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Show I Low grades are Bought for or not, just as the seeker is a railroad man or a miner. People who suffer from sca-sickncss may iind ! relief in the simplest way keep off the sea. ' At least, the strike gave people an opportunity to appreciate the new sidewalk improvements. . j ! A good record nowadays for a public office hold- i i cr is made when he doesn't go from office to jail. w e oot n e matter f the Republican pres- idential nomination Taft and'Foraker seek to dig :rjk I Tourists at least were satisfied to know that 1 st reet cars are not essential to a first-class summer resort city. 1 j Convicts are always more or less given to ob- I joetions to the court's sentence, even if the court is assiduous in eliminating errors from its judg- TOcn t. Publicity given to campaign contributions ought to show the people how much the contributors contribut-ors expected to get out of the successful outcome of elections. When the grand jury indicts political grafters ana oarK-iantern intriguers tor discreditable work, even the most bitter partisans must feel sorry they didn't vote for the "yellow dog." The high officials of the postoffiee department are no longer to be titled as "generals' Plain "Mr." will hereafter suffice. Perhaps a salary increase would compensate them for their loss. Weather conditions were ideal during the strike, and a great many found the walking did them good. If the cars had remained out of service awhila longer, lon-ger, the company would certainly have been under the necessity of finding a new lot of passengers. The much maligned skunk has received a good word from the biological survey of the department of agriculture, whose experts say the animal is the greatest grasshopper exterminator known. The grasshopper pest in Utah would seem to offer a good field for the operations of the new destroyer, if the farmers can withstand the scent. Mr. Q. Low, an Englishman, eschewed red beef fciia piue aie ana uvea ior two montns on one meal of eggs and milk each day, and lifted a million pounds in thirty-five minutes to show his physical perfection. When we have a million pounds to lift we will devote the two months to the task and thus Fave ourselves the remarkable course of training followed by Mr. Low. When some one had the temerity, to suggest that the vertical writing system was not productive of the desired legibility, that it was slow, and not ! adapted to the needs of children, it was well the "fad" had at last proven its undesirability. The results of the system are painfully similar in each child's work scrawling, characterless writing, with capital letters in some cases smaller than the others, words divided at the ends of lines wherever it happens, an entire lack of punctuation and a ad neglect of the more or less important function I of putting letters together to form words as the dictionary forms them. These objections, of course, may be urged against any other system, 'but they i seem especially noteworthy under the vertical. It really is immaterial what system is used if time ia i'ot wasted in trying to make exact duplicates of J ' i ' , I; ( ) ; the copy, especially of words like "diptheria" or "occurrance," which a school child recently proudly displayed to his father. The bureau of labor recently reported on its i investigations concerning the cost of living. Two hundred and fifty-eight commodities were considered consid-ered as constituting a living, and the wholesale prices of the whole bunch were found to average for 190G, '..0 per cent higher than for 1905; and ."3.."6 per cent higher than for 3897. The increase shows a little, more than a third in the past ten years. The governor of North Carolina and the governor gover-nor of South Carolina were introduced the other day by the governor of Connecticut, at the Jamestown James-town exposition. Whit they said has shattered one of the idols at which the nation has worshiped since the mind of man runs not to the contrary. The governor of South Carolina said he was a prohibitionist, pro-hibitionist, and the governor of North Carolina confessed to being a teetotaler, so the governor of Connecticut had to drink alone. From TO to 94 per cent of railway collisions, according to the Railway Ago, during the past five years have bx?u due to the negligence of trainmen and enginemen. These statistics are most remark - ating trains or in preparing figures. That engine-men engine-men should carelessly rush on to almost certain death in seven or nine times out of each ten collisions col-lisions seems preposterous, and the figures seem to show a desire to shift responsibility to dead men's shoulders to free some one else. The last issue of the Morning Star commemo-rativo commemo-rativo of the conferring of the Pallium on Archbishop Arch-bishop Blenk gives a most interesting account not only of life and labors of the new archbishop, but also a complete history of the archdiocese of Xcw Orleans. It contains twenty-four pages, and is beautifully illustrated James R. Randall, the vigorous vig-orous and trenchant editor, says that the special edition "speaks for itself. Xo such paper has been published in Xcw Orleans." Xo, nor anywhere eke. "It is a mine of information." It certainly is, and manager and editor should take a laudable pride in their great success. |