Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-11-24

NlluUNA A1AAAHNAN"+
1t is a queer dispensation of Prov
idence that puts election day and
Thanksgiving in the same month.
Walter Wellman will henceforth
be known as the man who made the
equilibrator famous.
The golden rule is evidently gain
ing around Indiana. The opposite
political candidates actually began
boosting each other.
Professor Wilson has given New
Jersey a lively educational course in
politics, so muchly that they made
him governor.
Secretary Of War Dickinson return
ed home from trip around the
world at public. expense. He says
that as a result of the aviation ne
witnessed at Paris he is going to rec
ommend to Congress a liberal APP
preparation for fleet of airships Of
war If that is all, he might as well
have stayed home at his own expense. /
Theodore Roosevelt is one man
in 1OO,OOO,OOO," declares an enthus-
last. Fortunately that is true.
1.-THE New Nationalism spells
Caesarism, says the president of
Cornell. who recognizes the simpli-
fed spelling when he sees it.
The Ohio voters it appears, do not
like Cabinet pudding.
China may realise, now that we
have lent her $5O,OOO,OOO that her
integrity is pinned on a good deal
safer than it was before.
If you are an admirer of magazine
poetry, it may interest you to know
that a recent poetical contest held
by magazine was won by an insane
woman.
When it was announced that Quin-
cy, ILL.,. has grown one per cent in
ten years, we do not know whether
Quincy is truthful or merely conser-
vative.
A Pennsylvania man has bought
wife for SIS. That is another in
stance of the high cost of living. In
the old days a few pounds of tobac-
co or just little taffy was the reg
ular price.
Statistics show that only one wom-
an in a hundred reaches the age of
sixty. This is not surprising consid-
ering how many years it takes for
the average woman to get out of her
teens
President Taft's visit to Panama
must not be construed as a trip to
collect data for that libel suit.
That grinding sound you heard
in New York state way was the old
guard" sharpening knives. 4rt
Mr.. Taft is wondering if Ohio
really is his own state"
Announcement that the gates Of
the Panama canal weigh SO tons
each calls to mind the Twenty-fourth
Psalm: Lift up your heads, o ye
gates. and be ye lifted up, ye ever
lasting doors.
Ten generals of the Haitian army
have been killed First thing yop
know, somebody will kill teh pri-
vate and Haitia will be left defense
less.
A New York minister has come
out with a strong condemnation of
flying on Sunday. With such vigil
ance and foresight that minister
ought to change his calling and be
a detective.
At the rate which runaway couples
are being headed off these days, elop-
ment will soon become lost art
1t is said that Pres. Taft's next
message will be written at sea. He
will not be the first President, how
ever. to write state paper while at
sea.
The Louisville Courier Journal
saws that there are two Roosevelts
The one that speaks for Beveridge
and the one that speaks for Lodge
1t is feared that Mr.. Roosevelt is
enrolling some men as progressis
, es without making diligent inquiry
as to whether it Will interfere witt
! their politics.
And yet walter Wellman's Wan
, behring's" may become one of the si'
/ best sellers.
= Perhaps the Quakers would lik
to ask the Chicago Cubs the tim
honored question IF there is an
e other game they can play.
The news from Washington tina
4 Minneapolis has been caught pad
+ ding her census must have made IN
oorlre non mist PAUL