The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-03
MONDAY GLOBE CHANCES.


the world. They think it is the blowing
OF the seventh trumpet mentioned in the
book OF revelations. And they find in
Daniel and Ezekiel a description of the
present situation in the East: The
dreadful work of the dragon and the at
tempt by the nations of the earth in try
ing to crush it. I'd
1t is not Generally known but Rey.
Alexis Jeffries, { of Los Angeles, Cal,
Travelled across the continent to see his
son, the heavy weight prize fighter, In
MS last smuggling match. Then he asked
the clergy department of the Central
Passenger association for half fare per-
NIT for his return trip. And he didn't get
It, - -
The American troops in China have
done splendid service-they always do
but they constitute but a very small
part of tie allied forces. All the talk by
the administration of an Independent
movement for the rescue of the legations
was for political effect In face of Min
lister Conger's earnest request for help
the president ordered meagre 1000 from
o. OO in the Philippines. where the war Is
virtually over according to admin
tstration claims. The war is not
over and Mr.. Mckinley knows that
to take any considerable force
from the Philippines would renew
activity among the Filipinos and injure
his political prospects. Mr.. Mckinley 8
habitual disposition to play policy is be-
coming quite as well understood abroad
as at home.
III, Portland Oregonian in speaking of
G. P. Huntington says: mo man so in
huenced congress in questionable ways,
whatever he thought of the justice Of the
ends he sought
Today, Sept. 8, is the anniversary of the
birth OF John Humphrey Noyes QS1D,
founder OF the Perfectionists, which Gull
minated in the establishing of the famous
Oneida community; and of Sarah Orne
JeWett, a popular American authoress.
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Senator Nelson has spoke" his piece
on the political situation, following Sena-
tor Davis. The senators spoke for the
state at large. Now the congressman
will speak for their districts. The pol
1tician who does not know how to settle
all the important issues Of the day is a
rarity.
The famine in India continues its raw
ages. Cholera is also raging, and deaths
from disease and hunger multiply.
The Humane Review says that instead
of being the highest, man is in some re-
spects the lowest of the animal kingdom
Man is the most unchaste, the most
drunken, the most misery the most hyp-
ocritical and the most atrocicus of living
creatures. No animal except man gloats
over accumulations that are of no pos
sible use to him, and often an injury
and in whose acquisition he has commit
ted irreparabse crimes upon others. Nc
animal, except man. kills for the mere
pastime of killing. No other form of ami
NAL life organizes packs or bands for in
discriminate slaughter. Vipers and by
enas do not kill for recreation Now
what do you think of yourself?
Today, Sept 8, is the anniversary Of
the death in 1888 of Sir Edward Coke, the
famous English lawyer; of Louis Adolpf
Theirs, IN 1871, ex-president Of France
and of Gen. A. E. Burnside, in 1881.
The uses to which corn can be put null
tiply. Once it was merely regarded as
hog feed, and to make a pretty strong
article of whisky. Now the whisky is
used in the manufacture Of smokelesS
powder. Besides, corn is now made into
many articles OF food, such as glucose
grape sugar used by tanners, another
kind of sugar used by ale makers, starch
grits, f1ourine, corn oil, rubber substitute
and gum. The new rubber is made of the
refuse or waste in ordinary yellow corn
A very good quality Of this article is now
made in Chicago, which will bend, stretch
and show the haracteristics of ordinary
rubber E-
Our good Republican friend. Pease, OF
the Anoka Union, says: TT is like call
ing at a house of mourning to visit Re
publican headquarters in st. Paul. How
ever, there is one ray of light in the per-
son of Miss Callahan, one of the ables'
lady politicians in Minnesota.
srr 5sa-o-
This month school begins pretty gen
orally all over the country, and millions
of boys and girls will be taking up then
tasks again. Last year the public ano
private schools of the country had 1851
SAG pupils The st. Paul city schools be-
gin next week.
Sept was a day memorable to Oliver
Cromwell. 1t was the anniversary of his
first great success in battle, tha'
Of Dunbar. in 1885, The same
day wear later he was successful In the
hattie of Worcester. 1t was Sept. 8, 1868
he died.
Arrangements are being made for ar
arbitration court at The Hague, to set
tie the sealing disputes over seizures IT
Boring sea, where American, English and
Russian gunboats are patrol1ng. Amerl-
can and Canadian schooners have been
seized of late for trespassing inside the
Russian three-miIe limit.
On Sept 8, 1886, Gov. Fletcher, Of the
orovince of New York, granted a tract of
land seventy miles long and twelve
miles wide. on the east bank Of the Hud-
son river. to Godfrey Dellius, his heirs
and assigns forever, under the rent re-
served of one raccoon skin per annum. !"
This ''extravagant grant" as 1t was
termed, was annuled on May Il, 1893
This is the season Of fairs and reunions.
And whore there is a gathering of any
kind are to be found the falk1rs with
schemes to fleece the unwary.
Orr consul at Jerusalem reports that
the Dead sea, which for thousands of
wears has been a forsaken solitude In
the midst of desert, on whose waves
M rudder has been seen for centuries,
is to have a line of motor boats in the
future. Owing to the continued increase
in traffic and the influx of tourists, a
shorter route is to be found between
Jerusalem and Kerak, the ancient cap
ital of the land of Moab"
The Russian government has started in
10 divert European settlement to Siberia.
From any part of European Russia a
family of any size can get a family tick
eft for seven roubles, or about $3.50, as
far as Vladivostok or Port Arthur, a
distance of over 1900 miles. This ar
rangement has been made. 1t is said,
upon the personal suggestion of the car,
who expects large results from the ex-
traordinary inducements. Moreover, he
hopes III this way to divert the
stream of emigrants coming to the