The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-30

together on animosities. There has
to be something positive in the creed;
and the articles about which one
third of the Democracy is positive
are not those which arouse enthus-
iasm in the other two-thirds. Judge
Parker may be equal to the job of
reconciling his flock, but il he does,
he will have a Happy Family equal
TO Barnum's.
Points in Paragraphs.
The Prohibition candidate for the
Presidency seems 20 be Miles out Of II
The responsibility for the slocum dis
astcr has been fixed, and now let the
punch be driven in hard.
Secretary Taft has again proved that
he knows more about the Philippines
than the learned anti-imperlalists who
have never beea there.
It is rumored that Helen Gould is
going TO start Bible class that viii
rival John Rockefellers. 1t cannot; it
win never be as oily.
The question which is worrying the
friends Of Mr. Knox is the probability
OF Mr. Knox getting corns from wear
ing the shoes Of Quay.
The Commuters Association has taken
a hand and it looks as if the car tracks
might be steered away from the pa
in,
There is clothing strike in New York.
COnsiderate Of the strikers. TO choose
a season when one would not mind so
much getting along without clothes.
Dowie says that he left many en-
thusiasJic followers in Australia. They
came near catching him. and it would
have been no great harm if they had.
A New York man is building an anu.
race-suicide apartment house. and it viii
be all right if he can eliminate the
human nature from the mothers who
live there.
The vandals who slashed Santos-Du-
mont's airship were not YgOrrotes of
course. but if they had been. we should
have considered them incapable of self
government.
\ South African paper says Boer and
/ Briton are intermarrying so generally
that in twenty years there will be no
thoroughbreds left. After all, that is not
a bad way 10 have a Dutch South Africa
Z
RaisuH f. using part Of the ransom
money TO &c; married on. If we had
only known that. how many romantic
sympa thizers there would have been
over here, and how many leap year let
! tiers the bandit would probably have re-
| ceived.
/ A portrait Of Thomas Jefferson will be
/ the only likeness Of a Democrat TO he
hung in the convention hall at St Louis
/ II takes considerable going backward to
/ find a man on whom the entire Democra-
! cy IS agreed.
It may be the idea Of some people
/ that they want quiet Fourth OF July
/ for the sake of the dear children's safe
/ ~, but so far As we are concerned, we
are thinking OF the grown peoples
/ nerves and comfort
The Filipino commissioners think that
/ their people viii be ready for self-gov-
/ eminent inside of twenty years. the time
/ mentioned by Secretary TAFT. No one
4 would be more delighted than Secretary
/ Taft if the Filipinos were 70 prove him a
liar.
| Following the scathing finding of the
| cOrOner's jury on the General Slocum
/ disaster, Secretary Cortelyou, Of the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor, has
| ordered a reinspection Of all passenger.
/ carrying steamboats, in New York har-
Dor. Better late than never. There are
! also other harbors besides that of New
/ York.
Enumerating the candidates whom
the PrOhibitionists might nominate. the
enthusiastic chairman. one Wolfenbar-
I ger. of Nebraska, said that they had
that Gladstone and Lincoln combined.
/ Carskadon. Of West Virginia" Yet the
convention fingers lovingly over the
name Of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who
never claimed TO be anything except
himself.
THE OLD MILL.
a Ballad)
/ At the foot Of the Hill IL stands. aloof
| Half hidden by the friendly leaves;
The old stone mill with its gambrel roof
And its swallow-twittering caves.
With its chimncys RACED, and it's crum-
| bling walls,
And gables quaint with vines DER
| grown.
The brook still flows DER the mimic
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