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A SOUTHERN contemporary suggests that

the May convention can make so strong

a showing at Syracuse that it will not be necessary for it to send a contesting delegation to Chicago. Very true, but it isn't quite certain at this writing that the action of the May convention will be limited strictly to what necessity demands. The delegates who went to the midwinter convention from the Cooper Union meetng may feel disposed, for instance, to make a comparative test of the temperature of a midsummer convention just for fun. A taste for irregular attendance at conventions is more easily acquired than regulated, and that is one reason why it is such very questionable policy for authorized convention-callers to promote the cultivation of such a taste in members of their own party.

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It is odd that the idea has not been more definitely adapted to political use. A single candidate who runs for a presidential nomination is very apt to get prematurely blown and disappoint his friends, but if a presidential team could be entered early, five or six strong, one to take up the race where his fellow dropped it, the chances of final success at the convention would be very much increased.

The trouble would be, of course, to settle which of the team should run the last quarter and be the representative of all the others in the White House.

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crease in proportion to the number of travelers. His statisticians tell him how many railway carriage crimes he must look for in a given time, and if the report bears out the expectation he feels that everything is going on as well as can be hoped.

It is a serious drain upon the imagination even to attempt to guess what the English newspapers would say of American civilization if it tolerated such unnecessary crimes as the British railway carriage fosters. English railroads should be compelled to take out a special license for every British railway carriage that they run. That is the way to deal with institutions that are prejudicial to public morals and yet cannot conveniently be spared. But the license should be made high enough to insure the prompt substitution of cars on the American plan.

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time that Julien did one to Mr. Hazeltine.

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L. S.: No. The last six horses that died in the stables of the Fifth Avenue Stage Company were not killed by kindness.

DUELLIST: However dirty and ignoble your behavior, if you can only shoot some lead into another man's body your honor will be vindicated.

J. D. V., Smith's Mills, Pa.: The best agricultural authorities do not recommend frozen absinthe as a steady tipple for laying hens. An occasional drink of champagne cup will not hurt them.

DAVID B.: We have changed your address on our mailing list to Salt Creek, Utah.

BENJAMIN, Washington: We have also heard that Secretary B.'s health is improving. We would not recommend cold poison. It will serve your purpose quite as well if you could get him to switch off to the Faith Cure.

SUMMER GIRL: We do not think it immodest. The point of view depends upon the environment. A bathing suit that seems scant at home looks very different at Narragansett Pier.

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"SAY, MISTER, IS THAT THE REAL WENUS?" "YES, GENT, AND ONLY FIVE CENTS A PEEP." "HERE'S TEN CENTS FOR TWO PEEPS, YOUNG MAN. I SEED HER PORTRAIT DOWN IN A BROADWAY PICTURE STORE, AND I'M BEGINNIN' TO THINK ASTRONOMY MUST BE MORE AMOOSIN' THAN FOLKS GENERALLY SUPPOSE."

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HOW IS IT, MY DEAR, YOU USED NEVER TO GIVE ME CIGARS THAT COST LESS THAN $16 OR $20 FOR MY BIRTHDAY? BUT THESE-HUH-WELL, THE LEAST SAID OF THEM, THE BETTER.

WHY, DON'T YOU REMEMBER SAYING THAT WE MUST ECONOMIZE WHEN YOU GAVE ME THE DIAMOND NECKLACE, YOU DEAR, INCONSISTENT OLD BOY?

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