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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1910)
fc The Commoner. MARCH 2.3, 1910 11 II wr-i Ajik py ommior Memory There's a mem'ry comes stealing o'er my mind when shadows fall As the sun sinks slowly down the 4 purple west, And my little ones are nodding at the sand man's evening call For the end of play and hurry off to rest. In that memory comes clearly, from the years long gone hefore, One sweet voice that makes the dead years backward creep, In a song my mother sang us in the vanished days of yore When she gently crooned her lit tle ones to sleep. "How firm a foundation!" she had laid them deep and strong With a faith that never knew a doubt or fear. "In every condition" still she voiced her faith in song, Saw her heavenly mansions with a vision clear. In my memory I still hear her, rock ing gently to and fro As the -twilight darkened in the , western deep; Singing that old song of Zion, with her eyes of faith aglow, As she gently crooned her little ones to sleep. "Fear not, I am with you!" and she smiled at every foe That assailed her simple trust in Calvary. "I'll strengthen you, help you!" she still sang it soft and low As she rocked her little ones upon her knee. I can hear her sweet voice singing down the vista of the years, Voicing faith that led o'er vale and mountain steep, And I sing to my own children in a voice oft choked with tears That same song she sang in crooning us to sleep. "E'en down to old age!" yet what ever might betide Well she knew her feet would never go astray, For the One in whom she trusted walked forever by her side, Shielded her with tender love both night and day. And when the final summons bid her enter joys divine Quick' she answered with a faith I fain would keep; For the hand that gently led her I would ever hold in mine Till I hear her sweet voice croon ing me to sleep. ? in the sugar refining world," re plied the recumbent shade, speaking most haughtily. Recognizing that he had at last met up with his superior in the piracy line, Captain Kidd slunk away Into the brush. Coining to Tliis The patent burglar alarm I had ordered from the mail order firm had arrived at last. Now I really had no use for a burglar alarm, not being the posses sor of anything valuable, but the possession of a burglar alarm prom ised to lend dignity to my home. I unpacked the apparatus, laid my tools handily, rolled up my sleeves and prepared to install the thing. "Pardon me," said Constable Zimri, who had approached without my knowledge. "Pardon me, but are you about to install a burglar alarm?" "That is my intention," I replied. "Then," said Constable Zimri, pulling a formidable looking docu ment from his inside pocket, "it is my duty to serve this injunction upon you, Issued upon petition of the Amalgamated Society for the Promotion of Free Exchange, and re straining you from installing any burglar alarm, electric bells, or other safety .apparatus." After replacing the apparatus in the box I went over to the court house and discovered that the the menu card, "you may give mo a porterhouse steak, extra thick and rare, with mushroom sauce, two soft boiled eggs, a head of lettuco with salad dressing, a fruit salad, tho liver wing of a spring chlckon, some potatoes au gratin and a roman punch frozen. While preparing that bring mo some consomme and a half dozen blue points." Tho waiter bowed and retired, only to reappear a few minutes lator and whisper: "Do boss says, sah, as how he'd like to have you-all make a deposit, sah, ob erbout fo'ty dollahs, sah, as a gawrnteo o good faith, sah." Learn To Play Piano or Organ In Ono Hour A musical gonitis from Chicago has Just in vented a wonderful systom whereby an yon o cm loarn to play tho Piano or Organ In ono hour. With this now mothoil you don't have to know ono noto from another, yot In an hour of practice you can bo playing tho popular music -with all the tWnr.i of hoth handsand playing it -well. The Invention is bo slmplo thatovoua child can now master mualo without costly Instruction. Anyone can havo this now method to oxamlno moroly by 1IH1P1U month till Jfl.Mln all Is paid. Blmply wrlto aU ajikintr Vnu ran keen It seven davs. then that Is claimed for It you pay S1.60, and $1.00 If! If I had Rockefeller's wealth I tell you what I'd do; I'd go Into a restaurant And get an oyster stew, A rare done bit of porterhouse, Some salad and some fruit, Some mushroom sauce, potatoes baked, And eggs and beans to boot. And when tho waiter brought the '"bill Within my eyesight's range, I'd just hand all my fortune o'er And say, "Just keep the change." say, 'Tleaso send mo Easy Form Muslo method as announced in uommonor, - Tho mothod ana 100 rlooe of muslo will Ym lmmod lately shlppod, oil charges prepaid. Be sure to stato how many whlto -Koys on your 8Iano or or Kan. Add reus Easy Mothod MusJt ompany,390Glarkson Building, Chicago, HU if n n I L U prcpftro you for Sprlnjr examina tion; Trofl't of our xcliool conducted Oov't Hxn mlnntlon. IVrttcfor Catalog and l"ree Trial itf.HHOtl. Ozment's College, Dept. 93, St. Louis, Me. ACTUM A CUItIO sent by oxpreiw to you on Udl II PF1 u Krco Trial. not. don't. If It cure end fl; If ulvo express omca National Chemical Co., 710 Ohio Ave. Bldnoy, O, junction had been Issued on request of Bill de Bunk, president of tho A. S. P. F. E., and who had just com pleted a twelve-year term In the big stir. Clearly the time is at hand when the abuse of the injunction writ must be stopped. Let tho Eaglo Scream! "Upon mo ancestral estates," mur mured Lord Bumleigh, "are old feudal castles, moated granges, draw bridges and a portcullis. Also " "All those things may be quite au iait," replied Miss Genieve McWhop sey, "but upon my parental ances tor's estates there are about 2,000 head of fat steers, 500 hogs ready for market and hens enough to guar antee us thirty or forty dozen eggs a month, and I guess they'll back "J! dingbats off the board." " A T. "17 17! Q llnlJio thorn without mlllc s -' r MD O Hook lot freo. XISIIIZASICA Si:iCI CO., Omaha. Kthr. t!fhfkmoxiiy nnd oxponocs to men and women Vto advertlKO, loavo sample nnd collect names. Wrlto nt onco. Bllvcrtoa Co., M 11, Chicago Aobnts wanted to soil Nntlvo IIorbB, $1 box, 260 tnblots for 60c Wrlto P. Molroso, Columbus, Ohio. TOBACCO f&thtrsv SALESMEN Good pay, steady work nnd promotion. Experience unnccc&sary oh wo will clvo cornploto Instructions. DanvllleTobacco Co., Box B 56, Danville, Va. Stygian Aristocracy Tho shade of Captain Kidd halted by the syde of the Styx and spoke to' the shade reclining upon, the lava banks. '"Lovely weather," said Captain Kidd. ."Pardon me," replied the recum bent shade, "but I, ah, don't believe I, er-ah, have had the honor of an introduction." "Introduction!" roared the shade of the great pirate. "I don't need to be introduced. .1 am Captain Kidd!" "Aw, really?" yawned the recum bent shade. "Pardon me, but you are not in my clawss at all, don't yer know, and I'll appreciate it very much if you'll kindly refrain from intruding your presence upon me in future." "Well, who are you?" queried Captain Kidd, adding a few explana tory adjectives that the Mergenthaler machine refuses to cast. "Sir, I am one of the 'higher-ups' A Petition The readers who manage to wade through this department are re quested to carefully read the follow ing petition, and after reading, sign it, get as many signatures from neighbors as possible, and forward to your representative in congress: "We, your petitioners, believing In the observance of the fitness of things, do humbly petition the con gress of the United States to enact into law a provision for the remint ing of our coinage, placing upon the gold and silver coins of the republic a bas relief figure of a beef steer, instead of the eagle. The eagle Is a bird of prey, a thief without hope of conversion. In support of this petition we do humbly point out that the substitution of the steer for the eagle will not be so radical after all, because, while the eagle is a bird of prey the steer will serve as a re minder that the eagle is not the only thief out of jail. We beseech you for early action, and as such your petitioners shall ever pray." (Sign here) boomin' Squire Business Booming "Real estate business is In this burg," remarked Bilkins. "That So? Well, I'm glad to note this evidence of prosperity. What were the sales today?" "Jack Jimplims traded off 'his forty acres o' Florida property for Jake Juskins' thirty acres o' Texas realty." In 2010 "I want you to understand, sir, that my ancestors were of the blood royal." "Huh! Your great-grandfather was a meat packer." "Well, your great-grandfather was a United States senator and voted for the Aldrlch-Cannon tariff law." The Innocent bystanders say it was the prettiest fight they ever saw. 'Hvv rmLLu FENCE STR0NCE8 MADE. Uull BtfODK chick cn-tlffbt Bold to the user at 1Vbo!tkl frleri. W Pay Freight. Cataloguoirec. COILED SPRIHQ PENCE CO.. JBox 234 Winchester, Indiana. t'llua AGENTS KAJtN $76 to f260 a month Hlnr Novcty Knives. Wade, razor steel. Sir months (runrnntee. 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