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be out lecturing for money to Chau- tatqua audiences. But so employed he is a far more respectable and improv- ing sight than the Townsends and the Bristows who wag their ears at him in the Senate. At least he is a man honestly supplementing an insufficient salary and rebuking the parsimonies of Congress. And so the Senate seemed to think and perhaps in time it will take action according! F Congress really wants high officers of our government to live on their incomes, it may be interested in the start of the new Radical cabinet in Denmark, which took office in June. They declined decorations, “ Excellency, id The wife a lawyer, is title of dispatch or to accept the and a cable of Premier Zahle, who is an official Parliamentary shorthand writer and_ intends to con- tinue this work. Sne is the first woman to hold such a position. The salary is $825 a year. While her hus- band is Premicr she will, present, her salary to. the Shorthand Writers’ Fund Mme. Zahle, who has one son, aged has decided not to enter society ving to her domestic interests. Denmark is a kingdom and has a court that looks after the social end of its government and probably it does not matter whether Mme. Zahle enters society or sticks to. stenograph and her son, But here the case is dif- ferent, and the social as well as gov- ernmental duties that belong to off life fall on the people who sit our high places. HE proposition to buy for three million dollars the exclusive right to build pal through Nicaragua, and to make a deal with that country which shall make the United States stand to her in something of the re- lation in which it stands to Cuba, is approved by the Administration and finds support in the Senate from to wear uniforms ore A LITTLE ARGUMENT AT OCEAN GROVE NEPTUNE some of its and blest. members. anal privileg most experienced This purchase of es would be a precaution The rest of the proposed treaty would be an attempt to discharge the obli- gations implied by the Monroe dec- trine to supplying oF Central American is assumed that what- surance our assist in government to the republics. It ever di nely sree of politic: government agreed to issue to Nica- ragua, it would issue on application south of the so that the proposal to to any other state lying Rio Grande, Nicaragus the general sentiment of the istration as to the duty of our gov- Re- is taken as an expression of admin- ernment to the Latin-American publics. So much of this treaty as concerns canal rights was first: negotiated by the Tait administration, but the rest of it suggesting that war should not be declared without consent of the United States, or debts incurred 1 yond the powers of ordinary revenues Of this proposi- y “Tt is not it is good sense.” to discharge, is new. tion Senator Lodge s: dollar-diplomacy ; Let us hope so, and hope that if it is so it may prosper. To. standardize our deportment towards our neigh- bors to the south would be an ex- cellent thing, and this N posal, if it comes to anything, may be a step in that direction. agua pro- CAUGHT BATHING ON SUNDAY NE has a phaned. in Haven sense of being or. riding on the New Mellen re Combined with that is a sort of apprehension of getting the slipper from a ghostly hand These are sad road since Mr. signed. feelings, A. great deal of competence in certain will depart from Mellen leaves. But the separation was inevitable, and necessary, and may: be expected to be Mellen is kind of tra wished to create in New fortunately for ways the road when Mr. advantageous. Mr, good hand to make the nsportation monopoly he ngland. Un- him, the thing he wished to make is not wanted. ability than intelligence. Others more intelligence than abil Mr. long in the group. He is able; can do a great deal; great deal for the New which is a much better road than it was when he took it, But there were never could sec. He has gone out of power for the Some people have more Mellen seems to be- first very has done a Haven road, some things he same reason the Republican party has gone out of because he power; could not understand what was going on. comicbooks.com