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Show c -ti.vojic will nominate ilartin T. J. Griffin for the chair of American history in the Catholic uni- i p vrrsity, the writer will second the motion. -v,w sorn'' -ver.1h of a seventh son will rise tl "I and say that tho explosion on the battleship Mis- s..ri will have a baneful influence on the St. Louis Pair. 11 'itn and blizzards in this latter end or j; -April, one i inclined to invoke the aid of the chief xl of 1"?''' " arrest the man who wrote ''The flowers I" l'1:'t bl'-x-m in the spring, tra la." v - f , W w- fine it. was said of the Canadians that t,,c-v 1K,t terprise enough to make a barrel. I Americans arc now ready to take it. back. A fire in I Torroito on Wednesday burned up $12,0O,0K) in I j; pr..ir.rty. Baltimore had better take "in its horns. ( b Among- the folk of Sr. Tetersbur the En8lish l ar1 '-r"i with placing ihe Japanese mines which I P brcn-ht dotru-.tion to ihoir best battleship and I ,3f fiti ,( ll,f,"r adored admiral outside Tort Arthur, I j" WIl, n ,J""br it. is safe to charge ihe British with j I HTl ai)1 a" mischief. Xo Iri-hman would have any I t hf-sifutifin in saying- that it was John Bull who J . ruck Billy Patterson. I - ; f . j I lh(' dearth of war news from Asia has leen in- ? torrujited by another Japanese, attack upon Port 1 - Arthur, and another Kussian disaster due either to I j Jajan-e ability ,ir liussian blundering. But the I b'-s of this battleship, or of all the battleships, will ! 3 11ot M-uro to Japan the only thing- worth fiphtin? I ' ',r vhi-li is ihe ability to force Russia to a treaty I t of poa.f in accordance with the Japanese interests. 1 -vs tho Pueblo Chieftain. i j Alt!gether ten Russian vessels have been dam-, dam-, ag-d or lost, since the outbreak of the war in ihe j -at. Th disaster to the Petropavlorsk ends the ; hoj- that the ill-fated Port Arthur squadron will bo able to become an aggressive factor in the opera-lions opera-lions before it is reinforced by the arrival of the Baltic fleet. Uutil then N the aim of the Russians ; . will be to h-,ld Port Arthur and conserve the remaining re-maining ships within ihe protection of its grins. Temporarily the last faith in success at sea died with Admiral Inkaroff, and the Russian people now look to the army, in which they have implicit con-1 con-1 iidencc, to retrieve on land the reverses and disasters . suffered on tho water. 4 j Oeorge of Greece is much disturbed by tlx) i disastrous effects in his dominions of excessive emi- l prat ion to the United States. He has recently been 1 making a tour through the provinces, and has found whole districts left without cultivation owing to th.? I efTects of depopulation resulting from the exodus of Ihe rural population to America. Each week the I steamers from Patras, the Piraeus and other ports ' , 5 carry away hundreds of able-bodied men to the new j world, and there is no doubt that those who have at P heart the welfare of Greece have serious cause for J alarm at ihe growing tendency of the best and most vigorous elements of the population to seek else- where those opportunities for improving their ma- j terial position which are denied them in their na- ' tivo land. ' r. T The same hour that news was received of the loss h of the big Russian battleship and the drowning of m HK) sailors, there was flashed over the wires from t "Florida a report of an explosion on the battleship Missouri and the killing of twenty or more of the orcw. Only by the merest chance did this hoodoo of the na escape the fate of the czar's ship outside out-side Port Arthur. It may be that Captain Cowles of the battleship 3fissouri is blameless, but the fact that his vessel within aNshort time has had two distressing dis-tressing experiences is sufficient to cause a rigid inquiry. in-quiry. If there is lack of discipline or bad management man-agement of any kind, the responsibility should be fixed. The fact that 'Captain Cowles is President Roosevelt's brother-in-law should cut no figure at all- one way or the other. If our warships are more " dangerous to our men in time of peace than in time of war, t4iere must be a reason for it. 4 The cost of a submarine mine against which a huge battleship goes to destruction the moment they come together, will not exceed the cost of a little corner grocery. Tho cost of a battleship is over three million dollars. Xo price can be placed upon human life which goes down with the ship the tears and heartbreaks of those who belong to the sailors and gunners aboard the doomed vessel. Our congress is about to expend millions of dollars in creating these sea monsters that go up out of the water the moment they strike the corner grocery or, rather, its equivalent in a submarine mine. Oh, what a hideous thing1 is war! Oh, the iniquity of spending1 millions to slaughter humans, while so many hunger and thirst and go about in rags! Lo, these statesmen at Washington prate about our importance im-portance as a world power and vote millions to sustain sus-tain the boast, the while the famishing Indians of Alaska are not voted a penny. Think of the incalculable incal-culable good the cost of a battleship would do in irrigating this arid country. Ifow much better to expend the naval money in this way than to spend it for traps to drown brave men like rats. !Much better would it be to spend it for raising frogs in cur irrigating ditches. Even if the money were placed iuto a fund for the breeding of rattlesnakes, the human family would not suffer as it docs in what is called '"civilized" warfare. j |