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Show I But how can you expect children to be well behaved on the Fourth, when It Is the good ones, chiefly, who get hurt? Will not some Ingenious person invent in-vent a bomb or firecracker that will make a noise that policemen can hear? Sympathy for the Filipinos will be expressed by the Democracy, and if the Filipinos are polite they will reciprocate. I Of course, the St. Louis convention will not think of making a Democratic platform without a couple of secondhand second-hand Republican planks. When our Councllmen get back, will they go around, about the first thing, and note how the town" has suffered because of their absonce? i Failure of delegates opposed to Parker Par-ker to unite, Indicates that they are taking the sensible view that the nomination nomi-nation is not worth a fight. I Lovers of sport throughout the country coun-try still hope that their confidence in the ability of ilr. Bryan to bring- on a big row has not been misplaced. What tae platform committee at St. Louis needs 19 a good writer who can draft an unequivocal declaration, favoring favor-ing free coinage and the gold standard. Grover Cleveland may be for Parker, but can he heartily approve the Idea of using the suggestion of his own nomination nomina-tion to scare delegates into voting for the'Judge? While you are trying to think of ways to help along the real estate movement, dealers in property would like to suggest that a good one is to buy a lot or two. I The Utah delegates to the Democratic convention at St. Louis were given a reception In the Utah building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It is lucky that the State was so well provided pro-vided with quarters where this reception recep-tion could be had. Nothing of the kind was present at Chicago, and the State didn't even hire a hall in which to give a reception to tho Republican delegation from Utah. I The trust era has evidently come to I an end, as the figures conclusively i prove at least, the era of blind trust In trust3. The incorporations in this na-' na-' ture of consolidations have shrunk for the past six months to only about one- seventh of tha capitalizations that were I massed In the hey-day of trust promo- tlons. And the Influence of a saner and ! more conservative era in financial man- ngement must tell for Inflnate good to ' the country at large. II i The members of tho Cuban Congress ! have at last agreed to come together; j but only for the purpose of making a i divide of the proceeds of the bond sale, j and to authorize the issue of another j lot of bonds. A noted Callfornlan, J member of an early Legislature of that ! State, anxiously Inquired, along toward the close of the session, and after the appropriation bills had all been passed, how much money was left In the Treasury. Treas-ury. He was told. "Then," he replied, "Let's rake her!" And that legislator has never lacked imitators since, though they may not be as frank as he was in stating his purpose. "An Interesting phase of the cxcel-lent cxcel-lent Hervice rendered by wireless te-W te-W legTaphy in reporting the military and naval operations of the war in the Far East is indicated in the report pub-llshed pub-llshed In the New York. Times on tho morning of May 1C," says the Elec-trical Elec-trical Review. "It will be remembered Wi that the London Times has equipped a W. land station and a vessel with the Do Forest system. The report to which W, we 1 refer, after explaining why, the service had been Interrupted to some Wl extent, for .several days, due to the wishes of the- Japanese commanders and to a storm, goes on to say: 'At fl present, however, it is Inadvisable to disclose our position.' The reason for this secrecy is not given, but this does not detract from the interest with which we may read the dispatches, fl knowing that they cohie from a reliable W source, giving as accurately as possible Wi the latest news, although we can only speculate regarding the location of the correspondent. It is not even necea-sary necea-sary for those who receive his messages to know -whcre he Is. Ho merely throws his report upon tho air, as it were, knowing that the receiving station sta-tion will catch It." All of which, as slated, Is of Interest; and It would bo of even greater interest to know how It Is that this news, coming from no ono knows where, has so many outlying out-lying stations, each of which promptly ' denounces as false anything that tho central unknown and every one of the other branches transmits,. |