Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-10-07
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When the Kaiser has completed his
task of looking after other peoples
business he might go home and spend
few months building his own fences.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The popular contempt of warfare
against the mosquito proves the ca.
pacity of the American public for
straining at gnat and swallowing an
epidemic.-New York Mail.
A man is largely determined by his
environments. Christopher Columbus
might have been a New York police
man for twenty years without dlscov-
ering even a poolroom.-Puck.
If old man Sherman had only waited
around long enough to see the peace
ENJOYS start for Portsmouth he might
not have emitted such cantankerous
opinion about war.-Philadelphia Tele-
graph. -
Turkey has ordered in France a tor
pedo boat destroyer, three gunboats,
two transports and artillery fittings,
and 1t Is rumored that as soon as these
are delivered the Sultan intends to put
out his tongue at the Czar.-London
Punch.
The Lingo" Of the yellow fever re-
ports might be applied to the daily
news from the Agricultural Depart.
ment at Washington. New "foci' and
"sub-foci@ are constantly appearing un.
der Secretary Wilson's nose-Spring.
field Republican.
Portland, Me-, Is securing the coun.
try for subscriptions to its Thomas B.
Reed memorial fund. They want $780,.
900 and have on hand about $4,000
Tom wouldn't have approved this dun.
ming his friends for such a purpose
Boston Herald.
A woman swearing offends no more
against morals than a man swearing
but she offends more against manners
and by about as much as we are the
more shocked at her swearing than al
his, by so much do we hold manner!
above morals.-Life.
Our old friend, WI Ting Fang, |,
said to have been commissioned by the
Pekin court for the task of forcing this
country to a fair course of Treatment
of Chinese subjects. The childlike Mr.
WI knows us well, and how to pincl
: where 1t will hurt US the worst.-Buf
falo Courier.
The Russian government, according
to a st. Petersburg dispatch, has On
clded to issue a second internal loan
The amount is said to be $1OO,OOO,OOO
The Russian internal loan of 100000,
900 last March came like pulling teeth
this one, 1t Is fair to presume, will b,
like killing the nerve.-Hartford Cou
rant.
The dirt at Panama isn't flying, ant
the government has at last decided
= that 1t won't fly until sanitary condi
dCns are so improved that q sufficien
number Of workmen can be attracted
to the Isthmus. The original idea tina
the only thing needed to insure tn,
canal was the money has been sub
Stantially modified.-Buffalo Courier.
So many subjects of his majesty Ed
ward VII. fear that Americas futur,
= Is threatened by China and Japan, tn,
yellow peril, that there comes an IRE
sistible temptation to remind then
that the United States has managed
to increase some 100000 in popula
ton in the last century without an orr
entail market. We can probably play
al0ng.-Seattle Post-Intelllgencer.
Senator Mitchell, or Oregon, haI
been tried, convicted and sentenced t.
six months Imprisonment and to pay
fine Of $4,000; but still holds on to hi
seat as a Senator from Oregon. TIL,
salary, mileage and perquisites of Sen
ator Mitchell for year will about pa
his fine, but this is a new way to us,
the office of United States Senator
and will probably be very unpopular
Louisville Post.
The suggestion that there be a ma
tlOnal celebration of the two hundredtl
anniversary of Benjamin Franklin'
birthday next January was to be ex
surely be observed in various places
and one of them should be Boston
which Franklin ran away from at al
early age. A truly national celebra
ton, however, might be difficult t,
manage.-Springfield Republican.
1t would be interesting to know how
much money has been spent first an
last, on the search for the north pole
When the imposing total has been as
certained, the question may be asket
whether more profitable results would
not have been obtained If the money
had been spent in some other way
The hackers of an arctic explorer have
a right to spend their money on him
If they please, but they would benefit
humanity more If they put their dol
lars into model tenement houses OF
consumption hospitals.-Chicago Trib.
une.
Another plot has been discovered In
Constantinople the purpose OF which
was the removal Of the Sultan. The
Sultan's time Is all filed lodging