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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
PERSONAL MENTION.

Col. Leonard A. Rosing. of Cannon
Falls, was in st. Paul yesterday. Col.
Rosing says he is too busy with the
work Of the Municipal league to think
about politics. much less discuss them.
National Bank Examiner Lyman w.
Baird, of Austin, was In st. Paul yes
terday.
Maj, Fred Wood. Second regiment, N.
G. S. M, Austin. was in st. Paul last
night, returning from the competitive
rifle practice at Camp Lakeview.
Senator and Mrs. H. W. Stone, of Ben
son, were in st. Paul yesterday. return
ing from Brainerd. where they attended
the funeral of the late Senator A. F.
Ferris.
Ryan-Ed J. Gantief, Parker, s. D.:
". r. Bawlf. Winnipeg: G.. n. Howell.
c. D. Howell, E. F. Howell. Des Moines;
Sammes. GAINESVILLE wis: K. Nelson.
Fergus Falls: p. w. Quincy, U. S. army;
Bernice Midnight, Vernes Mcknight. KaIis.
pei Mont; H. G. Stem. Spokane; ]. II.
Merehants'-E. L. sprague. Sank Cen
ter; o. B. Brooks. Regina Edward
Crumnay and wife, Helena; M. Graham.
Rolfe, Iowa; H. c. Miller. Staples; r. M.
Hamilton and wife, Grand Forks; L. A.
Huntoon, Moorhead; Mrs. J. Monks and
daughter Watertown. S. D.; G. F. In
gersoll. Miles City, Mont; w. D.
Symnes, wife and children. Lewiston
Mont; Charles Webb Winnipeg: George
Thompson and daughter, Butte. Mont; s.
]. Small. Devils Lake.
WindsOr--Miss e. E. Seifert. MIwau-
kee; Mrs. ]. w. Cooper, MantOrville; c..
]. Trexler, Dubuque; Mr.. and Mrs.
wife. Mrs. A A. Richards. Anac0nda; a @
P. White, Mrs. Carlton, Superior; +.
Bert Cecil, GAINESVILLE.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Contemporary Comment
Race Suicide,

A leading journal recently took Pres
ident Roosevelt to task for his views
upon race suicide, and declared that
the thing is preposterouS and that not
the slightest danger exists that the An
gIo-Saxon race will die out for hun
dreds of years to come.
The process will probably be a long
one. but there are plenty Of evidences
that it is under way. Even the most
careless observer knows that big fam
lies are increasingly more rare and
that the tendency Of modern life Is to
later marriages and fewer children.
This is the way 1t began in France,
where race suicide" is at an advanced
stage.
The city of st. Paul has suddenly
awakened to the fact that it has to
cations show that the birth rate in the
Sanity City is falling off at an alarm
ing rate. The st. Paul G b in COM
menting upon this fact says:
1.-The figures gathered from the rec
ord Of vital statistics in the st. Paul
health department and printed in an
other column Of this issue Of T e
G e are calculated to startle those
citizens who interest themselves in the
welfare Of the city and the race. 1t is
demonstrated that the birth rate is
very much lower than It was ten years
ago. That not only is the rate lower,
but that the total number of births
recorded IS actually less than in 1893,
when the population of st. Paul was at
at least quarter and probably third
less than it is today"
The birth rate in England shows a
very small but steady decline during
the past decade, but in America the
decline is more pronounced. and the
facts brought forth in st. Paul could
probably be duplicated in most Of our
cities, large and small. = Crookston
Times.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
THE PITY OF 1T.

Occasionally library boards make
lot to pass upon the merits of authors
and their books. The popular judg-
ment is not infallible. and the literary
taste of public officials not always to
be depended upon. The state library
commission made no mistake. how
ever, in rejecting Gordon Keith" the
latest work of Thomas Nelson Page,
as thin and superficial. 1t is one Of
the books not worth either buying or
reading.
The pity Of 1t is when an author of
real ability and imaginative power
let's himself be lowered to this level.
There are enough of the weak and the
immature, heaven knows, to flood the
market with stuff of which we wonder
who can possibly be buyers. The con-
ISOLATION in it is that out Of the prac-
teal school thus furnished there may
develop occasionally a writer of real
ability. and out of the mass of stuff
turned upon the reading public there
may be few Books that will appeal
to the undeVeloped taste and SO lead
to the desire for something better.
But when a. man like Page markets
fourth class stuff it is crime against
good literature that ought to have
fitting punishment
No one familiar with the best work
that he has done can read Gordon
Keith" without wondering how It hap
pened. The| book Sins against almost
every law of good taste and good writ
ing. Half dozen times before the
end, the story runs itself out. Then
there is another squirt. where the au-
thor lays violent hands upon himself
to prevent the catastrophe Of bringing
the tale to an end and a brisk effort
carries it few score pages further.
/ 1t Is altogether a lamentable affair,
from whose perusal neither pleasure
nor profit can come. A book like this,
when published by a man Of good
brains, good judgment and recognized
achievement, ought to be hung in
chains in a public place as a warning
to others minded similarly offend.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13

{ doubt, that. Mr.. Morgan and other
sos an street leaders were sincerely
SesiitGiarlz &c by Mr.. Roosevelt's inter-
pooteion IN the coal strike and would
tse some1 man for president whom
iney eonsideredI safer" but our notion
- too en eIoI Mr. Morgan minds his JOB much
zoo closely to do editing. and that he
neither owns stock in the Sun nor con-
Germs himself with Harper's Weekly.
All of which is very sane, interesting
and level--headed comment. 1t is very
DID, very easy and very base to attrib-
ute opinions which are unpalatable to
you but which you do not see any
other way to controvert to the lowest
form Of self-interest, and especially to
the Vaccinations Of the money power.
Inc best description of that form of
argument, and the simplest and suff1-
cient reply to it is that given by Life:
"Gammon!"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13

wished. And If competition were so
destroyed, free capital would restore 1t
again tomorrow. Railroad combination
has not destroyed competition. Here
competition is relatively unimportant,
for the reason that the state possesses
and exercises, independent of it, the
right to fix rates. But still the compe-
tition between systems and great trade
routes is as powerful and effective as
that between short lines and small
companies was in a former era.
We have ceased to worship competi-
ton as an Industrial divinity; that is
all. We have found that combination
also has it's place and office. That dis
covery has made immense changes;
nowhere more general or profound than
in the relation that competition justly
bears to a readjusted economic system.
But it is as unwise to make the mis-
take committed by Mr.. Gompers as to
cleave to that of the old economists
who believed that absolute freedom Of
competition everywhere furnished the
only escape from indus trial slavery and
decay.
These are two overlapping territories
Of the industrial state. Just where the
sovereignty of the one ends and that of
the other begins we have not as yet
ascertained. Exactly how the author
ity over industry is to be apportioned
between them, the wisest among us do
not yet know. We do know that the
day Of unlimited competition will never
come, neither will the day of an abso-
lutte destruction of competition through
combination. He reckons i'll and can
give but partial and unwise advice
who leaves either Of these contesting
and balancing forces out Of the ac-
cOupt
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
GAM MON!

Certain of those who conceive 1t a
necessity or find it pleasure to take
up the cudgels for President Roose-,
welt, right or wrong, have been much
exercised over the general and lust
criticism of that portion of his policy
which consists in an attack upon le-
climate business interests Harking
back, as we have seen. to the methods
Of the old Populists of the Omaha plat
form school. they have found in such
structures nothing but the mercenary
utterances of men with a grievance.
Two newspapers of the country
Which have presented some of the facts
relating to the effect of these acts of
the president, to the immense loss and
disturbance in business that they have
created, are the New York Sun and
Harper's Weekly. Bought opinions"
say the administration organs. Mr..
Morgan has come to the financial res
cue Of both concerns, and they are
voicing his wish and repaying their
debt.
No publication has been more merci-
less in its structures upon the trusts
and combinations than Life. It is the
keenest of satirists, and its lance
spares no one. With gibe and with pen
ell 1t has been after the blowers Of
bubbles. 1t Is apt, moreover, to
know something of what it talks about.
Here is what 1t says of the chatter
about interested motives on the part OF
the great agents of public opinion re-
ferred to:
OF all the opponents of the renomi-
nation of President Roosevelt our
netghbor. the Sun, is the liveliest and
most ingenious. Morning and evening
workdays and Sundays, it searches for
joints In the strenuous ones armor and
Jabs at them whether found or not.
1t brought to public notice the record
Of BellairS, the friend of Wood thn
presidents Achates; it industriously
wrought out the tale of Littauer and
the glove contracts; it throws fits in
large type because the SyIph navigates
IN and out OF Oyster Bay; in long, lead
ed articles it imputes the slump in
stocks to the presidents maleficent in
reference with prosperity. In other
loaded editorials it makes other dark
insinuations, and in general and par
ticular 1t shows itself one of the most
Industrious papers published. 1t is
all magnificent, but It is war. Who is
the Sun? Who does it stand for?
What are its politics if any, and who
is back of them? Mr. Laffan? Yes.
But who else? Mr.. Morgan? We think
not. 1t does not seem likely that Mr..
Morgan is in the newspaper business.
Because he came some years ago to be
a creditor, and later an owner of
bonds, Of the Harper company, he is
credited with being the controlling
spirit in Harper's Weekly. just as he
is credited with being the real owner
Of the Sun. Cannon! 1t is true, no
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Dewey on the Navy.

Admiral Dewey's emphatic declara-
ton in favor of a larger navy is war
ranted. He intimates that many YES
sells now on the naval lists are Of
small account, and that is we'll known
to the experts. There is no reason. as
he says, why the people in general
should be deceived in regard to this
matter. A navy able to defend the
country is necessary to the security Of
our coast line and our foreign trade
1t takes years to build even one vessel.
and when war breaks out, If 1t ever
does, there will be no time to add to
the navy. The way to prevent war is
to be prepared for 1t. The expense of
preparation is a mere item as COM
pared with the expense of a war, to
say nothing of the loss of life.-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
TODAY'S WEATHER.

Minnesota-Rain in east; rain or snow
In west portion Sunday, followed by
clearing, colder in south portion; Monday
probably fair, warmer in west portions:
high west winds diminishing by Sunday
night.
Upper Michigan-Rain and cooler Sun
day; Monday probably fair; brisk to high
southwest winds Sunday.
Montana-Generally fair Sunday and
Monday; warmer Monday.
North Dakota-Rain or snow Sunday
except fair in extreme west portion, not
so cold in west portion; Monday fair,
warmer.
South Dakota-Fair, continued cold
Sunday; Monday probably fair and warm
er.
Showers and colder Sunday;
brisk to high southwest to west winds;
Monday partly cloudy, probably showers
in south portion.
Iowa-Fair Sunday; colder Sunday ex-
cept in extreme northwest portion Mon
day showers.
St. Paul = Yesterdays temperatures,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, w. E. Oliver. observer, for
the twenty -four hours ended at O'Clock
last Embellishments corrected for tenn
perature and elevation. Highest tempera
ture. IA; lowest temperature, 60; average
temperature, 81; daily range. II; barom-
eter, % Go; humidity, 76; precipitation.
5.18; p. m. temperature, 60; D. M wind
west; weather. cloudy.
Yesterdays Temperatures:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
ENTER THE HERO.


Let those who do stunts in physical
culture go away back; away with
the champion of the racket, to the
woods with the driver and putter, for
the only real hero is coming into view.
Football practice has been started and
the hero in the making is taking on
form, color and personality.
The very announcement of his COM
Ing stills the staccato click of the
cleek in the meadows; tennis becomes
mere ladylike diversion as he frames
the howl by which you may know him
He is not lovely and scarcely lovable,
but the very fact that he will presently
be less lovely and that he may furnish
the centerpiece for funeral festivities
helps him Iuodi giously In his bid for
the kind applause of the public.
r His profession is the elimination of
the out door diversions of the year
The little sniveling4 boy who played
marbles in fhe% bleak days when the
year was young grows ferocious as the
leaves turn, and becomes a sanguinary
party with aspirations in the direction
of the halfbacks position. The person
who has rendered language discordant
and nearly impossible by interiarding
his converse with talk of stymies, nib
ticks, mashies;f cleeks, puts, foozles,
water hazards and the like, is in a po-
sition to see his finish, and if he be
wise is reconciling himself to 1t and
wondering If it was worth the while
after all. For he knows that no more
will the athletic maid follow his move
ments with unmasked admiration For
him there is nothing but Scotch high
balls instead of garbled Scotch terms.
The tennis champion becomes one of
the admiring throng in front of the
football bulletin board
We do love the football hero, for a
little space. We take to the admiring
attitude and worship him while he re-
mains on his pedestal. We know that
he is a hero and measurabIy great
We know that the young who are great
are in danger Of dying young-hence
his career holds us. He has emerged
from the chrysalis state and will live
for seyenty-five days-and then be for
gotten by all except the manager of the
football game, who VIII sure owe the
hero something. But he exemplffies the
strenuosity Of the times and stands OPP
posed to the spirit of ping-pong. Hail
the football hero!
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Reform in New York.

There Is perhaps more call for good
Judgment in reform movements in pol
1t1cs than in almost any other direc-
tion From failure in this respect the
New York reformers are now in danger
Of seeing their victory over Tammany
Hall brought to an end. We believe
it was in their power two years ago to
present a Democrat as their candidate
for mayor who was the equal of Mr..
Low in purity of character and fitness
for the office. Had they done so, we
do not think there would have been
the doubt his reelection that they are
now encountering. The Republicans
then asked too much, and the Demo-
Gratis conceded too much. The time
has now arrived when neither party is
satisfied with its bargain. Both par
ties have got a lesson.=Boston Herald.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
SOUVENIR SPOONS.

Sir Thomas Upton was unable to lift
the Americas cup, but according to his
stewards confession, many Of Sir
Thomas American guests were sue
cessful in lifting, without the knowl-
edge Of their host, a number of the
famous yachtman's spoons. Lavish in
his hospitality and confiding to de-
gree. Sir Thomas failed to take the
precaution to count the spoons after
each dinner he gave on board his yacht.
AS consequence, he returns to Europe
not only a sadder man for having lost
the race. but poorer one for having
lost his spoons.
Naturally Sir Thomas must have
known that there are people in all parts
Of the world whose sole means of sup
port is the collection of spoons and 9TH
er odd pieces of silver. But what he
did not know, evidently, was that all
such collectors do not enter by way of
the window nor do all carry dark Ian
terms. Had he been aware that there
were spoon collectors who came to dine
III evening dress and who shook their
host cordially by the hand as if the idea
Of beating him out Of his spoons were
the last they would ever think of en-
PERTAINING, he might have taken some
precautions. It is hardly probable that
he would have had the silver chained
to the table, but he might have substi-
tuted for it plated ware, Unfortunate
ly he was not forewarned and therefore
he is minus his spoons.
There is a movement on foot to raise
a sum Of money for the purpose Of pur-
chasing Sir Thomas chest of silver.
The movement commenced before Sir
Thomas double loss was made known,
so that it cannot be ascribed to remorse
on the part Of those Americans to
whom he showed courtesy on board his
yacht. But the choice Of silver for gift
was, in view Of subsequent develop
ments, happy one to say the least.
If the plan is successful the gallant
Irishman will get back his spoons, or
rather, he will get some new ones. If
he were partial to the old silver this
arrangement will not be entirely salts
factory, but Sir Thomas is a gentle
man and the regret he may feel over
the disappearance Of the old spoons
will not be allowed to interfere with
his demonstrations of pleasure over the
receipt of the new.
But this matter of spoons is becom-
Ing a delicate question. Indeed, if Sir
Thomas had the mind, he might make
1t an international one. He was the
nations guest. 1t had a right to pro-
tect his spoons. Postal stamps, playing
cards and autographs all represent fair
grist that comes into the mill of the
man who collects. But the spoons
should be safe. Or if they must be
stolen, let them be stolen in the good
old regulation way. by burglar with
a mask, dark. lantern and proper.
tools. Then there is a fair chance of
recovering from the burglar the prop-s
erty. But there is not the ghost of a,
chance of recovering from the spoon.
collector.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
What Upton Has Done.

Sir ThomasLipton may not have
lifted" the cup, but he has done a
number of other things of quite as
much value to the people Of both the
empire and the republic. He has
united the sporting feeling Of the two
peoples as perhaps it never was
brought together before He has re-
moved whatever soreness the Dunra-
ven episode may have left on either
side of the water. He has done a large
share in the supreme diplomatic task
of the day-the creation of a friendly
understanding between the two great
English speaking democracies-Mon
real Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Senatorial Repartee.

One Of the funniest stories of the season
Is told Of the Hon. Monty Jorgan, the
eminent senator from Alabama, who has
attained some distinction of late by his
advocacy of the Nicaragua canal route.
A leading politician asked him the 9TH
err morning if he wasn't tired of being
called the father of the Isthmian canal
I'D rather be called its father" he re-
torted with grim humor than its Pana-
mamma "-Chicago Tribune.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13

every commonwealth experiences and
that all must suffer until they have re-
shaped their systems of taxation to fit
modern conditions. It is the law and
not the execution of it that limps. Let
us look to the correction of the real
evil. wherein we have thus far totally
faiIad
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Would Give Universal Satisfaction.

Giving advise to the pope as to his
appointments may not, strictly speak
ing, be one of the manifest duties of
a secular newspaper. but still we VEN
ture to suggest that If a new cardinal
is to be made for America, as reported,
such universal satisfaction. both to
Catholics and nOn-Catholics. as that
of John Ireland, archbishop of st.
Paul.-NeW York Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Always Ready.

Senator Hanna got out of a sick bed
the other day to discuss politics with
Gen. Dick. 1t has long been suspected
that Senator Hanna would get out of
bed at midnight any time to discuss
politics with anybody, if 1t didn't
chance that the discussion Of politics
had kept him from going to bed pre-
vious to that hour.-ToIedo News Bee.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
John Mitchell VS.. Sam Parks.

AS the John Mitchells come to the
front in labor affairs the Sam Parkses
fall to the rear, and Labor days be-
come days of general rest and re-
joicing for all toilers, high and low,
skilled and unskilled. whether In the
mill or the mine of the mart.-Phila-
delphia Record.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Parry Is Harmless.

1t is APPARENT that Mr.. Parry attaches
to himself and his utterances much
more Importance than is given them by
the rest Of the world. Certainly there
is no indication that organized labor is
worrying particularly over his attacks.
The conclusion is, therefore, inevitable
that this self-constituted leader Of the
anti-labor crusade has reached a stage
where he is seeing things" or that he
feels it necessary to resort to Hoosier
methods of self advertisement. At
lanta Constitution
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
careIessness at the Track,

ut was sheer carelessness on some
body's part that caused Charley to lose
money on that race" said young Mrs.
Torkins sympathetically.
How do you know?''
II saw it in the paper. The horse was
left at the post. The idea of putting a
horse in race and then neglecting to
unhitch him. "-Washington Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Badly Needed.

What Is wanted, and badly wanted.
is a squadron of battleships to rem
devious off the Dardanelles, and ready
to join the other foreign vessels Of
war in forcing a passage through that
historic strait. 1t must be remembered
that the United States. being no party
to the treaty Of Paris, has never ad-
mitted the right Of Turkey to exclude
American vessels from any Of her
Waters.-New York Commercial Ad-
NertiSer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Unsuitable Assault.

Judge-You say you got that black eye
as the result of blow by the defendant
Prosecuting Witness-Yes, sir
Judge-Tell me the circumstances under
which he struck you.
Prosecuting Witness-This man met me
as 1 was coming along Calvert street
whistling "Hiawatha," add
JudgeSThat'H do The prisoner is dis
Charged.-BaltimOro American
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Among the Merrymakers
His Romance.

AS the husband leaves the court room
with his attorneys, having babe farewell
to his eX-wife and offered to share the
expenses Of having her divorce decree
framed, he says:
There's material for a good story in
my matrimonial career"
mo doubt, responds the attorney
Your eX-wife is a Mexican, is she not?"
Yes 1 met her in the Alamo"
Cool! Write the story and give It the
title Of From Alamo to Alimony.' -
Judge.
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Those Dear Girls

Edyth-When I refused Charlie night
before last he threatened to blow his
brains out.
Mayme-Wen. he didn't. He proposed
to me last night.
Edyth-Indeed! Then he must have got
ria of them n some other way.-Chicago
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13

The Turks desire to treat Macedonia
as his vermiforrn appendix and have 1t
extirpated might be all right if he
would but go in for modern methods in
seS'
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
Feminine Ionic

Mrs. Smiley q a. m)-What in the
world detained you so late, John?
Mr.. Smiley-M dear. 1 (hic) an nuzzer
fePer been (hic) bapshin M accounsh.
Mrs. Smiley-Yes, guess TIE Q,her fell
low took one on your account and you
took the balance-Cincinnati Enquirer