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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1912)
13 WARY 9, 1912 i. The Commoner. CX Mf.1 v .ffi & i i tW ixL p r; mmoii or Rfot 3n j W7? ' tilt xcr I'aruncrsi ' $$& (Verses written for a banquet and . .avfr aeaajr , -. A Daiir,jugram at liaggs, wyo., wuere ;gest Boy" Has his naoita- tMlc taUjBtyj -" l' JSSlBi r-jimJae"aaW'' ." v?f5si3 :'i8Sr f'Xjftjfluipi ZmmM . ?8r"lBaaaaBl M PmBIb "SfyjEBaBl pardners for a cowdrilH re's where everybody rags. Lfem how wo do the lightfoot Thanksgivin eve in Baggs. all an' swing yer pardners! Ll'man left an' all sashay! & an' back an' then cross over! )ance th' old Wyoming way! gather in th' middle, gents Will take a walk around; Iyer pardner, swing th' next one ?swing her feet clear off the ground! ?0Wt.IthA nATf an' swiner hpr hnrdfir 0irkb her tight an' don't let go J ThtLt'jf th' way t' keep things goin'; greatest lun you u ever Know. you balance t' th' corner keep yer eye peeled cheat or swing! th' next one, swing her proper; now you do th' highland fling. tthat fiddle! Ain't it bully? Puts ol' mischief in yer feet; us all t' pattin' juba ain't no Fmusic half so sweet. now balance t' th' middle. ladies hit th' outside grit. 'Inm nmlnni Inn. I rnt.n4- (1,1 CU-l, DVTIUg - C1U. X lilXi, U Lll caper. They won't mind a little b'it. tfplaces, now yer balance, swing yer pardners! Ain't they sweet? Jteqmenade an' step it lively-nshow er pardner t' her seat! T K.T' i r it 'wmm .&&&& -'AmsOBKU iKBItra f mmmm Gnts SWJVir .TiiSri7 jflBjDni 4P'lt "'"Mm Hp- n"Jmr An Old Choir s near as we can tell it it is made 'Jfin t i j i n i tj. ,' 'xjnandsome chair, measured by mod- ;,pirn standards of furniture beauty, "Ot" there isn't a mahogany chair in U3r3mv fnrnffiirA store in Atnorlnn that C$5r'duld be accepted in exchange. . . r , . . fi7lt is a solid wood rocker, and it vwas made by my great-grand-father C-M&xtfbre than a century ago. We don't Ylcnow just how old it is, but we have ;arecord of it in the family for more - jwian ninety-five years, for the family archives relate that it was brought Missouri by Grandfather Maupin 1825. He used it until his death n 1862, and then it was taken by toy own father, and in it he sat and ocked and rested when not at work, or nearly fifty years. And when he assed on it fell to me. They made substantial furniture n those days. This old chair was put bgether with Wooden pegs dowel ins, I believe they call them. We've ad to put new rockers on it several fmes, and, they were screwed-om but all the rest is just as it was when first made, save for the scars of time. And it has some pretty heavy scars. too. wow i wish that old chair could talk! Woudn't it be fine to hear it relate stories of those pioneer days In Kentucky and Missouri? Wouldn't it be Interesting to hear it (tell of those grim days when the little mother sat in it and rocked, waiting for word from the soldier husband and father at the front? Stories of Buffering, of sacrifice, of daring and of devotion! It was honestly built by honest hands, else It would not have survived all these years. It has traveled many a mile from Ken tucky to Missouri, from Missouri to Illinois, from Illinois to Missouri again, then to Nebraska, then to Iowa, back to Missouri again, then to Oklahoma and now It la back In Nebraska again. Old and scarred r- m&ct Jfeal sffi -'tiStcT r.jflBfiflfrfBfr w$m!XJP wsw 'Myffii T 1 .UC. 'okSE j" "3J r place of honor in my humble homo, and when I have answered the call I want my oldest boy to take It and treasure it as I treasure it now, and as my father, and my father's father, and his father before him, treasured it. I sit in it every day when I am at home, and every time I do I think of the little mother and the stalwart .father who used it so long, of the pioneer Missouri grandmothor whom I never saw, and of the sturdy Ken tuckian who made it away back yon der in the days of Boone and Ken- i ton and Girty. Some pretty big men have rocked in that old chair. One of them was Captain Grant who afterwards became lieutenant general of the army and president of the United States. That was when he went over into central Missouri, and father assisted him in drawing a road map of that section of the state. "Old Bullion" sat in it more than once, for he and grandfather were personal friends, although political opponents. Alexander Campbell, and "Raccoon John" Smith have rocked in it many a time. They were before my time, however. But I love to re call the old-time preachers who have swung to and fro in that chair, for father was a preacher and my mother, "Aunt Sally" to everybody, was' never so happy as when enter taining father's co-workers. Let's see there was D. Pat Henderson, and John B. Corwine, and George and Zack Sweeny, and John C. Tully, and Clark Braden, and T. C. Dungan, and W. P. Aylesworth he preached mother's funeral sermon and Moses B. Lard, and Knowles Shaw, and J. B. Rosecrans, and O, well; the list would be almost a roster of the ministers of the Disciples church be tween 1868 and 1880, when I left the home rooftree. Wonderful, isn't it, what a lot of memories an inanimate article like that can start to trooping through one's mind? Memories often sad, often joyous, always welcome. To night a baby of the fifth generation was rocked to sleep in that chair. And may children unto the tenth, yea the twentieth, generation be rocked to sleep therein. minded of them by some of the romi niscenses that have appeared in this department. The ice bound streams will be unlocked in a few weeks, and tho bullheads will begin biting. Thon the architect is going to use tho aforesaid stories, first, because they are good ones, and second, because by using them he will have more time to bob for the aforesaid bullheads. In the meantime he is hoping that more old friends boys with gray hairs and, perhaps, grandchildren running around will come across with other stories. Tho more good stories the more time for fishing when fishing time comes. Ti A M CW A SEEDCORN JJAlVUI A BEATS THE WORLD Oermli atcs quicker. Matured earlier. Be ml today. Klvo huiuIo packet of 6 beat klndj for your xcctlou 10 cent. Oirctilnr Iroo, L. H. CHILL SEED CO., ELK POINT, SOUTH DAKOTA LAND OF PRIZE WINNERS. Gallatin Vat Icy, Montana. Sue hundred acres, Irrigated land. No better. No. 1 Water right. Horty-fire dollars per acre. Fire llioutund down. Unce, six percent. 1 1-2 milci from SrhooU town and Railway, Write (or particular. !' X. Abkt4, Thra Forks ta. PATENTS WatosB E. Calemaa Pateat Lawyer, Wnnhlnifton, D.C. Advice and booluifrea. Hate reasonable. Hlcbect reference. BcatBcrticaa. a-j : 'Twas Ever Thus Several years ago I officiated as "end man" in an amateur minstrel show, and as one of my "props" I purchased a huge rhinestone ring at the 10-cent store. It so happens that I have a friend who is worth somewhere near a half million more than I am, he being the possessor of about $50Q,000. He wears a scarf pin a diamond worth about $750. One day I happened to have that ring in my pocket, intending to lend it to a friend of mine about to do a vaude ville stunt at a social gathering, and I met my wealthy friend. He Invited mo to lunch and of course I accepted. I showed him my ring, and we made up a little deal. He put on the ring and I stuck his scarfpin in my cravat. We ' met a number of mutual friends at the restaurant, and all of them admired my friend's jraagnifi cent new diamond ring, and all of them poked fun at me for wearing a chunk of glass in my necktie. Then they all looked foolish when we swapped back, and my friend stuck the scarfpin in Its accustomed place, while I deliberately smashed the ring with the handle of my knife. In Store The .Architect has several good stories In cold storage. They were land battered, that chair occupies the written by old friends who were re- Untimcly "That fellow Biggins is utterly devoid of any sense of humor," growled the village wit. "What makes you think so?" "I tried my best mother-in-law joke on him and he nevGY smiled." "But he's been married just two weeks." "And I tried ray best stovepipe story on him and be looked like a wooden-faced man." "Well, he's just gone to house keeping." "And as a last resort I tried one of my best cook stories on him and he seemed to be mad about some thing." "Oh, he married a girl who just graduated from a domestic science school." Mixed In this beautiful city of Lincoln wo have so many churches that often we find two of them on a single block. The first Presbyterian church is on the corner of Thirteen and M, and tho First Congregational church is on the corner of Thirteenth and L. The other Sunday a stranger saun tered slowly along Thirteenth street and heard singing from both churches, Sunday schools being in session. "Will there be any stars in my crown, in my crown, When at evening tho sun goeth down?" was the song he heard coming from one church. And from the other church there came the answer ing refrain "No, not one; no, not one." ECZEMA CAN IIKCUJIKI). My raUd.iioothlnpr.KUftraiiUM'd curi'docflitand KkkhBamim Ktirovojull, HtoiuTiib iTCiiiNd nutl nircHlortay. Witrre Now Touat. Dr. CAK NADAV, 174 Park Square, Sedalla, M. 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