| Show i LIGHTS AND SHAD W SAt I I S-At Prayer a Picture Kneeling alone within the chamber there Robed In soft garments or the purest white I Looso ringlets falling from a brow most fair Like threads oC sold within the subdued light Eyes In whoso depths pure thoughts reflected re-flected are Upraised to heaven sweet lips whom every amllo A nature gentle Jirfd devout declare Parted soft murmuring pleading words ago while White hands befpro her clasped white feelings strong Rush oor a spirit over tree from guile Pleading for faith that to Tier might belong be-long Tho strength the will to overcome each trial i Kneels she at evenings hour devout and long Why should she pray that never did a wrong I A Terrible Eevenge Behind tho casement theyre sitting I know Tho rlvnl I hate and my girl lloj holding her sort hand within his I trow The dastardly sniveling churl With his arm round her waist site who should bo my bride And I in the darkness am on tho outside But oh my revenge ulll be deep will bo ellI ell-I anguish Ill make him repay And through the long years shall ho know true and well That Ive camped on his track there to stay In tho not of my vengeance therell not be a flaw Ill make lovo to and marry hU mother inlaw dolden Rod When leaves turn brown and meadow I I all aro sere When oer tho valleys rests a purplo haze When every rustling footfall you can hear Midst the dry herbage where tho chill wind plays Q When oer the hills the hunters shot rings I clear The whistling quail his covey calls at night When summer long has laid upon her bier And birches Gleam within the copplco white Then In tho fence rows by tho forests old I FrlnKlnp each rock crowning each nlcjhborlng heJ gift All I yellow gleaming In their robes of gold The golden rod stands flaming In tho sight With a warm splendor beautiful though hold Last of the flowers ere winters snows unfold un-fold Wanted Everything but One Sho always was wanting from day unto day I Sho gave the poor man no surcease Tho more that she got In every way Rut made her desires Increase I And so It went on she was reor satisfied For everything earthly shed sigh I There was only one thing for which shed not signed I She never hud anted to die Not a Paradox i I When for n face divinely fair IIo gave up home ami duty One more he mode thcro many aro Who havo been marred bj beauty Both Sweet and Expensive Toll mo quickly I I would know What your heart Is lining When such kisses you bestow My suspense Is killing Well you know my heart would break Should your favors miss me Mercy though It money takes r t Every tlmo you kiss me Thought He Was Out of Place On Friday night a mociat who had I Imbibed too much of the cup thit cheers and was In a condltloi to see double or any other way happened to moot a Dem I oeratlc candidate on Main street whom I In his maudlin condition he mistook for Col Roosevelt Siding np to him ho said Good night Mr Roosevelt glad 1vo met you Chic that speech was tell In hit that t It was Vote tho Republican ticket 1 straight this year sure candidate 1 will ou7 cried tho You will you dale I thought you were aj Democrat 1 Domccrntlc con the and voted for me In vcntlon W I Aint I VVeThlc tmy1 i ley tile what that you you Roosevelt iiit > candidate No Im Democratic f0AtfTtold voto lite I wUsoln An I told you was the publican ticket Y blzzns ro hie foolln What ns 3 ourn round this kind of a nlffht nn y how i and he staggered off up tho street A September Retrospect Among the flanplod hills ClarH I Wo wandered to and fro Whcifr the mountain oak and cedar Confidingly doth prow Tho cedars were all gr cn Clara But all golden was the oak As dappled HS the thronging thoughts We bulled or we spoke Twa autumn mid the hills Clara Tho mild September sun Gave wens soft and tender light Ere his race but half was run All the face of dying nature With a tender mllo did move Oh Clara twas the tlmo to ralso Tho spirit up to love l I could not read your thoughts Clara Butl If hearts a language knew The pulse of lovo mlno quivering gao Were answered back by you And blending like the earth and sky Beneath the autumn sun Our spirits by you all unknown Were blending into one 1 could not read your thoughts Clara But all plainly shown were mlno For all my thoughts I my being all Went longingly to thine So T plucked tho mountain cedar The talc to toll for mo How on thy Bight alone I fed And lived but lived for ghee then Clara Tis years sad years since Ive wandered far away And ncath tho green sward on tho hill Youre sleeping now for aye Cara Still you nro Just as dear Clara Yes Just as dearly loved As when wo on that happy day The autumn mountains roved Struck the Right Chord at Last Tho candidate kissed mils baby boy And patted m y sisters cheek And cave little brother a pretty toy I And said that out houao looked sleek But pa paAnd ma Didnt care f Then he promised both pa and brother Joe An office or something fine And talked aroUnd anti tot Jokes so If 1 had a vote hed got mine But pa ButpaAnd paAnd And ma maDlunt care And then as he patted my curly pato Ito said Just as honest you see That ho must haw ng sure as fate Ma the head of a big committee Ma cared And sho made Pa care Afterward As vanishing within tho folds of night Mountain and plain falls from Vho sight away With a fresh glory In tho mornings light To once again appear So through the portals of 9 darksome nay And drear The seeds of faith we scfftter though In fear Will find fruition In diviner day Bck to the Old Love for an They wcro very demonstrative old couple So much was this the feet that they draw the attention of the en flyer which tiro XMI on the westbound came In or the Rio Grande Western the other day After a LImo tho old gentleman and went forward for n tleman got up wend smoke when the following conversation took plact between him and a commercial manI I judge said the drummer that YOU have lately been married or havo just mot your wife after a long ab crcc 1 Right both ways answered them old the-m drummer looked puzzled and ho The continued You see me and Mary were I married nigh on to thirty years ago i Couldnt get on together somehow nnd separated Wave Just got married ocr you see You dont mean to say you were di J a I vorced do you said tho astonished drurnncr i Thnlg Just It the old man replied I I Youvo hit It right 1 How did you happen to got together I again ell you see tho old 1 man began with n g1mte < wo both married again I right after we Were divorced But Fand sake It wan worse than the first and io kinder hankered after the old days Wu stuck It out for a Ions time but wo I couldnt stand It always so here we aro again You dont mean you wore divorced a second time do you cried the man of grips Thats Just it nniri erThis Is a strange kind of a world anyhow Tho old man returned to his scat and the billing and cooing went on until the train reached tho city I i Passing of the ThousandMile Tree It stood midst the wild craggy mountains there and lone and grim Sere and gnarled i t111co disheveled With pendent leaves llko disheveled hair Twisted cf trunk and scraggy of limb And the winds of winter sighed mourn Iully Up the canyon wild round the weird old tree Barren forbidding and bold ant high Where brown bears roam ami eagles nest Tho towering mountains shut out tho sky And ahadowa lurk when the sun la west that Is wilder no eye can nee A scene Than that which surrounded the gnarled old tree thousand miles to the west It stood One L Marking a highway grand and gent where old Missouri pours her flood From To the murmuring seas of tho Golden Gate Each traveler wanted Ha form to see As the train sped past tho gnarled old tree nut no loner upon the Iron way Did the old tree mark tho thousandth mile And It toll at last In a mild decay Feebler crowing each year the whiles while-s the thousandth mile farther west would bo stood the gnarled Each year from where old tree Tho tortuous way of the Iron steed Grow straighter I and slralghted all tho while the Iron track of its curves wcro freed As The Missouri grew nearer mile by mllo And the landmark a monaco come to be f rill they cut down the lone gnarled old pine tree TIs but n memory of days gone bOn new smoother track at a greater speed On a Tho U Ps trains through the mountains fly And travelers a thousand miles scarco hood 1 i But oldtimers passing up the U P For years will speak of that old pine tree I Three Stages 11 I zeal V At twenty li his youthful IIo would reform tho world should his anger foci Oppression feell Crime from high place be hurled At thirty though the fire still burned Twai not a constant flame A life of sacrlllco hed learned f Was hardly worth the game At forty strange as It may seem i Hard bargains oft he pressed Ilod quite forgot hfs youthful dream And did Just Ille the rest His First Lesson Papa what H I the difference between statecraft and statosmannhlp Statesmanship In what you talk about b our understand before you get an once JJo you stand my son Yes papa do to Statecraft Is the deviltry you Now keepSta in office after you get one ow had encxigh for the trot away youve first lesson onA A Case of Necessity How oft the busy candidate Now sees the rise of sun bothered with affairs of state HOP s ff Till daylight has begun But If hes winner In the fight Or If ho lights In vain j Till an election Is In sight Hell nc cr sec It again |
