The independent., 1907-03-14

easy prey to zymotic and other danger
GUS distempers. If you wait until the
blow falls and then send for the doctor
maybe he can and maybe he can't
Next week will probably see the end
of the Thaw trial. from which time the
salacious details will become less and
less distinct in the public mind as the
weeks glide by. How few of the char
acters who have figured in the trial will
be remembered year from now. Who
knows the names Of the jurymen, or Of
all the attorneys in the case? So often
have the names Of the prosecuting at
torney and of Dolphin NJ Delmas ap-
peared in print that one could hardly
forget them were he to make the effort,
but the others who were there looking
wise and saying nothing outioud are
scarcely better known than as If they
had been left out of the deal entirely.
How little there is in name. One of the
counsel for the defense Is Henry Clay
McPike. There under the somnolent in
fiuenee of a large retainer, he has oc-
cupied a prominent position close to the
doughty Delmas, into whose ear he has
occasionally whispered something the
public may never be any the wiser for,
but who will remember McPfke or as
sociate the name with anything great
u
dence?
l am sure it is a shame
That man with such a name,
name that everyone who hears must
like,
Should not have chance to xise
In the world, before all eyes;
In a word, I'm very sorry for McPike.
When little boy at play
This young rooster, Henry Clay
Was fathers hope, mothers joy and
pride;
Not another village tile
Held d candle to McP;kc,
And future bright was freely
prophesied.
0 the pictures father drew
OF his manhood while he grew,
OF the wondrous things that he would
do and say;
How his mother stroked his head,
After cofnbing 1t, and said,
You're the noblest boy that ever, Henry
Clay"
Both those parents now repose
Low beneath the budding rose
And their son has labored hard to make
a strike;
He's been climbing in ife's game
Toward the pinacie of fame
Still the world asks, "Whothedevil is
McPike?"
But as Horace Greeley said
And he had a level head
"Fame's vapor, earthly honors but
breath;
In the limelight for day,
Then we're sadly put away,
But a fading "reminiscences after death"
Some are noted for time,
Have their praises sung in rhyme,
Their reward for making one successful
strike;
But I haven't seen one bright
Flash of any kind of light
Shedding glory on the record of McPike.
small number of newspaper men are
worried because of the threat of the
railroads to grant no more excursion
rates in Nebraska 1t is consumma-
tion devoutly to be wished. A congested
passenger traffic is always fraught with.
in Colorado. Out from Denver every
Sunday in the summertime very low
round-trip rates are made to various
pleasure resorts in the mountains and
these trains are invariably packed like
sardine boxes, everybody in the way Of
everybody else, and they all get home at
night tired and cross and with their
eye full of cinders and their clothing
and faces looking much the worse for the
outing The new dispensation means an
increased passenger traffic in Nebraska |
and little less crowding during Ak-Sar-
Ben carnival week; cars all comfortably |
filed, no doubt, but no strenuous grand |
rush the chair next the window. Fifteen !
years ago all the railroads gave a
calamity rate from anywhere to Denver
the occasion being the trt-ennial con
clave Knights Templar 1t was a glor-
ious occasion beyond the question of
doubt and the folks were all there. Train |
load after trainload, every car as full |
as a Council Bluffs policeman. AS the |
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