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Show I It's a prclty safe iess Hint summer h tiotv actually "in our midst." Boston is one of the "places of minor importance" which is to have s postal savings bank established in ( it on July 1st. Tho news yiveii out by Mr. W. IT. .ecly that Lhe Newhouse Hotel will be iflithurt by August of uext year, is decidedly good.. Salt Lakers will re-joico re-joico iu iL It is said that the now Loriiner investigation in-vestigation is to bo thorough. It has been thorough, already. All that is needed is to get it together and present pre-sent it to the Senate. The rest should bo easy. . "Wets Fail to Answer Drys" is a headline in Hip church organ. But as " thero is no such thing ns "dryness" proposed, or even possible under the law, perhaps the "wets"' didn't think jt worth while. ' The rumor that Col. Roosevelt had , declared for Taft for President next year, and announced that he would support him. was received with so mucii enthusiasm hy the press of the country ' that il 's u pity it isn't true. ' Lorimer's friends are now attempt ing to apply the "rule of reason" to , hif" caie. and to confine thi investigation investiga-tion to the point'of wh'othc'r tho fraud in his election. was oxcessivc and .beyond .be-yond what is iifiuiil.. But other .Senators .Sena-tors denounce this as a "low view," aud will have none of it. i -1 Senator .McCumher. iji approving the election of V. . Senators' by direct t , vole uX the people., says that this will not prove a panacea,, but is likely to ! creato a train of new evils. Rut if ( those new .evils gel to be, unbearable, j it will always be easy to no back tu I the old method, t .. - ' ' -1 Edison is credited with the inveti L tionof a phonographic attachment, by means of which the figures iu moving )' pictures ;rc made to talk. Tho first, j' iliiug the theaters kuow. they will be i left high and dry, out of novelties altogether, al-together, and the moving picture 3hows the "whole thing." I;- fUnc of the most unpleasant Uiines about this warfare on, tho fly is the ' fact thai nobody likes the word ' f 'swat.' Jt has an untoward and di-fcouanl. di-fcouanl. Bound." says the Cleveland I Plain Dealer. On the contrary', "swat" , i a good old English word that f-oundb just as it. swats, and fits the case to a '! 'nicety. ! A college professor gays that "the htudy of Greek diverts the youug from :jj tho passion of money-get ling." It I; looks as though that professor were bent on making the study of Greek r distasteful and unpopular; for thero. is ' no ovidencc that the young want their niinds turned avmy from the pnssioii " of nionoy-getting. f I ' The Southern luinboriuon' appear to J be admitting in their teMiinoiu' in L Federal court, at Kansas City, about If Mia' is charged against tiicm the I' manipulation and rnstrictiou of prod I uct,, the fixiuff of nriccK by eunsiilta h Hon being the chief offenses. It ought I uot to bo. hard to decide this ease wiLh U that, sort of testimony presented by h the accused. h - Y A dispatch from A'uioy gives sicken R in" details of the ravages of the plague Hr in 1 llat l,nrl oi: China, and the people H '!(!, as usual, so distrustful of the "foreign devils" that advicq for san-iiation san-iiation and protection is spumed. What j "'lh 'he plague, flic famine, interna) i political disturliances and the constant Hf eiicroachmi'ut of military nations, poor H.. old China is parsing through a period R tr'il' affliction. H' The sea serpeuf ha appeared in ag gravatcd foriu tliis year. A westward R bound steamer reports seeing the scr- H pout chasing a school of whales, and Hj fairly leaping out of the water in its Hjl bwiff rush to get at them. The storv H' is said to bo supported by the usual Hj affidavits, too-. The tabic set iu that steamer mutt be unusually stimulat- Hi in' H If the Attorney General should bring H! :igiiiL"-l (lie steel trust, as he H throat ens lo do. it will be seen that 1 l'rebiriit Jiooevelt V consent to the formation of that trust does not bind tho country. Neither should it, for the law against lis formation was perfectly per-fectly clear, and that, law was as binding bind-ing upon President Roosovclt; as upon tho promoters of that trust, and it was especially obligatory upon him to observe ob-serve the law. |
