The independent., 1907-01-31

y, District bounded on the north by the
/. Pine Woods, on the west by the Corn
, Gelt on the south by Chin Whiskers
and on the east by the great Unsalted
! seas Of our Imperial Domain.
He had a wife whose father laid out
, the first raih bad through Winnebago
County.
When Gulliver and his wife were IN
one end of their Native Burg the other
end would tip up little.
CULVER told every other man In the
town where to head In and get off and
what to do next.
He was Colonel on the Governors
, staff and the Official Photographer
Also President OF the Local Club and
the owner OF a registered Trotting
Horse with Toe Weights and Binders
Occasionally Mr. and Mrs. Gulliver
would pull off very classy Function
up at the Red Brick Mansion The
House had a Mansard Roof and
Porte Cochere, although very few used
1t and no one tried to pronounce It,
Every time they Received the Young
Lady with Pencils in her Hair who did
Society Happenings for the Daily
Rocket would take a hypodermic OF
Hot Mush and then write about Two
Columns. tst rv
She knew what the Bon Ton were
going to wear before the Basting
Threads had been pulled, and sayl she
could write about plain Smiax until
you would want to put Oil and Vine
gar on II and cat it as Salad.
The Gullivers had Tureen In the
front Hallway and any one whose
Card had not been deposited In that
sacred Receptacle did not belong In
the Swim any more than n Rabbit.
The Gullivers were certainly a Loud
Noise In their own state Even the
most prominent Families that had
built on the new Avenue leading out
past the Cemetery to the Fair Grounds
did not come above the shoe tops OF
the Gullivers.
Mr. Gulliver lost good deal OF Sleep
because She who must be obeyed kept
nudging him In the Back and talking
about Washington. She wanted to
move into larger Field so that she
could throw herself She was getting
too Speedy for a half mile Track.
So he began lining up the Lilliputs
and organizing a Machine.
He carried few Precinct Commit
teemen In his Vest Pocket Any time
the President Of Ward Club wanted
TO hold confab with the great Gulli-
yer he would borrow stepladder and
climb up and get on the knee Of the
Man Mountain If the latter would pat
him on the head and slip him a jolly
he would swell up like a Breakfast
Popover
Even the County Chairmen and the
Postmasters and the State Assembly
men were pretty Small Fry when they
lined up alongside of the big Battle
Ship.
When you pause to consider that he
wore a Frock Coat on week days and
had Bank Roll that Horse couldn't
jump over and controlled the Trolley
System and could get passes on al
most any Trunk Line, you will under
stand why the ordinary Midget toiling
along at so much per Month had to
lean back and look up at the mighty
Gulliver
Mrs, Gulliver was q kind of social
Pixies Peak TO the common or garden
variety of Married Woman who made
her own Clothes and was trying To
scale down the Store Bills in order To
buy a Phaeton.
Any time that she got Bid to go
up To the Palatial Home of the Guilt
vers and play Progressive Cinch she
would begin working on her Hair at
10 a. m.
when Mrs Gulliver read a Paper on
the True Significance OF Pre- Raphael
itism before the Thursday Afternoon
Research Club she would gaze down
from Serene Heights Upon the little
cluster OF palpitating Ladies' gathered
about the Ruffles on her skirt
The Gulllvcrs were like two Califor-
MIA Redwoods arising from the shrub
berry, like two Sky Scrapers looming
Unexpectedly In some modest Village.
Ike two American Eeaglcs perched
malestically upon Rough with flock
of peeWeea.
They felt their own size and Import.
Ance. and one can understand why they
banker 4 for wider Sphere of lnflus
cnce and the companionshlp % large,
frce Souls. far from the hampeFing
proyinelallxm ~ horse Jay Town
So Gulllyer ran for Congress. With
Mrs, GulllveF close behind him. prosl-
hlnF him along with a Hat Pin
She didn't know more than Table
spoonful about taking the Tariff oft NJ
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