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Show I" Sept. 15 having: passed without re sults. Lord Kitchener has fired another proclamation at the Boers in the field and called for 25,000 additional men. I - The evidence so far submitted to the I t ! court of inquiry tends to confirm the I f popular impression that it was Sch'.er t j and not Sampson who fought the bat- I ' tie off Santiago. J ; Now that the municipal campaign is f ' 1 on. let us remind the ambitious stump 1 orator that Edward Everett Hale laid ! down a splendid rule when he said, j Have something to say. Say it. Stop." !l Susan H. Anthony says Carrie Na tion should have tried other and better ways of putting down whisky. It is j hardly possible that Susan means that j as it sounds. I I Ireland continues to far outdistance all other European countries in crlme-Jessness. crlme-Jessness. Official statistics for the last j year just published show a decrease of 10.2 per cent in indictable offenses, and of 1S.2 per cent in minor offences as I compared with the preceding year. I M. Marche, a French engineer, ctuims I to have solved the problem of telephon- iing by submarine cables for great distances. dis-tances. Mis experiments are reported as having been very extensive and ex-j ex-j hauBtive and as having resulted recent ly in his being able to transmit a tele-I tele-I phone message with perfect dlstinct- ! ness, from Calais through a cable 400 '' - ' miles long. Senator Chauncey Depew -,vas always funny and the older he grows "he funnier fun-nier he gets to be. Now at the age i of say anywhere between 60 and TO, the j old bachelor concludes to get married. and he has picked out a beautiful Rrl f of 20, the daughter of a famous old- lime Southern" beauty. Well, if Mrs. Depew-to-be is a talkative lady, life in the Depew household will be one grand sweet talkfest. P. S. No apology to Grover Cleveland. i- Some of the queer whims of his queenly mother will no longer torment ' the sight of King Edward, for he has I swept from the royal palaces and gar- 1 dens all the memorials to the late John I Brown. This is not the John Brown I whose soul goes marching on not the same Brown. It is the other Brown, I the gillie who got the confidence and I good will of Queen Victoria and ' who i kept both for years, to the torment of j j the royal family and sometimes to the annoyajice of millions of the queen's ! j . subjects. i j I Among prominent people interviewed - at Helena to gather opinions relative j r to the recent lynching of a fiend named ; , Brady for an unspeakable crime, was I ) Bishop Brondel. To his interviewer, I the Catholic Bishop of Montana said: fx- "I am a law-abiding citizen and I think that a breaking of the law ought J always to be punished. Violation of the ! law does not correct it. That is not the I way to prevent the recurrence of the crime. But I think, what was worse, the man was launched into eternity I ; withou a minute's preparation. I think . i that was much worse than the viola- i I tion of the law in hanging the man. ! The people have it in their power to I . make the law more eevere for a crime of that kind than it now is, and if they want it so, why do they not make it so? |