Arizona republican., 1898-04-01
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE.

It is possible that when the next Legislature of Alabama meets it will be unable to do business as there may be no senate. Under the new code the even-numbered senatorial districts are to hold elections next August, and the oddnumbered districts not before 1900. This will prevent the election of a con- stitutional senate, unless the supreme court passes upon the law very quick ly.
 John J. Ingalls,, whose grandiloquent eloquence and picturesque metaphor helped to make Kansas famous, may
 be returned to the United States Con- gross after all. For the last two yea S the state has regretted it's retirement of the former senator, and if he will i consent to advocate free-silver doc trines a combination of populists dem ocrats and free-silver republicans may send him to the lower house as repre- sentative from the First district. Gov ernor Leedy and other populist office holders have declared for him, and Mr. Ingalls, is said to be considering the proposition.
 The desire of Japan to go to war with China and Russia is expressed by Dr. Kobayashi, son of the late Sur geon-General of the Japanese army, as follows: Ever since the Japan-China war Japan has been preparing for the struggle that will either wreck her or leave her supreme in the Orient. Now the whole energies of the people are bent on war preparations, and before I left home it was announced in official circles that Japan was ready for the great struggle. She has an excellent navy, with experienced commanders, a 1 large and well-disciplined army, and a | treasury that will stand heavy drain. All classes believe that war cannot be averted, and they will welcome it, as they believe Japan will win" Ever since the Postoffice Depart ment issued the order excluding from the address on the postal card words { indicating the business or occupation of the person or firm to whom it was addressed, certain enterprising individ- | uals in this city have had men walk | ing about the streets carrying large
 banners with the advertisement, print ed in big letters, that all such cards would be purchased at such-andsuch : a place. The government has now re- scinded the order at the request of business firms throughout the country and the occupation of the sandwich man is gone.
 The farmers in Kansas are grumb- ling at one phase of the prosperity that came to the state after the election of President Mckinley They have the money to pay off their mortgages, but the eastern loan companies holding the mortgages refuse to accept payment except with full interest up to the date of maturity. The banks are load ed with money, and in some of the counties no interest is allowed on de- posits. Mortgages which the loan com panies were anxious to get rid of at any price two years ago are now better than cash in bank.
 In the last twenty years St. Louis has seen several oil dealers go to the wall because they would not sell out to the Standard Oil Trust, but Valen- tine Stocke, president of the St. Louis Oil company, is keeping up the fight. Kerosene is now down to 31s cents a gallon in that city, the lowest price in the world, and MT. Stocke says he will
 give oil away before he surrenders even if he loses every dollar he has.
 MT. StOcke has been in the business since 1851.