Show I t wlm mr COm i + uai4OO OO + 40sG + + + < < oOH 000 + Jack Reeves the chief clerk in the Oregon Short Line freight office doesnt work all the time There are moments when his stenographer cannot can-not keep letters going to him fast I enough to signfand once in a while during these moments he is let alone I I long enough to greet a chance friend in a affable manner Yesterday was one of those rare occasions and Jack took occasion to tell a story I appears that a young man with sporting proclivities was attached to sportng the legation at the Persian court and while there took time to teach several of the Persian princes the great American Amer-ican game of poker He got along well too and soon had his coterie in such condition that he didnt have to write I home for money But the Persians did quite well too and developed an aptitude for the game astonishing in the extreme The young man didnt speak Persian Per-sian but played with the assistance of an interpreter who told him what the other fellows said and repeated his conversations with them One day the youth sat behind a pair of trays and the prince opposite after looking at his hand said Pallola Ill just give this fellow a little guff thought the young man and so he replied Paloolala Pallolalala replied the Persian excitedly ex-citedly Paloolalalalatee responded the American Paloolalalalallumtee almost shrieked the prince Paloolalalalalallumteetitum calm Paloolaalalalalumteettum cam ly responded the Yankee To his infinite astonishment the prince grew red in the face then pale and finally fell senseless to the floor I and had to be carried out Then the American milled to the interpreter in-terpreter and asked What in blazes is the matter with the prince apoplexy apo-plexy plexAi as excellency replied the slave J fear you have killed him Killed him how angrily asked the young man You have made a poor man of him replied the slave Does your excellency know what you have done t I Naw come offWhat have Idone2 Your excellency has raised the prince eleven millions and he couldnt cal And in the laugh which followed Reeves dictated a telegram making a rate on sugar beets from Jordan Narrows Nar-rows to Lehi The grand mogul of the Blue Church II advertises the regular midwinter excursions ex-cursions to Garfield and Saltair on I I Christmas and New Years days The J j first will be id Saltair and trains wll I leave at 4in the morning in order to I j I accommodate members who did notgo I to bed the evening before Trains will return after the festivities Among I 1 I the attractions will be a clog dance j on roller skates by G H P Sommer I and a swimming match between Scotty I I Rankin and an unknown Refresh i I ments will be served consisting of ice cream Roman punch punch in the I i nose frozen punch punch on ice ice in i punch and punch The evening will I I witness a grand masquerade ball Parties Par-ties will unmask before a committee I l before entering to make sure the color I I line is drawn and every one is ret j quested to leave their firearms and I hunting knives at the check window i The Eagleeye Gun club has been invited I in-vited to attend as also the remnant I of the Tribunes Lookout club Tickets I I can obtained of the G H 1 As an i inducement all parties having their I corns amputated for the next ten days I will be given a ticket with each corn Bunions not included in this offer I That eminent literary man E Faw cett has discovered that Edgar Allen Poe was a failure as aj writer that his 1 J rhymes were simply jingle l and his prose the morose ravings of a life of shadow He says Annable Lee is puer I lie and the Fall of the House of Usher too weird to read save when one wants to indulge in ghostly dreams thatPoe I never did any good in this world and was a positive detriment to literature i All of which makes one weak Shortly after the death of Emma Abbott Ab-bott a person named Quiggmay his sleep be profound attacked the memory I mem-ory of the prima donna ant among other things said she wada positive detriment to art I Fawcett and Quigg seem to be two I persons who are far and away above the common herd of mortals The clear people who profess to have been pleased with the writings of Poe and the singing of Abbott must have been mistaken How we do live and learn to be sure In future I will no doubt be the proper caper to read Poe in the hayloft in the barn where no one can witness this exhibition of depraved taste o 0 < > In lieu of the jingle which Poe used in concocting rhyme Fawcett would doubtless choose selections like this from the pen of Yone Naguchi the eminent Japanese poet The night is dark and there is no sunshine sun-shine While my soul is roaming throughout eternitys dance hal i And the stars chase each other behind sable curtains Oh why is the night dark when there is no sunshine And why does my soul roam through eternitys dance hal And why do the stars chase each other behind sable curtains Because the night is dark when there is no sunshine And my soul is roaming throughout eternitys dance hal And the stars are chasing each other behind sable curtains That is one of mysterysTnighty secrets i se-crets |