| Show I APPEALS TO NATION People Urged to Give Immediate Assistance I As-sistance t Sufferers Houston Tex Sept 10The following follow-ing official appeal has been Issued to the people of the United States Our sister clt of Galveston has been visited by l 1 frightful hurricane and IB I stjll cut oft from all rail and wire com itiunlcatlon with the outside world Refugees Re-fugees bring iilurmlng report of great loss of life and property The 1 newspapers give extended accounts of thin awful calamity lamity which place it among tho moHt distressing of modern times Tho people of many tons and villages arc now In sore distress nnd us further reports come In tho death list grows and the damage to property Increases Their stock la killed and tho crops are ruined We urgently gently iak our liberal and Immediate us fllstnnco Houston wits In tho track of Iho storm but will tnko care of her In jurod and help those more seriously affected I af-fected Contributions sent to either of tho 1 undersigned will be gratefully received I and Judiciously expended S II BRASHEAR Mayor B A REASER Chairman Relief Committee LIGHTS AND SHADOWS IAn I-An Autumn Lament I Now lei them sing of autumn days And mornings crisp and cold When wind among thc baro trees play r And snow tho flelclB enfold But nh for me It means onco more t My feet thin pot must spurn And strike some warm and aunny shore When leaves begin to turn They speak of slclghrldcs oer tho snow And pleasures such us these Of eheor firesides all cheery Irc lteg aglow Of merry Christmas trees But vin the trees turn sere and brown Yes Just before they do Ill strike In southern climes a town Whro snow they never know Mv haystack bed 0 long farewell Spot where my dreams were swccL My seat within the woody del Will soon b 1 filled with sleet The stream where oft Tel musing He Will soon bo frozen oer Swjot summer scenes goodbye goodbye good-bye Ill sttlko the road once more Desire Haunted A star peeped over tho mountains brow And the horned moon hung low I cannot tell you the why or howl how-l cannot tell you1 vow I vow But I rose from my couch to go Round half tho world In a headlong III lu i Ah me twiio a wild tvas a strango lranSo weird night The watchdog bayad and tho nlghtblrd cried For the horned moon hung low But for It and the star Id no light beside Or If I T was living orIf Id died 1 know not or cannot know To tho embers low of u low campfiro I itev on the wings 0 a wild desire Up over poised In the haunted air I hung and the earth Hew past I Sustained by a power so wild so rare The wildest Journey > of all I swear I Nerverucking and slrango and fist Till jour mountain arose In an unknown I range I Lofty and barren and bald and strange Tho embers were low and tho ashes white Of that lonely I campfire there And funned bv Iho haunted wind of night I cast oer ISo scene wizard light On that mountain bald and bare But oh though the mountain It wars I sought I had Journeyed oer half the world for naught I stood by tho embers that fnlitly I nill burned I And my heart of hearts sank low I And 1 thought and wondered and feared j I nod yearned Then siully MO sadly away I turned I I hal thought It hut now I know That mite to my longings had been unkind un-kind 1 You milt live but you live in my painracked A Baptism of Tire DM the throw rice at your wedding I asked the Ohio bride of the Arizona bride I when they mst at a New York hotel Then not giving her Western sister rime to reply sho continued When I loft l homo there was a perfect ahovcr of rice No I didnt sec any rice thrown ie plied tho Arizona girl who had made a vunawuy match with her fathers foreman fore-man When I left home there was a perfect shower of bullets 15 n Ho Asked Too Many Questions Ive found out which man Is the man of this house J mean Is tho husband of tho woman hi the house Just alongside nlonfldo of us said a wife to hot husband ILL tho dinner table last night I Which side he asked I Why the Mcwcomeru ntupld she mi I stered The paco whoro tnoro are two men and ono woman How did you llnd out Been gossip ing with her already 1 Joslp No I havent spoken to her at all Dut I saw one o the men trying I to king tho sorvnt iiiI You did eh 1 would llko to know what that iroves You vould would you oho snapped I shall discharge Mary In the morning anJ man send to B1 Francisco for a China Tho Difference That farmers gather what they sow Has been the rule forever But women everyone doth know Sow cflcn what they gather Just An Arrangement Oh what Is marriage pray toll me now f A union of heart and soul That lasts unto all eternity A Joy that from heaven they stole 1 would liku toMcnov what marriage Is Not what It should be he orltd hthpll ixn arrangement sort of biz I SOlO one In tho crowd replied I A Lasting Grief i She Sat with droolIng head and went I t wns 1 woeful alcht S No amllo to those pnlo lips leapt I Unhappy was she quite I I TIm liuobiind of her youth was gone I I And More was her distress rone J I Sho hncl to taco tho world alone I In pain and wretchedness j 1 Small wonder that hor grief was great I < She saw each bright hopo fade i For alimony sure as fate j t No lonuor would bo paid t I f I |
