Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1890-11-27
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM.

'Tis true. and pity It's tbs true. that
such good spell binders as the Journal,
Gazette. Republican and Rec Heights
Press should be using their energies TO
continue that little game of politics which
ended Nov. 4. The brothers should let
DER the autum's withered hopes-the
fight, fraught with its sleeplcss Dights, it's
ever varying confidence and doubt Of man,
is gone.
The whirr of the buggy wheel over
staI less and trackless plain is heard no
more IN the cleaning; the good wife's
rocking chair creaketh not in her solitary
vigil for the leige lords retmn--or upon
her pIllOwed brow no longer can be traced
'IlG G6, 80 TO 20" So Why continue all
this bitterness while the world looks ON
and laughs
Let your brains take counsel of your
hearts, and enjov the pleasant, dreamy
calm OF an indian uIrisiLg which follows
in the wake Of the storms rage and fury
rustlins little on the side to get reduced
rates on coal.
Permit natures countless bands TO SOW
seeds Of charity within those tropic brains
not necessarily to show good faith, but
merely as a precaution against disas-
trous effects should the high man" save
his "pede."
Let there he within thy "leaders" the
subtle spirit of the seasons cbange-not
Of what has been-but everything that is,
and keep your eye" on the great
Messi iah.
Mould your thoughts, not by the grace
ful though deceptive curves of the trail
Won are camping on" but bv the winding
"sheel" paths over that interpretive
silent barren waste" intervening between
! now aud the next crop-Or evacuation.
The selfish consolation of "mopping the
earth" with each other is more or less be-
! logged by the publie's uncertainty as
to which did the hopping. And the
| thought that you will get the hast crack
| is hope like unto that of the democra. Is
| w IiCoSi We tiiNiA DAENAlALhbiOli' NAAAAchb
| leaf or bud-a hope that gives no JOY. no
| peace. 1t is but the dust upon which the
serpent fs DIS that coils in the heartless
| breasts of 'plutocracy."
As in the leafles tree claim entry some
! fortunate cottonwood aaame with life
stands like a rrpt poet in the heedless
crowd, so should you tower above youi
fellow men, offering 10 each other recon
! citations hand.
Touched by the pathos of the laEb's
bleat, and whinney of the bob
tailed horse, as they vainly seek
! protection" from anti Mckinley zeph-
yrs, you should sing poems OF
next years crops insured by fall OF
| snow i'll the mountains" interspersed
with Original packages" of melody, to H.
lnstrate the difference betweed the sugar
beet" and irrigated wheat" in the vicIn-
| ity Of the "keeler well
'Tis well to battle for the rights of men
to stand against the selfish greed of mil.
! lions and help few of the boys TO Office
'Tis better to save your Jack, jick ant
the game"--for truth crushed to earth viii
rise agaiu.
But as for the past ? List to the ryth
mic sound of natures busy strife as por
trayed in the worlds fair" dispatches, tia,
hum of the Midland Pacific" the lamen-
tation's of .'l2. 200 fraudulent votes"-al
| cry for n change
While the said party Of ths second par
hereinbeiore referred to as the 'heedles,
crowd" and above whom you are anointed
to tower, are to- dsy eating turkey and Civ
ing thanks to kind Provi ienoe for mani.
fold blessings, apparently not earring
Sioux whoOp
Whether Sage sells or buys,
Whether Van continues his lies
Whether Sweety ''the anerch" still cries
Whether little Lew Increases his size
Or
Whether Bush, like Benedict" dies.
What fools We mortals be-"