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Show 2c appears tb.it tho American -f lapr loc-sn 't, '"'go" at Winnipeg. Ah, well, it goes at lots biepor and better places. Mail boxes on street cars are advo-catcd advo-catcd in many cities. Tf this convenience could be adopted it would be as useful in this city as in any' that could be named. Michigan has done herself honor in placing as one of her two statues in the Statuary Hall of Congress a statue of Zachariah Chamber a great old boss. It is said that the last poet laureate never read what the critics said about him. It's queer that, he didn't stumble on some of the things, since they "were so plent.v. The reorganization of the customs service does away with 115 collector-ships, collector-ships, leaving but 40 collectors or sur-veyors. sur-veyors. And the would-be piebiters so Hj hungry-, too! The luno bride crop being exhausted but only because of the passing of the month the young men ought not to need to be reminded that thG July bride is "just as good." The amount of money iu circulation among the people of this country in-creased in-creased by $12,456,000 during June; .lust about the amount of our monthly gold production. Hj Memphis Commercial Appeal (Dem.): "To err is human, but to make mistakes like Secretary Wilson and Attorney General McBeynolds have lately made H' looks sorter queer." Those who are so keen for eugenic marriages -were not married eugenically themselves. Is their outcry, therefore, to be taken as their confession of the other kind's failure? Congress can't get ahead of Presi-dent Presi-dent Wilson. Whenever it proposes any important action it always finds him ready with a prepared bill ready to ram down its throat. It is good to have the report that the sanitary conditions in the great camp of the veterans at Gettysburg were splendid. This is what the public had every right to expect. Six truckloada of fireworks were soaked iu New York yesterday. But how much better it is to have them soaked in the ba' than to have them "soak" the innocent bystanders. "Boston Globe: "Few people realize that the Civil War, which took so many men out of business life that many po-sit po-sit ions had to bo filled for the first time by women, was one of tho great foundation stones of the suffrage cause." If Postmaster General. Eurleson has anything on Postmaster Fisk of San 1 Francisco, he had better produce it, as challenged by Fisk to do. Other-wise, Other-wise, the public will set the case down as one of the most sensational "spoils" strokes of the year. The treasury estimate of the foreign HJ trade balance in our favor during the fiscal year just closed is $080,000,000, which is the record if reached. And is it to be hoped that the treasury of the country ,vill close the fiscal year just beginning as well as that just closed? Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Mrs. Grace Trout and Mrs. George Bass of Chi-cago Chi-cago are a committee of two appointed Hj by the Illinois suffragists to receive the congratulations of a delegation from Wyoming, the first suffrage State. 1 Mr?. Trout and Mrs. Bass will tell the visitors of the good fishing the suf-frago suf-frago advocates found in tho Illinois Legislature." Wu Ting-faug is to bo with us once more, with his question-box full and handy? He comes officially to thank this country for being among the first, to recognize the "Great Republic of China," though really wo were in no great hurry about it. But that is a ( hinaman who is always welcome in j the United States; for he is. an ac-complished ac-complished scholar, has a good fund of humor, and is a sincere admirer of 1 this country' and its ways. Tho Servians and the Greeks are re-ported re-ported as successful in battles against j the Bulgarians, which is well if fight-ing fight-ing has to be; but how infinitely better j it would be if all concerned had sense enough to see that fighting will be of 1 no sort of avail and that tho final terms J of peace Vill be mado by the great p0w- tsulls of this war or the. desires of the " 'belligerents. |