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The Commoner.
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Where Pleasure Is
You may think you are enjoying all
the good there is in life
When you bend your mind to win
ning big rewards in business strife.
You may think you're having pleas
ure when you play the social game,
Or imagine you are happy as you
reap rewards of fame.
You may watch the gold and. glitter
of the ever passing throng,"
And imagine life is pleasant as a
summer evening's song.
But. in this life's greatest pleasure
you will never have a part
Till a baby's tiny fingers reach and
twine about your heart.
You may think that gold will pur
chase all the good life has in
store;
You may think that life is living but
to reach and grasp for more.
You may travel foreign countries,
you may sail the ocean's foam,
And imagine greatest pleasure may
be found away from home.
You may lead in the procession
marching on to great success,
Or imagine you are happy in the
battle's storm and stress,
But -towards the goal of pleasure
, you've not even made a start
Till a baby's tiny fingers reach and
twine about your heart;
O, the lights of home! How pleas
. ant when the tired worker sees.
Beams that flash to him a welcome
'.through the. nodding, bending
trees!
0,the home sounds! -How the music
, rings and swells upon the air
When the little home's door closes,
' shutting out the toil and care!
O, the laughter of the children! How
it lifts the weary load
From the worker's tired shoulders
as he rests beside the road!
What a wealth of love and pleasure
from the very moment start
When a baby's tiny fingers reach and
twine about your heart!
Likely
. "My neighbor is going into the
chicken business."
'.'. "How do you know?"
"I am making garden."
Political Fables
"The tariff will be revised by its
friends."
"Iiiving expenses are decreasing."
"The tariff protects American
"Our government of the Philip
pines is the most altruistic move
ment ever undertaken by any nation."
Eccentric
r
'That rich Miss DeRox, daughter
of the railroad magnate, must be an
eccentric young woman."
. "What makes you think so?"
"Why, in order to prove that she
is not engaged to the Count Nogood
sky she has announced her engage
ment to Billy McWade, the hustling
young lawyer."
Of Course
When the railroad magnate in
formed us that he favored the elec
tion of United States senators by
direct vote of the people we were
thunderstruck, having labored under
the impression that the corporations
were opposed to that policy.
"Is this not a new position for
you to take?" we asked,
"O, no; we have always favored
it," said the magnate.
Then, before we could any more
than gasp with astonishment ho con
cluded: "Or course it must be understood
that we are the people."
Bravo to Recklessness
Is Buncherly a man of courage?"
"Yes, and he has demonstrated it
time and again."
"How? I don't see him wearing
any nedals."
"No medals, perhaps; but Bunch
erly can make a Pullman porter
stand around and never give a tip;
he can persuade his landlord to re
paper the flat every spring, and his
cook doesn't dare ask for more than
three nights a week out."
Spring
When the bloom is on the peach tree
And the apple buds are blowing,
The growing, signs now teach me
The "clean-up bug" is growing.
The good wife 'round is flying
In a manner most erratic;
Down stairs the baby's crying
While she is in the attic.
The parlor carpet's, hanging
Where it can catch the breezes;
And wife the dust is whanging
Until she coughs and sneezes.
Each window minus curtain,
Chair on the back porch leaning
Now all these signs make certain
'Tis time for,spring house cleaning.
Her eyes are brightly gleaming
As o'er the floor she prances;
Amidst the hot suds' steaming
At every point she glances.
The walls are bare of pictures,
The pantry shelves demolished; -The
back yard's full of fixtures
She says must soon be polished.
Each way I may be turning
I can see naught but trouble;
I smell the sulphur burning,
And smell each soapy bubble.
O, would the tongue could utter
The thoughts that come to meet us
When things are in this flutter
With annual housecleanitis.
Brain Leaks
Well earned, fully enjoyed.
You are growing old when you
begin to worry about the wrinkles.
People who borrow trouble pay
usury.
Those who marry for money usu
ally earn it.
Opportunity often knocks, but too
often with a hammer.
A lot of men lose character trying
to live up to reputation.
Some men ask, "Is it safe?" The
best men ask, "Is it right?"
Fools fatten on flattery, but wise
men only accept it as dessert.
It reconciles one to growing old
when one sees serene old age.
A cracked mirror is responsible
for a whole lot of self-deception.
We like to see children mind well,
but we would rather see them love.
It is easier to tell people how good
they should be than it is to show
them.
Refraining from evil is a negative
virtue; doing good is a positive
virtue.
The middle aged man who tries to
be "one of the boj's" is young only
in his foolishness.'
Every time we have to wait for
a late train at a crossroads station
we regret that wo never learned
telegraphy. It would help some if
we could read the words going over
the wires.
A well trained conscience, heeds no
accuser.
It is a sad commentary on the
housewife when the husband prefers
baker's broad.
It beats all what a big lonesome
a little house can hold when the
babies are all away.
A lot of men who are waiting for
ships to come in have failed to
weigh their anchors.
Some mothers think so much of a
clean house that they overlook the
idea of a comfortable homo.
In our anxiety to accomplish big
things we overlook a lot of little
things that aggregato greatness.
How easy it is for a handsome
woman to make a man think she is
interested in what he is saying.
Nothing looks funnier for a minute
than the young man who is lotting
a little bunch of fuzz grow in front
of each ear.
The man who never earns any
more than ho is paid for is usually
the man who Is always complaining
because he is underpaid.
We shudder to think what Jay
Gould would say if he should come
back and begin expressing his opin
ion of recent happenings.
If some men would act at the
lunch counter like they act when
eating at home, they would bo fired
bodily by an enraged restaurant
keeper.
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THE CRY OF THE DREAMER
I am tired of planning and toiling
In the crowded hives of men;.
Heart weary of building and spoil
ing, And spoiling and building again.
And I long for the dear old river,
Where I drenmed my youth away,
For a dream or lives forever,
And a toiler dies in a day.
I am sick of -the sbowv seeming
Of a life that is half a Ho,
Of the faes lined with scheming
In the throng that hurries by;
From tho sleepless thoughts' en
denvor I would go where tho children
play ,
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a thinker dies In a day.
I enn feel no nride. but pity
For the burdens the rich endure';
There Is nothing sweet in the city
But the patient lives of the poor,
Oh, the little hands too skiniui
And the child-mind choked with
weeds,
The daughter's heart grown willful
And the father's heart that bleeds!
No, no! From the street's rude
bustle,
From trophies of mart and stage,
I would fly to the woods' low rustle
And the meadow's kindly nage.
Let me dream as of old by the river
And be loved for the dream alway,
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies In a dav.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
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