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Show ir - i ; A Line o Type or Two ! Br B. L. T - j "FTOf." : 1 i-iperintenl a pubbc i-ho:. 'Ins i':r ebeor? ca'.L m- ' Fro' ' ' -i'.' ''it's is n'.i Th,;t ::eH' me cooi. j c .fcirs': i:.cy make me cj-ugh. j ly t : per.d stupenaou. it "Would ni?.ke a b inker e: Y'.'.h e.:vy ror tlio handsome bit That mvp.tiily greets eye. I'd Eladlv t ike a l;Mb? more. I 'Ty.ou.d k--;p me rrom the rut: An incrtra.-e vould not "iake me sore, I'd try to use it, BUT I'll ink with red the happy dav When ne.ghbors ail leave off (And. reading tins, perhaps they may) 7 hat c-'ii-dernned title, "Frof " -A BD-EL-KAPER. Among pardonable recreta we should be inclined to classify the regret that one did not, when the opportunity offered, of-fered, hoard about a hundred pounds of sugar. Tlio Flying Dutchman. S'.r: Odd how the&e recurring waves recur. Doughs .Sladen's "Queer Tilings About Egvpi," dated 1310, was wafting me sleep ward the other night when i fetched up with a start on page 12. There. 88 bold as you please, was that Flying Dutchman of the seven literary seas, the valve-handle wheeze. No doubt your attention at-tention has been directed to this before, but, ad I remarked above, it is odd, etc. STONE PH1. "And Darkness Was Upon tho Face of the Earth." (From the Mount Clemens Leader.) As the mantle of darkness fell upon the city there came one of thoso wild Epeetacles which nature stages at. times possibly to givn to man an appreciation of his iinpoteney and small position as a. mere atom In tho great forces which hold the destinies of the universe. It was a memorabla night. The almost complete darkness which enveloped the city, added to the impressivenc;s of the storm which raged in relays of wild, roaring 'usts, which sceined to gather force with each attack. -Houses creaked and groaned beneath the force of ita increasing in-creasing power each assault accompanied accompa-nied by ( he crash of dismembered tree limbs. The gloom of darkness accentuated accentu-ated the element of human fear. After a lime the moon came out clear, cold and impassive seemingly in sympathy with the wild night. H served to outline, in unlightod homes, what was transpiring: outside. Its cheerless fa ce was almost continuously obscured by the scudding low -lying black clouds hastening, hasten-ing, it would seem, to join in the level of assault upon whatever might challenge its sway. With homes in darkness, the roaring blasts. stately trees swaying, groaning and at times rendered by the force ui the elements, produced a mournful, mourn-ful, awesome, cadence most impressive. English writers of prose who have visited this country in recent years have been much hetfer behaved than the poets. A prose writ er does not allow himself the eccentricities which the bard affects. A Bit of Old Stuff From Utopia. Sir: ' 1 laving settled in Utopia, wo never expected to think of railroads again much less speak of them. But the milky right of way on that Wisconsin Wiscon-sin road recalls tho reluctant local which" grunted its way into Buchanan. Mich., each Tuosd.iy and Thursday. This train, as per custom, was long overdue when an impatient padder demanded of the station master, "How soon." etc. The S. M . squinted down the track. "She'll be in pretty soon now; here comes the conductor's dog." SIB. Commercial candor in Chicago: '"What is the difference between good pla ster-ing ster-ing and poor plastering?" The difference differ-ence is Goss & Guise, plastering contractors." con-tractors." i The Hills. The hills are crying from the fields to me, And calling me with music from a choir Of waters in their woods where .1 can see Tho bloom un folded on the whins like fire. And, as the evening moon climbs ever higher 1 And blots away the shadows from the slope, They cry to me like things devoid of hope. Pigeons aro home. Day droops. The fields are now cold. Now a slow wind comes labouring up the sky With a small cloud long steeped in sunset gold. Dike .lason with the precious fleece anigh The. harbour of lolcos. Day's bright eye Is filmed with the twilight, and the rill Shines like a scimitar upon the hill. And moonbeams dropping thro' the coloured wood A re full of iittle people winged white. I'll wander thro' the moon-pale solitude ThMt calls across the intervening night AVith river voices at their utmost height. Sweet as rain-water in the blackbird's flute That strikes - the world in admiration mute. FRANCIS DEDWIDGE. Mr. Ziegfeld lias dramatized the typical typi-cal Eoilies girl, who. he says, has hen tlio vie t iin of convent ional misrepresentation. misrepre-sentation. Would not that whisk your chapcau into the river? To Conrad Fans. (From the Danville. Ky.. Advocate.) Drjar Patrons and Friends: 1 am sincerely sin-cerely sorry to disappoint you this week. I took i-uddcnly sick at the livery stable office t his morning at 2 a. m.. so t lie doctor said 1 had better go home. God being willing, I will see you Monday. Raymond D. Conrad. Bowland, Ky. "WANTED Consecrated person to sing soprano in church choir. ' Ollumwa Courier. There ain't no si eh. choir animal. Song. (After Eaura Blackburn.) As T walked by the sad weird sea, A dying crab lay at my feet. And waved at me a crooked claw. Curved were his limbs, as thine, my sweet. A n d as I w a t c h e d Irs wo e f u 1 end. The sait tears streaming from my eyes, I wondered if I yet might meet lou still a crab In Pnradtso. DOUBLE BARREL. Invitations to the Thanksgiving gambol gam-bol of the Lambs contained the reminder, "B. V. O. L." You never could guess. Go "West, Young Man! (From the Casper. Wyo.. Tribune.) "Wanted One young man full of tror.d hab:i s only Ha ir.isdinc and at t r:i rti ve, act ive and athlc te, clean but m iseliiev-ous. iseliiev-ous. good in every crowd evnjpt the common, com-mon, an adept at snorts, kindly at heart. ! generous, fuol hardy but not reckless for a husband. Address Box K. K. "Ch ick' na Kept from Crossing." Weekly News Letter, Department of Ag-rie.ultu Ag-rie.ultu re. Every motorist should have a copy. A neat itt r-i tf i.-at e for thf t rhrist- m;us present wouid be one calling f-y one pound of sugar. |