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Show BRIEF AND BREEZY. Editor Wattcrson says he has beg- ged the paragraphers to let up on j his dark horse because he doesn't 6 want the public to get the idea that paragrapNers feed on chestnuts. ' That seems to bear out Mr. Bryan's contention that Wlattcrson's dark horse is a chestnut. u , . . , In the public utterances, Governor Johnson of Minn., gives indications of kicking Col. Wiattcrson's back-to-j the- Constitution plaltjorm, but as t Governor Johnson docs not support a mustache he cannot be Col. Wat- tcrson's candidate. A Texan claims to have caught a trout with a mouth fifteen inches wide, The curious thing about the story is that it is claimed that the man caught the trout and not the I trout tli'C man. ' The growth of beer drinking in France is said to be one of the causes caus-es of the present wine-growers' agitation. agi-tation. Naturally the idea of Mil-waukeeizing Mil-waukeeizing France has brought-9' brought-9' forth hints of another revolution. w Mr. Forakcr is quoted, as not rc- ! yarding Mr. Taft as a pre-eminent quality. But Foraker is a hard man to dazzle. There arc moments when he doubts even Roosevelt's invariable invari-able greatness. w Although the judge has decided that a mollycoddle is one who shirks his part of the world's work, the average aver-age boy is going to continue sidc-l4$ sidc-l4$ stepping the job of splitting kindling wood as long as he can. How do you like the "good old summer sum-mer time?" The timb-clla trust seems liable to gi it unJer the fifth rib. It is entirely proper, prima facie, that Akbebologet Obligationskonso-ret Obligationskonso-ret and A. B. Obligationskoncoret should be denied the use of the mails. "If they were allowed it at all, they would have a monopoly. A pugilist known as the "Human Anvil" was arrested in New York, on the charge of theft, but acquitted when it appeared that a number of people had their hammers out for him. w Secretary Taft denies that he snubbed snub-bed Senator LaFollettc at Madison, and says that he was very polite to both LaFollettc and Spooiver. Who said that Taft was not a candidate? Condensed into a few words, Mr. Bryan's definition of a Democrat is a man who voted for Bryan in 189ft and 1900, and feels like doing it a few more times. "It takes more nerve for a woman to open a telegram than it does a man to open a jackpot" says the Philadelphia Inquirer. And the result re-sult is frequently far Iuss startling. A N. Y. paper tells a very clever story on "the late Sam. Small." Wc rather suspect that the talc will make Sam sit up and take notice, if it ever falls beneath his eagle eye. Wonder what the feelings of the President were, when he noticed that as soon as he departed for Oyster Bay, the Teddy bears in Washington were marked down to 79 cents. Mr. Bryan is gradually becoming known as the world's authority on that abstruse and complicated topic "Democracy." Wjhen you see a man running to catch a street car these hot days, you can make up your mind that he is really in a hurry to get somewhere. t Luckily, John D. Rockefeller is a bit of a humorist. Otherwise he would be unable to sec the lighter side of his arrest for automobile speeding. Unklc Sam's surplus of $1,489,816 yesterday, is as good as M'r. Rockefeller Rocke-feller can show, except on a few exceptionally ex-ceptionally prosperous days. Senator Forakcr and his friends have again notified the administration administra-tion that they arc in no hurry to get out of the trouble zone. There seems to be no 'prospect whatever, of ascertaining ppecisely how Booker T. Washington stands on the Brownsville case. Wflicn it comes to drawing political politi-cal horoscopes, Mr. Wattcrson docs not limit his services to any one party. par-ty. No nature fakir will deny that President Roosevelt knows to a nicety nice-ty how long arc the prongs of Senator Tillman's pitchfork. "Stick to the Constitution" says the New York Sun. It is alleged that Mr. Roosevelt even goes so far as to' take the big stick to it occasionally. Dcscrct News: The Washing Herald Her-ald calls John L. Sullivan, a "mollycoddle." "molly-coddle." lie used to maul 'em, but now he coddles 'cm. The mayor of Baltimore wants to restrict bachelors to a diet of bread. And yet wc arc taught that it is not good for man to live on bread alone. An exchange announces: " Fonkcr in the Field." When wc last heard from him, wc supposed that he had taken to the woods. The Czar having gotten rid of the douma, will at least have the. satisfaction satis-faction of looking forward to something some-thing different in the way of trouble. "A shiver went through the passcu- H gers" says a realistic writer in a thril- H ling railroad story. As a matter of ' H fact, it probably was the Pullman H porter. H H And now it is said that potatoes jH will be utilized in the manufacture of jH lead pencils. That will do as well as H anything else as an excuse for rais- jH ing tine price of pencils and potatoes. H |