The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-15

date was in Chicago last January and
was shaved in the barber shop of tile
Auditorium hotel. AS he left the chair
ne asked the colored man who shaved
him if he knew him. The barber said he did
not, and the modest captain replied, "You
have just shaved the next governor ,of
Minnesota. This seems almost incred-
ulous. Yet prominent St Paul man.
unknown to Van, occupied the next
! chair, and heard the boastful claim, and
| felt disguised over the all-consuming van
ity of the man who has been seeking the
governorship 10 these many years,
Gov. Pingree says he is tired of politics
and is going to quit Well, there will be
no public complaint or objection if he
does retire.
Lord Roberts wires from Pretoria that
the Beers are making many successful
raids but severe punishment is being
inflicted in return.
Standard Oil Rockefeller is said to have
Put over IS, 100000 to his credit by his OPP
erations in Minnesota iron ore during the
past year. This same man worked when
youth, in Ohio harvest fields for Is
cents a day.
Watch the forecasts and claims as to
"A
city prediction puts Minnesota into the
Mckinley column by $1,000 majority.
Rather a long distance forecast. 1t will
take more than $4,000 majority of the
presidential kite to pull the Van SAINT
tail through.
Oct Is. 1918, was the birthday of Irwin
Mcdowell. the general who commanded
the Union forces at the first battle of
Bull Run.
The idiotic utterances of Capt Leary,
the freak ex-governor Of Guam, that il
he had his way he would hang every
man who is giving aid and comfort to the
Filipino rehals''-that is, Americans who
enjoy the humble, but God-given right
of protesting against a useless war, as
Fox protested in the English parliament
against the sending of troops to subdue
the American colonists during the re-
bellion, and declared to be traitors"
by this blood-t thirsty captain, are not
worthy Of the prominence given them In
the Republican press.
Today, Oct. Is, is the anniversary of
the birth in Italy, in $685. of Evangelista
Torricelll, the inventor of the barometer
and Of the birth of Allan Ramsey. the
Scotch poet, in 1856.
It's not the work, but the worry,
~, mat makes the world grow old,
That numbers the years Of its children,
Ere half their. story is told;
That weakens their faith in heaven.
And the wisdom Of Gods great plan,
An! It's not the work. but the worry
That breaks the heart of a man.
-SomerVille Journal.
The coal strike in Pennsylvania has
happily ended by a compromise of 10
nor vent Il OH
certain grievances. More than half a
million people were directly interested
In the result of the strike from the
bread-and-butter standpoint, while mil
lions more were interested financially in
the matter Of the price Of the article.
Oct Is. 1917, was the day that Thad-
deus Kosciusko, the Polish patriot, died
an exile in Switzerland. He was born In
i7i6, and educated in France. He came
to America during the revolution and
served as a military engineer. He
planned The line at Bemis' Heights Sar-
atoga, where tho Americans won
decisive victory, and also the fortifica-
lions at West Point. At the close of the
Revolution he returned to Poland and
fought bravely, but in vain, to preserve
the liberties of his people.
There are now thirty beet sugar fac
tories in operation in eleven states, the
output of last year being $4,000 tons.
| The consumption of sugar in this coun-
try is over 100000 tons, or 20O,0c0.G09
pounds, Beet sugar now exceeds cane
sugar the former now averaging 68 per
cent OF the total. Sugar beets can he
grown in nearly all the states of the
Union.
Rev Dwight Hills, the Chicago preach
er who is now occupying Henry Ward
Beecher's old pulpit, and who Is to lee
ture in st. Paul this season, entered col
Iege at seventeen, and, as he says,
studied and starved and found oatmeal
rather rnonotonous as a steady diet"