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Show At the peace congress in Chicago. General Grant defended the occupation of the soldier as an honorable hon-orable occupation, one that had been followed by his family for three hundred years. We believe no one will question the correctness of the general's gen-eral's views, but that does not change the aspect i of war or make war honorable, or just or desirable. In the days of civil war. to hire a substitute was considered somewhat of a disgrace. Perhaps it was. But. as General Grant says, nearly every war that has been fought has been brought about by lust for commercial supremacy. The business interests demand protection, and they hire substitutes. The substitute is not disgraced. It's the fellow who does the hiring. The more lax the observance of the laws of God becomes, the more laws are placed on the statute books for the protection of citizens. What the nation needs is a return to the teachings of the church. A little less inspection and a little more introspection would work wonder. . A resolution was recently introduced in the Hli- nois legislature to limit the size of women's hats. Must be lots of bachelors in that sedate body to thus tempt the wrath of the woman scorned. . . . The ordinary man would not be an ordinary man if he were possessed with wealth. He might then be a dub of a millionaire. Professor Pickering says he can send a message to .Mars for $10,000,000. but if he would guarantee an answer he probably could twice that much. It has been observed that an empty wagon makes the most noise as it rattles along the street. , It's different with men, however. 6 The Shakespeare-Bacon controversy has at-I at-I tracted the attention of Mark Twain. Mark always al-ways was a humorist. |