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Show I The National Good Bonds convention is in session at New Orleans. It is to be hoped that it won't Have to tako t'o boats. l L A dispatch says thnt the trial of OJaroncc E. Dnrrow is likely-to be Blow in its progress. This confirms the inevitable. in-evitable. A woman physician says the baby's sleep must not bo disturbed. But va-cious! va-cious! Who wants to disturb it? And doesn't the- disturber eot" the "worse of it T It is doubtless refircttablo that there should be a pool-selling in baseball jramoK. "But it's hard to keep betting out of events that win such general popular pop-ular interest. Kansas proposes to try the .commission .commis-sion form of government, for the Statu. Hut why have a commission? Why not let the governor do it all! The Navy Department is shocked properly on finding that. .lovo messages arc sent by tireless to officers on board war ships at sea. What a bold, bud, demoralizing thing to doi Roosevelt never has nn3' objections to the stenm roller when he is running it over other poople. But when it is run over him, what a scandalous, barbarous bar-barous process it is, to bo sure! President Taft figures that the Ohio delegation will insure him success. But if his campaign manager's figures are correct, even approximately, he will bo nominated though Ohio be against him. IThrco of Pooscvelt's cabinet officers, arc opposing him. Tt is a clear case that they have degenerated: for, while thc.y were with him they were friends of the people; but now, of course, they arc tnero tools of the bosses. Suffragettes in the East proclaim that 11 Laws will be enforced when ivomcu hav0 the vote." Hurrah I Well, but What do Utah courts think about that sentiment? Women vote in Utah. Who says that here the laws are.enf orcod l Recent reports say that there arc more than five million people in the United States who can neither read nor write. This will be encouraging newB to the courts, as indicating that the upply of know-nothing nurors is not yet exhausted. In his 6pcech at Manchester, New "Hampshire, Col. Roosevelt said: "Th'o only promise that is valuable is the promise that can be kept." Meaning, no doubt, that his promises not to be a candidate for President again had no value because he did not keep it. A ery convenient excuse, truly. Suppose that Bryan had cut into "the Presidential game" as Roosevelt' did, Btumping the country for delegates, how many could the other candidates have obtained! And it is certain that most of the Democrats who have voted in the primaries for Roosevelt would have preferred to vote for Bryan. The other day King George and his oldest son, tho heir apparent, went down in a submarine, and no fuss was made about it. But when Roosevelt propoacd while he was President to go down in a. submarine, his worshipers raised a yell of terror, as though the country was about to be deprived of its One and Onlv. j Roosevelt now explains that when he Hj favored the Canadian reciprocity agrco-j agrco-j nient it was beforo hfl know its real J character. But why should ho approvo jK a thing before undcrstandinc it? And Hj why shouldn 't he understand reciprocity Hj Yth Canada, a proposition that has been agitated for fifty years or more? jHj Such explanations don't speak woll cither for his intelligence or stability of mind. A Chicago firm is said to have given KH a milliou dollars to further a project H to put a county agriculturist in nil the IjH rountics of every State to make a study lH - f local conditions and suggest plans otBH of cicntific farm management to ob i i m a larger vield of better grain. ; 1 That iiylhc sort nr work that must in this country, whero our yield ot wheat is less than half as much per acre as the farmers of Europe raise on their old farms that have been used for centuries. |