The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-01
MONDAY GLOBE CHANCES.


Except for the promptness and eff
ficiency of the fire department yesterday
morning the Union block with its score
or more of industries, would now be a
blackened ruin The Globe has had
occasion before this to compliment our
fire boys, and we hope and believe the
public understands that no city in the
country has better department
Two years ago today the first joint ses-
sion of the American and Spanish peace
commissioners was held in Paris
American agriculture lost one of It's
oldest and most jealous and useful adj
vocates by the death a few days ago o.
William Saunders, who for thirty -eight
years was superintendent of the expert
mental grounds of the agricultural de-
partment at Washington He was es-
pecially interested in horticulture and
many of the choicest fruits now grown
in the United States were introduced ~
him. Paramount park, Philadelphia, and
the National cemetery at Gettysburg are
proofs of his ability as landscape gar
dener. He helped organize the national
grange and was one of the founders of
the department of agriculture. He was
prolific writer, and yet his death at
tracted no attention. There was no
glamor nor political hurrah in his life
He was merely a useful man.
Elections in England for members If
parliament begin today and must close
in the different districts before the 18th
inst The new parliament will assem-
BILE and proceed to transact business
on Nov. l. In the United States it takes
six months to elect representatives of
congress and nearly fourteen months aft
er election before they meet
Affairs are quiet in Pelxin, but the Rus
slams continue their butcheries of Chi
nese in the Northern provinces. Lii Hung
Chang and his associate princes are be-
ginning to take charge of affairs in the
making of settlements. 1t is reported
that Italy will demand S. ,OGO indemnity
and the Vatican at Rome $2O,0OO,OOO for
the destruction of Catholic missions 1t
is believed that the allied fighting is
practically over and the matter will now
be settled by diplomacy, at which the
Chinese are experts.
Today in the Catholic church is cele-
brated as the Festival of the Rosary
The rosary, as is well known, is a series
of prayers consisting of fifteen Pater
Nosters and $50 Ave Marias, which, for
the convenience of worshipers are count
ed on a string of beads. The festival
was Instituted by Pope Plus v. to i'm
plore the divine mercy in favor of the
church and all the faithful, and return
thanks for the favors conferred.
For the man of large or small Smeans
who works to make investments or es-
tablish himself in business; for the farm
er who wants a good soil in land Of
rainfall and good running streams and
lakes, where there is a diversity of
products and near markets, where the
climate is healthful and bfacing, come to
Minnesota.
A novel farming scheme is on foot in
Florida. Its object is to raise wild ami
mails in captivity, so that circus, museum
and park managers may not have to
scour foreign lands to procure them.
Wild animals in tropical countries are
fast decreasing in number and 1t is fear
ed that hunting viii soon exterminate
them. The idea is to provide a regular
farm for the raising of animals that
hitherto have been procured only from
hunters Three large islands, Of many
thousand acres each. have been secured
1t viii thus be easy to divide the animals