The Russellville Democrat., 1893-10-26
1R TnE DEMOCRAT.
 MY STYLOGRAPH.
~Perhaps itm may turn out sermon, Perhaps turn out q stone.

~Perhaps it may turn out sermon
 Perhaps turn out stonef l Bosom friends-pins.
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 l It cannot be said of the shoe trust that corporations have no soles
 Love is the balm that soothes the wounded soul--a verdant oasis in the dreary Sahara of life.
 "Noah was de fust monopolist, remarked Uncle Rastus. "He had a corner on de whole humin race, in- cludin birds, beastes an quadroo- lpeds, an 'possum an tater war at a premium"
 SMoKYRow-Why is Russellville like a young lady in a rolling chair at the Worlds Fair2
 MAINsTREET-Be Because, she's ''in the push" See2
  Better to smell the violet cool than sip the Better to Rark a hidden brook than watch
 diamond shine.H-Old Time Poet. Better to be an ancient maiden with featutes
 long and lank, Better than be Q Congressnan-a m ae sieele
 crank.
 Better private citizen Jehovahs noblest
 work.
 It is now in order for some am hi- tious ''fend of the Faber' to cover himself with glory and renown by writing a latter day. prophecy of "Chicago-the Modern Babylon. With little application to the book of Revelations, the Worlds Fair can be proven one of the signs of the general wind-up. Who will be first to pluck the golden apple that hangs like the treasure of Tantalus over a million scribblers' craniums
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 When I was little. and had no sense,
 I bought me fiddle for fifteen cents,
 But, could play no tune at all
 But @Papa's Bowwowa and After the Ball
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 AT THE FAIR.-Old Lady (gazing on the mammoth in the Anthropo- logical building Wall, l VOW! l wonder what that thing is? It must be the perrystile heerd about; or, else, maybe it's the playsonce-it must be some fureign creeter, any how.
 Lives of Congressmen remind Us
 That some fools are living stili.-
 Thus encouraged, WE may live to
 Vote upon silver bill. Money possesses a virtue that IS found in no other amulet, and yet the love of it is the source of "all evil" It exercises a power over the destiny of nations that is unequal 1 led by the brightest genius of sol diery or statesmenship. Money can flood heather nation with mission aries and bibles, or it can fill Chris tendon with saloons, gambling hells and Satan's own literature. 1t can DuICHdSc q CtONI, Oi tJ Ndii ShdAtNA e throne. It can buy the votes of a government, and make a president, or it can prompt the anarchist to hurl the fatal bomb. It is the draw ing influence, the electric key, the mighty motive power, that puts in action the assassin's blade, the sui cide's bullet, the socialists bomb, the wrecker's signal, the gamblers hand, the burglars jimmy, and often the philosopher logic, the states mans power, and the clergyman s eloquence. It may achieve for the philanthropist noble name on earth and an exalted seat on high, and on the other hand it may make of the naughty miser a contemptible churl in the eyes of his fellows, and finally hurl his soul into the yawning depths of Tartarus Judiciously distributed among the masses, it is blessing-the mamma of heaven, showered by a gracious Providence centralized in the hands of few, it becomes the synonym of misery, con tention and strife-an iron-heeled Attila--a "scourge of God"
 JEROME CLUY