La Junta tribune., 1915-09-25

remarked peSserpy VINO pouneo q
moment TO view the debris.
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Al Palm Beach:
Are you going TO wear your new
bathing suit today. Marie?"
mo. II looks too much like
rain"
There's little humor IN . sneer.
One cannot drench his speech ID gail
And seek to laugh away the tear.
And he who poisons thus the gay
Ii Just ~ cowsrdly ~ he
Who kicks q cripple's crutch asay
And laughs his helpiessness to zee.
Detroit Free Press.
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Sayings OF great men:
Reliable statistics show that there
is one divorce to twelve marriages
These statistics misrepresent the sit
uation. 1t Is far worse. Mormon
ism is more respectable a. . sys.
tenn than easy divorce. DR.. r
W. Manning.
Ouch.
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Government is not SO much
right as II is duty. This duty con
sists in protecting the weak In their
lives. their liberties and their prop
erty. A just government prepare
the weak TO govern themselves. II
is evident that many government
are not real governments Mt all, but
are merely strongly entrenched sgen-
cies for robbing the weak.
Unkindness isn't wit at all,
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The man who assassinates or
lynches is never protecting or aveng.
Ing women" says George II. Lorimer
He Is always protecting and aveng-
Ing his own pride Of possession. be-
cause with his poor mushy head. he
Is utterly unable to understand wo-
man except rs an object Of that mas
cuiine pride OF possession. The sen
timentaiist Is not at all interested IN
tightening women's work. improving
her political status or doing any
thing else to make her freer.'
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Ralph Pulitzer. OF the New York
World. who has been afforded an un.
usual opportunity for studying
throughout many months. conditions
among the warning nations Of Eu-
rope. believes that the great conflict
Will last two years more. Il IL a
fight to the death. There will be. he
says. no peace OF conciltatiou or
compromise. Any mediatory pro-
posais. whether Pontifical or prssi-
dental. would be considered On i'm
pertinencs ~ the siiiss.
A. Shakespeare would pussss:
Lay on MacDuff and damned be be
who first cries. Hold. enough. "'
Through colored spectacies:
Boy. don let 'em ief' you benin
and don let 'em think you's ridin In
de next race cried an excited old
colored man one day 10 y siow-wit-
tod. black Jockey who Was riding In
a fast. kentuck steepiechase. n long.
lean. cold-biack horse on which he
had bet all his money after paw nlug
his big gold watch The horse. sec
Ing his mates strain every muscle
and feeling In hts blood the call 10
the race. broke into n Wild burt Of
speed Ia the homestresch. The
Eager. wiid-cyed coiorcd man cried
franticaiiy: Let I'm go. boy. hes
no horse. he's bird"
Let Il not be said Of the people
OF this city and valley ~ u has ices
said Of the Arkansas farmer. that
he gets up ~ the alarm OF Con-
necticut clock. buttons his Chiea GO
suspendcrH 10 Detroit overaiis. wash.
~ his face With Cincinnati soap Ia .
Penusylvaais pan. sits down 10 Q
Grsnd Rapids table. eats Kansas
city meat and Kansas -four. cooked
with Iadiaas lard % . g. Loud
stove. puts . New York bride on Q
Missouri mule. fed eth Iowa corn.
plows five acres Of cotton covered
by IN Ohio nostsass. 9th . Chat
tsaoosa plov. whsa bedtime comes
hs reads . chaptsr oct Of . Bible
psinssd In Boseea. says . prayer
vrtttsa IN Jsruaalsn. csavis under
. blanket made ia Nsv Jessey. oniy
TO b kept awake b. - Asksnsas
dog. ihe oaiy home pesducs on the
farm. sad thea hs voadess ~hy he
eanaos make moasy rsisins cotton.
--Psery Duniap.