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Recompense
Just a , stretch of heavy toiling
through the weary hours of
day,
Hour by hour the age-old round of
daily strife;
Just a seige of patient plodding
from the morn till twilight
gray
That's the way too many fellows
measure life.
Not for me! My labors lighten and
the hours swiftly fly
When I think of welcome waiting
at the door.
Where the wife and kiddies, watch
ing, hear my footsteps draw
ing nigh,
When the -day and all its weari
ness is o'er.
There's a strain of childish laughter
ringing with the hammer's
beat;
There's an answer for each gleam
ing spark that flies.
To the swift wheels' rushing move
ment there's the trip of childish
feet,
And the light that always gleams
a in children's eyes.
Ev'ry ladened hour is lightened with
the joy of making good
, For the little ones God gave into
my care;
So I whistle through my labors as
a happy daddy should,
p Thinking only of the welcome
, waiting there.
Life is something more than lahor,
something more than carking
care
It is love and hope and happiness
and peace.
'Tis a gift whose daily pleasure we
should ever haste to share,
Kpn..w ,. grea. returns
will never cease.
Look beyond the weary present as
"on toll (bo livelong div
Think beyond to where the kiddies
watch and wait.
Bless the chance to love and labor
as you trudge along the way
'Tis for those who stand to greet
you at the gate.
To llio Victors, Etc.
Possess vour souls in patience,
friends;
'Tis true you long have waited.
Bu ""ti longest fnstinnr ends
You'll soon be satiated.
Don't crowd. Let progress he as slow
As that writ of by Bunyan.
He restine: in Bermuda now
And may hand you an onion.
Modern Definitions
Philanthropist One who amasses
millions through special privilege
and seeks to buy absolution by giv
ing a part of it back to the victims.
Muokraker One who isn't afraid
to soil his hands in digging after the
real facts.
Santa Claus A jolly old gentle
man who is well known to every
body save the chronic grouch, tba
mental dyspeptic and tho miter.
Maybe
Why, If tllOV lot wnnrnn vnf ,ni
soon have no housekeeper!. Tho
women will all bo politicians."
"That may bo true," sweetly re
plied Mrs. Equal ry, "but would that
be any worse than bavin n nnmv
, o-'op'-pppers and so few home sup-
IJUi IUI8.
Success
"How is Wrighterly coming on in
his liierarv pursuits?"
"He is getting along line."
"How do you know?"
"Well, ho has just bad one of his
poems accepted by a leading maga
zine." "What was it about?"
"Nobody knows. That's the reason
the magazine accepted it."
Limcrlo
There was a young man in Ky.
Whoso comrades looked on him
as Ly.
But we who were wise
To the lad's enterprise
Gave credit because he was Py.
Kusy
"What is Mrs. Makerly so happy
about?"
"She has just discovered a fluid
that will erase ink without leaving a
trace."
"And what has that got to do with
it?"
"She will be able to use the
Christmas cards she got last year,
and thus save money to buy a lot of
things she don't need from a store
that gives trading stamps."
JAMK8 MA.VAIIAN
James Mnnnhnn ran for congress
man-at-largo in Minnesota as a re
publican a progressive republican.
Ho kept clear of entanglement with
tho Roosevelt candidacy. Ho scorned
tho expedient courso, which to many
soemed tho sur road to immodlato
success. He fought a straight-out
"Klit for principles. His platform
was the platform laid down by tho
La Follette delegates at tho national
republican convention. And ho car
ried every county In the state; ho
won by tho amazing majority of
more than 90,000 votos!
A wonderful victory! Tho pro
gressive cause will bo strengthened
by the entrance of tho able, force
ful, uncompromising Manahan Into
the ranks of the progressive repub
licans in congress. Minnesota, and
the rest of the country, will bo Intel
ligently and faithfully represented
by this man whoso tight against tho
Hill Interests and tho pxprcss and
sleeping car trusts aroused national
Interest. What Is more, Mr. Mana
ban's rousing victory carries renewed
encouragement to every progressive
republican In the nation. It serves
to measure not alone the approval
given to Manahan's character and
his record by the voters of Minne
sota, but also the degrco to which
the public mind has accepted tho
principles of government set forth
in the platform submitted to tho re
publican national convention by tho
delegates from North Dakota arid
Wisconsin. It means that tho re
publican "strongholds" are seeking
instruments through which to make
the Wisconsin way tho national way.
This Is the deeper significance of
Manahan's election. La Folletto'8,
with all other true progressives, re
joices. La Toilette's Magazine.
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