Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
ARE you thinking about what you are thanh
full for?

ARE you thinking about what you are thank
full for?
THE village shoemaker was jolly old soul,
wasn't her Did you ever meet him? Nor
Well, that's really too lad. And there see him
now-leathered. waxy, merry. There beside
the big old-fashioned window he sits and pegs,
and stitches, and pounds from early morn
till evening shadows fau, and generally far into
the night He's an industrious fellow, this
village shoemaker. He is lght-hearted
but his task is not light, by any means. And
how he does talk, to be sure. Even with
mouth full of pegs and a wax-eud in it he
chatters away OF course he knows all the peo-
pie in the village, even up to the brand
new baby. And how he does love
the children, and how the children do love him.
His leather.littered little shop on the sunny
corner is regular nursery. You can punch
holes in the bench with his awI, stick his wax
on the windows, play with his bristles. pound
with his hammer, cut with his awfully sharp
knife, and he won't scold, will he? His temper
is as pliable as his leather. His heart is
as tenacious as his wax. His wit is as keen as
his knife. His eyes are as penetrating as his
awl. And how he can whistle and sing while
hammering a sole-no vail of a lost soul there.
No matter If he does smell of leather and looks
as tough as his oak tanned hide, all is
forgotten in the sunshine of his smile and
the shower of his light talk. And how the boys
seek his little work room. He knows where the
squirrels are thickest, the nuts largest, the
cherries ripest. the berries freshest, the fish
gamest He is the children's pleasure-guIding
genius. There he chats and cuts, whistles and
wakes, talks and pounds, laughs and pegs. sings
and sews. He works while we wear, he
sews while we rip. he mends while We tear.
He's at the christening and the reunion, the
wedding and the weeping. the waking and the
sleeping. ! see him now as in the long ago
Ieathery waxy, jolly-a man who feared God
and loved his fellows-hammering, pegging,
pulling, cutting-shoying the cloHds away from
a little vine-covered cottage full of sunshine,
love and laughter.
THE man who dyes his whiskers evidently
imagines that everybody else is color blind.
In the Argentine Republic every man must
be his own bankrupt.
is Fitler fit for Senator. We pause for re-
ply.
WHEN Sitting Bull is cowed the settlers in
the far West will sleep sounder.
IF Prof. Koch had sought refuge in medical
ethics" and refused to talk only to editors of
been talking about his discovery, at least dur
ing the present century.
IF you take a fly in Wall street you are very
apt to SINCE your wings.
WILD bears are hunted in the woolly West,
And on their juicy steaks the hunters feast;
But. strange as it may seem. with equal zest
Bears hunt the people in the bully East.
THE bookbinders nowadays cover a multi
tude of sins.
THERE is this difference between the late la
mented President Lincoln and Jay Gould: One
was rail maker and the other is rail taker
or breaker.
UNCLE SAM should sit down on Sitting Bull.
WHEN you see ghost you have a right to
shoot it. If the soldiers out West exercise
this privilege and fire at the ghost dancers
there will be some dead Indians at Pine Ridge.
MINcE pies mince the mind in dreamland.
WATER was the name Of Judge Lynch's last
victim in Texas This Is a clear case of water
haul.
The Jailed ballot suffers will not knock the
stuffing out of the Thanksgiving turkey this
year.
PHILADELPHIA has female auctioneer and
a female drummer. The girls will do almost
anything there to secure little excitement.
SARAH BERNHARDT allows her son S35, 600
year. Amy fellow would be willing to fight
French duels for such asalary.
THE fellow who imagines that the world owes
him a living usually owes everybody in his
circle of acquaintances.
PERHAPS the United States will have to fit
out an expedition to discover the Worlds
Fair.
WALL street seems to be indulging in ghost
dance, too.