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The Commoner
APRIL, 1916
31
literal farmer said, 'as long as I kept
awake, but every time I fell asleep It
roiieti ore ' " wasimne-rrm star.
Obviously Not
A Kansas farmer, returning homo
late at night, saw a light moving
about in the farm yard. When ho
investigated he found a neighbor's
farm hand carrying a lantern.
"What are you doing here?" de
manded tho farmer.
"Courtin', sir," replied tho farm
hand.
"Courtin', courtin with a lantern?
Huh, you fool, I never used a lantern
when I went courtin'!"
"No, sir,"jreplied the farm hand as
he moved off, "wo can all Bee you
didn't." Harper's Weekly.
Pointed Paragraphs
And a word to tho otherwise is
wasted.
If all women were compelled to
dress alike there would-he more va
cant pews in fashionable churches.
Even if a man acknowledges that
ho has fault? he seldom owns up to
those his friends accuse him of hav
ing. Tho office never gets left when it
has a salary back of it.
A mother's praise of her children
never interests pther women.
A woman will jump to a conclusion
almost as quickly as' she will at a
mouse.
It's easy to see through people who
are always making spectacles of
themselves. '
A woman, would -have no use for
money except for the fact that it .will
buy almost any old thing she sets her
, heart on.
A woman's bes.t female friend will
tell you moro to her disadvantage in
a minute than you can learn from her
worst enemy in two weeks. Chicago
News.
THE MAN WHO MADE MONEY
OUT OF IT
There Is a legal aspect to crime and
a human aspect. In the recent action
of Michael W. O'Hern, warrant dep
uty in the office of the Kansas City
prosecuting attorney, legal and hu
man aspects seem for once to coin
cide. Here Is the story as the Kan
sas City (Mo.) "Star" recently told
It:
"Michael W. O'Hern, warrant dep
uty in the prosecuting attorney's
office, refused this morning to file a
charge against Benjamin Grooms,
who shot his son, Charles Grooms, at
their home, 2935 Fairmount Avenue,
yesterday afternoon because the son,
intoxicated and abusive, cursed his
mother.
" 'Even if you had struck a vital
spot,' O'Hern said, 'there would still
have been justification. The crim
inal in this case is not you, nor yet
your son. He is the man who gave
your son the whisky.' "
Young Grooms formed the habit of
drinking before he was fifteen years
of age. "His attack on his mother
yesterday was only one of many, but
that one reached the limit," explained
his father. All the same, we believe
there is hope for such a boy if he
can let the stuff alone hereafter; he
has had his lesson and we wish him
luck at pulling himself together. But
what of the man who made money
out of it? The Southwest Boulevard
booze dealer (barber-shop and pool
room front) has been closed up. He
was the little man. What about the
silk-hatted distiller of the stuff young
Grooms drank the distiller who
still lives and prospers somewhere
in Louisville, or Baltimore, or Peo
ria? According to Michael, W.j
O'Hern, he is "the criminal in thisi
ftRf" When shall, .we. be civilized
enough' to act accordingly? Collier's
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