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The central cartoon illustrates "The Diplomacy of Assassination," depicting what appears to be a confrontation between two figures near a Middle Eastern or Mediterranean setting (indicated by the minaret and palm tree). The text references Sultan Ariz's death by accident, during which scissors were found in his room—"directly the impression was deliberately engineered that he had used them to sunder several important veins." The satire targets diplomatic hypocrisy: rather than acknowledge suspicious circumstances around a ruler's death, officials construct elaborate false narratives to preserve appearances. The cartoon mocks how political powers manipulate truth to avoid scandal, suggesting that convenient "accidents" serve powerful interests better than honest investigation—a critique of corrupt diplomatic practices and the suppression of inconvenient facts.
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Cable addres— Joooean.”" ra, Paris REMARK BY DEATH—" The king is dead, long live the grip.” eee THE TROUBLE with our missionaries—The hunger of the heathen. see HERE SHOULD be a new English national hymn, to be called “God save the heirs apparent.” MB: MILLS cries out, “ Hill or a western man!" Probably he means Harrison, and we dare say he is right. It IS LUCKY that New York has the finest police in the world, because some sections of the city appear to be ruled by beggars and thugs. a oe ALWAYS TELL your wife the entire truth,” says some- body. The man assumes to be a moralist, but we suspect he is a divorce lawyer. ‘THE LOTTERY at New Orleans has the money necessary to buy up Louisiana, and the people of the United States are making the sum larger every day. SENATOR HILL is never in his seat during prayer. What he would like to see is a certificate to show that God has a right in the constitution or in the senate cham- ber. THE STEALING of seats in the senate will give this state to the Republicans on the popular vote next fall, always brings its penalty. ance?” Deacon Hupxus—" Yes.” singin’-loft after church.” That kind of villainy OVERNOR MCKINLEY protests, to begin with, against Republican gerrymandering, and it is as true as fate that no man_or party makes anything in the long run by being dishonest. AT A CHURCH-FAIR a lady found in an oyster a pearl worth twenty- five hundred dollars. This kind of advertising used to be confined to the actress desiring notoriety. We had hoped better of the church-fair. eee SATHER HOLMAN wants no appropriations for pensions, for the world’s fair, or for the new navy and the defense of coasts. The good old man will insist next on making the government an object of charity. [ILL RETURNED his four thousand dollars salary as senator while he acted as governor. There is nothing avaricious about him, after all. He even lets Mr, Sheehan draw his salary as presiding officer of the state senate, a BOURKE COCKRAN says he would rather remain in the house than go to the senate, because there is more snap in it. There is consid- erable of that sort of soft and cheerful thing in every situation in which Mr. Cockran finds himself. Sexton's son —"* You sent pop a list of tunes fer ter-day's orgon p'form- Sexron's son —'* Well, yer writ it on th’ back of this, an’ pop wants ter know ‘f yer'll bring ‘round th’ rest of th’ deck an’ have a game up in th’ [7 1S THOUGHT by the trustees of the Boston public library that it is shocking to cartoon leading men—it gives the youthful mind a wrong impression. Therefore, we suppose, all literature must be adapted to the youthful mind, so that children may grow up to the intellectual feebleness of the trustees of the Boston public library. DIGNITY AND BULL-PUPS. F CHILI had been more formidable she would haye had to apologize for that outrage months ago. If she had been a great nation she would have been prompt with the apology. It is right to be gentle and tolerant with small persons and powers, and it is too frequently natural for them in view of the tolerance to be snappish and snarlish. NO UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. RECEIVE with doubt the information that there is a secret or- ganization to advance Blaine’s interests. The material of which Blaine enthusiasm is made is as combustible as a match in a pile of shav- ings and as noisy as a boy with a loaded gun. Whatever secrecy there is must be in the interest of politicians who want to bespeak their offices in advance of the nomination. THE DIPLOMACY OF ASSASSINATION. TEWFIK was embarrassing from some points of view, but if he was poisoned it was probably the result of malpractice or accident. They do these things better, how- ever, in Constantinople. When Sul- tan Aziz died of accident a pair of bright, new scissors was found in his room, and directly the impres- sion was delicately engineered that he had used them to sunder several important veins. But there was a scarlet ring around his neck that was no birth-mark. GREATER THAN PRINCES AND CARDINALS. A CROWN PRINCE and two cardinals dying in one day is a reminder of the uncertainty of selection, especially as the feeble pope and the aged queen are in rea- sonably good health. Death does not come like a thief in the night— he is too careless for that. He comes as an accident, and pro- claims himself like a charge of gun- powder in the unloaded revolver or the dynamite that explodes at the wrong time and kills the persons who can least be spared. THE MORALITY OF THIEVERY. T IS A GOOD SIGN that certain Democratic editors and senators pro- test against the excessive raping of the state senate; but it is not so well that the protest is based on the proposition, not that it is wrong, but that it is better to “go slow.” “ Besides,” say they, “the original robbery was large enough without making pork of ourselves. Look at Tom Reed and the house of representatives and see how their seat-stealing was pun- ished. We have the hide. What's the use of stealing the tail ROYAL WIVES. NOt LONG SINCE a young girl drowned herself, it was alleged, be- cause of her relations with Albert Victor. Princess May is entitled to the utmost sympathy, but she has probably been saved a great deal of unhappiness as well as glory. The story of royal infidelity is iong and sad. The prince of Wales has not been charged with extreme good con- duct. The empress Augusta led an unhappy life, as did the wife of the unfortunate Frederick. Rudolph of Austria was either killed or committed suicide, and Stephanie, his widow, shed no tears over his loss. The one conspicuous case of recent royal matrimonial affection, outside of that of the queen, was that of Carlotta, widow of Maximilian of Austria, who was shot in Mexico, and she, poor girl! has been crazy ever since her husband died. comicbooks.com