Show THE I AND ALL SHE HEARS Writing in th thE Independent on the subject of the su of the German German Ger Ger- man press to Government influence Poultney expresses s this opinion opinion opinion ion of American newspapers newspapers It is not for us Ame Americans cans to brag about our newspapers and there ther are many owners of great dailies who would look more ornamental on the gallows than thanin in the top of a tal editorial tower Bu But whatever faults ur papers have from the standpoint taste or private I morals on the chol ol they get at the facts and them without much regard as to wh her it will please the Government or n nd t. t A French M M. Dagan has tried several hundred species of f insects as food raw raw and cooked In various ways way has further made himself an an ty ty by- by collecting collecting- travelers' travelers experience Spiders which he has eaten he do doe not recommend Cockroaches veye ho make most delicious delicious delicious de de- de- de licious soup are and easily digested and andare are are relished not only by African and American me ican natives but by Frenchmen aid ald locusts fried tried or made Into flour an ant boiled in in m milk k kare are prized by the the Bed 1 Experiments Experiments are being leing m made de in France with one and in England England Eng Eng- land with another for the purpose of preventing thieves fron extracting let- let fers ers from public l boxes lette-boxes In the French invention steel teel teeth are placed close to the mouth of the box while the Br British tish Invention of a wire arrangement inside th thi pillar box The weight of f the l letters carries them through the cage but they cannot be pulled up by a pi piece ce of string and something sticky th usual means adopted by the letter thief Col Cob John C. C Haskell Haskel of Columbia S SC S. S C C. ha hag haon on his place in n old negro woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man who cares for her for he brothers brother's motherless motherless motherless moth moth- erless One day the COl Colonel nel a after er of several several small email losses bosses which hid been fastened on the children said LO co her Rachel I think those thos childre are getting dishonest dishonest dis dis- dis- dis honest Well sah dit's dats a fac I tell dere daddy he oute let em ste stel l Children aint got no judgment in steal- steal in Wen dey do tings jes es lakely tak tale you'll miss miss' A new direct cable between Germany and America would lease both coun coun- tries Our German fiends have nev never r been content to ha hays their telegrams telegrams' pass through a British cable office They want their own line and they ar are areto I Ito to b be appl applauded for Independence The only thing that I Ii liable to prevent It Is the quick perfecting of the Marcon Mar Mai- con coni system The Journal Imagines however that the ocian telegraph Cables cables cables ca ca- bles will willbe be doing budness busness for a pretty long time to come Boston Journal Only a week or t TO ago the birthplace birthplace birth birth- place of Abraham Lincoln was vas barely rescued from th the unsentimental clutches of the Sheriff and now com comes coms s the announcement announcement that President ex-President In home In Niagara square Buffalo N. N Y has become the property of the mortgagee e. e Councilman Dunbar Dunbar Dun Dun- bar the new owner proposes to raze the landmark and erect a modern apartment t building Thus it is that our historic relics are wiped out of existence ex existence ex- ex by commercial necessity There Is a movement In Congress tot construct a story one-story building for the Presidents President's business office outside th White House That probably will leave room in the great structure for tor sleeping apartments above the basement A better better better bet bet- ter p plan an would be to construct a residence resi rest dence e for the President corresponding with his official position and abandon the White House to business uses Samuel Samu l Daniels of Versailles Is COnsidered considered considered con COn- the most most versatile man in central central cen cen- Missouri While not employed as Probate J dge editor awyer lawyer Insurance Insurance insurance ance ag of the Baptist association or superintendent of of the SundaY t Sunday school hool be spends his spare moments moments mo mo- ments studying a set tiet of abstracts which h he recently purchased for that purpose e. e T A New York man who claims to b be something of or an expert along certain lines says that people who eat strawberries strawberries strawberries straw straw- berries should first pepper them This would scarcely be pleasing to the man who said aId that the Creator might have made a better r berry than the strawberry strawberry straw straw- berry but he |