Show I I I FOOTBALL HERO Copyright ht 1911 b by C. C N. N Mather r- r Erasmus wa was tl t thu hu huskiest of a athe the college o teaI tea His k kicking was 5 S 4 clas clastic lc and hi nil 1 running was scream k The enemy a aC C took to tUg 1 their terror Concealed t J h 0 r c e r rI 0 1 grabbed the tho pi i skin and w wc we tearing down tho the field fled f 3 He lie was the ver very limit in the tho ous pastime To ask a n man to tackle him hm was not In fag Ing but a crime He lie was the strongest man they'd h Ii In twenty seven years He always alway left leCt the field bestrewn wi arm arms and legs and cars ears His were as hard as ashad nails vl had a mighty mIght chest Of ot all tho the athletes In tho the world he w wone wone one of the best His Ills limbs were like the sturdy oak a ahe ahe ai he could grab srab a mule 4 Right by the tall and swing him ro roand rou and toss him oer o'er the school He could bend railroad steel right by hy using his bare baro hands The muscles of ot his brawny arms we wei strong trong as Iron bands Hed He'd pull a tree up by roots and c carIt carl car i it away J i iThe The grandstand would be bo crowd every time that he would pla play But back home homo in vacation time tine h hi strength just failed I vo vow T THe He was so weak he lie couldn't c following the plow He coul couldn't nt hoe potatoes and couldn't split the wood Althou Although h he ho told his parents he fl like 1110 to if Ir he lie could He Ho simply seemed to pine awa away p a ar t us as a a a. rule ruie Till rIll In the thc tall taB when time came rou for Cor him to go so to school Then hed he'd recover suddenly and ta tat an awful brace 0 In feats teats of strength a deal upon the time and place FROM TH THE 1 CLARION There was an oyster supper at t Hardshell church last Thursday ev eve ing and Amry Tibbs was the luC u man He Hc sot got ot the oyster The engineer on No Xo 17 11 the fir i train on our has complain complains against Station Agent Ben Hanks Hank's d do db who leaps about In front of the the- c e eIne gine Ine and barks The dog runs do 1 dot the track about eight miles to meet t train and backs in front of or it all t t tway tway way war to time the station The rhe engineer s sIt It makes him n nervous and some U ti Uhe tin he will run over that cur If it he has haS' put on till full speed and bust the bIt blI Old Lafe Tubbs missed the train t t U ither day by ten minutes but he heable I able to overtake It by walkin fast fore tore It got ot to West Vest Tha The last last time Uncle Undo Ezra Purdy down to 10 the elt city he hc had his big ph pho pho took In two positions up an settin down The folks around her hardly recognized the one as It wasn't just like him Uncle Ezsa's Ez says sas now lie Jie Is Ig read ready for any gol du dui patent medicine concern that corn come along and wants to publish his The last time he took Swam Bitters he hc didn't have no picture anthey ari an an the they published a likeness of or a N Net Nei York anarchist and put Uncle Un-cle Ezra name under It The Tho whiskers wasa wasaT right but the tho rest of ot the face didn't ti 11 tiRe Re Rev Re Hicks pre preached he an eloquent s smon smon ser sermon mon again fiddle music last Jast Sund Sunday Sunda Rev Re Hicks lives next door leer to Tilis m n tho the leader Jeader of the barber sho orchestra and has lost three cats quite mysterious of 01 late Am denies denies' al an knowledge of oC It however sayin sarin tha thai he buys bus all of or his strings down to th tn city I There Is Ig some prospects that our p pt lice force will receive rec a new Constable Ezra Bibbins is Ig with Ith a conductor who got tired fired off oCt th tim railroad and has offered to trade i grindstone a set of ot single harness harneSS' i double bitted ax and a second ban hand han wringer for the tho uniform but the co cot Co ductor says a ho he wont won't do business unless un unless less Ez throws in a bushel hushel of ot see se seed so the tho deal eal may ma fall faU through which would be disappointment to allEz an all anEz Ez wore out two or three band uril- uril forms fornis but the band boys shut down o 0 or his his' em cm em time some ago THE STORK The Mirror i poet otis tte the following toast t t to the stork Heres to the stork A most valuable bird bird p That Inhabits tho the residence district He doesn't stag sing tunes tune Nor yield an any plumes But nut he helps out the vital I |