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tribune.
Poultney BigeJov forgets that only
Standard Oil magnates are privileged
to handle legal questions fiirpantly.--
Birmingham Herald
Now they say the Chinese want a re-
public. And yet it is doubtful if the
average Chinaman could pronounce the
word.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t is rumored that Grover Cleveland
isn't enjoying the $4,000 salary he is
drawing from one of the big insurance
mpanies.-Memphis CommercialAp-
peal
If France and the United States were
to combine against Venezuela it is be-
lieved that they could eventually whip
the South American nation.-Indlanap
oils Star.
The world lost one of its bravest,
knightliest souls and the United States
one of its most patriotic citizens when
Fighting Joe" Wheeler went out
Chicago Tribune.
When he decided to surrender one of
his two big salaries, Mr.. Shonts again
manifested his prudence and foresight
by surrendering the smaller one.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Miss Tarbell refers to lying as ma
tional vice. There is really very lit
tie excuse for lying when one may sim
ply refuse to answer ION advice of
counsel. kansas City Times.
The novelsts are making such VIC
lent efforts to get into the House of
Commons as to make one think that
there is streak of Indiana in modern
England.-New York Evening sun.
Former President Cleveland is weary
of his job as rebate referee for the big
insurance companies. The question of
what to do with our ex-Presidents has
not yet been solved.-St Louis Globe
Democrat
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller Jr, is
great admirer of the friend of Poti-
phar's wife Why not dedicate the
| Sunday School to st Joseph of the
Egyptian corn corner?"-New York
Evening Sun.
Marshall Field achieved distinction
not 10y being the richest merchant in
the world, but by being its greatest
| taxpayer. A more substantial concep-
ton of probity is not possible.-Cum-
| berland News.
Young Mr.. Rockefeller tells his BIZ
bic class that lie is never justifiable.
When his turn comes in the Standard
Oil investigation the public may look
for some interesting testimony-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
Senator Depew's colleagues gave him
a hearty Misunderstanding "vindication"
when he appeared in his seat the other
ton to venture inside the chamber
! Augusta Chronicle.
If Commissioner Garfield wasn't get
ting information from the packers for
prosecution purposes, why then get it
at all? Was it to satisfy his curiosity
or to supply material to magazine writ
ers?-Dallas News.
The victims of the "get-rich-quicl<"
| systems are not all poor, superstitiOus
and ignorant men away from our cities.
| Take the frenzied financiers and see
how they, too, are swept away in the
| hirlpOOl.-Louisville Post.
Summing up the press dispatches, we
might say that if he is not killed in
the hazing process, the modern fighting
man in either arm of the service stands
a reasonably good chance of dying from
old age-Portland Oregonian.
Possibly Mr. ShOnts is simply holding
on TO his $4,000 railroad job as a soft
place to fall in the event that public
sentiment compels the President to Sc
lect a new head for the Canal Commits
sion.-Kansas City Journal
Five years already of the seventh Ed
ward-more years than were reigned
by James H., Richard III. and Edward
v Here's to him. May he continue
for years to come to be at the head Of
an increasingly republican monarchy.
Boston Transcript.
Senator Clark's feat of building a
railroad without bonds marks the ex-
IRENE Of simple as opposed to frenzied
finance, and also discloses an idea
which should make it easy for the Sen
ator to dispose of the $40000,000 stock
advantageously. There are more ways
than one of killing that amiable dog,
the investing publc.--St. Louis Repub-
lie.
Forty years ago Robert e. Lee was
offered the presidency of Northern
insurance company at salary large
enough for those days. He wrote that
he hadn't the ability or the experience
to command such salary. He was
told that his name was worth it.
"What influence / have with the
Southern people is not for sale, said
Lee. That ended the Negotiations
New Orleans States.
For'y-odd years ago Joe Wheeler was
not liked in these parts. To-day those
old. passionate animosities are as
half-remembered dream. If the wishes
of his countrymen here in the North
had availed, Joe Wheeler would still
be with us. The sympathy and affec-
ton that kept watch at his bedside
were bounded only by the bounds of
the undivided and indivisible republic.
South and North, East and West, will
be fellow-mourners at his grave-Hart-
ford Courant.
Murderer Ivens, of Chicago. confesses
that he murdered Mrs. HOLSTER and
does it with the most complete non
chalance. 1T is the intention of the
police" says the Associated Press dis
patch, ito push the case against Ivens.'
That is advisable. 1t would not look
well even for the Chicago policemen to
let such a fellow go. The way to avoid
the trouble of pushing a prosecution is
never to arrest murderer method
that tho ChicaoO nOIfce long AGO dis