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The Boston Globe declares: 1T
would not be surprising if the unlted
States produced the best airsnip, at
ter all the praise has been showered
upon foreign inventors
The total wealth OF the United
States is s1O6.sS1, 415,OO9, but the
average citizen feels that his share
is represented by the right hand fig
ure, laments the Atlanta Journal.
Tokyo is planning to spend $780,
900 in the next five years on its
primary schools-salaries OF teachers
not included. The salaries have been
increased recently, and the worn-out
teachers are to be pensioned for life.
One Of the maxims on the wal OF
the kaiser's bedroom in his shooting
box at Rominten is said to be: The
world is so large and man is SO sQall
that it is not possible for man
to be the centre of the world" His
Imperial Majesty is becoming absent
minded. He forgets himself.-Lon-
'sa>eaIs.
Electricity for use at all important
terminal points seems destined to sup
plant steam within the next decade,
suggests the Courier-JOurnal. The
change will, naturally, be welcomed
by all cities and suburbs where train
smoke is injurious to health and
bar to cleanliness.
Taking q wife for term is not
wholly novel idea. 1t was mOOted III
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's day.
according to the Law Journal, and
that lively lady's comment was,
Yes; but if a man takes a woman
on lease it ought to be a repairing
lease The jest touched the weak
spot in all these suggestions for
temporary union-that they mean ua-
fairness to the woman.
It cannot be denied, observes the
Baltimore Sun, that the President is
upon solid ground when he opposes
any disposition of government coal
lands (which will enable corporations
to use them for extortion and oppres-
sive charges for one of the prime ne
cessaries of life.
With prosperity at top notch, with
wages higher than ever, with immi-
grafton outrunning all records, boasts
the New York World, there has never
been time when employers from
the Pacific to the Atlantic weres cry
ing so loudly for workers as just now.
The Milwaukee Journal asserts
that:a Nobody can save you from
pneumonia but yourself. It is case
where an ounce of prevention is
worth tons of cure. For of all the
diseases this is one Of the easiest to
avoid and one of the hardest to cure.
While consumption is being mastered
and is on the. decline, pneumonia
still battles medical science and is
on the increase.
In our eagerness to reform the
management of our home insurance
companies we should by no means
neglect the foreign companies, de-
clares the Indianapolis News. What
we want is law which will regulate
all insurance management, and put
the business on a sound basis.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is assured
that: aerial navigation would revo-
lutionize warfare, making it so de-
structive as to probably insure its
early abolition. Free trade would be
bound to prevail everywhere, because
it would be impossible to prevent
smuggling; custom houses would be
of no use. Travel would be stimu-
lated and increased, and inaccessible
portions of the globe reached and ex-
plored."
Discussing the apparent resumption
of the Chinese boycott following our
refusal to change the exclusion act
the Brooklyn Citizen says: This coun-
try will not consent to an invasion by
coolies sufficient in number to change
the conditions Of the labor market;
and it has not now and never will
have any desire or intention to sub
NIT to conditions which would involve
in any appreciable degree the mixing
of Mongol and Caucasian. What it