The Washington herald., 1906-12-10


good may be separated from the I'll, and
the truth be known. It is this work that
the Society for Psychical Research has set
out to do, and it is greatly to be desired
that the funds necessary to carry on the
investigation shall be forthcoming.
It now transpires that Senator-elect
I Davis name is not jefferson, but Jeffries
Perhaps that accounts for his pugiIistic
lproclivities. conversational as well as
otherwise.
! Why should Hall Caine worry about so
small a literary light as Shakespeare?
At Gaines appearance. Shakespeare at
once became the light that failed.
The Kansas City Journal refers TO her
as Miss Anna TarbeI" Such is famel
we cannot find word TO express our
approval of the Presidents remarks on
the subject Of lynching." says an en-
/ thusiastic Georgia contemporary. How
would bully" do2
Berlin has a woman's club to which
only deaf members are admitted. Just
think Of a wOman's club where every
! body can talk at the same time, and still
not be obliged to pay the slightest atten-
/ ton 70 any one else.
The Houston Post gravely asserts that
turkey sells for cents a pound in Texas.
/ We shudder to think of the statements
/ the Post might make I'm a hot political
campaign.
Some OF those hard-headed Texans seem
/ disposed TO look upon Senator Bailey's
/ l7o0O-word statement rather in the light
Of confession and plea In avoidance.
Uncle Joe Cannon and Senator AID
/ rich have no reason 10 complain of the
/ things the President did not say in his
message.
II. as has been reported. Mr.. Rockefeller
/ lost Sl40oo6,oo00 during the past few
mo tbs, who's got it?
! Secretary Loeb evidently wrote that
rather carelessly worded section about
/ California and the japanese.
! Count Boni de Casteilane addressed the
empty Chamber of Deputies with his
hands in his pockets. Those are the only
pockets in which Boni can get his hands
/ these days.
The Indians voice is TO be preserved in
the phonoEraph. Poor Lo He always
/ seems to get the torrid end OF Il,
Georgia is loudly demanding protection
for Georgia poets. Is # possible that poet
ry is 10 creep into the tariff and ulti-
mately become a syndicate?
/
With Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish talking about
/ the 'anarchisuc rich" Mr.. Hartman Is
striving very hard 10 look unconcerned-
Senator Morgan ought not to muddy the
waters by speaking Of amy wild AFRO
CANT man who happened to be President"
It also seems that Mr.. Roosevelt rashly
stirred uD those ll2 vice presidents OF
the Ant-Imperialist League.
After all. it looks like the Sultan Of Mo
rocco is only getting lot Of Abdul
Hamid old ultimatums warmed over.
/
That bouquet handed the Secretary Of
the Treasury by one L. NJ. Shaw was com
/ posed Of real flowers
The Lynchburg News declares that re-
formed spelling has been Jared" Got
the lid on at last have they?
We presume. however. that those
French deputies cannot prevent Boni put
ting his speech IN the Record.
The problem of what to do with the
/ Pulajanes is gradually being superseded
/ by the problem Of where to find any more
/ Pulajares 10 do something with.
Nevertheless. the Christmas cigar isn't
any worse than most Of the jokes made at
its expense.
Now that the government threatens to
go after the lumber trust. that concern
. has commenced TO saw wood and say
nothing.
The rubber trust is the latest infant in
dustry mentioned. and a bouncing infant
I. is, too.
II Cen. Grosvenor really refused TO
congratulate his successor, the general
evidently is developing a vein Of sarcasm.
PASSING THOUGHTS.
Our sympathies go out to the man Of
the two hens. In these days Of waning liberties
and fast-dislppearng rights it is sad to note the
heavy legal penalties attached 10 the unauthorized
ownership Of a couple Of industrious biddies. What
IS there dangerous, unheslthf1l, immoral in the
possession of her two hens, a dozen? We
think the real eul-it in this grave matter Of mu-
nicipal morals has been overlooked. namely. the
rooster. He is useless yagrant. obstreperous, w-
productive. noisy, and generally offensive. He ought
to be prohibited altogether. No respectable hen
should be called 10 account for his rowdyism his
bad nocturnal habits, and his heedessness Of the
I common right TO undistur0od sleep. This is an