Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — Poor Father. [ARTICLE]

Poor Father.

Children hush, for father’s resting. He is sitting tired and sore, with his head upon the chair back and his feet upon the floor. He is wearied and exhausted by the labors of the day. He has talked about the tariff since the dawn was cold and gray; he has lost eight games of checkers, for his luck was mean today, and that luck was still against him when he bucked the slot machine. So bis nerves are under tension, and his brow is dark with care, and the burdens laid upon his brow seem too great for him to bear. Stop the clock for it annoys him; throttle the canary bird; take the baby to the cellar, where it’s howling can’t be heard. You must speak in whispers, children for your father’s tired and sore, and he seems to think the ceiling is some kind of cuspidor. Oh, he’s broken down and beaten by the long and busy day; he’s been sitting in the 1 feed barn on a bale of prairie hay telling how the hungry grafters have the country by the throat, how the-tariff on dried apples robs the poor man of his coat; how the nasty polar rumpus might be settled once for all; See, hie feet are on the table and his back against the well. Let him find his pome a quiet and heart consoling rest, for your father’s worn and weary and his spirit longs for rest.