Show The death of Charles Emory Smith the l editor ditOl of the Phila Philadelphia Press removes from this world one of the strongest and most evenly balanced editors in inthe inthe inthe the United States IIo lIo was never ue in the thc highest sense a great editor editor edi edi- torr tor but he made up aP for that in the fact that hu Iw never was a weak one Every day u in the year oar it wa was easy to expect what would be bo found in the Press lIe He was a clear brained nio most t sincere man he was alwa always s 's and everywhere e a Republican He lie was a R tower towel of or strength to his party part in Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- Pennsylvania vania an and in the United States Stales and nd the work he hehns hehn hn has hns done on ou the Press since sinco the pen fell from front the time humid hand of Fot Forney Forner ney has been very great Anion Amon Among e editors he ranked with Mural Murat Halstead and Joe McCulloch lie Ile was never so brilliant u as Colonel but buthe buthe buthe he made a better paper every day day- daythan dB than does Colonel atterson H Ile was waR a strong patriotic and true trueman trueman trueman man and nd md will be e greatly mi missed ed in Philadelphia It is is expected that General Stoessel will ill this week weck be convicted for surrendering Port Arthur It was shown on the trial that he saw half the garrison garrison garrison garri garri- son blown into the tho air i l' l by br the explosion of a Japanese mine and visiting the hospital at night he saw all all tho time surgeons operating on the wounded and there thele were no anaesthetics One would think that the old soldier had held out until almost an any court would sa say that surrender was justified but Russia is cruel in h her r exactions The path up which Russia is advancing toward a higher civilization is a fearful one What unrecorded unrecorded unrecorded corded wrongs perpetrated through the centuries is the unwieldy nation suffering fort for |