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Show I Don 't ThtI l.i rrmcmbcr the Red Cross 1 -on' on .vonr letters and packages. ' Thr conservation theory is fonnd," 3 'i.v fhoSnn Francisco Cull; "the trou- '?!? i9 witli it.- application.'1 And that's j hat c hII see. Tlie per capita consumption of supar j u this- counlry the Iits t year amounted j to S7 pounds. Americana Iiavo "a A -urnt tooth" to ho sure. Iffljjj Hcporl is tli.U President-elect Wilson ha besun to discuss his Cabinet fttHa .tpx)intniont2. Thus early do It is WHflN troubles come upon litin! IBB i a "Good Pollow" with the "Good jKjSj ,cIJow3,', ii rid so brinf: joy aud liappi- fBJU "ws lo as many poor children ns pos flDgjl nble thin ChriHtmas lime. IfPffl It's pretty late lo talk about doinjj W&ili yoor Christmas shopping early; but it dffiflj isn't too Itc lo avoid bcin in the BBl :na(J scrnmblo at the Inst. HjlB A word of caution ma- not bo nini-s 1MB in regard to inllaminablc Christinas fin trees. No caution can be too KTcat to HbB ejcerciao in regard to tlicm. IHR Prosidcnt-olcct Wilson's brother is Hi " city editor; and so ho will novor be WMm al)l to put up for tho President-elect HW President Taft's brother did for KH him. HH Piling up worlt for his successor is HB what Attorney-General Wickcrsham is H doiup: by brininjr 0 Illa'v different ffl tuits against so many different com. HH bines. And the question is, will lie be HflS thanked for i 1 7 H It has always been known tHal former mm Senator Porakor of Ohio was abund- Mm antly able to tnko care of himself; H and in tho prosent emergency in con- Bj nection with tho Archibold fetters ho exhibits that quality effectively. Governor Dcnccii of Illinois expresses the opinion that the Rrcat body of Iio-publicans Iio-publicans who Jeft the regular orpani-W orpani-W xation in tho Into campaign will return Hj to it of their own volition. Aud such M is srettinr to be the ucncral opinion. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Con-WKM Con-WKM Kress, proposes that tbo name "Library Hff oC ConKress,', bo dropped, and the uiuue "Librnry of the United States" sub-wBa sub-wBa ftitutcd. Eathcr cumbersome. Why B not call it "The National Library" at BUI once? "Tt will be hard to make Uncle Sam Wm believe that ho ever surrendered the HH r'ht to govern any part of his own territory and paid $475,000,000 for tho opportunity," says tho St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Globe-Democrat. And most Americans will xrcc with it. I I It is good to eee thnt tho Capitol Coromiesion ncted promptly and decisively de-cisively ia the bids for excavation for the State Capitol. P. ,T..Moran got tbr contract on a bid far under tho fibres of auy competitor, and agrees to have the excavation completed by April 1st next. JTe will do it. .too. A new Trcjidcnt of Franco will be cioctcd on January 37th, by the Senate aad Chamber of Deputies in joint session. ses-sion. And thoro's no campaign on, no-hotiv no-hotiv parading through the country veiling thnt ovorytbing is going to the dog$ unless be is elected. Verily, they ju Franeo are far behind the times. President Taft docs well to resent charges that ho has been "playing polities'' in his recent civil sen-ice rdcre. The trouble with President Taft as a party loader i. that he doesn't understand the political game t all, and is qiiito unablo to play it. Besides, jt is 0w too late to begin New Jcrwy has followed into line, and is alao working convicts on her highways. It is probably the host form of labor for convicts properly solected, and who need not be heavily guarded. Npw Jersey was cautious ia her first druft for this work, for there aa in this btato there is groat eagerness on the part of convicts to hav0 this opportunity of getting out into the open. But New Jersey mado a light draft from her 1200 convicts, and took long-tfnn mea of good credits, whose terms uould soon expire, and who had rr- i't"tie, rbrreforo trj ,av )n- the job and not forfeit their good standing stand-ing . |