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Show if i A new broom also stirs up quite a dust. Laziness is now -called by the more euphonious name of spring- fever. j Some men practice self-denial on their lietter halves, and kick at the results. The only thing; that will take the sting out of failure i to crown it with success. A pood many captains of industry couldn't make a living- with "forty acres and a mule.' Don't give offense under the delusion that thai, lo... is more blessed to give than to receive. Gang planks are sometimes placed in political platforms to give them the appearance of strength. It must have hern a man that killed two birds i with one stone, for women never could throw straight. ' It i about time for the mosquito exterminator tw begin his agitation, so we may be prepared to put it off another year. I Thaw and Ruef are running each other a close race when it. comes to newspaper prominence, with Karriman just a little in the lead. If the agricultural ero) s this summer will equal i the crop of presidential booms, the notion's pros-i. pros-i. rity is assured for another year. A dollar bill has an average life of fiflcon months, says the statist ican. but if it lasts the av-I av-I erage mau fifteen minutes he is satisfied. I .la pun 33 rapidly approaching the time when her battleships will have to earn their cost. The Japanese conquest of the world may furnish interesting inter-esting historical reading in a few years. Highly esteemed men of prominence are having their inning of investigation, and are losing the high estimation of the public, but are gaining in ihe prominence part of their distinguishment. An asset which is seldom accounted at its just valuation until it is lost is good health. We might mention other things besides health a good name, or a fat salary, for instance which come in this category. Fines imposed upon monopolists for violations o law area farce upon justice. The great American Amer-ican people, not the trusts, have the fine levied against them in the tribute they pay in higher prices lo the law-defying corporations. The bigger the fine assessed and the longer the litigation hangs lire in the courts, the larger is the tax imposed. The people not only pay for the defense, but they pay for lhe prosecution, as well. Our system of regulating regu-lating trusts is great. I With the strenuous life of the present day. t change has come over the spirit of our educational endeavor. The new conditions require more than a I mastery of four or five languages if one is to occupy oc-cupy a responsible position. The cultured gentleman gentle-man of leisure whose mind is full of Creek and Latin conjugations is a fine figure, but he cannot make a living :- the necessity confronts him. One of the most v ic sights is that of a man whose mind is sto ': ; a vast amount of unworkable knowledge en ar r-'ng to get a job vhere there is no demand f o - t', alents. A skilled tradesman or brawny laborei i? 5 a a much better position to earn ! . : - ; . , CJ. ' a living. Young men who are afforded the oppor-j oppor-j tnnity of securing a college or university education j recognize the demand for skilled workers in the i world, as is evidenced by the growing proportion of students in industrial courses for the major portion por-tion of their school work. j The learned Dr. Crapsey, whose pulpit utter- ances led to a sensational heretical trial in which I heresy was proven, promises to afflict the people indefinitely with statements of what he doesn't be-j be-j lieve. It would be infinitely more enlightening if j he told us what, he does believe. I The house of lords and the British "precedent"' j are very similar to the United States senate and j the constitution in holding in check legislation too j hastily prepared intended to benefit the people, but "precedent" and the lords will have to give way j before the pressure which will force a home rule bill j to become law. ! Railroad freight and passenger rates which j would produce sufficient revenue to pay expenses of operation and a net annual interest of 10 per cent on the taxable value of the roads would just about put the water back into the great pond I whence it came. The people would not object to ! high rates, and the interstate commerce eomniis- sion would not be necessary, if the transportation , companies sought only interest on the cost of their j properties. The people do not like to be bled by the water. An evidence of the progress of the age is furnished fur-nished by lhe development of photography since the first successful Daguerreotype portrait Mas made some sixty-odd years ago. Six minutes were required in the first exposure, while in these latter lat-ter days a really sensitive plate will secure a picture, pic-ture, so superior 1o the first attempt, as to make any comparison impossible, in less than one thousandth thou-sandth of a second. The moving picture machine is another feature which shows how the progress of invention moves. While the Prohibition party has never attained sufficient importance in national ejections to be considered in the results, the progress of the prohibition pro-hibition movement in localities is remarkable. '"Local '"Lo-cal option' has become a strong popular choice, twenty-three of the states having such laws, while only four are subject to prohibitory statutes. In the District of Columbia, written consent of the owners of the real estate fronting on both sides of the street in the block where it is proposed to open a saloon is required before the excise board may issue a license. What effect the work of the late Xeal Dow is having on the present movement toward to-ward prohibition is hard to say, but no doubt the seed he sowed is bearing fruit. The consumption of liquor and beer in America is nothing short of criminal, and local option laws seem to be quite as successful in curtailing the traffic as the violent attacks on the saloons with hatchets. The laws of a nation are primarily intended to benefit the masses, not hurt any one. Rival or opposing op-posing interests put forth their claims for consideration consid-eration of the lawmakers, with an artificial adjustment adjust-ment as a result, in which compromise takes the place of principle. In the political maneuvering accompanying any important piece of legislation, it is interesting to note the almost strict party lines which are drawn in advocating or opposing the passage of almost any bill, whether the proposed law is a local, a state or a national one. With compromise written largely on the statute books, the machinery of the law becomes very complicated, much to the profit of the sapient lawyer who seldom sel-dom recommends compromise to his client, unless his client has a poor ease. With all the concessions made in the interest of harmony by lawmakers, the Supreme Laws remain unchanged, and they furnish, i a fund of knowledge and information which would be of great benefit to those whose political duties require them to legislate for mankind. i |