The Washington herald., 1907-04-13


STAFF are shortly 10 80 into luxurious exile
on the old arsenal grounds, several miles
/ from the War Department, may be the
occasion Of proper regret which will not
in any sense be lessened by the mystery
which appears to have suddenly and suffi-
cientiy oYertaken the plan for scuipturai
establishment in the remote Businesses of
/ Washington Barracks.
/ Is Frederick the Great to stand alone
/ in that wilderness Of architectural
splendor?
/ Editor John Temple Graves has advised
| Mr.. Bryan to get in line for Mr. Roose-
/ velt in 1908, Mr.. Bryan, however, may be
/ as hardheaded about taking newspaper
mems advice as Mr.. Roosevelt is.
pride and ignorance prevent US from
gaining common knowledge" says the
( Baltimore American. But do they cause
us to get uncommon knowledge?
Fortunately for his reputation, Ananias
/ decided to be born when Auaniases were
not so commonplace,
The famous blacksmith preacher" OF
/ Tennessee is 10 deliver a lecture in Knox
I vile soon on Dry Goods and Notions %
This viii probably be rather interesting
TO the citizens: in view Of the fact that
Knoxville recently voted for prohibition.
An talk Atlanta. says a headline in
the Birmingham News. That sounds
spitcful; Atlanta isn't all talk.
4 Pennsylvania man. after eating a
Q ha1Trsr -f4
he was Secretary Loeb. Mr.. Loeb, how
ever, was not to blame for that
Hartman viii be in clover when For
aker or Fairchiids becomes President,
says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Let
us ease, at least in part. our cOntem-
porary's anxious mind Fairchilds is not
going TO De President at any early date.
A Washington correspondent says the
President expects Mr.. Hartman 10 flood
the country with lies Naturally, il ne
puts them out at ALL they Will be well
watered.
Ny spear knows 30 brother" saws Mr..
Roosevelt Nor sisters, nor cousins. nor
aunJs.
Il scorn to appeal TO any so-called 'un-
written law said Mr. Delmas: and then
he went right in and appealed to it with
all of his might and main, like the good
lawyer that he is.
Turkey has at last ratified the first
Hague peace conference reports and acts.
This ought 10 lessen the tension.
Honduras navy has been warned not to
lombard cities along the Central Ameri-
can coast. The order must have lifted a
weight of apprehension from the hearts
of the crew.
We are assured that Cuban independ-
ence viii be firmly established By July
&, 190S-unless. of course, it isn't
Then, again. if it really was a scrub
woman who stole that $4,000 from tho
Chicago subtreasury. it must be admitted
that she cleaned up good pile.
A Guatemalan editor complains that he
was imprisoned, beaten, starved. and
finally banished because he printed the
Presidents message ON the fourth page
of his paper instead of the first We pre-
sumo that il isn't eveh safe in that coun-
try to make sighting or sarcastic re-
marks concerning the Guatemalan Con-
gressional Record.
Il dearly love TO talk about my clothes
says Mrs. von Claussen. Naturally, be-
ing woman.
Just at this time the indications are that
the Taftites viii win the Ohio pennant
But the season is young.
Secretary Loeb is probably convinced
that this country doesn't take much stock
in ghost stories.
There is man in Dallas whose nose
is exactly FIVE inches long" SAYS the
Houston Post. Anything novel about his
ayes?
The action of the Thaw jury is likely
10 seriously depress the hrain-storm
market.
Ambassador Bryce says Chicago is
destined to be the most beautiful city in
America. Those foxy Chicago people
have evidently been telling Mr.. Bryce
about their nOt-yet-but-soon post-office.
'T never worry says Mr. William
Travers Jerome Perhaps not himself:
but he frequently worries others.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that no
political brain-storms of the future viii
reveal Mr.. Harry Lehr in the light of a
prospective ambassador to some country.
"Medford has the biggest bore in ore
gon." says the Portland oregonian. Book
agent or politician?
Wisconsin travelling statesmen have or
ganized themselves and propose to wipe
out the roller towel in the hotels there.
The weather conditions have been very
depressing on the spring poetry crop.
There is always silver lining, you know.
Chancellor Day intimates rather point
edly that his university is the only good
one in this land. Somehow, we rather ex-
pected him to say that before he got