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The Commoner.
VOLUME 10, NUMBER 1J
dome on. Boys
Reminder
"What's the string around the
thumb for, Wilkins?"
"Just to remind me that my wire
didn't tell mo' to bring homo some
thing this evening."
"Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, O give, me back my heart."
Lord Byron.
Maid of Lincoln, coy, serene,
Tell me natural or blondine.
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April
Tho litLlo buda begin to swell,
Tho grass 1b showing green;
Tho unlocked rills nro flowing on
With rippling, silvery sheen.
The chickens scratch my garden plot
Dosplto tho clod's I've flung,
And by these Bigns I'm confldont
That spring's been sprung.
Tho burning hoopsklrt taints tho air,
Tho dust clouds sail on high;
And from somo hiding placo un
known Now comes the noisome fly.
I'vo got to boat a lot of rugs
Upon tho clotheslino hung,
And by thoso signs I know full well
That spring's been sprung.
My bottor half has got a cloth
Tied tight around her head;
Tho bodclothos and tho furniture
Aro In tho back yard spread.
Tho mollis sho gots aro mighty scant
Although sho knows I'm hung
Ity as a boar and thus I know
That spring's been sprung.
coin after having visited northwest
ern Nebraska. There had been a
heavy rain tho night before, and
Prof. Condra noted with regret now
tho soil had been waBbed into tho
draws from many fields.
"Lord, what a waste, he ex
claimed, looking back from tho car
window and facing tho governor.
"Young man!" exclaimed a 300
pound woman sitting across tho aisle,
"such personal remarks aro very un
becoming and very ungontlemaniy.
Next!
"Man wants but llttlo.horo below,"
Thus saith an ancient song;
There's ono sad thing about it,
though,
Ho gets that little wrong.
Chicago Record-Herald.
And if ho gets that little right
He's such a pesky kind
That having nothing more in sight
Destroys his peace of mind.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Information Wanted
It is something that has been puz
zling us for somothlng llko forty
two or throo years, and If thoro is
anyono who can holp us out wo
would bo grateful for his assistance.
Perhaps you havo often noticed
tho samo thing. When spring comes
and you start out to mako garden,
did you ovor notice that overy spado
full of dirt you turn up discloses
from four to a dozen big, fat, juicy
angloworms tho kind that bull
heads lovo to grab for and channel
cat and porch and bass jump for
with greedy appetites?
It scorns then as if all tho anglo
worms in tho world had emigrated
to your garden.
But when the Ashing season opens
and you grab that samo spado and
hlo into that samo garden patch for
tho purpose of digging a can of
worms for bait, you havo to spado
until your back aches and your hands
aro blistered boforo you manage to
gather in a about a dozen measoly
little worms that a self-respecting
fish would turn up its nose at If it
had a nose unless It chanced to bo
awfully hungry.
We havo noticed this overy spring
for two score years, and now we aro
more than ever anxious for an explanation.
"Man wants but little here below,"
As ho makes his little march.
Ho tries to grab the sugar, though,
When tho trust hands out tho
starch.
, St. Louis Times.
"Man wants but little hero below,"
A little for a while;
For littlo shake-downs here and
thero
In time make quite a pile.
t Philadelphia Telegraph.
"Man wants but little here below,"
nut wants it o or ana o'er;
And every time it's given him
He wants a little more.
Kansas City Post.
"Man wants but little here below,"
And this I take with grace,
For just a little dope like this
Will nil a lot of space.
Concerning Uncle Joe
The way tho "Insurgents" licked
Uncle Joe Cannon tho other day re
minds mo of tho way Artemus Ward
got tho bettor of his antagonist.
First Artemus jammed his eye
right over tho other fellow's finger.
Then, to mako it more effective
ho stuck his thumb in the other fel
low's mouth.
And as a final stroke he plumped
his stomach up against tho other
fellow's kneo.
That's the way Artemus whipped
his antagonist.
Isn't that sort o' familiar?
Sarcastic
"I think the new minister's wife
Is just too mean for anything."
"What makes you think so?"
"Sho called tho other day while
I was tryiuc to find a hutton to
match thom on my husband's coat,
and sho said, 'Perhaps I kin help
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"Why, I think that was kind of
her."
"Yes, but she pulled a dozen or
more buttons out of her handbag
and mighty soon found one just like
them on his coat. Then she kinder
smiled and went to talkin' about
somethin' else."
Too Personal
Professor Condra of the Univer
sity of Nebraska knows more .about
the goology and soil formation of
Nebraska than any other living man.
And he Is something of a crank on
tho matter of soil saving, which
leads him to talk in season and out
of season about '"erosion" and all
that sort of thing.
About a year ago he and Governor
Shallenborger were traveling togeth
er on a train, coming back to Lln-
Great Scheme
Wo pondered over the problem for
a long time. Finally we reached the
solution.
We simply made our neighbor's
hens believe that we had bought
them. Now they scratch up his gar
den instead of ours.
Maybe we can raise a couple of
messes of gaTden truck before the
poultry discovers what a cheat and
a swindler we are.
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