The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-05-05
Official Journal of the City of Bay st. Louis.
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY.
lcoNTRIRU rED.l

/ EVERYBODY objects TO one man
drawing two salaries, except the
Grawee.
When Otis declared that the
war was over, did he mean it was
all over the Philippines?
Rud. Kipling's description of
life on an English hospital train
are powerful arguments for peace.
1t look as though the Nicaragua
Canal bill would stop ut the Con-
gressional halfway house until
next winter.
Mark Hanna may be suffering
from rheumatism, but the fact
doesn't seem to affect his grip on
Ohio politics much.
| Wall Street and the Steel
trust magnateS can fight to a fin
ish without fear of any interfer-
ence from the public.
The Sultan of Turkey may not
be the wisest ruler on earth, but
he is wise enough not to invite
trouble with Uncle Sam.
The Presidents liberal distri-
button of official plums among
newspaper men indicates that his
bump of gratitude is larger than
that of the most politicians.
Secretary Wilson is actively
booming the proposed celebration
of the centennial of the Louisiana
Purchase by an Exposition at St.
Louis, in 1908.
Dewey, the victorious Admiral.
Is getting the plaudits of his fellow
Countrymen of the west, even if
Dewey, the Presidential candidate
isn't cutting much of swath.
! The Beers are building balloons
in great numbers. Pretty soon
the British will get into such a
condition that thy will see air.
ships and things all around them.
The U. S. Supreme Court now
knows what the lawyers on both
side think of the Kentucky politi-
cal muddle, and She country will
soon know what the court thinks
of it.
During the three years, '97-'99,
cur farmers sold $500, 900, 900 more
to Forcing countries than they
did for the three years, '94-'96.
No wonder the country is pros
| porous.
Canton, Ohio, which doesn't
occupy as much space in the news
papers as it did four years ago, Is
preparing to hold the biggest
Fourth of July jamboree ever seen
in Ohio.
Cnba is becoming Americana
ed. The Havana papers are
charging that the police force of
that town is mismanaged and are
furnishing specifications to sup
port the charge.
Debating societies wishing to be
down to the minute will tackle
the question of whether the Pre-
sident or Congress has supreme
authority over Cuba, while it is
under military control.
The B. & o. Railroad will fur
nish magnificent special train,
free for Admiral Dewey's western
trip, which is, in the eyes of those
who believe that railroads expect
returns for all favors, significant.
The fatal disaster at the Paris
Exposition by which six lives were
lost and many persons were injur-
ed is pointed out by some Jealous
men as an additional argument
against opening the exposition on
Sunday.
According to the New York Sun
there is new religion in the Phi
lippiness, which releases its fol-
lowers from the necessity of
work. | had supposed that such
religion always existed in all
tropical countries.
Wonder if anybody will ever
read those twcnty-threc unbound
volumes of the report Of the En-
glish Commission ON the Vnezue-
Ian bOundry dispute, which Lord
Salisbury has presented to the
Philadelphia Law Library.
The Kansas youth who set fire
to a house in order that he play
the hero by rescuing the family,
got an eighteen year sentence,
which will give him ample time
| to thiuk over the difference be-
tween avicious fool and hero.
Hon. Joe Slbley, of Pa, seems
to be running for reelection tc
Congress on the platform that
party politics are nothing between
him and his friends; he is now 8
Republican candidate in the same
district from which he was elect
| ed two years ago as a Democrat
Admiral Dewey ought to STOP
| this backing and filing and hcsita
| ting aa to whether he really wants
| to be President or not. The only
real complaint that has held wa
ter against Mckinley so far is that
| he changes his mind with every
breath. Yet Dewey says it ISM
hard to be President.
| European newspapers which are
questioning the right of th'