The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-28

VI " lew drunken lOa1erS IN aSSailtng
Gov. Roosevelt in Colorado an appeal
to reason or common sense. The P. p
yesterday morning made a three-column
Hash heading to this effect: Roosevelt
Mobbed by Bryanites. The editor Of
the Pioneer Press knows that Mr. Bryan
as we'll as Mr.. Mckinley and all good
people regret violence and will not en-
courage it in any form, ard the editor
who deliberately seeks to discredit his
political opponent by creating prejudice
through iIfsinuation in the form display
ed in the Pioneer Press yesterday is NOR
ally more dangerous, contemplate and
cuipabie than the irresponsible man who
makes no sy demonstration on the
street against an Individual
Gov. Lind thinks that our prison con-
Vlcts can be employed with profit to the
state and to their educa tional and moral
advantage, and yet not enter into ille-
Ultimate competition with free labor His
commission will submit to the next leg
islature a plan which it is believ VI and
hoped will not only provide for the profit
able employment of convict labor, but be
satisfactory to the interests of the state.
The governor has other practical meas
ures in hand for the b.enefit OF the state
Chinese commercial schools have been
ton OF the government to train young
men for service in the Chinese export
trade. II the policy of this country in
the future is that of taking a hand in
running affairs among alien peoples, it
would be good plan to establish schools
and train men in a knowledge of diplo-
macy, of export and import trade, and
III the commercial and civil needs of our
foreign territories.
Today, Sept. %, is the anniversary of
the birth, in 1892, of George Cruikshank,
the English caricaturist and painter; o.
a. a. Guyot, in 1867, the Swiss writer
on physical geography; of Sara Clarke
Lippincott, Grace Greenwood" in 1923,
a popular American writer; of Frances
&. Willard in 1889, well known and re-
memberod In connection with her work
for the Womans Christian Temperance
union. She was endowed with NEST
varied talent; educator. writer and
speaker Nature intended her for
journalist, but thwarted her own designs
by giving her the heart of philan-
thropist
Did you ever see a couple of women
persistent1y insisting upon paying eacn
others fare on the street ears? Yester-
day there was an instance of q great
to do about it on a Selhy car. The two
women in this case kept at it so vigorous
ly that the conductor finally got SO rat
tied that he gathered in ten cents from
each of the contestants It is about time
that even vulgar people should stop pay
ing street car fares for other persons,
as well as buying drinks,
With the coming of cold weather the
craze for khaki" the dust cotor dress
fad of the past season, is subsiding.H 1t
will continue as the warm weather uni
form of the troops however.
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Today, Sept. 2S. is the anniversary of
the death in 1885. of Thomas Day, author
of the we'll known English story book
Sanford and Merton" Day was rich
and eccentric. He sought to train
couple of girls for marriage, on plans
outlined by himself, and spent large sums
of money to carry them out, but the
girls were not built that way, and he
decided, after long trial. that neither
was suited to become Mrs. Day Failing
to educate wife he married a woman
who had some of his views of conduct
The two girls married other men and he
literally endowed them with dcwries.
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Today, Sept. 2S, is the anniversary Of
the famous battle of Nicopolis, in Epirus,
in 1895, when Baiazet l., sultan of Turkey,
defeated King Sigisnund of Hungary
and his army Of 100000 or more Christians,
most of whom were killed, wounded or
captured.
Rev. T. M. Price, an Iowa Falls preach
er, has written drama founded upon the
| first three chapters of Genesis, and calls
| it ''Fadeand Fancy"
TN sympathy with the advance in the
i price of hard coal, now soft coal has
gone up several points. The only pros
| perity in that is to the dealers not con-
sumers.
Oom Paul Kruger has not left South
Africa and the war stin goes on as
| shown by the fact that none Of the Eng
lish troops are going home except the
| sick and wounded.
Look down South There the wages
/ of workingInen are smaller than in. any
other section of the Union. There also
/ the employment of little children in fac
/ tories to the exclusion of men and
women is carried to point only to be
matched in the earlier history of the fac
| tory system in England Why does not
Bryan give some attention to these
/ facts ?".-Picneer Press
/ Why has not President Mckinley, who
! has some authority, recommend congress
sional action down there, if conditions
! are so dreadful, instead of spending his
| time and the cOuntry's morey in TeglI-
| lating affairs III Cuba, Porto Rico,
| Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines and China
among half savage races?
1t Is said that Mr. Fitzsimmons is to
honor Chicago by making that city his
home. No modern city can be truly great
1 without having prominent pugiist
among it's leading citizens.
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The extremely well dressed New York
ers now wear $12 shirts They are made
of batiste-chiffon, the material Of which
/ is woven Of a special kind of flax the
webbing dried through varying tempera-
| lures. tempering the fibre after the man
ner of steel. The threads are so fine that
| the loom room air is kept moist, and the
shuttles work under water. 1t is moi
| shown that the shirts are so very much
| better than those which cost only half
as much. But they are finer, and they
| are expensive, and that is a great deal
| to fastidious man with money enough
| to indulge his fancies. 1t is said that
these batiste chiffon shirts are worn by
Count Boni de Castellane. by the Prince
Of Wales and by Emperor William of
Germany. 1t is not known whether
George Gould. who is putting UP money
for Count BOn1, his french brother-ln-
law, wears these S12 shirts or not.
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Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, the vigorous
London preacher, who once created a
sensation in the pulpit by saying damn
! the sultan while discussing the Ar
| menian massacres, is the author of over
| forty volumes of sermons, novels and es-
! says, and now that he is past seventy