Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-12-16


men and the lower animals. Som.
men are made up like lions. There il
the heavy. tawDy name, the powerful
cast OF countensnce. A man Ut thai
kind is marked in any company. he
10 every inch king.
There is the bulldog. with his round
bullet head, his heavy jewels. his thick
sinewy neck, his broad breast, hit
stumpy legs. his projecting under jaw.
There is the fox with his sharp muz.
zIe. his keen small eye. his look OF
canning IN every feature of his coun.
| tcnance.
| And there is the rabbit.
/ There is this difference between the
rabbit man and the man who resembles
either the lion or the bulldog, in this,
You can't always tell rabbit by the
look of his face.
Many q man IS rabbit at heart who
manages for a time to pass for q
man of decision aud courage. 1t ia
only when the test comes that you are
able to tell whether man is q rabbit
or not.
The rabbit himself is a pretender. He
seems to really think he has some cour.
age until heis faced with danger or
what he imagines Is danger.
Possibly sometime you may have
had an opportunity to see Kansas
jackrabbit when lie thinks there is no
danger. He will sit up on his launches
with his ears elevated, looking calmly
about on the surrounding landscape as
If he owned the earth. You might think
when you see the jsckrabbit in one Of
these moods that he is warrior. but
that Is where you are off. At the
slightest intimation Of danger he is off,
splitting the atmosphere in his effort
to put space between himself and his
imaginary or real pursuer. The jack.
rabbit is strong limbed and has a set
of teeth that would make him formid-
able If he had the courage to use them,
but he hasn't. Anything can make the
jackrabbit hike out for shelter. The
little ground squirrel can whip the
jackrabblt. or rather it can run him out
OF reach. No doubt the jackrabbit often
feels ashamed of himself. When he
gets of by himself or with % lot OF
other rabbits he talks big about what
he will do. but when the test comes
he runs.
There are great many jackrabbits
aud cotton tail rabbits among men.
They always have their ears cooked up
listening for danger. They are afraid
to express an opinion on any subject
for fear they may excite adverse criti.
cism. They hide In the bunch grass
and watch to see which side is going
to win politically and when they think
they have found out they hop to that
side as fast as possible. Get them
herded together and pledged to a GER
tain lire OF conduct and the. deep lay
of some boss on the other side Is liable
to stampede the whole lot. On the
slightest alarm the rabbit men, like
the rabbits proper, are ready to light
out hunting for shelter and safety.
Like the cotton tail you may think
h0VO IuCW OuC duu
next you are watching the spread of
their posteriors as they hunt for cover.
The reason why party is machine
ridden and boss ridden is because rab-
bit men are 80 plentiful. The machine
is. never in the majority. It hasn't.
really so very much power, but the
rabbits think it has and that is enough.
They know that the arrogant boss
ought to be overthrown but he growls
and barks and the rabbits tremble and
run away.
There is plenty of sentiment in the
Republican party of Kansas to over.
throw the political machine which at
tempts to dictate TIE party policy. but
We are not able to saw as yet how many
rabbits there are in Kansas Mail and
Breeze.