Show figures would not lie if han could not figure justice is sure as fate but sometimes it is so tarna tar nahun liun slow to reduce friction is to improve the machine it is the same in life wonder if they will substitute dress patterns for free seed when women go to congress most people spring from good families but the trouble with some of them is that they leap cap too far business is business but that does not mean that you must make your dour neighbors business your dour business congress has decided to put back the motto in god we trust this is justified by the fact that the coins coins are usually in bad company scientists have hane discovered that snails snore if wo we can ever get them in tune with mosquitoes humble bumble bees and frogs well have some good quartet music while the big corporations orations were retrenching tren ching did anybody hear bear of a brass collar being laid off D did d anybody hear of these office holders having their salaries reduced the report that br bryan an sent the following congratulatory letter to grover cleveland has not been verified dear grover I 1 am glad that you are 71 I 1 wish you were older because the government employed emp loyes have leisure to push their claims it is probable that they will succeed in securing pensions this is unfair why not pension the men who do the hard work in this country 7 A man who mho has been the subject of considerable gossip lately was asked the other day mav he did not resent these ugly stories oh ob said he the people are not much interested in the short and simple scandals of the door fortunate the supreme court has ruled that the minnesota rate law is unconstitutional because it imposes penalties that are too severe present day legislation is apt to be that way there is a strong sentiment against corporate coro cor orate greed and this sometimes results in legislation which is as unjust as the original grievance the legislators of the future will be level headed men who will deal fairly in all matters we often wonder how bow the writers of certain obituaries could conscientiously indulge in such fulsome praise it would certainly be better to bestow prane praise in installments during the subjects lifetime but unfortunately those who really desere praise are seldom commended until after their death this it seems is the very reason why glowing obituaries are desirable we talk about peoples failings all the time while they are alive why not speak only of their good qualities after their death deatha do these mothers congresses and purity gatherings really accomplish com mich mi eh that is good for society or do they merely afford sewer connections for coarse women to rid their minds of nasty things many per surn ably pure minded people talk on risque subjects not because they want to do good but because they are naturally evil minded occasionally one will hear the remark 1 I wish I 1 was out of this town and then one feels like saying say ing 1 I wish you were for d 1 man who stands on the street corner chewing and spitting telling obscene stories stones and curbing coming the town finding fault with ins his grandmother because she is a woman claiming that merchants are thieves that lawyers and newspaper men would skin nou iou to i I 1 finish and a whole lot more is a nuisance and an abomination any town pestered with one or more such worthies would be justified in running them out no one is obliged to line ine where he is not suited if one an encouraging word for the business busine qs enterprises and institutions of his town tonn he should shut up if things dont suit moNctoN moe to here they will A growler and nd or chead ore heid in a town is an enterprise anter rise killer every time mt pleasant pa pyramid hamid |