The Ketchikan miner., 1908-06-27

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 JUNE 27. 1908
 If Peary insists on rushing away to the north again he will lose his vote, that's all.
 The veil of privacy covered the last sad farewell between President Roose- welt and Speaker Joe Cannon.
 The piano makers have formed a rust to improve. the business. They can improve t some by refusing to sell the girl who plays ragtime un- til ? a. m.
 And now, it is announced, there are noiseless .typewriters. These, one would imagine, are likely to be high ly in favor with young men contem- plating matrimony.
 Alton B. Parker, head the resolu- tions committee at Denver? Well. not if Mir. Bryan is the power. of the con- vention that his admirers expect him to be.
 A Finley Ohio centenarian had his hair cut and said it was the first time in seventy years he had sat in bar Der chair. Sometimes when waiting for their turn it has seemed that long to others.
 Carrie Nation says that she is going to pay no more fines. The gentle Car rie would never be called upon to do so, if she would behave herself like a respectable woman.
 By the way, it doesn't seem likely that John Hayes Hammond is likely to land the presidential nomina- tion within several rows of stumps, if not more.
 A man in Winnipeg killed hims elf on his wedding day because the girl he was going to marry was too good for him. She certainly must have been. He proved his case with a razor.
 Senator La Toilette uttered 66, GOO words in his eighteen hour speech on the Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill. If the filibuster had gotten fairly un- der way there is no telling how far he might have gone in his utterances.
 A foolish old man in Chicago took his life because of ''The Osler Theo- ry." Seeing that Dr. Osler never had any theory in respect to old age, the old man made sad mess of things.
 Professor Wenley of the University of Michigan thinks that "the United States needs d. good thrashing' to restore to it proper sense of pro- portions. But Professor Wenley has no answer for the question who is going to administer the thrashing.
 There is less and less heard of Governor Hughes in connection with national politics. Whatever may be said for his conception of the proper course for governor to follow, it is not one that conduces to success in practical politics.
 The capital of the Standard Oil Company is to be increased from slOO, GOO, GOO to $500, 900, GOO. But let no one suppose that anyone is going to subscibe this additional S400, 000, 900. The old adage that oil and water will not mix does not apply to the stock maket. The chiefs of the Stan dard Oil will get this stock for nothing and will unload it on the public at their leisure.
 Rufus Choate once endeavored to make a witness give an illustration of absent -mindedness. Wal" said the witness cautiously, I should say that man who thought he'd left his watch at hum, an took it out'n his pocket to see if he had time to go hum to get it-I should say that that feller was a leetle bit absent mind ed." Every body's.
 After tremendous fight Governor Hughes, of New York, succeeded in getting his anti-race track gambling bill passed. It is one thing to place laws on the statute books and another to enforce them, as one Thaw could testify to if he cared to do so. But we suppose the first step in reform is the securing of the necessary ma chinery to carry out the purpose of the reformers. The good people of the state of New York, however, have a lot of work to do in another direc- ion before they can hope to put stop to pernicious practices.
 It is announced from Pekin that the