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4 Ralsuli is still raising belli in Mo rocco. Roosevelt is once mere “monarch of all he surveys/* including the canal. Knox for president! But, O Lord, can any good thing come out of Pitts burg? If Harry Thaw isn’t insane be fore his trial is concluded, it will be a wonder. If you see anything going on that puzzles you—why, charge it to the sun spots. Roosevelt confesses that he likes his job, and he is more than likely to try to keep IL There is a man in Buffalo named Peter Tumuch. But he will Peter out after a while. The Democratic party has only fif teen months left in which to find out where it is at! Countess du Pin has secured a di vorce, and that reveals how some of the pins go astray. The Darien Gazette would appreci ate our legislators more if they would meet only biennially. Mr. Hearst is reported to have “a cold.’’ Is this another case where it is located in his feet? Twenty-five states have inheritance taxes. Georgia would look well as No. 26 on that roll of justice. Let us trust that none of the wail ing railroad corporations will get mad enough to commit suicide. The organized farmers of America are destined to be the real and victori ous trust busters of the nation. Senator Foraker and Secretary Taft can never get together. Taft’s bay window makes it impossible. Mr. Cortelyou, and not subsidized congressmen, is now running the postofflce department, it seems. Captain Hobson will continue his Japanese war campaign along the Chautauqua route this summer. The feeling is growing that it is too long in Georgia between the election of a governor and his inauguration. Spooner is honest enough to want to make more money outside of the senate. That is some to his credit. Ex-Secretary Shaw is now the head of a trust company in New York. That lowa ox is safe in his master’s stall. Missouri will spend $25,000,000 on her public roads. That is the best way in the world to get immigrants. Jerome can badger a woman all right, but he suffers a buck-ague vjhen urged to go against a trust magnate. Rockefeller is making motions like giving away a few more millions of our money. Oil prices are up some more. Paragraphs About Men and Measures By SA.M W . SMALL The Charleston News and Courier asks, “What is a speakeasy?’’ It’s a wink of the eye and a walk up a dark alley. King Alphonso has had a chill. It may have been caused by the promise of the queen to present him with twins. The new canal commission will probably know how to spend the money just as easy as its predeces sors. Booker Washington seems to be the senator from Afro-America, or nigger referee near Roosevelt for all the states. “The March of the Pitchfork’’ has been dedicated to Senator Tillman. It should have been a gallop instead of a march. Morgan is perfectly willing that Harriman should monopolize the pub licity spot lighL Old Pierp enjoys th® shadows. Secretary Taft is no longer looking toward the White House. He is keep ing his eyes focused on Chief Justice Fuller’s shoes. A Macon man hit a negro on the head with an ax, and then had to buy a new ax. The negro still has his same head. Editor Dick Grubb says: “Tom Watson writes like a man in dead earn est,” but what he meant to say was “in live earnest.” Senator Beveridge, as the apostle of absolutism, is surely sawing the limb he is on between himself and the pres idential tree. A newspaper asks “how long is a perch?” It depends on the fisher man’s general reputation for truth and veracity. A man is dead in Canada who boast ed that he never owned an umbrella. His neighbors were either good lend ers or good losers. The Houston Post says “bowie knives are no longer needed in Texas,” but it said it after Bailey had gone to Washington. A league has been formed in Chica go to discourage suicide. Yet that is the only cheap way some people can get out of that town. A Democratic paper has declared for Roosevelt for a third term. But, then, Roosevelt will insist that it is only a second term. The Newnan News says: “Georgia is becoming a poor field for political grafters.” Still we re-elected some congressmen last fall. Instead of asking, “Can Hoke Smith make good?” do you be sure that your legislator makes good to your satisfaction. Uncle Joe Cannon has gone down to view the Panama canal. If the canal knows what is good for it, it will keep both its mouths shut while the czar is on the zone. THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. That Texas negro who is making $1,500 a year on a fifty acre farm has evidently no fear of being lynched. The report that a comet is soon to touch the earth, reminds us that it will get nothing by the “touch” unless it strikes the trusts. The Porto Ricans want a native for secretary of state, so they can “show their ability in self-government”—or otherwise, more likely. The army of Morocco was scared into a panic by the bawling of a calf. But many a calf can make a noise like an army in motion. The new state of Oklahoma made a two cent passenger rate a part of her constitution. That is cinching a popu lar demand some certain. Congress talked nine million words at its recent session at a cost to the American people of SIOO per word in appropriations. There is only one more pension step to take, and that is to put on the rolls every person in the north who was alive during the civil war. Vice-President Fairbanks has waked up to the fact that his presidential boom has been quarantined off the White House grounds. “Adolescent insanity” was Thaw’s trouble, according to the alienists. That’s an infant industry, we presume, that demands protection. The Germans are said to be fond of American lobsters. If they are of the human sort, those Germans are wel come to them, for our part. Grover Cleveland has been trying to explain his solemnity. However, who cares how solemn he is so long as he keeps out of politics? When a Georgia criminal cannot break out of the chain gang he can pretty safely call on the prison com mission to come to his relief. The Connecticut supreme court de cides that barbers need not shave ne groes, but it is still all right for wood en nutmeg peddlers to “skin ’em.” We have annually five times as many murders in Georgia as in all Great Britain —yet we have the gall to talk about “the bloody Britishers.” ——— Senator Foraker’s nomination to succeed Roosevelt would assure a Democratic victory too big to be counted without the aid of adding ma chines. We are Inclined to the notion that a third term for Teddy looks better from this end than it will from the other end —after the 1908 election. A railroad train In Texas was ar- . rested for being “behind schedule time.” That custom in Georgia would put nearly all our trains In a chain gang. Senator Knox is now touted as the administration’s favorite for president to succeed Roosevelt. But when did Pennsylvania become a “doubtful” •tote? By putting the canal in the hands of army officers the president has guaranteed the job against “quitters.” It Is up to the people now to elect new congressmen worth $2,500 a year more than the old ones. Old Swettenham, of Jamaica, has re signed, but we would almost bet that he is not resigned. He makes a noise like a man who is hot in the collar. The Japs are to be treated in Califor nia like citizens of other countries, but not necessarily educated in Amer ican schools paid for by American citizens. Well, Governor Comer “made good” on his railroad reform legislation in Alabama. And still the railroads are doing business in that state outside the bankrupt courts. Edgar Saltus thinks by the year 3000 A. D. everything will be rightly adjusted on this planet. We can’t wait for it; we’ll be “all in” long be fore that date. Mr. Hearst says his Independence League will be independent. We hope that does not mean free to deal with either of the old parties on the most favorable terms. Texas is now enjoying a high state of civilization. Men call each other liars in the legislative halls and none of their families have to go into mourn ing after the incident. The dividends of the corporations In March equal 98 cents per capita for every person in the United States. We, the people, got the per capita, and the big fish got the money, as usual. The Democracy of the east is look ing toward Judge Gray or Woodrow Wilson as fit men to set up against Bryan. But the real Democracy will not be Parkerized twice handrunning. The Democratic governor of Rhode Island has ordered Republican boss. Brayton excluded from the state Capi tol. Brayton was duly surprised to find his title to the state disputed so> rudely. Mrs. William Thaw, in the crisis’,, showed a Spartan mother’s devotion to her son. At the same time she should have sent Harry to Sunday school when he was a kid, and be fore he became a goat. Secretary Cortelyou takes his noon lunch at a plebeian coffee and pie joint, along with ordinary public servants., A picture of that democratic act will look bully on a campaign banner next year, perhaps! Governor Vardaman, it is said, cam quote poetry until John Sharp Wil liams grows black in the face. Andi it wouldn’t hurt the United States, senate to have a poetic member In the Interest of general harmony. Straw ballots taken in various parts: of the country all result In majori ties for Roosevelt to succeed himself:. Since the country has been seized by the trusts the people seem no longer “skeer’d” by the third term proposi tion. -