The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-07
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 SEPTEMBER :, 1907
 Kings kiss when they meet. Which is one good reason why man should never want to be king.
 There is little danger of trust do- ing anything out of spite. There is no money in that sort of business.
 Some times it looks very much as if Mrs. Eddy's next friends love her dearly for the money she has made.
 Governor Hughes must expect to remain in politics. He is going to make the rounds of the county fairs in his state.
 Says Speaker Cannon ''There will be no revision of the tariff by the six tieth congress. There, that question is settled.
 There are many alleged cures for the whisky habit, but the real cure is well kept resolution to quit drink ing the stuff.
 Former Governor Odell, of New York, has had an operation performed on his jaw.n Must be going to re- enter politics.
 Japan is sending out invitations to all the nations in the wolrd to attend worlds fair in 1912. That settles the war question.
 If it is true, as a foreign doctor says, that American women cross their legs too much. he ought to have had enough modesty to say nothing about it.
 Men who have been trying to drink all the whisky in the country may feel encouraged to know that they con- sumed Il. 409, 252 gallons more last year than the year before.
 The Standard Oil company has de- clared another s6, 0O0, 600 quarterly dividend. Reports that the Standard Oil was about to go to the poorhouse were evidently without foundation.
 If they keep fooling with that Tan gier tangle they are likely to get some of the great powers to biting their thumb at each other, and then what will become of The Hague peace con- gress?
 It is costing San Francisco 500 a month to keep Abe Ruef in jail, but there is a modicum of consolation in pointing to the fact that he has cost the city several times that much when he was at liberty.
 Miss Ida M Tarhell says Mir. Rock efeller is fanatic. Which seems rather mild when it is considered that versatile woman like Miss Tarbell could have thought of a lot of other things to call him.
 According 10 late reports, Mir. Grover Cleveland has been getting along so we'll in physical way that he doesn't even have to feel grateful to the people who have been worry ing about his health.
 While there may be few persons. scattered here and there, who believe in government ownership of all rail- roads. there is probably only one man in the country who fayors complete Hartman ownership.
 IL is announced that John D. Rocke- feller has decided 10 keep his mouth shut hereafter. That is evidence of not all he has resolved to keep shut. His pocket is tightly buttoned and his strong box double locked against that fine.
 1sOctdLl. NAlO "iO-C : ai4O de Bergerac and some other things, is the victim of dementia that leads him to destroy his manuscript as fast as he writes. What a pity lot more writers are not afflicted with the same way.
 The fate of the peacem aker has been theme for many a ribald paragraph, but one of them has turned the tables in New York. He interfered to stop fight between strangers, and had to kill one of them to do it. The peace maker escaped unscathed.
 Speaker Cannon declares that he reads nothing but the head lines in the newspapers. If that is true we can readily believe his assertion that he knows nothing about anything that is going on anywhere. It has come to be a fact that the one sure way to not know what is printed is to read the head lines.
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