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Show I The Democratic party of Salt Lake county will now resolve itself into a committee of one and drink health and j .' long life to Simon Bamberger. j ' The power of the saloon in politics is not so potential as many suppose. Wit- ; ness the fate of Jacob Moritz, the brewer, and -the only candidate on the I Republican county ticket who was defeated. de-feated. , With the present high price for meat ' j products here and in Europe, this ought I to be a good time for the Seventh Day 1 Adventists to progagate their belief in ' sanctification through cooked cabbage J and peanut soup. , Lieutenant General Miles has made i his annual report. He says "the per- ! eonnel of -the army was never in bet- ) ' ter condition." Wait, general,, until you have investigated the "water cure" j and revised your opinions on the canteen can-teen question. ! Mr. Charles J. O'Malley has succeeded Mr. William Dillon as editor of the New World. Mr. O'Malley is a poet 1 of Borne note and has had a long and ; I varied experience in journalistic work. ' Look out for a little of "Mickey Free's" , - humor in the paragraphs of the New I World. ; 1 ' With beef at 44 cents a pound, the ! meat question is rapidly becoming a j political issue in Germany, according l to a Berlin dispatch. Imagine one po- 1 t litical party demanding cheap beef and j ' the opposition retorting, "Eat weiner- I . , wurst!" Weinerwurst is held to be a ! meat sausage; but nobody can prove it I such, barring a German. At this writing' it looks as if the ! Democrats of New York state pulled . one of their candidates from out the j general slaughter. He is Hon. John I Cuneen of Buffalo, nominee for attor- ' ney general. We do not know the gen- J lleman, but as he had the endorsement of Father Cronin, it leads us to think the Union and Times is a good mascot. I "If, as Christians say," says the Rev. ! Joshua Gravett of the Denver Baptist , , Pastors' club, "we are commanded to i keep perfectly the law of the Ten Com- i i mandments in order to retain our sal- l vation. we had better check our bag- i 11 gage to hell." That being so, we ad- , vise the Rev. Joshua Gravett to keep a firm grip on his baggage check. Martin I. J. Griffin has found over 200 subscribers for his new life of Com- j modore John Barry, after sending 10,- i 000 circulars to leading Irish-Ameri- . 1 cans throughout the entire country. ', ! He should have procured at least 10,000. j , No author is better qualified to. present , an authentic life of one who has shed " such halo on American history as Com- I modore Barry, and one so little read or known. . , Leaders of the Irish rationalists see I a settlement of the Irish land problem i within a year. They expect a compul- ' sory act under which the landlords, j whose rule has been the bane of . the island for centuries, will be bought out i by the tenants. By this plan the Brit- 1 ish government will act as a realty 1 agent and advance by a system of j credits and yearly installments the tre- i mendous sum of$50,000,000 as the pur- 1 chase price for the tenants. ! . For distinguished services in South Africa, Lord Methuen has been made a ., "knight rand cross of the bath," and Major General Kitchener gets the or der of "companion of the bath." Out in Arizona, where water is scarce, the native would read this to mean that Kitchener has been selected to do the sponging and rubbing down of Methuen after emerging from the bathtub; hence the title, "companion of the bath." We do not suppose the Arizonan could ever separate the Englishman's title of "bawth" from his own notion of water wa-ter contained ' in a tub or a horse trough. What he would think of a "knight of the garter" could only be expressed in the language of the plains. |