Mower County transcript., 1908-12-30

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II just makes my head ache TO read
OF; an the graft goin' On IN high places
as we'll as ia lower down The disclos-
uresin the Pittsburg city council where
different councilmen were bribed sto
secure the passage Of certain contracts
for PAWN and bridges and filtration
plants and franchises makes one think
of the San Francisco scandals and the
haymakin' times of Tammany Hall in
New York. 1t dqfs beat all how peo-:.
pie supposed to be honest and respect
able will hav no cohscience On graftin'
when it comes Il official deals. Ii a
councilman canIket free pawn along
his property for favorin' certain con-
tractors or can get rake off of q couple
of thousand on a contract for water
pipe or electric machinery he don't
seem to think it's stealin' because It
amt with an individual. No wonder
the public IS so spicious officials,
when they are allowed to furnish sup.
plies under city contracts at their own
fggers. Amt it possible to get q set.
of officials who will tend to public bust.
ness with the same economy and hon.
esty as; they would their own private
business?sa s;t: s'=a. 'ss.
i..,I bet those lousy congressman who
called President Roosevelt's bluff on
tie secret service detective cuttin' out
amt hav,n' q very Merry holiday. My
paper says they are all up in the air
Wonderin' what the presid ident has found
out in cold facts about their bein' mix.
ed up in land steals and timber steals
and other frauds on the government.
u amt forgot how q few years ago
when congress gave similar invita-
tion to show up they got such a detail
cd report Of faetsas. caused the great.
est Indignation among the representa-
tlves. No one can hav ascintilla of
doubt that limitin' the activities of the
secret agents by congress has resulted
in increased crime. Criminals and
confidence men hav. ben. quick to take
advantage of the cessation of the work
Of the secret service men and lots of
4 the pluEa aerer5 .hay had 4 tima, thusato.
loosen Uncle Sans grip on 'em. l
just wish the president would go after
the guilty congressman with sharp
knife. Maybe they'll beg SO hard that
he may go into generalities only. p.
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l see Arnold DAILY, the actor, comes
oat for the life of tranqu lity and says
that there is only one creature who
leads life of peace and that is a COW
in stream. He says he'd like to go
and stand bya cow in stream and
shall as soon as he gets money enuf
1t don't strike Farmer Ben as the ideal
of tranquility to stand in a stream by a
cow. 1t looks like a matter of temper
ament more than environment. If I
was nervous and excitable and high
strung aud restless the COW life
wouldn't fit me. Lots of folks amt
got the peaceful bovine temperament
and the standin' in the stream wouldn't
work with 'em. calkerlate that it
would make Farmer Ben very restless
to attempt to duplicate the cows plac-
idity of existence. My idee of tran.
guilty is all differin' from the bovine
dream. l calkerlate that if keep my
mind from worry, if keep busy at my
garden and chores to take up my mind,
if 1 keep in good appetite so I'm in
good health, and if l liv in harmony
and good will with my naybors, there
is no reason why 1 shouldn't be con-
tented and tranquil. %
O o y a.+a&
see in housewife column in one
Of my papers this tip in cookin': To
remove the burned edges of cake rub
with fine sandpaper as soon as the cake
is set. believe this is big discovery
1t looks like we get too much cake and
pie and such from the foundry in an
unfinished state that mite lie bigly i'm
proved by sandpaperin'. In fact 1
could suggest file instead of sandpa
per for some cookin I've run onto in
my travels. | tell you a rasp like w alt
Patterson used to rasp off horses hoofs