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Show REST FOR THE JAWS NEEDED. War Is a horrible thing even to Christians, who believe in heaven, nnd It is a great deal worse to others, liko Gen. Willinm Tecumseh Sherman, who believed in hell and said so when re ferring to war. Notwithstanding' all the horrors of war, and especially the Russo-Japanese variety, would It not be a great thing for civilization and for the spellbinders, spell-binders, If the war in the Orient should result In shooting all the Russian and Japanese names off the map? Then we could go to bed and rest our Jaws In peace, and wake up ln the morning and pick up our Tribune without with-out tho risk of frnctpring our talking apparatus over a few columns describing describ-ing the conlllct between Oriental armies led by General Kurowsk! Ovltchipatkl-mokoff Ovltchipatkl-mokoff and General Kochlchekiangokl-pell Kochlchekiangokl-pell Petungkuroklphon. Of course, Orientals may get used to these names and reel them off without losing a tooth, but for a full-blooded American to keep It up for any length of tlmo would simply mean a 100 In-of In-of time would simply mean a 100 per cent increase ln the dental business within the next six months. It will bo an Improvement to shoot the names off the map and keep them off or abolish the map |