“Oh, I know something dreadful has happened to him. I just know they’ll soon be bringing him home.”
But, as usual, there was nothing whatever the matter with Johnny.
A PICTORIAL SERMONETTE
The Man who had no Right to Talk
At Eight O’Clock—“Why, take a night like this, with the thermometer below zero, the suffering among the poor is simply terrible. Somebody ought to take them coal barons out and string ’em up to the nearest lamp-post.”
At Eleven O’Clock—“I tell you, gentlemen, it’s an infamous outrage. Just think of the suffering among the helpless poor. It makes me mad to think of it. I wish I was President for about fifteen minutes—you’d see some of them villains in the coal trust pay for their confounded heartlessness.”