The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-12
ITHE PASSING SHOW.


A7ithor TO fried, who has just finished
re1liug his MS): Can you suggest a
IL for my story2 Something appro-
Is Friond Well, Judging 10y the way
characters are killed off i'll the last
sptor, I think "The Uudortakors Para
- would he as appropriate as any.
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2sfhcre was one "we-vicwwith-alarm"
Sthc Democratic platform, and its ap-
&iiranco was greeted with derision.
%tt how does it happen that the plat
Hrn contains no "wo-point-wiLh-
Ttiidcs?" The omission of so essential,
time -houorcd and immemOIiai n phrase
cannot but be detrimental TO tho Demo-
cratic cause among the residents of those
back counties whore platform without
ii -. considered 4 freak.
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"I,udgc that you have not writtcn
Iniich poetry" said the editor to his
caIicr after examining his manuscript.
ANo, sir; bat how did you know.
-Tn those vcIscs you speak ofa maiden
ls sitting nt her window. Now, in
POOLS maidcus never sit at anything so
common rs windows. They invariably
uso casements."
Beware the girI beside the sea,
The summer season spending,
Such love II ln It's infancy
Far swcetsr than the cading.
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IT'S singular that the man who can't
slecp nights i'm a bed with every window
ND and no supcrfluous attire can drop
into chair after dinner in a back
Office whore the temperature is I05 de-
grees, and whcrc flies do battle, ana can
sleep 20 sound that he can't see the man
with the bill for pew rent or hear the
jingle Of the telephone.
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The young man sings the summer girl,
Her laughing eye, her dancing curl;
but no'cr girl, its startling truth,
Frows gushing o'cr the summer youth
"Don't YOU know better than to put
Vour .rm around lIdy's Taist2" she
cried ind d'guauuy. u know few things
better," he said.
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,'Adown the stream uf lite," snii he
..I would ike t. Lrsu for aye With thee"
The maiden looked at him and >n'l'd
with AL the hipp!"css Of A. chill.
"But wouldn't = SLoitut yacht S''' s'id'
"Be lottcr Hbl. I" L" ahead:
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Gu.-'Icavin5-, Gawgc! Wntt'" the
matter?
G.yrc-M .ttah? Way, old trlith,
Dovab came 40 near being "li~nd''d in
INV life. Tho proprietnh-ul' l'-"f the
IL nd Eil.lt tl
down stairs. tell you what, Gus, ii
wouldn't ,h-haye taken m"'h '"''s
IN haze patio mo really angry.
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The watermelon comes again
ON greedy I.ps to sweety melt;
And Johnny, feebIy. VIII complain
because IL hits below the belt.
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s1t does soom," said the man wh'
was uniting u loaf in hi5 hat To avoiC
suuetrote, "that the solar SyStem hh'
the human systom dout get along a
well as they 81 uuld."
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SprmgGold, No, has laundry whIcl
belches SCOT and smoke all ovor tn
whito clothes in t1wn and then gets tn
Job of washing them.
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Woodman, spare that stump
Touch not it's wrnkled brow;
For politics arc ON the jump
And It's worth money nowl
Fashionable Wifc-Did you notice
dear, mt tho party last evening nov
granIIy our daughter Clara swept int
the rnomP Husband (with a grunD
oh, yss, Clara can sweep into any room
granily enough. but when 1T comes L
- sweePing out a DOM she isn't ther''
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Tom Iof Pittsburg) you see tn
Aurora BoronIis whilo you wero east
Laura (nr Oshkosh) No. You know
1haro are vory fow thoatras opon thi
season of the year.
In truth she's quite particular
And mcrc!fus, bat still
shed rather broak IA poor mans hea
Thau break - dollar bill.
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Thc SsorchIns summer days are hiSh'
The parsons Europe view
The i,scuit murmurs to the pie;
I'm not SO fly as you
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Mr. Fritz-Racquet Cat the seasidc)
Don't YOU miss your husband now In
bo,s cone back to town, Mr1. Spoone
Mr. Spoonor-Oh, no. You see l ia
omen an umbrella and let newspap
peep from underneath it-so-and 10
get he isn't with me.
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Astney strolled along whore the waNei'
now,
Ain. said to her lover in accents tender
Though her heart beat fast and her wor
came SLOW,
Pray-what- do you do when you bust
suspender?
Farmer Greon (nournfui'y)-N
mum; we amt a-goin' to hoy no pu
kins this year.
Miss Bordon-Why not2 Isn't II
good ysar for pumpkins2
Farmer Green-Hes, mum; nut
didn't plant any.
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Whom a man takes off his linen col
and dons a negllge shirt, and a WON
throws aside her loose waist and p'
an stiff shirt with a high collar, y
may know that the hot weather I
rome.