Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-19

Japan Speaks nlt plainly. Ike II nltipn
that has found itself and l..s the coar-
aye Of It's cnnvictions.-Ncw Iori. Trib-
une.
Japan is not anxious for II fight. hut
wishes it distinctly understood that site
has quite 4 stock OF ammunition on hand.
Scranton Tribune.
Possibly the Supreme justices decided
TO take Il vacation in order to see whcth-
cr the Nag would urn around and follow
the ~court.-Hrand Rapids Press.
\. great. growing. prosperous city he
ing compelled to borrow money 10 pay
running expenses shows extremely poor
business nalagcment.-Tolcdo Blade.
Some of the newspapers Of the State
are forgetting the all-important test
the seed corn Observation-Disclosures
that they were the first to publish ser
m~ons.-Iowa State Register.
The California prune crop is corncred.
DO the grasping spectators who have ey-
ccuted this coup think California priin"s
are among the necessities of life:-Chi-
cago Tribune.
What shall we do with .Aguinaldo. to be
sure: .NMd what. 10y the way. would
.Aguilialdo have lone with Tunston if
the game had gone the other way:-Min-
neapolis Times.
BalliS!ci from the United States. prize
fighting is to be transferred 10 Bermuda.
y long-suiIering and dis.sustcd public has
kicked the brutal sport ont of the cou.i-
try.-Des Moines News.
AS Il sort of compromise. the grounds
of the Buffalo Fair may be kept open
every other Sunday. This looks like max
Ing IL distinction between being killed for
IL sheep and II iamb.-Ncw York Sun.
Enlightened Englislmen perceive that,
they mus; improve tlcir methods md adj
vance the Intelligence aud efficiency OF
their w%orkinsmcn il they are To keep UP
in the industrial racc.-Chicago Cliron-
iclc.
England has discovered that Il king
costs more than IL queen. Perhaps the
next discovery will come with the q'leS-
ton of the century: Kings come high,
must we have lhem?-Baltimore .Ameri-
can.
While other cities are scrambling for
Carnegie libraries, Omaha is enjoying Il
handsome library erected by an enter
prising people. When Omaha wants II,
GOOD thing she buys it.-Omaha World
Herald.
Connecticut bachelors who are over 4G
gears of age have to pay Il marriage Ii
cense fee of $500. 1t would seem to the
casual observer that i: bachelor of over 40
was entitled to Il Subsidy Baltimore
American.
The New York World and thS urrtfora
Zines think that the capture of .Agui-
nallo WAS Il pnt-up job. and that Aguinal-
10 was in the plot from the very begin
ming. He was in il at the end all right.
Springfield Union.
Japan IS ~ good friend OF HE United
States. and Russia is an older. if not 1t
better one. Should the two nations fight.
however. American sympathy would
probably be with David rather than Go
liath.-Syraense Herald.
Transforms strategy in cffccting the cap,
.ure OF .Aguinaldo will restore the wan.
ing faith of tlie nation in Tie gcnuineness
OF the incidents in Cooper's Leather
Stocking Tales and in the career OF the
jibbenairosy.- st. Paul Pioneer Press.
One of the chief causes of disturbances
in Itussi;l is the great difference be.
tween the majority of the people and thu
few highly educated. The university stu.
dents are FESTIVE under the system with
which the ignorant peasants are satisfied
Kansas City Star.
Before casting aspersious on Funston's
feat of capturing Aguinaldo. the English
press would do we'll to devise it's counter
part in accomplishing the greatly desired
corraling of Il South African peregrinai-
ing pcstilcncc called De Wct.-Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
There will never be a satisfactory set
Element with regard to the Alaskan iron
tier so long rs Grca, Britain claims thar
which is our own. She has no more right
than we have to make a landing in Scot
and.-rrovilence Telegram.
| The people want enterprise. They want
die news. w want these things, and
want them/ in the best possible
time anlI possible way. but the
paperY to establish itself on Il
solid {. of sincerity and honesty
is the bn.y paper which lasts.-Denyer
Times.
Amid voluminous and conflicting com-
munications passing between the great
powers over various Eastern questions
only one thing is unanimously conceded
that Russia has and will continue 10
keep Manchuria. 1t is Russia that re-
Trains from unnecessary letter writing
Chicago Chronicle.
The contention heretofore maintained
in, America that, under certain condi-
tions, this government can withdraw
from the vital engagements of the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty, and by so doing prac-
tically put an end to it, is justified by
the provisions of the treaty itself.-Phil-
adelphia Telegraph.
News of Minor Note.
Minnesota passed an anti-cignrette law.
Bcvier street school. Binghamton. n.
T.. burned. Loss $4,000.
Hawaiian Legislature gives ex-Queen
Lii a pension of $4,000 Il war.
Burglars cracked Il safe in Harring-
toms store. Carthage. Mo. Fire followed.