The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-21
THURSDAYS GLOBE CHANCES.

Today, March Il. is the anniversary
of the birth, in 1853, of Jean Paul Richter
popular, quaint and original German
author; of Henry Kirk White. in 1855. an
English author and poet; of Benito Pablo
Juarez, in 1906, president of Mexico. be-
fore and after Maximilian He was an
Indian.
Wisconsin has become one of the lead.
Ing cigar leaf tobacco growing states in
the Union. Last year LOCO farmers in
the central part of the state, in Rock
Dane, Vernon, Crawford and other coun-
ties, produced about 80, 000,0o0 pounds. for
which they received an average Of 6 cents
a pound. Tobacco requires a rich, sandy
loan, and as there is good deal of that
kind of soil in Minnesota the crop could
be made profitable one here.
Maps of the Algoma Central railway.
to be built from Sault Ste. Marie to
Hudson's bay are headed RAILWAY that
Runs Farthest North" What's the mat
ter with the White Pass road in Alaska
and railroads in Scotland?
Prof. Patrick, of the Iowa state uni
versity, recently delivered an address on
Profanity under the headings: 1st.
Why do men swear? I'd, When they 6J
swear, why do they use the words they
DO? lie concludes that men swear be-
cause 1t is a relief to anger, and if they
dIdnt do that they might do something
worse. The use of words and things
sacred is to startle Or shock hearers.
Armour C Co., Of Chicago, will deliver,
on April 1, in New York, the largest con-
tract for supplies for polar expedition
ever taken by an Arctic explorer. The
contract was awarded by Evelyn B.
baldwin, who will head the expedition to
the North pole which will start about
June /, and will consist of 200 tons-fen
earloads--of specially prepared food
stuffs, which 1t is expected will last
Baldwin and his party twenty seven
months.
Last year this country imported $500
725 pounds of hops and exported over 12,-
100000 pounds, and the value of the for
eign hops was 100000, and our hops
brought in little over $1,0]O,000 Quite
a difference in bulk and value. Why?
o.
A prominent foreigner in an interview
IN New York the other day said: 'rYour
trusts cheaper production, but they only
cheapen the price of the product to the
consumers abroad-not at home" He
then enumerated things made in this
country that sold in Europe at from 10
to 40 per cent lower than they did here.
after paying rail and ocean freights.
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Prof. George D. Heron, formerly of
the Grinnell Qo.) college, is organizing a
social commonwealth. The other night,
in lecture in Chicago he said: eff you
wish to do the supremacy spiritual thing,
If you wish to do the holy, truly de-
vout, Christian thing if you wish to take
up conSecrated task which will enrich
your life as it enriches those about you,
cast in your lot with those who seek to
establish a cooperative commonwealth
and to further the cause of socialism,
Constant self-seeking is the essence of
misery. Liberty consists in living out
side ones self. There is no possibility
OF separating one mans good from an
Cther's. We must have society in
which We are not absorbed in the strug-
gle of getting our daily bread before an
era of happiness, of Christianity may be
ushered in. Nature has provided Lavish
ly for us all, and a few have got the en-
tire supply. There's no sense in this con-
slant anxiety as to how men shall get
enough to eat and wear. Misery, wretch
edness and unhappiness are not the
source of goodness, of spiritual bless
ing
The river and harbor bill, talked to
death by Senator Carter. of Montana,
had one item in it of $3eo,000 to rebuild
and repair dams which form the reser-
yoir at the headwaters of the Mississippi
in the northern part of this state.
o.
The liquor that is sapping the life of
the French people-absinthe- being ex-
tensively imported into this country.
Last years imports reached 100000 gall
Ions.
The Grout bill, framed in the interest
OF pure butter and common honesty, and
which passed the lower house of con-
gress by a large majority. but was killed
in the senate by the friends of the beef
tallow trust, will be brought up again
next December The National Dairy
union has made an appeal to the dairy
men of the country to let their congress-
men and senator's understand that they
have not given up the fight to make this
artificial butter men sell their stuff for
what it really is
Congressman Hull, of Des Moines, TO-,
in a recent interview iustiffes the army
increase, and says 1t took four years con-
test in congress to put the United States
in line with the rest of the world in the
matter of organization of the military
and of the government No Republican