Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-07-20
EHAT T,EEEdRfFH POLES ARE
LEA-NT ron.


I'm the isisnd of sumAira, at the bottom of the
map.
Whore Asia holds such giant lands in her ca
pscious laD,
The elephants rise hcrcely, in this maddest
Kind Of ur,h.
When she telegraph employees have finished
Gpa Job
And Joined by wires electric places very far
AWAY.
For the purpose Of oonversing-if they've any
thing Ia say:
These animals upros,rious VIII throw upon the
ground
The ielegmphlc poles and wires wherever
they are found.
While wgrcs and iDsnlators are carried OF to
hide
in the deep, gloomy jungics where the angry
beasts sbife.
All the labor goes for nothing when the poles
For the elephants are watching these perse-
sering men.
Who stick poles where they don't want them,
across their right OF way
And they tear down in the nighttime what
the men have done by day.
With the monkeys and balloons it is quite
For the telegraphic wires make the incest
Kind Of swing:
And just the iirmcst tight rope for any sort of
ante.
While rambling on from pole TO pole -
sounds really quite romantic.
ITS very cute arrangement, far better than
the trees,
Which do for common purposes, but not for
such as these
And those lovely .eolorcd glassesl'' says de
lighted Mrs. Ape.
This really looks like living in some decent
sort of shape:
The cocoa-nut shells hold water, which Is all
that one can say,
But these glasses for the future shall cover
my buffet
So the monkeys haste 10 gather all the prizes
thei can reach,
And twist of every insulatOr with a trium-
plant screcch'
While they chatter and they gibber, and they
dance and they play
On the ieleTraahic wires all the night and all
the day.
We read IN Mother Goose" of quiet little
Who was eating curis and whey, and sitting
on turct.
When. IN the midst Of happiness, there came
And, with lut waiting to lie asked, sat down
just beside iicr.
Now the spiders IN Japan treat the tclegraphic
wires
Noi daunted in the least by their being such
hgh-iiyersl
A. this spider did Miss MufIc,. and coolly take
sat
On the pole, perhaps, beside the wires SO high
above the street;
For tics bring their spinning with them so
DAINTY and 50 iinc,
And they drop. 10 begin with, an experimental
line
Niih such n handy framework as these tcle-
Mrs Spider soon can weave a web that meets
all her desires.
With drap ries Tor the parior thats.to catch
the silly fy.
And il Is the prottiest parlor that ever you
did spy.
On the hare Western plains there's a dreadful
lack of trees.
And nothing for the bunaloes to scratch them
selves at ease;
SO a Geographic pole proves blessing in dis
That brings the tears of gratitude 10 many
hair-roofcd eyes.
Though irst with some suspicion: what
ever Is this thngf"
Exoiaims, in great perplexity, the dauntlcss
pfslE1e King
Then makes sudden onslaught, as is his
To ind a pole f6r se.raiching, and no, foe at
bav
"IIow folly" saws King buffalo" how very
kind of man
To get up this convenience ON such an easT
plan,
one grant good scratch, and then I'm Off
tut 50 tn pole is. too.
os from is eIuilihrium--a sorry sight to
view.
That sudden rush of matter lays it fiat upon
Until Inc ttlcgraphic men have set it up
again.
Atsi when they seek with toughest nails to
The buffalo pronounccs them even kinder
than bcfore;
For what are nails for but to scratchs and as
scratchiuF Is his piau.
He feels under obligations TO the thoughtful
utss of tnan.
50 he scratches al the poles down, rejoicing
on his way,
While abe men WHO set them up again have
something else to saw:
That something is not faitcring to friend buff
fAlo ~ all.
hut he Is on beyond the sound of voice or
Iusiskoi- ball.
-EGa RJdn.dIi Church, IN Harper's Young Pso-
Science and Cigarettes.