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Show I Arizona is said to be now: growing datfs as good as those which come from Algiers. r.ut it. Louis is tin- I able to get from anywhere a dale for j the beginning of its exposition. Success in life, according to Mr. Car- inegie, is incompatible with the drink- ing: haliit. Kutte has several eminent citizens who are prepared to take issue with Mr. Carnegie on this proposition. I The 1'nited States has received from ; the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, for nearly eighty years, a sum 1 of more than 174.000. The sum total re- I I -eived in this time was $5.S07.S93.40. Our i : country contributed to the societv $1,- I - , l-'0,420.St. I Tlie society column of the New York j Tribune says: -All .sorts of jewelry and ornaments of silver fiiligree are 1 shown in the shops and they are ex- I ccedingly dainty and smart for or- I dinary use." This is another argu- I merit in favor of establishing an ex- I tensive silverware factory in Salt Lake j to use Utah silver. . o Was the president, really provoked . or was be shanu-d into choking off the little blatherskite Funston? So far from taking Funston seriously, anti-imperialists anti-imperialists were really amused at the i in soldier. Let him talk to. his heart's content. Mr. President, but inhibit other officers from talking who really jnight say something worth saying. The west has the greatest movement .' : of population, the west shows in the weekly report f bank clearings the largist increase of business, .and the ; ""'-st is doing the inost in railroad con- M motion. The Kailroad Age says that the total railway mileage in the Unit-; Unit-; (i Slates will K- increased during the coming season 7,!,s4 miles, and that ri,14S i,f tbis mileage will be built in t'-rri'ory west of the Mississippi river. , King ;eorge .f (Jieecc enjoys the distinction of Wing the first crowned ' bead to qualify himself as an expert in wireless telegraphy. During the recent visit of the Eritish Mediterran-; Mediterran-; , an squadron to Athens. King CJeorge I became tremendously interested in the invention, and in the apparatus with "hich the flagship Hamilles and sun- !dry other vessels of the lleet ar-2 equipped. Not content with having everything explained to him, he insisted insist-ed upon learning the art, and before the squadron lert had acquired a suf-Jicient suf-Jicient knowledge to be able to both i lake and send messages. King Alfonso of Spain is now busy with tailors. For -when he comes of age next month he will not only blos- ' , 's"ni forth into the gorgeous uniforms "f captain general and field marshal of the army, and of admiral in chief of the navy, covered with gold lace, in lieu of the quiet, unobtrusive and natty ; adct uniform that lie has been wear ing until now. but will likewise don ( for the first time. that modern "toga, viriii?,- the frock or Trince Albert coat, the swallow tail black evening dress 1 coat, and last, but not least, the high Isilk hat. In fact, this 16-year-old boy will be decked out in the garb of a full-fledged man. Major .Waller has been tried and ac quitted. He could not plead, "Not ' guilty." But he laid the barbarities of v hich he was charged at the door of bis superior officer. It was General ;i Jacob II. Smith, who was. and is re- . M-onsjble for the order to "make a j j j, tlCaa 8Weep of th island of Samar j with fire and sword, making it a howN ing wilderness, and to kill everything over ten,".. fays- the- Catholic Transcript. Trans-cript. His order was 'carried out in all its brutality.. The nation's honor requires re-quires the 'death.' of GeneraJ Smith. Nor will this do, -fqr the war of inhuman inhu-man extermination was not confined to the island tinder the heartless chief. Who else is . responsible? We' have been so hard on Spain, and justified our war against her on grounds so high that we owe it to ourselves not I only to put an end to these cruelties, but also to punish all who assisted in bringing them about. We are beginning begin-ning to experience the cares of empire. As our horizon broadens, we will acquire ac-quire new and more enlightened views of human affairs. Much of the opprobrium oppro-brium which we have been accustomed to shower upon the colony-holding nations na-tions of the old world, will become comprehensible to us. We will understand under-stand how unreasonable it. is-to condemn con-demn a whole nation or a people's religion, re-ligion, for the inhumanity and other crimes of individuals. AVe need this lesson sadly, but it is a pity that we have to learn it at the expense of the hapless Filipino: : - -.- ; Joseph Jefferson, The" actor, arrived in Itichmond, Va., on Saturday last just in time. to. fill a matinee engagement. engage-ment. . As be approached . the stage door he beheld a crowd of women ready to make a concerted onslaught. The veteran actor, taking in the state of affairs, fled to the main entrance o the theatre, but upon entering the auditorium, au-ditorium, was informed there was no way of reaching the stage from the interior of the house. With an engag-I engag-I ing Hip Van Winkle expression of th ; face, he suggested there might be no objection to his climbing over the footlights, foot-lights, and accomplished the feat with the agility of a boy, much to the amusement of the orchestra and such Of the audience as . had come in. At the close yf the performance he mad? his exit Vinthc same manner and thus escaped the mob .which' was waiting for him at. the stage door, more eager than ever for their victim from their first disappointment. Mr. Jefferson is now the fifth conspicuous victim of feminine femi-nine emotion. His .predecessors wert-Kdwin wert-Kdwin Boofh, 'who personally was as indifferent to adoration of this sort a3 an Egyptian mummy; Max A 1 vary, the Wagnerian tenor and ideal Young Siegfried, who was saved, however, when it was discovered that he was th head of an unusually large family; Padorewski, who suffered much on account ac-count of his marvelous shock of hair, and Jan Kubelik, who has become so scared that he contemplates marriage as his only escape. Joseph Jefferson, however, is old enough to take care of himself, as he has shown. It appears that the king, in his desire to shorten the coronation- ceremony, has come into conflict with the Anglican Angli-can ecclesiastics who have charge of th ritual for that occasion. On one point the king is said to have been absolutely decisive, and it is declared that his decision in this respect may be productive of serious trouble among the Anglicans. According to the Dublin Dub-lin Freeman, he positively refuses to parta"ke of the communion, and as it is said that-he. has never-done so in. his life according' t the' Anglican rite, there are dark suspicions as to his orthodoxy. or-thodoxy. Indeed, a certain section of the Anglfean community who have long been skeptical on this subject regard re-gard their jsuspicions as being more than confirmed by his determined refusal re-fusal to take the communion on this the most solemn occasion of his life. There has also been difficulty about the anointing both of the king and queen. On this point the. primate and his advisers ad-visers have been immovable, and the king has been forced to comply to the extent of having a slight cut in his robes to enable the application of the chrism to his chest. . The queen, too, held out obstinately against permitting the oil to be applied to her face, until she was informed that it could be prepared pre-pared in a solid form like wax and would leave no mark. The net result of the stand made by the primate for the prescribed ritual ceremony, is that, whereas the king wanted to reduce the. ceremony from neatly four hours to one hour, it will actually take an hour and a half at the fastest attainable pace. " - |