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Show Ij "Ifoal opera in linglifdi " j.s prom-, incd. Lut wtlj tlio enunciation bo luiinprclienfihlo? Colonel .Roosevelt succeeded in dc- foatiug President Taft. But, after all. : was it worth while? I Lc: - acreage is sown this fall lo .win i tcr wheat ihun was 'sown last. But if (,ut iold per acre keeps increasing wo f shall have more ' wheat next season ! tlian this. H( The commission of American claims H for border outrages is extremal' mod- j orate in reporting only $Sfi,000. It Ht looks as though this means actual cash Hi i'rora Mexico. H' v Aliss Helen Louiso Johnson, asso- Hj ciatc editor of Harper's Bazar, says H; but man contributes . nothing to. tho Hj' homo but money. The "Miss" ox- j I Jains that wild miss. Hr Kansas City has forbiddcu the Hr "Santa Clavis1-' fake representation on the strcels. And a good thing, too; H; t lio fake Hjenpeus and makes very common this fine old legCnd. H; It. is now aunouueod that on mature reflection the Kaiser has decided to fl- take nu ollicial ' notico of Captain R; Steiinpnbcrg."s poem. Which shows that B. wisdom may come with reflection. The Missouri politicians certainly are a sluw-eoach lot, to. overlook a H' $0000 a year office for thirteen years',' ho that nobody got the nionc Utah's Taminauy wouldn 't overlook a two-cent ttarnp. An auto road from Montreal to Van Ht couver is proposed. "Ib Canada going to got ahead of the United States?"-H; States?"-H; asks the Boston Globe. Certainly not, H. if tlio boosters for the Midland auto- mobile trail can prevent it. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "No idea that Canada is an equal partner in the Panama canal will travel far. Nor H; is it likely that Canadian or other for-1 for-1 eign trusts will bo admitted where we Hl exclude monopolies of our own." B- 3or eleven months of the present Hj year tbe gold production of the Rand i amounted to S,3-7,S0." fine ounces" H, compared with a production for the j whole of 1011 of S,237,723 fine ounces, indicating an increase for 1912 of j about $20,000,000, or a total production Ht horn the Kaud of close upon $190,000,- H: 000 for the year. Twenty-two nations and thirty-two H: States of the Union have given notice H. that they will take part in San Frau-H. Frau-H. Cisco's Panama Canal exposition. And San Prancisco gives notice that she is Hl delighted, and -will show all comers 8'omcthing worth while, both in exhi'b-i exhi'b-i its and in a generous hospitality that Hjj Vi'i warm every heart. - Xobody was found worthy to receive the Nobel peace prize this year; but on completion of the work of the Ht peaccinQkcrB at . St. .Tames 'e, perhaps j spmo shining rinmo will appear.' Mean-' iimo. the var prize can unhesitatingly be given to Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Hj fnd kc will help himself, thank 3011, to the recompense that he considers proper to go with the award. Referring to the account wired some Hayfi ago of interruptions of former Sonntor Cannon's lecture in Milwaukee Hl by Mormon elders, tho Free Press of j that city reports tho incident: "Sev-ornl "Sev-ornl Mormon ciders asked him qncs-tlpns, qncs-tlpns, which he so effectively answered that they became quiet." Tiich is precisely what any Utahn wonld ex-pect ex-pect to be the outcome, l - , President-elect Wilson's refusal of Bj Preeidcnt Taft's courtesy in offering h'uu a war vessel for a trip to Panama HS so that he could inspect the canal is a good deal, like a snub, since he Hj given as a reason that ho is Governor H, of New Jersey and has duties as such to perform. But isn't it rather late H in the day to give that as an excuse? When has that ever stopped his doing whatever he wanted to do? Springfield (Mass.) Union:' "Coui- 1 iK right down to brass tnckB, thero is H- not much.diffcronco between Gov. Colo B. Blease'H advocacy of lyuch law and H; mob rule and the application of tho H' principles of 'pure democracy1 nnd 'd.i- H, rect government.' Gov. Blcao says, H: 'To h 1 with tho Constitution!' Tlio advocates or - direct government ' are a little more chaste in their .manner-'of I expressing it,' but it amounts to tho samo thing In the ond." j |