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England has about 1900 square
miles of coal fields
Eminent medical authority now
says cigars are harmless. but the
campaign brand is not included in
the declaration, protests the Atlanta
Constitution
Not in many years, declares the
Chicago Tribune. has the public gen.
orally objected so vigorously to the ex.
travagant values they are called on
to pay for meats.
Farmers should raise more sheep
which are profitable, AYERS the Ameri
can Cultivator, and the best animal.
for killing weeds. Kill nearly all the
dogs, and save the sheep.
1t is impossible for the Washington
Herald to imagine anything worse
than Hayti without imagining tive
Haytis.
Ambassador Tower says 1t takes
money for diplomacy Wives OF
stingy husbands testify that the re-
verse Is true, comments the Atlanta
Constitution.
Perhaps the reason the voters don't
know more about some of the candt
dates at the primaries is that those
candidates, by discreet action, sur.
misses the Indianapolis News. have
been able to forestall the spread O!
such information.
The college professor who is ia
study lost races should not have left
So soon, urges the Atlanta Constitu.
ton. Il will be some time before the
Presidential returns are in.
A man who gets old, who lives and
thinks, begins to stand apart like the
tree in the middle OF field, confesses
the New York Journal. If he have
one faithful tree growing beside him,
fighting the tempest, the drought and
the frost with him, that is company
enough.
Fossils are reported to have been
found on the Columbia University
campus. Well, remarks the New
York Tribune, it is better to have
them there than in the professional
lecture rooms.
The modern landscape architect 90
casionally fails to discover the grace
OF gardening and nature takes her
revenge, contends Town and Country
The layman with an artistic soul who
captures the tickle dame attains the
perfection denied the professional
In Mississippi where the Govern
menc pays little attention to roads
the value of farm property has in
creased .3S per cent in five years. In
Illinois where hundreds of miles oil
hard roadways have been constructed
since 1900, the average increase Of
farm lands has been almost 60 pei
cent, notes the New York American
This country will have arrived at Its
highest point OF prosperity when there
Is better system of canals, when the
great rivers are dredged and made
navigable. when every State is grid.
ironed with hard roadways. The sen
timent for national action concerning
these needs is so strong and so in
sistent that 1t must ultimately bear
fruit. ...
Probably betting on local election.
Is a feature which should be discour
aged. The more complete the dissoci
alton between pocketbook and ballot
box, the better and surer the canvass
A wager at once raises the money is
sue, insists the Richmond Times-Dis.
patch, and, if it is big enough, tenda
to substitute that for the simple ele
ment of personal preference or fol
whatever principle may be involved
Moreover, where large interests are
thought to be at stake, it is easy to
see how the ostcnsible bet might be
made the basis for a corruption OF
the electorate.
The literary style OF men OF action