Show A SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS An observant gentleman who had ample am-ple opportunity to note the conduct of women placed in positions of great peril and hardship by the tornado summed up his conclusion in the remark Hysterics are a luxury Among the host of examples exam-ples of heroic fortitude displayed In the stress of danger and suffering incident to the storm the most remarkable were tnose of women In the extremest peril or the greatest suffering there Is yet to be recorded an Instance of one woman whose strength or courage failed Weakness Weak-ness was banished until the need of strength was goneSt Louis Republic It Is easy to divine two reasons why Mr Reed may not desire the Republican nomination for vice president on the ticket with McKinley He might not like to take a position In the orchestra under a man who played second flddle to his leadership In the Fiftyfirst congress Neither would he like to stand on a half andhalf platform Cincinnati inquirer London is laughing at the extraordinary enterprise of a fire insurance company there There was a lire recently in the historic house at Brentford once occupied occu-pied by Nell Gwynne The insurance company thereupon forwarded its prospectus pros-pectus marked urgent to Miss Gwynne Boston Herald Major Moses P Handy suggests In the Chicago TimesHeraid that Mark Hanna would be the ideal man for the chairmanship chairman-ship of the Republican natioral committee commit-tee If the plans of Major McKinley and Whltelaw Reid which contemplate making mak-ing the campaign on tariff lines are pursued pur-sued no doubt the Idea Is a good one Mark could fry fat to a finish and do I the iron barons to a turnKansas City Star The indispcnsible qualifications for the I man who aspires to the chairmanship of I a national committee seems to be the possession of a barrel or the possession 1 of friends who possess a barrel and are willing to tap it for the good of the I partyOmaha Bee I The statement that the Spanish merchants mer-chants of Mexico Uruguay and Argentina I Argen-tina have entered Into an agreement to cease purchases In the United States on account of American sympathy with I Cuba will not Improve the Spanish cause in this country The American people have no toleration for such a weapon as the boycott and they are the last people who can be bribed or clubbed into supporting oppression and misrule anywhere any-where New York Commercial Advertiser Adver-tiser |