, 1908-05-06
PERSONAL VOTES

Ernest w. Emery, day manager OF
the Associated Press" at Washing
ton. has zeen unanimously elected ex-
allied ruler of Washington lodge, No.
Is, Of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.
When a Cincinnati Enoch Arden re-
turned the monotony of the case was
ly giving up the wife to the husband
who wanted her back. Then the two
spouses shook hands and the trio part
ed good friends.
The seniors of Oklahoma university
have organized themselves into a
"Back-to-Nature Club" and will per-
nit their whiskers to grow, with a
prize for the best results. It is not
stated whether the Van Dyke or the
| populist style is to be affected.
President Roosevelt transmitted to
congress a recommendation by the
secretary Of state for an appropria-
ton to reimburse the persons who
furnished the money required to ran
som Miss Ellen M. Stone from Bulgar-
ian bandits a number of years ago.
The first president Of the republic Of
Panama, Manuel Amador Guerrero,
commonly known as President Anna
dor, has announced that he will not
seek reelection. The president, who
is now nearly rs years old, does not
care to bear the burdens of public Of
flee for another term.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota, has
a big income assured to him for several
years, even if he never is elected
president or anything. Since he has
become talked about he has many of
fers from ChautauQua associations and
many lyceum bureaus to go on the
lecture platform. And since he has
been prominently mentioned as good
presidential timber, and some news
papers and magazines have taken 1t
upon themselves to boost him for the
nomination, the managers of those as
sociations and bureaus have been fall
ing over themselves to make contracts
with him at figures that seem to grow
every day. 2
President Roosevelt received a high
compliment from the London Times.
which, commenting editorially upon
what it describes as the remarkable
change which has occurred in the at
titude of the political parties in the
United States towards the president
and his policy, says that his award
for holding to that policy against all
opposition is n Of the most remark
able personal victories ever won in
public life.
What's a legal phrase? An Ohio
preacher is suing his wife for the
restitution of property decided to her
in honeymoon days in consideration
of love and affection. He AYERS
that the goods delivered were coun-
terfeit.
The order has gone out from-a Penn
sylyania corporation employing thou
sands of men, that foreigners must
become American citizens to hold their
jobs. Citizen foundries are working
overtime in that section.
People disposed to haste in embrac-
ing spring will find food for reflection
in the brief but comprehensive lines
of a nameless poet:
A little cold in his delicate lung,
A little song by the church choir sung,
A little corpse to the graveyard brung!
In honor of the seth anniversary
of the birth of Rev. Edward Everett.
Hale. April 8, Richard Watson Glider
penned the following verse for the
Woman's Home Companion;
Patriot and sage. and lover of his
kind,
The love he gives a thousandfola
returns; |
His is the wealth of love q great
heart earns
By giving all that heart-and soul,
and mind.
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