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found it as complex as life itself, many of its elements in their ap
plication admit of no strict determination, many of its problems
are but beginning to be stated; it still remains the Riddle of the
Sphinx toward whose solution the individual and society must
grope their way, guesses and tentative conclusions serving in the
meantime as practical guides to progress
The scene is by the side of a dusty highway with the usual
surroundings, anywhere within a radius of ten miles of the col
lege. The time is just before noon on a warm spring day, and
the following dialogue through a barb wire fence takes place be
tween two old farmers common to the vicinity:
Reub. —Hello, thar, neighbor; ben workin’ hard this mornin’?
Jake. —Waal, yess; I ken say that I hev. But I thought that
I’d take a rest fer a leetle while and come over and see if thar
was anything new goin’ on.
Reub. —Nothin’ that I know of; but, now that I think of it, I
want to ask you sumthin’ that I am always fergettin’ to.
Jake. —Waal, what’s it about?
Reub. —I jest wanted to know if you were goin’ over to the
college this year to hear them fellers that quit fer good—what do
you call ’em?
Jake. —Oh, I know what you mean—them graduaters.
Reub. —That’s it. Well, air you goin’ over thar this time to
hear them fellers make their speeches?
Jake. —Why, I hadn’t tho’t of it, Reub. Is it worth that much
trouble to go ’way over there?
Reub —Waal, now; I guess it is. You should hear them onct.
It does a feller more good than readin’ all these here newspapers
you ken get in a year’s time. Why, those boys get up thar and
say off their speeches in a way I’ll bet ole Dannal Webster himself
couldn’t hev beat. And then they ken tell you a darn sight more
than the newspapers. They know jest how everything should be
run in this and other countries, and you can’t help but believe
that they know all ’bout everything. I’ll tell you what, if them
fellers had the chance they could show our government how to
settle these here money matters and fix up the tariff bills. Why,
As Others See Us.
AS OTHERS SEE US.
COU.OQUY.
E. W. RUNKI.E.