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Show Well, it came in like a lamb, all right. Frederick "Warded visit to this city is a bit of sunsjiinc to dicer the wintry B sky '" Tho bill in aid of high schools has Hl passed the Legislature. A good mens- H 1,1 ' Lenl couldn't possibly .have conic in i in a pleasantcr .way, nor to more ae-ccptnncc. ae-ccptnncc. Hj Two National Chiard bills have passed bolh houses of the Legislature, and both will help. liven 'the heathen arc doing good Christian work; Siam is building a rcd-cross rcd-cross hospital. Chicago's contest on the mayoralty nomination has been of tho most spec tacular order and also the most cxpon-sivc. cxpon-sivc. It is idle to talk of money where National honor is involved. And so, the Maine must be raised, no matter at what cost. I It is diflicult to find which the railroad rail-road ofiieials object to most, the liran-deis liran-deis brand of economics or the rulings of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Commis-sion. A Nevada man hero has a nail in his brain". But there may be worst tlunys in (he brain than a nail "rats in the garret," for instance, or wheels, or even maggots. The National vJIousc of Representatives Representa-tives had fun with' itself while passing the last of the appropriation bill.. It is pleasant for the country, to get them passed, on any terms. President George F. Bacr o the Reading Read-ing railroad says the people will suffer by the recent ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission. They certainly will if liner can manage it. The Chicago public will feel in the eiisniallinent of its morning newspapers, that it has returned to primitivo times. Jiut in a' way, it will be a relief, (oo; for sometimes bigness is a burden. Colorado Hprings Elks arc going to feed the starving elks in Wyoming. Later on those Wyoming elks may feed Ihe Colorado Springs Elks. And thus, perhaps, will reciprocity get in' its per-i per-i feet work. 1 1 (J Mail comes regularly and promptly 1 from soul hern Mexico lo Halt Lakers, ( and has dono'so from the first of tho insurrection So the stories of cap-'. cap-'. ' tared trains and "broken railroad eou-ii eou-ii iieition,s have- chiefby been myths. ' ' t The new railroad line to Carbon couiilv coal fields vet uiidnveloni-d ilnns not seem checked by the greater dis-'I dis-'I a nco it will havo to haul its product lo this city, evidently not considering t the strict mileage hill abactor in the transportation' question. ) . t The needless minting of foreign gold B coins is to.stop; and a-good thiug, too. Tor when we come to ship gold abroad, Bi as we have to do from time to time, it in just ' as well to soud foreign gold B roius as American coins; and it Haves B the cxieuse of useless coining on bolh jides of jho water. Germany, it ajipears, is inquiriug Br whether "the most favored nation" "lause in her commercial treaties w;ith us B , will let her in on the Canadian reciproc . ' HL I itv agreement. Ingenious, but vriiif. Ocr- r many. will bo on the same basis as Great t Britain, not as Canada. And her stub- t .bornncss in the potash dispute won't 1 help her standing a bit. 1 |