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Show H'.; J OUR CHILDISH COUSINS. H 1 Our cousins up in "Westminster (B. C), when Kf$. ; they hissed the star spangled banner and the en- B f '' I s'sn of the United States, did not Injure seriously B; si ' the flag nor the song of songs. They merely B ' Hm gave away the fact that they are crude and pro- B i 1 vlncial and withal dishonest to a lamentable de- R I IB Their cause of grievance was that the decision Hfflisl of a most exalted court presided over by one of jBBij m the most eminent of English jurists had decided jBff I m i a case against them. The reading of his decision Bfi ' Ji ! shows that under his oath he could not have done Hli .H J qlherwlsc Yet so angry are our northern friends IBenu 'ill that they have only words of hate and contempt for the United States, while their loyalty to the throne across the sea is shaken as it neyer has been before. All that is very childish and is calculated cal-culated to cause their own children to have a contempt for them When they reach a proper age to understand the matter. They had coveted that west coast so long that they finally reached the miser's conclusion that because they wanted it, they ought to have it. The old buccaneer spirit of their ancestors still dominates them and they would if they could have done what old Francis Drake would have done in a similar case three hundred and fifty years ago. But they should remember re-member that had not Sir Francis been an Englishman English-man and a fine fighter the verdict of the world would have been that he was able to act the role of a pirate as well as that of an admiral. They should cool off and in future avoid hissing hiss-ing the stars and stripes and remember that when a ray of radium is turned upon a real diamond it causes the gem to burst into a brilliant phos-phorence phos-phorence but has no effect on imitation stones, but it will kill white mice. Now under the red-ium red-ium the stars and stripes would be luminous, but we should be sorry to see it tried on our northern cousins, for, as said above, it kills white mice. |