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Show Passing Chimes By James Barton Adams. A Cowboy Serenade. The moon's a-rldin' the trail tonight, Awake, my love, awake. The stars are sprinklin' the plain with light, Awake, my love, awake. The cattle sleep in the coolin' grass, The gray wolf howls in the rocky pass; My heart is warm fur my rancher lass, Awake, my love, awake. My bronk flew swift as the northern wind, Awake, my love, awake. My song strung out on the trail behind, Awake, my love, awake. My heart was glad as I galloped near, I knew my darling was sleepin' here; I brought a song for her own loved ear, Awake, my love, awake. The lily's wliite an' the rose is red, Awake, my love, awake. Reminds me, dear, of your face an' head, Awake, my love, awake. Your angel face an' your golden hair Have got the rope on my heart fur fair, An' the brand o' love I'm a-packin' there, Awake, my love, awake. To the sleepin' herd I must now away, Good night, my love, good night. I'l keep my watch till the break o' day, Good night, my love, good night. An' as at my lonely post I lie I'll think of an angel from the sky A rancher gal with a bright blue eye, . Good night, my love, good night. If alcohol is to be made from corn cobs, the supply of cobs for the genuine maple, syrup of commerce may be largely reduced. A cannibal king of the South Sea Islands wanta a shipload of American school marms. Whether for educational or gastronomic purposes is not stated. A New York woman with an income' of $30,000 per annum has largely increased her outgo by marrying a newspaper man. The Kansas baby crop is so unusually heavy this year that many proud parents advocated the . adoption of the stork as the state emblem, but Utah saw it first. It is hard to conceive a more pitiable object than a fat man with a boil on the back of his neck at a balloon ascension. A western poet sent the Chicago Record Herald Her-ald a poem entitled: "The Lady -of the Setting Hen." The editor was too old a bird to be caught with chaff, and returned it to the author with the information that setting hens never lay. . Everybody talks. but Grover; He sits around all day , And thinks the matter over, With not a word to -say. Everybody talks of Bryan, And either praise or damn; But Grove, the sphynx, just sits and thinks The durned old clam ! The Boston Post predicts that Fairbanks will never warm the presidential chair. You should """BB""n"M,"l,,,,"mn not believe all the stories of the distinguished candidate's frigidity, dear brother. A New York paper says that Booker Washington Wash-ington is the greatest living Afro-American, a declaration dec-laration the admirers of Josephus Gans may hotly resent. . Dancing is to be introduced into the Cleveland schools. Away back in the good old days' when you and I were young, Maggie, it was a'feature in every school, the leading figure being "join hands and circle to the left," to the music of the hickory gad of the master playing on the most exposed parts. Senator Beveridge is to speak in Milwaukee. Ho might meet with a more cordial reception at the hands of the people of that city if he would for the nonce adopt the simplified spelling and ask the papers to refer to him as Senator Beverage. Now that science has discovered that dire danger long has hovered o'er the osculative union ot the lips, ye who seek for heavenly blisses through the medium of kisses would be wise to heed the scientific tips. Every lip of youth or maiden, we are told, is rankly laden with microbes that lie in -wait for lover prey; with bacteria in legions lurking in the rosy regions of the smackers that are used in kissing play. But the germs are disconcerted and the danger dan-ger is averted, 01, at least, is very greatly minimized, if the lips that seek a meeting in the Paradisian greeting are prepared for it by being carbolized. Hence this sage advice we offer, this wise hunch we freely proffer to the youngsters when they go to spark their pets; take a safety atomizer, a bacteria par-alyzer, par-alyzer, in your pocket with your box of cigarettes. cigar-ettes. A Chicago dancing master is endeavoring to eliminate the hugging feature from the waltz. WIiq man who would attempt such a thing in Chicago Chi-cago is clearly entitled to one of the Carnegie hero medals and a niche in the Hall of Fame. Mr. Matte Helenius Sepold, of Finland, has come all the way over to study prohibition in Kansas. Kan-sas. Which is no doubt regarded by the Kansans as a rattlin' good joke on Matte. Deaths of men who were insured too oft remind us We can pay insurance premiums when due, And, departing on the journey, leave behind us Quito a hefty little stake for No. 2. Fairbanks' friends are calling Speaker Cannon a septuagenarian. Uncle Joo might retort that he is a warmer number than a buttermilk refrigerator. |