Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28

wearing people out;
All tho girls just thought him charming, 10
by nature he was Ct
10 I'll social void. and soon became favor
ito.
Ia his clothing no was quiet and was vote,
rather neat.
While, In fact, 10 some iia presence was ricl
sartorial treat;
In his mnnner ho was easy, and his boarinl
wsb erect
Was an all round jolly fcllow-and you novei
would suspect
That within him thero was growing, by do
grees quite slow, but sure.
passion 10 transform him 70 a human cart
eature,
But the virtuos that ondoarcd him to his
friends ceased 10 exist
On the day he bought cycle and became a BIZ
cyclist,
For the glamour had como Ger him, and he
hankered for tho track,
With his feet upon the pedals and a hump upon
his back.
When perchod upon the saddle for pleasant
little run
A proceeding, he AYERS, replete with real
health giving fun
In this happy combination OF delightful pleas
uro pure.
A healthfuL recreation, with spinal curvature
He Is imminently threatened, while the figure
that he cuts
All evidence or pleasure most effectively re-
butts,
With neck craned DER tho handle bar and
head 5erlsed out OF gear,
His eyes a-bulge, his mouth agape (such pos
lures rather qucer),
With shoulder blades distorted while his legs
are ON the grind
And the balance Of his person is protruding
out behind.
Whom see him in his labors, we reluctantly
refrain
From lending our compassion, for he seems To
be in pain,
But ON second thought We snicher-the resem.
blance strikes us quick
To little five cent monkey, in commissions,
on its stick.
There Is poetry Of motion. there Is suppleness
with grace,
Whilo there's beauty in athletics that cannot
be married by pace.
bucn desirable embodiments unhappily 20
missed
In the writings and contortions Of the ardent
bicyclist.
SEQ 1t tearing down the roadway TITS figure
crouched a-wheel,
Trcading madly ON tho pedals with a wild /
and frcnzied zeal,
Doubled up just like jacklsnife with each
angle most acute.
On its sex our verdict hinges on aflne point in
suit
As the wriggling form untangles as it passes
In n whirl,
II instead OF pants it's boomers. then we know
u ~ girl.
But our adjectiyes have failed u.s. and In sore
and dismal doubt
With feelings yet but half expressed and Ian
guage petered out
Ven strike a classic fms and pronounce it in
fra dig
This merging Of the genus man into whirli-
gig
Chicago Times Herald
You'd better not. l know woman
yho"--
$50 do Lots of 'em. But told Tom
ID like TO see anybody snatch pocket
,ook out Of my hand Well, went
nto town TO meet Sadie; then we went
hopping AS she had never seen Tom
wanted him TO look his BEST so pur- =
hased some pretty things for him ne
veil as for myself " :
VERY generous of you, I'm sure "
Eyes. had just gotten him two love-
Y neckties at 20 cents apiece and
lrown away the ticket so he'd like
lem. not knowing what they cost
as l turned away from the T
lunter. somebody snatched my pocket A
ook right out of my hand ~ !,
Goodness, how awful"
"It camo over me like flash whas 81
ON would say TO mo after all his II
arnings about carrying money so care -,
ssly, and tainted away. {"
"No wonder. And dad the thief es-
POP" 4"
why, no. The queerest thing hap =,
ned. Sadie caught and held him until
policeman came. Then he---he insist -
that he was my husband |" on
'What Anpudencel But Sadie ca
"Oh, Sadie had picture of Tom, !
d as this man was smooth shayen - me
"And we all know Toms lovely
liskers. - I
'Sho told the police il was only IS
etense. and gave our names and adj re-
ass They had taken him away, fight {
: like demon and protesting that ha
IS my husband, before l came to my
ises. - (
How fortunate that you did not see Cor
} horrid creature. the
Perhaps SO. Bat. oh, my dear, Tom eSa'
yer came nome at all that night Ds'
$ wild with alarm, and Sadie was 'o- =.
o that no was awfully dissipated
out noon tho next Gny was Upstairs ,bs
en- / heard Sadie in the front hau ts,
ling, Help, help. thieves, thievesl' Con
-an down, and there was Tom him In
fr' test
: But don't soe''-- Of
His whiskors were sheared off ant ss''
he wouldn't speak TO me, aud Sadie ,.
aldn believe he was my husband 80
Good gracious You don't mean
I he had snatohed your pocketbook
{ 10 prove that ii could be done? But