It is the fashion nowadays to read possession of political intelligence and knowledge of the game of politics as rather difficult of comprehension. A few of our very best reformers are such accomplishments that the theory Mr. Hughes is indeed "100 percent a politician," but on the older and probably correct theory, he does not amount much to "in politics it is worth while to know how to get on the right track." Paris has a narrow, if there is to be applied to the width, much shorter. If there is to be an attempt to be made, we shall be in the midst of the chaos, much shorter. Ohio's Savage, Moh-Spiril.

THOSE of our Northern contemporaries who are so shocked and enraged whenever lynching reveals the barbarous and savage nature of the Southern people will find some difficulty in modifying their adjectives sufficiently to describe a recent occurrence in the enlightened and altogether North in the State of Ohio. More than once in the South, of course and guards have been assailed and overpowered by mobs blinded and madened by their blood lust for some hideous crime. A sad no people deplore such lawless cut bursts, more earnestly than the thinking men and women of the South. 