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Show I The Ks are prominent in the South I African campaign Kitchener of Khar- I toum, Roberts f Kandahar, Kelly- 1 Kenny, rsi even Kipling: but they are I all very insignificant beside the grand I figure of Kruger, says the Boston Pilot. The new president comes very near being an aristocrat. He has a cousin a countess. His mother was a Bullock of Georgia, and they claim descent frcm the pretender. Theodore was always al-ways a favorite name with the royalists royal-ists of Scotland. It was the name of the founder of the Tudor dynasty. I . The Springfield Republican praises; the wit and cleverness of the new editor of Judge, Mr. R. K. Munkit- trick, but adds: "Of what avail Is all I that when the highest achievements of the Judge artists are the same stupid vulgarities concerning Chatham street Jtws. flannel-mouthed Irish and chicken-stealing niggers? Judge and Puck both need a new outfit of editors and artists and a bonfire of all the stock of jokes on hand." I Seven state's are to hold elections in I November namely, Massachusetts, 1 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, I Maryland, Ohio and Iowa. Of these I " seven states the Democrats are abso- lutely certain of carrying Virginia. I There is a possibility they may secure I Maryland. The situation in Pennsyl- . i vania is so mixed by Republican re- I volts no intelligent forecast can be I ; made. The remaining four may be safe- I s ly counted as Republican. i A wise bit of advice was given by ' Cardinal Yaughan in an address at the ojtr.ing of the Catholic conference in i Newcastle. It ought to be heeded in all English-speaking countries: "Call ' y urseives . Catholics," said his Emi nence; "Roman Catholics if you please, but preferably Catholics. Indeed it is . important in this country that we call r oui. selves 'Catholics' rather than 'Ro-n:&ii 'Ro-n:&ii Catholics,' because a false meaning mean-ing is often attached to the latter term." IThe yacht race now going on for the international cup between Sir Thomas 'Upton's Shamrock II and the Amer-I Amer-I ican yacht Columbia excites almost as J much interest among many people here j who never saw a yacht or ocean race 1 a? it does on the shores of Long isl- j ( and, off which the sea hounds are fiy- J ing for first piace. There must be i -v something in the name of the yachts or j something in the blood of those watch- I' ing the Herald bulletin boards which either elates or dejects as the news is flashed from the window. IThe American people were appalled the other day when the story came from the Philippine Islands telling tell-ing of the almost utter annihilation of Company C of the Ninth regiment, sur-prisec'. sur-prisec'. by bolomen. Time and again we have been told the war was over. But here is an instance that should cause all Americans serious reflection, because be-cause so long as there is an armed j white man on those islands there never i can be peace nor reconciliation with those of a race bound to be free, and v ho will fight until none are left to fight. The slaughter of Company C was like that which wiped out Custer and al) of his command. j At this writing (Thursday) the in- ' ternational yacht race for the cup won by an American boat at the trial of speed off the Isle of Cowes fifty years j ago, resulted in a second defeat to the j 1 challenger. Shamrock II. If the Ameri- I can yacht Columbia comes in ahead in j ? the next race, which means winning the I 4 best three in five over the course off Long Island sound, the cup won by the "America" over twenty-six competitors competi-tors a half century ago. remains our trophy in spite of all the money spent by British peers and sportsmen to lift it. Yet on all sides there is genuine j admiration felt for Sir Thomas Iipton. j the Scotch-Irish owner of Shamrock II, j for the pluck he displayed la again con- : testing for the cup after h'.a lit de- i feat two years ago, and most lovers of ' sport would be glad to see his Shamrock win at least one race in the series, to i take the edge off the bitterness of disappointment. dis-appointment. However, thj ."ace is not yet over. So Peary thinks there are rich gold deposits adjacent to the north pole, although al-though the arctic navigator did not get there. That settles it. When next we hear from those icy lands it will be from a man who went there with a blanket, a pick and a bag of bicon and beans. Colonel Bryan knows how to turn a Joke away from himself by good-naturedly adding to it, which is always the best way of taking the sting out of it. Thus in a late issue of the Commoner, Com-moner, he says: "Having been dubbed The Boy Orator of the Platte' for a decade, Mr. Bryan recently made a trip t the Rocky mountains to learn more about the source of that stream. He is now prepared to have the Republican papers suggest that he receive the appellation, ap-pellation, not because of the pure and limpid rills that constitute the headwaters head-waters of the Platte, but because of the wideness of its mouth." A highly suggestive article has been contributed to an English magazine by Edwar.l A. Strutt upon the present condition of Ithly. Mr. Strutt exposes to public gaze the awful plight of the Italiaa larmers and farm laborers who are taxed to the verge of starvation to maintain the expensive military establishment es-tablishment w hioh the nation deems necessary to its position as a "world power." He snys that it is absolutely impossible for tro peasantry to meet the demands of the tax gatherer. In Sardinia, which is a garden spot, the sales of lands and homes for non-payment of taxes during the last decade have numbered 50,000. Some of the claims were ridiculously small. In 40,-000 40,-000 cases the average amount due for taxes did not exceed 25 cents. Italy is plainly on the road to ruin. |