The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-02

ers, meantime looking up the road for
his third son by his second 'womcrn, "
for the lad has gone to the postofficc
and the man who means business, and
who shrnks from 'furt," is looking
for q letter
Instead OF packing his lemon crop and
shipping it to the San Francisco, Lemon
Aid society, Mr.. Shettlerae's great big
Rolstcin heart is beating for some one
who desires to ''corsponc. One can
hear the harsh rasping of his overalls as
they interfere" i'll passing and repass-
ing each other i'll his hasty strides. Out
across the long vista of gray ground and
cactus bloom his ruby eyes, with sui
phur cOlored brows and real cancels hair
eyewinkers, search the horizon for his
son.
Oh, will not some ono of an entirely
and Numerically opposite sex, VINO
means "bines, Z" "corspone" with him?
Let her tell everything in the first let
ter. 1t would save time and postage.
Joseph does not care for the past He
doesn t care hardly at all. 1t is the golden
present that he banks on, not the Christ
mas present, for that is far away.
l have often wondered why the poet
and the novelist should paint their ear
nest lovers us youthful Why not give
the carroty widower Il show i'll song and
fiction-a "wadower'' SO years old and
Is hands high:
/ knew Il widOwcr once of that kind
who locked up his shop one day and he
fore teatime had proposed to seven
widows, besides stopping an hour to bait
his horse by the roadside.
/ know this because part of the wild
ows were relatives of mine, and they
met at our house to talk it over and send
delegates to the general convention
They decided to go unplcdgcd.
He was self made man, so far rs his
teeth We're concerned, and drew Il small
pension Oh account of slight hernia CT
the dura mater.
(There will be no risk i'll reading the
above aloud by the fresidc.)
Many is the time l have seen him take
ont his teeth and rub the rafters of his
mouth with arnica, for the plate was
made for much larger man, and when
he talked with these teeth i'll place little
children ran screaming to their parents.
IL my opinion the poem of passion
and the romance Of dclirions rot has seen
its best days unless the widowcr with
the paddock whiskers. warranted not to
crock and the tortoise shell neck, and
the meteorological Adams apple that
goes down when there's going To be IL
storm and rises i'll clear weather, is given
the center of the stage.
A youth consumed with love wears
tight boots and smokes himself to death,
but you take we'll seasoned "wadow-
er, who means dimes" and in the
words of my talented friend. Richard
Malcolm Johnston, "Sharp's the word
and quick the motion" He las no time
TO "tlurt.
But let us pass on.
Last week hurredly jumped on the
train to go through Virginia and an au-
dience or two at the same time. sat
down hurricdly IL the car, and putting
OH my tourists chcckercd hat, which
prevents curious people from ascertain
ing which way am going, began TO 20
hearse Il commencement address, which
l had prepared for the June work among
the colleges
l had gotten well into the address and
was just fitting a couple of gestures to it
when was ordered out of the car by Il
colored brakeman, and he was none too
polite about it either
/ asked what the matter was and all
Al 6, Il. eft