Show Mr lIr J J. J S. S Harlan of ot the Interstate Commerce commission adduces a significant sig zig- sll suggestion from Mr James J. J J Hills Hill's estimate of railway expendi expendi- tures The rhe Great Northern president believes that more than would need to be expended for railway railway railway rail rail- way development before the railways railways rail Tail ways wars could even en catch up with the tho countr country's s demands for transportation Mr Ir Harlan's assertion is that since private railway interests can and do expend such enormous sums as these estimates indicate since railways are read ready to spend for improving Improving im Im- Im proving merely merel- their Now New York city terminals it Is quite remarkable le that thata a a. suggestion for tho whole nation to devote ote to waterway improvement should excite much op opposition position Really this is a most timely suggestion Is it not puerile to assume assume as as- sume same that it Is ig too big an nn undertaking In ing for the tho whole people to expend a J. J comparatively few tew millions on their waterways though the mere mer corporate corporate corpor corpor- ate ato creations of or the tho people can camIn carry cam In Investment of l In the country's countr s railway system I It has been decided ed that water and cereals arc proper Ingredients of sau sau- sages In other words the sausage stock may mar legitimately be watered These are the days da s 's when the Christinas Christ Christ- inns inas shopper sallies forth and purchases purchases purchases pur pur- chases a paper cutter for the friend for whom she had intended a copy cop of standard poems The promise of or freedom and reforms in Russia chimes in badly with the execution of three soldiers for destroying destroying destroy destroy- ing the tho picture of tho the czar On the contrary it sounds very er medieval I Mr Dr Bryan Dran an sa says s 's that he would not accept a a. second term At present the danger langer of his being subjected to that temptation is not imminent Ho ought to wait for a n first term to be bo offered him before he lie refuses the tho second In one ono of the December periodicals a magazine magazino which is devoted de to scientific tile progress pro ress there is an allusion to Franklins Franklin's experiments with atmos- atmos electricity three hundred years ears ago aso How time flies A railroad car ear carrying gold certificates certificates certificates to the amount of or l went astray recently in New York After reading recent accounts of or tho the lives o of several se New York railroad direct rs such action on the part of or a n mere car need not h bo surprising Cities In Belgium are aro devising de an I advertising campaign to attract American Amer mer ican tourists The increasing regard of Europe for the American tourist whom they fondly hope to part from his mone money is literally of the most touching nature Down n South in future a a. movement toward the hip pocket may denote denoto animosity or friendship friendship thero will ill always always al al- al ways was be bo a few psychological moments when it will ill bo ho impossible to tell whether a a. gun or a bottle bottJe Js Is forth forth- coming comins e Lapland of which one hears very Terr little ordinarily has come into the tho limelight with the chee cheerful ul prospect of a f famine Tho The world isn't hunting trouble these days days the tho genuine article ar ar- ar- ar tide Ucle right at hand is about the only thing of which the tho world appears to toh h have Ye a superfluity i The governor o of Iowa stopped topped a I prize fight with tho militia People who sho aro are determined to enforce the law appear to fin find no difficulty in the ways waya and means of or doing it In fact there theres is s apparently a J. J legal remedy for nearly all our social woes the difficulty p is tho the lack of either inclination or nerve in applying it If the government should see sec fit to purchase for military use uso a self pro airship within the next few months it might with propriety procure procure pro pro- cure one ot tho the type which at present has reached tho the highest development the the dirigible balloon Such a choice now would not commit it to a further Investment in tho the sa same sani sort of cr craft t tIe it Ie the tho aeroplane or tetrahedral kite should eventually prove more moro service ser able Sa Says s 's tho the Sacramento Cal Union There is a a. reserve e force of civic righteousness in every American com corn community that can be he relied upon in a crucial exigency to save savo tho the social fabric from going to ruin That force has exerted itself in San Francisco and has made that salvation sure Fortunate and hopeful as is San Francisco's Francisco's Fran Fran- cisco's chicos deliverance it is not altogether er Cr flattering to sa say that Americans have a reserve force of civic righteousness righteousness righteousness right right- right right- that is drawn upon when everything is about ready to dissolve In political and social chaos Too man many men l keep su such h Ir reserve seI c force I in reserve reser until tho the police reserves I have to he be called out What tho the naI nation nation na na- na- na tion Hon needs i is more kinetic tic and less potential po po- I energy enery in civic ic life |