The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-19

never a household but has its canine
membership. extending all the way
from Grandpa's grand-dog TO the baby
grandchild's collie. Christopher North
tells us of a dog that went to church
with the greatest regularity and pun
etuality. and sat up in the pew. and
nodded approval TO what the pastor
said. whilst most OF his flock were
asleep. The good. gray Generals dog,
Tulipa, can bark in three languages,
Portuguese, Spanish and pigeon Eng
fish, and so can her progeny! There
are gay dogs of thirty and Jolly
dogs of fifty" and there is Enarlyow,
the Dog Fiend. and the Dog in the
Manager, to say nothing about My Old
Dog Tray and the Boy-faced Dog of
Destiny, and other dogs of which the
dog-ditties tell us.
The Cars dog resembles none of
these. Drag is a good dog" says the
adage, but Holdfast is a better" NJ.
Witte seems to be Holdfast,
Whether ii be an affair of dogs, or
men, however, the spectacle OF self
possession under fire. of courage upon
watery waste far from land, cannot
fail to inspire a certain sympathy in
| the beholdar; though. in the case of
NJ. White, we should not allow this
sympathy to blind MS TO the facts.
Russia, big dog, set ont TO bully
Japan. little dog. To do this, Rus
STA mad to break all her promises to
all the other dogs. Except that Eng
land and the United States, having in
terests in the Far East which they
knew to be menaced-the "open door"
directly so-except that England and
the United States overestimated the
military strength of Russia and were
afraid, there would have been inter
vention. England did make a treaty
with Japan, but. like the French treaty
with Russia, it did not amount to
mucl.
"No. mein frien, could lend you no
moneys, but you have my sympathy
Could you use dot?"
Japan had mainly to rely upon her
self-pity, whatever that might be
worth and wholly to meet the Bear
though, truth TO say, dogs have met
bears before. We have seen what we
have seen. Now that the end is in
which has shown its chief product to
be Giants of Battle, abate its rights
to indemnity? Japan's very existence
4 was at stake. The success of Russia
meant humiliation not only to Japan
but the sacrifice of all other than Rus
sian interests in China, century, OF
many centuries more for outocracy in
4 Russia, the consolidation of the Musco
vite and Mahommedan worlds, men
acing Europe. and on our Pacific
lines of land and water, menacint
us.
The little David Of the Peach-boV
! vase. which has laid this great Goliatl
low, has rescued the Western worlt
from the jaws of the Jahberwock. The
dogs haves licked the bear. Their
! viii be time enough to consider tn
Yellow Peril Just now let us do jus
ice to the dogs.
Not since the Harlotocracy II
: France, which ended in the Terror
has mankind seen anything like thu
J Autocracy in Russia. Happily, thu
present Car Is digging the grave 0
his dynasty and the Autocracy, Bot
/; sides at Portsmouth are playing 70
the best of IT. That is what they wert
sent for, came for, and are here foi
"AsI for Mickey" wrote the Gar
j Cousin George Of Greece, after the al
tempt at assassination perpetrated b
] the Japanese zealot just outside Q
2 Toxic, as for Mickey, he ran" As
3 suredly Mickey is not OF the Bob, So
/ of Battle sort, except by proxy II
S playing for advantage and delay
which may cost him dear. Cyan
has Linevitch exactly where he want
) him, and, the signal given, we shal
, witness the last of the Russian armie
J swallowed up, like the last of the fieet
i Of a naval establishment, rotten no
II