﻿Did you see the leg-irons and chains in the pictures of prisoners working on the levees of Ohio River? Chains that would hold the SS Leviathan against the tail-end of an ebbtide in Hudson River. Don’t tell me they are criminals for the weight of the irons disproves every shade of justice. 
Then they talk about abollishing lynching! 

Were lucky some half wit dictator doesn’t mistake us for barbarians and send missionaries to save us. 

In New York City it is said: 
“Nobody needs starve to death in this city.”—Quite right; but it might be preferable? Mal-nutrition is such a painful existence that many hope and pray for the soothing kiss of death. Prayer answered, the press kindly informs us: “He had been a nervous wreck for several months.”— 
Now is that nice? 

Feb 18th 
Italian motor ship Feltre ‘couldn’t take it’ and went on “sit down strike,” on the bottom of Columbia River, forty “knots” below Portland Ore. Storms, hundred miles away, is supposed to be cause for the accident—a good alibi; as good as the “wheeling”—the SS. Edw. Luckenbach, the other half of the dissagreement, nosed into Cottonwood Island for a well earned rest. Again our flag prospered. Both ships probably had fashion plates for wheelsmen and were trying to navigate the reiver on a prayer. MTW has few good pilots galore.