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Mr.. Cleveland's inability to see any
difference among dishonest men must
be due to some defect in his eyesight,
which prevents him from detecting a
| wink.--Chicago Inter Ocean.
1t is estimated that the recent naval
battle cost Russia $73,5OO,OOO. That is
almost equal to the cost of one Of the
swell dinners given by New York's so
| ciety set.-Des Moines News.
Vice President Hyde, OF the Equit.
able, las just celebrated his twenty
ninth birthday, but gave no Seely din
ner, having learned u thing or two in
the last six Notwithstanding Post
Spain proposes to rebuild her fleet.
So does Russia. Would it not be we'll
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
which is obviously the right number
st. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
If Togo's theory that dead ancestors
are mighter than swords and 12-inch
guns holds good, old Virginia ought
to be able to put up a fight that would
lay the Japs completely in the shade.
Winchester Na.) NewS-Itcm.
Russia says she is going to build a
great and mighty fleet. What for?
For Japan to destroy. The fleet on
paper, or on water, that can't fight 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 Nebra ska-Washi ngton
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 derstand.-Louisville
Post
King Peter of Servia has signified
that he would willingly part with his
kinSly difficulties If someone would
only make him an offer. Why not sell
out to the head of the trouble trust
the Car Of Russia ?-Boston Trans
cript.
Rojestyensky 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 a star The country is
not so maudln as the enterprising
man&g gers thought it was-New York
Evening Sun.
Seems strange that we have got civ
ic fedora tons and other institutions to
do everything, from rescuing cats to
arranging peace between foreign ma
tons at war, but not 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 apprOpriatins $4,000 for a
State sanitarium for consumptives.
There is a great field in trying to eff
feet cure for the great white
plague" and if Wisconsin can throw
any light on 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 IS
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 United
States marshal until he decided to an
swer questions put to him and pro-
duce certain papers.-Charlotte On. c.
Observer.
1t would appear that an overruling
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 retributon. No nation
that ever was guilty of such crimes
against humanity went on its way IN
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 hopeless
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 lSraelite
From the remarks dropped here and
there one would be almost justified In
presenting that the amount of faint In