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Show Anyway, just leave the lid on polyg-'Amy. polyg-'Amy. Apostle Smoot.'s forests arc getting the pruning honk. A State capitol building set ou a hill cannot be hid. Vou don't have to Rive any security - in borrowing trouble. Today February will play its annual B: farewell engagement. But the mossback would make a poor subject for a moving picture. If nothing else, Mr. Smoot contrib- ules to the gaiety of the Senate. . No Congressman knows wliat the coming three days may bring forth. Extremely lazy boys, however, somc-times somc-times grow up to be mighty good propb-cts. propb-cts. Pennsylvania is endeavoring to pro-lect pro-lect the public from bad eggs. Why not send 'cm to jail? It 's a little bit peevish ou the part of Philadelphians, though, to complain of being afflicted with insomnia in the daytime. ; "For wisdom is better than rubies; apd all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it." Prov-orbs, Prov-orbs, viii., 11. "Whenever you hear a mau refer to him familiarly as "Big Bill" Taft, you may conclude that he is not seek-ing seek-ing Federal office. It does not appear to be necessary for-the Now York World to engage the secret service to discover who is be-hind be-hind that libel suit. Philadelphia is chary of permitting tlfe" Liberty Bell to come West. But j.lio needn't be afraid we all are not life Philadelphia policemen. "ext Tuesday is to be a fateful day for Senator Hopkins of Illinois; but he nay console himself with the thought . tliai. Mr. Roosevelt also goes out two j days later. Tt isio be hoped that the mouth of j t robruary will r.ow hasten to get through hajidiiig oiu its particular liuo of weather, so that uono of it may drib ble over onto March. Our "prohibitionists" aiinourico a determination to go on to victory with hannors flying. They should bo able to march on in full regalia, too, having j ueen gorgeously trimmed. Solomon Hott, a Columbus (Oiio) h'rema'.i, committed sui;ide the " other day by drinking carbolic acid. But that's one variety of Hott Gnish that nobody desires to witness. Aud if Apostln-Sonator Smoot cares to continue right aloug with his mirth-provoking mirth-provoking activities, he could introduce a provision for aeroplane inspectors, equipped with diving bells. Claiming to have been directed to the tpot by spirits, a Chicago couplo have begun to dig for three million dollars which they fancy to be buried in a va-cant va-cant lot. But what, can they expect to purchase with spirit mono'? When Congress voted twelve thou-sand thou-sand dollars a year to purchase autotno-Hj autotno-Hj iJcs for tho President-elect, Senator Bniley considered it to bo an insult to tho horse. Now that Mr. Taft has per-sd'hally per-sd'hally bought one of th.o animals with the intention of riding it, muy wo hoar from tho Senator that cruelty has been added to insult? |