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Show STRIKINGLYSUGGESTIVE. Mayor Collins of Boston and Prince Henry' of Prussia. "When I saw General Collins the honored mayor of Boston, riding beside the representative of the German em-I em-I peror," said Rev. E. A .Morton, a Protestant Prot-estant clergyman of Boston. "I thought in heaven's name in what other country coun-try could that happen:" The same thought occurred, no doubt, to most of the spectators, whatever their ancestry. Patrick A. Collins. Irish emigrant boy in 1848, coal miner in Ohio in 1S5S, Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts state senator in 1870. graduate grad-uate of Harvard law school in 1871. United States congressman in 1882.' United States consul general to London in 1S92. mnvnr nf RA0tnn i -lono .vi... a record for Irish blood and American fair play! The Irish lad who has loved and worked for the cause of Irish freedom all his life, sat on a fence in I860 to see the first royal guest of the United States the Prince of Wales go by. Little more than forty years later he welcomes the country's next royal guest. Prince Henry of Prussia, as the representative of America's most cultured cul-tured and historic city. Says the Boston Herald: "Mayor Patrick A. Collins and Prince Henry of Prussia were much together yesterday. The spectacle was one which supplies ample material for reflection. The immigrant Irish boy, whose youth j was a period of poverty, hard toil and scant opportunities was, as the official I wealth and culture, acting the host to the brother of a reigning monarch of j one of the haughtiest dynasties of j "u,i,r' c pci luruieii nis amy wun a dignity and grace of which Boston has no occasion to be ashamed. If his royal highness did not recognize in him a true-hearted and honorable gentleman, gentle-man, the fault must be in himself. In the accidents of birth and fortune, for which neither deserves credit nor blame, the son of an imperial line has had what the world reckons- superior opportunities. Has he done so much for himself as this American citizen whose youth was spent as a mine worker and factory operative in a strange land?. If Prince Henry had begun life under circumstances cir-cumstances similar to those which environed en-vironed Mayor Collins, would he have risen so handsomely superior to them' NTnl- In hie ...o iiuu.s mum, n c uiciy saiety reply. In this land he would have had at least an equal opportunity." Nor was it less striking that a mayor i of Irish blood, the Hon. John McNamee. ! welcomed Prince Henry to Cambridge, seat of the oldest university in our land, i Verily, thebrother of Emperor William j ot Germany and the nephew of King Edward of England saw strangely suggestive sug-gestive things in Boston and Cambridge. Cam-bridge. Boston Pilot. English Figures on Boer Slaughter. ' , Mr. Broderick of the English war of-I of-I fice reports the killing and capture of 600 Boers in the last two days. Inci- dental to this is also the capture of 2,000 horses and 2S.000 cattle. ' Presumably Presum-ably a large number of these captured horses orieinallv came from Amc-ci and were paid for by the British government, gov-ernment, for continued purchase of war steeds in this country would be unnecessary unnec-essary when they could be secured by so little effort right where they are needed. The figures of the British war office seem alarmingly unreliable when it comes to estimating the losses of the enemy. If they are to be accepted as authentic a careful computation of past reports reveals an appalling condition of affairs among the Boers. According to British figures the -actual number of Boers slain in combat is '14 719-those 719-those wounded, 1.017.014; caotured as prisoners of war, 24.615,000; horses corralled cor-ralled and impressed into British service. serv-ice. 922.714.001; cattle captured and in daily use as "English roast beef bv I yeomanry. Lancashire fi.,;i., . Royal Dublin Irish stout. 2,905.716 Ofr ! f Accurate records of sheep captured ' have not been kept since Buller ate Christmas dinner in Pretoria ) It will thus be seen that the Boers ' ?ne 8U?eI?d most astonishingly heavy ' loss, and the marvel is that they still maintain the unequal, conflict Ud to StalNews " announce."-Boise |