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Show If General Kuronatkin has been pro- :. moted;" so that lvt r.ecd cause no one 1. ! , surprise to hoar that his duties will ' soon be exclusively at home. 1 ' ' : Mr. Moylo waa not tho ilrst to con- jj gratulatc Mr. Cutler on his election; j , hut though It came hard, It camo. And v now why doesn't somebody congratu- ; ' late Apostlo Smoot? i Tho reference of tho Incident of tho firing of the Russian fleet on the British ! fishermen to Tin.' Hague tribunal is hailed as a triumph. liut Great Britain j win prefer to wait for the award before j Joining in the acclaim. I. JI 'Jj Alfred Austin, the English poet laure- Jj ' ate, Is said to have declared that poetry : ' Is dead. Oh, come now, Alfred; be- I cause you cuu't -write poetry yourself Is w. no sign that nobody else can write it '!!l r.ive the public a rest, and look about I There Is In Greater New York, church j jropcrty to the value of 5216.C5I.10S that I . escapes taxation. That $3 twlco as I much as the whole assessed valuation $J : of this State was, only a few years ago, I and scores of millions greater than the '! aggregate valuation of Its assessment roll now. i , Mr. Bryan's hope of being elected U. !j S. Senator from Nebraska must be kept ,j in cold storage fdr at least another two j( years. One of the greatest and most j sweeping victories of the Republican 1 party was In tho Nebraska Legislature. yl Think of the Senate of that Stato not j having a Democrat In it! A 1 - 11 ' );!,' The calling of Commander Booth- j, i ' Tucker of tho Salvation Army to Eng-- j ; land to aEsume the duties of general j I foreign secretary, will bo regretted In j ! thlo country, where he has been active 1 In many plans for tho general good, and . j has Identified himself with colonizing In ' the arid belt, and with tho Irrigation f movement. ; i The Emperor of Germany Is evidently ij ' keeping In mind a warm Intent to do 1 f what he can to Avln the applause of the ! people of this country. His latest an- j nouncement of an intent to present to !i ! the American Nation a largo number j o( the valuable objects now on exhi- I bition In SL Louis Is well calculated to ;'. 1 win that applause. I V j The Washington Star, considering the S( awkwardness of the Russian Baltic i ll fleet's procedure thus far, and noting (j Admiral Rojestvensky's telegram to the Czar, .''The squadron Is, with a single jJl-1 ! he-art, at the foob of your Majesty's l't ( throne," wickedly remarks: "ConBlder- ", i Ing the past performances of this squa- Y .' dron it would certainly secern the part Jj t of wisdom for Nicholas either to shoo J it off or to move his throne." 3l ! . j' i Fifteen new boys and seventeen new J i ghls In town the past week is the birth ' record, a fair one. The deaths num- I1 ' I he red twenty during the samo time, of : M which thirteen were male and seven fe- jii j male. It is a good vital record. The r i , ontaglous diseases were not numerous, ,Jl -seven cases of smallpox being the most i of any. The city Is doing remarkably j well in Its vitality and health. I; l ji The city ordinance against burning II ji leaves or other rubbish save between JJt the hours- of C In the morning and noon, rill; Im a good protection against accidents, '('jj and should be enforced rigidly. But jjpjj how if-the owner doesn't set the fire out tJ of hours; how if some hoodlum, coming M along in the evening and seeing anlce rjl; pile of leaves arranged for burning the : j j next morning, pulls out a match and I jj rets them afire? This sort of thing is .'a j by no mean9 uncommon, and in such a jj: rase it would certainly be unfair to anil an-il ji roy'tho people who meant to burn their jj Jj leaves, but did not get a chance to do ijj ' fo within hours. Hk'3 Chairman Cort2lyou of the National ! i !(' Republican committee had the electoral Kj r vote figured out about right, though K jjf r,vcn he had no thought of carrying Mis- '.r souri or" Maryland. But on majorities H'm 1,0 was bout as badly off as anybody, ' JJ or while he felt sure of carrying New f - Yorlt, New Jersey. Connecticut, "West -'i jj Virginia and Indiana, classed before i jl election os "doubtful States' ,0t eatma 1 1 ' queer now that anybody should have thought them doubtful,) he had no Idea of the tremendous ground swell that was to mako Roosevelt the most popular popu-lar man who ever ran for l'rcsldent In this country, slnco the days of Washington. |