The Washington herald., 1907-03-07

Judge NicOl has taken advanced ground
on two important national questions,
which are bound to occupy public atten-
ton more and more as the days go by.
Neither can be regarded as settled to the
satisfaction of the country.
Mr.. John Lawrence Sullivan has de
clared for a third term for Mr.. Roose-
welt. Whatever else he may be, John
L. is not one Of those things the Presi-
dent advised the Harvard students not
to be.
\ Missouri contemporary laments that
Eve knew not the luxury of pins. No
doubt she made out very well with
thorEs.
Down with the wastrels"' shout the
London sufragettes. All right ladies,
down with them: but what is a wastrel2
il Cain had only thought to put up
tale about a brain storm" just after the
sad and unnecessarily violent demise OF
Abel. he might have saved considerable
embarrassment 70 his descendants, and
relieved them Of many painful eXplana-
tons.
The New York Daily News has come to
life again. That paper ought 10 change
its name to the Daily Thomas Cat.
Take the weather as X comes" advises
the Dayton News. And let il go at that
Perhaps We were little hasty in ques-
tioning the veracity of the Houston Post
concerning its statement that strawber-
ries were selling in Texas at 10 cents per
box. The Post may have meant pill
boxes.
1--WE hope it will be a long time before
We again see so much Longfellow poetry
I'D the papers says a contemporary. As
il will be quite a while before the poets
second hundrcdth birthday is celebrated,
the hope seems more than likely 10 be
yratihed
The next time the President gets "a
competent man in that Panama Canal Of
fee. ne should decline 70 issue transfer.
4 patriotic Albanian dominates Hon.
Clark Howell for chief OF police. through
the columns Of the Atlanta Georgian. As
this would give him a chance 10 muss UP
the Gov. Hoke Smith inaugural parade.
We fear the suggestion has behind it "a
sinister motive.
Senator Jeffrics Davis says the Senate
shall not blum him. The chances are IL
will take several years for the Senator
to catch on TO the Senatorial method Of
bIufHng.
Mr.. Roosevelt is to become a member
Of q society for the preservation OF big
game. This will doubtless be good news
Tor the big game.
In burst of fervid eloquence a Cali
fornia orator recently let 90 the following
words. Fellow citizens. this movement
is fathercd by thousands OF California S
most noble women" Senator Stone could
not beat that in three trials
"AH it takes TO organize a railroad
these days is q roller-tOp desk I'm a New
York Office and q little nerve" says the
Atlanta Journal 4 big nerve. you mean,
From the deep and continued silence
down Washington way we incline to the
belief that the society for the suppress
sion OF useless noises has captured
Foraker and Tillman," says the Indian
apolis Sun. No; Congress has adjourned
that's all.
I'VE secretly envy what We cannot
command" says the Baltimore American
I Not always; there is King Peter OF
I Servia for instance.
According to a French astronomer, the
/ earth IS about "to collide with the
triturated tail OF disintegrated comet
/ Disintegrated comets ought to keep theiI
/ tails out Of the way.
/ Perhaps those Brownsville rioters were
/ infected with exaggerated ego germs.
! Congress stretched one legislative day e
| something Ike forty-eght hours, thereby
1 permitting 1t to be to-day in Washington
/ San Francisco. Hawaii, and Guam at one
and the same time.
Wanted. legislator with pruning
knife" says the Rockdale (Tex.) Re
. porter But really. hasn't the time ar
rived for the Texas legislators to put VI
their knives and things?
Music by wireless telegraphy is nov
!
things so We cannot dodge the phone
/ graphs?
Can't the members of the various Stat,
! legislatures understand that the people
want them to give up their free passe:
so they cannot get killed in the railroad
accidents?
"Boss" Ruef of San Francisco, after
virtuously. vehemently, and indignant,
denying any guilt of graft, has skipped
for parts unknown and forfeited his bond
\ Prolific Writer.
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Prospective customer lin 1910-I under
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Velts messages TO Congress?
/ Book dealeT-Yes. sir: with only volume:
/ forJy-seven and sixty-two missing.
Athletics.
/ Waiting for the starters gun,
HUstling round the track
Putting in the distance run,
Jumping ike a Jack
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