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Show Their combined bill amounted to $14.25, which they . considered a holdup, and reported to the chief of j police. If the case were reversed nothing would have been heard of it. That savage war on the fly and the mosquito hasn't had any appreciable effect in decimating j these insects. j v m j Maybe if some of those peddlers of doctored fftei i, were arrested cm a charge of murder and prosecuted. A , there would be an awakening among them, and thf M practice of selling inferior products would stop. This is the season for the athletic girl. And th- young man in tennis costume is seen in the land. ) Poor old Spain is having quite as bad a tim.-now tim.-now as she had some ten years ago, when the fact that she had lost her position as a world power was impressed upon her by Uncle Sauue1. Certainly the adjournment of congress was entitled en-titled to more than a sigh of relief. Seattle, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, the irrigation congress, the aviators and the tariff had to take a back seat this week. Salt Lake wa-the wa-the principal attraction in the country. That rain Monday night was only to show the veterans what rain is like in a desert country, : The downward revision of the tariff was not o pronounced that one could hear anything drop. While balloonists always take up a lot of sand for ballast, it certainly takes more sand for an aero-planist aero-planist to make an ascent. I The cook who' insists on putting lemon in apple pie has not learned the first principles of cookery. Judging from the number of redskins in the city thi3 week, the dog days were turned into Indian J summer. ' The vacation was not so enjoyable as the anticipation antici-pation or the retrospection of it. - A correspondence school in aeronautics ought to make a hit in this, the flying age. Some people work a good deal harder in trying L to make a living without work than they think. It ' would be much easier to get a job and earn an honest hon-est living. Still, there are hopes that Commodore Barry, the Irish "father of the American navy," will be honored hon-ored when congress can agree on who is to be the I sculptor. 1 J Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the federal bureau of entomology, is advocating a national inspection j law to prevent the importation of moth3. In this j he will be heartily endorsed by all those who don't 1 have to put their winter suits with Uncle during j the summer. I A geniu3 i3 a fellow who can run an automobile I but can't make a living without his papa's help. j |