[From the Kearney Neb., Democrat.]
Fresh Smoked Finn & Haddies at Keller's Market.
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Our interest in baseball has waned, but we still can watch workmen on a
skyscraper throwing and catching red-hot rivets.
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The dinosaur, having two sets of brains (as we once pointed out in
imperishable verse), was able to reason _a priori_ and _a posteriori_
with equal facility. But what we started to mention was an ad in the
American Lumberman calling for "a good all around yellow pine office
man of broad wholesale experience, well posted on both ends."
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Among the new publications of Richard G. Badger we lamp, "Nervous
Children: Their Prevention and Management."
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Unrelieved pessimism rather shocks us. In spite of everything we are
willing to look on the bright side. We are willing to agree that, in
some previous incarnation, we may have inhabited a crookeder world than
this.
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The valued News, of New York, dismisses lightly the fear that the
Puritan Sabbath will be restored. Ten or twenty years ago people
dismissed as lightly the fear that Prohibition would be saddled on the
country. On his way to the compulsory Wednesday-evening prayer meeting,
a few years hence, the editor of the News will recall his cheerful and
baseless prediction in 1920.
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Fired by liquor, men maltreat their wives. These wretches deserve public
flogging; hanging were a compliment to some of them. On the other hand,
men made emotional by liquor have conceived an extravagant fondness for
their wives. We have not read about liquor floating the matrimonial bark
over the shallows of domestic discord; yet men who have fared homeward
with unsteady footsteps under the blinking stars, know that in such
moments they are much more humane than in sober daylight; they are
appalled by their own unworthiness, and thinking of their wives moves
them almost to tears--quite, not infrequently. They resolve to become
better husbands and fathers. The spirit of the wine in them captains "an
army of shining and generous dreams," an army that is easily routed, an
army that the wife too often puts to flight with an injudicious
criticism. It is said that since Prohibition came in the cases of
cruelty to wives have increased greatly in number. We do not disbelieve
this. Bluebeard was a dry.
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