Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
Putting on tho Can Sheaf.

Its wonderful what fiimllan1 noshins
they DO git up nowadays" said the old
lady in the next seat ahead when /
was fust married an OK cart was consid-
cred good huff fur anybody to ride in,
but now they hcv to hev palace kyars and
SIGH or folks is kicking.
Its got to be jist as bad nor wuss in
church" she continued, as she felt for her
pipe and tobacco. II shet my eyes to it
fur awhile, but | had to git EN- open
when folks began to make fun of me fur
wearing of bonnet which was seven
years old. Some of 'em git a new bonnet
every year. and the extravaganza in
dress goods handkerchiefs, collars, and
sicl, is perfectly awful should think
it would bust up all the men folks.
And everything has got to running
to grammar, she went on, as she filed
her pipe and hunted in her satchel for a
match. "In my day nobody didn't keer
nuthing about nouns and verbs and
poverbs but everybody in this age is
dead struck on 'em. can't tell one o
my gals to bring up 'taters fur dinner or
drive the goslins out O the garden patch
but what she flies up at me about my
grammar"
She found match and lighted her
pipe, to the great amusement of the
other passengers, and she was putting
away and taking lots of comfort when
the conductor came along.
"No smoking in this car. ma 'am," he
CURLY announced.
"What?"
"No smoking here"
EDO you mean to say it's agin the rules
to smoke as I ride along and banker fur
it,"
Il do. You will have to stop at once"
'Humph! Well, that does put the
cap sheaf on the whole bizness, though
I've bin expecting it fur some time.
The last time went to meeting they
objected to my smoking in one Of the
back pews, and now start on journey
to my daughter Hammers to be told to
shet off smoking afore I've drawn six
whiffs, because the railroad don't like It'll
I'll stop, of course, but when l git to
Hammers I'll just gin right up and tell
'em I want to die. It's no use fur an ole
woman like me to expect to git any
moro comfort in this flimflam aige, and
the sooner kin git to heaven the bet
ter."-New York Sun
Have Men "a Right to Liberty
The anarchists of today have pushed
the old dogma of natural liberty to the
EXTREMIST form of abstract deduction,
and they propose to make it programme
of action They therefore make of it a
principle Of endless revolution. If, how
ever. the basis on which it once rested is
gone. it is impossible that we should hold
and Use it any more. With our present
knowledge Of history, we know that no
men on earth ever have had liberty in
the Sense of unrestrictedness of action
The very conception is elusive. 1t is inn
possible to reduce it to such form that it
could be verified, for the reason that it is
non-hunan. non-earthly. 1t never could
exist on this eartl, and among these men
The notion of liberty and Of the things
to which it pertains has changed from
age TO age in modern history.
Never in the history Of the world has
military service weighed on large bodies
of men as il does now on the men of the
European continent. It is doubtful if it
would eyer hare been endured Yet the
present victims Of it do not appear to
consider It Inconsistent with liberty.
Sumptuary laws about dress would raise
a riot in any American state: pro-
hibitory law would have raised riot
among people who did not directly re-
sist sumptuary laws a civil officer in
France, before the revolution. who had
bought or inherited his office. had a de-
gree Of Independence and liberty in it
WHICH the Nineteenth century 3ficiai
never dreaulso of On tile contrary the
more this Nineteenth, century civil and
political liberty is perfected, the more il |
appears that underit an official has free
dom Of opinion and independence OF
action only at the peril of his livelihood
~ Professor " q Summer in Popular
Science Monthly 81.