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14 THE ROBBER. (By Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie.) Struggling against a robber,, I awoke; He beat me down, and from my grasp he broke. My jewels and my money all were gone. The fruits from years of bitter labor drawn. I wept and cried to God in my despair; An angel dazed me with celestial glare. I saw upon his face my weapon’s mark—- It was with God I’d struggled in the dark. This vision none could steal from out my heart. And through my loss I’d found the bet ter part. —Saturday Evening Post. at CORPORATION EVILS. (From Moody’s Magazine.) There is no question but that the people want these evils reformed. It is because President Roosevelt has made efforts to right some of these wrongs that he is popular with the people. It is because Hearst and Bryan and Tom Johnson and Gov. Folk and Senator La Follette promise to make radical reforms that they have any standing in the political arena. It is hardly possible that the present dis content will be allayed until some of the great fundamental wrongs are righted. It behooves the party in power to do the work that the people want done. at A TRUE PRESIDENT. (Address by Woodrow Wilson.) “The president alone is elected by the people as a whole, has no local constituency, speaks for no special in terest. If he truly interpret the na tional thought and boldly enough in sist upon it he is irresistible and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when its president is of in sight and caliber. Its instinct is for unified action and it craves a single leader. It is becoming inclined to choose a man rather than a party.” at THE OFFICE HOLDER. Upon the stump he tells the crowd He longs to do them good. He’d labor all his life for them Most gladly, so he would. But when at last he gets a job He doesn’t go to work. Instead, he lays his duties on A hungry looking clerk. His secretary writes the speech By which he wins applause A corporation often shapes His notion of the laws. He doesn’t do a thing, nor does He ever earn a cent, And yet, you’d think it very hard To be so prominent. —Paul Cook. at BY ONE’S FINGER PRINTS. The system of identification by means of finger prints now in use in the New York police department, wither it was imported from France, is now on trial in the United States army, and if it proves effective will probably be permanently accepted. TOM LAWSON DID IT. (The Atlanta Georgian.) Nevada-Utah stock went down with a crash- Tuesday, and under the ruins were the lambs, small traders, men and women who had followed the apostle of honesty not wisely but too well. And Tom Lawson stood afar off, adding more millions to his bank account and chuckling to himself. THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. THE HOOSIERS AND SUNDAY. Another attempt to repeal the law against Sunday baseball was made by the Indiana legislature. As regularly as this body meets, does this bill bob up and as often is defeated. It is safe to safe it will be a good many years before that state will legalize profes sional bail on the first day of the week. It NO BIBLES THERE. Begging pardon, but it is said that a gentleman once innocently asked a native Kentuckian whether Kentucky was not a rather bibulous state, and the reply came promptly: “Sorry to say, sir, it’s not. I’ve been through whole townships and haven’t found a single Bible in ’em.” H ABOUT NEW BOOKS. (Book Notes.) The venerable Mrs. Braddon has written another novel, “The White House.” I should not advise our lit erary president to buy it; he is not its hero. Mrs. Braddon is the only liv ing writer that has never mentioned him. “The Japanese women do not have clubs and therefore they have babies.” That is a syllogism of Mrs. G. Ad am-Fisher in her new book, “A Wo man Alone in Japan.” Her omitted major premise, “women who have no only partly true. Dead women haov clubs have babies,” appears to be only partly true. Dead women have no clubs. at HEROISM. (John B. Jones, Western Adocate.) O, ’tis not heroic to enter the fight, Knowing beforehand by exerting our might We surely will win in the end for the right. ’T is heorism true to enter the fight Determined, though losing, to still spend our might— To battle to the death, to die for the right. Trinway, Ohio. * THEORY AND PRACTICE. (The Kansas City Journal.) A great many people agree with President Eliot that football is a bru tal and ruffianly sport who wouldn’t miss a Thanksgiving game for love or money. •t A PEACEMAKER BETWEEN. (The Washington Herald.) Mr. Cleveland’s birthday falls on March 16, and Mr. Bryan’s on March 19. Happily, genial and kind hearted St. Patrick fills in the gap and pre vents trouble. at SAFETY IN NUMBERS. (The Minneapolis Journal.) The Iroquois theater case shows that if you want to escape trial for murder, it is necessary to kill a large number of people at once. 9 JOHNDEE’S GREEDY PATRIOTISM. (The Louisville Courier-Journal.) Mr. Rockefeller, who “loves his country,” loves it with the devouring passion of a Georgia negro for a water melon. at The Jaures group of Socialists on March 19 presented a resolution in the French chamber of deputies call ing for the creation of a commission to examine and make public the con tents of the documents seized at the Papal Nunciature after the expulsion of Mgr. Montagnini. at Twenty thousand miles of railroad could be built and equipped with the money the government has now loaned out to the banks at one-half of one per cent. —Missouri World. DAVISON & FARGO COTTON FACTORS Augusta, - - Georgia Largest and finest Warehouse in the city. Prompt and careful attention to all business. All letters to advertisers should be carefully addressed. 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