Show JUST GOSSIP From time to < time the columns of The Herald have been brightened with libtle gems in verse from the pen of Miss Annie Pike of Provo These unpretentious un-pretentious efforts have attracted a great deal of attention due largely perhaps to the fact that they possess ifehe characteristics of newspaper poems po-ems which charm because they are s natural fresh and apparently spontaneous spontan-eous the essential object being to please without requiring special effort But there is solid merit back of this fin de siecle verses by Miss Pike and genius glints through many of these lines and she manages to throw into all of them something of that one touch of nature A few months ago The Herald published her libtle poem Jacks Girl which has been hch ha republished repub-lished in various parts of the country I is perhaps far from being her first effort and yet is one of the most popular pop-ular This young lady seems destined to make a name for herself for it is said fchlat she possesses even greater lent ition l-ent in prose writing than in versiflca itionBy By request ithe poem referred to is republished I often wished that I could be oft wishe A sorceress of the Nile To lure a Julius oer the sea A Antony beguile To float In flowered barge and be The oceans fairest pearl But when Jack says Im fair to see Id rather be Jacks girl I often wished that I might be An author called the leading To have the critics all agree My books were worth the reading To live a spinster staid and grand To banish frill and curl But when Jack laughs and takes my hand Id rather be Jacks girl I often wished the world could know All beauty to be mine That suitors then would worship so They could not leave my shrine To have young nobles east and west wes For me leave fashions whirl But when Jack says he loves me best Id rather be Jacks i e girl A table of the votes claimed by Mc Kinleys manager to be pledged to the man that Napoleon looked like has just been published In i is one vote from Utah and now there are queries as to which member of the Utah dele a gation has tendered his support to the idol of the gold bugs and high protectionists tionists The general opinion is that Senator Brown is the man as he insists on being a consistent e Republican Carl Smith who is now doing some mighty good work in his Fired at Random column of the Chicago Rec w ord which has itaken the place of Eugene Eu-gene Fields Sharps and Flats used ito be a resident of Zion That was in the days when the Times luxuriated and Smith was on the staff His appearance ap-pearance didnt indicate that he could write such exquisite things a Show Me the Way to Babyland and the others that have made him famous for Carl had a way of wearing high water pants and other articles of apparel ap-parel not to mention a little bunch of whiskers on his chin that gave him a decidedly hayseedish air But Carl remembers re-members Zion and some time ag head he-ad a long poem in the Record containing con-taining sundry references to Andy Burt Justice Laney Cube Cline T A Davis Jacks and the rest of them One of the crowd has penned the folLowing fol-Lowing reply to Carls effusion In the Record of Chicago of a very recent re-cent date I chanced upon some poetry attempting to relate Of matters appertaining to the wild and woolly west Chiefly zions famous citizens in style none of the best I know the writing just as well as though Id seen it writ Ive see the like of it before cant fool me just a bit Tis plain as letters carved in stone on costly monolith No other man could pen the stuff no other man but Smith Smiths struck a situation there among the old old boys He shoots his stuff At Random too how great must be his joys But Ill gamble all my stack of whites the paper doesnt last I Smithys hoodoo faculty remains as in years past For in his wake from Council Bluffs out here to Great Salt Lake Are ruined wrecked and broken sheets twould make a mans heart ache Which same tells me that its high time ere the story becomes rusted For some man of truth to write at length of the papers Smith has busted Years ago down in Nebraska he was chasing on police For a syndicate of bright men whod conceived a plan in peace To publish a newspaper on cooperative plan And had christened their endeavor Omaha Republican He roasted Seavey Ormsby gave Sig wart plenty too Bill Savage and Pat Horrigan would turn the clear air blue I With their cursing while Cap Duffer Green would sit and rue the day I That threw the writer of the stuff in the peaceful coppers way He burnt up everybody Hornberger and Pat Ford He polished off young Will Krug and scorched good Jim McCord Till a boycot they established and the sheet went up the spout And Smithy sought another chance to score a stiff knockout Craig was a man with whiskers perpetually perpetu-ally aflame Who steered the Daily Herald for old Congressman McShane I And when Smithy struck him for a sit on the paper then aloof From all trouble old razpataz set the lad to reading proof Old timers were Old tarriers and bonny brides were bony < He changed such terms as timely grief I and made the same read tony His stockyard hogs were ever hags the cows were curs on sale Oh never did a man like Craig misfortune misfor-tune so bewail This thing kept up until one day his whiskers leaking gobs Craig cale the staff together and related re-lated twixt his sobs How hed spent his last simoleon to boost the Daily Herald But by reason of Smiths work thereon had sold out to the Vorld I Smith smiled and packed his collars and i n on the Railway News Endeavored some new lite in its coiums to infuse But all in vain it joined the band proved a thorough true cavorter And by Colonel Dan of ruddy face became be-came the NewsReporter Old Davis ran the Salt Lake Times and in a mental fit Declared when Smith should come to town hed furnish him a sit He came and then for three short months the paper met th mail Then out of town subscribers found connections I con-nections oftimes fail Old T A on his private scads his checks more frequent drew To pay the bills which strange to him were ever coming due The bank one day shut off the cash proclaimed a no trust law And Smithy took an upper berth back to old Omaha Across the river in the Bluffs a weak misguided man Met Smith in search of work to do and there conceived a plan He hired the wight to day by day give Prohibition well Suffice to say old Carl became part of the Nonpariel They say the paper died in peace with neer a fluttering sigh And joined the Herald Times and News in Aidenn up on high While Smith a railway ticket got and ere his science rusted Had hied himself unto a place where more papers can be busted Oh Pomeroy Paul Ray Bertrand you boys we knew of yore Look our for Smith the man whos wrecked newspapers by the score Pope Gregory and Cressy dear combine with big Bert Hallett And when he nears the local rQom get out your little mallet Oh Fe wick Frankenfleld and Nye and brave old Major Howard No man in days of 82 could call eer one a coward But dodge the wrath the blighting wrath which you are threatened with And dont allow your joornals to be busted up by SmithS Smith-S S S There is a certain little dog in this town measuring about two by four that is attracting the attention of everyone He is a little sky terrier and goes by the classic name of Rags Rags belongs to Hoodoo Bill who drives carriage 62 and drums up more trade for the cabman than any amount of spieling could possibly do He is alvays with the rig and last evening was seen on the corner of Second South and Main streets sound asleep on the near horse cuddledon the blanket on the nags back A man petted him and up bobbed the little frowsy head with its blue ribbon and Rags took one look at him and ran away that is to say he ran along the horses back The guy passed on and the pup came back to his resting place Any night Rags may be seen on top of the carriage when the show lets out barking with all his little might and trying to tell the people that the rig he is talking for is the only one worth riding in A thousand women every day take one look and involuntarily exclaim Oh how sweet |