The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-20

easier than any other man. Continuous,
unfagging effort, persistence and deter
mination will win. Let not the man
be discouraged who has these"
WEDNESDAY, GLOBE CHANCES.
Today, Feb. 20, is the anniversary of
the BIRTH in 1894 of Francois Marie Vol
taire, one of the most remarkable names
in French literature. Over $50 years ago
he mentioned the Chinese in these words:
I'VE travel to China to obtain clay for
porcelain, as if we had none ourselves;
stuffs (silks), as if we were destitute of
stuffs; and a small herb to be infused in
water, as if we had no simples in our
own countries. In return for these BEN
Gifts, we are DESTROYS Of converting the
Chinese"
Seven years ago today Pierre Gustave
Toutant Beauregard, Confederate gem
eral, and with Jubal Early, manager of
the Louisiana lottery, died in New Or
leans
Memberships in the New york stock
exchange are now held at $4,000 each
IN on the ground floor with the boss
spectators.
Next Monday marks the fftieth ami
versary of the opening of the first rail-
way in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee 81 Mis-
sissippi line, a stretch of track connect
ing Milwaukee with WaukeSha, and Gov
LaFollette is expected to make formal
request that at 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing the cord on every factory and loco
motive whistle in the commonwealth be
iG
a part of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul line.
Prof Robinson of the Chicago uni
yersfty in a lecture the other night warn
ed young men not to marry worldly So
ciety women.
Executors of the estate Of C. P. Hun
tington filed a certified check for $OO,OOO
with the comptroller of New York city
Monday to pay the inheritance tax. The
estate is estimated at $S0,00OOGO. The
only gift outside of his family was
500, 900 to a school at Hampton, va.
The other day 1t was given out that
Senator Hanna was to take hand In
breaking the deadlock in the Nebraska
legislature. Now Delaware is to receive
orders to break it's deadlock. 1t is sal1
that the patience of Mark with tue
states now engaged in fruitless contests
over senators has about reached It's
limit. If the Republican legislatures
can't pick out senators Mark thinks he
can. He is pretty nearly the whole
thing now in the Republican party.
The Chicago bureau of charities find
among the destitute Of that city over
1900 families that have been deserted by
The husbands and fathers. In discussing
this subject the Chicago students or
sociology recommended street work and
whipping post for wife deserters.
The general public is not aware OF the
large number of commissions Mr.. Nc
Kinley has appointed at the expense OF
the country to give jobs to political IA
vorites The Nicaragua commission Cost
$3.50 600 and reported that canal could
be built at a cost of $11S,000,OOO. This did
not seem to please the White house syn
dicate and so bill was pushed through
congress appropriating 100000 and au-
thorizing the president to name new
commission to go over the ground traV-
ersed by the old commission, examine
and report. The new commissioners
were promptly appointed and are now In
Investigating affairs in Central
America This is a mere sample of the
scores of commissions and commissioners
Mr.. Mckinley has appointed during the
last four years.
Count Won Waldersee, commander Of
the allied forces in China, has asked the
foreign generals to have all available
troops ready in two weeks for an eighty
day expedition, presumably to Sian Flu.
It is said there are number of rich
towns and cities in that province.
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Carrie E. Busby, a colored woman of
Michigan, says that war between the
whites and blacks is the only solution for
the negro question in the South. The
other day she declared, in a speech, pre-
paratory to a tour to agitate the upris-
ing of the Southern blacks, that 1--WE
believe too much in faith without work.
Never will our fellow men in the South
be wholly free from oppression and in
nocent men wholly relieved from fear of
lynching until they fight. Let the col
ored regiments which fought at Santiago
for free Cuba now turn about and fight
to free themselves"
The Minnesota horticulturists, at their
last meeting, decided that deep planting
of the orchard tree was much in favor
eight inches to foot deeper than the
tree grew in the nursery.
The price of a first-class battleship is
all the money asked by the national de-
partment of agriculture of this congress
to carry along it's varied and useful oper-
ations. There is no money appropriated
which brings the American people a
larger return.
Gen. Macarthur cables from Manila
particulars concerning the capture of liz
rifles from the Filipinos at cable cost
far in excess of the value of the rifles
The war department is cheerful over the
news and the administration papers will
soon announce the end of the war Re
cruiting for the new army has not been
discontinued however and the 10000 men
in the Philippines have not been ordered
home.
In commenting upon the remark that
1.-The fusion in Kansas promised the
liquor dealers 100 saloons and got in; the
Republicans promised them loo and
they got in," the Chicago Record says:
And Carrie Nation did not. make any
promises at all, and she got in
The secretary of the Massachusetts,
state board of agriculture has just issued
an eighth edition of lists of farms in
that state for sale at low prices, being
commonly known as abandoned farms. -
The perusal of this list is Interesting,
showing how cheap land can be bought
in Massachusetts,. Several farms with
good barns and orchards are offered at
$3.50 per acres. For So to So per acre,