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Chonge the Nqme of Arkonsos?
This is the famous speech of Senator Cassius M. Johnson in the Senate Chamber of Arkansas, in protest against the proposal to change the name of that illustrious state:
The man who would "Change the Name of Aakansas" is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse maker from the Wilds of the Ozarks ! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation ! Sired by a hurricane, and dam'd by an earthquake, halfbrother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother's side! Look at him! He takes nineteen alligators and a barrel of whiskey for breakfast when he is in robust health; and a bushel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when he's ailing ! He splits the everlasting rocks ryith his glance and squenches the thunder when he speaks!
Change the Name of Arkansas! Gosh, No! Stand back and give him room according to his strength ! Blood's his natural drink, and the wails of the dying is music to his ear. Cast your eyes on the Gentleman, and lay low and hold your breath, for he's 'bout to turn himself loose ! He's the bloodiest son of a Wildcat that lives, who would Change the Name of Arkansas ! Hold -him down to earth for he is a child of sin. Don't attempt to look at him with your naked eye, Gentlemen! Use smoked glass. The man who would Change the Name of Arkansas, by gosh, would use the meridians of longitude and the parallels of latitude for a seine and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales ! He would scratch himself awake with the lightning 4nd purr himsell to sleep with the thunder ! When he's cold he would bile the Gulf of Mexico and bathe in it ! When he's hot, he would fan himself with an equinoctial storm ! When he's thirsty, he would reach up and suck a cloud dry like a sponge ! When he's hungry, famine follows in his wake ! You may put your hand on the su,n's face, and make it night on the earth; bite a piece out of the moon, and hurry the seasons; shake yourself, and crumble the mountains, but, sir: you will never Change the Name of Arkansas !
The ,man who would Change the Name of Arkansas would massacre isolated communities as a pastime. He would destroy nationalities as a serious business ! He would use the boundless vastness of the Great American Desert for his Private Graveyard ! He would attempt to extract sunshine from cucumbers ! Hide the stars in a nail-keg, put the sky to soak in a gourd, hang the Arkansas River on a clothesline, unbuckle the belly-band of time, and turn the sun and moon out to pasture; but you will never Change the Name of Arkansas ! The world will again pause and wonder at the audacity of the lop-eared, lanternjawed, half-bred, half-born, whiskey-soaked hyena who has proposed to Change the Name of Arkansas ! He's just starting to climb the political banisters and wants to knock the hay-seed out of his hair, pull the splinters out of his feet, and push on and up to the Governorship!
N ative : yes "n, ?litfi :,lTag r:,f,ine razorback hawg, Suh."
Visitor: "Why does he rub against that tree all the time?"
Native: "He's jes' stroppin' hisse'f, Suh-jes' stroppin' hisse'f."
But Fqsl, lt Wos Different
Mose had been arrested for speeding. This was his fifth offense, so the Judge pronounced the h.ighest possible fine and jail sentence on him. As he did so, there came from the tight lips of the defendant something that sounded suspiciously like an oath. The Judge flared up.
"Repeat what you just said," he demanded. "Repeat it aloud so I can understand it !"
"Judge, Suh," said Mose, "all I said was-'God am de Jedge'-yassuh, dass all I said, jes' 'God am de Jedge'dass all."
Life of c Doughboy
We stand in line to get a pass, We stand in line to wash, We stand in line to find a place To stand in line, by gosh. We stand in line to draw our pay, We stand in line to spend it, But, fellow men, we never have To stand in line to lend it.
She Wcls Golm' Too
The truck driver lost control and ran his vehicle right into a kitchen where the lady of the house was laboring at an ironing board. Bewildered and embarrassed, he just blurted out:
"Can you tell me the way to the Union Depot?"
And the lady said: "Straight past the sideboard, and turn left around the piano."
The Humqnist
William Dana Orcutt said: "The humanist is one who holds himself open to receive truth, unprejudiced as to its source, and, having received truth, realizes his obligation to give it out again, made richer by his personal interpretation."
Not Rcrttled o Bit
A squadron observer was called in by his commander and asked if he had been nervous during an air attack. He said no, he was not the least bit rattled.
The commander said: "Glad to hear it. But I can't help asking then why it was that you reported in that there were twenty-seven thousand bombers coming over at eighteen feet !"
