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Show IKcuiuckiuns aro said to bo taking to tho making of lead pencils. Anything with lead in if. will do. "T. -want, nothing," says the Conspicuous Con-spicuous One; "1 lmvo had everything." As to the latter, unforttiuately, yes; as to the former ? A Los Angolcs nudge ruled that it is an insult to patriotism to call poker the great American game. Ho must have had a run of bad hands. J The advice to Americans on the bordor to seek places of, safety vrhon a Mexican "battle" begins, in vain, for how could they sec what is going on if Tho hanging garden was a wonder, of the ancient -world. Now every woman wears one. And still, there arc those who deny tho progress of tho I human race! An Amherst professor is quoted as saying that swearing fills a human need. This confirms the opinion sometimes some-times expressed, that "them"' collcgo chaps knows something, after all." A Canadian father is reported as having clubbed his son to death because he couldn't spell a word. That is go ing to cxtromcs tho other way. Better oven ".simplified spelling" than that. A New Jersey legislator actually had the hardihood , to class-"hridgo" -as a-gambling a-gambling .game and propose to punish playing it. as a misdemeanor. Of course he is now, and' justly, barred from the "best society." 4 And now. the busy arid insistent Eastern newspapers arc mentioning tho richest men. they can think of for the German mission. Singularly enough, neither Carnegie nor John P. Morgan aro yet on the lists. Dr. Wiley is out in another blast against poisons, this time holding atriped-candy up as especially hurtful. But wc really believe that Dr. Wiley could find poison in a turnip and bacilli in an orange blossom. I Tho Indianapolis Star puts it pithly in this -way: "By voting for all the President's Pres-ident's progressive policies the Democrats Demo-crats hope to show tho country con-clusi:ely con-clusi:ely that his continuance in office -would bo bad for the country." The fight between the two wing? of the Republican Senators is sure to have disastrous national consequences if kept up, and the question is if the com-mitteo com-mitteo positions that caused it are worth the dnmago sure to be iuflicted. In Cleveland it is proposed to turn some pf tho public schoolhousos into dubs for tho children for tho summer months. Which is in strict accord with tho growing sentiment that the schoyl-housos schoyl-housos should be uued as much as possible pos-sible for tho public benefit. . " The Deseret .News insists that its report of President Smith's remarks at tho opening of tho April conference is comparable only to the old "Bishop West" address. But as it has nhvavs im-isted. flint tho Bishop .West address -was a fuke. tho conclusion is obvioup, and it is h disgraceful confession. Tho V. M. C. A. is? out in a ca-npaiT to raise $25,000 by May yi, j0 8!lv0 the fine building it has so nearly paid for. Salt Lakers have always stood for and by the Y. M. C. A., and a vig-orous vig-orous offort should be triumphantly sac. ccssful 'in this campaign for the com paratively small sum required for' the purpose. The Utah National Guard officers who went to the Mexico bordor to oh-scrye oh-scrye the military 'affairn in the moralized, division, returned, well satisfied with the experience. That is tho sort of thing that counts actual observation of the way military affairs j nro nondnctod by trained experts. Such j knowledge cannot fnij to bo .of much, advantage to tho Guard, The Boston Globe wickedly and unkindly un-kindly tuggests: "Mr. Carnegie is snid to be considering tho idea of putting put-ting up $.',000,000 in ensh to guarantee guaran-tee tho paymont in full of all Carnegie trust "company creditors. By doing this he would operate to remove the bhadow AM cast on the holy niimo of Carnegie and mU' what- may influence him more by HI ' taking over,, the, .sccuri.Ucs he might make a profit, on his in vestment of at lcnt I per cent ' ' |