The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-11-18

the elephant and driver of the band
wagon. But she toyed, and when he
discovered that she was toying he be-
came terror on wheels. have been
told that l am like Nero about that.
Let a woman toy with my heart and
should become raging lion. He went
In fo slam things around from that
date on. Rome suffered. The enemy
suffered. He had hankering to wipe
had been thrown down. and thrown
hard. and he hadn't the sand to bid
his aching heart cease to II lie and
look around for another mash.
LET us not be too hard on Nero.
Give him show. Name your boy
babies after him. Ask yourselves If
you wouldn't have done the same in
his place.
Lucrszia Boreia Not All Bad.
"And take notice how history has
picked up Lucrezia Borgia and held
her up as the monster of that age.
History has committed a great wrong.
started out on Lucrezia's trail feel
ing that hanging was too good, for
her, but as l traced her career step by
step had to leave prejudice behind.
AS a child she wouldn't hurt fly. The
sight of bulldog picking up cat
by the neck would have thrown her
into convulsions.
LAS a girl Miss Lucrezia was cousid-
crate of other peoples feelings 10 !.
wonderful degree. Had a young man
with a pimple on his nose been court
ing her she would have died before
asking him why he didn't have it
shaved off. She Y2St a favorite in So
ciety. She alwdy Bat down on the
edge of a chair and folded her hands
and replied Yes, ma'am,' and No.
| ma a'am, and she knew nothing what
ever about Irritation.
1T was only when Miss L. B. has
| become young woman and discov-
| cred that her relatives were plotting
to rob her of her Inheritance and send
her out to work in a sweatshop at 81
week that she turned to poison. She
dosed the family right and left. and
when she saw what a good thing 1t
was she began to give it to outsiders.
You may say it was naughty, but what
was the poor girl to do?
at is pretty well authenticated that
the charming Miss Borgia poisoned off
fourteen different people before the
doctors got on to the trick. but l fee
assured that each ana every one of the
victims ought to have died with con
l hot nd
sides tl.ey had large and Haerai fu
"A nc~sl ccessions, and sshe COST sI pf thei'
p tombSt0LeS was ImmeAse.
And then. too. it was q time wher
everybody was poisoning everybody
else. They weren't using the shotgun
or the baseball bat. but inviting ;
friend to drink a glass of claiet Will
them and then drop dead on the door
step while waiting for the taxi 10 al
pear If Miss Borgia hadn't got stile:is
Of the game it would have got alscsY
of her, and there you are. trsls
that ere l appear in Huckleberry Hi3
again there will be female RlI
born and that it wiH bear the nan
of Lucrezia. 5
Square Deal For Cyrus MI al 4
"And let us for a m6n6ents Gals ia
the case of King Cyrus IN AscOeHin
to history, nothing pleased him NOR
than to fling GOO or 800 people owe
a precipice or to tie half a thousan
innocent children to the tails of viii
horses. 1t is asserted that in one day
with his own hand. he stabbed 25
captives to death. and the very day
to change the program, he buried tn
same number alive. When Cyrus wa
in merry mood. as the historians te
us. he Topped off the arms OF fft
| captives and set them to climbing tree
and turning handsprings. If he got u
in the morning with rocky feelin
! 100 prisoners lost their heads to max
him feel better.
my huckleberry friends of Huckl'
berry Hill. don't believe all you rea
, | about Cyrus. Don't believe half
| it. He was a pretty hard case, bl
| | there was a good excuse for it. W.
| man again. Married a girl who pr
{ | tended to think the world Of hi
| and then ran away with circus bar
| back rider. Never even stopped
, shut the henhouse door or feed IL
. cat before she went. She just dro1
r that man into being what he wa
Every time he Topped off 500 heads
= thought of her. Every time he loppt
/. off feet he thought of that barebae
e rider. You or l would have done II
] same. Name your boys Nero. If "
: haven't got any boy babies then nan
your dogs after him. Give everybot
2 a fair show, including the old uns wi
' have passed away. 1t will cost not
= ing and make you feel good. There
I ever badness. but there is ever q got
c | side to it."