The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-05
MONDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

Tomorrow the country will be saved
or go to smash, if the political orators
are to be believed There is too much
vitality just now i'll the American peo-
pie to go to pieces, regardless of who
may be elected president.
There were 76,2s5,22c people in the
United States when the census was taken
last spring Most Of this vast number
are mainly interested in keeping their
jobs, taking care of their crops, watching
their various enterprises, and going to
school. Perhaps 100000 C of the total
have heard that president is to be
elected tomorrow and take as much in
terest in it as they do in the probable
new styles in pop corn or winter mil
linery. Perhaps 15,000,000 will vote to-
morrow, and the vast majority will vote
one way or the other, depending upon
how their fathers voted or with the
popular party of their vicinity.
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Day after tomorrow the Canadians held
their general election. There has been a
hot campaign between the Liberals and
Conservatives, with speakers of the two
parties painting each other as foes of
their country, "allee samee Mclean
man.
This weather-well isn't it all right?
The Minnesota autumn has about as
much of the divine in it as autumns in
the most favored land, wherever that is.
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Today, Nov. :, is the anniversary Of
the birth, in 1494, Of Hans-Sachs, the
German poet author of over 5000 poems;
of Washington Allston, in 1873, an emil
nent American artist and author; Of Sir
John Richardson, in 1884, the British
naturalist and explorer; of Benjamin F.
Butler, in 1918, American politician and
soldier. While in command at Fortress
Monroe three slaves came in for pre-.
lection. To them Butler applied the
famous phrase "Contraband of war;
an epigram," said Theodore Winthrop,
(which abolished slavery in the United
States" Butler served long in congress
and was governor of Massachusetts. His
career while in command at New Or
leans during the war, was sensational
Do you know that the year and CEN
fury are dying together, and it is only
once in a hundred years that this can
be said? Very few of the hundreds of
millions of people living today will be
living to say this of the last year of
the twentieth century. And what hun
dreds of millions yet unborn will have
lived and died during the coming hundred
years.
From a proclamation in the American,
a daily paper of Manila, we learn that
residents are now allowed upCE the
streets until II o'clock instead of 10 as
formerly. The military in its benevolent
rule has applied the curfew to our new
citizens or subjects.
Nov is the anniversary of two i'm
portant events in English history-the
discovery and prevention of the gunpow-
der plot in 1905, to blow UP the houses of
parliament by Guy Fawkes, and the in
auguration of the Revolution of 1885, by
the landing in England of William III. It
is also the anniversary of the battle of
Inkerman, in the Crimea, in 1854, when
the Russians were defeated with loss of
10000 by the English and French. This
day is also the anniversary Of the battle
of Rossbach, in 1757, when Frederick of
Prussia defeated the French.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad company
has abolished the train boy system. He
has been nuisance, but it has only been
recently that railroad officials have found
it out, and they have about come to the
conclusion that the small amount of
money they get from the news agencies
will not overbalance the i'll which some
of these boys do to the travelling public
Sir Thomas Upton is said to have clear
ed up between 100000 and 0,000 by his
pork corner. Is there no way of stopping
this form of preying upon the necessities?
The Republican tariff system enables the
combinations to put up the price on near
~ all the staples for the benefit of the
few who have a corner on them, but as
long as the Republican orators preach
Infant industries" which are now con-
Stunning giants-their followers will vote
that way.
It was on Nov. 5. 1900, on account of the
union of England and Ireland, that one
of the titles of the English monarch was
abandoned, that of king of France"
which had been a part of the list for 1872
years. from the time of Edward Ill This
change also caused the abandonment, at
the same time, of French as the official
foreign correspondents language, and the
adoption of English.
John Jacob and William Waldorf Aston