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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob.
The Knox presidential boom is standing
on its dignity. .,,'.,.,
Tho emperor of Korea was a '"standpatter"
until he was bumped.
. ColonelMartini seems to be holding second
nlRRO t.rt lit. lonaf rni niaa'llAn(Ul v
AJK'7 ivomBuymi uuum,
--itr','T-h Cortolyou presidential boom 'recalls
the issue of government by subscription.
Now will the papers that shouted against
government ownership shy at effective legislation?
There is, no doubt that tho republican party
it getting into deop water but can Fairbanks
rescue it?
The president is enjoying a rest at Oyster
Bay, but his' press agent seems to be working
overtime.
If the one-rail railroad becomes a success,
the steel trust will insist upon an increase in
the tariff.
A lot of .people are crying for war' in the
nope that war talk will drown out demands
for tariff revision.
The trouble about a stiff fine for the Stand
ard Oil company is the "flare-back" that is sure
to catch the public.
The Cortelyou presidential boom is calcul
ated to make Cornelius i. Bliss sit up and
reach' for his. receipt book.
Why all this fuss about an occasional Jap
photographing our forts. That's the only way
they can over "take" them.
After all, it seems that Mr. Rockefeller was
not one-half so excited as Judge Landis, the
v. baliffs and tho general populace.
"Is tho bathing suit a crime?" queries a
southern contemporary. Well, hardly. At most
it can bo only a petty misdemeanor.
At least we must give the Japanese credit
i for not making any pretensions of being engaged
in the task of "benevolent assimilation,"
i, J?ne ' Rockefellor's near relatives says
he "lives in the clouds." It is about time for
those clouds to do a little precipitating
John Teninle Graves )mvin o.iin.i .,.
a reformed paragrapher can go to heaven, tho
Washington Herald asks: "But can a reformed
paragrapher got a job?" Of course, but not as
a paragrapher. He can get a job writing long
oditorials for a papor that nobody reads.
It is roported that President Roosevelt will
bo satisfied with Joseph G. Cannon as his suc
cessor. If this is true it makes, it two.
Tho New York Herald is shrieking loudly
for war with Japan. The man who is respon
sible for tho New York Herald lives in Paris.
Perhaps Mr. Rockefeller pleads ignorance
on the ground that in his particular case a
little knowledge would bo a dangerous thing.
Now comes the report from England that
the son of an earl has gone to work. Tho
American heiress must have turned him down.
Every now and then the wiolder of a "big
stick" steps up to the homo plate, raps it a
couple of times and then ignominiously "strikes
out."
Tho Japanese territorial expansion will not
attract a great deal of attention. It is expansion
of the hatband that will give the Japanese a lot
of trouble.
If the administration "gqts after" the cigar
trust like it did after the beef trust and the
merger the demand for clothespins will be vast
ly increased.
If the new theatrical trust will limit the
output of some of the attractions it will go a
long ways towards proving that thero is at least
one good trust.
"Plot biscuit passing away" is the caption
of a little article contributed to the New Orleans
Daily States by a household writer. It is cor
rect. They pass rapidly away when brought
in proximity to the average man.
Same old game. No tariff revision until
after election. And after election no tariff re
vision because the people did not demand it
during the campaign.
Judge Lindsey of Denver says Mr. Guggen
heim bought a United States senatorship. Mr.
Guggenheim did not blaze any new path when
he performed that Jttle stunt.
The uprising in .Korea ought to save us
several battleships, at least. 'There has been a
noticeable subsidence of war talk since Japan
got busy with her dependency.
Senator Foraker says he is thankful that
ho has never been nominated for any office by
democrats. The senator pays a very high tribute
to the discernment of democrats.
Mr. Rockefeller's pastor informs us that we
are "living too fast." Gracious, we've got to
set a fast pace if we keep within reaching dis
tance of the price of Mr. Rockefeller's oil.
A party of Cambridge professors has gone
to South Africa for the purpose of photograph
ing tho Martian canals. They did not waste any
time trying to get a negative of the Panama
canal.
"The man with anelephant has a high-class
worker," observes tho Butte Miner. Too true
too true! Tho republican elephant has worked
the producing classes of this country to a
frazzle.
Announcement comes from Oyster Bay that
tariff revision is not to be undertaken until
after tho election. The announcement may re
sult in some radical revision of ante-election
estimates.
Having gobbled Korea Japan has been too
honest to talk about "manifest destiny" or
"thrown into our Japs by providence." That
sort of stuff is left for civilized Christian nations
to indulge in. -
Perhaps tho railroads figure that they, will
lose money at the two-cent fare rate because
they will have to pay out some actual cash for
new cars to meet the increased demand for trans
portation facilities.
.Colonel Robert Fitzsimmons emerged from
obscurity the other- day, just long enough to
demonstrate the truth of tho adage -that tho
pitcher which goes t o often to the well trets
knocked over the ropes. S
MEMORIES
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1 love to think of the days gone by when I, bare
footed, free, '
Would wander wherever I wanted to go, lazy and
aimlessly.
I love to think of the path that led thro' wood
lands cool and sweet,
To the dear old stream where I used to go to
free myself from heat.
And I lovo to dream of that riyer bank and tho
the placid swimming place,
Where the willows swayed by the breezes kissed
the water's breast with grace.
But I hate to think of the day when all my
dreams were put to rout,.
When mother discovered my hair was wet and
my shirt was inside out.
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It's a long way back to the dear old days, the
days of long ago,
When I was a kid with freckles and a head of
tousled torr. - i - 4
I don't suppose I would recognize the scenes
that then were mine,
The swimming hole, the meadows, and the path
way for the kine.
I love "to dream of my dreams of then, as on
ward creep the years,
But ever there's one thing steals in them that
stops my flow of tears.
And that's the thought of the day when I was
flogged with a paddle stout,
When mother discovered my hair was wet and
. my shirt was inside out. "
Will F. Griffin in Milwaukee Sentinel.
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