The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-19

eminent to furnish supplies to another
tribe The Crow Indians of Montana out
where Custer was killed. raise wheat and
own a Touring mill, and their contract
covers an arrangement to supply the
Cheyennes with flour.
Today is the anniversary of the man
who was the first to discover the noun
taifs Of North Carolina were the high
est of any east of the Rockies. Elisha
MITCHELL the chemist and divine was born
Aug. 10, 1893, in Connecticut. and lost his
life in 1857 on what is now Mitchelfs
Peak while state surveyor of North
Carolina.
This above 80 degree weather night and
day is a record breaker. It's hot all over
the country, and i'll other countries Sun
spots or some thing else is the matter.
Sarah Grand, the clever novelist, has
been misrepresented 1t has always been
thought that she had a small opinion of
men We don't know what Sarah has in
view, but IN a recent article she has this
to say: Personally, and speaking as a
woman whose guiding principle through
out life has been never to do anything
| for herself that she can get a nice man
| to do for her-a principle which I have
! found entirely successful, and which 1
strongly recommend to every other
! woman-personally, 1 have always found
man an excellent comrade." She further
observes that men have stood CALAMITY
by her in times of need, when her own
sex had nothing for me but bonnet
pins"
Samuel Griswold Goodrich. the famous
| Peter Farley" was the author of about
| 200 books for children. His popularfty
| wa IN KING
and stories both instructive and anus
| ing, avoiding always the unreal. hob
| goblin and trashy stuff SO often prepared
for young readers There IS enough of
! the real In life Of a fascinating nature to
make literature for children, and Mr..
| Goodrich was successful in doing it. He
was born at Ridgefeld, Conn, Aug. 10.
1898, and died in 1860. Few men ever made
more children happy.
Last Sunday President Mckinley, be-
| fore going to church at Canton, O.. die
| tated a message to His Imperial Majesty
| Wilhelm" approving the selection Of
the allied forces in China. Business be-
fore religion.
Aug. Il is the anniversary of the birth
| of Richard Parks Bland $3.50. the late
Missouri silver dollar advocate; Of Pierre
Jean de Beranger Q7S0). the great song
writer of France; of Harold Frederic
| 1856, the novelist at Utica, N. Y, who
died recently in London; Of John Wool
man QS2O). the famous American Quaker
preacher.
Reformers will find a most inviting field
| in trying to kill the tipping s. stem. which
has reached the stage of disgusting syc-
| ophancy and insufferable insolence In
tTafS I,ne lone oNTfs-f tai IN
Europe In the Eastern hotel. elevator.
| sleeping car. barber shop and railway
| station especially one can scarcely get
| proper attention now without paying an
extra price for it. 1t is not yet chronic
in the West, but it's coming.
Now that our schools will soon open
it may he time for parents and teachers
| to consider that children should be edu-
Gated along lines that are in harmony
| with their likes and incllnations. The
boy who has no faculty for figures can
| never become an architect or civil en-
gineer. The girl gifted with music should
be cultivated musically. Men ard women
succeed better when they like their vo,
cations.
1t is hoped the new superintendent of
schools. who has had no previous ex,
ecutiYcs experience in the management of
city schools, will not undertake radical
| improvements in the belief that he must
! do something new and different to show
that he is doing something. The new
broom" idea doesn't always work satis-
1 factorily.
The w, p. Flat sale in Chicago last
week of sixty short horn cattle selected
from the leading herds of England was
the most important event of the kind in
many years. The average price was over
$1,000 head, and more than half of the
number came west of the Mississippi
four of the animals to Minnesota.
Rev C. NJ. Sheldon, he of Topeka
| writes home from London that eff Eng
/ land goes to destruction in the next cen
/ fury 1t will not be because of outside
! war or dangers from other nations but
! because she has drunk herself to de-
Instruction. Guess Charley must have
| been looking up the saloons. The Psalms
have much to say of the evils of drink.
Don't forget your county fair. 1t will
not be equal to the state fair. but you
/ will see more neighbors at your smaller
| home display. The meeting of friends.
even if the display of products is not
large or new, is helpful, restful and bene-
fetal.
| Sabbath (from shabbath TO rest from
! labor Is the old Hebrew name applied to
the seventh day of the week. According
| to Exodus xxi, 12-1S. the Sabbath was
| legally proclaimed about the year 149l B.
| c. Constantine the Great issued an
edict in 321 A. D. proclaiming Sunday as
a legal day Of rest and holy day, and
this civil law has since been Incorporated
| by many of the white nations.
The first vessel to cross the Atlantic
took more weeks than 1t now takes days.
! Last Tuesday the new ocean liner
! Deutschland reached Plymouth, England,
| having made the trip from Sandy Hook,
! n. y, in days, II hours and 40 minutes.
This was at the rate of twenty-six miles
an hour. This was the fastest hourly
| average ever made by a passenger ship.
Miss Blanche Fearing died at Eureka
Springs, Ark, last Monday. Her career
| furnishes an example of what one can do
even when beset by serious disadvan-
| tages. She was blind, but a graduate
of the Iowa college, at Vinton, and of the
| Northwestern university law school at
| Chicago, where she won prize for
! scholarship in a class Of fifty-four stu
! dents. Her mother read law books TO her
! and the blind daughter took notes and
| discussed the subject with her. After
| graduation she opened law Office in the
Journal building in Chicago and had sew
| era1 years of practice. when her health
| failed. She was author of a novel and
! three volumes of poems.
! The subject of a belief In a future
state is the largest in the history of the
human race, and the literature concern