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Show I Now the Bchoolboy -will bo out and get a little real education on the baseball base-ball field. Memorial Day will be observed appropriately ap-propriately by the Grand Army, If not by the grand army of pleasure-seekers. Tu It possible that there 1h no old playmate of Maude Adams who feels that her ability Is greatly overrated? I More people have a feeling of Ill-will for Mr, Ttoylanco than was supposed, quite a number having advised him to run for Governor. Being a Democrat of military experience, expe-rience, Col. Sam King may Insist on being placed In command of the delegation dele-gation to St. Loula. And when the time for parting came, the teacher told her little pupils how sorry she was to leave them and went on her way rejoicing. I Mayor Morris doubtless feels that ho cannot be blamed because the nmolcc nuisance still exists, as he told the smoke-makers to abate It. When tho short measures arc banished ban-ished from the stores and wagons, people peo-ple -will always get what they pay for, If they aro good at watching. "Will tho water at the beach bo warm enough tomorrow, or will It have to be heated up by putting hlgh-tempcra-turc figures on the bulletin-board? I 'Will you heartily concur tomorrow In the opinion that Memorial Day should bo more solemnly observed, and then hurriedly take a car for tho races? Tomorrow the wise young girl will know better than her mother that she cannot possibly catch cold, by going to a pleasure resort in a pretty dress. Baseball enthusiasts will not so far Ignore tho real significance of Memorial Memo-rial Day aa to go to a, game tomorrow, as there will be no league one here. I Nevertheless, somo Methodists will play cards. But tbey cannot have tho pleasuro of coming out boldly and bragging of the games they have won. Memorial Day will undoubtedly be pleasant. Experience teaches us that we cannot really expect our chilliest holiday weather until the Fourth of July. Why rudely tell tho graduates in their happiest hours that they do not know quito everything, when they will be given that information soon cnouglu anyway? I "What tho City Physician probably meant to say was that ho know he was going to havo a fight with a bulldog the next night nnd wanted all his strength for the encounter. Some one will doubtless come forward for-ward with tho preposterous suggestion that if an automobllo driver does not liko being Jolted he should run his machine ma-chine slowly over high crosswalks. I Could tho Hon. 'Quil Xcbeker bo relied' re-lied' on to bo watchful of the interests of the State, when he Is so easy that a man may step up to him nnd tako Ms watch without his knowledge? I it not strange, Indeed, that cx-Gov. cx-Gov. Ncbckcr was off his guard when Ms watch pocket was picked, when he knew that tho man who stood near him waa once a member of tho Legislature? I Utah Democrats realize the importance impor-tance of sending their best orators to tho St. Louis convention, though it Is not likely that any member of the delegation dele-gation will be able to get In more than a few word 8 there. The detailed reports of the fighting at Kin Chow, Nan Shan and Tallcnwan do not In any way tend to diminish tho desperate character of the lighting, but l hey materially decrease the Japanese lossen. These at first were reported to be twelve thousand killed, but thoir losses are now said to be throe thousand only, and this figure covers both the killed nnd the wounded. That Is- inoro reasonable; and It is certainly evcre enough. The Russians ha.vo now no further defenses beyond tho line of the Port Arthur fortifications, and will probably offer no other resistance of moment till the Japanese npproach these. But when tho Japs as&uult theee fortlilcatloni tho losses will be frightful, fright-ful, though the prize to be won is great, comprising besides the place itself, an immense quantity of munitions of war and many thousands' of Russian prbon-ers. prbon-ers. But a blockade and siege, though much safer, would consume ?o much time that probably the Japs will profer the direct assault, even with the heavy losses which that will involve. |