Mower County transcript., 1904-12-21

Amt happy with plenty to eat and
wear and play with. = =. y
-. ~ -. = . . = z..::zse ..s.es ;.
Leap year Is on its last legs and it.
will be excrutlatin' for>-some Of the
'has.beens to walt another four years.
before another chance to modeetlys
make suggestions Of matrimonial ar.
rangements with the lords Of the earth.
Its queertoo for Uncle Sans hggers on
census show that there's ZIG more
young men than young women in every
l0,DW of our population, Its a pity
that some gals has more than one
string % her bow and others hay none.
! That's the unadulteratedss fact that
right here. in these. states these:s
exactly 4 JGs8y32l " more males than
females orabouts two more to every
hundred. That means that rite,in this
county on this, ,aVerageif every young
man went out huntin forsspark, over
400 of EN- would get left after every
ssfpmal 4 honsly ysold mai mud all had.
been matched up. And that ain,t the
worst Of it for the census says that; tho
most girls proportionatelY lv il the
cities so that In rural community the
average on girls Is still more unpromts-
in. I can.see now why some folks hav
to liv old bachelors in spite Of their
slickest efforts. It's the scarcity in the
female market Oh the whole. / can un-
derstand too why some chaps will go
dozen miles in the cold dark to see his
girl because somebody is goin, to get
left and he aint goin' to take chances.
Two out of every hundred men has got
to be left anyhow can explain lots
Of things. 1t takes three fellows to
show a girl how to skate. In company
you see one girl entertainin' three
young men at a time. It queers all
equillbriums.
lsee BY my paper that a big English.
lna1r. that has been spendin' last sum.
lner in this country has:got home and
is giyin,, great stuff to the Londoners
on the. greatness Of Uncle Sans ranch.
He says that New York is greater than
London in its mOderninity. When he
went west across the Rocky mountains
his hair fairly stood~up-on account of
4 his surprise at the gorgeous grandeur
and impressiveness of those big hills
He says the Alps .hav nothiu' that can
equal Our Rockies and wonders why an
American shotlld want to go abroad to
see the Alps when such sceuery is to be
had rite here at home. I'm Of the same
query that this level-headed English
man Is. When we've got the biggest
on this side what is the tomfoolerY o,
Egoin' to see the littlest on the othe1
side Of the pond? It's a good deal 81
4 all round. There's alwus somethin
better somewhere else, that.is il you
Eeye. Ispose we've got just as I'M,
horses and cattle aud roosters rite il
Mower county as they I've got In Londo,
but I've no doubt that there are plent,
!. OF foolish that never will rest unit
they get to sec the London stock show
/ And 60 it goes. IF was young age1
Z and spry and had the whereHith yo,
! bet I'd see my own native land befor,
I lgoin' to explore somebody else's natir,
land. We've got the biggest mountain.
j d and the longest rivers and the fines,
cities aud the hustlerest people in th,
world.
/ I don't take much stock in the CRY
/ for reciprocity just for 9 mere catch
WORD. I'm after the real thing accord
lin to republican and protection idees
land not at all on tho free trade and
lrulnous policy. Real reciprocity as ex
pounded By Blaine and Kinley
means lettin' down our tariff bars on
Favorable TERMS for what ne do no,
ourselves produce IN return for fres
4 foreign markets. This proteeta us
lifrom ruinons composition with cheaI