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Show I, Cleveland is to have n $17,000,000 ) union railroad depot. Jt seems a Jot of ! t jnoney to pay, lut the traveling public Vlll appreciate the convenience. What a jnly it is that the ncwspa- per hoys wbd had Harry Thaw in ' i heir automobile didn't run him over into " York Stale" when thoy had himl i, Lillian Kussoll says that "laughter lifls the lid from our imprisoned sorrows. sor-rows. " But the Federal bunch don't, seem to know just how to get hold of & t,mt 'cI' How many rulers iu the world arc "the people's choice'? :! 2sot many: but if we should insist thai, all should " be so, how lonpr could wo maintain that absurd position? I'nclo Joe Cannon saj's that if he were ruuiiiii for Congress he wouldn't earo v.hat happened. In fact,, he doesn't seem to care much about it whether he is run-tf run-tf lung for Congress or not. i Again we have word that the prices i of meats aTe to be largely increased in .Salt I. ukc. K-looks as though we shall all have to quit eating meats. That 1 ought to bring down the price. ; s; Admiral Dewey says .that the Navy ! it was never in better shape for effective service. It's a pity that some one equally competent on the other side of our fighting force Can't say as much ? ; for the army. Two islands, with some hundreds of ' X'J natives, and a few white men, have lt-utik in tho south Pacific occau, accord-, accord-, in'g to reports. This, no doubt, because HKMTI inhabitants were wicked above all, li J' i'j01'101 dwellers "P011 uo earth. ill Pcnsacola' has been made the chief Jiljl' navv yard and headquarters for tho ;"NTavy in the Gulf of Mexico. Which tli clearly the best possible outcome Bljiffl! f the light for this position between SiBjWj The assurance of a railroad to the I ill' r'' dairy country of Kamas is a most n Ll j welcome one. .'!, will give outlet to the h mW products of thai region, and largely in- jl LP ercasc them, to the profits of the people $ W$ there, and the advantage of the cilics which thai product will reach. ' K'eprcscnlative Anderson of Linuo- J I j sota resigns his membership on the J B' I i -AVays and Means committee of the RjafS ; '. House 'because the Democrats, being jii the majoTity, inBist on doing things j jfllrSU then- own way. a way which he consid-j I Ili (rs u'ro,lS '3o1'1 'Ul ann a"d method; in jj fact, "a farce and .fraud." But in all ; this he forgets. but the Democrats re-4 re-4 member, what was done when the boot was on the other leg. S ; As Thanksgiving is to be here be ll Jote long, here's a "sum" relating Ij to it: A live turkey weighing twenty j pounds is in a car with other freight. ,g ; A long as the turkey rests its weight flj on anything in the car its weight S j counts; but if it ilics- from one part of the car to auothcr, what bccoihes ;fi ; of its weight while the flight is being ;j made.' Is the weight of the contents ' . of the car decreased bv twenty pounds? I ! . Jf not. whv not? I Mrn. Pankhurst is announced as in-lending in-lending to lecture in the principal cities , of the United States. .'But as her mil-. mil-. itant campaign for suffrage has been a dismal failure iii England, the best tliintr she can do is to visit around and learn some sense. She should study ; the question as developed in the Uuited .tatcH, and get the suffrage leaders iu this country to tell her how tl)C3' have .succeeded so well. Then she will know how to work in England. Springfield (ftass.) Republican': 'William F. McCoombs, chairman of , the Democratic National committee, is reported to have finally declined the Kmbassadorship to France, and it is t added that Embassador Ilerrick has ' been asked to remain at his post until May, because Govcruor Cox of Ohio con-fiders con-fiders Mr. Ilerrick. who has been Governor Gov-ernor before, a formidable rival, aud c 'wishes to keep him out of the Sfato during the -winter and spring. Interesting, Inter-esting, If trueJ" The "answer" of Smoot to those who criticised his exchange- school land bill is no answer at. all; it begs the qnc&tiou throughout, and leaves the f.rriliciMii on his bill in full force. Tho bill would absorb everything laid out, aud would put upon every claimant of a prosp.ect. or other valid location or filing, the burden of affirmative proof of the -vidity of his claim. But that in precisely what is objected to as bur-denaomo bur-denaomo and often impossible, cither because of lack of kuowlodgo that the claim is attacked or of funds to defend. |