are now be-
/ ing slaughtered by the wagonload in
| minnesota and the Dakotas. Much of the
| hunting seems merely for the pleasure of
| killing.
| Inc campaign is now on. Candidates
| are abroad. and the voter feels a great
! sense of responsible The Washing
ton Star puts the voters condition into
| verse;
| Il am feeling all-a-tremble!
| Though I'm trying to dissemble,
l m convinced that all my eftorts are in
vain,
My brain is growing torrid;
There are wrinkles on my forehead
AS sit and think and think with might
and main Rt+3
I'm a factor in this nation
That Is leading all creation,
And | feel lumpwthat rises in my
When shuddeeir an and remember
That once more til is September,
And that pretty soon I've got to go
anu vote. sof
It is said that the Steam laundries Of
white folks in the cities are gradually
| driving the hand laufflries Of the Chinese
out of Business. "a.
j. H. Valentine, the, well-known presi-
dent of WelIs-Fargo Express company.
has written lettef declaring that he IS
fayerable to Bryan. He says human
rights are Of greater value than money
or trade I'D
Yesterday was the anniversary of the
battle OF Lake Erie, Friday, Sept. 10, 1913,
when Perry captured the British fleet and
sent his famous message to Gen. Har-
| rison: I'VE have met the enemy and
they are ours"
On Sept. II, 1649 Cromwell captured tina
town of Drogheda, Ireland, and the gar
rison of 5000 loyalists were put to
the sword, with a trffing exception
Cromwell in his dispatch described this
affair as righteous Judgment and a
/ great mercy and with great GOODNESS
| related how those he spared from death
| were Shipped off as slaves to the Barba-
does. Cromwell's policy was successful;
it cut through the heart of national
| resistance and laid Ireland at the feet
and mercy of her conqueror This is also
the anniversary of the battle of Stirling
! in 1897, when the Scotch defeated the
English, skinned the corpse of Treasurer
| Cressingham and made whips Of the skin
| 1t Is also the anniversary of the battle
Of Malplaques in 1709 when Marlborough
and Prince Eugene defeated the French
| under Marshal VilIars.
| Congress passed resolution in January
1885, declaring substantially that Cuba
should be free and independent state
| According to Instructions from Gov.
| Wood to the people Of that island, who
are presumed to vote for delegates to a
constitutional convention, no constitution
will stand unless 1t IS acceptable to the
United States. So Mr.. Mckinley Is to
decide as to what he thinks the Cubans
| think they want.
There are now over 1900 Boer prisoners
at st. Helena. The war in South Africa
| seems now merely a hunt for Kruger and
De Wet.
Two undred years ago James Thomson,
| the Scotch poet, was born. He Is re-
membered by his poems, The Seasons
| and "1ne Castle Of Thdolenee>" And one
| hundred years ago today D. s. Dickinson,
American lawyer and statesman, was
Ior, TO-,
| tural quotations IN his public addresses
| and arguments
Archbishop Ireland arrived in Paris Sat
urday from Rome
1t is said the largest number of appli-
| cations in any one line of inventions now
being received at the patent Office are for
mathematical purposes mostly improve
ments in adding machines.
Mrs. Mary E. Balch, secretary of the
Indiana w. c. T, T., has sent out an
appeal for prayer chain" fer the de-
feat of Mckinley because of his attitude
| in the matter of the army eanteen Mrs.
L. M. N. Stevens, national president OF
! the w. c. T. u, says: Temperance
/ workers and temperance men ali over the
| country hold William Mckinley RESPONSE
BILE for the army eanteen, and on account
| OF MS dbt1LddS IOWdFd II ne Will dOUDtIeSS
! lose large number of. votes. 1 have
heard doctors, ministers and temperance
/ men every where have been say that on
/ account Of the eanteen and McKinley's
action they could not nor would they
vote the Republican ticket
A serious problem faces the South in
| the failure of negro education There
| are now over 100000 people of various
| shades of black in the United States. In
! the first stages of evolution in education
| they aspire to professional life or posi-
| tons not gainfal. It is getting to be
| difficult to get black house help in the
| South. It was eempulsion as slave
that held him inn the paths of Industry;
| he was taught to work, to be farmer,
a mechanic a producer. Education in
| his present state of development ope-
rates differently With Cuba, Porto Ri
are taking on new bur6lens-the white
man is liable to become overloaded.
sE-o-
Gust as Lincoln saw that no nation
| could exist half sslave and half free, SO
elear-sighted mem today recognize that a
| republic cannot govern subject people
and remain a republic Inevitably it will
fall as Rome fell 'I4Adlai Stevenson
/ % d.
ga feverish ambition to accumulate a
fortune, which may be called our nation
| al distemper, is incompatible with peace
Of mind. Moderate tHneans with con-
| tented spirit are preferable to millions
without it''-Cardinal Gibbons.
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