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Unby Blue Eyes
Baby Blue Eyes, Baby Blue EyeB!
"What has the future in hiding?
Is it'the joy for the loying and wise?
Never a cloud there to dim the
1 bright skies?
Sunshine of joytime where laughter
ne'er dies?
All in the futuro abiding? .
Baby Red Lips, Baby Red Lips!
What is in store for the morrow?-'
Flowers to touch with your soft
fincer tins?
Pathways of roses where love ever
trips? ''"
Nectar of gladness the hummingbird
sips? -Neverx
a care nor a sorrow?
Baby Brown Hair, Baby Brown Hair!
"What of the years coming after?
Never a burden of want nor of care?
Neve'r a sorrow to own or to share?
"Nothing but happiness spread every
where? Sunshine, and joytime - and
laughter? .
.Baby Pink Toes, Baby Pink Toes!
'If for thee years I verc making;
: Nothing you'd know of the weary
- world's woes;
Never you'd walk where grim pov-
'- erty grows;
Life" would be sweet and as bright
'as the rose
.. Love guard thy sleeping and
' waking!
democrat. I know nothing of gamb
ling terms."
The son bided his time and the
day after the Oklahoma state elec
tion he wired the father as' follows:
"Rod wins again. Better study
up. How did you know I used
gambling terms, anyway?"
Up to the tJnie of going to press
with this issue the son is still wait
ing for an explanation from tho
father.
Brain Tx'hIch
Grinding Poverty - ,
"Why didn't you take a vacation
tlii's, summer, old man?"
"''Because I didn't' have money
enough to pay the traveling expenses
and purchase souvenir postal cards,
too."
An Oklahoma Story
'While this is headed "An Okla
homa Story," it hag a Nebraska end
to it. A former Nebraska minister
Who has since "retired from the ac
tive ministry and is now residing
in 'Oklahoma, has a son who is still
engaged in business in Nebraska.
The father is a republican of the
"Missouri brand' which means that
it is no use trying to convince him
that a democrat has anything like an
even chance of getting to heaven.
The son, however", is a democrat.
Father and son meet only once in
every four or five years, but they
have some engaging correspondence,
and when they do meet they "scrap"
beautifully over politics.
All this is prefatory to the' real
story-
When the campaign was on for
the election of delegates to tho Ok'a
homn constitutional convention the
father wrote that 'the republicans
were sure to have a majority and
write the constitution. The son
wrote that he couldn't see it that
way, and gave his reason for be
lieving that it should not be. When
the returns were in it 'was discov
ered that the convention was nine
elevenths democratic, and the Asso
ciated Press s.aid of the election:
"The Indians generally voted with
the democrats."
When the spn read this he rushed
to the telegraph offlqe and sent the
following message, to the father:
"Reported that Indians generally
voted with democrats. You have
played your politics on tho black
about long enough. Piny em on the
red awhile," . '
Jn duo time, the.sonireqclved the
following reply:
'Your advico churacteriptic of a
Tho Great Postponcr ,
With a look of joy ecstatic now the
wondering Asiatic greets with
twelcome most emphatic
Our own Taft, who is globe trot
ting through the eastern jungles
donee,
Taft, who, 'with official bearing, is
. each passing day declaring 'tis
cur duty to be caring
For tho brown and helpless people
; chucked to us by Providence.
With eyes wide, and breathing bated
have the natives congregated,
hoping for the news belated
: That at last a foreign sovereign
has forever been dethroned.
put they will be disappointed, for
Judge Taft white House an
notated has been specially ap
pointed. To ' inform them that their free
dom is indefinitely postponed. '
He will tell the small brown brother
that his feelings he should
smother, and admit now that
another
Should run things without objec
tion from across the deep blue
sea.
When they meet, Enthusiastic, and
buoyed up by hopes elastic, ho
will speak in manner drastic
And inform them that the future
must determine what shall be.
He will dodge the Declaration and
with much tergiversation will
declare assimilation
Is the onjy proper method, and
our rule should be, condoned.
And admitting their contentions ho
will show that his conventions
. never for an instant mentions
Their position, which should show
'em that their case should be
postponed.
He'll not dare to be specific, and
concerning isles Pacific, with
excuses most prolific
Taft will put 'em off forever
'twas for that that he was sent.
And in tones with .gammon reeking
while he is in public speaking,
he'll declare we're only seeking
Their own goo.d by ruling o'er
them with benevolent intent.
But while Taft talks of submission
and excuses our position, all ex
ploiters with permission
"Will rake off the golden ducats on
the grafts so long they've
owned.
And Judge Taft will tell 'em: "Truly
we, with motives honest purely,
in good time will do right,
surely;"
But aside he'll just inform 'em
thafthe time has been post--poned.
Wary'
The country editor ' received an
offer from a "syndi.catp house" to
furnish him a lot of stuff about Sir
Thomas Lipton and his challenge for
the America cup. The editor wrote
back as follows:
"They've cut off my railroad trans
portation. I'm no- longer allowed to
Jealousy Is a sign of dislocated af
fection. , ;'
The hardest work some' in en" do "(h
dodging it.
Technicalities will not avail nt the
final judgmont.
Bargain counter marriages are
seldom profitable.
"Good politics" often -covers up n
lot of crooked work.
Tho heart that harbors hato in
never n home for happiness.
We'd rathor bollovo a dog's tail
than a politician's handsnako.
Tho successful gamo luntor never
starts out behind a brass band.
A lot of men work themselves sick
trying to frame up a scheme to avoid
work.
It is a waste of time to try to re
vive a church that needs a resur
rection '
No man jean become a leador in a
reform unless hla heart, is first cap
tured. '
Tho pure food law is all right, but
a lot of people would prefer a sure
food law.
Charity has its genesis in the
homo, but its revelation comes on
the outside.
Misdirected energy is very much
like working an electric fan against
a winter wind.
It is rather difficult for a wage
earner to bo philosophical on the
first day of the month.
What a lot of misery must be en
dured by the man who thinks 'that
everybody else is dishonest.
Will some scientist oxplaln why it
is that when the light leaves begin
falliug, heavy coal begins rising?
Somehow or other 'it' is easier to
remember what real happiness was
than to realize what happiness is.
Come to think of it now, can you
blame Oklahoma for preferring to
cast her lot with Texas rather than
with Pennsylvania?
Two women talking across tho
back gate can stir up more neighbor
hood trouble than a Hague peace
conference can settle.
When a man Is too busy to take
time to laugl. it is a sign that you
would better be on your guard when
you do business with him.
A lot of women with dark hair
wdrk patiently to bleach It yellow.
Ever hear of a woman with yellow
hair trying to make it black?
When the time comes to provide
coal for the winter a man is very
apt to wonder why he spent so much
money on his summer vacation,.
We wouldn't trust a punched
nickel in the hands of a man who
never turns his head to watch a run
away baby toddling down the street.
"O, you can't legislate brains- into
a man's head," sneers the defender
of special privilege. Quit true, but
we can legislate the hands of special
privilege out of our pockets.
The statistician of the department
of commerce and labor should be
officially designated as the "court
jester." His figures on wages and
the cost of living are very humorous.
Tills is the time of the farmers'
vacation, when they have nothing to
do but the chores, the repairing of
fences and sheds, overhauling the
machinery, and a few little things
like that.
Every time a city man sees a
market gardner driving a loaded
wagon down the ateet he yearns to.
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