The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-23
SUNDAY GLOBE CHANCES.


Today in the Catholic church is the six
teenth Sunday after Pentecost. IN the
Protestant Episcopal church it is the fiji
eteenth- Sunday after Trinity. 1t is the
l66th day from Jan. 1, and the Goth day
!. from Dec. 81. The sun rises at 5:17 a. m
and sets at SIS p. m. The new moon OF
the September phases abegins at. 2:O7 D.
M today, ard will be known as sin the
dark for three days. What is known as
autumna1 equinox in the procession" of
the seasons. or the beginning Of autumn,
dates for 7:C1 a. m. today. The sun today
shines exactly upon one-half of the
earth's surface, and produces the phe-
nomenon of practically equal day =. and
night all over the world. The autumnal
equinox, with less daylight, viii continue
until Dec. p, when the days will begin to
iengthen to March 20, the beginning of
spring on the vernal equinox, when the
days and nights are again equal
The National Prison Association of the
United States is in session at Cleveland,
0. Minnesota has several representatives
in attendance.
Rev. P. R. Heffron, of this city, in his
lecture "a Plea for Rural Life" said:
There are rural schools for the education
Of farmers sons and daughters, and these
schools unfit their pupils for their life
work and wean them away from what
ought naturally to be their occupation.
There is not even preteDsa in the whole
curriculum to recognize the life work of
the pupil. Life on the farm is good enough
until better mode of existence can be
found. What was NNr11rabie and
agreeable life for father and mother, is
not such for son and daughter; the
schools aim to make merchants and law
yers, preachers and teachers, doctors and
bankers; but farmers and farmers wives
Oh, not at all. And when the rural school
has done its worst, the subjects are sent
off to college and university to perfect
their education and swell the ever increas-
ing army of educated do-nothirgs VIII
they return to the country and the farm?
Oh, no. not they. They have been train
ed to the false notion that head work and
hand work are not yoke fellows. For some
the country may still have attractions
and they will return, and, indeed, to the
farm; but even they, instead of submit
ting to the conditions of terra firma will
insist on farming from a balloon
Lieut.. Hobson, he of the Santiago in
cident and hero of many kissing events, Is
sick in Japan. He has been IN the Phil
ippines and looked over the wrecks of the
Spanish ships, and says it wasn't so much.
OF job to sink them-in short he at
tempts to put Dewey's achievement in
the shade compared with Simpsons 90
victory at Santiago de Cuba.
The night school to be opened by the
Y. M. c. A. of this city on Oct. viii be
good thing. The management has
number of good things planned for the
membership and the public.
Today is the anniversary of the famous
victory of Paul Jones in command of the
Bon Homme Richard $50 called for Ben
iarniY1 ETa11 I<linl two I'm SD:
off the coast Of Yorkshire, England The
news of this wonderful victory excited
the world. and largely increased respect
for American bravery and seamanship.
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Our present chief executive could have
| a longer title than President Tyler had in
1843, when he addressed the Chinese en-
peror, opening with the statement that:
.T, John Tyler, President of the United
States Of America-wflich states are
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
| Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont,
! New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
| Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North
| lucky, Tennessee, Ohio, louisiana, Ind
| lana, Illinois, Arkansas, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Missouri, and Michigan-send you
| this letter Of peace and friendship, signed
| by my own hand"
| The president expresses the hope that
| the health OF the emperor Is good, and
adds: 1.-THE Chinese are numerous. You
| have millions and millions Of subjects.
The twenty-six United States are as
large as China, though our people are not
so numerous. The rising sun looks upon
the great mountains and great rivers Of
China. When he sets he looks upon the
rivers and mountains equally large in the
| United States. Our territories extend
from one great ocean to the other, and
on the west we are divided from your
dominions only by the sea-. Leaving the
mouth of one of our great rivers and
going constantly toward the setting sun,