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1t is conceded, declares the Provi'
lence Journal that foreign highways
are superior to those OF this coun-
try. But there is no reason why
American roads should not be Dullt
as we'll as these OF England and
France.
Insists the Omaha Bee: If the Post
Office Department can succeed IN
arousing the farmers Of America from
their lethargy on the road question II
will have served a purpose OF mucn
greater assistance to the social life
of the people than even the establish
ment of rural free deliveries.
To the Rochester Herald for
fifteen dollar week clerk to hand
out tip to one of those who, ex-
cept to receive his money, would not
otherwise condescend to touch his
hand is one of the ludicrous features
of the practice of aping the pros
porous and the plunderer which has
grown upon the country in a genera
ton.
wireless telegraphy, whatever its
failures and disappointment have
been in the commercial world, insists
the Washington Post. is daily demon
strating it's great Importance as
naval adjust, its latest test was In
covering a distance of two thousand
miles in midocean, broken only by
few feet tenders, between the cable
station at Suva, in the Fiji Islands,
and Admiral Sperry's flagship, ths
Connecticut.
Charles Wydham, the actor, IN
private life Sir Charles Wyndham,
dubbed knight on dramatic consider
aticns, who served as a surgeon all
through our Civil War and visited this
country several times later on. has
bounced into the controversy over
the comparative merits of American
and. English oratory. He says in a
fat-footed and not very courteous
way: ut must be remembered that
Americans are always talking. They
jmbibe fuency with their mothers
milk. l do not consider, however,
that there is anything like the same
proportion of really good pubic
sneakers in America as in England
Farragut was youthful at sixty
four when he so dashingly led the
fleet up Mobile Bay; Won Moltke.
lean. wiry. interchangeable, was the
presiding genius of two great cam
paigns when he was sixty-four and
seventy-one These. to the Boston
Transcript, are examples OF the Wig
orous maturity of mind surviving far
beyond the limits of middle age IN
representatives of the two most siren
uous professions in the world. the
examples of longevity among men or
letters are so many that their re-
capitulation constitutes long cat
alogue.
Fifty years ago it was not con-
sidered necessary to interpret the
spectacle of the Comet as portent,
though if what was coming three
wears later could have been foreseen
it might have seemed unnatural to
do SO When Halley's comet appear
ed about the middle of the fifteenth
century, as the Turks had just OBJ
tanned possession OF Constantlnople,
the Christian world added this prayer
to the Ave Maria relates the Boston
Transcript: Deliver us from the
devil, the Turk and the comet but
in the nineteenth century comets
were thought to be favorable to vege-
tation. The vineyards especially were
very productive in 1911 and 1858, and
the vintages of those years were
sold at high figures as comet
wines"
If man is destined to achieve the
mastery of the air, it will be a
revolution indeed. Who knows
injuries the Christian Register,
whether the next generation may not
see the day of transatlantic air
lines. polar excursions, and pleasure
tours over the worlds great noun
tain ranges? Already we have the
news of a German company organized
to run a regular line of passenger
airships between the continental
capital cities from ST. Petersburg to
Paris, and Vienna to London. 1t
would be a beautiful and desirable
result if science were thus to add
to the sum of human knowledge and