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JULY If, 1901
The Commoner.
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Vacation Time
Grim silence reigns through all the
rooms and halls
No echoes ring, no eager, laugh
ing cries.
I miss the sound of loving, childish
calls
When daylight into sombro twi
light dies.
No little feet come dancing down the
walk;
No laughing eyes look brightly up
to me.
I yearn in vain for childish, prat
tling talk
And I am lonely now as I can be.
The ghosts walk out, and at the
midnight hour
I dimly see amidst the misty
gloom
Four childish faces, each one like
a flower,
That smile at me across the silent
room.
I smile at them, and from my easy
bed
I wave my blessing; and they fade
away;
Their loving smiles, like blessings
o'er me spread,
Hemain until- the rosy dawn of
day.
The cottage home is lonesome now,
and still;
But far away, adown the country
lane
And by the banks of sunny, rippling
rill,
I know four happy tots new
health will gain.
I sit at eventide and wait the time
to sleep,
And know full well the midnight
hour will see
Four misty forms that from the
gloom will creep
And smile their loving blessings
over me.
about the gray hairs, for thero'll bo
others in the same fix. My, but
it's going to bo a great day for all
of us Fred, Charley, Will, Bob,
Grant, Ed, Frank, Kit, Minnie, Ann,
Elma, Lu, Code but the roll is too
long to call. We'll answer "present"
as each name is called, and if per
chance the silence falls at the sound
of somo well remembered name, we'll
drop a tear and a flower for sweet
memory's sake.
The writer can wish the readers
of this department no better time
than he expects to have at the "Old
Home Week" celebration in Oregon,
Missouri.
Old Homo Week
The latter part of this month
July 27, to be more specific will bo
an epoch in the history of a lot of
people. Commoner readers may not
know many of them, but there are
thousands of them, just the same.
They are all former residents of thej
little town of Oregon, Mo., ana every
one of them who can is going to
foregather in the old town and cele
brate "Home Coming Day." They
are coming from Maine and Cali
fornia; from Manitoba and Florida;
from beneath the Union -Jack and
the Cuban Tri-Color. They are go
ing to capture the old town; ring the
old schoolbell again; climb the court
house steps; wander through Rus
sell's pasture and some or us ooys
are going swimmin' again in the Big
Tark. We are going to, sit beneath
the shade of the old trees in the
court house square and talk over the
old davs until the years slip from
our shoulders and we are again the
boys and girls of the days long dead.
We'll "tell tales out of school" until
most of us boys look foolish and
most of the girls grow rosy red. We
know three children who, God wil
linK. will be together again for the
second time since that day, weaTy
years ago, when they kissed for the
last time the face of the best mother
children ever had and laid her away
in God's acre in a little Nebraska
town. There are lines of care in
the faces of the three, and there are
strands of gray in tfceirr hair but
"Home Com)ng Day" w,lU Iron out
How It !Looks
From Northfield, Minn., comes a
most interesting letter with an in
teresting enclosure. Don't know
about Northfield? Well, well! That's
where a lively little bunch of spec
ulators from the Architect's native
state once met with a sad bump. The
aforesaid MIssourlans went to North
field for the purpose of engaging in
the banking business, but the citi
zens objected so strenuously that the
Missourians were compelled to re
tire, taking their killed and wound
ed with them. If you want to know
more about the circumstances you
should reach Bome "official" biog
raphy of the James Boys.
But that is not what the Architect
started out to say. The letter men
tioned is from Alfred Tomson, who
is good enough to say that ho al
ways begins his Commoner at the
back pages because ho is in a hurry
to be greeted by the two smiling
individuals at the top of this par
ticular page. He encloses a clip
ping containing some verses taken
from this department and translat
ed into modern Norse. Being a MIs
sourian the Architect can not read
It all, but he can get enough of it
to know that the verses were those
recently published under the caption
of "The Mighty NImrod" and relat
ing to the doings of a certain stren
uous gentleman now doing fearful
execution among the wild beasts of
the African jungle. This is the way
a stanza of it looks minus the ac
cent over a' few of the letters:
the bills handed him by his wife,
"how you women can wear such a
lot of fol-de-rol and glmcracks. Somo
of tho gowns and hats and things
you women woar theso days aro tho
limit. . Thero must bo a traco of tho
savago left in tho whole bunch of
you, else you wouldn't be forever
togging out In such finery."
Being a wiso woman Mrs. Bilson
said nothing, and finally sho got tho
check.
An hour later Mr. Bilson assumed
his station as Grand Panjandrum and
Most High Potentate of tho Anciont
and Honorablo Order of tho Big
Smokes, and if Mrs. Bilson could
have seen him in his rig out of re
galia sho would havo had Bilson
backed up in tho corner in a dress
argument for a generation to come.
Somo Eggs and Butter
There wero 200,000,000 dozen
eggs laid by Nebraska hens in 1908.
This Is a total of 1,200,000,000 oggs.
Theso eggs would average two inches
in length. If laid in a double row,
ends touching, theso eggs would
havo reached 13,381 miles further
than the railroad mileago built in
tho United States in 1908. If laid
In a ribbon five feet wide they would
havo made a sidewalk of eggs reach
ing from Omaha to Ogden. In tho
same year Nebraska manufactured
35,000,000 pounds of butter. It
would require 1,160 freight cars to
haul that much butter, making a
train nine miles long, or thirty-three
freight trains of thirty-five cars each.
And yet there are lots of us who
continue to wonder why the price of
eggs and butter remained so altitu-dinous.
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We would inslsc upon printing tlio
rest of it were we not Impelled to
feel some compassion for the genial
and urbane American operator whose
duty it Is to handle the linotype ma
chine in the office where The Com
moner is printed. He has a family
to support. But Mr. Thomson has
the Architect's thanks for his com
plimentary letter, and Ted Jones,
who translated the verses into Norse
is also thanked for his kindness.
Snd Accident
"Any accidents in your family on
the Fourth?"
"I should say so! I met with a
horrible accident."
xou aon t iook it; wnat. was tiie
ARriflnnt?"
"Thought I was giving my, boy a
nickel to spend for firecrackers and
discovered a few hours later that it
was a five dollar gold piece."
Tho Retort Courteous
"Everybody knows that you
wouldn't have had a cent if you had
not married me, and that you only
married me for my money," she
stormed.
"Well," replied Mr. Stlmbell,
plucking up his courage for once,
"everybody who knows you admits
that I earned all tho money I got
by It."
Those Men
"T really do not understand,"
thTJSTSa thW y& noT ' growled Mr". Bilson m he looked over
Brain Leaks
A bird in the bush is worth two
on tho hat.
A good start has been made If you
begin the day right.
It is easier to select a text than
it is to preach a sermon.
About the only thing sure to come
to him who waits is old age.
Aro there any cooks left who know
how to make elderberry pie?
We hope some music never sound
ed like the "critique" thereof.
Satan's busy season is when the
churches closo for tho summer.
The owl has achieved a reputation
for wisdom by merely looking wise.
Barking dogs may not bite, but
you can't always tell Just when they,
will quit barking.
All the world'.s a stage, ana a lot
of trouble is caused by people who
should be content to servo- as
"supes" trying to enact tho leading
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