Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-03-10

The last of John Brown raiders is dead, but the soul of old John is still marching on.
 Perhaps it was MT. Cleveland's liking for royal titles that led up tO bis becoming a Princetonian.
 President Mckinley has made a good start and everybody know: how advantageous that is in every. thing.
 We'll, it is a relief to know that Mir. Cleveland is no longer in a position to teach the country expen- sive object lessons.
 Yes, yes; great party, great admin istration, and we are all going to have great times as soon as its inn print is felt upon the statute books of the country.
 A French duke has arrived in this country as the advance agent of 8 useful invention. Even European nobility is sometimes useful - if they are so poor, they have to be.
 Jerry Simpson knows the value of advertising. Having worked out the sockless scheme, he has now sprung a silk hat and tailor made suit on the newspapers.
 All of the newspaper liars are not engaged in making or manipulating Cuban news, but it is plain that some of the most imaginative men in the business are.
 John Sherman's platform-protec- tion to American citizens anywhere and eEerywhere-is good enough for anybody, and it's going to be lived up to by this administration.
 The civil service law is all right, but some of the rules for its admin istration promulgated by Mir. Cleve- land, are all wrong, and might be rescinded to the advantage of the public service.
 John D. Rockefeller has promised to add S10,OOO,OOO to his already large donations to the University of Chicago, of which he is the founder. Standard Oil money has certainly proved an excellent lubricant for this institution.
 The $400,000 worth of opium re- gently seized by Treasury agents at San Francisco, might be advantage ously used in putting the croskers to sleep for a while, as they are now one of the greatest obstacles to the immediate resumption of pros perity.
 Forty-fYe prominent patent st- torneys of Washington have signed signed charges asking the post office department to issue 8 fraud order against John Wedderburn & O., of Washington. D. C., and to close the Eails to their paper, the National Recorder, because of fraud.
 Russia seems to have strong grip on the head of the European diplo- matic class by its long series of triumphs, the last of which is a Russo-Japanese Corean treaty. Yet Russia is generally regarded as only s semi-civilized nation.
 A strong cabinet, mentally, physic- ally and politically, is that which President Mckinley has chosen to advise him. The members who com pose it will not be merely head clerks, as the members of Mir. Cleve lands cabinet were, but will be ac. tusl advisers of the president.
 The populist member of the Kan sas legislature. who wants to inaug- urate an era of reform by dis charging all the male employees of the legislature and filling their places with the wives of members, Is fair specimen of that party.
 It having been definitely settled that there is to be no factional fighting among Ohio republicans, the democratic and assistant demo cratic newspaper men will have to find another subject to exercise their imaginations upon.
 The tearing of the Bible to pieces by sensational preachers cannot alter the historical fact that the book has been the greatest factor in making the world better; nor can it infict any lasting injury upon real reli- zion.
 Consul General Fitz Lee is re- ported to be in a state of mind because his reports on Cuban mat ters are ignored by the Cleveland administration. Wonder what he expectedi Every body else knew, if he didn't, that he was sent to Cuba to see things through Cleveland Olney spectacles only.
 Economist Skinner, of Graham county, has at last shown his hand. He has voted against the appropria- tions for nearly every purpose. He has introduced a bill to bridge the Gila. Mir. Skinner has evidently been economizing in order to get money to build his bridge. His colleague, MT. Rogers, wants the savings made