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Under the heading, Another Sus-
pension" Chicago paper tells of the
hanging Of a horse thief.
The killing of animals, except from
necessity, observes the New York
Journal. is becoming less and less
popular as sport.
The Kansas man who decided to
take wife instead of buying a motor
car, says the Louisville Courier-JOur-
nal, proved the quality of his chivalry
at the expense of his reputation as an
economist.
/ Professor Starr, OF Chicago, says
i dogs meat beats mutton. The pro-
fessor is either contemplating a trip
to the north pole, comments the At
lanta Constitution, or he has been
sampling recent products Of the home
canning factories.
Watch the secondhand automobiles
come tumbling on to the market! ex
claims the Springfield Republican. II
we are in for a squeeze, the first to
get squeezed will be those who have
been riding around in automobiles
bought 90 borrowed money.
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country; the trouble is the people
will not let it circulate" says high
financier. They naturally fear some
one else will grab it while it's circu-
/ lating. comments the New York
American.
Should the transplanting OF Maine
Holsters in Alaska prove as successful
as the transplanting OF trout in Col
orado, and shad on the Pacific coast.
suggests the Boston Transcript, we
may yet be able to save these deli
cacies from extinction.
"Typewriters are coming into more
general use in France every day."
writes ConsulG General Skinner FROM
Marseille. 1T has required more per-
sistence to introduce them than was
the case in the United States. but at
present no important administration
Is without them"
1T means much Cor American bus
mess and manufacturing life" OBJ
serves the Watertown Times, that SO
many well equipped, clear Drained.
ambitious young men are entering 1t
from the graduating classes OF col
leges 1t means progress on correct
lines in which commercialism Will be
much modified by the Introduction OF
higher ideals.
The Oldest written history is that
which is to be deciphered from the
Babylonian clay tablets. and 1t shows
that in all essentials men went about
their business sixty centuries ago
very much as they do now, AYERS the
Manchester Guardian, being moved by
the same passions and aspirations ami
IDEAS which are still the most potent
forces in the world.
Out Of 10000 fires in the city OF
New York in. 1906 nearly 5000 were
caused by carelessness. asserts the
New York World. It goes this way
year after year. Children play with
matches and grown people heed not
where they throw them. Smokers
toss cigars and cigarettes, still alight.
into baskets of waste paper Fire
Commissioner Lantry urges the Board
of Education to have teaching on the
subject of fire precautions go along
with the fire drill in the public
schools.
Commenting on public schools the
New Orleans Picayune remarks:
without doubt the deficiency is
greatest among the older children.
most of whom should be at work.
since they cannot Welt afford to spend
in school years when they could DO
learning useful trades to earn an hon-
est living. All the most earnest anil
eager apostles OF public free educa-
ton are coming to realize that too
MANY years spent in books leaves
such scholars at great disadvantage
in the battle for livelihood, and they
are calling for industrial schools not
to be added to the ordinary public
school curriculum, but to be included
in It,"
Professor David Todd OF Amherst
has returned from the Andes with