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Show 1 1 VISITS Willi The Drift. When I have passed the bloom of Ufa And youth has brushed me by, I would not speed by racing tide To shores where frothing breakers ride To surge until I die! When I have spent my strength and skiU And meet the tide of brawn, .1 would not strain to vie for place, But yield to combers in the race My plunging days are gone! When longer grow my shades of life. I fain would hear the call Of gentle rivers in their play Where I may idly float away Unto the End of All! The grace I ask Is merely tills: That still my heart shall cling To faith and zest, in clear delight That other men may wage the fight Where'er the tocsins ring. 'Nother Batch. If the average woman would sleep with her feet in the ice box, a lot of us married fellers could save a heap of money on ice. Her name was Miss Dorothy Grace. Now it is Mrs. Josiah Ezra Sidebot-tom. Sidebot-tom. Lord, how she must have loved that man! I know a man who makes out lists of flowers to plant, puts them away carefully and forgets where. When ha misses them, he makes an awful fuss because his wife has mislaid his data. Shh! I'm the man! I'm just writing this to please my wife. She hasn'f got over being sore yet. No, not yet? It is surprising how bad a good cigar can taste when a man is feeling that way. If a man's salary would only grow as fast as his coal pile grows less, what a happy world this would be. -Disobedient. A fellow wrote to us last week to "suspend the paper," but as it is good business proposition and as there is no law against running it, we have decided not to do so. San Sab (Tex.) Star. Pin Feathers. Man, don't forget that your wife will want a new bonnet this spring. Save while you may! it it it A man seldom remembers how ha got home the night he became en-gaged. en-gaged. If he remembers anything about going home at all, he recalls that he walked-home on air. it it r Too many young people look upon love and marriage as a game of grab. Don't take the first man or the first woman that comes along. Study the man or woman you like. Don't jump at the chance to get married for yon are a long time dead after marriage if you make a mistake. He,, iflr '.' ft A western publisher was asked to admire an echo, whereupon he replied: "I guess you don't know anything about echoes in this country. Whir, at my place up in the Rocky moon-tains, moon-tains, it takes eight hours to hear the echo of your voice. When I go to bed I put my head out of the window and shout: 'Time to get up,' and tbe echo wakes me in the morning." Credit Cred-it Unknown. it ir it A friend of mine married a stenographer stenog-rapher who once lived in the suburbs. Every time she hears the alarm clork In the morning, she jumps out of be, makes three dabs at her hair, buckle on her belt like a fireman fastens his harness on Dobbins at the clang of the alarm bell, grabs her hat and starts down stairs on a lope for her train. By the time she reaches the front door she is usually awake enough to remember she doesn't hava to go down town any more. Then she turns to the kitchen and gets breakfast break-fast on time. Moral Marry a girt with the stenographic habii. t? Ts vl z His Mistake. This Is on a green city boy who wantol to show his gallaniry. lie culled on a maiden a few nights ago and vallaiillj offered to brave the darkness of the back yard to bring a bucket of water M reached the yard all right, set Hie bucket down, and turned a crank vigorously foi several minutes. Ills efforts met 'with failure and he returned to the house with tho statement that the pump was out of fix. On inspection It was found be ItaVl set the bucket down by a wash tub an had been busy turning a clothes wringej Tim Wanderer. -BYRON WILLIAMS |
