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MHM mn OCTOBER 28, 1904 The Commoner. 15 'W Republican Symbols t900 L9JH "jliU I TMIWIIII ill i , 4- i r '" '- L ... hi m ipm L9.08 t : V r If -S4 - j j 3 - V . 4& iiuu 1 vimleu Indiana in 1UUU 1 saw everywhere pictures of a full din nerpail. The republicans used it as a symbol of the working man's pros perity. I have now been in Indiana lor four days and I have not seen a pieiuro of a single full dinnerpail, yet. What is the symbol this year? Sen ator Beveridge says now that the coffee pot is the test of prosperity an- as serts that we use three times t.s much coffee as we did under a democratic : administration. It Is a long stop from a full dinnerpall to a cofTee pot. Cof fee is a great deal thinner than bread and meat. Maybe the laboring man Is using coffee as a stimulant so that he will not feel the loss of bread so much. I What will the republican symbol be in 1 ho Wooubbx. Settin' here tonight, I'm thinkin' Of a home I ust to know; x Sort o'starts my heart a-sinkln', That old scene of long ago. In a kitchen I'm a-lookin', In a farmhouse in a grove, Past old mother there a-coouln', Is the wood box 'hind the stove. Recollect, don't you, mister? ' . You can see it same as me; 'Member how yer hands 'ud blister, Now and then? An' splinters, gee! See the chips an' bark it's holdin'? Not a single stick of wood; Hear old mother at you scoldin', Tellin you to fill it good? Ust to seem that box, you 'member, Hardly gave you time to play Kep you mad clean from September Till warm weather come in May; Seemed as though 'twould kill you, still it Didn't, now I'll tell you true; Fer the chance I'd gladly fill it; Yes, you bet, ah you would, too. Bide Dudley, in Kansas City Star. palace he found all the chiefs assem bled, with a native band, so he pro ceeded with his escort of rugged Amer 4can regulars, to where' the chief -sat. One of the first questions the native asked was: "Are you Christians?" The suddenness of the attack might have disconcerted the diplomatic cap tain, but he was, equal to the occasion and quickly answered: "No, your highness, we are Bap tists." , "It is well," was the reply. They tnen proceeded to business. With a Difference When Captain Pershing, U. S. A., on duty In the Philippines, was sent to reconcile the native dato to our ways of thinking, Jie was cautioned about the chief's great aversion to Chris tians, says Llppincott's Magazine. In the eyes of the Filipinos there are only two religions in the world Mo hammedanism and Christianity, his pr-onle representing the former and the Catholicism of the Snaniards the lat ter. On arriving, at the dato's bamboo HEADACHE Frequent, or periodical headaches,' weaken the brain, and very often extlnuula i the llR'it o rcas-on. Dr. Miles' Antl-Pnln PUls will cure headache quickly, by Boothlnij the Irritated nerve- of the brain. They also prevent pain if taken when flrat svmptoms of headache appear. 26 dosea, 25c Never Bold in.bullc. , Open to Temptation ) about the white ribbon which is the sign of total abstinence, 'says the New ork Tribune. "There are some persons," said Mrs. Burdette. "who don't wear the white ribbon with sincerity. They wear it, perhaps, about as hypocritically as ifr was worn by an employe of a cer tain brewery. x "This employe, after years of dissi pation, appeared one day at the brew ery with the white ribbon on his breast. Nothing was said to him, and he wore the ribbon for some months. Then one day the head of the firm, happening to notice the man's badge, approached him. M 'Why, Frank,' he said, 'it Is strange to see you, a brewer, wearing the white ribbon.' " 'It does look strange., sir,' the man admitted. "'Well,' said the brewer, 'why do you do it?' 'It is like this.' said the workman. t wear the ribbon because it makes men Hire to tempt me; and when I'm tempted I succumb, sir.'" done for many years, to "God Savo the Queen" mow the King); and the Ger mans sing It to the words "Hell Dlr im Sieger Kranz" (meaning "Hall the Wreath of Victory"). The tune has great qualities, and it would be interesting to know exactly where it originated. Everywhere. A Tune of Three Nitfons It is si fact -worth' noticing, that the tune to which we generally sing "My Countrv TiS-of.T.bee,", is also used by two other nations Jn patriotic sones. The English attach it, as they Iiave Hoar's Earnest Protest Perhaps Mr. Hoar's most earnest protest against his party was on the Philippine annexation. The old sena tor was an eloquent speaker and made many splendid speeches In the senate But none of them exceeded that which he made in the senate in May, 1902, on the Philippine question. "I have sometimes fancied," said Mr. Hoar In that great effort, "that we might erect here in the capital of the country a column to American liberty which alone might rival In height the beauti ful and simple shaft which wo have erecfed to the fame of the Father ot His Country. I can fancy each gener ation bringing its Inscription which should recite its own contribution to the great structure of which the col umn should be but the symbol." And then he pictures the Puritan, saying: "I brought the torch of freedom across the sea. I cleared the forest. I subdued the savage and the wild beast I laid in Christian liberty and law the foundations of empire." And then the Colonial: "I stood by the side of England on many a hard-fought field. I helped humble ine power of France. I saw the lilies 0 down before the lion at Louis burg and Quebec. I carried the cress of St. Geortre Jn triumph in Martinique and the Havana. I knew the stormy pathwavs of the ocean." And then the Revolutionary: t nnnmintprpd the power of Fnc- land. I declared and won the indepen- rlf.nre of mv country. T nia"ea "ioj declaration on the rternal Pr'ncinles nf i?rI"p and ri"hteo"snpRs wbn all manHnd have read and on wn"b nil mankind will one day stand. I affirmed 1U08? Possibly a watur pltcnur to snow that ho can not oven afford coffee, it is as long n step from the full dinner pail to the coffee pot as it is from tho coffee pot to the water pitcher. (Extract from Mr. Bryan's speech at Columbus, Ind.) the dignity of human nature and the right of the people to govern them selves." And then ho turns to tho generation of today: "And now what have wo to say 7 What have we to say? Are wo to Iiavo a place In that honorable company? Must we engrave upon that column 'Wo repealed tho Declaration of Inde pendence? Ve changed the Monroo doctrine from a doctrine of eternal righteousness and justice, resting on the consent of the governed, to a doc trine of brutal solfishness, locking only to our o,vn advantage? Wo crushed tho only republic In Asia. We made war upon the only Christian people in the oust? No, Mr. President! Never, never! Other and I etter councils will ct prevail. The hours are long In the life of a great people. Tho frrovocablo step Is not yet taken. Lot us at least have this to say: 'Wo, too, have kept the faith of the Father. We took CuUil by the iand. We delivered her from her ace-long bondage. We welcomed her to the family of nations. We set mankind an example nevtr beheld be fore of moderation and victory. Wo returned benefit for inlury and pity for cruelty. We made the name of America loved in the oast as in the west. We kept faith with the Philip pine peonle. We kept faith with our own historv. We kept our national ronor unsullied. The flag wbieh we reeeived without a rp,nt wp banded dewn without a stain.' " Baltimore Sun. Tho Inference. Babbi Hlrsch. of Cblcaro, was riding in a crowded street car and rose to sur render his peat to a lndv. relates tho wpw York Tribune. Before she cold ta''e it a vonntr man plumnpd himself t"to It The rabbi looked at him In dJp"Qrpfi s'Tenee. "What' the matter?" demandpd the man. "What veh HarJn' a1, me for? Yeh looV a f h'd lle to vet me." "T am forbfMcn to eat "ou.' an swered the rabbi. "I am a Jew." fr ' .- o y . ' o