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Show IB THE MAN WITH THE HAMMER, j Every city, burg or lmmlct, j metropolis or country town, j hns among its population ' somo that it would gladly turn down. Thore's the dead-beat tind the bully, busy-body, clown and bore- there's the public I hog, the boozer and tho man ft who thirsts for gore; there is I tho brute whoso wife supports I him, tho persistent knights of I rest, but the one of all, most J ! baneful, is tho Chronic Knocker I pest. Public spirit makes him I locoed; progress drives him to I despair, civic pride is an un- I known virture only see him j paw the air when somo worthy individual makes investements in the town; why tho very word "improvement" brings his ham-mor ham-mor crashing down. t He must ! knock on all that's doing; knock j when anything is begun, knock becauso it isn't finished; then ho knocks because it is done, , knocks on spending public money and knocks becauso more isn't spent; sees in each official measure some sintstbr intent. Attributes to each man J in office a corrupt and evil mind. Thinks that every noble act only hides an ax to grind; Views tho world through twist- ' ( ed glasses. His liver is out of I , kelter and in fact he is full of 1 prunes. Every city burg, ham- I1 lot, metropolis or country town I has some barnacles and dqad ones they would like to drown. There is tho vicious scandal monger and the loafer and tho bum; there's the gamester and tho liar and the wretch who is soaked in rum, the swindler, tho backbiter, tho hypocrite, the grump, but there's none can do tho mischief of the chronic knocker chump. Exchange. |