Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27
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pect a customer to sympathize with the
protest of any dealer who refuses to sell
her a 2-cent bunch of parsley for cent.
Then he'd oughter make a Twin some
other way'n by butcherin' innocent
blood
That's so. too. but the way 1 look at
it is this: So long as people eat meat
| they have no cause to blame them that
kills.
He might have known that no woman
with a lamb bone sticking from under
| her basket lid would stop to listen to
foolish talk Ike that. But before she
f1ustered away she bought bunch Of
pa rsley.
She paid 1 cent for it,
X * X
Sometimes I'm sorry I ever came into
that money 1 have good times, all right.
but once in awhile when I want to help
an old friend out 1 find I can't do it as
used to in the poor days when a silver
dollar looked as big a silver moon in
summer time"
The man who said it and the man who
listened turned a corner and were gone.
But the woman who overheard put the
ira Sment on her pad because it was the
history of the world
In one sentence.
Whistles began to blow in discordant
unison and nearby church bell called
| the Angelus in mellow booms.
Noon I'm the wOrkaday world means a
lay-oH for lunch. So the swarming la
i porers on a business building flashed
! lars and around from everywhere and be-
| gan to eat and talk together in groups as
naturally as if they were moving pictures
| with monograph on the side.
: The passing crowd was too vitality in
tent on its own luncheon to notice lot
or ordinary workmen sitting about on
| cross beams and cement bags, but-well
there are always exceptions.
Two men as fine as tailors could make
them were picking their way along the
outer edge of the debris when the young
er paused and said. as if in continuance
of an argument of interest to both:
Here's another illustration right be-
| fore your eyes. Size up these men. Do
they look like the same human putty
that used to be turned and twisted and
patted and coerced in your political day?
Each of these men is an individual walk
| ing In the light. Those fellows reading
snack are as familiar with industrial
conditions as you or / or any other poll
tlcfan. See that chap taking his hot
drink from a therrnos bottle-look at that
| laughing negro with the gold TOOTH Every
bodily improvement stands for mental
| progress, and I tell you that the time Is
about on us when We vote hunters will
have to reckon with the mishtiest power
The voice trailed off into indistinctness
and the woman who had been picking her
way behind the men, and who might
have caught another word or two If he,
dear ears had been more dependable
| tried to figure out for herself what that
mightiest power could be-
| The workmen and the structure they
were sending high up in the air were
lust like other workmen and other struc-
lures everywhere except that you don't
stop to look for thermos bottles and gold
| teeth. As to newspapers! Everybody
| reads newspapers. A newspaper is &
searchlight that flashes into every nool
and Granny of the world, so that ever,
man can see where he is going
| do you suppose that was the light
| the vote hunter meant?
| And do you suppose that the coming
mishtiest power is the power of the
| everyday man?