Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-10-21

ciluF1d.
Sc far as luck goes and persistent
effort Sir Thomas Upton and Genera
Kuropatkin are in the same class.
DIR. wiley's denunciation of whis
key ought to prove a powerful cam
paign argument for DIR. Swallow.
Texas Popnlists got the wrong head
on their ticket. but it does not make
any difference, as il will be lost. any
way.
Ohio prison officials are looking fol
n more certain method of killing con
demned men Enter them in auto
mobile races.
Governor odell says sit is all over
in New York but the shouting" The
Democrats agree with him, and are
preparing to do the shouting.
: . The betting on the Wall Street curb
is 5 to ON Roosevelt and 10 to 8 Oh
Herrick, the Democratic candidate
for Governor of New York.
At the rate it is progressing the
Baltic feet will get there in time foI
the Czarowitz TO be old enough &c
stand up and take notice.
The indications are that the Demo
cratic spellbinders will accomplish
about as muchin Pennsylvania as will
the Republican spellbinders in Texas.
1t is not surprising that ex-senator
Davis used to address Senator Fair
banks as MY Son. Mr.. Davis was
30 years old when Mr.. Fairbanks was
born.
Some people declare that it is not
surprising that Postmaster General
Wynne should have won out, as
against the postofIice 'grafters, +" with
his name.
The fact that George Washington
never urged Congress TO establish a
weather bureau is explained in some
quarters on the ground of his inherent
hatred of lying.
The Weather Bureau has been pre-
dieting storm off the Florida coast,
moving in every direction of the COM
pass since October 3. The storm ma
terialized this morning.
Russia has at least one victory to
her credit Muscovite and japanese
butchers in Chicago packing house
recently tied up in a fistic argument
and the latter were thoroughly routed.
Hoorayl
The Pittsburg Republicans recently
invited an undertaken to address a
political meeting. 1.-THE best thing to
do with the Democratic party he
said, sis to embalm, cremate it and
then bury it. !"
Kuropatkin, in complimenting the
Japanese on their bravery and fair
ness in war, says "this is the most
pleasant war" he has ever been en-
gagged in. His optimism leads one to
believe there is a streak of the Celt
in him.
If William J. Bryan were to attain
his ambition and secure a seat in the
Senate. the public would be treated
to ''some mighty interesting" debates.
whenever Senator Spooner crossed
swords with the Nebraskan.
The Washington weatherman recent
ly announced that the meteorological
disturbance which had been central
off the Isthmus of Panama had moved
north and was rapidly approaching
Washington. The next day John Bar
rett arrived in the national capital.
Daily Hog Item for the Baltimore
News: Fire early yesterday morn
ing destroyed the large bank. barn and
slaughter house of Shockey & Rine-
hart. three miles from Edgemont.
Washington county. Seventeen head
of fat hogs persisted in the fire. "
Up TO the hour that Judge Parker
made public his letter OF acceptance
the Republican press worked overtime
in denouncing him for not saying
anything. Since the Judge has begun
to speak these same newspapers are
hammering at him for having done so.
What would they have him do?
Some day the general public will
wake up TO the fact that the railroads
are responsible for too many human
lives and then double tracks and the
block system viii be promptly supplied
in all parts of the country, while the
roads, saved from damages for people
killed. will pay even larger dividends
than now.
1t took the Slocum disaster to
awaken the Government to the fact
that those in trusted positions-upon
whose strict attention TO duty depend
ed the safety of lives-were not per-
forming the service for which they
were paid. Examples were made of
two men, who were dismissed from
the service. viii next spring find the