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Show f j- I A. Line o' T're cr Two ' ' PLord, what fools these mortals be.' I , 1 t By B. L. T. Past, Present, Future. "Marc;uesans mark off the minutes by cigarets. saying. "I will do yo and so in mite cik'arets or 'It is two cigarets from my house to hia.' Fi-edcrick O'Brien. Xot olepsydrae where liquid time Tinkled in droplets down; Xot glass-ss where the arid hours Sifted in granules brown; Xol dials where the shadows creep As lingered gnomons beckon; Xot clocks that whizz, whir, tick and j strike, j Te'.l time as poets reckon. What but the ready cfgaret i Serves you in day or dark, Showing the future as a glow, A moving, eating spark; The present as a pungent smoke, A whiff we may not may; The past a cold and pallid ash To lightly flick away. PAX. A not uncomplimentary paragraph in the Houston Mining Gazette begins: "B. L. T. writes an alleged column of humor in." etc. Here are two errors. The column col-umn is real, not alleged; nor has it ever been claimed that tho contents are humor. KRXA SHOULD ASK HOT, "ARB TOU P A PICKING A ROOM WITH TRANSFER SLIPS V" Sir: Erna's pet peeve ia to stand before be-fore a seated street car passenger who has a transfer conspicuously sticking out of his pocket, and then have the wretch ride to the end of the line! CLARE. Mr. Gorske of Gary admits that he likes the soviet form of government, and would be willing to live in Russia. We'll contribute a dollar toward, buying him a ticket. Ala Apostle With a Wallop. (From the Arizona Republican.1) The Wallup. I have it. Bungalows tossed up overnight. Right now own clean, new living quarters and be your own guardian. Say so. If ypu own a restricted re-stricted lot will build your garage-bungalow on rear; as deep as China or as 1 gh as Zenith. Be -charitable to your family.' Don't pay JGO a month for one window, cockroaches cock-roaches and a shakedown. Cut your own cost of living. See Simon Peter, called after the Apostle, Apos-tle, at 218 O'Xeil building. The rostoffice department's standard of efficiency borders on the miraculous, 'cording to Mr. Burleson. Considering, he meant to add, who is running it. Or, as Lardiier Says, "As I Have Decided to Call It." Sir: "It was at this time and under these circumstances," says Mark Twain, "that I framed an aphorism which has already al-ready become celebrated. I said, 'Necessity 'Neces-sity knows no law." ' Just so Chrysostom "originated" his quotation of the best-, best-, known words in FJcclesiastes, "Vanity of vanities." As Geneseric operated In Spain, X'orth Africa and Sicily, he may possibly have used the Vulgate, "Vamtas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas," which is, of course, the standard Catholic version since 400 A. D. 1 J. T. H. And: "Considering that the original is in the tongue of King. Solomon," writes C. P. M., "couldn't you borrow a few mats from the Jewish Daily Forward?" Our chief interest in the highbrow discussion dis-cussion of "Vanitas vanitatum" is that it reminds us to get a copy of Prof. Ja-strow's Ja-strow's unexpurgated and .-unamended version of Ecclesiaste3. Jimmy Gets an Eyeful. ; ("From the Canton Ledger.) Jimmy Kelso writes from Chicago that ho likes the Illinois School of Pharmacy fine. He says that there were lots of pretty girls up town the other afternoon. "Finally the sultan capitulated and dismissed dis-missed the cabinet of Damad Ferid Pasha." 'And that made him madder than ever. Our Country's Father. JTT, In Seventeen Fifty-eight, when from military mil-itary duties he retired, General Braddoek said he was a soldier that was to be pdmired. When this young soldier was free from camp and field, He joined Virginia's house of burgesses his constituents to shield; And there for a number of years Jo legislative legis-lative work did toil, Leaving not a mar upon his memory to his native soil. rx. This noble sage on January the seven-' seven-' teenth. Seventeen Fifty-nine, Was married to Martha Dandridge Cus-tis. Cus-tis. a widow then twenty-nine. When married this-widow a most beautiful beau-tiful daughter, Eleanor, had And a son. George, a bright and cheer-1 cheer-1 . ful lad. These both, at the death of Maj. John Parke CustJs, Were adopted by George Washington through a court of justice. X. To George and Martha no heirs were ever born, But their true love was ever bright and warm. Thus a most gladsome life at Mt. Vernon extending Throueh sixteen tranquil years his loved bride attending. A not In? r poet of the Lake Front school ir employed by the Commodore HqLel in New York, which advertises: "Room with h bath, Two and a half." Wonder What Their Class Yell Was? .Sir: In boyhood's happy hours, when, arising1 for mornine chores, we tarried for a moment in the barnyard, to warm our tare feet on the ground where the cows had slept all nipht. n those halcyon days ("Cannery our idea of No Man's Land was the county fair grounds in October. But what t started to say was, a furniture store in Black River Falls has for a window exhibit a photograph of the graduating class in the College of Embalmers. J. F. B. "They landed at San Francisco at 10:55 and 10:50, respectfully." The Trib. And we hope they said something" polite po-lite about the climate. Although P. D. S. has sailed for Oxford Ox-ford and Avon, readers desiring to slam him may continue so to do, as he has arranged to have the Line follow him. Doubtful Assurance. Sir: A United Press man, asking about Wilson, was told: "His brain is as clear as yours." Still, he may have been the bird who sent out that premature armi- ; slice cablegram. W. S. "Rearisen France." Editorial headline, N. Y. Times. At first we thought it referred to the town near La Belle. The Affair Was Hushed TTp (From the Philadelphia Bulletin.) Two school ffirls presented General Pershing Per-shing with a large bouquet of roses. "God bless vou, my children, nd thank you," ! he aid, as he killed both girls. |