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Commoner Day, Saturday, February 24.
The beef trust seems unwilling to accept tho
clean bill of health given it by Mr. Garfield.
But Is Justice Deuel the only judicial officer
on tho bench who is using uis position to line nis
pockets?
Make Tho Commoner's circulation a million
a week. See "Tho Commoner Day" announce
ment on another page.
By tho time the canal workmen have ex
hausted the amusements provided for them they
will be too tired to do any digging.
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Perhans a nortlon of vnnr Ufo' inanrtmno ..
mlums was spent in keeping the social affairs
of some of the insurance officials out of "society"
1 papers.
Senator Dopew is suffering from aphasia,
which moans the loss of memory of words. Per
haps "resign" is the word the gentleman is try
ing to recall. '
Justice Deuel and Colonel Mann are now ablo
to sympathize with the regretful gentleman who
tblew mto tho muzzle of a gun to ascertain if if
There aro a number of "self-made men" in
congress who seem to have forgotten to nut anv
regard for tho rights of tho people into thei?
architectural designs.
nvn,.?ever?J y,irtuous Papers That took the "lit
fhn r,fnmft0r PPared by the press agents of
the life insurance companies are very severe in
their denunciations of "Town Topics."
Thero aro some advantages in i10tnn. i,
-wooer of the daughter of tlie numbte oftiSS
around the corner. The neighboriioSd may w
it, but not the whole blooming universe
rSG &? ss1 jtcm z
EX?!.10 hQ th0 most Prominent Elvolt ta
the public eye during the next week or two
r 3EI,KSr ss
f o nerve to Vso 'K 'j-
,Z!! cntaI I"" Patriotic calibre of n, .
atic senators." ParUm"SSiu toSS
more concern with statesmen of the Payne brand
than either justice or patriotism.
Thero are two things to regret about tho con
viction and sentence of Captain Van Shaick, of
the ill-fated steamer General Slocum. One is
that tho imprisonment of Captain Van Shaick did
not begin sooner, and another is that it will end
so soon.
VOLUME 6,' NUMBER 5
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the Philippine islands. Unci Sam seems destined
to go down in history as the last o' the inter
national goldbrick purchasers.
The house majority is manufacturing soma
good campaign material for the minority.
Tho Washington Post suggests that if Colonel
Mann is sent to prison his victims should be sent
to the foolish house. We object. There are many
unfortunate lunatics in the asylums who have
donenothing to warrant the infliction of such
odorous company upon them.
Secretary of State Root wastes time when he
stops to assure the public that there is no truth
in the report that Japan is trymg to purchase
Robert Ferry, aged about forty-eight, died
December 26, 1905, at the home of John T. Faulk
ner at Paulina, Crook county, Oregon. Mr. Faulk
ner writes that he understands .that Mr. Ferry had
some relatives in Nebraska. He is under the im
pression that a brother-in-law of Mr. Ferry is a
Nebraska banker. Mr. Ferry lived in Paulina for
"six or seven years. He was five feet, eight inches
tall, dark complexion, dark hair, and slender build.
This is published at Mr. Faulkner's request for
the benefit of any of Mr. Ferry's relatives under
whose eyes it may come.
A REVIVAL OF THE OLD
In recent years an efforf has been made by
the .leaders of society to establish the colorless
and scentless flowers of unpronouncable names
in leadership in the floral world. By the decree
of tho "400" these unattractive flowers were to
servo as substitutes for the "bleeding heart,"
the "honeysuckle," the "daisy," the "pansy," the
sweet "violet," and the various other things of
beauty and joys forever in the flower-bed flow
ers whose names even a child may pronounce and
whose beauty even the unlettered may appreciate.
But somehow or other the old favorite3 of
the floral kingdom retain their standing and,
somehow or other, men are not drawn even
by the decree of society to the worship of flow
ers that take but do not give. Somehow or other
the ordinary man is even yet attracted by a form,
and beauty, and fragrance whicli one may enjoy
and Understand without first obtaining a diploma
from a college of botany.
This would, indeed, be "a merry world; my
masters," if the men and women of today reso
lutely turned their backs upon some of the "new
th ngs" in life and took up with some of the
things that lived and flourished in the times of
the fathers and mothers. It would be well for
the world if we could have "a revival of the old"
all along the line.
Let us search tho attics where our old books
have been stored and produce for the benefit of
the children better and more entertaining tales
than have ever been written by the boasted nov
elists of the present day. There is no occasion
lor one to go into ecstasy over such books as "To
Have and to Hold" or "Alice of Old Vincennes,"
while the stories of James Fennimore Cooper
much more realistic, much more probable, much
more interesting, remain hidden in our attics
covered with the dust of years and unperused
&r f ve?Rle ,of today- Edward Eggleston's
' Hoosier Schoolmaster" is a better story than
M ?wan 5,X?llB ever wrote- Louise
J wA1COty,Sa Little Men" and "Little
in?2Sfien mV? never yet been matched as
Lnf 2 n InS and entertaining reading for the young
and old. The boys of today who search for licit
and lively fiction know little or nothing of Colonel
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the g?eat Massa
chusetts writer of boy. stories, or of Horatio
STEgSt0 wrote tales at once "
Boohs, and books, and boolts are written to-
thoTong ago. T1Umea that wero lmblisUeS
?,, V?a aU t0 apt t0 Ior6 tho merit ot
the Sew Ur aOXl0ty t0 pay unauo tr"t
&?".' have been pSVSS
"Ben Bolt," one of the sweetest of an'ii,L
verses ever penned by man, would be nract iciS?
unknown today but for the faortw it V,? i
to music and that Itflg a "recent novel'
Its high character as a touching nif ? novel,
is not fully appreclateM by the men g $dEf
the Spirit of Mortal Be Found?" is entitled to
high rank in literature would be immediately
written .down as undeserving of a place .in polite
society, but Abraham Lincoln's favorite poem
will, bearergading, where some of the produc
tions of the pwsent day would be cast aside after
a mere glanceA
It would gp well, too, if the disposition to
ward "a revival of the old" could take a firm
hold upon ourgghurch choirs. 'Sunday after Sun
day great congregations composed of "men and
women anxiously seeking not for profound things
but for those things that strike a responsive chord
in the human eart, assemble throughout this
country to listen! to airs they can not appreciate,
straining their ears for words made unintelligible
by the necessity of obtaining what we believe the
choir master calls the "range of voice." "Nearer
My God to Theeff the greatest song that was
ever written, set-to the sweetest music that
was ever sung, is rfk heard and can not be heard
JSJV7?!8? chui?lK The old shioned books
are full of better sohgs, of more exquisite music,
Ta,rn Produced the average church choir.
While we are obtaining more of ithe old flow
ers, of the old books, of the old poems, of the
jLSOngs ,Iet V,8, hav(? more of tfle old fashioned
. women, who, like ouV mothers, lived and loved
and loved and lived, (not conspicuous for ability
f?l i lectuTers' r as impossible reformers, but
notable as thoughtful! and devoted mothers, as
earnest and faithful ives as uncrowned queens
of perfect homes.
wimISiQUfS haTve morefof the old fashioned girl,
tw 3 8 i ?ifc th.at no woman was so well-to-do
that she should not be educated in the arts of tho
SI01!86!16, .Let tis have" m of the old
fashioned girl whose beauty was adorned the
most because it was adorned the least; who knew
SS lUt htea,ltuy outdoor exercise and practical
indoor household duties than she did of pink teas.
wim lfiiiSf Ji? .more of tbe old fashioned men
iTiS, eheved !n the brtherhood of man; whoso
who ZZh .?ev0ted t0 the me of grab;
2? mac"ced th,e same religion during the six
S fJ BJ2Le wf ek .tllat they heard Poached on
hl lllKS st00d UP r truth and right for
SL kef f. t,rut? and rlght' and wno never sacri
ficed principle for the sake of expediency.
wiiA0n i V more of the old fashioned boy,
in?? ? inGVer lea.rue5 t0 lnhale cigarette smoke
mrShU rlwLiWho-honored hiB father and hifJ
S nWnSPent,llISTev!nings at home' Ris Sundays
to iS?wdi Wh de7?tted hIe recreation hours
tneSPpCS thG lntGlIeCtUal as wel1 aS
bandwho Z1 SJS ?f e old hloned bus
oanas who made of their wives real companions
d TOtoSd1? l0Ved them' eTZm
ffssv&c o the home ami
the LoM UfShainLmT 0f t?e old fashioned love;
blessing fM?Sned l0V.e tb.at made Children a
messing to their parents; the old fashions! lovo
between friends; the old fashioned, pure arid lilt
Beli Boeitsdem0nStrated SipsVtho
ThSATln ? tWngpl loved, Ben Bolt,
BuT T fPi L haned fro,m e old to the new;
But I feel in the deeps of my spirit the truth,
There never was change in you.
' Tfll mths twenty haxq.pasSed, Ben Bolt,
bince first we were friend; yet I hall" '
0BlPS?unc? S bleQ?In yW friendship a truth,
Ben Bolt of tho .salt sea gale. . -
RICHARD L. METCALFE.
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