The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-04
By the Burlington Hawk eye Philoso-
Dhpr.

by the burlington Hawk eye Philoso-
pher.
Sometimes, when the clouds are duh
and the wind is in the East, when the
grade is heavy, the steam is low and the
sand-box empty, it does seem as though
this old world had slipped an eccentric
and was only working one side. The
wicked man ilourishes like green bay
tree, while his honest neighbor gets
prescribes quinino for your chilfs, and
the druggist puts You up something
worthless and cheap for two dollars an
ounce. There are iifty-three authors OF
beautiful Snow" and not one for the
"Brcad Winners" In Philadelphia one
mandatory makes nothing but cen
tury old "grandfathcr's clocks" and
Furnishes pedigrees of the same to the
purchaser, until to own Il tall, antique
clock is proof possible that your family
began only with your father. In Chica-
90 they make violins that look one hun
dred years older than the most genuine
StradiYarius, -four weeks after they are
made, so that now an ancient, honest
looking, decrepit violin is prima facie
evidence of glaring and outrageous
fraud. There is water in the milk Of
commerce and sugar in the
rigors whore we used to have
chills. cold Subscriber" is usually u
man who borrows the paper from Il
neighbor or reads the copy pasted upon
the bulletin board. "Constant Reader
who never read ANYTHING in his life save
the pictures ON q circus poster, and
"TaN Payer" is The signature of tramp,
A struggling genius writes II poem with
soul of fire, that lives forever and II
day and dies in tears and loneliness and
poverty in u hall bedroom, fifth floor
back. The Queen writes book that no
living man outside the Guelph family
and theproof reader could be hired to
read, and his pie three times day, owns
four dogs, and has India shawls TO give
to the Hood sufferers.
So il is. Man goeth to the skating
rink with JOY in his heart and mirth on
| his lips, and he cometh away with his
back so full of pine slivers that the por-
cupine sayeth unto him, "rhou art my
brother" and the hedgehog crieth
after him, "Bchold my father and
MOTHER
When December is here with select
assortment of chil-blains and FROST
| bites, we cry, "WOuld heaven it were
July" And when July is come.
| straightwNy we are sunstruck.
| There are roothousand known classi-
fed and described species of fish. And
yet II man can fish in good water all day
long and never catch one solitary spcci.
men of the smallest kind and bringetl
home with him only u two weeks ratiol
of malarial fever. This also is vanity
Garfield was shot to death in the prim,
of good and useful life. Lincoln was
taken away just when the country leas
could spare him. De Long laid down
his life for science when his sun hao
reached its meridian, while the mai
who can write fOrty-ninc chapters of th,
Bible on one side of Il postal card viii
probably live to the age of ninety-three
rhis doesn't seem right.
The girl with soft gray eyes and rip
ping brown hair, who walked all owe
your poor Tutoring heart ut the charity
ball, has just finished a crazy quilt con
tanning thousand andsiNtyfour pieces
of neclSties and hat Innings, put together
with twenty-ono thousand three hun
dred and ninety stitches. And her poo
old father fastens on his susponders Will
u long nail, u piece of twine, n sharl
stick and one regularly ordained but
ton. This also is vanity.
Man plantelh bed of pansics i'm tn
front yard, and 10! there cometh nj
naught save colony of cut worms only
lie gOeth forth into the field and drop
poth corn into the hills, and four hun
dred million crows sing as they pluck /
out of the ground after him.
lie strolleth through the leafy wood
and his hide is filled with chigres. III
lolleth In the fragrant winrows of tn
new-mown hay, and Straightway bitetl
himself with Il snake. There are spring
guns in the orchard, bull in the pms
ture, a ram In the meadow, a dog i'm tn
yard, and three tramps down the road
so that he hath no rest for the sole of hi
loot and no JOY for his heart if h
moNeth out of his room.
somebody has got to straightcn thi
old world out, ANA Us they seem to be
little slow about it, have made up m
Mind that vii! 10 il myself, VIII
should Vanderbilt ride in n private cdl
when sometimes 1t Is hard grubbing fo
an honest journalist to secure n tri
pass2 Why should ex-senator Tabo,
the magnificent, pay out more mono
+ for night shirts than home missionar
can afford for carpets? Go to! If somt
lhlng Is not done speedily, of VERT
VIII Join the Communists, and hccon
+ AN agitatOr and live without workini
Next to heinga capitalist, it is moi
r protituhle to be an agitator.
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