The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-01

| awaits us as the foremost and most en-.
lightened of the mighty powers OF the
| world.
NEW YEARS GLOBE CHANCES.
Germany celebrated the beginning OF
the twentieth. century a year ago.. be-
cause the emperor said that was the date.
Russia will celebrate twelve days from
now, being that. much behind the present
arrangement of the calendar The rest
of civilization celebrate today.
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The nineteenth century was one of the
bloodiest In all history. The Napoleonic
wars alone, in the early years of the CEN
tuzy, destroyed over 100000 men and in
f1fctcd unutterable suffering upon many
millions. The century ended as all others
ended with wars in progress ON nearly
every continent, the principal ones being
Waged by the most civilized, in whom the
war fever is apparently rampant If the
twentieth century islnot full of wars it
Will not be because of readiness for
arsenais and ship yards were never SO
busy
Robert NJ. Brice; of Greenwich, Conn,
appeared before the board of assessors
of his city the! other day and asked that
his tax assessment Il be raised so per cent
AS he is milsoHaire, and the richest
man in the citN his action caused aston
ishment- 1t is Spot probable that his
course will be gehArally followed.
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The American Historical society was
in session at Detroit last week. During
discussion of the negro question Prot
Albert Bushnell Fart of Harvard uni
versity, said that while he deplored the
lynching of negroes, he believed that if
the people of a community demanded the
burning at the stake of negroes as a
penalty for committing horrible crimes,
the state should make burning the legal
penalty. He said that the removal of the
negro from the South, by coIonizat ton
would kill the Southern states. The
South. ne declared, could not live with
out the negro. e,ssI....
If the smallpox, which is..now raging
in many localities, and which promises
to become epidemic throughout the coun-
try, is due to our intimate relations
with the Philippines. according to medi-
cal opinion, we are getting more than We
bargained for, And smallpox is not the
only trouble that is in store-in exchange
for greed. $50 So. -
Perhaps the most happy country to
begin the new century is the little re-
public Of Switzerland. 1t is at peace with
the whole world, is not bothered with
big army and naval expenses, her peo-
pie are busy and contented, her goods are
going to all countries and no war ship
is needed to take them.
o.
While Marcus DAILY was distributing
fortunes with. free hand in his feud
with Clark in Montana. his brother
preached in a $1,5oo church at Tacoma
Oswego county,, NY, and struggled
with poverty. He did not have means
enough to pay his way to his wealthy
brothers sick bed nor funeral in New
York city. The brothers were not enc
mics butstNarcls was too busy making
money to think of or remember his broth
er Daniel, not even fns41is will.
The year 1900 in the United Sta ties Wit
messed presidential election without the:
stagna ton cor7n1sfI to that event The
foreign export shaved the biggest record
that was eYeEs made by any nation in
the world in the way of the expectation
of the industries of its people. France
shows no increasesm her exports for the
last quarter ae ntlsry Great Britain
has increased nearly 40 per cent. and Ger
many about 50Ber cent but the increa Sc
@of the UT1ited Htafase during that period
has been 200 pee
7'z' - = ssssaz5sCj9--s
Mrs. Laura Alderman, of Harley & d
consisting wholly Of the Duchess and
Wealthy varieties. L She keeps five men
busy during the season. In the begin
ming of her work her orchard was
known as "Alderman's Folly" but sue
cess has changed ridicule to admira ton
The last year THE century witness
ed revival Of home enterprises in Spain
and better conditions. than in mary
years.
The, notable events in France in, 1900
Included the exposition. a failure, and
q wave of enthusiasm over ex-President
Kruger, not from, love of the. Boer. but
a hatred of England. -
The death of Moses Colt Tyler Dec.
q, professor of American history in Corr
nell university. and a writer of ability
and merit is one Of the great losses
to literature during 1900. He was a
ciassmate, i'll Yale, of President North.p
of the Minnesota State university
This little suggestion from an ex-
change is well worth considering today.
and might take the form of a resolution.
Alteration about trifles is a fruitful |
source of friction, and stock subjects |
of disputation beget a chronic 'touchi
ness. One seldom copVinces by excited
and voluble argument, and when a sus- |
picion of temper appears-goodby to sue
cess. Politeness comPels a conciliatorv |
manner an open-Ininded hospitality to |
the views Of otfers-wflich will be most
effective If the object be to influence,
rather than to vent our irritation
The selfishness of nations. pride of |
races, greed of dynasties and individuals. |
ambitions of rulers, wants Of depends |
ents combine 20 reflect upon the day |
which uShers in the new century, a |
luster which betokens much gloom before |
tho century ends.
The year just passed has been one ot |
disasters in Italy. It was jubilee year in |
Rome with over a half million pilgrims.
1t is an Old saying in Rome that the |
Jubilee years are Years of disaster to
Italy and events seemato have justified |
this year this old 8 standing superstition
of the Romans; The year opened with |
trouble in parliament, in July King Hum
hert was murdered, land the last quarter |
brought serious fopds and losses.
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Tt is said by men of science that /.
all the condensed tFnoisture Of the at
mosphere were to fall as rain, and none |
of it as snow. hundreds of thousands of |
miles OF the earth's surface; now yield, |
:ng heuntiful crops, would be little bet
ter than a desert; The tremendous eco
nomic gain for the world at large, which
results from the difference between snow |
and rain is seldom realized by the in |
habitants of fertile and well-watered low |
lands.
A grocery firm at Lancaster, Pa, sup,
Piled goods tc a family ofaIiat city fifty
Years ago, to the value of about 81 1000.