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Show j More Truth Than Poetry j . By JAMES J. MONTAGUE GITTINQ INTO A M0 VI I SHOW LATI. I thought when tha beautiful screen actress stared At tha man who waa ptaiing at her. That the poor Uttla creature waa horribly scared, Aad that ha waa some vlllainoua car. Her lip. ware aa parted, her eyea ware ao round. Her face ao dreadfully while. That I Inwardly cursed at tha cowardly hound Whs could fill a fair damsel with fright! But I mlsgueesed tha acene I have pictured above. 1 learned that tha lady had regi. tared love. A person whose vlseg. waa western and wild I saw lead a child by tha hand; . "Boms angel. 1 thought, "from Ita parents beguiled. By lha King of the Kidnaping Baad!" I thought of tha fata that might haply befall Aa urchin so tender and handsome la rasa Its rich father refused, after all. Ta pay tha baee scoundrel the ranaom. But a wholly misleading Impression I had. For tha child called lha scoundrel "dear, guttle aid Dad." An elderly creature, malignant at face. Was climbing a carpeted stair. Intent. I supposed, upon looting tha place And stealing whatever waa there. "How aad." I observed, "that a man who's ao old A wretch with one foot In tha grave For a diamond ar two. and a handful of gold. Should tn auch a base fashion behave." But ha climbed up tha asira. and thla legend I saw: "There la no place Ilka homo for a man. la tbara, . Mawr CONSIDERATE. The bricklayers aught la ba given credit for the fact that they don t charge for tha brleka that would ba laid In tha door, and windows If tha plana didn't leave boles there. MIRE GLUTTONS. From West Virginia eomea tha story that beetlee are eating ehlckena alive. Ona would think that they could wait till tha ehlckena warn either fried or broiled. ' MAGNANIMOUS. Tha French sailors have Informed tha American government, line, tha ruling that liquor la medicinal, that they ara wiUliur to take their awa medicine. THE DANGER. A good many people ara afraid that tha upkeep of a Ford administration would be far mora expensive than tha first coat of It. ; TRACINQ ITS SOURCE It was Ferdinand and Isabella who arlglnated the axpreaslon, "Bee America first!" Thsy aald' It ta Columbua. (Copyright, 1JJ. b the Ball Syndicate. Inc.! |