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Show CURRENT COMMENT With the President at Hyde Park, and Congress scattered to ence which can be wf the oveCjM "thrill". What differ A 1 "collection" g0es lnto f bag a few years iaterK I tor the collector wa.g1 , harmless while U la8t(J. 1 ' as to the uninterested 'A he got more foot roo Jf the house and did a g0od j : at the same nme. H : I old prist which the former owner own-er valued so lightly that he threw It Into the attic. Everyone Every-one must have fun in his own way. He can get It innocently In no better manner than by "collecting." One of the virtues of that hobby Is that it thrives In most cases on cast-offs which are of value to the collector Only. On-ly. And so It occurs that all parties to the transaction are pleased. On the on hand' the Junk disappears and on the other there comes that experl- the four winds, like tho spirits in Plato's fable, Washington has little to do save to repeat the early Civil War report: "All quiet along the Potomas." Rumors Ru-mors still persist that an extra session will be called, and in that event the capital city again will take on the activity .for which it Is noted. In the meantime, mean-time, the President is planning a little fishing, which no one will begrudge him, and Is saying little that goes beyond the ordinary or-dinary courtesies extended to the press. Putting Mr. Roosevelt aside for the time being, as a source of news, it comes from the appropriations ap-propriations Committee f the House that the budget will be balanced, in substance, by the first of next July. It la pointed out that during the last session appropriations were about a hundred hun-dred million dollars less than was asked for current expenses, and that If the national debt had Increased somewhat, the troublesome thing known as the budget. Although the President maybe taking a few days off, light still burn late In the State Department, Depart-ment, on account of the situation situa-tion In the far East. It is too early in the conflict to suggest any plan whereby the Japanese and the Chinese may heal the difficulties that exist between them, and about all that the Departmest of State can do along that line at present is nothing at all: simply wait until the warring parties have battered each other until they are out of breath and the gong sounds for the end of the first round. The British and the Americons fought out their difficulties In the Revolution and in the War of 1812 without regard to Asiatic Asi-atic cholera, Its first appearance , In the Uslted States being ln 1832. In that year, immigrants from England to New York. City by way of Quebec spread the scourage, and for several years it was epidemic here. In 1848 it arrived again at New Orleans, ascending the . Mississippi and moving across the plaisa to California Cali-fornia with the gold rush. Cholera Chol-era scares have occurred now and then, But generally stated we have had no cause for anxiety anxi-ety on that score since 1873. There are none living who can give a word of mouth account of the doings of cholera in the United States, and nobody Is eager to have new history written writ-ten along that line. With no hard feelings toward the Chinese Chin-ese and the Japs, it is hoped that they handle their own war and their own cholerafl The American Phllatedlc Society So-ciety has opened its 62nd an-nual an-nual convention in Detroit. Most persons have . collected stamps, or something else, at one time or another, and many never will cease from their labors while they are In the flesh. Collectors should not be put aside with n indulgent smile. None but the collector knows the Joy that comes with the discovery of a bottle of peculiar shape or an , |