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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1911)
-vrr. J " fc The Commoner. 13 MAKCH 24, 1811 & w wiiGr( - -r- n r 4f - r.BV B . - I 7 SxKJZf ' !1 11 l)r Jl j imii tfn. iii I ommoaornfflf Tho Ago Old Problem When tho Architect's friend, tho crippled man with a family of eight, propounded his problem of how to Bupply the wants of his family, he seems to have sprung a big problem. The Architect judges by the letters that have come pouring in. One of the most interesting is from Mrs. Jennie Sampson of Peoria, 111., who says: "Mr. Barnes' answer to your ques tion of February 17, still leaving you up a stump, I should like to submit the famous advice once given by Emma Goldman to the striking cloakmakers at Union Square, New York, some years ago: 'Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they give you neither work nor bread, then take bread.' Of course we could not ex pect your friend with his family of eight to be' a modern Jean Valjean, but if in company with the other three millions of men out of em ployment he should assist in such a procedure, there would be 'some thing doing' in the bread line. It also occurs to me that a working man need not necessarily take time to study social democracy. If some of the principles aTe not already grafted onto him by experience, I fear he is hopelessly in the mire of ignorance." Somehow or other the Architect is reminded of a story. Once upon a time an aged colored preacher was espounding tho story of the creation. "Den God made Adam out'n do dust o' de 'arth, an' den He stuck him up erg'inst de fence f'r t' dry," said the minister. "Look hyar, pbason," interrupted a brother in the pew. "Who made dat fence?" Casting a look of withering scorn upon the pewholder, the minister exclaimed: "It's jus' sich fool questions as dat w'ot am upsottin' all de t'eology we got." Senator Gore of Oklahoma is wont to say: "Wherever there are those who are getting without giv ing, there are those giving without getting." Some of these days, doubt less, and in God's good time, the producer will get what he produces, and those who produce nothing will have to be the sufferers. It's the other way 'round now, at least to too great an extent. It will take time" and thought and study. But, in the meantime, WHAT IS TO BECOME OF MY CRIPPLED FRIEND AND HIS FAMILY OF EIGHT? They can not eat treatises on social democracy, nor ward off the chilling winds with theories of government. The Architect Is still up that same old stump. ter our blood thickened up and bo came impuro, and there's nothing llko sassafras tea to thin and purify tho blood. At least our mothers thought so. And if we didn't havo to drink that vile decoction wo had to take pul verized sulphur and cream tartar mixed about equal parts. A table spoonful at a dose, too. Not ono of your dinkey little modern table spoons, either. Ono of those old fashioned tablespoons about as big as a soup ladle. Had to take it dry, too. And the beastly stuff clogged in tho roof of one's mouth and stuck there like beggar-lico to wooly trousers. Waugh! We can taste it yet. We had lots of fun in our primi tive way thirty or forty years ago, when we were boys and girls fun that our children know nothing about save from hearsay. But, thank goodness, we don't dose our children with sassafras tea or sulphur and cream tartar every spring. about not assuming too much pon derosity in dealing with Japan that is to say, a little less ferocity and moro philosophy would suit us all quito woll. Mary Again "What makes tho lamb lovo Mary so?" The kids interrogated. "Because the fleeco by tariff laws Has been so well inflated." Our Luck " 'It's a long lano that has no ond lng,' " remarked tho gentleman who loves quotations. "Just my luck to always bo turn ing into blind alleys," muttered tho practical man. All Willing "I have just returned from a visit to Mexico," remarked the passenger who sat next" to the window, "and I attended a bull fight. I am now advocating that Uncle Sam annex Mexico and thus put a stop to such brutality." "I'm with you there," exclaimed the passenger fronting him. "And me, tool" shouted the man across tho aisle. The discussion of the brutality of the bull fight interested me so I finally asked the passenger next to the window what business he was engaged in. "I am the manager of 'Kid Pug- gley,' the champion welterweight of the United States," was the proud reply. "And your business?" I Inquired of the man fronting him. "Who, me? Why, I own the fastest greyhounds in America and I am taking them to a coursing meet out west, where I expect to trip all the jackrabbits they can enter into the lists." "And you, sir?" I asked of the man across the aisle. "My name is William John Sweatem, sir. Perhaps you have heard of the Sweatem Cloak and Suit Co." I had, indeed, and recalled .jthat only last fall Sweatem & Co's. 3,000 girl employes had struck against a ten-hour day and an average wage scale of $3.13 a week. Pondering thereon, I recalled the old Chinese adage: "Let every one sweep his own doorstep, and worry not himself about the frost on his neighbor's tiles." Saintly "Mrs. Penheck is always trying to make out that her husband is such a superior man." "Well, ho is in somo respects." "What makes you think so?" "Because, the other night ho but toned the 127 buttons on tho back of her waist, and when ho got to tho last one ho discovered ho was short a button holo for it." "Woll?" "Well, ho unbuttoned them again and got it right the next time, and he never said a word ho merely laughed as if It wero a good joke on him." DONT PAY TWO PRICES-f FOR STOVES A RANGES If oa Btb tltJOO to tSBLM oa Hoosier Ranges Heaters nwvi4 finviti Attt vttltffl 70a can bay thorn at each loir. unncaru-oi racwrr mew. IIooslorBtaves and Kuitcfl nro doUTorod for you to no In your yon buy. A written tciiaranteo with men etoTo bAckod by a Million Dofiaro. Oar now 1911 Improve monta on pIoym absolutely Btirpe anything are produced. Sand postal today for fraaeataloc. 101 HOOSIER STOVE FACTORY, Stale Street. Mnriow, ImBanw " 1 YwHHHHhVH I M jiooflleV flleel A Great Reform The children of today ought to be happy because of one great reform that has been wrought since we gray-haired people were boys and girls. Nowadays the children do not have to drink sassafras tea or take sulphur and cream tartar In the spring to "thin their blood." We cannot pass a drug store win dow where sassafras bark is on dis play without shuddering. And every time we smell sulphur wo almost throw a fit. Remember, old-timers, how we, when children, had to dope ourselves with sassafras" tea every spring three times day and keep It up until our blood -was so thin we'd bleed at the nose when we sneezed? The theory was that during the win- Proof Positive He declared that advertising didn't pay, because everybody knew him. Later the sheriff demonstrated that advertising did pay, for ho sold more in one day than the merchant had sold In three years. Yet comparatively few people knew the sheriff. What! Uncle Sam Is worried about reci procity on the north, about animosity on tho south, and curiosity Japan ward. By treating with Canada with more generosity, and not exercising so much velocity in mixing up with that Mexican affair, to say nothing Sarcastic "And do you think you can sup port my daughter in the style she has been accustomed to, young man?" growled Mr. Doughinpay. "Not if I pay cash," replied Mr. Prompt, who happened to have been a bill collector in former days. Seven Million Acres of Public IiMiid wcro entered in Mon tana last year, nearly twice as much as In any other state. "VVhcro homc scckers are settling theso figures prove. Why they chooso Montana over all competitors is because thoy find there an abundance of land of un equalled fertility, virgin soil which will ylold unsurpassed crops when cul tivated, a homo market, good transpor tation facilities, a healthy climate, schools and churches. Millions of fcr tilo acres, to bo acquired as freo homo stcads or bought at a low price, aro waiting for the plow. For further In formation, write to J. II. HALL, Com mlHfiloner State Ilurcau of Agriculture, Helena, BIontHHH. Brain Tweaks Worry is not work. Prayer is not a method of making a demand. An error Is partly atoned for If profited by. A great many men mlstako no toriety for fame. Christianity Is living. Religion may bo mere conversation. Servility may be purchased with money, but friendship never. A life of sin is not wholly atoned for by one minute of repentenco. Man is the only animal that seeks to profit from the labor of his young. Love ' is still going along when mere friendship has turned up a side street. The meanest thief in the world is the one who robs children of their childhood. We have to learn to like somo people just as we had to learn t like olives. Somo people think they have re pented when they are merely afrai to do it again. The bill of fare may bo in French, but that doesn't add anything to the taste of the ham and cabbage. We always know a man lived, if, after death, it is truthfully said of him: "Tho children loved him." People who waste time discussing what hell is never experience the pleasure of thinking about the joys of heaven. Tho boss owes the employe some thing more than money, and the em ploye owes the boss something more than work. When people complain of ennui they merely confess that they are tired of resting and are too lazy to do anything. It's hard to sit still and think when the home team is practicing a block away and getting ready to open tho eason. Just about the time you think you are the foremost man in the com munity, along comes an old settler and asks if you havo lived here long. Am&SEI ARcntH wanted In every county to noil Novelty Knives. Itazor Htcel ltladca, Unbrcaknblo Tranp& rent Handle which Bhow namo, addrcen, photos, lodRO and society emblems, etc. Let ua show you how to be Independent. Bit: Commission. Quick Hales. Write at onco for exclusive torrltory. NOVELTY CUTLERY CO,, 66 Bar St., Canton, 0. virmsn wsr stkoncest F EmmmMmm made. uuii. m Immm " " Btront? chicle- on-tight Sold to thouiwr at Hholeial rrleff. YT Py Freight. Cataloffuofroo. COILED SPKINQ FENCE CO., x 234 wincDMur, mauna. "Banking Made Safe." 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