Show I 1 yam r IS YOU MOUNTED ye culled citizen is beginning to look sharp after the inner consciousness ot of the philanthropic gentlemen who espouse hla his cause with too great vehemence lie ile is giving cause for hope that bv by J and by he w ill 11 learn that all who ho call him brother are not his friends by a considerable amount it ia is at lost dawning upon his mind that he has been and is being use uselin in away tt blat at yields him little profit politically or oth fwise awro lie has discovered that the vey persons whose mouths are loudest in his praises and whose philanthropies are most obtrusive and whose protestations of affection and sympathy are most noisily told are not always free from mercenary motives lie ile has found I 1 by sad experience that many at least would flatter and cajole solely to be I 1 able to nde ride him or rob him I 1 the airier journal has dug up a prophetic example which will illustrate if not illuminad illum inae the subject at a colored gathering not lo 10 long ng since the dawning of the new now light on the 1110 negro was vividly set forth in in a story I 1 which sir watterson quotes as abram JaR jaspers pers speech to the colored picnic at shantytown feler feller fir freemen cemen says ha he you all know me I 1 are abram caper jasper a republican from way back when there have been any m work ork to do I 1 his has done it when there have b been ten any botin to do I 1 has voled e early aly and often when thee have been any to do I 1 baa has been in the thick cf lia it I 1 are above proof old md line and tax paid and I 1 hai bai seed many changes too I 1 has seen the republicans up tip I 1 has seed the demo rats up night I 1 had a dream I 1 dreamt that I 1 died and wept welt to heaven when W lien I 1 got to de pearly gates od old salt peter be he says whis dar says he be aaram jasper says L I 1 ra is you mount el I 1 or is you afoot a foot 81 says ala he be 1 I id if afoot a foot haym 1 I well i 3 ou cant git in fa here pays fays b be 0 Nob odys lowed in here leapt them as comes mounted says he lie cata hard on me says save 1 I latter comin all dis distance but he be says bothin mo and eo so I 1 starts bak back an about half halt way w ay down de lull hill w who ho hoes does I 1 meet but benl willom blab mahone 0 ne aher is is you gwing Gerk 17 says 1 I 1 I is to heaven 11 pays he why gen 1 11 sy say 1 I taint no uw ise just it been up dar an nob odys low lowed to git in copt co pt dey comes mounted a atoot afoot a toot foot Is dat 0 o says he yes yea ita it id s ea earsl 8 well do de gehi benl borter sorter scratched berate cled ed his bead an arter awhile A be aa ya says be abram I 1 tell you what le lets va do you is a likely lad suppose y you 0 u git Z i t down on all fours an ana ill mount t and d ride you and dat way we km kin both eit in gen says I 1 do you think you ca can n work it 1 I know I 1 kin says he be go 80 down I 1 gits on all fours and de benl fits a straddle strad Jle an we ambles up de do hill agin an prances up to de gate an ole silt salt S peter lie says chos dar benl willom mahane of vir giney 11 says he be Is you mounted or is you afoot a foot says peter 1 I is mounted says de gen all right c ays pays peter all right 11 says lie just hitch your hoss outs de de berill an conre come right in is TO no halfway half balf way bubines bu sines about the prohibition law wh which ich is to go into effriet in north dakota july 1 it stops tops the seller from Eel telling ling the buy er r from froni buying the frield from giving and every roan man woman and child from tasting for once it is logical and without concession or compromise its enforcement will put a ars premium on spotting inform informing I 1 ng and paul pry ism ara but if anat h ing wi will 1 I 1 prohibit it ought to every everybody b ody wi will 1 be anxious to see bow how the scheme works t THE MEN who prate the loudest about the crime of tha tile sunday newspaper are usually the most ignorant concerning the subject they condemn the v w ork on the sunday newspaper is is nearly all done on saturday and it consists merely of a record of what the lord permits to occur on the week days previous the real sinners if sin there be are those who read the sunday paper Is 1 I THERE is nothing the grip dislikes BO so much as vi warm arm feet keep the breast protected and the footwear snug and dry inside and the monster will not trouble you maxem and peggs whose advertisement is always found I 1 in U TUB tun STANDARD ell the bast blots and shoes |