Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1913 — The ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The ONLOOKER

S.E.KISER

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The Value of Hope. How drear a place the world would be If all who fall to win success Permitted all the rest to see —- The evidence of their distress! How fortunate It Is that men So often hide the griefs they hear So often still try bravely when Their bVeaats are laden with despair. How few men ever would achieve The victories that are so sweet If each should let the world perceive Whenever he had met defeat! How few men would be deemed sublime By those whose hearts are moved to song If each sat grumbling every time His heart ached or his plans went wrong. How little _there would be to praise How much to keep us plunged In gloom If each but waited all his days To hear the dreadful crack of doom! *Tis well that men conceal despair When stubborn fate has used them iU; Why not, If you have woes to bear. Assist by seeming hopeful still? -- Mere Opinion. —— It always makes an old lady angry when the papers publish another woman’s portrait taken from a photograph made twenty years before. The people who made the English language builded wiser than they knew. Think of the poetry that would he written if there were more than three or four words to rhyme with love. It doesn’t take long to spoil a boy by giving him everything he wants. People who are gifted with imagination have an immense advantage in being able to dream of the happiness that might be theirs if thing* were not as they are. The Miner’s Daughter. “Ah,” said the count, "zis ees not ze lady I would have for my wife. She ees what you call plain.” “But her father owns a coal mine,’’ replied the general manager of the International Title and Trust Syndicate. “I care not for zis gold mine. I —■” “Not gold mine. I said coal mine —hard coal.” “Ah, my dear friend! How beautiful zis lady ess! My heart he what you call leap wis love!”

The Real Need. “They say that laziness is caused by a germ. What a fine thing it would be If we could find something to kill the thing.” “Oh, no. I know something finer than that. Think how much nicer it would be If we could ail find some way to gratify it" Immune. “I oft,” said the political asjpirant, “feel sorry for the great men whose names are given to so many children that turn out to be scalawags.” “It is tough,” yelled a distributer under the gallery, “but never mind. You’ll never have to be pitied on that account” Realty Cruel. “I have lost my heart,” said the man who wore Bhoulder straps, but had never sniffed the smoke'of battle. “Well, you needn’t search me,” replied the girl. "I’m not making collection of bogus war relics.”

Doing Wall. “Young man,” said a rich and pom pous old gentleman, “I was not always thus. I did not always ride in a motor car of my own. When I first start ed in life I had to walk.” “You were lucky," rejoined ths young man. "When I first started 1 had to crawl. It took me a long time to learn to walk.” # . Can You Blame Him? Ere —You look glum. What’s ths matter? Adkm—l named the Ichthyosaurus yesterday and today he sued me fa* tlheL