The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-04-03
NOTHING IN PARTICULAR.

typewriter. Copy must be produced
The hungry type-setting machine is
at work. One hears the grinding of
machinery. the whirring of wheels,
and knows that the inevitable cry for
copy is at hand. What friend the
typewriter is. 1t used to be that ms
piration came only when one had pencil
in hand and fresh sheet of paper
before him. now the keys of the type
writer seem to invite thought. 1t is
poor old writer. and it mis-
spells fearfully. but we have wept
over it and ragged over it and laughed
over it, until it seems to have become
a part of US. Some times it lags
along. slowly. painfully. grinding out
the padding of newspaper. some-
time it clicks merrily. telling that
John Doe went to Vail yesterday. and
does not have thought in its head.
Sometimes it rushes and RACES as if
possessed of forty demons, struggling
to relieve us of some epoch making
thought. 1t has come to be part of
US and is one of our dearest friends
and companions. While not exactly
silent partner. it is nevertheless
good listener and enters into every
mood with us. 1t is a kindly critic
and except on those memorable oc-
casions when it slips cog and we
write on the same line twice. it is not
snagger".
Speaking of 'nagging. we can
forgive the greater evils of life. we
can forgive those who have done US
great wrong. but it calls for all the
Christianity man has in him to for
give the "nagger". Nagging makes
more unhappy homes than alcohol. 1t
is not strictly feminine accomplish
ment as some would have us think.
Some of the worst naggers and some
Of the worst gossips we have ever
known. were men. A woman gossip
is baa enough. but man gossip is
a hundred times worse. We know
men who might have been great if
they had not had this gossiping habit
fastened upon them. Don't go home
and mag" your wife. She has been
working enough sight harder than you
have all day. even on your hardest
day.
If your wife is "nagger'' your
only real remedy is suicide.
Do it at once, delay is dangerous.
To descend to matters of minor inn
portance, we hope the President will
not be swerved from his course by
the impor tunities of the railroad
magnates. The President has asked of
the people only such legislation as has
been right and fair and due after all
the years of railroad oppression. We
meet the same thing daily in the
newspaper business when people COM
nit offenses and then come to beg off
from publicity. There is man in
Denison, who either through himself
or his family has been to US three
times begging that the fact that he
was drunk and disorderly be not
published. He has promised reform
and has even gone to the length of
promising to pay his subscription, but
up-to-date we have seen neither the
color Of his coin or any other sign of
reforma ton.
"The devil was sick
The devil monk would be.
The devil was we'll.
The devil monk was he. =
That is the way with the railroads.
Through rebates. determinations.
petty gratis. watered stock and fraud
ulent bond issues, they have been
robbing the people for years. When
called to account the proudest of them
will crawl and cringe and promise
better things if they are only let
alone. You might as we'll allow any
other burglar to reform himself. The
| furries in Wall Street have not caus-
ed panic throughout the country and
they will not so long as the United
States is producing those things which
the world must have.
The railroad magnate has been so
,lSed to uattipu from ton IN twontv