The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-01

/ awaits us as the. foremost and most en-
hghtened of the mighty powers OF the
world.
NEW YEARS GLOBE CHANCES.
| Germany celebrated the beginning Of
the twentieth: century a year ago.. be-
cause the emperor said that was the date.
| Russia will celebrate twelve days from
| now, being that. much behind the present
arrangements@efi the calendar. The rest
| of civilization celebrate today.
%
The nineteenth century was one of the
bloodiest In all history. The Napoleonic
| wars alone, in the early years of the CEN
| tuTy, destroyed over 100000 men and in
/ fiicted unutterable suffering upon many
millions. The century ended as all others
| ended. with wars in progress on nearly
| every continent, the principal ones being
waged by the most civilized, in whom the
| war fever is apparently rampant. If the
| twentieth century isSnot full of wars it
| will not be because Of readiness. for
arsenais and ship yards were never SO
| busy.
Robert NJ. Brice@ of Greenwich, Conn,
| appeared before the board of assessors
of his city the other day and asked that
| his tax assessihentIb be raised 50 per cent.
! AS he is a miInohaire, and the richest
| man in the city, his action caused aston
ishment. It is 4pot probable that his.
course will be gehArally followed.
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1 The American Historical society was
| in session at Detroit last week. During
! discussion of the negro question Prof
| Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard uni
/ versity, said that while he deplored the
| lynching of negroes, he believed that if
| the people of community demanded the
1 burning at the stake of negroes as a
| penalty for committing horrible crimes,
the state should make burning the legal
| penalty. He said that the removal of the
! negro from the South, by COLOMBIA ton,
/ would kill the Southern states. The
South. he declared, could not live with
! out the negro s.asT..st.s!
/ If the smallpox, which is. now raging
| in many localities, and which promises
| to become epidemic throughout the coun-
! try, is due to our intimate relations
with the Philippines. according to medi-
| cal opinion, We are getting more than We
| bargained for, And smallpox is not the
only trouble that aissin store-in, exchange
| for greed. !. fst .s,a ..y,.--.-s
~. tfs3 yeHaT --o- .st.s 80,
! Perhaps 5the most happy country to
begin the new centufg'1fs the little re-
| public of Switzerland. It is at peace with
| the whole world, is not bothered with
| big army and naval expenses, her peo-
| pie are busy and contented. her goods are
| going to all countriesszand no war ship
is needed to take them.
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While Marcus DAILY was distributing
| fortunes with, free hand In his feud
| with Clark IN Montana. his brother
! preached in a sl,5Ga church at Tacoma
| Oswego county,, Ny, and struggled
! with poverty. He did not have means
| enough to pay his way to his wealthy
| brothers sick bed nor funeral in New
York city. The brothers were not enc
mics, but. Marcus was too busy making
! money to think of or remember his broth
| er Daniel, not even fIislfis will
see @
The year 1900 in the United States wit
messed PRESIDENT election without the;
! stagna ton eofamef to that event The
foreign. export sssf1Ked the biggest record
/ that was eyerx made by any nation in
| the world in the way of the expectation
of the fndustrte 1f It's people. France
shows no increa IN her exports for the
last quarter of injury Great Britain
|. has Increased nAafiI 40 per inland Ger
many about so Der cent, but the increase
of the B1aited Htafas during that period
has been 200 pei nefsts s.sss:
| Mrs. Laura Alderman, of Harley. s. d..
/ has an apple orchard of over 5000 trees
1
| Wealthy varieties. 4 She keeps FIVE men
busy during the season. In the begin
| ming of her work her orchard WIS
! known as "Alderman's Folly but sue
cess has changed ridicule to admiration
/ The last year ttf :.the. century Witness
| ed revival of Sho!ne enterprises in Spain
and better conditions. than in MARY
| years. s.
The. notable events in France in 1905
| included the exposition. a failure, and
l. q wave, of enthusiasm over ex-FreSident
/ Kruger, not from, love of the. Boer, but
hatred of England. =
1 The death of Moses Colt Tyler Dee.
2S; professor of American history in Cor<E
| nell university, and writer of ability
/ and merit is,.one of. the great Losses
to literature during 1900. He was a
1 classmate, in Yale, of President North.lpA
| of the Minnesota State university
This little suggestion from an ex-
/ change is well worth considering today.
] and might take the. form of a resolution:
| ttsAltercatfon about trif1es is fruitful
/ source .of friction, ard stock subjects
of disputation beget a chronic 'touchi-
| ness One seldom copRinces by excited
/ and voluble argument, and when a sus-
/ picion of temper appears-goodby to sue
/ cess. Politeness compels a conciliatorvs
| manner, an opell-lnirded hospitality to
| the views Of. otliers-which will be most
| effective If the object be to influence,
rather than TO vent our irritations''
/ %
The selfishness of nations. pride of
| races, greed of dynasties and individuals,
| ambitions of rulers, wants of depend
| cnts, combine 20 reflect upon the day
| which 1lshers In the new century,
| llster which betokens much gloom before
the century ends.
/ The year just passed has been one Of
disasters in Italy 1t was jubilee year in
/ Rome with over a half million pilgrims
| It is an Old saying in Rome that the
/ Jubilee years are Years of disaster to
| Italy and events seemato have justified
| this year this ole, 8 standing superstition
| of the Romans The year opened with
trouble in parliament, in July King Hum
| herr was murdered, land the last quarter
| brought serious fiopds and losses.
! Tt is said by men of science that /.
all the condensed sFmoisture of the at
| mosphere were to fall as rain, and none
of it as snow, hundreds of thousands of
miles Of the earth's surface; now yield,
ing hountiful crops, weuld be little bet
| ter. than a DESERT The tremendous eco
ncmic gain for the world at large, which
results from the difference between snow
| and rain is seldom realized by the In
habitants of fertile and well-watered low
lands.
1 A grocery. firm at Lancaster, Pa. sup,
piled goods tc a. family of4aIfat city fiftg
years ago, to the value of about Sl,2oe