The independent., 1907-02-07

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If you have a crouch bottle 1t up.
Don't carry 1t on your countenance.
One satisfaction In being over-age is
that you dor't have to pay poll tax.
Don't say anything to discourage Mrs.
Sage. She has made a grand beginning.
/. would be the easiest thing In the
world TO pass laws if it wasn't SO hard
for men to think alike.
If you find 1t hard to love your enc
mics you should hasten to be converted
over again. The first innocuiauon didn't
take.
A friend writes to ask if we know Of
any bigger fool thing in this world than
the tariff on lumber, and we are Obliged
to confess that we do not.
In every legislature there are a few
meu determined to come as near not doing
what they agreed to do as they can and
not fall off the wagon. This legislature
is nc exception.
We have heard one farmer argue that
the wolf bounty makes 1t profitable to
raise the festive coyotes for the June
market Bounty workers are careful not
to kill at the wrong time of year.
Resolve. my son, at early morn to rise;
To go out yonder with the glittering
hoes
And deftly shovel off the waiting snow
That heavily upon the sidewalk lies.
spade.
A Louisville satistician gives out the
startling figures that three per cent of
the newspapers of the country look upon
Foraker as a statesman while the other
ninety-s seven per cent size him up as
peanut politician.
If you are taking a trip clear across
the state the passenger rate per mile Is
matter of more than passing interest.
A difference Of four dollars on days
ride is not to be sneezed at. Stand up
for Nebraska.
If you have weak heart, this altitude
is plenty high enough. A great many
good people are killed off by trying to
live in the mountain regions when the
altitude to which they are best suited
is 1000 nearer sea level Stand up for
Nebraska.
1t doesn't take more than o whisper to
arouse the dread suspicious of one who is
of a natural jealous disposition. And
the husband or wife, as the case may
be- is accounted guilty until proven in
nocent Where deep seated Jealousy
exists 1t is pretty bad for both SIDES Of
the house.
IL the bill regulating the issue of large
blocks of fresh and tempting railroad
stock to conform to certain rules of egi-
innate business, becomes national law
a good many curbstone brokers in New
York City will be hunting jobs that fur
nish less excitement and more certain
monthly dividends.
Lift up your voice and sing the praise
OF this great state-in many ways
It is the fairest and the best
OF all the sisters, east or west
A soil as rich, it seems to me-
AS soil for farming needs to be;
A stretch of prairie fair to view,
Skies that are bright and clear and blue;
Air stimulating as old wine,
A Baltimore father whose daughter ran
away and got married against the paren-
tai edict, sent a notice to the papers
that she was dead When asked for an
explanation he said she was dead to
him and he wanted to make 1T seem as
real as possible. The chances are when
he getS over MS di5ly IL ne VII w i.o
for the children to come home and stay
all summer
The blizzard blizzes to the east
And to the west and to the north,
But here when either man or beast
Upon the highway sallies forth,
No harsh and cruel frosts assail
To pierce him to the very quick
He bucks no cold, unfriendly gale
That bears him down and makes hi.A
sick
He looks above to friendly skies,
Il need no overcoat," says he;
Then shakes hands with himself and
cries: