The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-26

Russia is the most peaceab,e nation in
the world. Bear and for Bear" is her
motto wherever she goes.
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Mrs. Carrie-the Ratchet Nation is go
ing to visit Wyoming, presumably to see
about the Big Horn
Ii Hung Chang has again risen from
his death bed, to which the exigencies
Of diplomacy had forced him to resort,
and is still the same astute politician as
ever
The Chamber of Commerce of Mobile
got after newspaper man for sending
out fake story and had him discharged.
Thus the lack of progress in the South
is again demonstrated
DR.. Debren testified before one of the
committees of the Missouri legislature
that the lungs of many bodies dissected
in ST. Louis were black from coal smoke.
st. Louisemust be almost as bad as Chi
cago.
Mark Twain Is writing that apology.
It is safe to bet that when it appears,
the missionaries will want an apology
for the apology a great deal worse than
they ever wanted the apology in the
first place.
The prospects are that the senatorial
deadlock in Nebraska will kill the Re
a door nail, and that the fusion forces
won't have any thing to do but to drag
the corpse cut and bury it.
When the anarchists howl In Moscow
and the car 6trembles in st. Peters
burg, them dos the Poles, Firms and
other down-trodden victims Of brutal
Russian oppression draw deep breath
and wonder If the end Of their misery is
really drawing nigh
While the Russians are getting ready
to throw off the despotic one-man rule
of the car, we have just established
!, such a rule over 1O,Oce,0Oo subjects in the
Philippines It may be that Russia will
become a republic just about the time
when we get our empire established.
NdbItdA OCOICt JullAOI SClidLOI AIOAA
West Virginia. comes out f1at-footed and
square-toed for Hanna for president in
1904. He does not say how the unwritten
law concerning the tnird term would af-
feet Hanna, but then what do people
that use the constitution for door
mat care for unwritten laws?
Minister WI, the bland and affable, Is
getting worried. He begins to suspect
a niger in the woodpile' He is afraid
that the powers will set up unreasonable
demands for indemnity and use them as
a pretext for partition. Minister WI is
generally pretty sharp, but if he had
looked a little closer he might have seen
that ''nigger" in full life size months
ago.
At the instance of the Russian min
lister, the Korean government has dis
missed the English director general of
(Korean) customs This would indicate
that Russia has almost as complete a
control of Korea as of Manchuria. If
the British lion and Japan wish to
check the voracity of the Bear, they had
better make their roar before the pie
is all gone
''All South America fears the imperial
list ambitions of the United States says
John F. Cables, Of Oregon, late United
States consul to Valparaiso, Chile. AS
long as we are still pursuing the feeting
shadow of 'Aguinaldo through the cane
brake swarnps and jungles of the Philip
min ho Of A
have no fear. Uncle Sam knows when
he has his hands full
1t seems that all the speculative theo-
ries about the inhabitants of Mars are
disproved by the researches and conclu-
sions of eminent scientists. Mr.. Edward
S. Holden, formerly director of Lick OBJ
servatory, states: eff by some miracle
man were suddenly transported to
Mars he would undoubtedly freeze in an
exceedinly short time. He would find no
water there, nor sufficient air to
breathe"
Republicans are threatening to raise
a rumpus over the disfranchisement of
negroes in the South As the Repub-
lican party has disfranchised some 49,
600 "niggers' in the Philippines, it Is
hard to see why it should object if a
few thousands of them are disfranchised
In the South The mere fact that those
ringers" in the South always vote the
Republican ticket straight certainly
could not make all that difference.
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ling duty on corn. This means that the
English laboring man will have to pay
that much more for his foodstuffs. In
order to make living, he will have to
demand of the manufacturer a CORE
spending raise in wages. The manufac-
turer will have to make up by asking so
much more for his goods; but the Eng
lish manufacturer has all he can do to
hold his own against competition in the
markets of the world. and if he tried to
raise his prices he wouldn't sell at all.
When Col Cornelius Gardener, of the
Thirtieth United States volunteers, was
about to return to the United States, the
people of Tabagas, Luzon, where he had
been stationed for over year, gave a
popular festival in his honor. At the
ball which closed the holiday, the
daughter of the Alcalde presented to
Col. Gardener an address expressing
deep gratitude for his kindness to the
people and praising the chivalrous atti-
tude of the officers and soldiers OF the
Thirtieth to the women. 1--WE plead that
when you return to America said the
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