The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-20

er. published at $3.50, Miss. turned up
this week in the Clio mail. $3.50,
not yet on the maps, is new town in the
pine region of Southern Mississippi. It's
motto is God helps those who help
themselves" The editor is a farmer.
VINO says: In connection with the editing
of this paper will do a portion of my
the fence, WELD the hoe and guide the
plow."
Who said anything about winter lin
gering in the lap of spring"
Who would not welcome gentle spring
And toss her bouquet
If the sweet, timid, shrinking thing.
Should drift around this way?"
postmaster General Mulock, of the Cam
adam dominion, in an interview the other
day. said: "Canada's tariff stands as a
warning to trusts wherever they come
from. our tariff laws provide ready and
effective cure for the appetite of manu-
featuring concerns, individual or corpor-
ate. Whenever they produce a commod-
ity and try to encroach on the general
good of the community by throttling
trade or manipulating prices the Dominion
CABINET has the authority Immediately
to place that commodity on the free Est.
This has acted as a powerful deterrent in
the past and would be unhesitatingiy in
voked- in the future"
Things are still coming our way in bus
ness matters Exports from this country
continue to increase, and imports to de-
crease. The exports for 1871 seem des-
tined not only to break all records, but
will perhaps touch the 81, 800, 900 line
For the twelve months ending with Feb
ruary the total is 81, 1876, 1874, 1856, and for
eight months 81, 015 ,374 which is $15,-
00OOG0 above the average necessary to
furnish a $500 O00. 900 total for the fiscal
year. The balance of trade was never so
large before and shows an even greater
increase, being $4s2, 224s04 for the eight
months ending with February, against
1854. ,S97 in the same months of the
preceding fiscal year, and SCI, ,040 for
the corresponding period of the fiscal
year 1896. On the import side the figures
are equally satisfactory The imports of
February, 1901, are nearly S., $50 600 less
than those Of February, 1900 The i'm
ports for the last eight months show
decrease of about $20,00 600 in the same
eight months since 1896, while the ex-
ports show an increase of over $4O0, Co.,
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A Chicago man, A. s. Merriett, has
started an evangelical work in that city
by using the display advertising columns
of the newspapers He says if bust
ness man has anything good to dispose of
he advertfses the fact, and Mr.. Merriett
holds that he who has something spirit
ually good which he wishes the community
to have should do the same In other
words, he believes in applying the meth
DDS which bring success in the business
world to the great movement that makes
for righteousness in the spiritual world
His plan of work is novel one, and
to those who are accustomed only to the
old-time, slow-going methods Of revival
will seem strangely odd. But 1t is never
theless effective. The Bible informs us
that ''the children of this world are wiser
in their generation than are the children
of light" And they succeed better finan-
cially.
The big oil well at Beaumont, Jefferson
county, Texas, has been placed under
control. Its flow was estimated at $4,000
barrels day. It took nearly ten days,
after work began, to get the giant stream
under control, and during that time an
immense lake of oil formed which COW
cred sixty-four acres of ground ten in
ches deep. The bank of this lake, which
had been hastily thrown up, gave way in
one place and about 100000 barrels of oil
escaped. 1t is estimated that fully
half million barrels are still in the lake.
Life insurance. is a profitable business,
to judge from a statement just made
that the total assets of all the Ameri-
can life companies Jan. 1 amounted to
81, 748, 36S, 1898, an increase in single year
of $147 1854, 0S5. The aggregate of all the
surplus funds OF these companies was
$245, 5S5, 979 an increase of more than S22,-
00O,000 for the year. The total income
of the companies for 1900 was shade I'M
der s401, 900, nearly $S5, 100000 more than
in 1899.
w. E. Curtis, Washington correspond
ent of the Chicago Record, says: "Instead
of appointing men of eminent fitness and
experience the president intends to dump
upon the st. Louis exposition a lot of
politicians who happen to be out Of jobs.
Only three men in the list of nine would
be selected for the duties they will be
required to perform if fitness were taken
into consideration" The chairman of the
commission is Carter, of Montana, who
talked the river and harbor bill to death,
by order of Hanna, to revenge himself
against senators who opposed the ocean
subsidy bill The president paid Carter
by giving him $1,000 job. President
Northrop, of the Minnesota university,
has been urged by the Minnesota delega-
ton, but the president seems to have
politicians to reward.
There is much ill-feeling in Cuba
against the United States. A Havana
correspondent say that the people will ac-
cept the terms dicta ted by the Mckinley
administration because the guns are there
to back up the demands. He says: But
the pity of it all is that awkward blum
dering at Washington has stirred up
bitterness between the people of Cuba
and the United States that will take
years to efface. A little diplomacy would
have accomplished everything without
friction, and with a little tact Cuba might
be clamoring now for annexation. There
seems to be no one mind in Washington
capable of dealing with the whole ques-
ton in a broad and liberal sense; and,
unfortunately, there is not a leader in
Cuba And tact would have avoided the
war in the Philippines"
The Taft commission is happy to report
that a school system has been organized
in the Philippines and that 900 American
school teachers are wanted This sounds
we'll in print.
The smallest state in the country has
had the biggest fight in history over the
election of United States senators and the
legislature has adjourned without elect
ing, and two vacancies exist. Not since
1885 has the state had full representation
In the senate, and now it has none.
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There Is talk in Washington that the
administration Is favorably inclined to
buy the French interest In the Panama
canal and take that instead of the pro-
posed Nicaraguan canal. 1t is said the
Panama canal company Is willing to ac-
cept $34.0e0,e00 from the United States in
payment of the work thus far done on