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Show H' The death of the anti-toxin trust will , be helpful in retaining life in numerous No reasonable person in the rubber shoe trade has any fault to find with the weather. But what Korea, would liko to know Hlj ' 's how will it look when the next maps H1 arc gotten out? H Nordiea Is divorced, and probably H doesn't know where her next husband B Is coming from. B After the war gets a good start, the B Czar is likely to be moro In favor of H , peaco than ever. B Still, Mayor Morris may be pardoned fl for thinking that this is not such a great winter for Snow. B ' There may be so much water next B summer that no one can take any B pleasure in wasting it. B Handsome women who have been ap- Hj noyed by ogling, can hereafter depend Hi on policemen to look after them. H ' "While Mr. Ogden remained a very Hk ' modest, quiet fellow, the girls never ' thought of going crazy over him. IsssH ' ' .. H The Russian and Japanese navies, in H their efforts to weaken each other, will Hl' endeavor to bring on sinking spells. B The extension of the sleighing season Bt Is pleasing to young men who would Hj j rather have cutten-rlding than a lot B' . BJ The snowstorm abundantly vindicated B the judgment of those excellent weath- er experts, Dr. Hyatt and Prof. V' ' Groundhog. Elderly people must not complain If H, boys hit them with snowballs, as our B rising young hoodlums muet have their H. 1 amusement. HJ ' If you want to know when the wln- Hj I ter will end, we guess you will now be willing to take the groundhog's figures. H on the subject. A benefit for needy players in Chi- cago netted $2100, but a good many of them arc more In need of ability to act ' than of money. ; The rush for Mr. Ogden's heart and 1 I hand would not be so unwomanly, if H the ladles had been told that the wife- ( seeker had money.' Hj Russia promises the.1 if war comes It ( will give Japan a great thrashing, but Japan remembers that Russia Is not t good at keeping promises. ' Very likely, the robber who tried to , hold up a messenger boy had been fooled by some one who told him a messenger boy could not run. Many a schoolboy would . be very . , sorry if comic valentines were done away with, as how could he then find ' I a nice one t'o send to teacher? Hr 1 t The long-established Sabbath custom ' I of over-smart youths, of standing on V" i Main street, and commenting on ladies, B f ii I wJII probably not be observed today. ) , j Why not pans an ordinance forbld- 1 J ding the shoveling of snow from.sldc- 'i ! walks, and see if people will not then fl ij' I i gat out with th err shovels and do it? r i ( If you were congratulating yourself i ( on getting through the winter without HL , j- being hit by a snowball, you can doubt- ' ' less now sue that your felicitutlou was HL ; j premature. H 'i Since it has been known that men arc B : , 1 likely to admire attractive girls on the H i' ' . j street, we suppose girls have been try-HV try-HV 1 1 ( lng to think of -ways to make them-HK them-HK 1 selves lem attractive. Perhaps the smallpox patient who left HL i the isolation hospital merely wished, to B j J j come down and tell the Mayor how Hi rj much he appreciated the dismissal of a Br jj j steward who restricted the liberty of B j J patients, B" j m What a "favored nation" Porto Rico B I IE ,s' cornPar0(1 AVlln tlie Philippines! Porto H' 1 if Rico gets free trade with the United H :f States, while the Philippines hardly can I )f BCt even a snia'1 abatement of customs H J 5 dues. And now CongrcBH appropriates money ior hAm,ire(1 Torto Ricon teachers to attend a summer school in this country, as It has dono in other years. But If such a thing should bo asked in behalf of Filipino teachers (who stand far more In need of tho trip and the instruction), a shout of indignant in-dignant protest would be sot up." And yet the poEsIbUitlcs of the Philippines are many fold greator than those of Porto Rico. There is no reason why the latter should be a favored guest at the home hearth, and the Filipinos be kept out-doors vainly knocking to get Jn. |