﻿AN EARFULL 
 
Only the poor break laws— the rich evade them. 

Babe Ruth is America’s greatest statesman —Jack Dempsey the brightest scholar- Barney Google the most eminent scientist The greatest writer?— modesty prevents our naming him. 

By the way: Our scientists are not to blame for the slow progress — the men ahead of them, clearing the way, are laying down on their tools— waiting for the pay car. When the scientists catch up there will be s show down, over the slow down. 

A crust of bread, a jog of wine and thou 
H’m! 
A five dollar bill, a T-bone steak and, and eggs. 

Past unseeing eyes there flashes 
The eternal film of soul, 
 While mere man in moonshine splashes; 
Playing a spiritual role. 
And tho there be thousand clashes 
Planets burn —crash, crash on crashes— 
Life is there to sift the ashes; 
Farmless, endless, one and whole. 

No two things in all this world are alike. 
Nothing is like it was— there is a continual change. A stone thrown is a different stone when it lands. 
No two cherries look or taste alike—nor does the taste linger; it fades, dies. 
A pea—one in ten thousand—can be identified. 

Int. Falls, Minn., has been enjoying a treat in Dante’s (inferred) Inferno. The Falls likes pastoral plays of this description even more than Rhinelander enjoy East Lynne or Ten Nights on the Blindpig Floor. 

It is becoming more necessary every day for congress to repeat a right before it is right —say it twice (or its wrong) — rechew the cabbage (or its kraut) — An editorial congressman has it in reverse: “Repeat it wrong to make it right.” 

A jeweller offered to charge me two bits for a minute hand for my old reliable Ingersol — that’s as far as he got. I repaired it myself. 
Tools used: 
One railroad spike, for hammer. 
One needle, for punch. (hole). 
One safety pin, for material. 
One match, for forge (to anneal the pin) 
Time spent: 
Ten minutes. 
Earnings: two bits. Rate. $1.50 per hour. 
Imagine the rate the jeweller was charging — approximately 60 times 24 cents. How much is that? 
I mention this just to show that the capitalist system has come to a pretty pass when it cannot compete with me and the crudest of tools. Somebody is doing some tall stealing. I verily do believe. 

That 5.5.3 navy arrangement: Steps should be taken right now for a bigger and wetter ocean — to make room for our boats. 

Foolish question: Is a Wobblie a Wob after, he is dead? 
Foolish answer: He is if he keeps his dues paid up. 
Here’s where our author “pays up ahead;” feeling kind of shakey (?) — a fellow never can tell —what may happen. 

November 25. Haying is in full swing around International Falls— full swing of the scythe on swamp logging road.. 
I never see it fail . . . the push says, “Slim, I want you to cut grass,” and hands me A. W. I.U. No. 110s old standby, and sends me into a swamp knee deep— let the M. T. W. come up here to give us pointers on this seafaring agricultural logging. How to do it and not get wet? 

A good way to Americanize foreigners in lumber camps: 
Put turkey on the table Thanksgiving Day. 
Less than no time these confirmed bolsheviks would be singing: “Yankee Doodle, (I love my Uncle Sam). 
“Barney Google: (That’s th’ kind of a guy I am). 
“For I am Sam and Sam is me— 
“I’m my own unc’, and don’t you see; 
“Barney Doodle 
“For the rest I don’t give a damn.” 
Yes, indeed, all the patriotic airs would be boiled down to one glorious pot-pourri of praise giving. 
Turkey wouldn’t hurt the hard shell natives either. 

Apology: I have fallen off on writing because I have too much to do. Lately I have been busily engaged on an invention that will bring me a fortune, I expect.— Some day it will take its proud place, (with my trade mark T-B S, blazoned on its side) alongside of othej means of transportation — It travels on one wheel, guided by two shafts (and is intended exclusively for the use of our leading parasites when they go out for a walk) a well padded oval container rests on the shafts; in this the user is expected to deposit his ample bosom, where it nestles snug and comfortable, making both easy and dignified— when not used for this purpose it can be loaded with gravel, concrete or other materials, displacing a wheelbarrow — there’s money in it. 
Another thing, gentle neighbors: Ford was calling for production. Press was howling for production. Employers all were demanding production, so I, in order to get over a bad period, gave them production —like all production, it was more or less off color.