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fact too patent to bo argued. Mr. Cox has gladly accepted tho mantle this keep Uf, out of war ad- ministiation, i at its old tricks, coming forvtard with the same bait in 1920 In the guise of a league of nat.ons It is the old halt--almost the same old campaign slogan of 1916--under a thin disguise infallible powers claimed by Democratic executive in 191fi arc now parsed on io and in vested in that rpec.al recipe and panacea, the of nations, but a league of nations only of the kind endorsed bv the great Failure of 1016 Is thftre any truth that old say ing that the burnt child dreads the fire 0 Ind does it not'appear that the saying, if there is any virtue at all in it, is capable of being exemplified by the intelligent American ppople aa being applicable in this year 112(1? Mud us IsUens or fof tkay should ii ra tfcatr not teccs- ta printed. Anonymous and dsetrabla in wili in sxelcrirely entitled to uM of nil aevra tutAtt to it or not ctherwia ered- in tad alto cha Ictil newa 8ATDKDAT, AUGUST 38, 1920. Mr.

Harding on Mr. Wilson. Harding charges that the WUiwn administration in 1916 dehb- the country to win Women Will Vote. will vote the November election in all the states of the union, Irrespective of -what may be the restrictions in state constitutions and in state statutes to the contrary, lor the adopion of tha Nineteenth amendment automatically removes every restriction that applies to woman There may be resMctions on voting, as there are restrictions on voting as they apply to men, and women will be subject to exactly the same restrictions votes, not eecaya tnat the nation could as th mcn no mor ar no lesi going into war, tho ad promised tha people that it would it out of wax. What- facts tha hod in posS'SSston were kept from the peo- Not only did Mr.

Wi'son promise to nation out of war. but he charged that the election of Mr meant war, he made the- charge that Republicans wanted th? war that he gave us after promising that he would keap us out of it. Mr, Hughes was asked to define his position on the question as whether if he were elected presl dent he would recommend war, he hSMWtly declared that he did not know. At ths time Mr. Hughes did not If there are registration ia-rs which apply to men, tha Hws apply to women as well, but they can not be made ap phcabln to tne one and not to the other Consequently, could tho failure of tbo state to provide by law for registration of the woman prevent her Does not the law which automatically confers on her exactly the same right aa the man, also automatically confer on her the right, notwithstanding the It and get it out.

Bur it will hax to in largo volume to pay, for it will cost a pretty penny to get the stuff to market What follows would make it appear that induetri'' conditions ara not so desperate in Germany as aoms persons would make them. Munich Gladbach is one of the centres of cotton manufacture in Germany. Tha annual report of the Augsburger Kattum Fabnk, one of the calico printing companies of that region, is at hand. It shows a not profit for the last fiscal year of $105,000. A dividend of 8 percent was declared.

Together with this financial report somea the announcement that fourteen concerns making sewing cotton have amalgamated under tho name of the Federation of German Sewing Cotton Makers. In Gladbach spinners hare booked larger contracts than at any time slnco the war, and there has been a marked improvement -in demand for pifrre goods, particularly shirtings and goods for waterproofing. Mr. Cos Disappoints Us. Cox has cancelled his La bor day date In Charleston, the reason assigned being that it would conflict his western tour.

Local Democracy is thus deprived of lauoh an ticipatecl pleasure and the opportunity to make a showing. Ono can imagine that the local Pe cmoeracy will miss much; but Jt will have to content itself Secretary Daniels, who will ba here a few days before time that had been set for tho appearajice of the Democratic nominee and who, if he is not Mr, Cos, is at least It is true that Mr. Daniels, as wa it, is not coming as a cam paigner, but as ft government official who ha3, through hte government ac- As the World Wags. Maryland oysters are said to ba scarce. Twenty f've thousand Republican spellbinders will take the stump in New York state on September 17.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt opposes a separata "Woman's Party," and advises tho women to stick to tho old parties. The public school budget of New York city is 1143,543,019, of which 320,327 is for new buildings and In order to tlmulate Like shipments ot grain and relieve the railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission has permitted a lake haul at three cents a hundred pounds less than the railroad haul. In an attempt to get a little panther as a mascot, members of the 104th aero squadron fought a mother panther and four cubs in a cove near Sanderson, Tex, according to war department ad ices The mother panther defeated the squadron. Rumors that Camp Lee was to be abandoned were dispelled when Val Par ham, president of the Petersburg chamber of commerce, received a telegram from William M.

Martin, secretary of chamber, that Secretary of War Newton D. Baiter told him tho cantonment would not be abandoned and that et-ery effort would be made to make it a permanent army post. Cane sugar sold briskly at 17 cents a pound in unrestricted quantities at many retail stores in Louisville, "Wednesday, reflecting a drop of 6 cents under previous Quotations. Dealers who cut the price said they were able to establish the market because speculator; ha'd unloaded at a loss Other who failed to meet the cut termed it a price war inaugurated for advertising purposes. Chairman of the shipping board, announces that the successful bidder for the Hog Island shipyard would bo required to deposit $1,000,000 upon acceptance of the offer.

The date for opening: sealed proposals for purcha.se of the yard has been deferred from September 30 to October 30 in 4 to enable the board to do the necessary advertising and permit proa- omission in a state statute of a register- ItivlUes, particularly idsntifled with ivg provision, the right to register' 1 The amendment itself that women shall iota the tarns as man If statutes, jr regard to registration, speak only of man, under the inter- prepatlon of an amendment, as I Charleston, and thus will be In a gen- sense more of a suest of the wholi people than would have been the caso with Mr. Cox, who would have come, as would be natural, and aUo entirely proper his casf, more as a the s'ipreme court of the United partisan social means of gathering facts! States otlK-r oases, is not man and that belonged to the administration. Ho would not--not even for tho sake of the presidency--say he would not recommend war because he did not know the situation as tho president of the Unit ed States must have known. It would have been quite easy for Mr. Hughes to have said, having an on the presidency, that he would feeep us out of war, only to be elected president to discover, as Mr.

Wilson certainly did within about a month aftsr inauguration, that he could not Jseep us out of war. There is nothing to indicate that Mr. Hughes loved war more than Mr. Wil- did; bnt the fact stands out clear that he would not either deceive the people or make a nish promise aay man of ordinary gumption, the way conditions were than, would have considered likely at any moment to be unfilled. Mr.

Wilson was elected on this promise more than anything and had need of the services cf Mr. Hughee which wers generously tendered the fact of tha wtongr done to him by the president In ascribing to him a. policy which he affirmed ho woman an identical voter, the matter Nevertheless, had Mr. Cox come to Charleston, he would have received a of sex having been eliminated welcome and a courtesy beyond tho The Now York Sun, WP think, makes'bounds of tho Democratic party itself. i Every candidate for president, or for governor, or for other is an- titled to respect and attention.

They are on tnal--a bnsf but intensive trial before the public People wish to know what they look like, how they talk, what they say, and how they appear at close range. The disappointment of the Demo- this point clear when it says Thii is S3 at Aailieht Of it-1 ifrci--ct prciprio Mgoro--tha section oj tho Nineteenth amend mcnt estabhchos woman's right to Tots fjn ftn absoluta oquslit mun'3 right to thrcnishoat Lmtetl States, atMtaing in federal 3aM ronstitu. tion fit stato statutes to thfi lontrar. notv-ithstandmc. Thera is no need of enactment at or at state capital to srnci effwt to tho pnnojilo 1ha self operative first Bftion em- Frieral staid les'ilation, loel ordinanrei may ba needed to feet tho practical troiklni? of tha vetlv increased and corrpliua.t-ed machmrt of snfrrags throughout tha uruon, that is qui'H a diftcrant mat tef Thus the word "male" in states con or in statutes as descripth of has been wiped out, leaving: nothing remaining there but which now means both male and female.

pective bidders to make complete tn spection of the property. Curbstone Stories Orders a Tin House. Jack Quillon has evolved a eoheme for beating thp high cost of living that bears evidence of his resourcefulness Being a single person possessed of an automobile but not a wife, he got to figuring up his expenses tho other day and reached the conclusion that entirely too big a percentage of his earnings have been going to his landlady and to his gaiage proprietor. As he 1i the owner of a vacant lot down Spring Hill way on which ho pays taxes hut out of which he gets no revenues ht decided to occupy the as he is employed nearby at one of the South Charleston plants. So he placed an order for a "tin house" of two fchort stories, the lower of which he can use for storing his car and upper for sleeping and wardrobe purposes.

Thus ha intends to have a place for his machine and a place to keep his personal belongings when he cares to stay "at home." Prank of a Projectile. An overseas veteran who served the artillery in France, tells of a detachment of American soldiers who were standing in a circle around a camp fire one night, when along came a German shell. Ths shell, striking the firo in the canter and scattering it in all directions, buried itself in the earth, leaving IS men unhaxmed. WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE RA TIFICA TION DRA WS COMMENT FROM ALL EDITORS. Congratulations Are General Even With Those Who It; Some Analyze Effect on Fatt Election.

Tbe Charleston Mail's DRtJy Edltoi-InJ STOLE ECER SOTO, SHE SATS. Divorced Wife Wants to It from Astrologer Husband, Walter Kenilworth Martin, a palm- ict and astrologer, is accused by Mrs Laura Brookb Bllswanger Martin, of Atlantic City, who recently divorced him, of having "stolen her soul, her personality and her youth Martin IE, known as "Zoza Kenilworth." When saw him, Mrs. Martin says, he was going to France to live in i villa, which he had purchased. When he left, his former wife says, ho looked like a young man and his features were what hers used to be. discovered that is "beginning to look like him, talk like him and grow old Where he was once a creature of Stirred by the dreams of Nancy Immense alcoholic capacity he is now an aged negro woman residing i a total abstainer, she says, while she, near Brncfville, farmers of Upper Bam- wlao formerly used no liquor, now has bury, Trappe district, Talbot county, Md organized parties to dig for buried treaure on the farm of Capt Samuel 3, Merrick.

Tho negro dreamed that thrice that the owner of the farm in a craving for frequent drams. Mrs Martin now lives in New York. She is practically in retirement. The (statement she made today was, as she explained, an effort soul. Civil -war das had buried his money nd help sorae to lecover her and fearing obbery at the namto of soldiers Richard Saulisbury, who owns the adjoining farm, that he recently noticed diggers at work dur Jng the night on the Merrick farm.

A largo hole has found in tho field. Corporal Arthur Prince of Company SJCth United States infantrj, reach ed Coblenz last Sunday night after seventeen months in Russian Soviet hospitals and prisons Corporal Prince, Those home is in Detroit, waft wounded and captured bj the Bolshevik! In operations in northern Russia in March, 3910. Ho came out of Russia a month ago by way of Finland, Princa -mil probably bo in hospital there a month owing to the privations he endured iR'hilo a prisoner in Russia and because a leg broken by a bullet the action in hp was captured was set improperly by soviet surgeons Saloons, gambling houses and other resorta would bo forbidden in a zone t-no and a half miles wide long (the Mexican United States frontier by BAMBOO IN iOtnsiANA. Experiments Show it May bo Grown There Quite Profitably. The departtrent of agriculture tells the people of this country that experiments in Louisianan show that Chinese and Japanese bamboo may be grown there and that the cultivation of some varieties may be profitable.

Mention is made, for instance, of Phyllostachys pubescena, which one the shoots crata over the Inability of Governor a blu bpmff prO pared for submission to jdox to appear in Charleston ia shared tna Mexican congress by Jose i. the public generally. A Democratic newspapttr, noted for its humorous propensities In polities, tome out with a lone leader under the title of "Bernstorff for Harding In 1016 Bernstorfl was with Mr. Wil not adopted, between Mr. Wilson and Mr, all this is now history.

To country it is something more than history. It carries its naming. TSto -srrnlng is that promises made in of a political campaign need to bfi scanned Candidates mak tag tfcft impossible or the improbable can well risks promise is too often, as we know in folly Mtt, a poor performer. Beware of candidate who going to do every- thins under sun whose performance Men and Business. By Richard SpiUane.

Now thdt the new rates as to freight and passenger has gone into effect, it will ba interesting to observe whether the higher fare will curtail passenger tiaffic Never In American did people seem to hai tuch a. mania for travel ing as in tha la few jeart Passenger trams ea6t, we-at, north and south have been crowded The Pullmans have jammed. To insure possession of a berth it has, be-en necessary to make reservation cUs ahead seemed to want to go Everybody seraed to money for a journey. It is goias to cost something to gallivant around the country hereafter. in his us out of war with Germany and tha newspaper now so ternblv shocked by Mr.

Bornstorft's al dofecticm was with both. Then, Bernstorff'i being with one sometning Now there is no dog bo dead in America and to a very large extent also in Germany as this sarna Bernstorff It must bs admitted that Bern- undersecretary of the interior, saw-, tho newspaper Excelsior. jbaaih of the bill," the newspaper as Berts, is morality, and the imperious ncccsfcity of letting our neighbors see that the Mexican government thmka of the we'fare of its nationals and foreigners and is unwilling to permit a geographical accident to render possible constant violation of a law, which, though not ours, makes for morality and order Gold continues to dribble away from the United States in comparatively small single shipments-, but the total is making up a -volume that is rapidly eating its way into tho country's re- supply. One New York city banker declared that the 550,000,000 are six or oight inches above the ground or which may be used for timber later as the "shoots" reach a height of from sixty to seventy feet in three weeks The bamboo, wo are told, may be used in building operations or for telephone poles or spars, hence it is recommended aa a source of wealth to who live in southern Louisiana. It may be profitable to them, but folks in the north feel that the Louisiana residents will find it more printable to continue to raise sugar cane and the price of sugar.

ABANDONS FINANCIAL CENSUS. Bureau Tarns Force to TFork on 1022 Wealth Investigation. The census bureau has abandoned plans for the assembling of financial statistics for municipalities and states for the fiscal year 1920. Field agents of tho bureau are so fully engaged on work on the fourteenth census, according to an announcement by Director Rogeis, that the financial review could r-ot be put through without great delay In addition, the director said, preparations for making the decennial investigation of wealth, debt and taxation 1922-1923 will further engage If printed words were -vocal, the editorial comments published throughout the United States, when the Tennessee legislature ratified the woman suffrage amendment, thereby enfranchising American women for the presidential election, would have made an enthusiastic uproar audible in Mars. Newspapers which have fought suffrage bitterly join in the congratulatory chorus, evidently feeling, as the Providence Tribune (Ind.

Rep.) puts it, that "anti-suffragism has become disloyalty," and that "adoption of the nineteenth amendment makes irrelevant any further discussion of the wisdom or unwisdom of woman suffrage, and untimely any further speculation aa to the probable effect of its on our national life Having hailed the new voters, however, many papers get down to the task of attempting to analyze the effect of the women's votes on the fall election. In this effort a majority of editorial writers either give up, stating that they cannot forecast the re- suite, or else conclude that the women will split up on party loyalty along lines similar to those separating the men voters. A minority of partisan papers try to forecast that the women's votes will go to one or the other leading parties, and predictions along this line bear a remarkable similarity to the politics of the paper. As the Baltimore Sun Ond Dem says, commenting on political tables forecasting the women's votes, "It will be a poor table which cannot be made to give comfort and satisfaction to somebody." Typical Comment. A typical comment on the futility of either leading party's claiming credit for the suffrage victory, is the following from the Springfield (Mass.) Union (Rep "Neither party seems to stand to gain or lose anything through its attitude or that of its candidates.

Both parties have indorsed ratification in their platforms, both candidates have used their influence lor it. Against the fact that Tennessee, a Democratic state, becamo the decisive factor, is the fact that every one of the states that have rejected ratification aro Democratic states with the exception of Delaware. Against the fact that two Republican states, Vermont and Connecticut, have declined to act in favor of ratification is the fact that all hut five of the thirty-six states that have ratified are either Republican or doubtful btates." Turning from the question of party credit to that of voting inclinations, many newspapers express opinions similar to that of the New Tork Evening Post (Ind.) which says: "Generalization from tho supposed special attitude of women on certain issues will not hold. They are not more pacifistic or militaristic than, their men folks. Their judgment is influenced by the same economic, geographical, and social considerations that influence the men While the battle for suffrage was on, it is was good tactics for the suffrage leaders to speak of the women vote as a unit They are now free to admit that women think politically not in terms of sex, but in the same terms that men employ." Tho Memphis News Scrirmtar (Ind.) hmks "it is not logical to assume either party will derive any from the ratification of the suffrage amendment and the New Tork Grobe (Ind eaya tho suffrage victory "must not be read, as the triumph of any political party." Women's admission to elections "will not bring about any radical change in the relative strength of the two great parses," says the Manchester (N.

Unon (Ind. Rep.) and the Dallas Times Herald (Ind. Dem also feels that 'women's vote will be thrown to no particular candidate." The Columbia i State (Dem.) and the Philadelphia Bulletin (Ind. Rep.) express similar views. Among the comparatively few Republican papers which seek to make partisan capital out of the issue is the gold it ib reported will ship to attention the field force, United States this fal! in anticipation of the maturity of the Anglo- French loan be a welcome addition sttatmg dropping the financial statistics for 1920 entirely.

Anvbodv go-erf going storff committed an unforgivable of to tho supply In the ton dav i ended Augaist 10 exports of gold fen-ie when he detertwi that 1918 trinity --if he has--, but no one caret, a rap today who Bernstorff is tor or who Bernstorff is against, except perhaps his former boom companions to mffer a. sevsro puncture in tho poc-ketbook Tra-vel srood. I broadening. Modern have rediscovered tho tTlbo of pygrmles in the Congo forefta that were originally discovered veari ago by Henry W. Stanley.

So cer tain in tho United Statics senate having need not hpncpforth frel so lonesome. But, as. Isw Pieldj too much "Too muoh Not loner dgo it v.as elated that repertoire Is, crowded to overflowing-the political Ponzia who thrive on the Offering of glittering inducements 1 Another change the Wilson administration preferred by Senator is that the natural result of the Imperial Oil the Canadian eub tttla keeping out of war romi-e i-tdiar- Standard Oil Co, was that it had to be accompanied i i for oil north of Gtrat Slaw neglect" of the of Lake, near the war. With tha names of inter That national war borne ever neater and becoraing aver more threatening and the A i 'n Mackenzie River, In Mrwa to if not within The Mackenzie River empties i Arctic Ocean with the sps-rka falling among Now the news drills have eombuatiBles, all organization of was prohibited and in the public set vice who catad organisation ot new firs departments OF to bring the up to date, were summarily or made in other to of sxecuiiPs dis- struck oil Tho diem get much-- only a flow cf ten or barrel A d.i\ but tha feet have found oil is sufficient Today the lure of oil is as the lore of "war in form6r dayt, Tronic hr-if or Arctic ice will not daunt tho argonaut If is oil in volume in the Far North the oil man -will find' WhoM evor have thought, only a fpw jeara ago, that the United Sta'es could not supply it? own butter'' The Germans had their Marne and Kutslans their Bug The sdlencfc of Mr, Bryan is only by that of Mr. Wilson lot Nor If I could FBTEHDS sifts I would nnt pr tia fnin tn saad -w four A friwnd of batUff days thin Of rain and golden bltti tha timor had pfros A frwmd of and Who shrrM Uis hara ot Kefttra tha bfclMi to rlnr.

A friend who sUU! tfiord c. A fnand with liAppy futurs ctorod. cid fnand fl'o has stond the HM knwirn tha Vorefc and Vniw-n amounted to $8,4.10,7 J3, compared with imports of $8,071,315. From January 3 to August 10 Imports amounted to $52, 330, 190, compared with exports of $225,713,306 Part of a $3,000,001) shipment for Peru loft the financial dibtnct Wednesday. The conference of Republican party leaders of Eastern which has going on for two days, was to discuss politics aa an exact science," Will chairman of tho Republican national committee, says Hs denied published roports that the con fflrence had been called to consider changes in the party's avowed atti tude toward the league of nations "The dominant noto of all reports on popular sentiment ia that a polltkal party can not a-void responsibility for Its stewardship and that eight yen PS of inal admin istration cannot bo excused," he said 'The great movement in the electorate toward tho Republican party regardless of past Is an expression of that conviction and an appreciation of tbo Republican position and purposes.

Tork'n con'ributlon to the "Republican fund will be held thin jear to i 52,000,000 auota, of which thfl national committee will receive only one third, Fred W. Upborn, of Uie Rnpubllcan naMonal committee, dpclarfd In former national cimpaigns, the state's Uiare of tiio tota.1 has been at least 75 perwnt Mr Uphajn said. The plan of assigning a quota to each ftatr, Mr Upham said, WAS to aistri bute ftonrrlbutiftno equally all over th9 rountrv and thus avoid talk of Wall Street bearing all the brunt of the campaign Now York's 000, 000 quota, according to Mr Upham, includes ill tha three committees county, statn and national "Of the amount already cot by the national said Mr TTpham like $900 OfiO, SEOTTRES TITLE TO OJ3j GoTornmont "Will Collect OOO Royalties on 60,000 Acres. Claim to practically acre of withdrawn oil land held under the old placor mining law had bsen relinquished to the yesterday at tho of the six months' period within which puch rellnqulshments could be made to secure prior leasing lights io trio property. Officials of the Interior Department estimated the government thus had secured clear titlo to more than 60,000 acres of the most valuable oil lands embraced within tho public domain.

In addition to coming Into undisputed of this acreage, the government also will collect, it was estimated, about $10,000,000 in back royalties. NEW STAR IS KXPfcAINED. Caused 3y Collision of Comet aind Dim San OapU tec Says. The new star in constellation cjjrnus, reported this week through Harvard obaeri'atory, was caused a collision in the heavens between a largo comet and comparatively dim sun, according to information which Capt. Thomas Sco, of the nava obsenratorv at Mare Island, announced he had received from Pro Charlei Conroy, of Los Angeles Thn star forms a corner of the par allologram ot Alpha, Gamma and Delta Cygni, Capt See said he had been advised At present it is of the sec ond magnitude, and the rnagnitudi may expected to increase for sev eral davf, but will die down in the course of a few months, he reported HAS IT ALL.

Houston Post do not want to sneezs, but, By Jingo, if do, we've got the braj Naw York has contributed only we'-ve got the hay and got fever to women as a gift of the Republican party," continuing: The Republicans furnished two- thirds of the votes for the amendment in the house of representatives. They provided nearly two-thirds of the votes for it in senate. They have given the cause of justice to women more than three times as many sfjate legislatures as the Democratic party." "The credit for giving: the vote the women of the United States must- be accorded the Republican says the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph (Rep but it makes no prediction of the votes. "There to be little doubt," says the American (Rep "that the practical benefits will be reaped more largely for the Republican candidate," but this paper does not state its for its opinion. Democrats Claim Credit.

Turning to the Democratic papers, a number seem to feel that i Credit for Tennessee's ratification belongs to their party, because of pressure on the Tennessee by the Democratic presidential candidate and other party leaders. They point out that suffrage would not havs been ratified without the Tennessee vote. "The result will be accepted," says the Charlotte (N. Observer (Ind. quoting Governor Cox, "as an earnest of the Democratic policy to pay its platform obligations." Similarly the Butte Miner (Dem.) Tennessee's vote "has given the Democratic party all the best of it, and thousands of supporters in states where It most needs Thef Boston Post, an Independent Democratic paper, believes that it Would be idle to dispute that this ratification "will mure to the benefit of the Democratic party," because "a Democratic legislature in a Democratic commonwealth put the finishing touches upon the movement" The Louisville Poet.

(Ind.) hazards the opinion that "the enfranchisement of women will work favorably 10 the Democratic party, tot the weight of the evidence seems to be that women generally favor the league of nations," but adds, all, this is only a guess." On general issues, a few papets such as the St. Paul Pioneer Frew (Ind.) believe prohibition enforqe- ment will be strengthened. Ibei Wheeling Register (Dem.) for election reforms from the women, The Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ind. Dem.) thinks that in the end "it maybe found that women have divided On the league of nations issue exactly aa- men have divided." One of the few which are still alarmed over suffrage prospects is the Lynchburg (Va.) News (Dem.) which says, "We feared, do not now abate our grave apprehension, that it would prove tragedy for the sex." Much opposition to suffrage in the south has been attributed to the fear that the votes of negro women would take the voting power from tha whites. Most southern newspapers ignore this question In their diacua- sions, although the Times Dispatch (Dem.) and the News Leader (Ind.

Dem.) of Richmond, are exceptions. The latter says: "As the race question has been controlled in the past, despite federal amendments that sought to impoM universal male suffrage upon the south, so for the future it can be con- trolled. Because illiteracy among Be- gro women is less than among negro men, there will be a slight increase of the negro vote in the south, compared with the white bat not enough to create any general menace. And if new electoral questions should in districts be created, new methods of answering them will be Some attention is paid by writers ton the motives of the Tennessee legislature. The New Tork (Ind.

Dem feels that the legislature did not decide the question on its nierita, but that "the contest became competition between parties." From a Tennessee paper, however, the Knoxville Journal and Tribune (Rep.) comes the assurance that "those who are believers'' in woman suffrage and wanted to have it are a ma- Cleveland News, -which empnattcally jorlty of tha two houseu, and of each states that "equality at the polls comes of the two." A RUMS OF Think of as Yon Ride and Walk About Town. Hartford It is very interesting to watch people in their daily disregard of everybody but themselves. Men and women walking along the sidewalk will suddenly stop short or turn right around a thought of whether thcie is somebody else whose progress such action might interfere. Automobile drivers will start out from the cnrb any sort of signal and others will stop short in tho highway or turn to a cross street with no notification. Similarly pedestrians will walk a- croas a btreet in a citv, even as large a city as Hartford, Mthotit a look to see if any vehicle is coming along.

Often an automobile driver will notice some person cross the street in front of his approaching car without once turning the head to see if he or she is in danger. Others will stand in a doorway and block ir without thought of any one who happens to want to pass through. This attitude is the cause of many of the too numerous accidents. Inattention is another word for It, but in fact its self-absorption. These people do not think of anjbody else.

The question is how to make them realize that there are other people with equal rights with themselves. So lar as au- tomobllirts are concerned, there are pretty stiff regulations which are likely to be impressed generally, but for pedestrians we need a lot more of attention. The policy of requiring every one crossing a street to do so under a eye is useful If that notion is sufficiently enforced, it -will in no time make a in people's minds and effect a change In their habits But meanwhile there will be a lot of accidents i A PERFECT MATCH. The Dallas 11 eeem unkind to say it, bat girl who Is pwdwiflf nose in public deserves to marry the guy who is always hitching up his bii and tucking down his shirt. LAUGHING GAS I THE KIND OF GLASS.

Dauber--I'm going to have thli painting of mine framed. Don't you thuk it would be a good idea to a glass over it? Critic--Tea, a smoke5 Transcript THE FAVORITE DAUGHTERS. In politics we hear of many favorite sons, but no favorite daughters." "The favorite daughters are Courier-Journal. 'TWAS A BIRD StTRE. Customer--Waiter, a little bird told me this coffee was not strained.

Waiter--A little bird, sir? Customer--Tea, a swallow---Setroit Free Press. IT SURELY IS. "Ton seem interested In Russia," "Yep, It's -wonderful how long can keep a. leaky ship of state afloat." --Louisville Courier-Journal. MINORITY RULE.

give an of minority ru'ing." there is a baby in the family." Seattle Port-Intelli- gencer. 1 IT DAWNED. Jack Staylate--Just as I was bidding her goodnight it dawned upon ton Transcript, ANGORICALLY SPKAW1NG. "Asia has elk and mountain eheep very much like our own," a returned traveler. But we challenge Apia to produce like Cartoons Magazine.

ERTNAtmCS. Bmghampton The Irish are using bombing against the British. Another ment in Erinautics. CAN THEY STAND IT? Omaha "World "One-third off all suits." Can. they staad itJ 1EWSP4PERS -IWSPAPFR!.