The Commoner
FEBRUARY, 1914
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ium or a tax assessment or a bill that
3rou wero not expecting.
Somebody always is asking ques
tions at the window when you are in
a hurry to buy a ticket.
When you think you are going to
be ablo to save money there always
is something that has to be repaired.
However, there always is a good
timo coming. Chicago , Record-Herald.
TIio Xiaconic Senator
Not for the multitude but for the
fewness of his words is Senator Lane
of Oregon likely to becomo famous.
Asked to contribute a sketch of him
self to that annual of shrinking
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modesty, the Congressional Directory,
Mr. Lane wrote:
"Harry Lane, democrat, of Oregon,
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When asked how he liked his sen
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From "The Office Window" in tho
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Tho Fatal Stop
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Prospective Woman Purchaser
How dreadful! I've always thought
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Poor Ikoy
"Don't fool, Ikey is a sick man,"
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"All the time he hollers mit one.hand
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"Mrs. Brown has thekleptomania."
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New York Times. '
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Village Philosophy
Light reading lights no candles in
the dark places of the mind.
Some folks wait for success as
though it had a special track laid
right by their door, and was due to
arrivo on scheduled time.
Religion with somo people is a
thing to be endured with fortitude.
To keep a friend you must be such
a friend to him as not to lay the pain
of your own troubles upon him.
The midnight of ignorance is the
ignorance of one's own ignorance.
Advice is so cheap that nobody
even makes a pretense of respect
ing it.
If somo folks knewi themselves as
they really are they would scratch
their names off their own visiting
lists.
An empty mind is so small that it
doesn't note the vacuum.
Tho only good thing about worry
Is that it gives somo folks an occu
pation that keeps them from med
dling with other folks' busiuess.
M. G. R., in Sioux City Journal.
Pointed Paragraphs
Enthusiasm makes heavy work
light.
And many a toothless person in
dulges in biting sarcasm.
A .mean man always measures tho
world by his own standard.
When a man puts his foot in it he
feels like kicking himself.
And many a self-made man has
been unmade by a tailor-made
woman.
Tho more rights a woman has the
less she cares to talk about them.
When a. couple are divorced the
real reason doesn't always show on
the books.
The high. cost of living still enables
home to pose as the deadest place on
earth. Chicago Newa
Quaker Quips
Flattery among friends is a case of
either mako or break.
Many a man has ono wife too
many who has only been married
once.
Many a man's wasted energy is re
stricted entirely to praising himself.
The fellow who pats himself on
the back is quite satisfied to stand
pat.
Instead of taking time by the fore
lock some people are satisfied to
hang onto his coat tails.
Tell a, girl she has dreamy eyes
and she will generally prove that she
is wide aw.ake. Philadelphia Record.
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