mou FOR PRESS PROGRESS. - It being the era of progress, re form and purity, they are" after the newspapers as' well as the catsup men, the purveyors of "ben zoate of soda, the grafters and the impure judiciary. A bill is being pushed in Congress to require all newspapers to publish, regularly, a list of their editors, stockhold ers and bondholders, and in some states, Massachusetts, for in stance, laws have been created to punish with a fine of $10 or more any advertiser wlio causes an un truthful or misleading advertise ment to be published. Why not? The people have a right to know what influences the publications that influence the public and its servants in office. The people certainly are entitled to protection against liars who are after their money through .ad vertising. The movement for an honest showdown by the newspapers will be endoresd by the honest part of the public press, for it will be to their advantage that the frauds and fakers in the business be cleaned out, which they will be when the character of their own ership and their dependence upon the "tricks of the trade" are ex posed. o o If yon say a girl gave him an intoxicating glance do you mean she made a rye face at him? o o "Blessed be the Ty that swats" not the spectator, but the ball. AHOLF. I Sw H, He JUST ',! a OR.-KUW4RZT VWea 6 ASWiSlv Talking Qvrre: gating cuewseea 56RI0US TO YOU J( UNO 'C CReM C TOSAY. VOT J TX26BeR. fle ' VJWNaf y V. K-t ME. f j X 3' DOING BUSINESS RIGHT. A recent observer says that "the Panama Canal, has cost $400,099,(80 and not a cent wast ed all the leaks stopped." Yes, and nevera strike, and progress ive decrease in cost of living and a pestilential old isthmus' made san itary and all that. Should think some of those trusts that cant help boosting prices because everything goes wrong with 'em would apply for a- detachment of the U. 5. army to show 'em how to business on business principles. : o o The whole framework of sb ciety depends, in a great meas ure, on our getting hungry at the -same' tung. I gg jafofctt, &!&&!&