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Show About the Si.e of it. "Man born of woman, spanked by the hired nurse and jer::ed bald-headed by cranky scho boasters, and attended with a varied and select assortment of troubles. He lingers on luxury's lap until his paternal ancestor tires him out to begin his battle with the world. Ha starts a newspaper, bis friends promise to support him but in the hour ci need he fi ds that promises, like three cent lamp chimneys, are easily broken. If he don't pitch into the prohibitionists prohibition-ists his "liberal" patrons cuss him. and if he does, his "high morality" friends stop the paper. If he refuses to be sociable v. it! Tom Jim and Jack, they say he is stuck up. and if be makes intimate with everybody they say he is courtin ' public favor. If he publishes all the news, science, statistics, foreign reports and business outlook, they say he is getting to oi'resh. If he doesn't make a personal of every one in town thev feel slighted, and if he does ho will finally run across some man who does not like to be personalized and get his head punched." |