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Show II "Russians Bhow a reasonable spirit of I -willingness to be satisfied -with a, fight I ftom which they can retreat In good I prder. I rj Milliners may have to do a little work I Xaster morning, so that some devout I . Jndles may not be prevented from going I ;:io church. c o The exploration force of tho Street I department reported yesterday several I ' interesting finds which were pronounced I t crosswalks. Another objection to the varied weather we are having Is that It makes jnany feel compelled to say that they "never saw anything llko It. "We presume It aggravates Mr. Van -Colt to hear that he must go back to "Washington and be one of tho conspicuous con-spicuous figures of our country, i Some of our most actlvo' youths will "liavo a poor opinion of Principal Hal-Mock's Hal-Mock's judgment If he thinks hoodlum-ism hoodlum-ism is not something to be proud of. ' Belligerent people continue to engage 3n bloody lights, forgetting that they 'cannot do so lawfully here without sc curing a license for a boxing contest. Mr. Roylance courteously suggests "that there are other Utah county men J better fitted than he Is to go to the St. Louis convention, though he knows better. bet-ter. As the Hon. 'Qull Nebeker has not been heard from, perhaps ho has en-a en-a larged his operations in rubber to the extent of conducting a gum-ehoe campaign. cam-paign. If you were out very much in March , you will feel that you have heard In your time more reliable statements j than the ono placing tho month's precipitation pre-cipitation at only four Inches. , "Senatorial courtesy" must have been paralyzed in Its tracks yesterday when , Senator Clark of Wyoming pronounced a statement made by Senator Patterson o of Colorado to be "unqualifiedly un- true." It Is lucky he didn't say it was "a He out of tho wholo cloth," for then indeed would courtesy have died the . death. ' With the roholstlng of the American Iflag over the correspondents' moss at New Chwnng, with apologies from the .police for having hauled It down, Uaat Incident Is closed. Accidents and .'blunders will happen, even with the jbest of will to prevent them. It was, inconceivable that Russia could really 'intend an affront. k- "Russia cannot forever play the soll-.vtary soll-.vtary watchdog of civilization In the far East," declares tho Bourse Gazette of St. Petersburg. If Russia Is doing that, tshe is certainly exacting enormous pay Jfor it. Suppose, now, she should quit the role tor a hundred years or so, and cee if civilization wouldn't get along qulte as well without that sort of a watchdog. Mr. Helnze has paid his $20,000 finn, and probably will not be fined on the -pother counts against him. Whether tho dact which involved the contempt was worth the money to him, he alone wknows; but it must have been highly "important If it was. And the contempt 'must have been very glaring to call for iOmch a stiff penalty. Probably, however, he takes It philosophically, as "all In lhe: game" " That Is rather a singular proposition .Joinder which ex-Senator Pettigrew 'heads the delegation to the National Democratic convention from South Da- H Dtota, He announced openly and ex- Implicitly that if Grover Cleveland or any Democrat like him is nominated, he will Hj t2xlt. And yet he goes ostensibly as a delegate, to confer with other delegates, fl Twlth a view to selecting by the voice -J5f those engaged in a common purpose, Zu. (It candidate for his party to support. sHe will refuse his support, however, If a certain choice Is make. Suppose all thc delegates went there with a like purpose, the Eastern men to bolt if "Bryan or any Democrat like ,hlm Is nominated. What a glorious convention it would be! Tho delegate who goes to a convention with tho determination to bolt unless he can have his way, I? not a fit man to be entrusted with any party par-ty responsibility whatovor; ho Is a traitor to his organization, and his course tends not only to defeat but to party dissolution. |