Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-07-15
Brief and Breezy

The tariff may be local issue, but
= has certainly ceased to be a party
issue. ...
This is the season when professors
and graduates tell how those men who
have done big things ought to have
done them. --..
"Can't we solve two problems by
logning Emma Goldman to the English
sotfragettes?" inquiries the Cleveland
Leader. Not if the suffragettes discover
the plot in time to head it off.
Whv this absurd clamor for more
DAYLIGHT? More moonlight is all we
need in the good old summer time.
The government is having the mis-
chief of a time finding out what
whiskey is. Of course, there are a lot
of men who know, but they Wont tell.
The Aldrich bill was made for Me,
not You.
Announcement is made that there is
possibility of reduction of the two
per cent rate provided for in the
amendment to the tariff bill providing
for a tax on the net earnings Of cor
porations, and it is stated that, il the
decrease is made, it will be in confer
ence and not on the floor of the Senate.
Until the conferees have completed
their work on the schedules they will
not be able to determine, with any ac-
curacy, the revenue to be expected
from the customs duties, and il at
time it is apparent that tax of one
and half, or even of one per cent will
be ample to supplement the customs
receipts, the reduction Of the rate
should be made, and doubtless will be.
The tariff bill should produce ample
revenue to meet all expenses the first
year after its enactment, but there is
no apparent necessity for piling up a.
surplus in the Treasury.
The increasing employment of cleo
trielty on board ships of war, especial
~ in connection with the system Of
communication, fire control installa-
ton and wireless telegraphy, has
reached proportions which Indicate
that speciality must be made of that
branch, as there is of ordnance and
engineering. The Secretary Of the
Navy is reported to have under con-
sldrration recommendation for the
establishment of a postgraduate
course for commissioned naval officers
IN electrical work of all description,
including wireless telegraphy. This is
Ill line with the establishment Of q.
postgraduate course Of naval en-
glheerlng and it is purposed to have
Inc course Of naval electrical design
and power also at the Naval Academy.
~ present officers who display an in
S''ilaelon for that class of work are
permitted to enter the plant Of the
General Electric Company at schen-
ectady.
Inc anti-cigarette law which went
INTO effect in the State of Washing
'0h at midnight on June 10, will be
''s'oly enforced, according to reports
eee''ed from Seattle. People interest
~ In the Alaska Yukon Pacific ax-
position will endeavor, however, TO
eA'ileiided as TO permit the
s'le and use of cigarettes in certain
parts Of the exposition reservation.
lne annual problem of the gradual
gown was not only most success
w. wy Out also eheaply. solved in d
A''ago public school this vaa,.
4,,'y-e'ght girls composing the
s'aaaating class, set to work several
sn A' ago under the direction of a
tbis+- VISOR of sewing, and turned out
l.r y. eight pretty frocks at an out
lay Of $3.50 apiece. As the 4 dresses sas
envv q, 81 alike much heartburning and
aav we're avoided on commencement