The independent., 1907-03-28

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Isn't II strange that so few politicians
in Lincoln aspire to- be mayor?
Some men don't want anything to do
with job unless they can boss it.
Hartman has stopped talking for pub
licatfon Maybe there Is nothing more
to be 6aid.
Instead Of grumbling because you have
to work for a living you should thank
the Lord that you have paying Jop
Minnesota has an editor named Eggen-
sperger For short his friends call him
Egg" Wouldn't that crack your shell?
All ihe Union Pacific has to do to make
Grand island be good is to threaten to
take The crippled engines to North Platte
for repairs.
After the first of July If you give a
tip you do 1t on your own risk. There
will always be the chance for the recip-
lent Of the favor to turn states eyi-
dence.
Looking backward, twenty years
doesn't seem so long time. Twenty
years hence-do you see those white
whislsers? 20 why should the spirit of
mortal be proud?'
Don't ever think for minute you are
doing AN act of kindness to booze
fighter when you let him have money
IL is much better to let him go broke
and get sober.
If all people who have delusions are in
sane, cases of perfect lucidity are SO
rare as to be noteworthy. We can call
to mind but one such person OF our
acquaintance, and he is dead.
When things that happened thirty years
ago interest you more than the question
of what you are going to do in the way
of raising a garden, you have reached
an age when you can safely schedule
yourself as one Of the 'sold folks
d. r. Anthony, a nephew of the great
Susan b. is slated for congress from
the northeast district of Kansas, and
there isn't a republican with nerve
enough to go into the race against him.
Learn to be cheerful in the face Of
everything. It is a thing that can be
accomplished, and is of more value to
yourself and the world than any con-
fict ever won by the great Napoleon
If you have been in the habit of rid
ing free you will notice a peculiar sensa-
tion of tremulous emoticn when you ap-
proach the ticket Office with view to
paying your way like man.
Twenty years ago we put in several
days watching legislative proceedings at
close range. The horse play indulged in
by takatye members took away all de-
sire TO repeat the experiment
II is very evident that Hetty Green
doesn't propose to take the hint When
that line old lady gives up anything to
society the donation will come through
the probate court some little time after
she has been given up.
Ordinarily it is not permissible to use
ones napkin for a bib. but a fat man
who always slobbers at meals may so
wear it with the assurance that the act
will receive general public conmenda-
tlon.
All the candidates for Office in Peoria
this spring are men under thirty five.
The old ones have been effectually put
out Of the game. They may vote on
election day, which is the best the boys
can do for them
Where viii this extortion stop? BARRIERS
in all the larger cities of the west have
raised the price of haircut to IS cents.
If the craze strikes Lincoln we for one
will encourage return to the patriarchal
method of wearing the hair like Buffalo
Bill and Captain Jack Crawford.
There is time in the life of nearly
every public man when he needs the
kindly Offices of an investigating COM
mittee to vouch for his unsulied char
acter. And even after that WORK las
been accomplished the doubling Thomases
break loose, and o. what mess they do
make of It,
Hon. Shelby M Cullom says Reed
Smoot Is AS much entitled to his seat
IN the senate as any member oil
that body. Why didn't he say so al