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The Commoner
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 23
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gan lisping tho swootcst of all names
and his little foot, began pattering
through tho hall and to tho door
when his Httlo ears heard a fathor's
footsteps upon tho porch.
One by ono tho precious treasures
arc laid back in tho bbx. Tho tissue
paper that wraps them Is dampened
by tears that can not be hold back,
try though wo may, and In a few
moments wo live again tho long, Jong
years that havo hurried by Into tho
past. " v
Tho taxgatheror lovles no tribute
upon tho treasures In that little box.
Tho sclonco of mathematics Is help
less to compute Its valuo. More pro
clous than rubles or gold yea, muoh
fino gold are tho contents of a thou
sand treasure boxes, jealously guard
ed by loving hearts In homes scat
tered throughout this broad land of
ours.
Romembor the first time you
climbed a troo to poor Into a turtle
dove's nest? The mother ddvo flut
tered down to tho ground and acted
like alio was so helnlcss that It need-
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.ed only a little effort to catch her,
and you slid down tho street to tho
' detriment of clothes and bare logs to
'grab her. Funny, wasn't it, how she
just managed to oludo you until she
led you over a devious course far
away from her nest. And then with
a saucy flirt of her tail and a note
'of derision she up and flew away
and left you standing there feeling
very foolish.
i Curiously enough a pair of turtle
doves built their nest In a tree in
the back yard of the author's home,
and the other day the Littlest Girl
climbed up to peer into tho nest.
Mother dove nearly frightened the
Littlest Girl into fits when she first
fluttered down, but the Littlest Girl
recovored, slid down the tree and
tried to catch the poor, wounded
mother dove and help dress its
wounds. She chased 'the dove
through the back yard, down the
alley fence and into a big rosebush,
and then the dove, with that same
old saucy flirt of tho tall, and the
same old note of derision, up and
flew away. The Littlest Girl hasn't
done talking about the mother dove
yet, and her active little brain is
just beginning to grasp tho fact that
the bird was only deceiving her in
order to protect that little nest.
, Go on! What's all this hub-bub
about "nature fakirs?" Why, when
.you think of 'the cuteness of the
turtle dove, the prairie chicken and
" scores of other birds that deceive in
truders b? their imitations of help
lessness ana their clover deceits you
TRIFLES AGENTS OF FATE
Ofton it is tho llttlo things which
bring tho groat results where mys
tery is doopost. An "o" in a mis
spelled word brought .homo his crime
to the forger Pigott. It was a
couple of hairs of a squirrel which
convicted a woman of murder in a
case which had long puzzled tho po
lice. Literature has sometimes to
depend upon as slender clues as this
for establishing evidence not other
wise to bo gained. When commenta
tors on the works of Robert Louis
Stevenson were busiest they came
across a manuscript whose place of
birth they could not determine. Was
it written before he .left home or
after his arrival in Famra? There
was a crushed fly upon one of the
pages. They took this to Mr. Ver.
rall, the entomologist, and he was
able to decide. Tho fly was of a
species peculiar In tho Polynesian'
islands. Stevenson had written the
notes in his island homo. Chicago
Journal.
to shut him up for observation and
car.o. There would be an end of un
certainty and the avoidance of great
and needless- misery. Indianapolis
News.
, THE APT PUPIL
The philanthropical Fifth avenue
lady was visiting a lower east-side
Sunday school. To test the aptness
of a particularly indigent cluster of
pupils she took the class in hand to
question them.
"Children, which is the greatest
of all virtues?"
, Not one answered.
"Think a little. 'What is it I am
doing when I give up time and pleas
ure to x:ome down among you for
your moral good?"
A grimy fist went up.
"Well, what am I doing, little
boy?"
"Buttin' in!" Life.
SIGN OF CONVALESCENCE
The small boy had been very ili
but he was on the convalescent list,
to the family's great joy, and this is
how they knew. When the doctor
came in the other morning the lad
piped up! "Say, I want something
to eat. I'm tired of taking nourish
ment." Boston Herald.
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HOW THE VILLAGE PROGRESSED
"Well, well!" exclaimed the man
who had wandered back to the vil
lage. "So the Eagle House Is still
the Eagle House? No change after
twenty years."
"There hev been a few .changes,"
asserted tho oldest inhabitant with
some acerbity. "Since you've been
gone the hotel hez been respectively
the Grand Union, the Grand Central,
the Grand Junction, the Great North
ern, the Great Southern, the Imper
ial, tho Regal, the Empire, the Mon
arch, the Prince o' Wales, the Re
gent, an' a few other royalties which
I disrecollect, the Mansion House six
times an' the Eagle House seven, the
latter happenln' to be its proud pat
ronymic at present writin'. Plunk-
THE NEW STYLE
In order that the young man may
know what is coming to liim when
he asks a girl to . marry him, we
quote the following acceptance from
a popular novel: -
"She put her flower-like face to
mine.
" 'My first thought of you and my
last are the same, beloved,' she an
swered, . 'and the thought is this
that you have a heart for whose
belated waking queens might keep
vigil;"
Does a man, in addition to the con
tract to buy a woman's clothes and
groceries f or the rest of her life,
have to stand for something like
this? Atchison Globe.
- THEY DISAGREED
"These fellows were fighting,"
said the noliceman.
ville, my travelled friend, hain't so ''Your- honor," began one of the
all-fired behind the times ez you prisoners, "I beg of you not to ac
Life and Speeches
of W. J. Bryan
Illustrated octayo, 465 pages, published In
1900, nothing later, nothing in print more
complete A few copies, last of publisher's
stock tit ffr.eatly reduced price. Substantially
bound in oloth, by mail, prepaid, $1.00 copy.
G.H. WALTERS, ffijfiaa
seem to
Herald.
Imagine." Washington
THE TOOTH OF TIME
There was nothing William Hobart
enjoyed more than making what he
called "appropriate quotations." The
fact that he sometimes added to them
the flavor of his own ignorance never
troubled him at all.
One day, when calling on a neigh
bor, he was shown a much battered
stone pestle which had been un
cept so crude a misconstruction of
our acts. Doubtless you havo heard
of a 'gentleman's agreement?' "
"Certainly."
"Well, we had one, but it had pro
gressed to the stage where it be
came a 'gentleman's disagreement.' "
Yet was the judge deaf to reason.
Philadelphia Ledger.
SOME CONSOLATION
Prices are on a higher level than
thev have been for aevrmtfifin vpovh
WWM Ul I " . Z " rf -,
earthed in the garden. The neigh- according to the bureau of labor,
bor's son, who had small use or rev- We are glad to know they are on
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orence for ancient articles, remarked
facetiously that it looked as if a
dozen dogs had chewed it.
Tr mA -XTfUr. TXUl U1.AJ
"uji U.HU. vt iiiium uuuui i luuucu
are ready to believe almost any old volumes of reproof at this graceless
story told .about the inhabitants of young person, "this is the work of no
the Holds and-woods.
BOSTON GREETS KUROKI
Boston greeted Kurokl with cries
of Beauzal! Minneapolis Journal.
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ache, or othor pains or aches by thoso
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Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. They simply
, takoa tablet when the symptoms ap-
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animals; these are the ravages of
the tooth of time." Youth's Companion.
Dr.
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on tho nerves ami muscles quiet and
refresh tho Irritated conditions.
"Dr. Miles' Antl-Paln Pills always
cure my headache, and tho beauty of
it Is, it costs such a trifle.-I am glad
thero Is such a remedy for people who
must work, sick or well. Headaches
never provont mo from keeping mv
engagements." J
MRS. G. N. GRIFFITH. Santa Ana. Cal.
The first package will bonolit, if not,
tho druggist will return your money!
25 doses, 25 cents, Novor sold in
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WISE OLD NOAH
Noah was looking at his famous
collection of living wild beasts.
"I could write a lot of stories
about these animals," he said, "that
would put the whole collection of
nature fakers on the ragged edger
but what would be the use? I'd get
a call-down from the White House as
sure as fate."
Sternly resisting the temptation to
mix in, he ordered Ham to change
the course of the vessel two points
to starboard and went back to his
cabin to take . a nap. Chicago
Tribune.
the level, even if it is higher.-
cago Journal.
MEETING TROUBLE
More people would snap their
fingers in the face of trouble if
trouble didn't have such a sudden
way of swooping down on us. Chi
cago Record-Herald.
MR. METCALFE'S BOOK
"OF SUCH IS
THE KINGDOM"
And Other Stories from Life
NOW READY FOR DELIVERY
JOHN M. HARLAN, Associate Justice. United
States Supreme Court: Your little book, 'Of Such
is the Kingdom.' has been read by me 'with jnore
than ordinary interest. Indeed I have read it
through twice. No one can read thes stories from
life without both interest and profit, or without hav
ing a higher conception of his duty to God and to
his fcllowmnn."
Cloth bound, printed from clear typo on
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Address
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WHAT TO DO WITH "MAD" DOG3
There are cases of hydrophobic
Experienced dog doctors can detect
them. Their symptoms are well
Known. But they are not frequent
compared with the popular notion
and a great deal of needless suffer
ing would be avoided if the idea
could be inculcated that the danger
f rom-a case of hydrophobia is so rare
as almost to be negligible and that
the wise thing to do with a dog sup
posedly afflicted with the malady is
WHO?
Who is it that, when tilings get quiet,v
When there is neither war nor riot
And scandal dies out for a day,
Stirs up the people in some way?
The President'.
(
Who dallies with majestic things?
Who squelches haughty railroad
kings?
Who sends his orders overseas
And regulates- our sewing bees?
The President.
Who kindles the celestial fires?
Who sorts the truthful from the
liars?
Who sends the winds and brings the
j ; rain?
Who makes the stQrk's first- duty
. , - plain? .
, The President.
,Who keeps the world .from going
wrong? ,
Who never lets us sit still for long
By doubt assailed or wonder vexed
While asking what he may do next'
The President.
w.'. , Chicago Record-Herald.
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POR SALE FRUIT FARM IN SUNNY
1 South; about five thousand apple
and peach, best varieties, peach crop
coming; S3 acres, two' houses, fish
pond, spring, adjoins plat, railroad
town, price $7,500; will sell or trade;
prefer east Kansas or Oklahoma land;
good reasons for selling. Write owner;
would also sell my eight-room dwel
llng. L. H. Moore, Gentry, Arkansas.
17 OR SALE SEVERAL HEAD OF
, thoroughbred short horn cattle, in
cluding two calves and throe cows. If
interested addrqss W. J. Bryan, Lin
coln, Neb.
T-EXAS LANDS FOR SALE SMALL,
farms: also largo unimproved
tracts for colonization in the Pan
handle, Texas; also in Northern, West
?rn nd Southern 'Toxas, Prices rang
ing $1.00 to $20 per aero"; easy terms;
big emigration there; selling fast;
prices will double in year; get in tho
procession. I am on the ground.
Write me, or call. M. F. Johnson, Mo
bootie, Texas.
17 OR SALE A GOOD TEXAS BLACK
Land Farm, level prairie, 209
acres, 4 miles southwest of Kauf
man, Kaufman county, Texas. About
50 acres each in cotton and corn, 15
acres in oats, 10 acres in pasture, 84
good meadow, 4-room house, barn 30x
30, granary 14x14. This land is worth
$100 an acre; if sold in a short time
will take $60 an acre, one-half cash,
balance ,in four years at 8 per cent
intorost. Owner's interest in crop thia
year, one-fourth and one-third, throwa
In. Joe T. Burgher & Co., Fort WorUk
Texas.
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