Show THE STARS AND THE CLOUDS The Columbia Star is published in South Carolina Caro Caro- lina lina A few nights ago the editor received a message by telephone which read as follows For two nights those clouds over in the west have ve shown the face foco of William J. J Bryan Dryan Gradually the they drifted around to the tho north and remained there for hours but the likeness of I Bryan was never nC l lost st st. Doesn't that look loof like a solid northan north an and westfor west for Dr Bryan an f Whereupon the editor repaired to the street and he gives his testimony of what he saw there as follows follows fol fol- follows fol- fol lows Sure enough there was the strong face of the leader of the party arty It was all there the firm chin the noble bro brow with t th the sprinkling of hair on the front part art of the head and even tho the little furrow of humor around the mouth and nose Slowly the clouds drifted toward the north and cast and there remained remained remained re re- until the t twilight ht faded It was not a thunderhead cloud but a great benign cumulus massed mashed in in dignity in in the west moving In a triumphal manner to the cast A good omen n surely That all looks good for DIr Mr Ir Bryan pro provided the witnesses did not call in their imagination to fortify their facts We suspect that a spirit of prophecy is in the air this year When the ancients went into a battle the flight of birds was an omen of good or of evil the hoot of an owl in the early morning was another another an an- other the vision of serpents in the ether above them was another Why should the age of miracles have passed Wh Why cannot Mr rr Bryan appear on a cloud if he wants to 9 7 The only question is can Mr Bryan when election day comes around get out of the cloud into clear sunlight 7 And why should he appear in a cloud at least without a halo 1 But the summer is unusually hot for that matter shamefully hot Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps the heat extends above and there is a struggle in the astral regions and then prohibition has not struck South Carolina yet Editors down dmn there can get all they can afford to pay for from the drug drugstores stores but the worst kind of all must be in Pittsburg because a dispatch from there reports that the other morning three policemen on the east end district assert assert assert as as- sert that without premonition the ghost of an immense immense immense im im- mense Newfoundland Ne dog appeared to them with a hearty Good morning in his voice The air seems to be filled with signs this year and still we are not sure whether what tie the editor of the Star says he saw meant good or evil to Mr 1 Bryan That editor takes it as a good sign that heis he heis is to carry the north and the east But does he not know that it is typical o of what will happen to Mr Ir Bryan when he reaches the north and the east 7 It was a black cloud it was not a white one i In the same paper in which we find this Sir Oliver Lodge F. F R. R S. S believes the matter has been established established established that communications can ean be had with the dead Wo We feel that ghosts do walk walle this year and that the best of them thorn cannot tell whether the ghost is that of an honest ancient Democratic states right Democrat or whether it possibly ly is a Newfoundland dog The honors are about easy with a preference for the dog One peel peculiar feature of that image of Mr rr Bryan seen in tho the clouds is that the most prominent feature about him is his chin and without disrespect it may maybe y be proper to say Bay that during the last twelve years Mr 7 Bryan has used his chin more than any other organ of his bod body For us we do not wonder that it makes its impression on the clouds and it may be bea a good omen something to encourage others that if they have a good cause and adhere to it it will be bound to make its impression after awhile |