Show WITH ai y inam BY the awakening the goldenrod all drenched in sun drips yellow allow with the morning mornings a dew dij tl tie e brown eyed susan susans pirouette US upon their sterns a nodding crew bwy the bowl of Is emptied out ff and rosy nectar rims tie tt e glass tie tl e wine of morning phoebus kissed that spills its glory through the and I 1 a minstrel by the way j attune my heart to vagrant breeze the murmur of the waterfall the rustle of the autumn trees the brook that purls a silver note so like I 1 er voice in merry mood Is striking keys that all the world may sins sing a carol liquid brewed and as the song bursts forth in joy 4 the plover adds his piping note A meadowlark upon a reed j Is flooding aubic from his throat ah as the breezes die away there billows in the blackbird blackbirds s lute 0 an interlude of ecstasy to mute charm the mountain gray and and when hen the echo blends with mist and dies within tl tie e western sky arom off the rib boned river rivers e breast Is heard the fisl er a raucous cry the note of discord tocsin hurled tl TI at wakes the world to tl oui oual ts to ot of day to struggles in the moiling mart to vultures and their bleeding prey and as the sun mounts up the east the dew distills its glowing gems the dust of travel clouds the gold and grimes the daisies diadem di adems st the whistle blows to call the slaves who never know the peace and good of bur burning nini 1 frankincense and myrrh within the temples of the wood 0 0 ah ali now the morning blushes out and sol the money king ts to here to wave his blasting wand of greed above abone the sordid and the sere serel uncle bye bys wisdom my idea of heaven Is a place where my wife never tells me with tears in her er eyes that the hired girl Is going to quit the age of the chestnut never makes any difference in the laugh of 1 a man who has come to ask a favor of the story teller the man who can make good ex auses can hold a job temporarily but it takes a man who can deliver the goods to become a fixture A chicago girl spending her vaca tion in the country mistook a bull t frog frogs a tor for what she called it a bossy cow mewung for her calf t J 0 i I 1 f r the provident gas meter the daylight gas co of my town recently received the following letter from a consumer pf kilowatts kilo wats who thus mildly protests against the treatment accorded him manager daylight gag gas co dear sir fi I 1 am returning your bill for gas ft last month presuming that you have made a mistake and sent me a debit for the entire works keeping the bill that should have come to me as an in voice of property on hand I 1 have no use for a gas factory as my mother o 0 in law Is a working model at our bouse house and the supply it if inflammable would be greater than the demand my wife waa was away on a vacation all last month I 1 lived at the club and yet you send me a bill tor for 18 1840 40 for gas I 1 what do you think I 1 am anyhow A mother lode last tall fall I 1 spent for burglar alarms and then let lot you put that meter in the heart of my happy home it if it cost 18 40 a month when your meter Is standing still what will it cost when it canters banters can and when my guests decanter 7 at this rate I 1 figured last night 4 my annual salary will last kilo wat hours A snow ball in the oven of Is a tortoise beside bour cotton tailed meter what aie ate you doing with jour our money anyhow guy buy ing a buzz wagon wagons this morning I 1 stuck a piece of gum in the vili wheels eels but it kept right on gumming it with the price of the gum added honest it makes a man dizzy to see the wheels go round I 1 got too close to the critter this morning trying to read my epitaph caught my whisk ers on the axle and lost a lot of lady killers I 1 don t care for the whiskers I 1 can grow more hair but I 1 can t grow 18 40 because my bushes are not bearing this year now you come down to my house and touch me for that diabolical and leave me alone in peace forever we don dont t want gas at our house what we want Is a steam yacht ap air ship and a private swimming pool I 1 we cannot afford gas and no sane man will be so fastidious as to live beyond his income sometime when we put john D oft off the map we may decide that we can not live without your highly refined radiating illuminant in which case we will make arrangements to settle something on the wife and children stuff the keyhole take it through a nipple and die in our c iken under wear like a man and ef lit up As to your bill I 1 wish you would try to forget it my aly heart Is weak and shocks are dangerous ui ul on my honor as a gentleman I 1 assofe assure you that I 1 shall never mention it again if you don t sincerely helbert askins |