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Show . CAUSE AND EFFECT. It ia the Accepted Axiom of Logic and Philosophy that Every Effect Has a Cause. THEY ALL WANTED THE EABTH, Viotor Hugo's Granddaughter Mrs. Yates' Visit The Growing South Notes ' of Interest. ' It is an accepted axiom of logio and philosophy that every effect has a cause. In our nationallegislative halls there has , been a fracas both distressing and dis-' dis-' graceful. Columbia blushed rosy red to the roots of her luxuriant hair, and the American eagle was seen to put his head . under his wing. That was the effect. Now for the cause. Lard seems to have made all the sputter, but to find original cause philosophy suggests deeper study. It will be remembered that certain demoniacs demo-niacs requested at one time to be domiciled domi-ciled in the bodies of a lot of hogs. They rushaU down a steep place into the sea. A pig cannot swim. If he tries to do so he cuts his own throat, but may it not be possible that a few of them scrambled out? The law of heredity hered-ity is a fact, a physiological verity. 1 have always held that pork (at ' least some pork) was full of evil spirits. Now lard is a product of pork. All men are influenced by their environment, more or less! Congressmen are only men, so that it is just possible that the primitive cause of all this trouble can be traced to those devil endowed swino from the sea coast of the Gadarones. Put the blame just where it belongs. Pittsburg Dispatch. |