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which prevents him from detecting u
wink.-Chicago Inter Ocean
1t is estimated that the recent naval
battle cost Russia $T3,50OO0O That is
almost equal to the cost of one of the
swell dinners given by New York's so
ciety set.-Des Moues News
Yice-President Hyde. of the Equit-
able. has just celebrated his twenty
ninth birthday but gave no Seely din
ner, having learned thing or two in
the last six m0nths-LouiSviI Pert.
Spain proposes to rebuild her feet.
So does Russia. Would it not be wen
to find out. first of all if there were
any chance of getting the right sort of
men TO put behind the gunS?-New
York Evening Sun
On entering the harbOr of Manila
the Russian admiral who managed to
get away from the battle of the Sea OF
japan fired a salute of thirteen guns,
which is obviously the right number
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
If Togos theory that dead ancestors
are mightier than swords aid 12-inch
guns holds good. old Virginia ought
to be able to put up fight that would
lay the Japs' completely in the shade
Winchester (Na9 News-Item.
Russia says she is going to build
great and mighty fleet What for?
For Japan to destroy The fleet on
paper or on water. that can't tight is
nothing. 1t may drown helpless sail
ors-Portland OregOnian Sentinel.
Still, a man who has lived at the
home of the oyster boat ought to be as
we'll equipped for Secretary of the
Navy as a man who has spent his life
in watching prairie schooners sail over
Kansas and Nebraska.-W Washington
Post
New York and Chicago are Dragging
about the new train which covers the
distance between the two cities in
eighteen hours But just why anyone
should wish to go to Chicago quickly
is difficult to understand.-Loui
Post
King Peter of Servla has signified
that he would willingly part with his
| kingly difficulties if someone would
only make him an offer. Why not sell
out to the head of the trouble trust
the Gar of Russia Boston Trans
cript.
ROjestvensky says he is pleased with
the treatment that he has received at
the hands of the Japanese. Still he
would probably have been more enthu-
isastic over it if they had given him
| the absent kind.-ChicagO Record
Herald
SO, after all, to have been tried three
times for murder was not sufficient
! justification for turning an Indifferent
| chorus girl into q star. The country is
not so maudlin as the enterprising
managers thought it was.-New York
| Evening Sun.
Another way of putting it is that
Chicago after importing Mr.. Dalrym-
pie from Glasgow to say how she shall
establish municipal ownership learns
| from him that the way to do it is to
import Glasgow city government
| Pittsburg News.
From the remarks dropped here and
there, one would be almost justified in
presuming that the amount of faint in
the latest subscription to the Univer-
sity of Chicago was hardly up to the
expectations of the friends of that in
stitution.-ChicagO Inter Ocean
The real mystery is how Paul MOI
ton can bring himself TO boss a little
road that he can walk all over in
day, when he has been accustomed to
running a system that reaches from
Chicago to the Pacific, with over 5000
miles OF track.-Topeka Journal
Henry James has been lecturing a
ladies' college on the improprieties of
our everyday language. 1t did not re-
quire Mr.. James to inform the aver
age bright American girl that if she
desires social recognition she must talk
properly and not chew gum.-Wash-
ingtOn Star
Seems strange thar we have got civ
ic declarations and cher institutions to
do everything, from rescuing cats to
arranging peace between foreign ma
lions at war, but not a one with the
nerve to take ignorant incompetent,
impudent officials by the back of the
neck and bring their noses to the bull
ring.-New York Telegram.
The Legislature has made a wise
move in appropriating $4,000 for
State sanitarium for consumptives
There is great field in trying to eff
feet a cure for the great white
plague" and if Wisconsin can throw
any light OH improved methods of car
ing for the afflicted it will be an in
valuable aid TO science-Racine Jour
nal.
The New York judge who fined an
American Tobacco Company official s.
for contempt in refusing to testify con
corning the cOmpany's affairs was
probably afraid of financially embar-
RAISING the trust. He did, however,
order him into custody of a United
States marshal until he decided to an
swer questions put to him and pro
duce certain papers-Charlotte q. c.
observer
1t would appear that an oyerruling
Providence has doomed Russia to
reach regeneration only through seas
Of blood, and that her feeble efforts at
eleventh hour repentance cannot save
her from just reuibutiOn. No nation
that ever was guilty Of such crimes
against humanity went on its way un-
whipt of justice. Russia is not going
TO prove an exception to this inexor-
able law. The common people have
been duly chastised in the hopelest
war with Japan. The Imperial house
and the bureaucracy have not suffered
from it; they have yet to pay the pen
atty they owe TO outraged Justice
American Israelite.
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