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...last organized Confederate force in the West, when news came of Lee's and Johnston's surrenders, Forrest knew the game was up. His men crowded round him, begged him to lead them to Mexico to avoid surrendering. He was tempted, but realized it was a fool idea, surrendered...
...Though to say, 'there is no God' proves one a fool, yet it does not deprive him of his heritage as a citizen, nor of his standing." So last week declared the Alabama Court of Appeals at Montgomery, Ala., in convicting Laura Knight, negro, of the murder of her atheist husband. On his deathbed Atheist Knight had accused her of murder. The lower court which first tried Laura Knight would not accept his statement, believing that since an atheist believes in no hereafter, he fears...
There is no more distinguished proponent of wage maintenance than President Farrell, but his painful report of the situation was as follows: "We are living in a fool's paradise if we think that every steel manufacturer in the United States has maintained what is generally known as the current rates of wages. It has not been done. There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing. And even among the most talked-of companies, the so-called big companies. ... I am not going to mention names of all of the companies in this room that have...
...trys furtively to take two pieces of wedding cake. And if one begins to kiss the bridesmaids, along about the third one he runs into an absolute dud whose smile would make a horse shy. This dud accounts for the endless conversations that one sees going on. The poor fool is trying to decide just what to do. And if one doesn't kiss the bridesmaids its no fun at all. And the Vagabond has never been able to decide whether "For better, for worse," referred to the groom's riding breeches or his tennis game...
...Real British foolscap, 13½ x 17 in., is so-called because the watermark is a fool's cap & jells. U. S. foolscap measures 13 x 16 in., the same as legal...