Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1917 — STRAY PLANTS [ARTICLE]

STRAY PLANTS

If no other objection, the U-boat Is too confoundedly impertinent. A man who isn’t afraid of the world can easily turn the devil’s flank. Ambition without energy is a beautiful car with four punctured tires. A congressman wants the "Record abolished. That's the trouble with most of us. Talk of a dry state makes the sentimental toper’s heart ache for the poor corn raisers. His bait is the lure of treafchpry—and the angler gets mad if the fool fish won’t swallow it. Memory is a great mirror—and lots of people would like to scratch tho plating off the back. Don’t be too resentful with the “bcry desperado.” Welcome him with jeady shingle to hospitable knees. Boys don’t stop to think that the lost motion in a crap game would make an honest living for the whole bunch. Our language possesses elasticity—but don’t promise to “see about” a thing when you only intend to see arqund it. No wonder the poor poet is ridiculed. Often he presents a beautiful thought to a man who would rather have a chew of tobacco. Old glories are not all passing away. Auctioneers and patent-medicine venders still strive to perpetuate the grand old Burnside whiskers. The young man who is always looking for “snaps” is at least as aspiring as the turtle hunter—J. H. Mackley, in Ohio Farmer.