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Look Abeadl
! Old winter's coming swiftly with its
blighting cold and snow
To lock tho laughing fivers where tho
crystal waters flow;
But beyond tho snow clouds flying, and
beyond tho chill and gloom,
Is nnother golden summer with the
roses all a-bloom.
Cold without, and chill and dreary and
tho blasts are fierce and strong,
But within is love and laughter and
tho days are full of song,
For the snow will all be scattered and
the rivers onward flow
In another golden summer when the
fairest roses blow.
Is your life besot with trials and your
i pathway rough and steep?
Does grim fate keep step beside you
and a gloomy vigil keep?
Laugh at him and watch the coming
of a better day ahead
In another golden summer with its
fairest roses spread.
Hard Luck.
"I'm in a peck of trouble," sighed
Pinkloy.
"What's the matter, old man?"
asked Winkley.
"Matter enough. I've fixed it with
the tariff schedule committee and got
my little old tariff graft ready."
"Congratulations, old man."
"Yes, but now that I've got the tar
iff sohedule I want, blamed if I can
fthink up anything I can manufacture
to fit it."
Ia Great Troublt.
"0, but this is simply awful,"
groaned the employe in the postoffice
department.
"What's wrong, my friend?" queried
" the sympathetic listener.
"Everything. 'Here I am as siclc as
I can be and don't dare ask for the
medicine I need."
"How's that?"
,"If I ask: for pain killer I'm likely
to "be fired for lese majeste, and if I
don't-I'm likely to die with the
cramps,"
The Reformer.
He talked a Btredk about reform
And spoke of honesty;
At boodling he did loudly storm
And said, "It shouldn't be."
But when into high place he went
' And saw great signs of graft
His form with mirth was double bent
And he just laughed and laughed.
You see, hopes of reform are vain
At hands of men like Mr. Payne.
Touched.
"Hello, Blivens! You look badly.
,What's the matter?"
I'm a .victim of the X-raise."
"Jewhilllkers! Is there no rem
edy?"
"None that X know of,
Bivens and he raised the
me. You know Rlvens."
Just met
X off of
Busy.
How doth the' bus coal man now
Improve each shining minute,
And in, a trice l.otet up the price
J For all that there is in It?"
O! Ceur.
The Humb'lo Citizen, following the
usual rule, wont to the Prominent
Financier for advice.
"About seven years ago you told us
that we needed confidence and not
more money, didn't you?" queried tho
Humble Citizen.
"Yes, sir; confidence was lacking,
therefore money, which existed in
plenteous abundance, went into hid
ing and the business of the country
was paralyzed," replied the Prominent
Financier.
"And since then the per capita cir
culation has been vastly increased?"
"Yes, sir; in their wisdom the gen
tlemen guiding our finances have sup
plied the country with a vastly in
creased circulating medium."
"And every dollar is as good as any
other dollar now, isn't it?"
"Indeed it is. With the scotching of
the free silver heresy the confidence
in our fiscal institution has been
strengthened and fear no longer be
numbs our enterprises."
"And with a vastly increased cur
rency, every dollar of which is as
good as any other dollar, our business
iq booming and there is no sign of a
business depression, eh?"
"Business is not what it should be
iu industrial circles, owing to a re
stricted currency," said tho Promi
nent Financier. "We need a more
elastic currency."
"But a few years ago you told us
that money based on gold was the only
safe money. Now you talk about elas
tic currency. What does that mean?"
"Your desire for knowledge is com
mendable. By elastic currency we
mean a currency that will respond to
the demands of business. We propose
establishing it by permitting banks to
issue notes based on their assets as
sets such as first mortgage bonds, rail
road securities, penwipers and worn
erasers. This will enable the banks
to supply a volume of money suffic
ient for puhlic needs whenever an un
usual demand for mney is mani
fested." "But I thought you said we had
money enough seven years ago, and
now you say that despite the vast in
crease in the volume of currency we
"Yes, that is true. What I mean to
say is "
"That while we only lacked confi
dence then and had plenty of money,
we have plenty of confidence now, but
lack the money?"
"Yes, that's it," said the Prominent
Financier.
"And if we let the banks issue mon
ey on their assets we must, in all
fairness, let farmers issue currency on
their cribbed corn and stored wheat,
the merchant issue currency on his
calico and beans, the newspaper man
issue currency on his brass galleys
and shooting-sticks, the blacksmith on
his anvil and bellows, the "
"By no means," shouted the, Promi
nent Financier. "When you want ad
vice on money you should seek a man
who deals in money. The banks alone
should be allowed to issue money on
assets because the business of a bank
is dealing in money."
"But if the government must guar
antee the bank currency why not
have the government issue it in the
first place?" queried the innocent
Humble Citizen.
"Look here!" shouted the Promi
nent Financier. "I thought you came
to mo for advice and enlightenment
But I see you are one of them blamed
anarchists that is always trying for to
upset the established order of things.
You are one of them there"
"I wa3 only asking for information,
sir," interrupted the Humble Citizen.
"No, you ain't, either. You are one
of them blamed socialistic agitators
who is trying for to array class
against class and stir up a war be
tween labor and capital. Yon are a
menace to society and I am going for
to have nothing more to do with you."
"Strange," muttered the Humble
Citizen. "The minute a common, or
dinary fellow begins to ask questions
about this money proposition he is de
nounced as an anarchist"
In the meantime, however, the
Prominent Financier had turned and
walked angrily away.
A Stu&y Im Color.
A beautiful damsel named Mao
Thought her tresses were turning to
grae.
With a wink of the eye
She reached for the dye, - -And
Mae drove the grae all awae.
Freak ef Memory.
fWhy do you say that Howells is a
mnemonic freak?"
"Pie never forgets to holler if the
election goes wrong, but he always
forgets to register."
Brain Leaks.
Satan is an expert in selecting as
sistants. Hard won, carefully kept; easy won,
quickly lost.
Hard luck is easily broken by the
hammer of pluck.
The retailer of gossip is not a bit
worse than the consumer.
Some men attribute to 111 luck their
own lack of push and pluck.
-The young man who .does his best
i? the first man to earn a rest.
Happiness consists largely in being
satisfied with not having a great many
things we would like to have.
A great many men are religious
without having any idea of the funda
mental principles of Christianity
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The., difference between peace of
mind and piece of mind is what most
often results in disaster in the home.
The man who thinks he understands
a woman Is wiser in his own conceit
than eleven men who can render a
reason.
It is difficult to teach a monkey to
like intoxicants. It's different with
a man, and the difference is in favor
o? the monkey.
When we lean, how to run our own
business as well as we think we could
run another's business wo will turn
into Easy street.
From the belief that the public at
largo is legitimate prey to the belief
that any Individual is legitimate prey
is a very short step.
When a young woman begins declar
ing that she will never marry her
friends may confidently expect the
earlyreceipt of wedding invitations.
The young man who knows how to
say "no" at tho right time is the
young man who gets the most enjoy
ment out of saying "yes" at the right
time.
A Book and Six Bottles
Dr. S ho op's Restorative
On Trial to the Sick,
The cost is absolutely nothlntr to v if
Restorat vo falls. I Bimply a"k you to ULV
actual trial what this remedy cm" and JM
I want people to know what 1 know abou tite
prescription. Thero can bo no safe W
certain wav tn nnnvtnnn , ." i. .Fr no. mora
,:fe?P:!lorative7monthont?ffil
lllU IUUL 1H 1IIHL WI1I1T I Will M 4T
I know absrilntnlv timt. u ,ni i-S-"u.?:"K me.
will use it. I know you will "villi tat EM
cost-S5.60-.if it succeeds. I know fhfs
for live years I have made this oiler every whS
Thousands havo written for my book-hS
accepted niy pffer-and only one out or each 40
1ms said, "it did not help me," Just think ori
jt W CC0B show that 39 were helped wS
40 tried tho Restorative. I urn proud of that
record. I failed with one in 40-but there X
no expense to that sick one. M
I cannot euro cancer. No medicine pAn
There must bo Borne failures. Dr. Shoon's 1 iS
Btorative will do tho utmost that medicine can
It is my greatest achievement after thirty years
in hospitals and at bedsides. I huve found at
last, a way to euro even obstinate, deep-seated
I treat with Dr. Shoop's Restorntlve-the IN.
BIDE NERVES. Hero lfes tho secret to my
cess. It is my discovery. My Restorative is tho
pnly prescription that reaches these nerves.
Without this inside nerve treatment, I could not
offer "a month'B treatment at my risk." No
other known remedy would stand tho test.
In thousands of homes it is now constantly
kept as a safe-guard. Off days will come touj
all, but a few doses will sot things right again.
How to Secure Trial Treatment
Send no money. 8imply ask for the book you
need. A postal will do. Then I will arrange
with a druggist near you, so that you can secure
six bottles of Dr. Shoop's Restorative to make
the test. 8end mono money. You deal with your
druggist, remember. Use tho Restorative a full
month then decide. If it succeeds the tost to
you is 86.50; if it Tails I will havo tho druggist
bill tho cost to mo. Could anything be more
fair?
To delay means to forget. Write now, while
you have it in mind. This is Important.
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Box 2515, Racine, Wis.
Mild rasos. Tint chrnnln. are often cured with
one or two bottles. At druggists.
MidQletown (0.) Signal: The post
office scandal surprises no one. Tho
whole, administrative fabric of tho
government is permeated with corrup
tion, as an old cheese is sometimes in
the possession of skippers. And it ia
not to he wondered at when it is
known that boodlers are selected not
only for the subordinate position, but
even for the United States senate.
Talk
Bryan Not Deserting Silver,
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 16. Special.)
W. J. Bryan denied tonight that he
had made the statement about free sil
ver attributed to him by Prof. Brad
shaw of Iowa City, Ia. Mr. Bryan
said he had beca misquoted, that he
had not said to any one that silver
would not be an issue in the next cam
paign. The nearest approach, he de
clares, he ever made to such a state
ment is what he often has said
namely: that silver was not the para
mount issue in 1900, and is not now,
but that some phase of the money
question always is before the country.
Also ho holds that no one is in a posi
tion to say when the silver question
may become acute again.
Maupin's Little
I want to have a little heart-to-heart talk with
readers of Tho Commoner. Somebody 1 "
it was Solomon said, "Of the making of hooM
there is no end." He-or some othcr-also saw,
"O that mino enemy would write a booK. 1
have written a book not much of ono, Vr A
confess, but it's the best I have done so ftr-M
I want to Bell it. It is only ono of many boou
published not THE ono of many. It is merely
a collection of sketches and verses that liau ap
peared in THE COMMONER and other publica
tions, and is given tho titlo
Whether Common or Not
It will be vory handsomely and substantiolly
bound in cloth, will bo printed from clear typo
on gooa dooic paper, ana wi imv ';'" wnrd"
250 pages. Mr. Bryan has written a "lora0 f
for tho volume and It will havo a foe film He or
his signature attached thoroto. Other BUtw
have written better books, but no other autnor
ever wanted to sell fhis book any more t ban 1
want to sell mine. If you want to now ww
want to sell it, write mo, enclosing mer u
tho book. You needn't send the money w
tho order, ior.tbo boot win noi .-- Ea
livery until December 1,1903. .? u fp 1
von want it I'll
1O10W now wuu w ,-.-- tpf
nrlnt nnlv a few too many I lose out. 1 - T,,i
your order, and when tbo book is rcau,
notify you. Then you can send the price,
and I will send you tho book. If JA Sot
like it you can givo it to some one who docs
like either of us. nmnetingal1
I published a book onco before, expecw b t
my Vriends to buy it. Either they .neve rkne of
published it, or I overestimated the 1 nung
my friends. I am quite sure you will jub Jf
book? I know I would like to ; soil you one.
you will order now you will lift a eil1 If
from my mind. I've talked mf P?J?tor write
you want to know moro about this .matter lncb
mo. A postage Btamp is cheaper than u
of advertising space in such a valuable au
lng medium as Tho Commoner.
WILL M. MAiPINflb..
aoaa So. i7lh St;' Lincoln, Nrt-
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