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Show I Will Bryan 'b following of the chief Bull Mooso bo effective? A vroman in Storlinjj, Illinois, lived to '' hJ JOS years old. But think of 'living 105 years in Sterling, Illinois! 1 1 The Colonel finds political brigands 'J and Judnses wherever he goes. Ho is J like the family that always has bad , neighbors. J A roport comes from Montana that ( the Progrcssh-cs thoro ato earnestly , moving for a recall of their party nomi nations. But why not? '! , The Bull Moosors have takeD a lease j on their headquarters in Boston for ', j six ycaTs. So it isn't to be even a 1 third term, but four, ehl J A Sacramento election official pro- '3 poses to introduce voting by mail. The ' next thing we know, some faddist will 1 propose voting by proxy. 1 '. Four New York policemen have been susponded from duty for sleeping while on duty. But maybe sonic interested party paid t hem for sleeping, 1 Tn Georgia, a man lias just been , t fined $25.75 for trying to commit sui- ride. Servos him right: he ahould not have failed; a mere try is reprehenBi- H a 1 A Dr, Jacob Wells of Washington Hj j Siivs (hat "Girls with pink teeth have ! loving disposition and make good ' wives." Must be a dentist out of a LH jnb' t Governor Wilson is said to have snubbed Tammany Murphy most scoru-fully scoru-fully when they met in Syracuse. And Wilson may be sorry for it on election ; night. Hj The weeding out. of disloyal members of the National "Republican Committee is good party -discipline. When a man j isn't a Republican, he can't do ftepnb- 1 lican work. Zapata charges Madcro with being a - promise-breaker. But this is merely to j charge him with being a politician. And , plenty of others besides Madero are j politicians, and pretty mean ones at J' Ibat. ' Thc bad season iu England, where . rains have made a shortage in grain I ?'ield; will make an unusually heavy M j demand for American wheat and corn. 1 t Fortunately we have ample and lo spare, ! The proposal to have the Govern- ment pay for the Presidential cam-, cam-, l'aiffn expenditures of the parties is the I limit- Under n law like that, what j booster would think of limiting the i amount he would expend? 1 And fo Senator Bourno 13 downed , "gain, and this time right in the house 1 of bis friends in a Progressive State convention in Oregon, ft. is vory sad, to 1 bo sure; but it cannot bo denied that ! Bourno has earned all bo is gotting. HJ One of the curiosities of industrial S achievement of the time is the building in Detroit of steel freight steamers for the Mediterranean trade. Their siz0 is now restricted to 225 feot in length by M ' the. locks of the Wclland canal, but Hj I ; these are to be enlarged. jj St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "When J General Grant failed in a third-term I movement he dropped the Bubject and J heartily supported the ticket. He was " nf)t built to be a bolter or to abuse the party that elected him twice." But j doubtless tho Euorgotic One considers General Grant a mere mollycoddle. ' P. B. Stewart, tho Progressive candi- , date fr Governor of Colorado, openly j fevers his connection with tho Bepub- . lican party. His action in this is in I refreshing contrast with others, who I nct a though they aro the Ropublican j I'arty, nnd take it with them whorcver j they go. , I American athletic clnbB show a dis- - j MBition to "swipe" Kohlemainen, the Ureal Knnish runner, and have-' have-' "' represent this country in the j , Olympic games in Berlin in 1916. The H "tatemont is that he will eventually become a citizen of this country, and will join our American Athletic club, j If so. vhat is the objection to his representing this country in the mass of Americans who will compete at Berlin? |