Show SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS Washington Post The civilizing effect ef-fect ot city life is to be seen on every side The rural hodcarrier uses a large hod fills it to the brim and toils from sunup to sundown The city hodcarrier totes a small hod which is half filled and works eight hours per day Providence Journal It is very hard on Jaian that she should have done all the hard work ot knocking the Chinese empire em-pire to pieces only to enable the European Eu-ropean power to pick and choose from the remnants Boston Herald It is safe we think to take little stock in the report that has come from Washington to the effect that Senator Hoar had agreed to support the Hawaiian treaty with the modification that Hawaii shall not have any claims to be made a state of the Union This is too weak a subterfuge to be even proposed to a statesman of Hoars reputation It does not reach at all the objection that Mr Hoar has been aimed to have to the treaty nameiy xtt it incorporates Into the Union men who have not the right of participating in the privileges of United States citizens New York Times We do not disparage dispar-age the Spanish navy nor yet the two German schoolships which won such a famous victory at PortauPrince But it would be unfortunate for our foreign friends to get the idea that the Monroe doctrine would yield to those forces either separately or together The strength of that doctrine does not lie In the United States army nor in the United States navy but In the rooted conviction of the American people that it is not for their Interest that the American continent conti-nent should be parceled out upon theories of hinterland and spheres of Influence and other principles which result from European conditions Philadelphia Ledger The resolution of the Federation of Labor forbidding its members to belong to the national guard is unwise and unpatriotic but it will receive re-ceive importance only In the Improbable event of actual war between the workingmen working-men and the state It does not forbid the men to take up arms against a foreign enemy and would not be obeyed if it did Baltimore Sun The only cotton mill in the country it is claimed owned exclusively ex-clusively by colored people is now approaching ap-proaching completion at Concord N C and the last brick will be laid before the close of the present year The mill is to have from 7000 to 10000 spindles and from 150 to 250 looms The building is a handsome hand-some threestory Jjrlolc structure 120 feet buildIng long and there SO feet are wide also Besides engine and the boiler main I houses and a tower for water purposes It is expected the mill will be put in operation opera-tion by the first of April The colored people of Wilmington alone have put 4000 In the mill which promises to be a monument to the enterprise and thrift of the colored people of the old north state I A HYGIENIC HOME My wife and I are trying hard To live on healthful diet We read the food chart by the yard And run our kitchen by it Weve banished from our bills of fare All that such guides condemn True hygiene Is all our care As planned and taught by them For breakfast coffee is tabooed Hot cakes and eggs forbidden And milk since it is oftImbued With germs profuse though hidden Bread is unwholesome so is steak Submissive to our lot Oatmeal and graham gems we take And drink boiled watsr hot For dinner soup will never do And oysters typhoid nourish Salads entrees and ices too Are mere dyspeptic flourish Potatoes by the last advice Are poisonous were told W3 eat rare meat chopped fine with rice And drink boiled water cold For suppersome professors teach Tis best to go without It But since discretions left to each We take our choice about it On chicken wallles tea and cake We are forbid to feed But gluten wafers cocoa weak And prunes are all we need It grieves us much our friends to view So recklessin their diet Our wholesome menu we pursue And beg of them to try It But appetites ungodly sway Their nature so enthralls We cannot get a guest to stay Within our healthful walls Munseys Magazine |