Ftnrfttrc -ft -rmwmmiQfm &fmt mwf,tmimittm2rrt The Commoner VOLUME 8, NUMBER 31 mf fwu ,.- a H i w u I m Joel Chandler Harris Tho Littlo Boy is sad and lono And not inclined to play. Ho talks in soft and tender tono To toys ho's laid away. For ho has faced tho question old Whose answer none can tell And as he waits, clear, soft and cold He hears tho tolling boll. Ho misses from tho usual place The form ho loved so true; Ho fails to see one smiling face, Ho hears no "Howdy-do!". In vain he turns to Brer B'ar, And Brer Rabbit's dumb; Brer Fox says naught when he asks, "Why Don't Undo Remus come?" Tho Littlo Boy is sad today And mourns his playmate dead. He does not care to laugh and play With toys around him spread. Across the hills tho cortogo sweeps, The band plays soft and low; And Little Boy in silonce weops Ho loved his playmate so. The animals that told queer tales With Undo Remus' tongue Aro dumb forever; Little Boy Your heart with grief is wrung. You ask in vain the whence and why, But we who've older grown Can but confess we've no reply, And you must grieve alone. horseless carriages and wires for wireless telegraphy. Swamplscott, Mass., Aug. 1. The 8,000 omployes of tho Smokeless Foundry Co. were paid off Saturday night and notified that tho plant would not open until tho day after tho election of Taft. "We have a provisional order for $17,432,123.45 worth of our product," said the man ager to a committee of tho union, "and if Taft is elected we will open the plant and proceed to fill it. Un til then we aro compelled to close down." Tho Smokeless Foundry Co. is an extensive manufacturer of fancy paper bands for campaign cigars. This morning tho manager, superintendent and treasurer of the company left for Europe, where they will spend tho summer and fall. Icevillc, Ariz., Aug. 1. Eleven thousand employes of the Consolidat ed Sand Co. are idle, owing to a scarcity of orders, the carcity being attributed to the uncertainty of the outcome of election. The manager of tho company showed a represent ative of tho Exasperated Press an order for $23,456,789.11 of tho company's output, conditional upon the election of Taft. Tho whistle will blow tho morning after election if Taft is successful. The Consoli dated Sand Co. is engaged In filing sharp corners on Arizona sand in order to make it suitable for build ing purposes. as ho has been In business and Dr. Hall Is accounted one of tho best business men in tho west. Dr. Hall's democracy Is of the old Jeffersonian-Jacksonian brand, and when the buglo calls to political bat tle he is always ready for tho fray. This well known fact gavo rise to a good natured thrust at him during the meeting of a well known Lin coln literary club some months ago. A practicing physician of Lincoln read a paper on materia medica, and in the discussion which followed the physicians present found themselves warmly opposed by a number of lay men. Dr. Hall defended his broth er's paper in a vigorous address, but whon he finished a newspaper man present roso up and said: "Doctors do not take their own medicine, and they have little faith in drugs. I know, because my fath er was a physician. Now there is my friend, Dr. Hall. When he was practicing medicine up in Saunders county ho had a system that always produced the best results. When a republican camo to him Dr. Hall prescribed calomel and quinine and told the patient to continue the treatment until he felt results. But when a democrat came Dr. Hall would hand him a copy of 'The Life of Thomas Jefferson,' and say: 'Read this carefully and bo healed.' " And in the laugh which followed the paper under discussion was side tracked. ORGAN ?? 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Tho company has posted a notice of the matter on its gates, and the un employed men are discussing it eagerly. Tho Chuggorly Equipment Co. manufactures hot air for filling automobllo tires. Airdome, Ind., Aug. 1. When the 6,000 employes of the Wobberly Novelty Works arrived at the plant this morning they found the gates closed. A committee was appointed to wait on the management and as certain what tho matter might bo. The committee was informed that tho plant would be open d on full time with an increased force the morning after tho election of Wil liam II. Taft. "Wo havo an order for $13,768,543.11 worth of our product, conditional upon Taft's elec tion," said the manager of the com pany. "But present -orders aro too small, owing to tho uncertainty, to warranUus in keeping tho plant open." The Wobberly ' Novelty Works v manufactures harness for closed down and will remain closed until the morning after Taft's elec tion. Thirteen thousand employes aro thrown out of work. The lack of orders to keep the plant going is attributed to election uncertainty. If Taft is elected the plant will open up, tho manager reports, and begin filling an qrder for $23,456,789.23 worth of its products, the order be ing conditioned upon tho success of tho republican ticket. The Prunette Co. manufactures imitation prunes for tho eastern market. Ironton, Wis., Aug. 1. "This plant is closed and will open the morning after Taft's election" was tho notice posted upon the gates of the Grate Bar Manufacturing Co. plant , this morning, and read by 11,000 omployes. Tho notice came as a distinct shock to tho men. "We find business dull, owing to the un certainty," said the manager of the plant to a representative of the Ex asperated Press. "If Taft is elect ed we will open up the next day and proceed to fill a provisional order for $67,897,453.13 worth of our product. I hope tho former em-. -ployes will think tho matter over and act in their own best Interests." 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