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JULY '23, 1909
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Real Music
You may talk about Beethoven, of
Mozart and Reubenstein,
For their music may be bully but
another kind for mine.
You may talk about sonatas with
their low and swelling chords,
Or about those airy nothings that
are called "songs without words."
And your rhapsodies and fuges, with
their trills and roundelays
May be counted as artistics and en
titled to your praise.
But the music that best suits mo with
its swelling cadence sweet
Is the' clatter of the binder in the
fields of waving wheat.
Mendelsohn was some musician, and
of course you ought to know
Faganini was the master of the fiddle
and the bow.
Paderewski is a wonder when he
paws his yellow hair
And gets busy with the iv'ry, thump
ing on the keys for fair.
And there's Sousa with his brasses
playing marches full of swing
Till you feel your feet a-tapping
while the very echoes ring.
But the music that will hold me,
make my happiness complete,
Is" the clatter of the binder in the
fields of waving wheat.
You can hear the song of plenty rise
above the. rolling plain
As the busy binder clatters through
the fields of golden grain.
You can hear the happy laughter
that about the land is spread
When the music of the binder means
a busy world well fed.
For across the hillB and valleys sound
the chorus of content,
Till the world joins in the singing
of the people's betterment.
And the summer air is freighted with
the harvest music sweet
As the busy binder clatters through
the fields of waving wheat.
The Unexpected
The home team is at bat for the
last time. Three men on bases, two
out, two strikes on the fatter, and
three scores needed to tie and four
to win.
The favorite home run slugger is
at bat. The fans are on the tip-toe
of expectancy. It Is one of those
moments in which the base ball en
thusiast lives a century, seemingly.
It all depends upon the batter.
The pitcher grinds the ball Into
the palm of his hand, expectorates
upon It, braces his leg, swings hi
irtrong right arm three times around
hiB head and shoots it over.
The home run slugger, every mus
cle taut as a piano string and his
eyee glaring with a fixed, purpose,
steps slightly forward and swings his
bat with all the force at his com
mand. "Whack!"
But it ' is a pop-up to short and
the game is over.
We've heard about it beingdlffer
ent under the same circumstances,
bat with all the force at his corn
games for about three decadeB we've
failed to see it.
a furnace room to bo cleaned out,
seven rugs to beat, about three dozen
windows to wash, a flowerbed to
weed out and a buggy to wash.
Come right around the "
"Thank you, mum," Interrupted
Dodge Toylo, "I'll go right back V
th' man w'at I had in mind an' tell
him where t' come."
A moment later Mrs. Busyman
could see nothing down the street
save a cloud of dust.
Father Goose
There was a certain man and ho had
a tariff bill
And the schedules wcremade out
of graft, graft, graft.
He favored coal and steel till ho
made consumers squeel,
Then he" put the blooming bun
combe up to Taft, Taft, Taft.
Little Boy Blue, come boat your
drum,
The tariff is hoisted to kingdom
come.
Where Is the man who will head it
off?
Out in the country playing golf.
Sing a song of tariff,
Schedules full of screws,
Millions of consumers.
Suff'ring from the blues.
When the bill is finished
Up the prices go,
Filling the consumers ,
Full of grief and woo..
Taft Is In the country
Swatting rubber balls;
Taft is in the senate "'
Issuing his calls.
All these tariff tinkers
Fill us with disgust
Every blooming schedule
Framed up by a trust.
Perhaps
Colonel Boodlerpest Is something
of a billiard player; also something
of a partisan republican.
"To be sure we promised to re
vise the tariff downward, and we
fully intended to do so. But unfort
unately the bill took the reverse
English from the senate cushion."
With this explanation the colonel
seems content. At any rate he is
still a revision downward republican,
and supporting the party.
Fortunate
Dodged
"Please, mum, can yer help out a
poor feller w'at ain't been able t'
git no work an is pretty nigh al
most starved t' death, he's so
hungry?" )
"Indeed I cant" exclaimed Mrs.
Busyman. "I have a lawn to mow,
After pondering over the matter
for some time Uncle Jeems spat
thoughtfully at a June bug and then
remarked:
"Well, all I got t' say is that I'm
mighty glad little Rhode Island's In
fluence in tariff makin' matters ain't
as big in proportion as It might be
if she was as big as Texas."
Liberal
"Please, sir," whined Gobson
Muddo, "could you give a poor fel
ler a little somethln' t' help him "
"Sure thing, old man," exclaimed
DuBtln Pyles. "I'll give you a cake
of soap and directions how to reach
tho creek."
Tho Penalty
Of course we all love to hear that
the wheat crop is immense, and that
the raisers are going to prosper. But
even this chance to Indulge in a little
prosperity shouting has its draw
backs The bigger and better the wheat
crop the louder will talk the old gen
tlemen who sit around In the shade
and tell about how many acres of
whoat they used to cradle in tho old
days before Cyrus McCormick got tho
reaping machlno bug in hia head.
Practico
"Tho Jimtown baso ball team
steals moro bases than any other in
tho country."
"Where did they learn tho art?"
"O, their manager took them to
tho city for spring practico and made
them slide for tho curb to escape
tho automobiles."
Tho Reason
"I understand that wheat specula
tors in Chicago are complaining about
rust in the wheat."
"Well, if they'd have less steal In
their wheat deals there wouldn't be
so much rust."
Waiting
"How about your new neighbors,
Willie?"
"Wo don't know 'em yet. Ma says
she won't be able to tell a thing
about 'em until they hang out a
washln'."
Coincidence
"I bought this watch on tho in
stallment plan."
"What's the answer?"
"And tho blamed thing runs that
way."
Brain Leaks
True love misses little but makes
allowances for much.
Reforms easily accomplished
amount to but little.
Tho man who has never suffered
knows little about sympathy.
Wo can stand to have our opinions
abused, but wo resent ridicule.
Fret & Fume is one firm that never
needs to advertise for customers.
Tho worst tiling that can happen
to some men is an early success.
Tho man who never does anything
is never criticised for what ho does.
Lack of pluck is apt to be the
reason for a man's complaint about
his luck.
In order to work for your best in
terests you must bo interested In
your work.
Trouble seems to have wireless
connection with tho fellow that is
looking for it.
A man never adds to his bank ac
count from tho proceeds of a har
vest of wild oats.
What is a fellow going to do about
it when a court fairly invites con
tempt by its actions?
Some men have an idea that "good
fellowship" consists In spending
their money for booze.
When a man begins boasting that
he "can drink or let it alone" it is
time for him to let it alone.
One trouble about being fat is that
nobody will believe it when you tell
them you are not feeling well.
With hogs around the $8 mark we
are slow to insult the porker by com
paring him to some men we know.
The father of five children is usu
ally willing to admit that he knows
very little about how to raise
children.
Some men think they are unselfish
because, they are willing to let some
other fellow have something they do
not want.
It has been a long time since we
met an old gentleman who wore a
cabbage leaf in his hat to ward off
sunstroke.
Honestly now, isn't It a fact that
the two best features of a vacation
consist of looking forward to it and
back at It?
The city man who spent the first
weeks of May boasting ,atout hia
garden Is strangely silent on that
subject now.
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