The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-15
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@hat. S the matter with trying to touch
1aFnee!e In behalf of our city library.
!14s ishtnlng recently struck two cities
f 81 LIMOS ana tone lin Iowa. Minnesota
iuIHishes a pig share Of the iron ore used
IN ms steel mills, and it's time that a
Httle' OF the profits come this way.
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Inree years -agoI today the battleship
maine was wrecked by a mysterious ex
Flosion IN the harbor of Havana, and 266
men lost their lives A year ago TODAY
me. original plans. and patterns Of the
MAINE were destroyed by fire in the
brooklyn navy yard And what a train
OF m1sfortunes followed the event of
three years aga.
The burning question among sports is
whether .JeffrieS and Rubin will fight to-
night at cincinnati. In the legal phase
OF II before Judge HOLSTER Manager
Brady advanced ROosevelt's admiration
for boxing as an argument for favorable
consideration. Brady testified to sitting
beside Theodore Roosevelt at one of the
contests in the Metropolitan thcater in
New York. Brady testified to reservine
g. box for Roosevelt at another contest,
but Roosevelt did not attend Brady
IhOu5uI Ills 1duuF0 TO aIIGnQ was be-
cause the New York papers had said so
much about him having a box reserved.
Mrs. Nation having created a little SEN
sation as a novel law breaker. is now in
the lecture field. She is advertised as
the John Brown Of temperance, but the
fact is that John Brown did not cease
in his labors in behalf of freedom to lee
ture at soc per.
The Duke of Connaught will succeed
his brother, King Edward, as grand mas
ter of the English Freemasons.
A bin was introduced into the legisla-
tive assembly of Oklahoma the other day
TO compel ofhCeholders to work 1t did
not exempt legislators and the bill will
probably fail.
Gen. Funston has been heard from
again. He reports from the province of
Vuava Ecija that the members of the
Federal party have notified the tnsurgent
generals, Lacuna' and Sandico, that they
must cease their guerrilla operations or
the Federal party will send out an ex-
petition under the former tnsurgent gen
eral, Podilla, and that these Federals
will actively aid the Americans. He also
says that the FOrty-SeYenth infantry,
assisted by a zgunboat, captured thirty
three insurgents at Donsa1, sixteen niles
from Albany. And this is a sample Of
the kind Of stuff the government every
day pays dollar. Or two a word to have
cabled from Manila
Under the chair on which Edward VII.
will sit in Westminster Abbey. during
the coronation ceremonies, is a piece OF
! rock known as the "stone of scene" and
the tradition is that it is the stone on
| which Jacob rested his head upon at
Dat al h. e h. Io.J
| to heaven ,andY the angels as
cending and descending upon it,
| as narrated in Genesis xviii, N-22,
| when he vowed that IF God kept him In
! the way he was to go. that stone should
| be Gods house." Edward I. brought the
stone to London in 1897 in token of the
| complete sabjugation Of Scotland. It
was revered by the Scots and is reVered
| by the English. It is variously called
Jacobs pillow" Lila Fail" the ''Stene
of Destiny" the "Stone Of Scone and
! the Coronation Stone.''s I--e
Today, Feb. Is, is the anniversary of
| the BIRTH, in 174S of Jeremy BeHtham, a
! celebrated English philosopher and au-
! thor" thesg greatest good to the greatest
| number being the leading principle in
! his doctrine of utility; of Rufus w.
| Griswold in 1915, an American author;
| of Susan Brownell Anthony, in 1870, an
| eminent advocate of woman's rights; Of
William F. Phelps, in 1915, an American
! educator and author.
| Cardinal Gibbons is opposed to the total
! abstinence movement. In an interview
! the other day he suggested the repeal Of
| the prohibition law of Kansas and ia
vored the substitution of high license.
Speaking as a Catholic and an Ameri-
can, 1 am free to confess that the dis
| turbances which have occurred there
since the institution of the present anti
| LIQUOR crusade have filed me with PAIN
| sorrow and astonfshment. Either the
total abstinence laws of Kansas are wise.
just and necessary. or they are rot II
| they are necessary and wise and just
Trey should be rigidIy enforced by the
| legislative authorities If, on the other
hand, they are none of these things,
thew should be legally and regularly re-
pealed. Nothing In any case can, in my
opinion and belief, warrant or justify
Mrs. Nation and her followers In taking
the law into theiraown hands. wrecking
the property Of the saloonkeepers, and
usurping functions which should prop
erIy be reserved for the state.