The independent., 1907-04-04

zines. but after his reputation was once
established he could command ms own
price and sell poem on any subject De-
fore writing q word
0 cruel frost from out the North,
You wait until the trees bud forth
With promise of a crop of fruit,
And then you hand us one, you brute,
And laugh at our unhappy lot
And mock our fears-l like you not.
The prospects OF an early spring
THAT cheered our hearts like everything
The summer solstice seemed so neal
The ice man grinned from ear to ear
And farmers went upon the run
To get their early planting done.
what delightful things we miss
By living in world like this.
The prospects were exceeding great
For fruit-why recapitulate?
j. Frost appeared with blighting touch;
1t is enough--it is too muchl
Hon. A. c. Shallenbarger was In the
city yesterday for a few hours. From
the happy face he wears no one would
suspect he was ever defeated for a high
financial standpoint he thinks he was
lucky in failing of the gubernatorial
election He thinks If he had been
chosen governor, and had sued himself
certainly found against him and that, too,
in the monstrous sum OF two hundred
dollars per month, which would have
left but one hundred dollars of his sal
ary for railroad fare and other luxuries
that man must pay for or go without In
implying that the courts would soak him
Just because he Is q democrat, the col
oneI tacitlv admits that it Is what a
democrat really deserves.
district Judge at Fairmont Minneso-
ia, fined saloon keeper one hundred DOL
lars and sentenced him to serve thirty
days in the county jail for selling liquor
to a boy The Jail sentence was remitted
during good behavior" but in extend
ing this favor TO the seller OF Good
Samaritan" the Judge delivered lecture
on the business that was good TO near.
He mentioned the long list of once
reputable business men who In the MIS-
| tory of that little city had looked upon
! wine when 1t WIS red to their everlasting
destruction, and he begged tine prisoner
at the bar, who is young man and IN
many respects very reputable sort OF
fellow, to get out OF business the
| success of which speels ruin to the 4omes
| Of those who make it such.
A writer for Mcclure's for April makes
| the statement that seven-tenths of the
poverty and destitution in the city OF
Chicago is caused directly by the
! abomination of strong drink. NO douDt
of it in the world IL the saloons of Chi
would make solid row five miles IN
length The drink bill of the city, IN
| cluding the transient trade, democratic
conventions and other imported acces.
sories, amounts to more than S7o,0oo,OW
a year. Think what a tax that is up0f
the resources of the people, and the
LIQUOR at the same time lessening the pro
ductive power of the ones who use It. Ane
here is a problem that might be settlet
without legislation if the people wouiG
have it SO, but there isn't much doing
in that direction-in Chicago.
A Lincoln man with a grievance was
telling a friend the other day that ne
would have revenge" That was the
chief burden of his communication. Some
body had done him wrong, and he pro-
posed to even accounts by doing him 9
greater one; thus securing principal ano
interest An injury inflicted by way OF
revenge is a double back faction affair anc
hurts the one who does the deed more
seriously than the one against whom the
shaft of malice is directed. When mar
deliberately plans revenge upon fel
low-man for an offense real or irnag
mary, he is looking for trouble and viii
find 1t at every turn of the read. Fol
his own sake he can't afford to harbol
the spirit of hatred that delights in ar
eve for an eye and a tooth FOR a tooth
BE not swift to take offense. Forget It
let Ii go. Life is too short to waste III
precious moments In wanting to harm
another because someone has mad
vertently stepped upon your toes.
otoe county was first settled by peopl
from Pennsylvania who had convince
themselves that the line of profitabl
rainfall could not extend much, II any
west OF the hills overlooking the town
site OF Dunbar. So these earliest pioneer