Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1920 — "Off Agin, On Agin" [ARTICLE]

"Off Agin, On Agin"

(Copyright) GREAT STATESMEN. We find, in studying them closely— These statesmen that we once called great— That they cut up and act morosely And pick a quarrel with their fate If some one else succeeds in bringing About their own long-sought reform. That ought, it seems, to set them singing— It merely makes them sulk or storm! One time we fell so- their pretensions, And thought their very hearts were set On what they preached—now their dimensions Have shrunken, much to our regret. We find that what they really long for Is not the righteous thing, per se. But that the thing they are so strong for Is having great things done “by me." ♦ ♦ * FINNIGIN FILOSOFY. Ivery man goes t’ru a sta-age whin, if some frind don’t wurrk airnistly wid ’im, he’ll have a pitcher ta’aken wid ’is head ' la-anin* on ’is hand. * • * Buses (U Silent, as in Mud). Buses are of three kinds: Omni, jitney and incu. Sometimes the first two become the latter, and then there is a “for sale” ad. The omni Is perhaps the commonest kind, taking the towns by and large, especially by. > The regular village omnibus is a cross between a milk-wagon and a hearse. It is as springiest as the Sahara desert, and is lighted for the trips to the night train with a /eventeenskunk -power - one - sixteenth - candlepower kerosene glim, whose chimney, ir in deep motiming. The jitney bus is of newer vintage, but is already accumulating a characteristic perfume. In fact, it has always been in bad odor with street railway companies and their stockholders. The incu kind may be almost anything from-a wife to a carbuncle. The plural of inccbus is incubi. And while an incubus is a singular thing. It is almost always in the plural. | ’ ItOOK HER AT HER WORD. Rhe said she’d “not a thing to wear.” ■ Lopifkly left the place. 1 Were she to drees thus, I’d not dare ' TO look her in the face.