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Show All the elective offices having found some one to fill them, there still are a few appointive ones looking anxiously about for good men and true. They are recording pig squeals on the phonograph phono-graph at the Chicago stock yards. Evidently intended in-tended to take the place of "Home, Sweet Home, for Chicagoans off on a visit. A sweeping victory is not one which will require re-quire the use of the muck rake that is, not necessarily neces-sarily so. Let the agitation against the trusts go merrily on. As long as we can buy $35 suits for $6.4 we all should be happy and contented. No doubt the people of Boston will breathe easier eas-ier when they kn6w the Atlantic battleship fleet is once more on its way to the Atlantic coast, where it belongs. Still, it wouldn't be any harder to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear than to make a football out of a silk purse. Sometimes a fellow who thinks he can scrap lands unceremoniously in the scrap heap. It does seem, too, that business will have a chance to improve after the football season is ended. Some women are proud of their husbands because be-cause their husbands are worth being proud of. "Life is a leaf of paper white," wrote the poet Lowell, and that may account for some of the righ cost of living. One fortunate thing about the celebration of the election was that there were vstill a few toots left in the old horn to be used in the football games to come. One cause for thanksgiving is that the price of the festive turkey is no higher than it is. Goodness Good-ness knows that is high enough for the consumer ; and the producer has cause for thankfulness that the price is no lower than it is. So everybody who has anything to do with the Thanksgiving bird ought to be happy. Xearly everybody is familiar with silver certificates, cer-tificates, gold certificates and national bank currency, cur-rency, but the newspaper publisher i3 almost the only one who has to contend with the white paper bill. After all, a lie is not so hurtful to the one of whom it is spoken as to the one that speaks it. An easy conscience is the kind that our friends have if they are more successful than we. Perhaps the situation would be simplified if the railroads would discharge all their presidents and hire legislators to do the brain work on the transportation trans-portation problems. A man in our town who recently tried to sell his automobile said he wanted to get rid of it because be-cause he was "pinched." He didn't mean that he had been arrested, either. Every once in a while the papers declare that capital hesitates. We've noticed that characteristic before many times when we thought we saw a small piece of it coming our way. Sometimes when we hear both sides of a story we would like to have someone tell us the truth about it. Newspaper item says there are 112 hors to every ev-ery 100 people in the Argentine Republic. Being in the majority, the horses ought to take over the reins of government. When we insist on having a square deal, it is the kind that we would deal for ourselves. In trying to figure out some pleasant way to spend Sunday, how would it be for you to try going to church as a starter? The English language is reputed to have at the present time more than 250,000 words, recognized by the best authorities. This is 70,000 more words than in the German, French, Spanish and Italian languages combined. But the countries where those languages are spoken never have any presidential presi-dential campaigns to increase the richness of their verbiage. |