| Show THE HERO OF SAMOA alcin tho american newspaper correspondent who baa figured BO prominently in all abo german dispatches concerning samoa lias just landed at pan francisco the notoriety lie has achieved will endure as long as the squabble about the balanda does but it might have been vastly increased and far more lasting if he bad allowed himself to le captured by the germans who lie says manifested such an anxiety to get him into custody it ia scarcely probable eliat any act which the tn are likely to commit would have so quickly brought the united to the point of war as the forcible detention of one of their citizens this being the case and there being the further fact that no h ann was likely to befall him it was an mistake on the correspondents part to fly the field at BO inglorious a moment as be has ho shows that the reportorial port orial instinct was not sufficiently strong within him to make him a worthy casus or even a correspondent and he has missed the kolden opportunity of liis afa As 0 o the claim that lio led the rebels in the charge which resulted so disastrously to the germans it will no doubt be found on inquiry that h s only weapons were those of peace and his motive merely curiosity his chief offense offence in german eyes lies in the fact that though born he is now rt naturalized american sach cases the sausage eaters never did like HA vua who was abraham Lincol ns associate on the presidential ticket a speech at the lincoln anniversary celebration in chicago last week among other pleasant things with which the address was filled the orator said 1 I never asked abraham lincoln to do a thing on earth that he did not do it r was careful not to ask him to do that which would not commend itself to his judgment to hia sense of justice and right is a valuable aug here to all future vice dents LE GABON the british spy whose testimony before the parnell commission made such a sensation was a bugler on tho sido of the north in alie civil war he was a better trumpeter than a fighter but was not distinguished by anything except cowardice FOB will shortly be instituted against the government by the beira of col nicholas lotz for hay furnished the continental army during alie the surplus must be reduced TUB BAN ia stirring up alie bbate legislature alie members brand ita editorials us lies malicious falsehoods etc all the time the paper keeps on its wonted way no friends in chicago kumor says as boon aa he can secure a divorce from hia present wife lie will propose to a st louis lady A neal ESTATE exchange has just been established in san francisco have yon tried the evanston BOB coal it not get some from L farr co at per ton it gives eatla faction to everybody |
