The Brandon news., 1903-04-30

After all the European court scan.
dals do not differ in any important par.
ticulars from those in lowlier walks of
life.
The best thing about our 10000
fighting men Is their practically unan.
imous desire to make fighting the very
last resort.
A woman Anarchist says punish
ment is illogical, brutal stupid and
cowardly." Possibly, but in that case
the punishment admirably fits the
crime" of Anarchist outrages.
There are in the United States g..
100000 young men between the ages
Of Is and %, inclusive, who are with.
out the advantage of collegiate edu.
cation Every year 100000 such
young men leave their homes to begin
Independent careers.
The London local government board
reports that in 1902 there were 105, $50
paupers in the British capital The
proportion OF paupers to the general
population, however, was lower in that
year than in any preceding twelve
month since 1862, excepting only 1900
and 1901.
The Commercial club Of Kansas
ture to appropriate $4,000 for a stat.
ue of Thomas H. Benton, to be erected
in Kansas City as near as possible to
the spot where Benton made his ia
nous prophecy, in 1856, that this con-
tinent would be bound together by
bands of iron, and that our products
would be carried to feed the innumer-
able millions of the Orient. Pointing
with outstretched hand toward the set
ting sun, he said: There is the east;
there is the road to India"
The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
Seldom has there been seen more
striking illustration of the wisdom of
the old Latin maxim, 'Suaviter in
modo, fortiter in re- or, in other words,
Do the thing gently, but get it done
for sure Such illusions as the Beers
may have cherished concerning their
ability to squeeze more out of Great
Britain by threatening to make further
trouble have been effectually disSipat-
ed, and, strange, to say, the Beers, al
though disappointed, are said to be
content, and are reported to have
formed high opinion and warm re
gard for the man who has not been
afraid to tell them home truths in a
plain way and to stand his ground un-
hinchingly, without any concern for
the possible effects upon his personal
popularity"
There is no word in the English Ian
guage which is more thoroughly mis-
understood than economy. AS ordi-
narily used it implies merely doing
without things, and in domestic affairs
it is synonymous with all sorts of pet.
ty and irritating deprivations. But,
according to the dictionary, economy
is the prudent management of affairs.
Swift defined the virtue as the parent
Of liberty and ease," and Ruskin says
economy no more means saving
money than it means spending money;
it means the spending or saving,
whether Of money or time or anything
else, to the best possible advantage"
To be economical, therefore, means,
apparently, to manage so that one will
not have to do without things that one
ought to have, but will be able to sat.
isfy all ones reasonable desires. 1t is
the people who get things and do
things with their money who are eco
nomical, not those who do not spend
it at all.
An English visitor now in Washing.
ington is quoted as saying that living
expenses are greater in New York
City than in any of the great cities of
the world, except, perhaps, in London,
and that even there only a small class
spends more for the same things than
here. Paris is much cheaper than
either. II think" declares the OBJ
server, "that mems ideas of expendi
ture are considerably associated with
the unit of monetary value. You think
in dollars in the United States, the
Englishmen in pounds, the Frenchman
in francs, and the German in marks,