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NOVEMBER 13, 1903
The Commoner.
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Tho Day After
"Licked to a frazzle!" But, say,
What is Hie use of repining?
Home at the close of the day
Arms of our loved ones entwining.
Out of the fret and the worry,
Out of the din and the strife;
Out of the battle and worry
Home and tlue joytime -of life.
Downed in the battle! But, say,
What is the profit in sorrow?
Love is still lighting the way
On to a gloric s morrow.
Out of the turmoil and fuming,
Out of the worry and wiles,
Love with its welcome is looming,
Beckoning on with its smiles.
"Whipped to a standstill! But, say,
Still there is joy in the losing
If love binds the wounds of the fray
After the battle's confusing.
Out of the smoke and the rattle,
After the heat of the fray;
After the din of the battle,
Love 'lights the close of the day.
Something Left
Driving up to the snug little home
Betting back a few rods 'from the
main road we inquired the way to
town, After having received the re
quired directions we "ventured to' re
fer to politics. "
MQult thinkin' about J.ism for a
while," said tho farmer. "
"You haven't lost interest in the
great Issues, have you?" we asked.
"Not at all, friend, but just now
I'm taking a vacation."
"Not discouraged?"
"Discouraged, nothing!" was the
emphatic rejoinder. "Got my cellar
full of apples, potatoes and cabbage,,
and the good wife haft got the pantry
shelves bending under a load of
canned fruits, preserves and pickles.
I'm putting in my time getting the
winter's wood cut and piled, tnd the
boys are shucking corn."
"But they beat the guarantee of
bank deposits."
"Yes, but I've got a little cache
full of money that no bank cashier
can burgle'
"And Rockefeller can "
"Pie can't eat bacon and corn
bread and sirup and fresh pork and
cabbage and hot biscuits. It's a big
disappointment, of course, but I
guess 1 can trust Providence a lot
safer than a lot of fellows can trust
the promises of tho trusts and tariff
protected barons. Light, stranger,
and help me get away with a good
dinner prepared by the dearest little
woman in the world."
An hour later we arose from the
table, and things really looked a
whole lot better.
Unfair Advantage
Just before a train crosses the line
into Oklahoma from Kansas or Mis
souri a sign is bung up on the door
that divides the smoking car into two
A JEWELER'S EXPERIENCE
C. R. Kluger, The Jeweler, 1060
Virginia, Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.,
writes: "i was so weak rrom mo
ney trouble that I could hardly walk
a hundred feet. Four bottler of
Foley's Kidney Remedy i cleared my
complexion, cured my backache and
the irregularities disappeared, and I
can ndw attend to- business evdry day,
and recommend Foley's Kidney
Remedy to all sufferers a it cured
me after the doctors and other rem
edies haft failed-Advertisement,
compartments, "This car for colored
passengers." This is what is com
monly known as tho 'Jim Crow car,"
and of course it is obnoxious to tho
negro citizens of Oklahoma. There
are, too, "Jim Crow" waiting rooms
in all the depots of Oklahoma.
It is interesting to note tho com
plaints of the colored folk and then
compare their complaints with tho
actual conditions. Oklahoma is a
buBy and growing state, and of course
passenger trafllc is immonse. But
the colored folk do not travel in any
such numbers by comparison as tho
white folk. The result is that while
the white passenger coaches are al
ways crowded to suffocation, tho com
partment set aside for tho negroes is
always amply sufficient to accommo
tnte all. While tho depot -waiting
rooms occupied by white travelers
aro invariably crowded, and filled
with all tho odors of Cologne except
cologne, the negro waiting rooms are
seldom half filled. The result Is that
the white folk who do not want to
nssociate with tho negro in public'
places are compelled to submit to
threat discomfort, while tho negroes
who want to mix on terms of equal
ity are compelled to accept roomy ac
commodations nnd sanitary -surroundings.
The whites pay for their -seclusion
by being crowded, and the
negroes would willingly exchange
their comfort for the privilege pf
crowding into the already packed
waiting rooms and coaches occupied
by the whites.
Recently a traveling man who was
making his first trip into Oklahoma.
and .unaware of the separate coach
law, walked into tho compartment
set aside for the colored passengers.
He was the only occupant, and being
tird ho curled himself up on a sent
ond went to sleep. He slept for some
time without molestation, but at a
little station a negro boarded the
train and spied the white man in the
coach. He at once complained to the
conductor and the white passenger
was not only forced bade into the
crowded coach of the whites and
compelled to stand, but was later
arrested and heavily fined.
While the traveling man stood up
for weary miles, one lone negro oc
cupied half of a coach, solitary and
alone.
The northern tourist who experi
ences all this for the first time is
wont to wonder why the negroes
should be so violently opposed to a
law whidi gives them all the best
of it. The northerner is inclined to
tho belief that the whites, in their
endeavor to avoid association In pub
lic places with the colored friend
and brother have taken tho worst of
it and given an unfair advantage to
the latter.
for it and unwilling to go hungry if
need bo are not tho kind of pntriots
1 am banking on if this country has
to have defenders."
Before tho impassioned orator
could recover his audience had fadod
away.
L'Envol
I thought wo had 'em beaten
TO a frazzle, so I did;
But I found 1 was mistaken
When tho
landslide
slid.
I figgercd wo would beat 'cm
Every turning of tho road,
But I misHed my computation
When tho
landslide
slode.
My multiplication tablo
Must have put mo to tho bad
For 1 was bumped a plenty '
When tho
landslide
slad,
When I awoke a Wednesday
And all the wreckage viewed,
What I saw was a plenty
When tho
landslide '
slewed.
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Degrees of Patriotism
"Fellow citizens!" shrieked the Im
passioned orator as be stood t pon
the soapbox and declaimed upon the
results. "Fellow citizens.' I rejoice
at the glorious victory. The country.
Is safe. As one who would willingly
die for his country if need be, I "
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gentleman standing by, "but are you
not the same fellow who last Tues
day voted against your convictions of
what' was best for the country merely
because you were afraid" of missing
a hteaf xn- we?" r x K
i"j5M this Is no time .Tor' cavil br5
calumny! for all patriotic " ,
t"o, -fudge!" exclaimed the quiet
Mntirnnen. "You fellows wtjo- aro
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Tho Problem
To politics and ther .tricks
We're: giving no ttentfort;
And high to&Bce-aiid &MineBtfvliraie
We ia not pause to mention.
A greater problem than all these
This moment doth concera us
Will oma.good tfriend .now kiadly.
tell.
How can wo feed that furnace.
Brain Leaks
Tho Lord loveth a cheerful loser.
The joy of. working Is not tho least
Toward of honest labor.
Ho who carries hate in his heart
bears trouble Jn his .arms.
After all It Is never so bad but
what It might have been worso.
It is never so dark but what hope
can strike a light if given an oppor
tunity. A short prayer from the heart
tells more than a long prayer from
tho lips.
Tlie man -who tirelessly blows his
own horn may know very little about
harmony.
A man never knows who his real
friends aro until after misfortune
strikes him.
The political prophets will now
step aside and make way for the
political profits.
The man who is alivo on Thanks
giving morning has at least one thing
to be thankful for.
A lot of men who bravely combat
an evil afar shrink like cowards from
an abuse near at homo.
People who share in the profits of
sin should be manly enough to ac
knowledge the partnership.
"Every dark cloud has a silver
lining," says the optimist. "But it
is a dark cloud," says the pessimist.
It wouldn't be so bad for the av
erage loser if he didn't have to ex
plain to his wife just how It hap
pened.
"Justifiable homicide" should be
the verdict If the defendant can
prove that the victim said "I told
you so."
What makes us sore is to read in
some newspaper a story of how much
easier and, quicker we get election
returns 'Chan our fathers, got them.
j One, feature, of the election Is tho
-surprising number of people who
twou'd willingly die for their country
out protest strenuously against be
ing threatened with missing a meal
or two- far tneir country.
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