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. - WILD HORSES IN AMERICA.
In this day of ahort akirta, automobiles,
. pay-a*-you-enter cars, electric lights and di
vorce scandals, moat of ua are prone to for
get important facta, and show amazement
When reminded that certain facta are etill in
.exist on oe.
,~f' For example, the wild horse In North
America la a fact. He la not a fact of anch
.'/‘groat Importance da he was at one time, but
he in a fact nonetheless. The Associated
Frees dispatches in yesterday's Advertiser
related that eight men at Omaha. Nebraska
had been convicted of nslng the malls to de
' fraud in sales of wild horaes in Coconino
% county, Arizona ~
Not the least-among the trying duties of
the early American cowboy was the catching
t end “breaking" of wild borsea The exploits
of these daring plainsmen and riders form a
considerable part of our fascinating Western
^literature.
No little fiction is written about the baauty
and grace of wild horses; but that’s fiction.
“j The wild horse is tough, has strength, but
hla average beauty Is not so high as that of
jiv the domestic animal. More often than not
? the wild horse is a shabby .looking creature
j;i Wild horses assemble in troops of varying
sizea Droves in one groop numbering sev
eral hundred horses have been known to con
gregate There are savage contests between
the males for supremacy and leadership. The
defeated stallions are often “driven off to a
solitary llfa" The chief stallion, foreseeing
danger, warns the troop and leads them to
places of safety. "Even the largest troops
seem instinctively to move in a kind of con
, cert, so that when they are assailed, the
stronger animals oppose the enemy, and pro
tect the younger and weaker."
Cortes Introduced the horse in Mexico. The
., horses he brought over were curiosities to the
| early natives and they showed great fear of
rfv the strange animals. The Cortez horse,
I;, crossed with a scrub breed found In limited
numbers on <the North American plains, pro
duced what has come to be known as the
t mustang. The mustang Is a tough, wiry ani
1 m&l which knows how to "burn the wind"
under a saddle.
!'. Tbs wild horse Is still with us, but he is no
longer of any Importance in the world—ex
cept in parts of Europe, in the Steppes, and
in parts of South America, where his tribe
Is numerous.
WHY A HOLIDAY?
Why should New Tear's Day be a holiday?
In nearly all States It is a legal holiday,
which we are supposed to celebrate. Some
government employes may celebrate It If
they wish; National banks close on that
date, or are virtually closed.
The disposition of the average man is to
Start the new year off with a serious day's
work. Least of all does the average man
think of the first of January as a day on
which he should be idle and engage in cele
bration. He Is ready to attack the work
of the new year with teat and eagerness.
In nearly all American States the holiday
idea is overdone. There are too many days
of celebration, and. their number is increas
ing.
Capper's Weekly grumbles at th- prospect
i of increased postal rates. Capper's is pub
lished in Kansas, the State which yelled it
self hoarse for the various brands of pater
nalism and governmental sop to voters which
the government is now having to pay for.
(*« and which are largely responsible for the
need for Increased taxation levied on read
ing matter. Many of these costly schemes
were unndbessary. but being popular the gov
£. eminent embraced them. *
is What’s become of the old-fashioned coun
try barber who cut the hair of ail his neigh
borhood friends Saturday afternoon, but
didn't charge them anything for the work?
f* The lowly hog Is the Innocent canse of a
stirring controversy in Alabama. The utility
Of his ekin' as shoe leather makes the issue.
X Now that Columbia, 8- C., has a farm loan
bank, members of the Confederation of
- Wooten's Cluba there- can have a garden.
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WHY NOT A JOINT DEBATE?
Seeing that the State Commlsslonpr ef
Agriculture, Hon. James A. Wade, and the
Hon. Emmett Jones, clerk of the Bureau
of Markets; cannot agree upon the utility
of pigskins as a material from which shoes
may be made and as a means of averting
the catastrophe of $20 shoes, cannot be set
tled in the ordinary way in which such mo
mentous questions are settled, we propose a
series of joint debates in Alabama between'
these two distinguished gentlemen. Their
subject is to be, of course, none other than
"Pigskins and Shoe Leather."
• Mr. Jones fancies that we have been wasting
bacon rinds all these years, and wonders
why they have not been made to serve some
good purpose other than' to increase the
weight of Kansas City meat sold In Ala
bama. They shoujd be good for something.
What, for instance?- Why, shoe leather, of
course. Accordingly the energetic market
expert sat down and wrote a letter to Presi
dent Wilson and one to Congressman Tom
Heflin respectfully calling attention to the
possibility of hog skins converted into shoe
leather and suggesting that Congress do
something about it right away by passing a
law or something.
Commissioner Wade, however. Is not im
pressed. He appears humiliated that such a
suggestion' should have come from his de
partment without being first submitted to
the Commissioner; besides, the very sugges
tion is preposterous on its face, since hog
hairs leave pores in the skin which would
cause the shoes to leak—and what in damp
weathef would lead straight to pneumonia
or influenza. Mr. Wade says shoe leather
must come frojn animals with loose-fitting
skin; and hogskins fit tight, as we all know
who have tried to pinch hogs on the shoulder.
This is a matter of considerable gravity.
If shoe manufacturers have been too dull
to perceive this opportunity in the past, that
is no reason why they should remain ignor
ant and indifferent in future. The people
are directly concerned in the cost of foot
wear and they would welcome additional
light on the subject. On the other hand,
what of forward departmental heads who
have new ideas about pigskins and their
uses—what shall be done when they publish
their ideas without first submitting the same
to the cfcief executive of the department?
This, too, is a matter in which the public
is Interested, and a discussion of which the
public would quit work to hear.
If there is hope of having a shoe for every
Amerlcan and an American for every shoe,
thii hope should not be starved.
Now while the subject is hot and the hog
killing season.is with us. and before news
paper statements go so far as to leave the
public mind confused and unsatisfied, why
not appeal to the platform under the oaks?
The subject is of greater human interest
than gu^io tags or of crop rotation or an
all-the-year-round market, and a debate
would draw throngs comparable only to th£
hordes of men and women who Inundated the
earth around the classic feet of William I*
Yancey and Henry W. Hilliard.
GOUGING THE NEWSPAPERS—
AND THE PEOPLE.
The United States Postofflce Department
is not only a necessity, but it Is the greatest
luxury we have. Its expenses Increase
rapidly from year to year. Its activities
have been extended to the limit. The people
said they wanted the Postofflce Department
to extend its benevolent activities, and the
Postofflce Department, being the political
department of the government, made recom
mendations to Congress which Congress ap
proved, with the' result that the activities
of the department have been extended in ac
cordance with the wishes of the (oiks. But
paying time comes with a paternalistic gov
ernment—in fact paying time never goes.
The Postofflce Department, being pater
nalistic. is not a business success. Judged by
any sound principles of economics—but it's
popular. The Postmaster General claims
that there is a considerable surplus to tho
credit of the department this year. If that
is so, it is the first time in the history of
the department that it has not gone in debt.
But if there id* such a whaling surplus to
the credit of the department, why this fran
tic call on Congress to levy more tribute on
newspapers, magazines and other reading
matter?
The government has concocted a plan to
be known as the “zone system,” by which
it proposes to Increase postal charges on
the people's reading matter. Papers now
pay 1 cent a pound postage; under the zone
system, says Capper's Weekly, the chargo
might be anywhere from 1 to 6 cents a pound,
according to destination.
The rider to the appropriation bills, touch
ing postal rates on such reading matter as
we have indicated, provides the following
rates;
If mailed to local, first, second or third
zones (under 300 miles from the point of
publication). 1 cent a pound.
Fourth zone, 300 to 600 miles, 2 cents a
pound; fifth zone, 600 to 1,000 miles, 3 cents
a pound; sixth zone, 1,000 to 1,400 miles, 4
cents a pound; seventh zone. 1,400 to 1,800
miles, 6 cents a pound; eighth zone, (more
than 1.S00 miles), 6 cents a pound.
Capper's Weekly of Topeka. Kansas, de
clares with reason: ‘This zone system woul 1
paralyze every publication of national cir
culation. It would Injure every national
farm paper, an Important thing to consider;
particularly those devoted to special in
terests. such as stock raising, bee culture,
poultry, horticulture. • • • The average zone
would be 1.000 miles for these papers and
the postage would be 3 cents a pound. No
paper can be made and mailed under aucii
expense unless the subscription price aril
the advertising rates aro verv materially
Increased. The people, not the publishers,
will pay.”
But what is still more Important, from the
point of view of a Democracy, is pointed out
in the same editorial in the Capper paper.
The zone system, curtailing the growth of
circulation, "would restrict free expression
and the Interchange of experiences. It
would create narrow cornmunitv-thouglit
where we now have national and universal
vision. It would erect walls around States.
It would do more than any other conceivable
I
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legislation to kill free speech and a free
press."
T,he rapid and sensational rise In the price
of. raw materials out of which newspapers
and magasinea are made have made the cost
of publication almost prohibitive with many
Journals, and the end Is not in sight. No
man can say what the price of materials,
especially print paper, will be In another
six months or a year. Now publishers are
expected to bear this burden put upon there
by a traditionally wasteful and extravagant
Congress at the instigation of a Department
of State which has never been self-sustain
ing. but being a political department, must
engage In enterprises.which are popular with
the beneficiaries of such enterprises. Of
course the public pays in the long run—
but what does the public care, so long as it
is getting something for nothing?
AJntll the PostofTice Department can con
duct itself on such a basis as will not make
it necessary, for the department to call for
exorbitant taxation to create "surpluses” in
the department, wouldn't it be well for the
department to brag less about its "surplus,"
talk lesh about government ownership of
telephone and telegraph lines, and get down
to a meat and bread footing again?
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY GROWN
WEARY.
Reports from different sources give the
plausible Indication that if there is anything
Austria-Hungary wants more than victory
and ^ square meal It's peace—and that.lt is
willing to have peace now.
The Associated Press of Thursday night
reported that rumors were flying to the ef
fect that Austria-Hungary was threatening
to sue for separate peace.
The International News Service records re
ports of peaces parades in Vienna.
Austria-Hungary, weak In 'the beginning,
has been sorely bruised and tried In this war.
Many times the reports have gone out that
her people were in a' state of unrest and
yearned for peace; but most of such reports
must be discounted, since they came out of
biased capitals.
But the world is not wholly Ignorant of
conditions in Austria-Hungary. The world
knows that that country is tired of the war.
and well It may be, despite the gallantry of
its soldiers. It is reasonable to suppose that
the state of public opinion In Austria
Hungary—if not in Germany—Is responsiblo
in some degree for the* present peace moves
of the German government.
AMERICAN.PIANOS.
More than 10,000 American-made pianos
were exported to foreign buyers during the
last fiscal year. This is a record breaker in
the piano industry. In spite of the war and
the drafts the war makes upo.i private re
sources, the piano is still in demand. If all
previous records for domestic piano sales
were not broken It is because nearly every
body In the United States already had a
piano. v
The piano is desired in nearly every home,
whether there Is a musician there or not.
The piano Is not only in demand as a musical
instrument, but also as an ornament, like a
diamond. A piano sets off a home, whether
it is ever sounded or not; thus the piano in
the home is no sign of music nearby.
A notable characteristic of the American
woman is the practical certainty that no mat
ter how fondly she may have loved her piano
in her girlhood, she will strike its keys less
and less as she grows ol&er, until in time she
will have lost her musical "ear" and her
touch. The piano then waits for the children
to come along and make it useful in ways
other than as an ornament. Still, if ragtime
be a girl's favorite, is it not just as well that
when she grows older and more sedate she
should quit the piano altogether?
One way to celebrate New Year is to pay
vour debts
Letters to Editor
THIS AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
Editor The Advertiser:
Many eloquent teachers teach. What do
we learn? If the principles of the Amer
ican government are the latest refinement
of civil government. It is timely right here
in Alabama to look after the most eloquent
of our teachers who come among us for pub
lic office.
Lawyers must stand examination In law:
doctors must be examined; preachers must
be learned; there are schools to teach elec
tricity.
Why should not law makers be examined
for qualification?
Certainly the foundations of American gov
ernment are to be undermined by some very
eloquent teachers, if they are left alone.
There must be distribution of power in the
function of government to arrest the natural
disposition of anyone to acquire arbitrary
authority.
In the American government, the States
arrest arbitrary power. The Roosevelt
Bryan-Hobson school would consolidate all.
—X. Y. Z.
THE SIFFRAGE AMENDMENT
EDITORIAL.
Prattville. Ala., Dec. 28, 1916.
Editor Tlie Advertiser:
Your editorial on "The Suffrage Amend
ment,” December 27th, Is a masterpiece.
While you have written several excellent
articles along this line, this of December
27th Is the best.
You were rather late in making war on
woman suffrage, but when State rights are
Invaded you deliver the goods.
This is the fort around which the State
should plant Its heaviest artillery, because
when this fort is lost every State right is
gone.
(We thank the gentleman for his kind
words; but we must set him right In one
matter—this paper prides itself in the knowl
edge that it was a pioneer antagonist of the
suffrage movement.—Editor Advertiser.)
A REMEDY FOR PEACE WHICH WE
PASS ALONG.
Montgomery, Ala.. Dec. 28, 1916.
Editor The Advertiser:
I have a plan whereby the war can be
ended, if put into efTect. Let the Kings.
Emperors. Czars, et als. on opposing sides,
of an equal number, form lines of battle on
a very large field, where there are no
trenches, mountains, or anything to shield
them from each other, and with yie best
guns, fight it out themselves. When the bat
tle is over, and one of the two last not killed
eays "sufficient.” hi* side to be the'vanquished.
Tills reminds me of the story of two Irishmen
who had a fight, and beforehand agreed that
the one who was licked would say "suf
ficient." Finally one said the word, where
The First to be Smoked Out
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upon the other exclaimed, "begorra OVve
been troying to think of that wurr'd for a
half an hour.’’ —
Further, If the whole, "shooting match"
participated above proposed, is exterminated,
the war of course would be terminated, then
It is suggested that each country become an
independent republic and elect a President.
> If the plan does not meet with the approval
of the rulers, they might allow their bravest
soldiers to volunteer, to complete two
regiments or brigades of equal strength
on opposing sides, and fight it out
in the open, the result Jo be ^et^rmined as
previously outlined. Or, two fleets of battle
ships could be substituted, In lieu of the regi
mental or brigade plan. 0
If all parties concerned would agree to
one of these modes, the scrap would come
to an en'd very promptly, if they cannot
terminate it by peace negotiations.
Do you think anybody would have the
nerve to submit the idea to the powers?
If you cannot answer the above question,
do you know why the signs were taken off !
of the Montgomery street cars on the sides
of them, and why they have not been put
back on? Also, do you know why the elec
tric lights go out all over town when it
rains? I know this is the case with the cur
rent I use.'
Tours truly,
—A. C. S.
SOME MYSTERIES OK PLANT LIFE
EXPLAINED AWAY.
Prattville, Ala., Dec. 26, 1916.
Editor The Advertiser: !
In The Advertiser, December 22nd, we read I
where G. P. Servisa claims that it Is a mys I
tery to scientists why trees grow straight I
up.
The writer was raised In the forests and in
the cotton patch, and never had the oppor
tunity to study plants at a school like the
State University, where they have a vast, col
lection of plants in a great hall net aside for
the purpose. Visiting there I was amazed at
the knowledge of a girl student of plant life
When quite young the cotton plant has
two round leaves in the top. Later these
disappear and are replaced by leaves shaped
like a sweetgum leaf. Observation shows
these round leaves beneath the other leaves
They never get any higher from the ground,
but perish away. If we watch the cotton
plant we observe all growth is from the
terminal bud. A limb never gets any higher
from the ground from where it first ap
peared. By crowding the plant while young
the first limbs are killed in the bud and
never appear. This is why If we thin out
cotton while young it forms limbs close to
the ground.
Kvery tree In the forest, like cotton, grows
from the terminal bud, and if crowded, the
first 1 inches perish so, young they do not
leave a scar.
Plant food In the ground dissolved in wa
ter enters the roots of the plant and is called
crude sap. By peristaltic action of the plant
it Is forced from cell to cell until it reaches
the leaves, or lungs of the plant. By in
halation and exhalation products -are ex
changed with the air. the principal element
added Is carbon dioxide, crude sap is trans
formed into what is called elaborated sap.
This sip is forced downward and assimilated
by the branches. Elaborated sap In plants
correspondent to the red blood in man
found In the arteries. Thus scientists tell
us the branches draw their food from the
leaves and leaves draw crude sap from the
roots.
Leaves at the top get a full supply of sun
shine and manufacture a maximum supply
of plant food. Branches fed by these leaves
grow rapidly. Leaves located beneath the'
others being excluded from the sun cannot
inhale carbon, the main constituent of wood.
Branches fod by these leaves nr# not proper
ly nourished and perish away, especially if
shaded by adjoining plants, but if in the
open will develop a plant with maximum
foliage.
plants grow by addition, Just as a mason
adds one stone to another to erect a column.
Food supply in the leaf coming In contact
with the supplement supply in the Air unite
Chemically and add layer to layer or eel! to
cell. I-eaves excluded from the sun are
without life. Those flung to the sun build
the accompanying terminal bud toward the
sunlight. Consequently, plants grow straight
up if shaded equally on all sides, and if
shaded on one side, makes ail the growth
toward the light.
The embryo seed in the ground under the
Influence pf beat ami moisture, bursts its
hounds asunder. If not buried so deep that
sufficient light cannot penetrate, the embryo
this light adds fuel to the flame and it
mounts upward by addition. The root acts
on the same principle. Being In contact with
necessary component subtsances it ap
propriates these and adds layer to layer anl
call to cell and aecessarily grows In the
direction of plant food and water.
There is no mystery about plant growth.
It never spans a void however small. It
grows from being In contact with life giving
elements.* It adds layer to layer from its
terminal buds.
When a boy, going to school, by the path,
stood a tall pine with a limbless brfle. Full
ten feet from this tree-stood a muscadine
vine, straight as an arrow, that reached
through the air to the topmost boughs and
filled with bullices. How that vine got to
the top of that tree was a boyhood mystery
that attracted my attention every day until
I learned the secret. The two came up to
gether, grew off together, shed their bottom
branches together, and In old age was an
objective lesson of thought for the passer-by.
W. A. WADSWORTH.
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Raisin’ Pigs On Raisins
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Louisville Courier-Journal.
According' to Farm and Family, plga fed
on a mixture of California raisins and
eelected grains are "thrifty.” |
There was a 'time when nobody had much
respect for any quality of the hog save his
supposedly Indestrustible digestive ap
paratus. He was expected to subsist upon
what he could root up in the woods until he
should reach full-fledged hoghood and pre
sent to the owner a sufficiently expansive ex
terior to make It obviously profitable to
fattett him by putting him In a pen and
dumping corn Into muddy enclosure. That
was when hogs were worth 3 or 4 cents a
pound and when corn, worth perhaps 25
cents a bushel in Kentucky, sometimes was
burned as a substitute for stovewood in
States west of the Mississippi, where corn
ground was better than transportation
facilities and where coal was not a local
product.
Nowadays scientific farmers feed their pigs
as scientifically as their children should be
fed to get the best results in the form of
“build” and general health.
A concrete bath for a pen of pigs, a sup
planter of the old-fashioned insanitary mud
hole, is not uncommon. A Kentucky boy
who won a prize for producing tbe most
buxom pig admitted, or boasted, that he had
bathed the animal every day. He added, nd.
doubt, a gentle and soothing massage after
each bath, thus inducing slumber and pleas
ing swinish dreams of gorging so deceiving
that the sow fattened upon them while she
slept.
The hog once led a humble life and a hard
one, and was popularly believed to be funda
mentally and quite Irredeemably filthy.
Nowadays, where the production of pork
really is profitable, the difference between
the lot of the hog and the comfortable con
ditions promised to curly-loqks to beguile
her is that curly-locks was expected to sew
a fine seam.
The hog is butchered In the prime of life. *
but that whom the gods love die young was a
proverb in the time of Pericles. Who that
loves the sensuous life wouldn't be butchered
before the approach of age if assured of an
effortless, sanitary, hygienic life of scientific
banquetting sans, headaches and other aches?
The razorbahk, which could outrun the rab
bit and was able to take on the run a six
inch crack between the rails of a worm fence,
two feet from the ground, is a lean Cassius
of the agricultural past. He could bunk iq
the bush in January. He could whip a dog
when corne-ed. lie could get into and out
of any field that offered forage. He shared
with the wild turkey the bold piratical pleas
ure of depredating in sight of the farmer,
but out of reach and out of range, but he
never weighed 250 pounds when he was ten
months old and brought his owner 325.
Silken purses still are not made of sow's
ears, but leather ones are filled hy big
profits. So delicately nurtured is the Twen
tieth Century pig that no surprise Is oc
casioned by the news that ho is being fed
upon raisins. About the only thing, the
farmer could not afford to feed the modern
ized quick-growing pig, which swells visibly
like a balloon. would be pork products,
which hardly anyone really can afTord who
does not own a block of Standard Oil stock,
a gold mine or a piggery.
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ENGLAND DEFENDED
Editor The Advertiser:
In an article In Thursday’s issue, headed
"England and the Balance of Power,” the
author advances the peculiar theory that
England is responsible^ for the origin of the
present European war* while admitting that
Germany provoked it.
England, the author states, has all the
colonial possessions she wants, as well as
naval and commercial supremacy; Germany
lacked these things, and attacked England
In order to obtain them; therefore, England
is responsible for the war.
This Is on a par with stating that a man *
who Is murdered and robbed Is responsible
for his own death because he happened to
have valuables in his possession.
In past years, as the author states, a num
ber of European states have been filled with
the same desire for a "Place in the Sun” that
Germany is now showing, and have endeav
ored to tear up the map of Europe and the
world, generally, only to have their design*
thwasmd-by the efforts of England. That
England has profited by her victorious wars
Is undoubted, but perfectly natural and
legitimate.
The author of the article referred to states ^
that England would probably have come Into
this war even If Germany had not made the
treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of Bel- t
glum a "scrap of paper." It is always dif-*
flcult to shy what would have happened If
such and such a thing had not happened.
Personally, I would hate to think that when
the Prussians began running amuck, Eng
land would have stay'ed out of the war be
cause of the lack of some technical excuse
such as was furnished by the invasion of '
Belgium. England, along with France ani .
Russia, is fighting in the cause of humdhity
against the most threatening mUltarr’des0Ot-vv
ism of modern times. The present struggle
Is merely a repetition of the conflicts of the
past between a free-thinking and liberty
loving civilization and a despotism based on
“blood and Iron” and the Divine Bight of
Kings; and the Marne and Verdun will go
down in history along with Marathon and
Chalons as triumphs of liberty over brute
force.
As the author of the article referred «to
states, Germany Is not the first nation to '
consider fhat "The Day” was at hand when
they could make ■ alt- Europe their private
property; and the history of Europe in the
past would have been quite different from .
what it has been but for the restraining In
fluence which the "Snug Little Island,” with
its liberal and liberty loving ideals has
exerted on the dangerous ambitions of Conti
nental Powers.
To rave against England has become
habitual with many, for lust as no man can
rise to pre-eminence without making enemies,
so no nation can reach the top of the list
without exciting the jealousy of those who
stand below her. and their admirers. Tbs
mere fact hat England is the greatest world's -
power is sufficient to make her hated, in spite*
of the fact that she has used her power in a
manner which probably no other nation would
have done had they been similarly blessed.
England's colonial record has been by no
means perfect; but when Anglo-Saxon ctvlli
zation is contrasted with the German "Kul
tur” English rule will look like the blessing
that it really has been to most countries
which have come under her control. *
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It is sufficiently depressing to hear any
American criticise England as compared with '
Germany, under any circumstances; but when
the critic blames England for having what
German ambition coveted, it looks as though
the limit of apparently unconscious humor
has been reached. —P. H. M.
KITTfCMMS.
Girls’ shoes may soon cost thirty bones #
So seems the great belief.
Then welcome we our Ulster Cones
Who comes to our relief.
“Why not use hogskin," he suggests,
"To manufacture shoes?" *
(We trust he’ll pardon these poor jests—
They’re really not our views.)
Suppose the lady’s neat French heel,
That holds her dainty boot,
.When e'er she stepped, would give a squeal
Her shoes would try to root!
Our Richmond P. has gone, we see.
To live In lllinoy
And ticker's spree his snickersnee
With pleasure will destroy.
Each hummy swill and rummy still
Must die in Illinois?, ,
Ills prohi pill must so wry 111.
Naush) will be left but "noise!"
r —TOM KLINGE.
When a farmer has nothing much to do^
and Intends to spend the day loafing around,
lie sometimes .lies in bed until 6 o'clock In
the morning.—Topeka (Kan.) Capital.
Richard Croker’s flight from Ireland
New York, to escape the high cost of living,
will be regarded as the wisest move that has
been made since that celebrated leap from
I the frying pan Into the fire.—Boston Tran
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