The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-10-06
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to her little lap dog.-Philadelphia
Telegraph.
When the Kaiser has completed his
task Of looking after other peoples
business he might go home and spend
a few months building his own fences.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The popular contempt of warfare
against the mosquito proves the ca.
pacity Of the American public for
straining at a gnat and swallowing an
epidemic.-New York Mail.
A man Is largely determined by his
environments. Christopher Columbus
might have been a New York police
man for twenty years without discov-
ering even a poolroom.-Puck.
If old man Sherman had only waited
around long enough to see the peace
ENJOYS start for Portsmouth he might
not have emitted such a cantankerous
opinion about war.-Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
Turkey has ordered in France a tor
pedo boat destroyer, three gunboats,
two transports and artillery fittings,
and it is rumored that as soon as these
are delivered the Sultan intends to put
out his tongue at the Czar.-London
Punch.
The lingo" of the yellow fever re-
ports might be applied to the daily
news from the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington. New "foci" and
"sub-foci" are constantly appearing un-
der Secretary Wilson'S nose.-Spring.
field Republican.
Portland, Me-, is securing the coun-
try for subscriptions to its Thomas b.
Reed memorial fund. They want $780,
600 and have On hand about $15, 1000.
Tom wouldn't have approved this dun.
ming his friends for such a purpose
Boston Herald.
A woman swearing offends no more
against morals than a man swearing.
but she offends against
and by about as much as we are the
more shocked at her swearing than at
his, by SO much do we hold manners
above mOralS.-Life.
Our old friend, WI Ting Fang, Is
said to have been commissioned by the
Pekin court for the task of forcing this
country to a fair course of treatment
of Chinese subjects. The childlike Mr..
WI knows us well, and how to pinch
where 1t will hurt us the worst.-Buf-
falo Courier.
The Russian government, according
to a st. Petersburg dispatch, has DE-
cided to issue a second internal loan.
The amount is said to be 500, 900, 600.
The Russian internal loan of 500, OOO,-
600 last March came like pulling teeth;
this one, it is fair to presume, will be
like killing the nerve.-Hartford Cou-
rant
The dirt at Panama isn't flying, and
the government has at last decided
that it won't fly until sanitary condi-
lions are so improved that a sufficient
number Of workmen can be attracted
to the Isthmus. The original idea that
the only thing needed to insure the
canal was the money has been sub
stantially modifed-Buffalo Courier.
So many subjects Of his majesty Ed
ward VII. fear that Americas future
is threatened by China and Japan, the
yellow peril, that there comes an IRE
sistible temptation to remind them
that the United States has managed
to increase some 100000 in popula-
ton in the last century without an orr
entail market. We can probably play
along.-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Senator Mitchell. or Oregon, has
been tried, convicted and sentenced to
six months imprisonment and to pay a
fine Of $4,000; but still holds on to his
seat as a Senator from Oregon. The
salary, mileage and perquisites OF Sen
ator Mitchell for a year will about pay
his fine, but this is a new way to use
the office of United States Senator.
and will probably be very unpopular
Louisville Post.
The suggestion that there be a ma.
tonal celebration Of the two hundredth
anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's
birthday next January was to be es-
pected about this time. The day will
surely be observed in various places.
and one Of them should be Boston.
which Franklin ran away from at an
early age. A truly national celebra-
ton. however, might be difficult to
manage.-Spring1eld Republican.
It would be interesting to know how
much money has been spent, first and
last, on the search for the north pole.
When the imposing total has been as
certained, the question may be asked
whether more profitable results would
not have been obtained il the money
had been spent in some other way.
The hackers Of an arctic explorer have
q right to spend their money on him
II they please, but they would benefit
humanity more II they put their dol.
lars into model tenement houses or
consumption Observation-Disclosures Trib-
une.
Another plot has been discovered IN
Constantinople the purpose Of which
the removal of the Sultan. Ths
Sultan's time Ii all filed dodpdns
bombs when he Is not lodging biIls-