The Topeka State Journal

Joe Leiter might be a good man to put in charge of the war.
After all, the trap was Cervera's and he was first to get caught in it.

If Col. John Jacob Astor is ready, the invasion of Cuba may now begin.

Secretary Alger does not seem to find it as easy a task to outfit an army as it was to collect a herd of reindeer.

If Admiral Cervera is in need of coal he might put his divers at work. There was a fine lot of it aboard the Merrimac.

Will Uncle Sam demand an abstract of title with the deeds to the Philippines, Carolines, Porto Rico and Cuba?

Dewey's plan is to sink the enemy's ships in the harbor, and not his own.
It is possibly more efficacious in the long run.

Cleveland Plaindealer:
The Cervera trade mark seems to be: "Spanish extra-vintage of '98-bottled on the premises."
Since the war revenue bill taxes almost everything put up in a bottle, perhaps it will be amended to include Cervera's fleet.

George Vanderbilt took a mean advantage of Chauncey Depew when he got married in a church, thus preventing any speeches.

In excitement growing out of the war it is much to be feared that the arrival of that $25,000,000 in gold from the Klondike will be overlooked.

The eagerness with which London is anticipating an issue of American bonds is in marked contrast to the efforts of Spain to raise the wind.

If the house concur in the senate amendment to the revenue bill, those who ride in palace cars hereafter can do so with a sense of contributing a share of the expenses of the war.

The saddest part of that last affair at Santiago is that the two admirals can't get together and fight if they should both get in the humor at the same time.

There should be no more questions as to why Cervera does not come out or why Schley does not go in. The admiral of the American fleet seems to have settled all that.

Interest in the war seems to have entirely obscured the interest in the starving Cuban reconcentrados. They are being permitted to die, undisturbed, by either party to the conflict.

Joe Leiter's luck is staying with him. The British steamer Foscolia which was sunk by the Columbia last week, had on board 40,000 bushels of wheat from Leiter's bins. But Joseph had sold it for $1.50 a bushel and had the money.

Chicago News: If Thomas Brackett Reed will only be reasonable and admit that the majority of the house of representatives may be right and he may be wrong he can take his pick among the Caroline or Pelew islands and take possession as soon as he pleases.

American audacity has given the Spaniards another turn. The first was at Manila; the second at Santiago, when the Merrimac crew ran her into the harbor and sank her right under the enemy's nose. Such things will cease to surprise them, if the war last much longer.