NOBODY CARED
By Lowell Otis Reese
My purse snd my body were lenn;
I lived oil the lovely pink bean?
And down in the gulches and up on the
pass
I haunted the years with my ugly jack
ass,
Acussin’ the strike that refused to be
struck,
And cussin’ creation along with my
luck,
A lonely, unknown, insignificant man,
Amixin my dough in a rusty gold pan—
And nobody cared.
Came days when 1 surely was blue;
Tobacco smoked sticky as glue;
The jackass shed tears everytime that
he brayed
And he got on my nerves till they quiv
ered and frayed;
The sky was drizzle, the bushes were
wet
And the fire wouldn’t burn and the
coffee upset,
And the flapjacks were doughy, the ba
con all leans—
And C.od only knows what was wrong
with the beans;
And nobody cared.
Hut I never abated a lick
Of the battered old shovel and pick.
And still in my tattered old blankets 1
dreamed
Of the strike on ahead, but my features
grew seamed
And my fingers grew knotted; and over
my head
The winter of age was beginning to
spread,
And my breeches were torn in a way
that still brings
The hot blush of shame when I think of
those tilings—
And nobody cared.
And then I uncovered the strike,
(There’s where I resigned from the
hike,)
She was rich as bull gravy---three mill
ion or so
Now the people say Mister wherever 1
go,
And they wag their glad tails and turn
over for me;
If 1 give them a smile they’re as pleas
ed as can be;
For that lick of the pick made a differ
ent man
From the one that mixed dough in the
rusty gold pail
When nobody cared.
STAGNATION IN THE
BUILDING TRADES
A Chicago paper of recent date says:
Every building material plant in Chic
ago will be closed to-morrow in further
ance of the war to force all building
trades unions having strikes to adjust
them by arbitration. The closing down
of the maturial business will add at
least 20,000 persons immediately to the
number of unemployed.
When the famine is complete the en
BRYAN'S RESIGNATION
Mr. Bryan resigned because lie deem
ed tliat the most pacific, friendly ami
conciliatorp note that could be framed
under existing conditions was a
suggestion of war at which his sensitive
soul revolted.
This was only a suggestion of war and
one that nobody else could discern at
that. I do not reca 11 that Ins scnfitive
soul revolted so you could notice it at
tile actuality of war. When the U. S.
fleet bombarded Vara Cruz and killed
156 and wounded 320 of its uneefended
inhabitants there is no record that Mr.
Bryan uttered a word of protest. Cer
tainly he did not resign. But perhaps
Mr Bryan is so constituted that it is not
at actual war but oely at suggested war
that his tender feelings get beyond con
trol. At least they seem to be well in
hand, when in the Spanish-American
war he volunteered and was colonel of
a regiment.
Hiram Maxim has presented to tne
senior class at Harvard 350 copies of
his book, "Defenseless America” which
urges that the U. S. Treasuey be tvrned
over to the powder manufacturers up to
and including himself. The Crimson
questions the disinterestedness of his
argument taking it with a grain of salt
peter.
tire building industry will be paralyzed
and more than 100,000 will be made
idle. The longer the famine, lasts the
more unemployed there will be:
There are 245 plants that will be
closed. Ill some of the lines of building
material the shutdown will be 100 per
cent. In none of the ten interests will
less than 98 per cent join the battle for
peace in the building trades. Those who
will not close are small and can have no
influence on the situation, it is said.
The interests that have agreed to join
in the movement to compel a settlement
of all strikes and the number of plants
that will close are:
Dumber interests yards - - 70
Common brick yards 54
Dace brick dealers ... 7
Dime kiln companies - - - 24
Sand, stone and gravel dealers - 15
Sash, doors, blinds, mills - - 50
Dialling mills - 10
Terra cotta manufacturers - - 65
Elevator-operating companies - 5
Hardwood floorings mills - - - 5
The man who buys his popularity gen
erally pays more than the market price
Singing our own praises seldom gets
us an encore.
WORKING MEN!
When Ordering Beer Should Call For
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DAVE PETREE, PROP
IN GREAT BRITAIN
The masses of people in Great Britain
take an extremely unconventional view
ol the war. At one ot the innumerable
meetings with which the government
seeks to spur the backward interest an
orator was explaining the “separation
allowances” that the government pays
to the wives and children of men that
go to the front. To make himself clear
by example he addressed particularly a
———
matron in the front row.
“How much does your husband get a
week ma’am ?”
“Twelve shillings a week, sir.” (J3)
“How many children have you ?”
“Three, sir.”
“Ho you know that if your husband
enlists you will get from the govern
ment a guinea <5.25) every week ?”
“Bless my heart, is that so, sir? lie'll
go, sir, lie‘11 go, and may the war last
a long time. “
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Judge—Why did you strike tins man?
Prisoner—-lie called me a liar, your
honor.
Judge—That is no excuse. 1
l’risoncr—Well, Judge, it was my first
experience. Wliat does vour honor do
in such cases?-—Boston Transcript.
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justice Ingraham's remarks before the
Judiciary Committee of the New York
Constitutional Coovention were said to
be “of a nature too explosive and dam
aging for publication,“ particularly his
statement that in New York City “men
were compelled to mortgage the future
and not seldom their immortal souls, to
!a political boss to get on the bench.”
Heredity
Fond Israelite Parent, (learning his
six months old offspring to say nurserv
rhymes) ‘Tvnikle, Tvinkln leedle shtar
how I vonder vat you are, like a di
amond in the silky—”
Offspring six months old. (pointing
towards the roof (“Fader, Fader, vhcre
is dot diamond in de silky.”
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