Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-11-28

this country, where heroes sprout
rapidly and die young.
An up-country editor OF our &C.
q%uaintance is a very resourceful man.
When a careless compositor pied
Gelett Burgess immortal lines:
II never saw a purple Sow,
| never hope to see me
But can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one"
80 that they read;
"renev a was. I plpure VOC
reven OF hoop ees. I nee
tub nae llet yuo I hownay,
therar ees than d. eb neo,"
instead of having II reset he entitled
II Dusk" and printed it as an exer
else In Esperanto, n offered a prize
of ten dollars for the best English yer.
sion of II.
We must kecu up with the restless
march OF progress and offer prizes for
the best completion Of an unfinished
Limerick. This is being done by some
Of the most advanced publications OF
tho day, and who are W that we
should not remain in the front rank?
This weeks unfinished Limerick lie
as follows:
There was an old fellow named Root
To Mexico went on a toot,
Old Prexy Diaz
Gave him the pazaz,
And he punched the old man on the
A prize OF Is cents will be given
to those who send in the best finish
ing words to the above Limerick be-
fore supper time tonight, five cents
to be divided among the first 10000
best answers received, six cents to go
to the 10000 second best answers.
and four cents to the sinking fund to
be devoted to the endowment Of a Lin.
erick asylum for the benefit OF those
who lose their minds looking for
trouble in the Limerick line. Address,
The Limerick Editor. Padded Cell
Thlrty-six, the New Jersey State Col
lege for the Insane.
RECENT NEWS FROM NEWPORT.
BY general agreement among the
various leaders of Newport society
card.playing for more than s25, 900 a
point Is hereafter to be regarded as
bad form, and any lady who puts up
her diamond necklace in lieu of real
money will be excluded from the tables
for the rest of the season. This has
been rendered necessary by the ex- .
traordlnary discovery that 81 per cent.
of the Newport necklaces are made OF
paste.
His friends and admirers in all parts
OF the country will be glad to hear
that Mr.. Tommy Dare, the ever popu-
lar cotilllon leader. has quite recov-
cred from his severe attack of brain
fever induced by his having read a
book recently. He promises not to re-
peat his outrageous but rash act again,
knowing as he does the consequences
which such a strain upon the intellect
invariably entails.
Mr.. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor,
10 sOihb w IIhht h'ioiS pioh6V
statue OF Hon. Bob. FItzsimmons.
Well, why not? What better sub
jects have the sculptors Of classic
times found for the exercise Of their
genius than the gladlators and strong
men OF their day? Surely our men
OF Drawn are as much entitled to the
Immortality of brass as are our men
of brains, and whenever u American
nation produces soclething that is
worthy of pcrpetuation in enduring
form 1t should most assuredly well
come the hand that undertakes the
task. One of the great troubles with
our national walhallas and halls of
fame Is that they conflne themselves
wholly to the memorializing Of men
who were specialists along certain
narrow lines, mostly Of the intellect.
The affair which expects some day to
become one Of the glories OF New
York, the Hall Of Fame, is gradually
filling up with tablets to the memory
Of literary ~fellers. scientists, statesmen
and what not, but such things as cap
tains Of industry, cooks, steel and oil
kings and pugilists are entirely over
looked, although T. Is highly probable
that the l~ast.nained group have done
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,ain a niche For every man mr. woman
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