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Show THE EDXTp&'S GOKAEfiPOBDGVCE SC2HOOL. It was an eager editor who went to work ! ohel day- . i . . ( Chock full ef good Intentions that admitted admit-ted no deiaTv - "This day.'! said be, "on Labor's rights I'll set toy country straight; I'll teach her how to dig Canals, and how i Construct a State; - 1 With trenchant -pn I'll smite the Trusts; the Mormons I'll attack; The Legislature needs a far; I'll rip it up the back." - - It was that eager editor who sat him in his chair And, gsxed 'upon the towering pile cf morning letters there." He opened enej-'Dear Sir." he read; 'Please tell roe where to find e The passage in the Scriptures. 'Art is long and Love If blind.' And will you please Inform me what o'clocjc it U in Dee When it's half-past ore In Greenland on October ' twenty-three ?" He opened letters one by one; they camp from far and near. And all of them requested help on various vari-ous points noT clear." As: "Who waa named for County Clerk the time Buchanan ran?" And: "Where was Dowle living when the Civil -war began?" And: "What's the highest point of land In British Indostan?" And: "Who struck Billy Patterson?" "How old Is Bister Ann?" ' 'Are Cubehs good for bleeding warts?" "Should gloves be worn at shower VAre turnips rstaed Indoors, and how?" "Do waterblrds wear hose?" "What makes the - earth gw round the sun? And how can I grow tall?" "I met a man in Market street, and would you let him" CHIT "Please, sir. decide a Htfle bet: Can blue eyca turn to hazel?" "Which sail is Highest on the mast; the foressU or the staysail?" It was the eager editor who answered every question. ... He wrote or cabbages and kings, of bait and Indigestion. Of pyramids, of soap for dogs, of, flowerpots flower-pots and croup. . Of love and lightning, chills and chess, of Sadducees and soup He wrote until the whistle blew; he wrote all afternoon; He wrote his, mind s empty as a hollow voiced bassoon. The day was gone; his strength aa well; - ' the hotfr waa very late; His country throbbed and suffered but hts country had to waltl ' L. H. Robblna tn Newark News. |