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Show WINTER. Now winter comes, with tempests wild and irear, To chill tho hoof and freeze the naked car And make the price of scoff go soaring soar-ing high And raise the cost of everything but beer. The poor man wears a worn and pallid tace, His daily wages cannot keep the pace. And vet, when as he stalls the butcher off; He pays six bits to see a six-day race. Nobody knows -who invented the six-day six-day hike race. At least, none of his descendants are bragging about it. INFLATED CURRENCY. lt Charles Pence has been elected captain cap-tain of tho Depauw football squad, lie has been playing three years with l)e-pauw. l)e-pauw. tilling' the position of half 'and quarter." Ad Yvolgast has come back, showing that Patti nor Bernhardt has nothing on him. Jt shows the sustaining qualities of an artistic temperament. LINES BY FRED MITCHELL. , Lavender for Demareo Doesn't look quite good to me. llr. Mitchell, after a deep study of the situation, has reached the conclusion that as a pitcher Demaree is a good cartoonist. car-toonist. "Chance to Pilot Angela" Headline. Head-line. He didn't pilot any when he was managing the Cubs. Michigan, we read, is willing to come back into the conference. The kaiser, we read, is willing to talk peace. ' ' Baseball, ' ' says an expert, "is an economic. problem. ' ' Some of the older folks, however, can remember when it was a sport., Jess Willard has agreed to fight auv-hody auv-hody for the small sum of $60,000. Ain 't he the cheap skate! Next thing he knows he will be fined for working below the union scale. The Second regiment is in favor of fighting in Illinois. They went all the way to Texas and couldn 't find auy. IT MIGHT BE WORSE. BLOOMING TON, Ind. Say, you! What do you think of this?" Russell Hathaway elected Indiana captain. He Hathaway about him they can't resist. re-sist. " J. J. J. Dave Jauowski, chess champion of France, will meet Jake Showalter for the. world's title. It will be an interesting inter-esting spectacle to those who are accustomed ac-customed to sleeping in chairs. One of our senators proposes that election betting be made a criminal offense. We suspect that one of our senators has lost a bet. A COLD STORAGE EGG. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, But absolutely refused to fall. He shook his head and answered: "Nay! I'm not due to fall till the middle of May." ! If boxing matches could be run on the same system as chess, it would be; easy to bring Darcy and Carpentier! together. In chess they often play by i telegraph. ' ' Reports from St. Louis indicate that Eddie 18 slated to walk the Plank. |