The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-13

Inc International commission to set
tle with China does not seem to make
any Roadway.
The Twin Cities have a, fine street car
service and on some lines no better cars
are IN use anywhere, but when the tenn
Perature gets down to freezing it is I'M
colhIofatoie to sit In those cars when
they are not heated
@=ae7.,, -o-aa1s. s7a.sss
slr Robert Giffen, for many years sta
Ilstlclan to the British Board of Trade.
Says: Germany, Russia and the United
! ana austria had by comparison remained
staIohafy' so that now the great world
po"efS were four on1y-the United
1Idtes, Russia and Germany, with
france doubtful fifth
The serious condition of Senator Da-
US VS. Oh minnesota, is another proof of the
:! eq1e.cy with which seemingly insig-
Iliicaht happenings are fraught with mo-
mentous consequences. Fort WAYNE
Qnd) Daily News.
Today, Nov. IS, is celebrated in tho
Cathcllc church in honor of the Catholic
SAINT st. John Baptist de la Sale, foun-
oer VI the Christian Brothers.
oy the annexation of the South Afrf-
an nepuolc and the Orange Free State.
the British empire is now ninetv-seven
times as large as the mother country.
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Inc selection of President MCKINLEY
breaks the record, since Grant. as fba
oihy one In twenty-eight years to be re-
eIecteo. Since the time Of Grant onIv
.1 t"o ple5loents were re-nominated, C1eve-
lelio ana Harrison, the former being de-
Ieated IN 1883 and the latter in 1892
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AS result Of the defeats of 1895 ana
ISOO, the Democratic party must seek \.
ne" standard bearer, new leadership AMI
platform repaired in the direction IF
conservative wisdom. 1t must yeer for
It's strength towards the Eastern and
Norlnern central states, and away from
liie unstable silver states. It's crops If
victory must be PLANTED in New York
ana INDIANA and Illinois, not in the mines
Oh Nevada and Colorado nor in the sands
OF Popuism. Northwestern Chronicle.
For a prodigal spendthrift Count Boni
de Castellane takes the cake. Since bis
marriage with Anna Gould, five years
ago, ne has Contrived to accumulate
ueDts amounting to 23500,0O0 francs In. adj
0ltlon to spending his wife's Income oc
100000 francs a year. George Gond bas
oeen appointed trustee of his Sisters ra-
naming property.
Last'aweek the first state lodge of the
AFRICAN Monarchs of America was in
stalled In Sioux City, TO- and will no
knoWn as Lodge at Large No. 1. The
AIrlcan Monarchs of America Is the first
fraternal Insurance society organjzef4 fer
acolored people exclusively. :.
o.
-Tne Spanish-American congress. now
holding secret sessions in Madrid has
delegates from all the old Spanish col
ONES In america. This congress is the
0utsToWth OF a sentiment that began tn
ueVeIop IN Spain soon after the close Of
the Spanish-Ameriean war Spain. filled
with resentment against the. TInitad
states, conceived the idea of eultiyattng
close commercial alliance with. her for.
mer colonies. Her proposals to this end
were accepted with an eagerness upon
the part of the South American repub
hcs that oecastoned no little surprise in
the United States. The proceedings OF
the congress will be watched with in
terest A ~
why do people moisten lead pencils bv
sticking them in their mouths? The
graphite marks without moisture Even
If 1t did do good 1t would be gone as
SOSAA e@o ILO UPS COOGn6Q the paper. The
habit is probably an inherited one. hand
ed down from ancestors who used some
sort of a marker that required moisten
Ing. 1t cannot be said to be a harmful
or obnoxious habit; only a curious one
1t Will not besnecessary to orgs ntze n
society to reform ipencil rnanipula tors:
let them go on wasting good saliva. time
and muscular energy; but in the ex-
plo1tatfon Of social and ethnolosicaI s+ud
les D6rlanS nanoiI
publish an explanation of the phenome
non.
After half century of experience md
failure to legislate the saloon ONT of ev-
istence, Chairman Manley, of the Maine
Republican state committee, in a n1lb-
hshed letter suggests that the question
of repeating the prehibitory amepdment
to the constitution be submitted to
vote of the people. At present in all the
cities the Bangor plan" is in operation
which consists in the indictment of the
liquor dealers once a year. On conviction
they are fined 500 and costs. This
amounts to low license, for the persons
paying the fines are not molested in the
prosecution of their business, providing
they maintain decent places and conform
with police regulations. The actual con.
dition in the state for years has been one
Of low license.
TT Venezuela grants the island of Mar
guerita to Germany, how will the admin,
istration apply the Monroe doctrine now
that it has gone into an alliance with
Germany ard the other powers to cican
out China?
The Chicago Tribune, in an editorial
on Sunday, quoted the following as an
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are in tie Philippines Our flag is there:
our boys in blue are there. Thew are
not there for conquest; they are not there
for dominion. They are there because
in the Providence of God that great archi-
pelago has heel7 placed in the hands of
the American people" President Kruger
had the same blind confidence. Napoleon
knew better when he said God is on
the side with the heaviest hattalions."
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During the month of October the Brit
ish lost in a war that was supposed to
be over 167 killed in action including Is
officers, n who died of wounds. 367 who
died of disease p who died of accidents
and 81 captured OF missing-a total almost
equal to the monthly average for the du-
ration Of the war.
MulhalPs Dictionary of Statistics for
1860 saws that in 1899 England had one
cIergyman to every 6f0 Inhabitants Tre
land one to every LILO, France one TO 500
Italy one to 1851 Austria one to 700 Snain
one to 400, Russia and Germany. RESPECTS
lively one to 170esand one to I,42O, the
United States ,osle,sto ESQ., Australia one
to 1,300
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The ways and means committee of the
house will meet in Washington Nov. 20
to consider the question of trying to cut
down the war taxes, but it is feared
that the heavy expenditures attendant
upon the campaign in the PHILIPPINES will
not permit much reduction. So