Semi-weekly herald., 1908-03-09
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FOR BUSY HERALD READERS

Naturally money should be reformed
when it is so often tight"
Maybe Mr Bryan is not running
for" the presidency. but from it.
The tobacco war in Kentucky seems
to he almost as disastrous as the aver
age strike.
There are enough favorite sons to
start an orphan asylum when the elee-
ton is over.
The London and Paris papers seem
to consider our secretary of state the
Root of all evil
Massachusetts reports 10000 wild
deer within its boundaries and now
enjoys a fine supply of venison.
South Dakotah as realized $4,000
200 from its divorce mill. but it would
be hard to find a state willing to take
the money along with the reputation.
Japan's tax rate at the present.tfme
is s31 per capita. With problem
like this on hand the Japanese states
men will not look around for needless
wars.
A great religious revival is proceed
ing in Toxic This will do as much as
anything can do to keep the mind of
the Japanese people off the subject of
war a1d taxes.
About this time last year the trees
We're budding and all nature behav-
ing in an impolitic manner; conse-
quently spring didn't get itself opened
nltil the first of May.
Since the big feet started on its
journey one of its men has died of
disease and one of accident. Could
the most confirmed naval critic ex-
poct a better showing in long voy-
age by 1900 men?
The Chinese continue to complain
of the japanese tricks in Manchuria,
such as opening and OBTAINING the
| Chinese mails on various protects.
The laps are fortilyng the Pesca-
dores Islands.
One Of the large railroad systems is
| owned by 81 900 stockholders, and the
number has increased 5000 within
! the last year Actual figures are a
help ii discussing the problems OF
the many and the few.
The Great Norther1 Railway com
pany viii pay the state of Minnesota
nearly sl,Oo000O in taxes this year.
| This s 100000 in excess of 1906 and
is representative of the biggest years
business in the history of the com
pany.
An Ohio paper says that if the
night riders cary out their threat to
invade that state they will get all that
is coming to them. When Kentucky
acts vigorously on this idea its law
defyineltroopers will conclude to stay
at hone at night.
DR.. lalhfils.- -seeretaryaef the Penn.
sylvanN state game commission, be-
lieves that cats should be killed as
they are the greatest of all menaces
| TO the lives of birds. The germ the
orists are also after cats, saying that
they carry infectious diseases into
communities and families.
The manager of a New York en-
ployme1t bureau says that the ignor-
ant immigrant women learn two
phrases almost as soon as they come
into the country, and they are "gen-
eral housework" and twenty-five; dol
lars They come from countries
where they have comparatively moth
ing at ALL and Immediately learn to
demand everything.
Both houses of the Ohio legislature
have passed the Rose county option
prohibition bill, which provides that
one-fourth of the electors in any coun
ty may demand that the license ques-
tion may be submitted at an election,
the result of which cannot be changed
for two years thereafter. The anti
saloon league officers predict that un-
der this act 81 of Ohio's SS counties
will abolish saloons within a year.
: The Audubon workers are anxious
that all the children of the country
shall be organized into a society to
preserve the birds. Thousands OF
teachers and boys and girls all over
the county have been communicated
with and a national headquarters has
already been established in New York.
As the birds have not the facilities for
home-maling in many places that they
once had, children are to be encour-
aged to make houses for them, begin
ming early in the year, as birds will
prefer those that are well seasoned.
William butcher, president of the
National Organization of Audubon so
cieties, says that he believes the
school children of the land will do
more for the cause than any other or
ganization.
Huntington is a town in Pennsyl-
vania not very far from the capital
of that frontier state. From recent
dispatch it appears that its suburbs
are inhabited by bears, wild cats and
catamounts, that these animals at
tack the farmers on the border OF the
Wilderness and the venturesOme trav-