The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-14


De land milder than New England in
winter, because warmed by the Gulf
stream, and one of the wonders of the
world from a-moral and peaceful and In
uustrlous standpoint So 1t seems that
we are not the whole thing in the
matter OF morals and government
The snow on the sidewalks in front Of
the residences and business houses of
our thoughtful and enterprising citizens
was all cleaned off by noon yesterday
Inc palatial A. T. Stewart mansion in
New York is to be torn down. Already it's
costly httings, marble columns and
carved woods have been taken awav by
secondhand dealers. When erected by
the great merchant as his residence it
was an American wonder. It's history
mas been melancholy. 1t contained every
tnlhg money could buy, but there was no
happiness in 1t. The laughter of children
was never heard in its grand rooms.
and fashions throng never graced its
splendid parlors and halls. In 1t the
master and mistress both died the lat
ter insane
A short time before the close of the
Montana legislature a member voted for
the Father of his Country for United
states senator. Upon being asked ia
cetiousiy II he did not know that George
washington was dead, he replied: Ger
fanny; but some Of your fellows have
Deen voting for men who are politically
just as dead for thlrty-three days, have
you not?'
A fellow in Tacoma, Wash, had a
mania to play the slot machines and he
usually came out loser. He played once
TOO often, and losing he borrowed pistol
ana shot himself. Laws are supposed to
protect the weak-minded, and men who
regularly play the slot machines in hopes
OF winning belong to this class.
o.
surgeon General Wyman in a recent adj
dress suggested that men of great wealth
eager to benefit the world could put their
money to no more enlightened use than
by backing up sanitary Improvements In
cities with it. The speaker instanced the
Mills hotels in New York as an fflustra
ton of truest philanthropy, safeguarded
from the ever-present risk of exertine q
pauperlzing influence, and he declared
that the employment of large capital in
the improvement of the dwellings or che
poor appears to me to be as sensible and
noble method of using capital as can
be found" The surgeon general insisted
that the private capitalist could do this
work to better advantage than munic-
the slow, complex and expensive process
OF condemning the property they decide
to improve, while the citizen can go into
the SUM, buy what he wants, and pro-
coed with the work Of demolition and re-
building quickly and economically. This
is the new charity which compares with
the old as preventive medicine does with
the treatment Of symptoms.
Billy SUNDAY who was formerly, q well
paid, all-round good member of the Chi
cago baseball club, is now an evangelist.
He recently closed a revival meeting at
Alton, To-, down on the Omaha road. and
the business men made him up purse of
| $SC0
Science declares the time honored GUS
tom OF shaking hands as a form of
friendly greeting must be abolished. SO
says DR.. Nathan Breiter of New York.
ana other prominent physicians and sur
geons agree with him. In a paper on
The Hand as Propagation of Microbic
Disease" which DR.. Breiter has contrib
uted to the Medical Record, the fact is
clearly proved that tuberculosis, diph-
ther1a' smallpox and other and more
loathsome diseases Turk in the hand
shake
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier
poet, has been sued for damages by
man who fell on an icy pavement i'll
front of the poets house The INDIAN
apolis Sentinel comes to his defense ana
says 1T is hoped that this said Incident
VIII not create the impression that Mr.
Riley is neglectful of his duties as a cit
lien AS matter of fact he is very
| conscientious about cleaning his walks
and may frequently be seen at work
as early as o'clock in the morning. His
custom is to take off the mass of snow
with shovel and broom and remove the
last vestiges with boiling water and sand
| paper. The unfortunate occurrence for
which Mr.. Riley is sued was during his
temporary absence from the city"
| Congress in the haste of its closing
hours invested President Mckinley with
more autocratic power than any chief
magistrate of this country ever possessed
| 10 him has been committed from now
| until congress meets in December, the
| decision of what our relations with Cuba
! shall be. He can in his discretion. with
! draw from it the military force that now
governs it, or he can add to that force
| In Porto Rico his word will be law He is
master in the Philippines; and in the
settlement of the Chinese question his
! word, in the councils of the European
nations, is decisive. Next to the car
| of all the Russians, he exercises more
| power than does any man on earth. In
! deed it is a question whether the car
| is in it with him. Capitalization of pow
er is becoming general in the United
/ States under the Republican party, while
i'll Europe kings are losing their power
| Four scientific expeditions from this
! country to the East Indies to witness the
/ total eclipse of the sun on May II have
| already sailed Some new facts are ex-
| rected, as the totality will be complete.
| A man by the name of Knox is talked
| Of as candidate for mayor of New York.
| They need some knocks to straighten out
municipal affairs in the metropolis.
| The English sovereign has the sole right
| to print the Bible, the Episcopal Book
of Common Prayer and all acts of parla-
ment in the United Kingdom, and if he
liked he could forbid the printing of any
Or all of them anywhere within the Brit
| ish dominions. The right has not been
| exercised for couple of hundred years
o
| There is a bill before the Nebraska leg
| islature to prevent the publication of car
toons 1t makes 1t an offense to make
| any cartoon or print or distribute any
periodical or magazine containing one
! without first having secured the written
consent of the person caricatured. Each
/ offense is punishable by fine of from
$25 to $100 or thirty days Imprisonment,
| or both.
It was a Kansas City lawyer who got
| right at the root of the trouble in de-
claring that mine out of ten divorce
suits in this country are traceable to a
lack of money"