The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-25
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE FRIDAY. JANUARY Is. 1901.

two women; was a prominent member OF
Iammany and the leading clubs, and al
together regular man around town.
one registered and voted at the elections
Tor many years. played poker, smoked,
drank and was a great lover of books.
one dled of cancer in the breast
They are always doing something new
IN Kansas Now 1t is a new society call
ed The Ancient and Select Order of
Johns" No one is eligible to membership
except he bears the name of John"
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The success of the Y. M. c. A. rum
mage sale recalls a passage in Frances
Ridley HavergaPs Kept For the Mas
ter's Use: I'VE may have thought
much about our gold and silver, and yet
have been altogether thoughtless about
our rubbish! Some have a habit OF
boarding away old garments, pieces.
remnants and odd and ends generally,
with the idea that they will come In USE
ful some day. Very like setting it up as
Kind of mild virtue. And so the shabby
things get shabbter and moth and dust
doth corrupt, and the drawers and places
get choked and crowded; and meanwhile
all this that is sheer rubbish to you
might be made useful al once, and to a
degree beyond what you would guess, to
some poor person. Little scraps of carpet
torn curtains, faded shades. and all such
gear. go wonderfully long way towards
making poor cottagers and old or sick
people comfortable. l never saw anything
in this rubbish line yet that could not
be turned to good account somehow I
wish my lady friends would go straight
upstairs and have a good rummage at
once. and see what can be thus cleared
out"
German newspapers will not print adj
vertisements of goods manufactured in
America. This is an admission that our
goods are gaining in popularity in the
fader land" In this country, on the
other hand, people seem to like to buy
goods bearing the brand "Made in Ger
many" Made in France" etc.
There were 3153 locomotives built in
the United States last year. of which sos
went abroad, over half to England.
In the last four years we have sold
abroad in excess of cur foreign purchases
goods of our own production to the value
Of more than $2,000, G0O000 This is a vast
sum of money. During the last calendar
year, for the first time in our trade
records, every month in the year wit
messed an export trade valued at over
00,0G6.0e0 in one instance rising to the
imports for the year were large, footing
up to $S29, 10000, range which has only
been exceeded during two years in our
national history. The exports, however
were 2,307, 100000.
A law is now before the Kansas .legis-
lattre which provides that sit shall be
the duty of the governor of Kansas with
III thirty days after the taking effect of
this act to set time when the sentence
OF death shall be executed on all con-
victs now confined in the peniten tiary
under death sentence, which time shall
be not less than one year from the talk
ing effect of this act" There are now
over fifty condemned mTrderers awaiting
the signature Of the governor The penal
eode provides that a condemned person
shall be confined at hard labor in the
penitentiary fer one year, at the expira-
ton of which the governor shall sign
warrant for his execution. This duty of
the governors has been ignored since the
organization of the state Some of the
condemned men have been in prison for
twenty years. 1t is declared that ma
JorIty of these conVicts would prefer
death to their present life in the coal
| mines hundreds of feet under ground.
Many never see the light of day except
as they go from their cells TO their meals
or to the coal mine elevator Prison of
hcials believe that a majority of these
condemned criminals would prefer the
hangman's rope to the life they live for
few of them hope ever to be released by
pardon
Cigarette manufacturers say that the
output of these coffin nails has dropped
off one-fourth in the last three years
The cigarette does not seem to be as
conspicuous an offense as it used to be.
This is good sign. Certain diseases pass
over the community from time to time
certain vices, habits, fashions, or what
ever they may be called, that do a great
deal of moral and physical harm The
epidemic will rage for a few years and
then abate. The vice is not eradicated
but it ceases to be threatening and uni
versally dangerous.
There Is war of trade on hand be-
tween the United States and Europe The
Earl of Rosebery in a recent address de.
clared that England faced a war that
was not military, and it was the most
serious with which his country had to
cope. He said: '"The chief rivals to he
feared are America and Germany The
Americans, with their vast and almost
ncalculable resources, their acuteness
and enterprise and their huge population,
which will probably be 100, 00G600 in TWEEN
W years, together with the plan they
nave adopted for putting accumulated
wealth. into great cooperative syndicates
or trusts for the purpose of carrying on
this great commercial warfare, are per-
haps the most formidable"
The new Astor-Lenox library now he
ing built in New York will be the largest
in the country, will stand second only in
cost TO the national, or congressional Ii
brary In Washington, which called for
an expenditure of $6,300,OO0 1t will hold
about as many books as the Boston pub
lie, model of its class, which cost
$Z'9oo'OO0, or that of Chicago, built at an
expense of $2,000,C00 There are now near
ly 5000 public libraries in the country.
with a total of 100000 books.
The German emperor is a great meat
eater. He is also very fond of beer
soup, made up of beer, potatoes and
onions. He once said to the English
Earl of Lonsdale: 81 attribute Germany's
greatness to three things-beef, beer and
Bismarck These three have helped to
make the German empire what it is
The Lumber Trade Of tie United
states Is the title of book just issued
Dy the bureau of statistics at Washing
ton 1t claims that more than on
thlrd OF the area of the United States IS
still wooded, towit: 1C94 496 sn,1a~a
miles, or 81 per cent of the land area.
From this standing supply of timber il
is estimated that from 1880 eco, COCO o ID
z,3o0, Oo0, 0oO,OO0 of board measure feet of
lumber are available. The annual lunter
cut has been estimated for the year 1889
as 1880, 600, GOO of board measure feet-tS at
is, we cut approximately 2 per eznt Of
our national timber resources annually
OF this cut 13,800 100000 are credited to To
lake region, 10,0a0, 000, 00e 20 the Southern
states. 6,000,000,o00 to the Northwest AMI