The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1913-11-27
OLD HICKORY CHIPS
Short and Piihy Sayings en- Subjects
Past and Present.

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Su'zer "seen his duty@and done''
it.
Kind of weather that puts tune
in the heart.
Come on old Senate and get this
currency question settled before
we all run out of currency.
| It must be observed that Colonel
Roosevelt has been in South America
a remarkably long time without
shooting anything.
The assassination of Bill Sulzer
has been indefinitely postponed.
At last account the big moose was
running strong in Brazil.
Porto Rico wants a legislature.
Several states would be willing to
donate theirs.
Blessed is the man who doesn't
expect too much from his friends.
There are fears that Mrs. Parkhurst
has been misled by stories Of the
ease with which large profits may
be derived from American lecture
engagements.
1t may be suggested that Europe
should attend to it's Turkey before
worrying about America dove of
peace.
1t seems like wasting the time of
a busy man to ask Charles Murphy
to keep track of a bit of small
change like a $4,000 campaign do
nation.
A safe and sane halloween cele-
bration may be regarded as another
mark Of advance in cultivation.
The closely calculating citizen is
likely to feel that the labor involved
in solving income tax problem is
entitled to some consideration.
Like the comet whose approach
invites forebodings, Mrs. Parkhurst
prove picturesque and harmless.
The way Murphy is going down it
would seem that when Sulzer fell so
fell all of them.
One way to settle the Mexican
question, probably would be to let
those greasers get glimpse of the
new dreadnaught Texas.
Filipinos who left home to travel
with show are stranded in Bel
GUM. The Filipino is not nearly so
successful Snowman as the Ameri-
can Indian.
There is not much use of trying to
horrify Tammany leader with pic
lures of tiger in the theoes of dis
grace and dissolution.
Efforts to keep alive the discus
sion as to who discovered the North
Pole are now largely in the hands
of the advertising experts.
Col. Roosevelt approves of results
in New York without definitely men
tioning them as Endorsements of his
policies.
China is no doubt already begin
ming to feel that it knows more
about running a republic than Mex
leo.
The problem is to get an income
large enough to be taxed and then
find way of exempting it.
1t is impossible for Gen. Felix
Diaz to feel sure whether days de-
velopments will call on him to as
sumo tone of ringing defiance or
an air of patient resignation.
Let us hope that the next time
New York is staged that there will
be no reason what it should be sup
pressed.
At the present rate OF progress
Yuab Shi Kai will be forced to raise
wages Of the Chinese Lord high ex-
ecutioner.
Imagine the strain required of the
New York assembly to enable it to
say, "Why hello Bill" in tone OF
glad surprise.
The Nobel prize of the year has
been awarded to Frenchmon for
his work in Anaphylaxis who's the
man that will say off-hand he doesn't
deserve it.
Cork or Bottle" says the Chi
cago Record Herald, lis the consti-
tutiona! convention issue in Illinois. !"
Just what that means is not clear
but naturally the both go together.
No doubt of Col Goethals accept
ed the police commissionship of New
YorY. he would favor the lock sys-
tenn at the City Hall.
Speaking of benevolent earth
ouukes-as California piper does