The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-20
THURSDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

st. Paul has an interest for Congress-
man Mcclellan, of New York city. His
father, Gen. George B. Mcclellan, mar
ried the young mans mother, a daugh-
ter of Gen. Marcy. on West Seventh
street, in this city, in 1860.
David Starr Jordan says eft is abso-
lutely impossible for any republic to
conduct any affairs we'll except It's own
affairs and then not always well.
The little nations are not altogether
content to see the large ones doing all
the growing and snarling, SO Portugal
and Holland are making faces at each
other, and so are some Of the Balkan
states and republics in South America.
The territory of Oklahoma hopes to
shine as the forty-siXth star in the Amer
lean constellation of states. A move
ment in that direction will be made in
congress soon.
What did the queen of Holland mean
by her parting words-the closing ones
to President Kruger: Have confidence
IN God, who will protect you and yours
[ will show my friendship when the mo-
ment arrives, but not now" Is Hol
land getting ready to take a hand in at
ldlIS next year 80
The fault in the management of cities
is not always in so-calIed cumbersome and
old fashioned charters, as much as in
the character of the men chosen to adj
minister them.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease, the Kan
sas Populist lecturer, alleges failure to
provide" as a ground for divorce. Mr..
o.r.l,E "a 10, -
her failure to keep house, Mrs. Leases
case is merely one illustration of the
fact that public careers for women who
have domestic responsibilities are eX-
tremely likely to promote domestic dis
cord. One career may be all right for
a woman, but two careers are usually
one too many.
Today, Dec 90 is the anniversary OF
the birth, in 1888, of Bent. Y. Prime,
American poet and physician; Of Laura
Smith Haveland, in 1908, an American
phiianthropist; of James Hammond
Trumbull,> in 1921, en- eminent American
philologist ana scholar.
Turfnen who are familiar with the
fastest trotter in the world 1.-The Abbot"
say that next season the animal viii
reach the two-nlinute record.
A ST Louis court last week had lQ5
divorce cases before it and granted SIX
ty-two, mainly on charges of habitual
drunkenness and violence.
The ministers of Portland, Me-, protest.
ed against one of Mrs. Carriers plays.
''Zaza,'' and the result was crowded
houses. Protest always arouses curios-
ity
The Presbyterian Westminster Con-
fession' is to be revised, over 200 presby-
teries having declared in favor of
changes in the creed. The matter will
come before the general assembly next
May.
Now you may know. Just what you are
liable to get in the way OF plaques. A
medical paper says James Gantiie. T.
r. c. s., recognizes eight types of plague
namely, the bubonic, the septica emic,
the pneumonia, he9nervous. the toxic Or
mild types, pests ambuians and pests
minor
We are planning splendid naval pro-
grammc so far as the building CT shipa
is concerned, but what is the use Of
building vessels if we have to lay them
mp at League Island or Mare Island when
built for lack Of crews to man them and
lack of officers to command them?--Phil-
adelphia Inquirer.
The project for laying cables around
the world so that all landings Will be on
soil under British control is taking ac-
tive shape in England. Australia is to be
connected with British Columbia
O.
II is we'll known that footing by the
soldiers, and even officers, has been con-
slant since the invasion of China, but it
was hardly Believed until now that for
eign ministers were even more rapacieus
in despoiling the heather than their sub
ordinates. AS an example of this are
noted the roBbing of the imperial pa aces
of ancient archives, relics, seals, insignia
and concentrations and the stealing by
the French and Germans OF the rare and
almost priceless collection of astronotni-
cal instruments from the walls of Pehln.
Our bluff, honest, plain-spoken Cen.
Chaffee protested against this in a letter
to Count Wa1dersee; and it was returned
on the ground that it was "too harsh in
tone" The war department should send
the general "a polite letter writer
It doesssseem a little singular Spain dis
covered us, and now quietly think just
what we did to Spain. Destroyed her as
world power.
There may be few collateral doubts
whether that much talked Of isle of Guam
was worth the cost Of one cruiser, except
for the fun that Capt. Leary extracted
from it for the MISUNDERSTANDING Dis
patch.
s.Once Kitchener gets to work on the
Beers" says London dispatch, nothing