The independent., 1907-02-28


p MEMBER OF the house has venturcd to
guess that adjournment will be reached
about the fifteenth of April. Who Will
teach the calves to drink?
The biggest fool mistake a man can be
guilty of is trying to keep pace with the
social procession when he hasn't iucome
enough to stand the racket.
John G. Pollock of Omaha claims to
be the youngest volunteer soldier OF the
late civil war, and there are no less than
thousand more who make the same
claim.
Some of US were more conspicuously in
evidence, but Editor Rosa Hudspeth OF
the Stuart Ledger was certainly the
handsomest member of the Nebraska
press association in attendance at the re-
cent meeting
One of the brainest If not the noisest
members of the state press association
is W. j. Waite of the Exeter Enterprise,
and he has seen moro years of continuous
service in the editorial harness than any
man in the state except Colonel Cross
who lately retired from the Fairbury
Gazette. The first copy of the Enterprise
was printed January ], 1873. Mr.. Waite
was then O. mere boy with ruddy coun-
tenance and now there is frost on his
wilisheT5. He has had the usual expert
ences of the pioneer newspaper man, has
struggled with adversely and locked
arms with prosperity He is now on
easy street and takes as much comfort
in living as anybody. Some years ago
Mr.. Waite indulged in the luxury Of
new tangled press which was offered at
very satisfactory rates and guaranteed
by the factory TO be a joy forever and
worth considerable more than the cat
~1A g. Noi4
that press was one Of tho most trying
experiences of his life. 1t Was set up
strictly according to printed directions but
it couldn't be made to do good work.
He oiled and coaxed and fiattered and
reasoned with 1t for six months all to no
purpose, and then put 1t aboard freight
car and shipped it back to the house
from whence it came. Once in the car,
he asked the agent as q personal favor
to put on two seals instead of one.
He was afraid unless extra precautions
were taken the troublesome piece of
machinery might escape from the car,
walk back into the Office and set itself
up again to yex the lives of the whole
Enterprise family.
Probably Stanford White deserves any
| thing that might have hit him, but that
| doesn't justify the man who took his
| life, though In all human probability the
jury will decide that it did.
| The man who is fortressed Behind a
| clear conscience Is generally in a position
| to keep his temper on straight. Joe
| Bafley's manifestations of uncomfortable
anger are the best proof Of his guilt.
| Had George Washington lived until the
| present time he wouldn't have been one
fourth as old as Noah was when he
| died. The earth looked mighty good to
those who occupied it six thousand years
ago.
! Last week an Iowa man died of ossi-
fcation of the heart. There are a few
men in Lincoln whose hearts are so hard
you couldn't dent them with pickaxe
and they don't even complain of feeling
under the weather.
| Harry Pratt Judson, president of the
| Chicago university, was once a member
| of the faculty Of the Big school In our
old state. Minnesota has great climate
| for developing strong, manly characters,
| though large per cent of the most
promising ones freeze to death before
! physical or mental maturity.
| The worst thing that can happen to a
man is TO inherit a soft snap. Work is
| the thing that makes man and without
1t he becomes as sounding brass or a
tinkling cy ILDal
Give me the life of earnest toll,
For that develops sand and sense,
While idleness is sure to spoil,
For which wealth is no recompense.
! lie who essays a life of ease
Invites the microbes CT decay
He sports with bodily disease,
His mind grows weaker every day.
He's ruled by impulse, every time
And doesn't care a rap for law,
And never reaches heights sublime.
His life a failure-look at Thaw!
Coming up from Omaha the other night
one OF the old-tirne Burlington conduc
tors remarked with touch OF sadness
In his voice on the death OF a multitude
of old friends since the first OF January
Some Of them We're always on the train
going or coming" said he. and they
have gone out Of my life like the per.
fume OF summer when the frost comes .
Weep not. my kind old friend" ] said
For all things there's a reason
These men YOU mention are not dead
But dry-docked for n season.