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Show Say ol Other Editors Fair Words for Senator Smoot. From the Globe and Commercial Advertiser, Adver-tiser, New York City, January 28, 1008: Every one Is talking about the fact that Senator Reed Smoot of Utah IS beginning to be something' more than a mere onlooker In the senate. The other day, for the first time, he was heard In debate. , Stirred up by somo of the remarks of Senator Sena-tor "Bill" Stone of Missouri, who was savagely castigating the treasury department for alleged failure to equitably distrlbuto public deposits to tho national banks, Senator Smoot "got into the game" and conducted himself creditably. The apostle of the Mormon church has a peculiar pecu-liar habit of gesturing with his left hand, with his little finger stuck straight out In remote segregation from it's colleagues and projected In the direction of that particular part of his audience which he Is seeking to Impress. It has been nearly five years since Senator Smoot entered the senate, and he has not been heard from to any extent in all that tlmo. The fact that millions of the good women of the land have been camping on his trail, seeking to get his political scalp, has seemed to weigh him down and crush out of him the ambition to be an active participant. Yet no man in the whole body has been more interested. He has patiently listened, in season and ont, to the flerv oratory of Tillman and the painful dronlngs of Bacon; to the lucid expositions or Bailey, and the tiresome efforts of tome of his peers to elucidate constitutional law. He seemed to feel that it was Incumbent on him, so long as his own cose was on' trial, to' hold aloof from discussions. Now, however, that It Is settled that he is to continue as a member of the senate, the weight seems to be lifted from him, and he appears ap-pears to consider that the time has arrived when he can properly take part. Senator Smoot's case Is not void of Its patriotic pa-triotic side. It Is certain that the self-control and self-restraint which he has exhibited in the midst of an extreme ordeal have not' failed to appeal to his colleegues. He is liked and respected by them, no matter what their views are on the Mormon church question. He Is not an orator, but he is a capablo business man and man of affairs, and there Is not much doubt that he will, from this time forth, make Ills mark in the upper house. The Coming Mining Boom. The State Journal:"That there Is a big mining min-ing boom about due seems to be the general opinion of the raining press. This paper Is convinced that the coming boom has been started In this section. ' "That history will repeat Itself, and that everybody truly believes that It will, is fully demonstrated in the universality of the belief that a mining boom Is coming, and that very .soon. "The history of this country shows that for every financial trouble we have had there has always followed a mining boom of large and extensive ex-tensive proportions. We state It again, and In doing so wish to Impress the fact upon the publlo so forcibly that It will be Impossible for them to get away from It. "But, after all, it is hardly necessary to Insist so strongly upon this point, from the fact that we are all of one mind regarding It. The thing that is puzzling us the most at this time Is, where Is the boom to be located. The name of every mining camp of any importance in Colorado, California, Nevada, Arizona, Otah, Washington and other states have betn made to unknown localities that were to be brought Into trie limelight of the public eye as the booni mining camp. Notwithstanding all this, the final selection Is yet to be made. But made It will be we are satisfied, and that, too, at no distant day. The Value or Manure. Successful Farming: "Last fall we determined deter-mined tu find out what effect manure had on the soil, and to this end, a hilly traot of land comprising ten acres was selected for 'the experiment. ex-periment. The soil was somewhat sandy, and there were also quite a few stones. About three acres of this tract were manured about ten loads per acre being applied. The field was plowed last fail and in the spring was town to wheat. The wheat on the tract that was manured ripened about a week earlier than that on the tract which was not man. urcd. The grain on the former tract was much thicker and heavier than that on the latter, und the straw was about six Inches higher. On the former tract there were five or six kernels of good hard wheat more per head than on the other. When tho grain was stacked, we hauled off eight loads from the whole piece, five from tho fertilized and three from the unfertilized tract, Tho wheat on the former tract yielded about fifteen bushels per acre; thoothcr.slx bushels a difference of nlno bushels " The Rattle or the Bottle. ' liitor-Moutitnln Republican: "It really begins be-gins to look like a prohibition country. P. A. Baker, general superintendent of the anti-saloon anti-saloon league, of the United States, told the houso judiciary committeo that thero aro M.OOO.OOO peoplo lu the United States living In prohibition territories. This Is an increase of 8,G00,000 In the last year when 'JO out of 34 state legislatures then In session passed various temperance tem-perance measures. Mr. Raker advocated the passage of tho Llttlotleld bill which makes liquor In Interstato tralVc subject to tin laws of the state Into which it Is shipped." |