The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1913-10-09
OLD HICKORY CHIPS
Short aDl Piihy SsyI0gs On Subjects
Past and Present.

battleshlps with bottle or grape
juice?
It must be an awful strain on some
of those Tammany Senators to look
like real judges.
We won't begin to find out how
poor people are until the income tax
gatherer gets after them.
Panama canalling is getting to be
favorite sport.
Now the man who has been rock
ing the boat can turn his attention
to lighting the fire with coal oil.
Il take my pen in hand" says
Woodrow Wilson to Tariff Bill.
Snow in Texas makes it seem al
most possible that some day Hades
may freeze over.
Senator Penrose says he favors
Republican changes. Well, Presi-
dent Wilson is making them, isn't
he?
If Uncle joe with his new set Of
progressive ideas become a democrat
there just won't be any republican
party left.
Weapons drawn in legislature Of
Tennessee. Those chaps must think
they sre at Albany.
Uncle Joe Cannon says he might
be candidate if the III voters make
clear that they want him. This
looks like 2 very mild hint for the
old 18th district to speak out.
Mr.. Taft proceeds to demonstrate
that Gentleman may take proper
interest in a public building for his
home town without being charged
with lobbying.
After seeing how some Of the
younger chaps have managed it,
Poririo Diaz may conclude that
Mexican politics is, after all, an old
mans game.
China may succeed in convincing
Japan that there is no need Of going
to remote portions Of map for dip
lomatic occupation.
Cotton may enable congress TO
take up the subject of futures. y
but it will not cause investigators
to overlook the past.
The Prince Of Monaco never gam
bales. He is one Of those who be-
lieves in letting others work for him.
American conditions may invite
Mrs. Pankhust to become student
rather than lecturer.
In some instances sin;plifled spell
ing makes complicated reading.
To play waiting game Uncle Sam
is better equipped than Huerta.
What the country needs is a work
able system for the more even dis
tribution Of rain.
We suppose that by this time
John Lind has visited every moving
picture theater in Vera Cruz.
It is evident from the advance in
the price Of milk that Illinois has suf
fered from drought.
At any rate, Thaw can boast that
he has been on more sides Of the
Habeas Corpus write than any other
man now living.
Secretary Bryan is not stung by
criticism Of his Chautauqua lecture
enterprise, as it comes fromrepubii-
cans who are hard up to find some
thing to criticise.
Red garters under a slit skirt
caused girls arrest. How on earth
do the police discover such things?
Every time Thaw's lawyers have q
conference the police Of Concord N
H.; think that mass meeting is be-
ing held.
The Raleigh. N. c.. man who wants
to marry for the seventh time at the
age Of 12O can't be accused Of not
knowing his own mind.
There's no reason why as Repre-
sentative Britten advocates young
calves shouldn't beaIlowed to grow
up as the sufferingspublic would still
get the same amount and the same
kind Of veal.
Now that the Tariff bill is settled
some people will expect it to pay the
butcher. the baker and the candle
stick maker; set the table, ring the
dinner bell and say grace.
According to the Baltimore Sun,
it is plain to see what Canada Thawt
Pnila., has 10000 hog pens and
still! lot Of those gang councilmen
are not penned up.
a Texas Editor has just died and
let q fortune Of $4,000. twas in q
bank and he couldn't get to it.
After all why not be patient with
| Mrs. Pankhurst? Consider the sort
of folks she had to contend with in
England.
We have not heard any talk of
country annexing Canada since the