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Show . r Last year we finished a war with Spain, and thousands of our soldiers are still fighting In the Philippines, in a tropical, miasmatic climate, and are daily enduring torments there for their country and their flag. I cannot at present call to mind and instance where the men and women of society who figured at the English "The Concert," Con-cert," at Sherry's, participated, either aa actors or spectators, in any affair arranged for the benefit of our soldiers in Cuba or the Philippines. I cannot romember that their names have been upon any list of contributors to the fund to relieve the frightful suffering of the Cuban reconeentrados at our doors, or to help such of them as remain re-main alive to start life anew. I did not notice that any of them were present pres-ent at General Lawton's funeral, or that they sent a single flower or wreath to be laid upon his coffin or his grave. The Saunterer, in Town Topics. 4 "Joe" Chamberlain's sinister threat to arm the Zulus and turn them loose upon the Boers shows that, despite the boasted progress of Christian civilization, civiliza-tion, this is still the same old England that hired Indians to scalp our ancestors, an-cestors, and tried to kill the souls as well as tha bodies of the natives of India by greasing the ballsi with which they were shot. The Saunterer, in To wis Topics. Our virile contemporary, the Colorado Springs Gazette, is publishing a very reaciaoie series of character sketches of prominent Coloradoans. The one on T. J. Maloney was particularly frood, and was from the pen of Mrs. L. M. Stansbury. . |