Show EDITORIAL PITH VicePresident Roosevelts visit to Colorado at this time Is without political significance although It Is believed that ho Intends to settle with tho Inventor of those mountain lion ntbrlcs says the St Louis GlobeDemocrat 4 t The Chicago Chronlclo observes that tho seventh annual peace congress has opened at Lake Mohonk with strong hopes that tho worlds construction or battleships this your will not ho moro than twice u extensive as that of lU8t year President Patton of Princeton thinks tho American young man has been robbed of his chance to got rich This shows that President Patton has not studied the subject very thoroughly There aro always al-ways patent medicines and slot machines ordHerald to be Invented remarks a the Chicago I ec Gen Fltzhugh Leo has returned to Richmond to live and already ho has added 0 fresh Interest to Virginia affairs by Intimating that h6 may find It dlfll cult to keep out of politics The General Is now on time retired list of the United States regular army so that hit flY are not jroorly provided for In a material way Due do retired army officers go Into politics poli-tics n lt the Springfield 9 S I Republican The Now York Tribune fays Abalnthe 1 the green demon of wormwood as It has been sometimes called never brought hosts of victims under Its spell in this country as It formerly did In European lands Caaqs of patients broughtto the verge of tho grave by habitual and men dlnalo drinking of absinthe havo never been numerous In American hospitals but tho doctors of the Old World and the New agree that he absinthe lend suffers as much mlHcry In tho long run as the slave of opium or cocaine There seems to be no serious danger however that the palo 1 green drink will over work appalling ap-palling ravages In the United States But mvare8 It Is good news that In Franco a changes In tim taxes on wines hau resulted Inl remarkable dccruauo In tho consumption of absinthe while wines largely taking tho place of tho yxlraot of wormwood |