Show SOME EXJITOiRIiAI OO3IMEXTS Springfield Mass Republican The Vermont library law Is a success Under Its fostering Influence and by means or gifts of oooks from the state to supplement local contrIbutions 59 towns have established libraries within thp last two years malclng a total of 113 public libraries In Vermont The cost or books given by the state Including the e1 pehscs of the library commlss1on Is placed at about 6000 which Is a small figure to cover such Important results Washington Post At last Mr Bryan hag been run to earth It can be proven by the most reliable witnesses that he acted as a ringmaster in a society circus I which wag given for the benefit of the Omaha charity fund Atlanta Journal The sunecstion that Charles R Crisp be elected to fill his fathers unexpired term in congress Is one which we hope to see carried out Mr Crisp is young but he is possessed of unusual ability and has been a close student of congressional lellsl ton It would be a grateful act on the part of the Third district Democracy to give him a unanimous nomination and an overwhelming overwhelm-ing election for the uticxplred term Bostpn Herald Flat Justltla A lady Jn London brought suit against the city for damages t om the careless driving of a watercart which drew so near the ade walk that a taeliotropecolored dress worn by her was sprinkled and spoiled The court awarded her seven guineas Philadelphia Record The spectacle of the Uliured and ar stocratic even If mop hairedsons of Yale struggling with a band of Indians on a football gridiron must certainly be put down as one of the surprising products of modern coo legiato education At football the whites have hitherto been more barbarian than the aboriginal savages but on Manhattan field on Saturday the bronzed children of the original Americans almost took the scalp of Old Bit for the adornment of their wigwam at Carlisle The college education of the redskins may be responsible respon-sible for the fact that the haughty Yolensians were not sent to their happy pigskin hunting ground by these sons of Sitting Bull Kansas City Star The liberal y of Mrs Phoebo Hearst toward the University of California Is a hopeful sign for the educational educa-tional Interests of the Golden Gate state Four million dollars will go a long way toward placing that institution I among the leading universities of the country in the matter of equipment The conditions upon which the offer is made are easy ot fulfillment That is in order to secure this princely gift the state must spend onehalf million dollars In buildings and that ought to be cheerfully and promptly done With the Leland Stanford Jr university uni-versity and this Institution enriched by I the proposed donation it may safely be said that no state in the Union will be f better provided with educational facilities facili-ties than California I |