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| The Russian evacuation of Manchu-
ria will be slow work, but it will be
accomplished. Japan will see to that.
Portland Argus.
We really don't see how Uncle Rus
sell Sage can expect the Lord TO wait
until he reaches par, when he can
be had at S9.-BOstOn Journal.
1t is reported that Senator Warner,
| of Missouri, walks and talks in his
sleep. lie Will be entirely at home
at the average session of the Senate.
1t has just been discovered that
Jupiter has a seventh moon. Jupiter
must be a poor place for private street
lighting companies.-Chicago Record
Herald.
The French government is decorat
ing mothers Of large families with
cross. Race suiciders Will think the
emblem chosen highly appropriate
Philadelphia Ledger.
We take it that even the Japs will
now admit that the illustrious ances-
tors of our Mr.. Roosevelt must have
something on those of the Mikado.-
Charleston News and Courier.
Like all disease, graft develops va
rious phases, but it is the same all
difficult. as the symptoms are almost
invariably the same.-Dallas News.
The pacification of the Russian peo-
pie is proceeding with gratifying re-
suits from the autocratic point Of view.
Forty have been killed and more than
200 wounded in the latest lesson
Pittsburg Dispatch.
\ glance at the years fatalities in
dicates a rare degree Of business acu-
men on the part of railroads in kill
ing off SO many employees and sparing
the lives of those to whom they might
look for cash fares. - Detroit Free
Press.
No one is surprised to see a new
theory of the creation of the solar
system advanced by Chicago univer-
sity professor. The only remarkable
thing is that he didn't claim that he
had hand in it himself.-Boston
Globe
4 railway mail clerk is suing this
government for the money spent in
meals during his trips. Uncle Sam
might come back at him by charging
up railway fares for all the time he
was riding in the mail car-Newport
News Press.
Japan was thrice armed because
her quarrel was just" says Baron 10
mura. Nonsense. Japan was thrice
armed because her army and navy de-
partments hustled night and day to
make her thrice armed - Colorado
Springs Gazette.
That battle Gen. Linevitch would
have won if it had been fought will
perhaps go down into history as
great hypothetical victory, but it will
probably be forgotten by the major
ity of people in a very short time
Washington Star.
1t is announced that between fifty
and sixty Mormons in charge of
bishop have reached Butte on their
way to Alberta. Canada, to take I'D
homesteads. Perhaps they will take
up the farms deserted by those other
Gelectable pilgrims, the Doukhobors.
st. John On. b. Times.
Just think how Mr.. Rockefeller
would have been "stung" had he pur-
chased peace, as suggested by the
Paris crowd. That the thing was
worth neither 4 kopeck nor sou
leads to the belief that Tom Lawson
inspired the Frenchmen to try to
"goldbrick'' the philanthropist-
York Evening Telegram.
THE fierce and warlike Cossack"
has been disgraced by the war with
Japan, and shown to be a four-fusher
He is terrible and valiant when it
comes to fighting unarmed women and
children, whom he shoots down with
out mercy. When confronted by Jap
anese riflemen he runs like a Turk
Memphis News-Scimitar.
The railroads furnish the express
companies cars. and carry the express
on a percentage basis. The govern
ment pays from - to 12J per cent
rental for postal cars and then pays
the railroads about eight times as
much for transporting the mails as
they receive for hauling the express.
Puzzle: Find the cause Of the deficit
in the i. o. D.-The Commoner.
1t is noticea bic that whenever Uncle
Sam launches a new warship the event
is chrOnicled in the European news
papers with as much detail OF the
armament and speed of the vessel as F,
is given publication III this country.
1t is Just another bit OF evidence that
the foreign powers are coming to a
conviction that the United States is
strictly in the international swim
Pittsburg Times.
Recent revelations show that there !
is graft even in collins. A man may
be compelled to give up all along the |
line of earthly activities. but when |