Tennessee murderers are very
polite; a paper mentions the fact that
a man pleaded guilty to the murder
of his wife and “accepted a sentence
of life imprisonment.” Nice man.
4
Oh well, when you read of thra
thousand per cent, dividend per week
of those Chicago pork-packers, you
can’t blame ’em for holding on to
such a lead pipe cinch, can you?
New York city’s sheriff says, if he
can’t get women as deputies, he
would prefer such men as John Jacob
Astor and Cornelius Vanderbilt—
which may unconsciously be a very
high tribute to the women.
Returns are not all in yet, of
course, but Senator Cummins, of
lowa, is making signs like a man
willing to be classed with the also
rans of Republican Presidential can
didates.
4
Lorimer says “boyhood friendships
and little favors” won him his seat in
the Senate. Ain’t he the swraet Inno
cent, and isn’t it usually the combi
nation of friendship and favors that
landed about ten thirteenths of all
the other Senators?
4
President Taft recommends Civil
Service for all departments of t*he
government, on thra basis of economy
and efficiency. Somehow it makes
us smile to think of “economy” in
connection with Taft’s administra
tion.
4
The United States government is
grafting oht some very alluring “ads”
relative to the desirability of service
in the U. S. Navy. They read
“nice,’ 5 but so long as the photo
graphs show white and negro ‘‘‘able
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