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WHAT WE THINK OF WHAT WE SEE
He may jest at the Fourth of July who has safely
passed Valentine’s.
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“What is rarer than a day in June 1 ?” That’s
easy; a friend who hasn’t a dead-shot remedy for
your cold.
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A preacher out in Arkansas recently declared that
“'Hell is a great city.” Yes, and we feel sure that
his idea originating- this comparison was caused by
the ’phone service.
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How is this one? In a cemetery at Middlesboro,
Vt., a stone erected by a widow- to her loving hus
band bears this inscription:
“Rest in peace —until v 7 e meet again.”
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A member of Congress has suggested that the
chaplain’s prayers be printed in the• Congressional
Record. We wonder what gave that congressman his
exalted idea of the circulation of that publication?
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It has been suggested by a contemporary that both
Mr. Bryan and President Roosevelt should have en
tered the ministry instead of politics. As minis
ters wouldn’t that pair have raised —that is,
wouldn’t they have stirred things up considerably?
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We presume that the people who* follow the styles
closely will take up the suggestion we see in the
show 7 windows as to “Winter underwear one-third
off”; but we intend to keep ours all the w-ay on
as long as we pretend to w 7 ear it at all.
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An ordinance has been enacted in. Pottstown, Pa.,
requiring the churches to erect fire escapes. Going
upon the old theory that _ the chart hes are some
thing in the nature of fire escapes themselves, this
is piling up “line upon line and precept upon pre
cept.” is it noit?
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The school situation in Chicago is said to be in
pretty bad shape, ow-ing to the fact that so many of
the young lady teachers are marrying. Now w 7 hat
does that prove? That the hardships of a teacher’s
life are fiendish, or that the privileges of leap-year
are being exercised to the full extent allowed by
law?
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A Kansas citizen is suing the pasitor of a cer
tain church to which he was refused admission, .for
$5,000, alleging that membership in the church is
necessary to his peace and salvation. One naturally
concludes that he is willing, if he can get that much
money here, to let the hereafter take care of it
self.
ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 20, 1908.
By A. E. BANS AUK. Managing Editor.
“One far-off, divine event to which the whole
creation moves”: The baseball season.
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“There is some stir in Canastota recently because
a teacher in one of the schools deemed it advisable
to give one of the students a thorough scrubbing
with water and soap.”—Chittenango (N. Y.) Times.
Naturally; but was the “some stir” among the citi
zens of the township or upon the scrubbed areas of
the student?
After passing a nine-foot bed sheet law, the Okla
homa Solons have now enacted a law forbidding the
use in hotels and restaurants of dishes with cracks
in them, and it is intimated that they will soon re
quire the knives and forks to be mates. Just one
step further: Stop the use of tooth picks in pub
lic places.
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We hasten to commend the following warning ut
tered by the Wheatland (N. Dak.) Eagle, as a grace
ful and eloquent statement of a situation that is,
alas, too familiar to us all:
“These occasional pats on the back from friends
of the craft are all right and we appreciate them,
but we would appreciate a more liberal support from
the home people. Some are doing well, but a
greater number of our people are not only withhold
ing financial support but even withhold encourage
ment by word or look. Bouquets are all right as a
cure for little ills' buit when a man has a pain in
the pantry and no dough in the house, it’s the spon
dulix that makes him sit up and notice things. And
unless the delinquent subscriber wishes to see this
paper lay its lily white hands across its bosom and
turn its little pink toes to the daisies —well, they’d
better step up and make a noise on the bar. Nus
sed. ”
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We learn from the Kansas City Journal the fol
lowing facts in regard to Mr. Frank Seyk, Sr.:
“Frank Seyk, Sr., celebrated his 104th birthday
at the home of his son, Kewaunee, Wis., by playing a
clarinet solo and singing a song to demonstrate that,
notwithstanding his advanced years, his ears had
not lost their sense of harmony. Mr. Seyk is the
most unique character in that section of the state.
His memory is still keen and he is able to recall
incidents of many years back with a vividness that
arouses surprise. He is free from all bodily ailments
and attributes his longevity (to dieting and regular
habits. He did not take up smoking until his
ninety-sixth year, though he has been an inveterate
user of snuff all his life.”
Reckless and wicked old man! According to all
the rules of the game he should have died of that
much tobacco years ago. This should be looked into
promptly.
It’s a mighty poor Georgian who doesn’t get a
letter or two every day from a kind friend in the
whiskey business in a neighboring state.
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Neclie (N. Dak.) Chronotype: —According to the
mountaineer the “curfue” bell —this is one of the
“sue” ways to spell it —is now rung at eight
o’clock at Walhalla, and youngsters must get in
doors at that hour. According to the dictionary
“curfue” shall not ring tonight or any other night.
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We have noted the following item in a contempo
rary: “A theological student was sent recently to
supply a vacant pulpit in a Connecticut town. He
received, a few days after his return to his home,
a marked copy of the weekly paper of the village
he had visited, with this item marked: ‘Rev. ,
of the senior class of Yale Seminary, supplied the
pulpit at the Church last Sunday, and the
church will now be closed three weeks for re
pairs.’ ” One would naturally infer that the young
man preached vigorous doctrines.
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As before remarked, it’s a mighty poor Georgian
who doesn’t receive a letter a day from some whis
key firm. The man of the house, the cook, the
driver, the lodger within his gates, are all deluged
with these circulars, and if the dog and cat had
flieir names in the directory, they would probably
be the recipient of such attentions also. Some of
the advertisements are artistic. We have received
one that is so beautiful, so tender, so absolutely ro
mantic in its pathetic lament over the passing of the
old days thait we give a paragraph:
“But now it’s different. Things have clanged,
the old time man at the helm, the master workman,
the man who rolled up his sleeves and put his heart
and soul into his work —the man who dipped his
finger into his mash tub every ten minutes to taste
it, is bought out or sold out, or left to mourn the
days of decent business and in his place has come
the corporation ‘manager’ and the skilled ‘recti
fier’—the modern Captains of Industry, whose reli
gion is, do the other fellow 7 and do him now.”
So sad. And along with the passing of the gentle
man “who rolled up his sleeves and put his heart
and soul into his work” has passed also the “old
time” consumer —who, without “rolling up his
sleeves” put his time and his money and his brain
and his soul into ithe work of consuming that “old
time product,” and who, after filling his old-time
stomach with about three pints of that old-time
liquid essence of Hell, was likely to load and prime
an old-time cap-and-ball revolver and go joyfully
forth to slay a neighbor or two. And that about
completed the round usually taken by that old-time
product. Yes, “Now it’s different. Things havo
changed.”
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