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Show I J ! ; The victory at San Francisco Friday j T night was won by Brltt and Grit, j ; Reliable forecasters predict storms at Easter time over bills for millinery. ( This week society will have its last j - opportunities to be joyous during Lent. Judge Hiles is once more in town, where he can see the crops running 1 around. Why should wo not havo football In the spring, when there is so much mud available? "Will the new humane officer make I offenders in his line feel that he is not a humane officer? T Mr. Roylance, Utah's leading honcy man, may not have the itch for ofllcc, ' but he has the hives. A" No contest over tho Democratic nomination nomi-nation for Govempr can bo sensible, except one to avoid It. Once In a while now wo havo a llttlo weather f?ucli as one mlcht expect to experience In spring. Old-timers aro confident that our versatile weather maker is saving his worst' for conference. Noxt Sunday will be a great dny of , religious rejoicing for those devout ladles la-dles whose new finery Is becoming. 1 They may be hard drinker9, those I Pvussians on the ships at Port Arthur, J biit'they do not Want any bottled port. Various busy men will welcome this Sabbath day of , rest, as it will afford them-time for reading up on the prizefight. prize-fight. - The sturdy little boys whose duty it ' will be to clean up the yards when the ( weather settles do not mind these I storms a bit ' Among1 this who are made to feel much better by coming to conference ' are! thouse who go back wearing new clothes. There might be more, hope now of lasting harmony in the Council if there Hfl were-not, after all, considerable human Ri nature there. IlW News from Washington indicates that HE the' Hon. Abel John Evans will have to Wr, T put his testimony away in the refrig- 1 flrator for a while. I-1 Numerous old, familiar aspirants are t' once more beginning to have that I '' , spring feeling that their many friends I want, them to inn for office. rv , As .a result of the settlement of tho I ; municipal controversy, Mayor Morris i has been relieved of the heavy work of i revising and construing the laws. J . : - The correct feminine view of the raat- j ter Is, that men should not look at women wo-men on the street, but should want to ' l'o so. J i Mr. Van Cott must admit that there j! ' is the extenuating circumstance that , J the investigation has given him a na- tlbnal reputation, i-jjk 'In Connecticut a physician secured a - divorce because his wife drank, when z9 the poor woman may have been merely 12 fitting. herself to go around In the best society. J Point out to your wife the appropri- I - atcness of self-denial in this closing .1 week of Lent, so that she may have the right spirit when she goes to buy a hat. ' - A decision of the very highest import- ' ance to life Insurance companies is that 1 T. mentioned in the dlopatches this morn- ; Z 2ng. The Insurance Commissioner of - T Wisconsin brought suit under the State ,' law to compel the distribution by such i I companies of their surplus funds above the safety limit to their policy holders. 1. Who case was contested strongly, but fc&lj the Commissioner has won. It is said gS , that. three hundred million dollars Is tlie Hl amount of surplus that is held by the uq swifts "Will r;U ka.vo been doing, business In Wisconsin for upwards of thirty years. Of course, thcro will bo an appeal, and It will be years beforo the final decision is rendered. But tho probability Is that the law will be upheld, up-held, as that is the ruling In the trial court, and as all of the thirty companies com-panies Involved have transacted their business in tho State -with full knowledge knowl-edge of tho statutory requirements in this regard. |