Judge — September 17, 1910 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Love in the Garden. By WILBUk D. NESBIT. ERE, where the leaves are whisper- ing to the breeze Their gentle messages of earnest love, Where love croons in the humming of the bees And carols in the bird-songs from above— Here do I sit and plead again with thee; Thou knowest that thy heart I long have sought, And yet, and yet as ever do I see Thy alabaster brow still bent in thought. Thine eyes still coyly will not turn to mine, But peer in studious gaze at things un- known; I pour my vows into thine ear divine, And tell thee how my love has greater grown, But still thou dost not answer. sighs, My protestations, and my constant love Call forth no gentle glances from thine eyes? Oh, damsel, what mayst thou be fash- ioned of ? What dost thou think ? thy mind ? How can I know of them, or even guess ? What? Do I hear a murmur on the wind: “Vain youth! She dreameth aye of hat and dress!"’ Oh, have I wooed thee, have I sought thy hand And plied thee with affection’s highest Can my What fancies fill art To come at last to this, to understand That thou, alas! giv’st me the marble heart! As to Payments. PAYS great attention to the 46 BFE H ladies."” “It's about the only thing he does pay." Knicker—* What is the colonel’s idea of a Republican platform?”” Bocker—‘‘An observation platform.”* THE REASON. * Look here, waiter, it's been two hours since J ordered that snail soup."* “Yes, sir: bat you know how slow snails are."* JUDGE Men and Matters of Moment. HAT a felicitous idea that is of Presi- dent Taft's to make economy one theme of his forthcoming message! The United States government does seem ex- nt, especially in the use of red tape. is very little left for the poor. One might spend a whole week in the slums and never see so much as a yard of red tape. It seems all monopolized by the United States government. No doubt it would be unrea- sonable to insist that the United States gov- ernment abandon red tape altogether. Violent revolutions are always to be depre- cated. Moreover, red tape is an excellent thing in, say, the State Department. Since our ambassadors and ministers may not dis- play themselves in uniforms, there can be little harm in their exploitation of what- ever red tape is not needed by the courts, Yet it must be acknowledged that if red “Dear me! who shoves that mouthpiece up there every time I want to use the phone ?"” THEY MUST HAVE A JONAH—BUT NO JONAH WILL SATISFY THEM! tape were given up altogether the army of unemployed in the service of the govern- ment would increase prodigiously. Possibly the prejudice against red tape is unreason- able. It must be of some use in the gov- ernment of a free people. However, econ- omy must begin somewhere, and for that reason we suzgest the item of red tape to President Taft. Py PEAKER CANNON has never said that he wanted to be speaker. All this talk about how hard he would fight to hold his chair has come from the insurgent camp. There have doubtless been many times when Speaker Cannon wished he was on the flcor and could speak on the subjects under dis- cussion. Even insurgents must admit that he can speak well. Before the fray is over those afflicted with what the present Speaker calls insurgentitis will find that Mr. Cannon has not grown rusty with age and that he can shoot as straight as ever. A’ AUTOMOBILE does not prove that a man has money, but that he did have. “Thank You's.” HE MAN who is not thankful for the lessons he learned in adversity didn’t learn any. There would be plenty of thankfulness in the world if those who have loved and lost could know just what they have lost. “Why are you giving thanks? They took ten thousand dollars from you in Wall Street a little while ago, didn’t they?’’ “Yes; but f got out with twenty dollars they didn’t know Ih A SQUARE DEAL. comicbooks.com