The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-01

~ SSAAIAAlcAt ldVOrS maintaining the civil
service regulations at the point of the
highest possible efficiency and integrity.
SATURDAY GLOBE CHANCES.
The Taft commission takes possession
of the Philippine islands today. 1t will
be the legislative and judicial authority,
! and It's action will be backed up by the
military forces The eight million people
| OF LOO islands are to be governed abso-
| iutely by men who have only been there
a couple of months,
According to bthe septuagInt, the world
was created upon Sept. 1 Gold style). 5,50S
years, months and % days b. c. In
| the Julian calendar September is under
the influence ofoVulcan, the child Of mis-
chief and storms
That was quite a fire at the fair
grounds, but 1t win not prevent the
regular programme from being carried
out, We have mighty recuperative pow
ers up Ill this neck of woods, and the
ruins of this week will only be a recol-
lection next week.
Today Hinckley VIII dedicate state
monument to the AS men, women and
children who were burned to death in
town and Sandstone, Brook Park and
Mission Point, and many thousand acres
Of Minnesota and Wisconsin forests, six
years ago.
Yes, It's hot. But do not stop and talk
about It. The best thing to do Is to keep
busy at something and forget all about
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Sept. / is the anniversary Of the birth,
in 1871, of Lydia H. Sigourney, "the He
mans Of America" who published fifty
nine volumes of poems, essays and let
ters; of the birth, In 1875, of James Cor
don Bennett, founder of the New York
Herald, the first daily paper to pub
llsh regular money article and lists
OF stocks.
A policeman In New York arrested
man the other day for being sassy"
There is no such offense known in the
penal code, but it is considered one by
policemen everywhere, but they don't al
ways follow up the crime by arrest1nS
the guilty.
The name September comes from the
Latin Septimus, seventh" because I'M
der the ten-month calendar, and after
wards under the reckoning which made
March the beginning of the year, Septem-
Der was the seventh month. After July
and August Originally Quintilis, fifth,
and SeXtilis, "sixth''), had been so nam
ed in honor of Julius Caesar and Au-
gustus, several Roman emperors sought
to give other names to September, but
in this case the innovation old not sur
vive. julius Caesar gave September th1r-
ty-one days in his revision Of the calen-
dar, but it was subsequently reduced TO
thirty days by Augustus, who changed
the length of all the months after Au-
gust In order to give his tftular month
the same length as July.
Henry Watterson says: Eternal hate
Is not wise, nor is it necessary. Let US
forget the hate of 1866, and look to the
issues of the present. That is wisdom.
For every gate that's barred to hate
VIII open wide to love.
Preaching eternal hate, or hate of limit
ed duration, is poor business. Pract1c1ng
hate exempIified in unreasoning mobs or
in carefully planned armed warfare Is
also bad business. e
Italy abolished capital punishment In
November, 1877, and hence the ASSASSIN of
the king only gets life imprisonment at
hard labor.
The difference in price between raw and
costing $4S712 per hundred, while the re-
fined now sells at S5,SS As per hundred
pounds. Mr. Havemeyer testified before
the Industrial commission that 1t cost a
half cent a pound to refine sugar, leav-
ing a profit of 81 $40 cents per hundred,
which at the present rate of production
leaves a profit Of nearly $4,000 day.
That Isl pretty fair pront Tor Messrs.
Havemeyer and Arbucl1le, Mr.. Hanna
expects a nice campaign. contribution
from the sugar trust.
We find this paragraph in the Buffalo
Express: '"The Boston man who would
not eat plate of beans IN a st. Paul
restaurant until forced to do so at the
point Of a revolver was traitor to his
city"
The battle of Chantilly. Va. was fought
Sept. l. 1852 Maj. Gen, Kearny and Brig.
Gen. Stevens, of the Union forces, were
killed Total loss on both sides about
1900.
The following extract is from a speech
made by John Bright, the English states
man: IAN ancient and renowned poet
has said: 'Unholy is the voice Of loud
thanksgiving over slaughtered men,
Sept. 1, IT'S, Louis XIV. died, after a
reign of seventy-two years. He WAS the
Grand Monarch of France, and fdoliZed
as was no other ruler in Europe.
The month just past established rec
ord for heat. It is month in which a
hot wave of considerable intensity and
duration is usually developed, but it's rare
to have 1t so long drawn out
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Sept 1 is dedicated to st. Giles, patron
saint Of Edinburgh and of tinkers Grip
PIES and heggars. He was born In
Athens, in $40, and many miracles are
attributed to him. His day is celebrated
in many localities, and many churches
are dedicated to him. His relics are in
Toulouse, France,
The National Electrical Contractors of
the United States meet in New York city
today.
That's a clever dodge Of Russia in seek
ing to influence the powers to withdraw
their troSp5 from Pekin to allow the
empress dowager to return and resume
authority. Russia is destined to dominate
China.
Sept. 1, 1878, was an eventful day, In
Massachusetts colony. King Philips war
was in progress and the Indians destroy
ed the town of Deerf1eld, and massacred
it's inhabitants. Similar events are of
daily occurrence now In all parts of the
world.
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