Show SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS San Francisco Chronicle White men in a South Carolina town have shown their disapproval l of the choice i of a negro as postmaster by burning his house killing him and a babe in arms and shooting anti maiming his wife and thr e daughters Nevertheless public indignation In that quarter at the atrocities of Spain in Cuba has probablj not abated They never I mix up their foreign politics with their domestic pastimes in South Carolina Atlanta Constitution All tho symptoms go to show that th official candle of John Sherman has been snuffed out He Is still holding on to his office with the bitter resolution that is a part of the equipment of an Ohio politician but as a political factor he has actually passed away while yet In life Nobody knows when Mack and Mark have the poor old fellow hid His name Is never heard and all the transactions of the state department are carried on by a Mr Day who if he did not know has rapidly Harned l how to talk Spanish t Chicago Inter Ocean Good roads is a I prominent question in Kentucky One statesman figures it that bad roads mean an annual lo < s to her farmers of 2oC00 and that good roads would Increase the I value of Jler farr lands 12100000 But chpnping down toll gates wont build good roads and that seems to be about as far as Kentucky has gons in reform up to I date Boston Herald Chicagos Book of I Wealth takes the premium tulip The I two editions of the book will cost iBtOOe > and only 400 copies will be printsd The I first or cyjjne nolr edltlon will consist of 150 copies and will be sold at J27M a copy The second edition of 250 will cost only SlOOO each It will tell all about the rich folks of Chicago down to and including Joseph Leiter I Philadelphia Ledger Three weeks ago Nat Goodwin tho actor was divorced by I a New York court the degree prohibiting him from marrying again during the life I of his divorced wife But though this de erea had binding pffct In New York It had none in Ohio and Goodwin was married mar-ried again on Sunday at Cleveland The I prominence of the actor and his bride i MaxInE Elliott calls renew id attention to I the undiIs arising from the confusion cW chf In the marriage and divorce laws of the I different states and the urgent necessity I na sf for the adoption of uniform laws on the subject by all of them I I Kansas City Star Persons who have not hitherto admired exSecretary Morton of the department of agriculture must at t least commed him for the pains hs has taken to exculpate himself from the charge of writing poetry He has been fl i iy rsfI r entirely successful In proving an alibi leI In r spect to the verses of What Do Wo I Plant When We Plant the Tree |