The Washington herald., 1908-01-26

i say " l4dl llle UldlltIs some one gong
+ 70 offer a l-cent fare bin?
Eight hundred thousand dollars in
/ counterfeit Haitian money has been
/ seized, says the Brooklyn Standard
/ Union. We presume the man who had II
viii set "a fat term Of service in the peni-
/ tenuary. That must have been some
I thing I'm the nature Of counteyfeitng $2.50
/ In this country
There was an old man. and he had a
wooden leg. that's why he had to beg.
/ was written before the war among manu-
facturers of that commodity. Wooden
T legs may be had for a song now.
It being the fashion these days to put
| physicians IN command Of things aquatic
We presume a dry doc" would be about
/ the proper parsonage 10 take command of
I the water wagon What
A million a day for militarism naturally
amaZes Chairman Tawuay, as IL must
amaze the couutry-but viii anything be
| done 10 curb the madness? Not If the
I jingoes can help il,
/ one Of the recent failures that may be
classed as highly satisfactory was the
failure of the 'old line Democrats 10 get
together for the purpose OF squelching Mr..
Bryan. II is evident that the rank and
tle Of the Democracy want Mr.. Bryan.
ard a conference against him would have
been not only ridiculous but futile.
Count-weH. The count-smashed the
face Of q kodak fend who was trying 10
| snapshot him against his will recently.
and we don't blame him. If the count
proposes to play fool-knler in this coun-
/ try we shall probably revise some of
our opinions concerning him.
1.-THE world is filed with dresrnerz."
says Paul Cook. the Birmingham Age
Herald's official poet. Possibly il looks
that way iu Birmingham. the proposition
of filing up being more or less Of a
complex proposition I'm thar city just now.
Seems like old times 10 read in the
papers Of Gen. Uribe-Uribe and Gen.
Phugg.
Make way 5or the groundhog." says
the Baltimore Sun. As for the cud-seat
hog, he makes way for himself.
After organizing q Photographers Union
. for the suppression of frazzIed topics. the
Richmond Times-Dispatch came out Fri
day last with four measly paragraphs.
We feared some such result as this at
the outset but we raised our voice in
vain.
There are a lot OF pestferous annoy
ances in this world, including the chasing
down Of a word in an unabridged die
tonary only TO be referred 20 something
else for its meaning
"As you watch the Congressional pro
Ceedings from day to day. you may recall
what Uncle joe said" begins an article
in the Indianapolis News. People whose
business it IS TO watch Congressional
proceedings from day to day often find
consolation in recalling some Of Uncle
Joe's" pet phrases.
Coldwater, Mich. has voted to remain
wet This however. viii be cold com
fort for Atlanta, Ga.
When a gander owned by joseph
Heneisen, Of Kansas City. hears a certain
church bell ring. ne goes into the church
yard and remains there until the service
IS finished SAYS the Montgomery Adver-
tiser. We do not doubt it; moreover, we
suspect II is a Baptist church.
In consenting to an insanity" plea.
Harry Thaw really furnishes evidence
that he isn't as near insanity this trial as
he was last
Noting a statement in the New York
Times that the Old-time black mammies"
have practically disappeared from the
South only to reappear IN the North. the
Houston Post thinks the Times has mere
ly made the acquaintance Of some imita-
tions. Perhaps; but the Post VIII not
deny that even an imitation nanny" Is
apt to be a wonderfully good thing.
The New York fire department appears
TO have stocked up on something in the
nature of clOckwOrk hose.
a vein of white coal has been dis
covered In Kentucky" says the Concord
Monitor. We don't believe this effort to
distract the Presidents attention from
the Taft boom will be successful.
THE silk-hat rascals Of New York need
3 -,
sure, Mr Watson; silk-hat rasCals every
where need punishment--and so do every
other kind of rasCaIs.
There is nothing behind Beckham but
a busted machine, and nothing in front
but oblivion" says Mr.. Henry Waiter
SON 1t appears that Mr. Beckham has
about reached the jumping-off place
A careful reading Of Admiral Brown
sons side of the case fails to reveal one
single explosive sentence. A trifle old
fashioned, perhaps but-well, it is re-
freshing, anyhow.
Some Of our statesmen are saved to
fame by figuring in the lmeiight; others
in the whtewash.
A Tennessee man says he was cured
of a terrible disease by listening to a
political talk. This is the most intensely
heroic cure We ever heard Of
So far as we are able to recollect. we
never made note Of any one possessed
Of more satisfactory ability at hand
ing out sweet nothings than President
Penna, of Brazil He appears to be all
to the candy as Mr.. George NJ. Cohan
would say.
Call In Few Experts.
From the Atlanta Journal.
Which is crazy, Harry Thaw or the
rest Of the country?