The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-18

Az ON(lCI SHOW tomorrow
promises to be the most important Of the
kind ever held in this country The
Eigin Board of Trade, the largest butter
Jobblng organization in the world, will
be here, besides representatives of the
creamery interests in all parts of the
country. The parade tomorrow will also
be an event. The Auditorium will be
we'll worth visit.
Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday. celebrat-
ed in New Orleans and other Southern
cities as Mardi Gras. Next day is Ash
Wednesday, the beginning of Lent Arch
bishop Ireland viii officiate at the Cath
edral Wednesday morning. There will
be services in all the Catholic churches
The Episcopalians will hold half hour
noon services each day during Lent in
the Chamber of Commerce building. to
which the public is invited
A year ago today forces under Gen.
Roberts began four days fight at Mod
der River which ended in the capture of
Gen. Cronje, Boer leader
The Catholic directory for 1901 claims
total Catholic population in the United
States Of 16.744,9S0, with one cardinal
thirteen archbishops, eighty bishops, S,977
secular priests 300 priests of religious
orders, 66,127 churches, with thousands
Of missions, seminaries, chapeIs and uni
versities.
"A delightful land" said Gilbert A.
Pierce. when governor of the territory
of Dakota. Many of the residents of the
Dakotas agree with the author of that
term. 'GiI' Pierce before and after his
political career, was literary man. His
most enduring work is his Dickens
Dictionary" He founded What to Eat, :"
a magazine with a strong hold In the
American household, and it Is hoped and
believed that his sons will keep it up to
it's heretofore high standard. Gilbert A
Pierce was worthy public official, a
vigorous writer, an honest man, a good
father and husband, and peace to his
ashes.
During 1900 over 25,00O miles of cable
were laid. Great Britain put down the
most of it, including a line from Eng
land via the Spanish coast and St Helena
to the Cape of Good Hope, and also an
additional line to the West Indies. Dur
ing the last four or five months Great
Britain and Germany have laid about
1,500 miles of cable On the China coast
Beer tablets have come into use in
Germany. A lover of the popular beT-
erage can carry a little brewery in his
vest pocket. One of the tablets dropped
into glass of water instantly converts
it into a glass Of foaming beer. What
openings there are for beer-tablet men
in Kansas and Iowa.
Today, Feb. is, is the anniversary of
the birth. in 17T5, of Charles Lamb,
popular English eSsayist and humorist:
OF George Peabody, in 1875, an eminent
ptAlanthropist and banker; of William
Tecumseh Sherman, in 1921, a distin-
guished American general.
The administration papers are printing
very extravagant stories about the
chances of private soldiers winning
shoulder straps and fame. This is pend
ing the beginning Of the work of recruit
ing the new army. The privates who
cross the gulf existing between stripes on
the sleeves and bars on the shoulders is
wide and few there are who cross it. If
men cannot be had with false pretenses
the army had better be reduced to
peace footing.
The Chinese today are midway in their
celebration of New Years Represent
tatives of the Flowery Kingdom are not
numerous in our city, but those here are
having a good time calling upon each
other to feast and exchange compliments
anu SOOu Cne6T.
Admiral Dewey, nomina1Iy at the-head
of the navy but practically on the shelf
since he frightened Mckinley with talk
of being a presidential candidate, said
the other day: "If boy has no inclina-
ton to become a sailor, I should GER
tainly not encourage him to become one
And even if he has the desire 1 should
make sure that it was not a temporary
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ship aboard a vessel when they are fif-
teen or sixteen are very sorry for it
few years later. My son is not in the
navy. The reason is that he seemed
to have no inclination that way, and I
refused to spoil a good business man in
him by making a poor sailor
During the last year 500 miles of ca
bles were laid in the Philippines, and 120
in Alaska, under the direction of the
army signal corps. Work is far ad
Vanced on the cable between Manila and
JoIo, headquarters of our sultan of Sulu,
and soon that official can be in touch
at $3.50 a word with the administration
at Washington.
According to testimony given in the
Brush will contest in New York last week,
Christian Scientists are not content with
uSurpilS the pOW6Io VI ISS uidI puySi-
clans, but they also "cure'' clocks that
have a habit of being out of order, and
can at will cause canary birds to grow
new feathers. In the testimony given by
Mrs Findlay, who was asked what she
heard at a Christian Science meeting,
said: 'sThey told about Christian Science
making clocks go which would not work
until Scientists had eXerted their power
on the clocks. and then they told about
moulting canary birds which had been
caused to grow new feathers by the pow
er of the 'healers.'
A Manila correspondent of the New
York Times says: 1.-The general situa
ton in reference to efforts toward paci-
fication of the Philippines may be sum-
med up in two words, namely, 'tslow
progress The conquest of the Philip
pines is found to be still very far from
actual accomplishment, with no eye wit
nesses of the conflict willing to hazard
opinions as to time when even an ap-
proximate general peace is to be estab-
lished Such IS the consensus of the
views gathered from military and civil
officials and from soldiers, sailors, and
citizens. The plainly stated notice that
the requirements of martial law are to be
rigidly enforced is expected to have
broad effect in the way of intimidation.
The deportation of prisoners to Guam IS
also believed to be proving statutory in the
direction of eventual peace, but military
men generally believe that the hanging