The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-03
WHAT E.ELEGRAPH Poles 4l2E
IfEANTr ron.


IN the island of Sumatra, Mt tho bottom o. the
where Asia holds such giant laHds in her ca
the elephants rlso herooly, in ths maddcst
: When the telegraph employees have finished
And Joined by wires electric places very far
away,
For the purpose of conversing-if they've any
~. thing to say;
These animals uproarious will throw upon the
ground
The telegraphic poles and wires wherever
they are found,
While wires and insulators are carried Off to
hide
In the deep, ebony jungles whore tho angri
80. beasts abide
. All the labor goes for nothing when tho poles
are set again,
For tho elephants are watching these pcrsr
VerinR men,
Who stioS poles where they dom; want them,
And they tear down in the nighttime what
the mon have done by day.
With the monkeys and balloons it is quite
For the telcgraphic wires make the incest
kind OF swing;
And just the lrmost tight rope for any sort of
antic,
While rambling on from "polo to pole 1"
sounds really quito romantic.
lts very cute arrangement, far botter than
Which DO for common purposes, but not for
. such as those.
lighted Mrs. Ape.
This really looks like living in somo dcc,ut
The cocoa-nut shells hold water which Is nj
that one can say,
But these glasses for the future shall cover
So the monkeys haste to gather ali the prize,
thCy can reach,
And twist off every inSulator with n trium
plant scrccch'
While they chatter and they gib1cr, aud they
dance and they play
On the tcloyruphic wires all the night and al
tho day.
We read in "Mothcr Goose" of Quiet Ut,l,
Miss Munct,
Who was eating curds and whey, and sitting
When, i'll the midst of happiness, there cam,
,, along spider,
Now The spiders in Jnpan treat the telegraph,
Not dNuntcd in tho least by their being sucl
h!Eh-tlycrS)
AS this spider did Miss Mu?rct, and cuollv tol,,
On the pole, perhaps, beside tho wiros so hlyi
above the street;
For t:cy bring their spinning with tn, m 4,
dainty and SO fine,
And they drop, to begin with an experimental
With such handy framework us these trc
lctaphic wires
Mrs. SriGcr soon can weave Il web that meet
w nll her Il ,srcs.
With drnp ricss for tho pnrlor that's to cutcl
the silly fly,
And it is tho prrtticst parlor that ever 70,
did spy.
On the bare Western plains there's II drrndr,,
lack of trees,
And nothing for the bufTalOcs TO scratch thc,,
selves at CuSc;
80 tclCgnphiC pole proves Il blessing i'm dis
guiSr
That brings the toars OF gratitude to man,
hair-rOotcd eyes.
Though first with SOmo suspicion: "Wha
ever is this thnYI'
E&claims, in great pcrp!cXity, tho duuntlcs
49, prolriO King;
4hon makes sudden onslaught, rs is hi
mighty way,
10 ind II pole for scratching, und 1lOt a 70 n
BAY "
How jolly!' says King Buffalo" how vrr,
kind of man
10 get up this convenience on such an cas-,
plan.
One grand good scratch, and thcn I'm &C.
49, nut so the pole is, too,
oH from It's Cquilbrium--a sorry sight t(
Wow.
That sudden rush of matter lays it flat upo,
the plain, 'f'
Until the tclcgraphic mon hnvc sct II y,
again. ~
And when they, sock with toughest nails t,
brstlo it all DER,
The buffalo pronounccs them even kinder
than before;
For what are nails for but to scrntcb? md -,
scratching Is his plan,
lie 1ccl8 under obligations to tho thoughttul
- ness of man.
90 ne scratches all the polCs down, rejoicing
on his way,
While the mon who set them uD again have
~ something else to say;
ihat something is not tlnttcring to friend bur
falo at all,
But he is Off beyond the sound of voice OF
muSict-bull.
~-E0G Rod'ndl Ckuch in Harpcr'S Young Pt0
ple. 0 w