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Show PUT TUB WBT CLOAK ON IIIAU The public -will be pleased to learn that Capt. Llobson of Merrimac fame Is now a serious proposition. proposi-tion. The much-heralded hero hasi $haTed off hla mustache, his cheeks are sunken and he tars eye glasses. There is no longer anything In his appear ance to connect' him with the kiss-crazed man who "bussed" a line of old and young women extending across the continent The champion kisser has just arrived in New York on a plain business mission. But so. great is the Captain's hypnotic influence that he had hardly set foot on Gotham streets when a person named Baro Baraly was seized with a desire to kiss all the pretty girls fn the city. This way hare been purely a coincidence, but whatever the cause, it was sufficient to land the offender In Belle-vue. Belle-vue. The famous os'culator himself did not perform. He is in New York for a less frivolous purpose. The sinker of the Merrimac came to strike a keynote on the inadequacy of the American navy to uphold the Monroe doctrine. He thinks we ought to have at least five gross more of first-class battleships to contend con-tend t with Emperor William's Schuetzen Verein. llobson says he hates to-rontemplate the outcome of a war with any of the great powers. The Captain is to deliver a series of lectures advocating the ap propriation of 1150,000,000 for war boats. No kissing kiss-ing bees are to follow these discourses, unlefes llobson llob-son again becomes a hero. , In that event, we may look for a bagging mania to seize him. But is it not time. President Roosevelt were dropping over Capt, Hobson that wet cloak the Nation's Chief has so successfully thrown around' Miles, Dewey and Fun-ston? Fun-ston? We have had enough of this man who performed per-formed such heroic service for the Navy department in sinking the Merrimac in the channel of Santiago bay. For this useless collier cost the Government 4O0,OOO, and only the scuttling of the vessel by Capt. Hobson prevented an investigation which might have gone hard with the board of naval offl cers who authorized the purchase of an nnsea-worthy, nnsea-worthy, old water log for nearly a balf million dollars. dol-lars. ' |