THE WAYSIDE
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When the frost is on the punkin,"
as Jim Riley used to say.
And the summer leaves are tinted
red and gold;
When the squirrels are all hustling
through the blessed livelong day.
Fast storing up their food for
winter's cold;
That is when I'm feeling finer than
all emperors or kings,
And singing from the morn till late
at night:
For the orchards and the vineyards
each its richest treasure brings.
And my heart is saying: "Right! All
right!"
"When." as once remarked by Riley
Jim "the fodder's intheshock,"
And the leaves are gently whirring,
stirring down;
When Bob White from out the stubble
calls the mother of his flock.
And the meadow grass is turning
sere and brown
Then is when I'm gay and happy
from the rising of the sun.
Till the western hills begin to hide
its light;
For the weary summer's over and the
joy-time has begun.
And my heart is saying: "Right! All
right!"
When the autumn winds are blowing
o'er the meadows brown and sere,
And the corn blades turn to yellow
with the frost;
I am living and enjoying best of all
the blessed year.
Worth a whole lot more than all the
toil it cost.
So I'm full of joy and gladness while
the Indian summer haze
Tints the western blue with colors
rich and bright;
And I sing a loud thanksgiving
through the cool October days.
And my heart is saying: "Right! All
right!"
The Oifice Boy Says:
Most self-made men ain't got no
boddy but demselves t blame.
Most uv us ought t be durned
t'ankful dat we ain't gittin w'ot's
comin t' us.
De guy dat's alius complainin about
havin no show ought t' git a new
act.
After anuder feller has done de job
it's mighty easy f'r oder fellers t'
stand off an' tell how it could a bin
done better.
If you do your woik de best de boss
is goin t find it out some time, an
don't you fergit it.
De woild is lookin f'r men dat's
alius ready t do de little t'ings dat j
jus must be done.
Everybody WatcLiag.
A few nights ago Mr. Bryan ar
rived in Lincoln on a Rock Island
train, which was, as usual, late. While
waiting: for a car at Twentieth street
he was seen by a friend. The next
day the friend met Mr. Bryan and
said:
I saw you last night. Mr. Bryan."
"Is that so? Where did you see
me? lacked Mr. Bryan.
"You were standing on 0 street at
the Rock Island crossing waiting for
a car, and I went by on my car and
saw you through the window.'
"Well, well," mused Mr. Bryan.
"That just proves that I couldn't
take a drink at any bar anywhere in
this country without somebody seeing
me and telling about it."
Hit Nerve Savea Hub.
Ex-Senator William V. Allen, who
is a candidate for judge in the Nor
folk district, was a mere boy al
though a husky one when the war
broke out, and he managed to enlist
in an Iowa company. He wouldn't
lie about his age, but so managed it
that he was questioned immediately
after a chum who was not so conscien
tious. This chum, who was under
17, swore he was of age, and Allen,
being a couple of months older, mere
ly replied: "I'm older than he is,"
when questioned. That passed him.
PHILOSOPHER
A few months later Allen's regi
ment was in North Carolina, and on
pretty short rations. Strict orders
against foraging were issued, but this
did not deter the soldiers from hust
ling something on the side. One day
Allen wandered from camp and man
aged to bayonet a mighty fat shote.
Shouldering the porker he tried to
sneak back into camp but was de
tected by the officer of the day.
"Where did you get that pig?"
sharply queried the officer.
"Allen saluted, laid the pig on the
ground and replied:
"Bit me, sir, and I am taking him
to the regimental surgeon to see if it
had rabies. I'm dreadfully afraid of
rabies, sir. If the surgeon says the
pig was all nght I'm going to turn it
over to the officers' mess."
Allen and his messmates had roast
pork for supper and there was an
odor of roast pig lingering suspicious
ly near the tent of the officer of the
day about the same time.
Acting Police Judge Fullerton
seems to be something of a Solomon.
The other day a man fronted him,
charged with having demolished the
kitchenware of a neighbor. Judge
Fullerton did not fine the man. That
wouldn't have helped out the neigh
bor. So the punishment inflicted was
a sentence to replace the demolished
kitchenware. This reminds us of the
sentence Judge Waugh of Kansas
City once imposed. Two men charged
with larceny were brought before
him, one an elderly man known to
have a bad record, the other a mere
boy. It developed that the boy, who
could neither read nor write, had
been inveigled into the crime by the
older prisoner. Judge Waugh sen
tenced them both to jail, the older
one until he could teach the boy to
read and write, and the boy until he
learned.
Abdul Hamid.
There is an old Sultan in Turky
Whose morals are spotted and murky;
And he dodges and yells
While Italy's shells
Are making his nerves mighty jerky.
Optimism.
John Z. White defines an optimist
as "a man who don't give a d n what
happens, just so it doesn't happen to
him." That's pretty good, but we
know a better one.
The genuine optimist is a democrat
ic candidate for county office in Lan
caster who believes he stands a good
show of election.
Time.
There are two better days than yes
terdaytoday and tomorrow. The
only good thing about yesterday is
that its experience affords you a bet
ter chance to do the right thing to
day. And today is good because it
gives you a chance to prepare for
doing better tomorrow.
A Dozen Doa'ts.
Don't take yourself to darned seri
ously. Don't try to saw wood with a ham
mer. Don't holler before you are hurt.
Don't overlook the fact that your
rights end when your neighbor's
rights begin.
Don't imagine that every man who
smells of gasoline is the owner of an
automobile. He may have been clean
ing his own clothes.
Don't make the mistake of think
ing that merely acting like a big man
will make you big.
Don't forget that after running in
to debt you'll have to walk out.
Don't complain about politics being
"dirty" if you never do anything to
make it clean.
Don't kick if you break a tooth bit
ing at the other fellow's game.
Don't forget that a laugh pays div
idends while a groan is calling for
assessments.
Don't complain about- failing to
make both ends meet if you start
with whisky at one end and wind up
with champagne at the other.
Don't waste the other fellows time
by giving him advice you wouldn't
take yourself.
AD CLUB SMOKER.
The Lincoln Ad Club dedicated its
new quarters in the Fraternity build
ing Thursday with a "smoker" and
"gabfest," and a bit of music on the
side. President Westfall started things
off with a few timely remarks, and
then a number of members contributed
a few words. All the time the smokes
were going full tilt and everybody was
happy and proud. The quarters are
not large, but mighty cosy and com
fortable, with their leather eouehes
and easy chairs and desks and tables
and rugs. Pretty soon the walls will
be adorned with works of art, and the
tables with books and magazines. The
rooms are open until a reasonable hour
at night, and from now on you'll find
some -of the publicity men there most
any old hour. Now to bring that
northwestern district convention to
Lincoln !
IN AND AROUND THE TOWN
"Made in Lincoln' is a mighty good
sign to be looming up in various parts
of the city. It may be seen on the
structural steel work of the new
Chapin building at Fourteenth and O,
and on the new Commercial Club
building at Eleventh and P. The fact
that there is a coneern in Lincoln big
enough to handle such contracts
speaks volumes for the industrial de
velopment of the city. And, more, it
speaks a couple of volumes for the
enterprise of John Westover, whos
enterprise and energy produces the
product. There are a lot of people
in Lincoln who may not know it, but
the Westover structural iron and steel
works are to be numbered among the
big industrial plants of this western
tectiou. And. once more, the young
man who is making the business a
success is a graduate of the State
University, which speaks another vol
ume or two for Nebraska and things
Nebraskan. . .
Councilman Meier seems to have
brought a smile to the faces of a num
ber of eminent gentlemen who know
a lot more about everything than most
men know about anything. But, just
tl.-e same, Councilman Meier offer
what appears to us to be the most ra
tional explanation yet given for the
prevailing typhoid epidemic. He says
that personal investigation shows him
that a majority of those suffering from
the disease attended the Epworth as
sembly, or have intimately associated
Tith those who did attend. Certainly
uo one will claim that the water- sup
ply at Epworth park is above sus
picion. Nor is the sewerage system of
that resort all that it should be in
view of the great number of people
who camp there every summer. In
stead of pooh-poohing at Councilman
Meier's explanation some of the wise
t.nes would do well to investigate it.
The trouble with a lot of men is that
they know so much t:at isn't so.
To be sure. Pasadena is a very beau
tiful eity. and attracts those who have
money. But there are a lot of us who
haven't money enough to live in Pasa
dena and must remain right here and
toil. And it is just such as we who
insist that it is possible to earry this
"city beautiful" idea to such an ex
treme as to make it increasingly diffi
cult for a workingman to exist, much
less support a family. Just as soon
as we have fairly well solved the
problem of industrialism in this com
munity we may find time to devote to
the problem of making Lincoln more
beautiful- Just now a Busyful Lin
coln is to be preferred to a Beautiful
Lincoln.
The Lincoln Ad Club has secured
quarters in the Fraternity building,
and purposes establishing a rendezvous
for the publicity men of the city. This
organization is one of the "live wire"
bunches of Lincoln, and is doing a
splendid work, not only in advertising
Lincoln, bat in educating its member
ship along publicity lines. It has sev
eral things up its collective sleeve for
the winter season, eaeh one of which
will stir things up in good shape.
It is high time that Lincoln took
under careful advisement the matter
of park improvement. Former efforts
have been handicapped by-outside mat
ters, and it would be well to take up
the park question wholly on its merits.
ALD RICH'S BRAVE STAND.
The World-Herald is extravagant in
its praise of Governor Aldrieh for his
timely remarks at the conference of
governors in New Jersey, when he
courageously assailed the abuse of ju
dicial power in the invasion of a state's
rights by federal courts. It was the
keynote of the whole conference and
every Nebraskan who loves all round,
even-handed justice, and freedom from
usurpation of power, will glory in the
brave stand of our governor.. The
splendid words of the World-Herald
unconsciously voices the wisdom of
this people in its recent selection of a
governor at the ballot box. Here's to
the governor may he keep on grow
ing as a bold warrior in behalf of free
dom from judicial wrong, on which
the attention of the great American
people is just now centered. IHysses
Dispatch.
Lincoln ought to spend a quarter of a
million dollars on park improvements
and extensions during the next de
cade. We've been boasting a lot about our
municipal water plant, and by an in
genious system of bookkeeping we
have managed to delude ourselves into
believing that we are getting a splen
did water service at a minimum cost.
The fact of the matter is that were a
private company to give ns the service
that the municipal plant has been giv
ing us we'd be up in arms. Too much
attention has been given to making
the plant show a profit and not enough
to making the service adequate. The
municipal plant has no business to be
showing a profit every cent above
actual maintenance and improvements
should be returned in the shape of
lower rates. There are two classes of
consumers who are paying exorbitant
rates for their water the small house
holder and the large industrial cor
poration. Once again we hear rumors of a
charter committee. It makes us laugh.
A lot of men, each with a "bug" in
his head, will get together and try to
frame a charter. The result will be a
hodge podge that nobody wants. Lin
coln either wants a commission sys
tem or is satisfied with present ar
rangements. The only way to secure
a change, if a change is wanted, is for
two or three men to get together, whip
a commission charter into shape and
let it be submitted to the voters. A
"commission" made up of members
from a dozen different organizations
will do just as all former "commis
sions" have done nothing.
Couneilmen who are surprised that
Water Commissioner Tyler paid no at
tention to the order to discontinue the
use of the Rice well merely advertise
their own ignorance of municipal af
fairs. Mr. Tyler is a law unto himself.
If he wants to use the Riee well he
will use it. and the eity conneil and
the sufferers from bad city water may
go hang.
The ordinance prohibiting the carry-"
ing of a passenger on a motor eyele in
front of the driver is seemingly in
limbo with the ordinances against ex
pectorating on the sidewalk, raaolng
antos more than twelve mi!es an hoar
on the telephone poles. The motor
in the city limits and tacking placards
cyclists are paying about as much at
tention to the new ordinance as ho?s
would to a rule prohibiting them put
ting their forefeet in the trough.
Of course the city council should
reimburse the plain clothes police for
the money they spend for liquor in
trying to ferret out the "bootlesgers."
But what surprises us is that there
should be any " bootleggers" in Lin
coln under present conditions.
Mayor Armstrong's suggestion that
an expert should be called in to in
vestigate the water supply and recom
mend a remedy for any - defects that
may be found to exist, is the rational
c-ne. That there is something wrong,
not only with the water supplied, but
with the volume, is evident to the most
superficial observer. Just what it is
may require an expert to determine.
But a city's water supply is so vita!
a part of a eity's welfare that the
matter of expense must not be taken
into consideration in dealing with the
question.
With the approach of freezing
weather we may hope to soon fc? re
lieved for a time from ail this hubbub
about the "four-foot line," and get
bit of relief along other lines.
SPEAKING OF CHALLENGES.
At Cherryvale. Kan., the presides
repeated the ehallensre be issued xl
Detroit to Mr. Bryan to proJnef a
example of restraint of trade thatL.
would not come within the- ?rpe e
the supreme eonrt decisions Jn tLe
Standard Oil and tobacco trust easwt
He spoke of the criticisms, a "giib."
It would be a rejection -a the presi
dent's intelligence to assume that far
expects his remarks on the trust
tion to be taken serionsly. He knows
that Mr. Bryan has only reiterated tfcfc
criticisms contained in the dissenting
opinion of Justice Harlan and in tb
report of the senate judiciary commit
tee filed by Senator Nelson three yearx
ago. Justice Harlan and Senator Nel
son pointed out that the amendment,
written into the law by the snprtmf
court practically nullifies the criminal
clause of the anti-trust law. IMvukt
on the authorities cited by Justice Har
lan and Senator Nelson. 3Ir. Bryam
has asserted, and aserts again, that it
will be found practically impossible- S
convict a trust magnate in a erimiaa
court.
Does the president believe a erirm
ina! eonvietion possible! If sc. wfej
dees he hesitate to prosecute the oi5
cials of the Standard Oil an i baee
eon: panics
How long would it take tf see-one
a final decision in a criminal persecu
tion against a trust official? It re
quired four years and a half to stf. jts?
a judgment against the Standard Oil
company and we do not know yet
whether the "reorganization" will he
any improvement over the original
company.
The president is "b'nffTnz.''' Ife
knows that the question whiefi fce-i-aises
can not be settled nntH after
the next presidential election and tham
it does not make any difference to hism
how it is settled. By the aid of the
trusts he won the last presidential
election without proposing any rem
edy for the trusts, and he hopes fty
the aid of the trusts t win another" '
election by indorsing the retrograde
policy of the supreme court. He- may
tickle the trust magnates, who elected
him . and who give him the only hope1
he has of succeeding himself, but faa
ought not be able to deceive thos wii
are really opposed to the trnt
But. speaking of challenges, here
one for the president : Mr. Bryan chal
lenges him to make public the writtea
and verbal recommendations trpam
whieh he appointed Justice White ta
the position of chief jnt;ee ever J as
tir e Harlan and the reeommenJatiomy
written and verbal, on whieh he ap
pointed the justices whom he has
placed on the supreme bench. Diti he
know how they stood on the trust
question or was it purely accidental
that all of his appointees took t&t
trust side of the question?
He signed a publicity bill that r
quires publicity as to campaign et
tributions. Why not have a little pub
licity as to the infTr.enees that contra!
the appointment of United State
judges? William J. Bryan, m The
Commoner.
JURISPRUDENCE.
An associate justice of the Supr earns
Conrt of Patagasear was sil t in z by M
river.
"I wish to cross." said a traveler:
"Would it be lawful to use this boat I""
"It would," was the reply; st i
my boat."
- The traveler thanked him an! roared"
away, but the boat sank and Le wmm
drowned.
"Heartless man!" said an indTzaacast
spectator. "Why did yon not tell ham
that your boat had a hole in it?"
""The matter of the boat's condi
tion," said the great jurist, "was w
brought before me." Success.
WE'RE FOR DICK.
The announcement by Diet Taw
of his candidacy for the rrpuMiext
nomination for governor of TTmifr
seems to promise something of as ant
L rimer campaign in that states af
Dick Yates is a fearlessly plalnspokoa
campaigner.- Lincoln Dally Star