World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1913-05-15
The BADGER Column
BELOIr WIS,

COQtIlOullOnS I-Um various
assortments, that we have |
decided that it is our faith. |
full duty 10 open up a regu.
lar Badger Column to which ole !
OF the other OF Us will endeaTor
TO con:rO6ute, tbat is, if you vii.
be magnanimous enough to give
US space.
My hat IS in the ring. only it
is a o'gger ring. said a motor
ious politician Of late, Which
same is to be taken to mean that
I nave been 4 silent spectator
from the side lines long enough,
and that hence forward l shall
yet into the game, "bobbing up
serenely,' now and then, as
Father Neptune did of old.
I want to reconstruct a mis-.
taken case Of personal iden:iti:
ca.ion, which Bro. Pearson has
junwittingly, lent icdubi ably
perpetraled. He, lla, mistaken
E, NJ. Calland o. me. Think Of
that, Mr.. Editor When my i'm,
personal identity is thus sailed
and battered, my righteous in.
formation boils up within me.
and | say to myself: BRO Pear.
son I'm no sutfragette: am still
hanging on to the pocket book
and britches with grim discrlmj.
nation, and if loose out, THAI is
DC minus said britcheS, then you
may take me for q NEE woman,
land donate me q petty c"at to
cover my etfe n.inip'ty - But po'
!yet Bro. Pearson, not yet
Why. Mr., Editor. | know Jim
ME Pearson well, / made bis n
thusiastic acquaintanceship in
days of your, at Great Scott Kan
and used to Civ him brot',erly
council on trouble CT the Eeart
With hlch ue sure was sore
infected Even then he was a
3 ~ociable reporter. and his facile
and unintelligible profusions are
dong more day by day to be-
, nightan the world. AS an I'm
blelnished critic. | might add
I that when IL comes to writing
Stuff as he himself calls it, he
takes the cake from all of hi:
hungry competers. for whaI
comes wholly natural to him 9th
er contributors have to work t;
4 realize.
+ You see, Mr.. Editor, | am in
,rinsically indebted IT, Bro. Pear
, Son, for it vas my own brother
I wife and Mary Jane that he re
susci,atei from the Wild and an
cry smelling oillo"s OF the +.
cent flood that swept and c'eanct
!. up the Sums of his acropolis,
Z knOM they are so paral,izad b!
!. his gallant hero;cism, hat if b.
q will only be patient and insi>tcn
q Mary Jane will sool bu ol(
$ enough to tel him SO herself
:, Also, Fro. James, | regret in
periously your management 9
my envious reputation as song
, ster, You concur, with the en-
, phasis on the cur,) that who,
q you saw Inc last, had a rcsula
T. liberty Bell cracked voice
8, and that | inclined my asinin
"a notes to barnsard uittos But
- am here to cpllata that in m
"a college days, lowered all south
+, crn Missouri as tenor altisSim
= budding carusO, in fact, and
4. were not at present invlctcl b
10 the cygency If raj ing wife, can
g and u-ar otfsprings, l woul
al challenge even YOU, Bro. Pcarso
to sing contest at the comm
matrim NAL connivance betwte
Hubbard and Marvin. For h
~, lieve me, l hale from a long fau
il,' OF musicals. having r
r,rother VIII can sing Prai:
God fron whou. all bles-ln.
IT, Cow" out Of the lower Wight SIT
OF his mouth, ard another brot
az +r vino can play the fiddle wi
Ill MS left hind le4. III the face
at thes" convictions, llersc do IL
,o.,;A si,r,,ln,n That I haze