Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-05-30
Wise and Other wise

II Congress would post a man out Oh
the steps to give the alarm when the
President comes To the Capitol, not so
many Of them would get caught away
from their desks.
Vincent Aston. who recently went in.
to farming, has been sick with throat
trouble. Perhaps he had to DO too much
hoilcrlng 10 the horses when he plough
ed mp the lack pasture.
DR.. Sargent of Harvard says that ply
steal training and exercise would cure
womcn's unrest. The broom and wash
tub has always been considered benefi.
cIai IN this respect.
The bankers, manufacturers, law.
yers, and ministers can learn the prom.
er time to put on the straw hat. by
mquiring Of the college students.
President Wilson is going to Panama
when Congress is adjourned. II he
waits until then every one else will have
seen it first.
or course 1t Is pretty hard TO have all
your vegetable gardens tramped down
by the boys OF the neighborhood who
are laying ball, but If the boys ran
around, the runners might get another
base.
While the ownership of the steam
roller passes from one hand to another.
the model seem to differ but little from
year to year.
There arc still a few people left who
think you a get business by turning
a lovely and secluded country scene in
to a stun billboard.
Prof. Taft's opinions are extensively
reported in the newspapers, but he
will have to get out with a gun and
shoot something, if he is going to draw
81 per word from the magazines.
Holland farmers are coming to this
country on account of the high rents for
land at home. 1t is much better to live
in a country where you don't have to
fence off the bottom of the sea.
Mothers day was celebrated in many
homes by having Mother get up an
extra course dinner.
Tho now straw hats put on early this
year will look yellow by the time you
get out on your vacation among the
summer girls.
Everyone favors cutting the frills out
Of the school syscm. but some people
feel that those long cube root examples
in the old arithmctics were more frilly
than the bread. making in the new
domestic science courses.
The railroads arc asking for higher
rates. and the stockholders are picking
ont sunny rooms in the almshOusc i'm
cusc the petition should not DO granted.
A Southern Congressman speaks at
the Gettysburg reunion this year, ard
the bloody chusm will bc well filled
with sandwiches and doughnuts.
The striking school boys willnover 20
ON a hunger strike as long as mother
keeps on making pumpkin pies.
The S%uffragists are charged with
making a sex appeal" through their
clothes. but they can't bc expected to
wear rain. coats all the time.
The Uniycrnty of Toxic is trying to
get a ball game with the University Of
Washington. but Congressman Hobson
has not yet used this Va an argument
for moro bnttloships.
Tho $4,000 pOstmasters who have got
TO take the civil service exams are
perhaps wishing now that they hadn't
spent quito so much time in throwing
spitballs.
Some playful Congressman hoistod q
stuffed donkey when The tariff bill was
passed. but strangely enough the Con.
prcssional Record does not mention the
incident. The city editor Of that pub.
l]ication should get some reporters with
nows sense.
The base ball umpircs at least should
have a fellow feeling for the President
Of Mexico.