Show at a recent meeting of the society of now new york the mon aloa was waa reached that the soking booking of cigarettes by adults was not a particularly deleterious habit if the fume throes were not inhaled into the lungs people who dislike cigarettes would not object to them seriously if it the ingala alon of the smoke was not followed by its exhalation they are not worried over the wreck of the smokers I 1 lungs but nt do object to the reek la in their own noses during the recent mayoralty campaign in greater new york the supporters of 0 seth beth low distributed documents as follows posters placards handbills hand bills cards pamphlets books lithographs making a total of over and yet the great mass aan of the readers of these documents voted for somebody else than mr low the low literature acted like a boomerang inflicting its greatest injuries upon its projectors that the opponents of civil service are not without hope of abolishing that system is evident from the establishment of a fortnightly periodical in washington for far the purpose of fighting 44 openly and above board the obnoxious un JA american merican farce common known as civil service reform the easiest way to dispose of the publication if it were likely to become formidable would be to give the editor a civil service position when he would at once become an enthus latic admirer of the system the monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of bustness business on oct 30 1897 the debt less cash in the treasury amounted to 1 an increase for the month of this ine inc ease is principally accounted amounted for by a decrease in the amount of cash on hand the cash in the treasury is classified as follows gold silver paper bonds disbursing officers balances etc 56 total against which there are demand liabilities amounting to leaving the net cash balance in the treasury just a week ago the united stales court of appeals at st louls louis held that a boar boycott att ctt by labor against capital is a criminal conspiracy now an illinois state court at chicago has decided that a biacko blacklisting sting by y capital against labor is equally unlawful and had awarded a blacklisted laborer damages it if the boycott were sound in law then the blacklist would also be sound but these courts dealing out even justice have declared the truth j that blacklist and boycott ara am equally odious equally hostile to democratic institutions and ideas it is fortunate that these two decisions came so closely together the object lesson they present will not be lost upon either labor cr capital of tate late there is s a very noticeable lewand on the part of the american people tor for a higher standard of hiera literature this is not only evident at the book stalls but on the news stands sensational books and journalism have ibave had their day in the large cities country papers have never been faulty in this respect the people are set ailing down to the belief belef that after all tho kernel of the ibe nut is really all that there is to li IL in a decade sensationalism and every other dishonest practice will nave have disappeared entirely ten yeara ye ago it looked asit asif it would go the other way only a few papers remained faithful to td the true principles ot journalism of the newspapers the X byork newyork tribune the sun and the philadelphia delphis ikier for or a long time stood distinguished and ted td trio 0 among story papers the new york bedger sd tood proudly alone these aloft the ban tier ner ahn and today re e jm models i sought by axall Z newspaper makers ers we liepe VM succeed acce ec L X g ito in e hii tha tame sophle ala prepared e pared a of ak i ab e i s tn 6 ali tha ilia de aei en ps science 1 ed ithe t in tee te e re tb ad er wac raff ta V a S if c a J mt famous novelists love to meet people who vent read their books book why r be canse those are the only people who A will til so and buy them julla julia calls her new sweetheart incandescent why Bec because amee he Is such a ms saver would you be menn mean enough to glie give a had piece of money to a n blind matil man of course he can pass it off with a better conscience lence than I 1 can we pat cat our thanksgiving thank dinner at noon our doctor dw tur do doen doe n t like to be called out in the middle of the night dight heres more evidence that the fen pea ts mightier aban the aivord what is I 1 it t 11 divorce papers can be written with a 11 pen extermination of the indians Is still going on by what means football diamonds have boon been discovered 11 in ra rare re instances lu in the mete meteoric orle bjunes which have fallen alien to the earth this klondike cr craze canze aze is groins going to help ea bos ton toil immensely 11 in w what t wiy I 1 those fellows have hare survived an iiii alican r aul wul ter they wont be afraid to girls the russian scepter is of sallil cold ahrn ehred feet lone jong and con contains tainA among its 9 diamonds rubies rabies aud and ez eai eralda the smallest horse borse in the worm world ia lani poev owned ly by the marcheso in 1 liliu I lau it Is twenty four inches enebe lishaa lii haa when stan st andine dinc beside its owner the bark back is only an all inch above 11 s my husband was going to the but le he changed his mind what for he tn in the newspaper that they thet hart biet pillow up there miss dorothy what la Is your opinion of our or cuban relations cuban relations there a cuban on earth that Is any kin kl to me what I 1 is s your idea of lurk luck collecting all the mon money ey I 1 have barned did you yon have a good time at your tour i pro gres sive euchre club no e of women who get niad mad were there we girls are not afraid of college bred m men en now why not 1 if I we get them barted on foot football bill they forget to drag in the classics classless clas |