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...absurd story about the one-dollar greenback, what a field they would offer for Samson and his jawbone of an ass! In the Bible it is recorded (Judges XV, 15) that Samson "found a new jawbone of an ass and put forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men therewith...
Once upon a time folk-dances were common. Flaxen-haired madchens whirled before the Bohemian alehouse; Russian peasants brought in the harvest with a grand clicking of heels; and the toreador's wife turned exultant somersaults in the market place, while her husband slew the bull. Each of these was a primitive expression of emotion. The skips and contortions the ballet stage are all that now remains of these old-time dances. The originals have been so greatly modified and "aestheticized" by the professors of terpsichorean that their originators would scarcely recognize them. The folk-dance was natural; the imitation...
...Bushnell '19 Hutchings, E. P. Goodnow '17 Gov. Carr, L. M. Pearson 2G. Bull, W. E. Stilwell '25 Doggy, P. F. Holmes '24 Mary Todd, Miss Dorothy Googins Mrs. Wheeler, Miss Angela Morris Annie, Miss Dorothy Sands Mrs. Rutledge, Miss Doris Halman Pickens Gaffney P. W. Rice 2G. Slew-Foot, W. E. Stilwell '25 Sam Tipton, G. H. Code '18 White Chauffeur, R. J. Leven ocC. Sykes from Boston, W. L. Smyser '23 Rev. Smallwood, W. D. Dunkel 1G. Sinclair, the Mayor, W. N. Morse 4G. Tyson, the Banker, R. I. Leven ocC. Webster, the publisher, P. F. Holmes...
...Bushnell '19 Hutchings, E. P. Goodnow '17 Gov. Carr, L. M. Pearson 2G. Bull, W. E. Stilwell '25 Doggy, P. F. Holmes '24 Mary Todd, Miss Dorothy Googins Mrs. Wheeler, Miss Angela Morris Annie, Miss Dorothy Sands Mrs. Rutledge, Miss Doris Halman Pickens Gaffney, P. W. Rice 2G. Slew-Foot, W. E. Stilwell '25 Sam Tipton, G. H. Code '18 White Chauffeur, R. I. Leven ocC. Sykes from Boston, W. L.Smyser '23 Rev. Smallwood, W. D. Dunkel 1G. Sinclair, the Mayor, W. N. Morse 4G. Tyson, the Banker, R. I. Leven ocC. Webster, the publisher, P. F. Holmes...
Congress has acted in accord with this slew. It realizes that, to he of any real value, help for the farmers must be immediate, for their security is limited to palatable crops. It cannot propose complicated schemes involving huge sums of money to include all those who are in trouble. It can, however, by immed at action, relieve the pressure which is causing ruin in one part of the country. That the remedy proposed is regarded is only temporary is shown by the fact that the tariff bill would be in operation for only four or five months--till...