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The Commoner. Vol. a, No. 7 u w IX i ft v i i ' iv it, j ' i. i Whether Common or Not. Tho OpUmlflt Tho nnilmfat. Whon tho world seems dark and dreary, Storn and cold; And the days are long, and weary Cares unfold; Kcop your mind upon tho morrow; Caro and trouble never borrow; Sing of hopo, and not of sorrow, ' Bravo and bold. Sot to work with cheerful smiling Bv'ry day. Sing glad songs to bo beguiling Hours away. Llfo is always what you make It; Joy Is yours If you will take It; Grasp tho tree of hopo and shako it, And bo gay. Waste not golden hours in grieving For tho past. Up and on, tho dead past leaving Travel fast! Strugglo on with strong endeavor; Bid farewell to blues forovor: Shackles forged by failure sever, From your enst. Houso yoursolf! Be up and doing While you may. Opportunity pursuing Day by day. Back of each dark cloud is shining ' Joy's eternal silver lining; In -your heart sweet hopo enshrining, Work away. To your task your best work giving Day by day, Life will bo well worth tho living All tho way. Waste not time in idle weeping; Sowing must precede tho reaping; Put your fato in God's safo keeping Work and pray. Next Day. There was a young man in Cadiz Who went on a terriblo whiz. When ho cured his sore head His employer said Ho didn't need him in his biz. Strictly Parliamentary. "Do you moan to call mo a liar?" "Not at all, my dear sir. I only mean to say that your ratiocination Is marked by a plontitude of digres sions from tho strict lino of veracity." "Well, that's all right. Your ex planation Is perfectly satisfactory." Tho Strenuous. "It appears to me," remarked Aunt Jorusha, as sho pushed her spectacles up over hor forehead and laid her knitting aside, "that the executive defi nition of strenuous Is that if another man call him a liar ho will hit the other man, but if he calls another man a liar tho other man should bo con tent with demanding nn nmn.ni . ligation." '" 1UV0B- Reversible. "It is tho opinion of the court " re marked the judge, "that In .this 'case, iii i ' i 1 ? 1 ...i n !... ,. wuuru uiuru is opportunity ior our great captains of industry to make a stake, the constitution should bo sus pended. Its operations aro calculated to retard tho. work of filvlHznMnn nn.1 assimilation, to say nothing of gral.' allinsightlzation. Therefore it is held that the constitution shall be Ignored. In this other case before us, however, It seems that ignoring the constitution would work an injury to the great captains of industry, therefore we feel tunc it is necessary to insist upon o strict interpretation and enforcement of tho constitution, because any other course would only result In great good to tho masses who should delight in adding to tho good work performed by tho aforesaid captains." So saying, it was entered of record that tho looting should continue and that tho people of the northwest should submit to the moreer unlnsn they succeeded in discovering sums other way of stopping It. Calculations Upset. Meandering Mike "Please, mum would you give a poor man a small blto o' sumthin' t' eat. I regret do necessity dat compels me t' ask die favor, but do troot is mo calculations has been upset " Mrs. Nuwed "Certainly, my poor man. Step right in. May I ask what arrangements you had made and were forced to abandon?" Meandering Mike "Cert, mum. You see I had a date t eat wid de president t'day, but owln' f circumstances hp pulled back de invito an' I hadn't made any other arrangements f'r mo grub." Brain Leaks. Truo friendship says little and does much. The earnest Christian lives in a con tinued state of repentence. Stealing is not confined to taking tho product of men's hands. Lovers' quarrels are popular because it Is such fun "making up." Some creatures that wear trousers are only called men through courtesy Duty well done is the seed from whence springs the flower of pleasure While waiting for your ship to como in busy yourself building a safe harbor' Interest on tho church mortgage is money taken from the missionary The man who neglects' the primaries ticket0 m0ml rlgUt t0 bJeCt t0 the The influence of a well ordered horn.; makes better boys "than curfew' ordll nances. The Bible and Shakespeare are the ta plntked abUt and least read b00 It is no sign of a Christian to wear a face long enough to eat oats 'out o? a churn. pled rW011 solution' was ear ned out Hades would be a howling wilderness. , .. . uw"fe Time never bangs heavily .on the hands of a man who faces a promis sory note. This would bo a happy world if tho rich would do ;what the poor would like to do. It is well to be slow in following the advico of tho man who does not set 5. the example. Manhood would be a heavy burden were It not for the recollections of our youthful days. Satan always uses thn finish look ing bait, but it never tastes good when it is swallowed. . , Too many people give God. promis sory notes in order to have cash to spend with Satan. It is no disgrace- to be poor,' unless your own laziness and improvidence is the cause of It. The man who waits for something to turn up is never disappointedbut it is usually nis toes. There, are a number of men' in this country who are travelling on the re putation their fathers made. Worrying about trouble that may come is like taking medicine for a urease mat wo aro afraid we may con tract. This is the season of the year when nine men out of ten are preparing to put $100 worth of work on a $1.75 garden. Disease and death would disnnnonr forever if( every young medical grad uate understood his business, 0s well as he thinks he does. . The young man who works just hard enough to hold his situation is always complaining , because of a scarcity of chances for promotion. The young man whose chief ambi tion is to accumulate a' large stock of neckties usually becomes the husband of a woman who has to hustle to sup ply the family larder. - ' ' . Will- M. Maupin. ,the Bugle Song, He went away to the war that day To the swinging bugle song: ' All stanch and true in his suit of' blue mm Lstudy' brave and strone Mid the tramp of feet and the loud arum beat, And the ringing of the cheers, There were none to see such a one as sno, Who could not see for tears. And S! again came the marching With the bugle singing still; Yet music's surge was a sighing All sad and slow and shrill TrT? wept; and a soldier slept An3 6 dramless' Bilent sleep; P wLngf6 Sng had" a For the buglers sometimes weep. ADd "ndSrf'3' lm'e While the Will coax. them to the line And the lilting strains on 'the hills i and plains nuis Still echo far and fine. But tliewlta of blue, and the sabres, And thfl wnirn o,l i u . When it. H?r-iini , ,. -w u. NcSsirin is E2& ' STOPS THE ennnti r f"2 Works off the Cold. 1: $1.25 THE COMMONER and THRICE-A-WEEK WORLD, both for one year, $1.25, for a limited time only. Sub scriptions must be sent to THE COM MONER, Lincoln, Neb. No commis sion allowed to agents on this club offer. Journalistic Asininlty. The weakest part of the Minneapolis Journal has for years been known to ne its editorial page. More senseless drivel appears upon that page than in any other daily in the northwest. In stances could be cited by the score, provided anyone kept track of them; but nobody accords them more than passing notice as they occur from day to day. Here, hnwovpr la o an,4- sample: "According to the methods of- ex pression adopted by our democratic friends during the last campaign, we yesterday bought 40,000 people in tho Danish East Indies at the rate of $100 per head. Yet we didn't observe any determined opposition to this purchase of human beings by the democratic senators. Perhaps it was the rate they tm mi ""-""s i" i" me case of the Philippines. It may be that they con sider $2 per head a little cheap for such a fine national problem." What resemblance is there between the two purchases, anyhow? In tho case of the Philippines the republican party, in the name of the United States, purchased at $2 per head a giv en number of rebels against Spanish tyranny, in the hope that it might bo ab e to subdue and make use of them quicker than Spain could. It literal ly purchased the inhabitants of the islands for the sake of acquiring the rieht to mmvini. ., .., , . .taking from them their possessions ,; II r OI cne JJan,sil East-Indies the islands and not the inhabitants were sold. Tho treaty in this case stipulated that the inhabitants may remain Danish subjects if they gb choose and that they are to have twd years in which to decide as to whioh government they prefer to swear al legiance to. CiuUa o , " "x .ai sltlon, i3 lt ntf-Ano, (Mrnnf - WNM. GET MAD When FrJoud. Toll tho Truth w?ny.people becme coffee topers 225? ft" -d would" l clole friend UU8CnDeU Ven ' fullvWinLPaVn,yone t0 examine care-' fully into whether or not coffen hn gained the mastery over them A cc ' VTT mF suspect that his oVheV ails come from coffee drinkine- hSt with its work Ina? rt m " ses on the disease is &g$SZt "mSeS Wo provided ?& W4tnout trou- froperrprepted aa tobS? the color, flavor n mi JL ? ,ing out has a rich bHM? k food value- ' " changes to the LiSroW5 Clor and ood'eJS ffJaSg when anyonewosr nPrrk fltomanh hl?"8.1? system or f!" j turbed coffee; QDalanc8d or a&XN-