The independent., 1907-03-14

/ Portable in their old age. Society owes
| its disabled teachers enough to carry
days work is done This is justiee-noth-
/ ing more and nothing less.
/ / love it, love it, and who shall dare
To childe me for loving this warm, spring
| air?
| There is nothing of which l delight to
sing
That compares with the joys of the
early spring,
Unless it may be when l chance to
rhyme
| Concerning the sleries -of summer time.
When the sun shines in splendor on man
and beast
And the chigger is out for the picnic
feast
We have heard great inanciers talk
sneeringly about poor people figuring to
get something for nothing II some of
the alleged captains OF industry had not
been doing that very thing, where would
Hill and Hartman be standing in the
financial world today 1t is Dafe to say
that ninety per cent of the vast wealth
to which either has title came through
that smooth process of sgift diStribu-
ton" beside which the old Louisiana lot
terry was the quintessence of a square
deal And Hartman doesn't want the
method investigated for fear it will dis
courage productive enterprise. Speaking
of exaggerated ego and gall till you can't
rest, he's got it.
Some time ago Walter Kately, an old
southern Minnesota friend Of ours was
lured into the wilds of Canada and in
duced to buy a farm on the treeless waste
about 1N miles northeast of Medicine
Hat. In letter to his home paper he
asks the reader to imagine a broad,
level expanse of glistening white snow
stretching away in every direction as far
as the eye can reach, dotted here and
there by the lonesome habitation Of a
homeSteader." That Is winter in Sa-
skatchewan. 1t deserves the name Any
name is mean enough for that sort of
country. Time and again this winter the
spirit thermometer has indicated tenn
perature fifty degrees below zero, SO cold
in fact that the wind freezes stiff and
has to stop blowing. The summers are
little bits of short fellows, and winter
sets in just before you get your wheat
stacked. The man who complains of
the climate OF Nebraska ought to be
sentenced to stay the balance OF his life
out on the Saskatchewan flats. If he
makes any protest, ship him three hun
dred miles farther north.
The Houston Post pictures Senator
Joseph w. Bailey standing erect on a
pedestal of integrity, wearing a breast
plate OF honor against which arrows of
hate malice, false statement. perjury,
envy and party treachery, beat only to
break and fall to the ground The dis
tinguished senator hasn't received so
much as a scratch, nor is there any
thing in the expression of his face to
suggest the least sentiment of alarm.
He has certainly emerged from the try
ing ordeal with vote of confidence from
small majority of the members of his
own party and his hand still firmly
inn tA atsufa {h0f l.
serve the state of Texas six years longer
in the senate of the United States
at a salary that must look good to him.
His enemies at home who are perfectly
satisfied as to the shady character of
his transactions with Standard oil agents,
duction to political Oblivion in 1913. Per-
haps before that time arrives they will
forget all about it.
That the-world is growing better some
there are who will deny.
But | always have believed it. and I
shall until / die
There is more OF kindly feeling and of
generosity;
There is less of craft and cunning among
men than used to be.
Though j see no wings a-Sprouting that
suggest angelic things,
And though having aspirations, STILL my
self, am short of wings,
| have courage to press forward on the
old time -honored track
With much better heart than ever since
George Perkins put it back
When Tom Lawson wrote of grating by
the big insurance guys,
And the enterprisng papers did some
things TO put us wise.
I was grieved beyond all measure at the
ugly things disclosed.
That 1t shocked me to the center may be
readily supposed.
"Ah," said J. weak human nature
gainst temptation may avail.
And again may not, for nothing on this
earth Is quite so frail"
.rahen I said. 'TDepew of virtue shows a
deep. unswerving lack
But I'm feeling better toward him since
George Perkins put Ii back.
Vital statistics for the past year are
not reassuring to the one whose physi-
cal machinery is defective. With all
the scientific methods OF combating
mortal error, nearly half million VIC
tins of disease In this country alone
were put to rest last year. and the NOR