The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-26
MONDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

+. 3. Fancher governor of North Da-
kota, is in California, sick a-bed. and
the lieutenant governor a person named
DeVlne, Is acting governor. Of course
the acting governor had to issue 81
thanksgiving proclama ton. and it's a
wonder. 1t is stump speech, a sermon
and bunch of poetical and prose quota
tlons. He urges everybody to be thank
ful for nearly everything, and suggests
how everybody should spend the day his
admonitions closing in these words: ''Let
the evening be devoted to the children
Make merry in the good old way. Roll
back the burden Of years. A day llus
spent will not only be a living service
to God, but a blessing to others and a
benediction to ourselves"
There is a widespread anxiety among
public men over the condition of Sena-
tor Davis. He is familiar with all phases
of international matters awaiting con-
gressiOnal action, and his death would be
looked upon as serious national loss. H IS
recovery now seems a case of hoping
against hope.
After all, while the country may wor-
ship wealth, yet in the selections to fill
inches in the Hall of Fame in New York
the names of rich men are not there
only two, George Peabody and Peter
Cooper, and they only because of their
large-hearted philanthropy. The mere
accumulation of money is not a matter
worth remembering, unless wise use is
made of it for the benefit Of the world.
No man can make money without the
aid of other men, and the man who gets
more than he knows what to do with
for his own comfort and benefit has a
wide field before him in the judicious use
of his gatherings in helping along those
who were instrumental in helping him.
A year ago today England formally
notified the powers of a state of war
in South Africa. 1t has been an eventful
year to Great Britain. 1t has meant an
expenditure exceeded only by the cost of
the wars with Napoleon, the mobilization
and transportation half way around the
world of the greatest army over 200,050
ever raised in England for such an
expedition, the death or disability of
nearly one-quarter of that great host,
the wounding of national pride by repeat
ed reverses an apparent blunders, the
increased unpopularity of the country
among the peoples of continental Europe
and the substitution of domestic and
racial strife for international friction in
South Africa.
Music publishers say that "Coon Songs"
are losing favor Not one in twenty Of
the songs written ever get into print.
One New York dealer said he had ac-
cepted twelve out of nearly three hum
bred in the last year. The country is tuII
of poets who think they can write songs,
and there's lots of people who think they
can sing, and a rag-time wave has sub
merged the country drowning out the
patriotic and sentimental ballad, but ''It
did get pretty tiresome to hear the aged
soubrette tell Of her happy childhood
days, when she was good to her mother,
and the public was glad when she took
up the coon song; but that kind of
stuff is dying a lingering death, and
there's money in it for the man who finds
a good substitute"
In the opinion of the Washington Post
F'the most incompetent and Enthusiastically
classes of Cuban population have been
given political control of the destiny Of
the island. The fact is that the ele-
ments recognized, promoted, and installed
by our authorities at Havana are no
toriously unfit to conduct the affairs of
the island. Such men as the Gomezes,
the Sanguillys. the Rabis, the Banderas-
and all the rest of them-are not repre-
sentatives Of civilized society and honest
government. They are nothing but pro-
fessional agitators and marauders. AS
well intrust to them the peaceful des-
TIMES of Cuba as hire so many wolves to
guard a sheepfold.''
The town of Eatonville, Fla, has
a population of 1900 people, and not
white person in the whole community.
1t is quite an active place, well governed
by a set of village officers, with all OF the
business concerns common to place Of
that size.
The irrigation congress in Chicago
closed Saturday after electing officers,
including w. W. Heffelfinger as vice
president for Minnesota. Among the
papers read on the last day was one by
Col. ]. S. Cooper, of Chicago, president
of the National park association on
The Proposed National Minnesota
parks It was decided to hold two con
crosses next year, the first at Colorado
the trans-Mississippi congress, and the
second a Buffalo in October, during the
pan-American exposition.
Have you ever thought of what be-
comes of the flies, the ices, the ants. and
the many other little creatures during
the winter that one meets with nearly
every where in the summer time? They
all had their ambitions and troubles.
lived their brief lives, and died, but their
progeny will appear next summer.
Supposing the supreme court decides
next month that our recently acquired
island possessions are part and parcel
of this nation and must be given full