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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-03-12

At II a. m. Sunday, Sermon. Subject
Gods presence.
1915 p. m. Bible School.
2.30 p. m. Junior League.
Up. M. Address by Il. NJ. Mansur on
the Presidential Inauguration.
Up. M. Tuesday, devotional and liter.
AIRY meeting of Epworth League.
Up. IN. Thursday. prayer meeting.
To these services all are welcome.
REV. A. f. ATwATER, Pastor.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-03-12
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.

Sham holders at Vallee Brothers.
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CHURCH SERVICES.


Congregational.
At the Congregational Church next
Sunday morning at IL Rev c. o. Cries
haber will preach on The Leaven of the
| Pharisees." At in the afternoon will
be given missionary sermon with the
subject, Modern Heroes of the Gross. y
The annual collection for the American
Board" will be taken. All are cordially
invited to these services.
Episcopal.
Services at Christ Church next Sunday
the second Sunday in Lent, will be Sun.
day School at 10, Morning Prayer, Ser.
mon and celebration of the Holy Com.
munion at IL, and Evening Prayer with
Sermon at {.
Methodist Episcopal.
Al II a ~, Suploy Ser,,o,, SrI,;.,t
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collected. He banked; and when his turn
came to pay up there were not many chips
out for redemption. The game was poker;
one of the kinds of Paris poker.
In the Fashionable Pensions.
There Is a sweeter picture. reeking less
of business. to observe the miloer poker of
the fashionable pensions and hotels de
famille. One time there came to a we'll
known pension one of the prettiest French
widows you could wish to see. In her ca
pacity Of dame de coInpagnie to an Ameri-
can lady of wealth and position In the
Anglo-American skirtbraid trade, she was
OF the conventional and proper humility,
she who. prior to her marriage, had been
reader and companion to the cultured and
high-minded Princesse MathiIde. But, row,
playing p0ker-ten-cent nmit-at the height
OF her enthusiasm she would bloom and
blossom. All gains and Losses, sights and
raises she would reckon In cab fares and
gloves.
How much are you ahead now Madame
K-T
"Ah! bonheur. two pair glofs and un
voiture!"
Once she got very low.
How now. Madame K-?"
"Helas! one omnibousi"
She quit the game with enough winning
to have hired a cab all day. by having good
pairs dealt her from the bottom Of the
pack.
! Another kind Of Paris pokeri
STERLING HELLO.
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than fidelity to the handbook privately
printed by the COmte de D, a swell In
the world of sport as of society," whose in
innate acquaintance with the game was
gained. as everybody knows. in the first
New York clubs. The ante was a dollar
The next man straddled 1.-two dollars
The next-four dollars. The neXt-eight
dollars The next-sXteen dollars. And
the last-thirty-two dollars
Now. as, according to the handbook. a
raise before the draw is nothing but a
second straddle, there was straddling again
after the deal Maxim: Not to straddle
at this period is plain confession of your
weakness. Furthermore, to straddle is to
double,
Sixty-four dollars.
The next man laid twelve dollars on his
cards and waited patiently for a sight
One hundred and twenty eight dollars!
The rest put up the debris of their table
stakes and waited for sight"
II must be confessed that all had decent
enough haEds. The man who had twelve
collars and called for a sight won-on I'm
brelan-what We call three of kind. An
other. with a lower brelan, sighed. An
ether had a straight. une sequence. al
ways beaten in French poker by three Of a
Kind. Ard two had two pairs each. To be
complete. learn that a flush Is I'm fiux. a
full hand is un full, and a straight flush
una sequence full-it being beaten by un
poker. what we call four Of a kind
Poker In Fashionable.
1hsy say one generation cannot judge
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jr., cur present chief executive, taught
school in their boyhood. An examination
of the Congressional Directory for the last
thirty years will show that a majority OF
the members OF Congress were school
teachers.
The Yankee school marm." as has been
intimated in these "reminiscences. is a COM
paratfvely modern production. IL took the
world a hong time TO discover that teach
ing is the special sphere of a true and
good woman, but it knows 1t now. She
has won her place in spite of the old
fogies. and she is reaching out farther and
higher all the time. and now the gentle
girl or her more mature sister, with no
weapon but her reassuring smile, her kind
ly eyes and her fearless heart. has become
the patient. loving stepmother to every
bodys children--the boys and girls who are
to be our future men and women. She
carries them safely through the decisive
experiences, which. more than all else,
fixes the bent of their minds manners and
morals. Her gowns may be of cheap ma
terial, and her well-worn kids frayed at
the finger tips. but not the Helen of the
Had, clad in the beauty of a thousand
stars, was SO fit to be enshrined in i'm
mortal song.
We salute her. a princess purer than the
vestal virgins. and watching before more
sacred fires than ever burned in ancient
temple. We hail her the queen ruler.
welding with gentle hands scepter
mightier than that of him who reigned
beside the classic Tiber in the proudest
days of imperial Rome. ID. J. EVANS.
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another. In the same way 1t is hard for an
American to enter into the mixed motives
of Frenchman playing poker, in particu-
lar, these Frenchmen, these Parisians, for
whom the game has very different antece-
dents. memories and reputation. Poker
above all. here, Is fashionable. as hav-
ing its rise in the Angiomaniac, cha
teau-golf -and-tennis, neutrality-suspicious.
cling, gems chic sets, influenced. sec
ondly, by that real force, the title
marrying American girl In chateau
smoking rooms 1 have seen games of
penny ante operated on something like
good principle. but, without exception, 1
believe there always there, as a
guardian angel, one of these so-caled title
marriers, to shed her sweetness and light
upon crooked generation. Left to them
selves the French have a strong tendency
to improve poker. welcome "blazes" and
the joker. straights that run. say. two
four. six, eight, ten, and otherwise.
From the chateau-the chateau as We
think it In America, the great chateau
where there is that large life of an
English country house, and not the much
more usual chateau of today, a cottage
with a wall around it-poker has been
passed on to the officers messes in the
army. these folk great Swells also. That
of Dion. to my knowledge. plays the
Knockout variety of the Paris Press Club
1t does not follow from all this that
there is no real poker played in Paris
There are enough Americans. All kinds
of Americans
There are insurance agents even. can
vassers. solicitors, brave hearts, though
not always abnormally cheerful. Now and
then, without a word of French they will
insure a Frenchman who has not a word
of English. You will admit they ought to
be fair poker players. The fact remains
that, fmpecunious, they yet gang on. In
running against one of them recently all
OF his smaller mysteries of ways and means
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Schedule In effec. July 4, 1897.

Schedule In efec. July 4, 1897.
All trims arrive and leave II Pennsylvania pas
s:12 A.M.-Daily. Local for DanviIle, Charlotte
and way aiions. Connects ut Manassas for Stras-
Sunday. and Lyncbburg With the Norfolk and
Western daily. ard with the Chesapeake and Ohio
oaiy lor NE Hat1ral nTlge aIa rrsrsinp
MAIL. Carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers. New York
and Washington TO Jacksonville. uniting NJ Sails
Springs. N C. Knoxville. Chattanooga and Nash
vile. Tenn and q Charlotte with Pullman Sleeper
New orlcars. connecting at Atlanta for BlrmingSam
and Memphis. Solid train Washington to New Or
leans without change. Sunset Personally Conducted
every "Wednesday 70 San Francisco without change
4:01 P.M.-Local 70: Front Royal. Strasburg and
4:5I MiEpaiiy,focsi for chario,,esrirre.
1913 P.M.-Daily.- ASHINGToN AND SoL-TI-
WESTERN vESTIBUI.ED LIMITED compos d ~
Pnllmsn vestibul,d Sleelers: Dining Cars and Day
Cos. hes. Pullman S.epers New York to Nashville
Tenn, via Asheville. knoxviiie and Chattanooga:
vannah and JacIsonvilie. and New York to Mem
phis, via Birmingtam: New York to New Orleans
via Atlanta and Montsomery. vestibaled Day
Dining Car Greensboro to Montgomery.
TRAINS on WASHINGTON AND OHIO DN1s-
en m eay eseept s1nay ana Ga a nm ana
days only for Round Hill 432 pm daily. except
Sunday for Leesburs; and e25 p NJ daily for Hern-
sn1 from RoanS h ses ann DAILY except
Sunday from Herndon. s:S4 m daily, except Sun
Through trains from the south arrive at Wash
isf1n SaH a4o and ss ana ay e Sa
sunday and $40 an. daily from CharlcttesviIle.
Tickets: Sleeping Car reservation and Informal
avtrue. and at PENNSYLVANIA railroad passenger sta
ton w: ii. GREEN, General supt
]. NJ. CUP. Trafic Manager.
W. A. TURK. Gen Pass Agent.
ty3 l. s. BROWN. Gen. Agent Pass. Dept.
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Culture for the Table

ftien Watterson Moody in ScribEer's
men. to the elemental education in
cookery which the ideal college for wo-
men is gong to supply, there is establish
cd also chair of gastronomy for the ed
ucatlon of the American palate and the
elevation of the American mind to an an
pfeciaton or the dignity of cooking as a
science and eating as a fine art such an
anront TO the educated palate will no
longer De possible as was recently set be-
1cre an honored Englishwoman in one of
our most important women's colleges 1t
was Sunday night tea" at O'Clock. after
a neaVy midday dinner, and it consisted
OF hot biscuits, cold sardines hot choco
later stewed cherries and chocolate cake.
Surely the ability to detect with apprecia-
ton the subtle blending of an exquisite
sauce or the flavor of a salad or the power
OF making harmonious composition of
ccmpanfonable savors in a single meal is
as distinctly result and test of culture
as the appreciation of the eye in painting
or the ear in music, while the ability TO
set forth suave and delicate dish as the
product of ones own skill possibly con-
tributes as much to the sum of good in
the world as q moderately bad translation
OF German peSsimiSt or even a new mani
festation in philanthropic possibilities
Surprising for a moment that the coming
century were to have in it the seeds of a
new Carlyle, 1t might be considered serv-
ice to mankind IL some college woman
could contrfve to give US the philosopher
without the dyspepsia.
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RAILROADS.

. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
80 AN. wees day.. ffifsBrisG EN1REsS
~ rsrior and Dining Cars Harrisburg rIiisbars
man Sleeping Dining. smoking and Observe bon Boz,
oiis ss ga Is 70 Gicasp ci9clEls, todisnsp,
Parior Car TO iiar,fsss $3.50 anu i"ied" "0Hs'
1880 AN. FAST LINE.-Puilman Bure, rarior
"a 10 harrisburg. Buffet rarlor Car Harrisburg
a sS.. Pm; csli5cAeo AND ST Louis EMPRESS.
and Dtaing Cars Harrisburg to 81. Louis. Nash,
10 ie e WA w Tipsnnatp and Chicago,
ing Lar 10 fi;tsburg. Chicago and Harrisburg to
40 eT FIN pIpVs S95 & l9as9
slceilns Cars Washington to Piitsi'urg and Ilar-
PM to s "a IT Ed p"Is S%5
80 An. fe5 Kane, oanandnigun Rochester and
1880 AN, for Elmira and Remove daily. except
7io eM sr d RSa-a a.9 rs ug
faiS I'D Niagara Fails daily. except saturday.
TN for Erie and Eimirn "a aa iia for Canaan
daigua Rochester. Buffalo and Niagara Falls SAT-
n a'n;y nights only Pullman Sleeping Car WASH
FOR PuILADELPHIA. NEW YORK AND THE
%o1 P Pm; ,,coNGREsSIoNaL LIMITED. daily.
Regular rhlOr a. Cas 90 with Rig3s Car from B.@sT
n, Z, AN; ~ IS: BIZ $50 $50. 1000 and
200: IIc9 Dining Car from Wilmington, A NJ.
FL Els; Az, 80. $50, 1000 and iI,2s Pm.
DAYS Fsrrsss' i2is PM h week days s S
change. $50 AN. week DAVIS and 40 Pm.
Saratoga Express G'arlor Carr. am week days
10 90 loo AN. I2l3. as. 1850. e.oi. as.
$40 900 Lnitcdi, 80. i.3a $40, 6.is. 80.
40, 1000. LAO. II rs and II ~ PM on sun
l2lo, l;l3 2ol: BIS. 3.+o-ti.oo Ltmitc,ll. 20.
For foles Greek Line. $50 AN. and 4 &c I'M.
daiiy except sunday. Sundays. 9.o5 An.
For ANNAPOLIS. 200. 800 AM ills and 20 PM
daiiy except Sunday. Sundays 300 AN and
Atlantic Coast Iine-Espress for Florida and points
on Atlantic Coast Line. 80 AN, $40 I'm.
aaly; Richmond only. l0-57 AN. week DAYS;
Atlanta Special via Richmond and Scahoard AR
Line. 40 PM daily. Accommodation for
9uantico. '-45 AN. daily and 4.25 I'M. week
SEASHORE CONNECTIONS
For Atlantic City tyia Delaware River Bridge all
saii route, lioo AN, 3-l5 and LBS PM.
aa,y. wa MARKET street Wharf. 800 AN. CSat-
urdiys only, 1000. 100 AN. and IL - T. NJ
week days. ll.35 Pm. daily. Sundays unly
For Cape May. 1000. HOO An. 1915 Pm. week
Ticket Offices. corner 18th and C stree,s ana n,
The station. 9th and streets. where orders can
pe left Tor the checking; OF baggage TO lion
from hotels and residences. ~"
>. ID. HCICHiSSoN. ]. n. WOOD
"enefAi Mahagef- General Pass. Agent
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man and fellov-countryman, that cards.
table, chairs and refreshments of the first
class might be had at the cafe across the
street.
What would you have me do?" he asked
NE: take them to the waxworks exhibit
ticn or the bicycle races. and thus lead
them to expense-not counting cab fares"
The only thing that seemed to trouble
him in telling it was that he had no money
at the time. A life insurance policy that
had been refused by capricious applicant
the day before lay in his pocket.
Did you put that up as collateralT'
NO"
would 1t have been collateral?" asked.
He answered not without evasion; but I
gathered from his plaintive self-examina-
tons that, had honor called for II, he
would have sacrificed this handsomely seal
ed. beribboned document rather than to
have quit the game as defaulter.
Luck followed him, however. The tour
lists. as all good tourists ought to be, were
inattentive, jolly. joking, sneering at the
natives My courtier d'assurance was cool,
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lost SAVIOR in the strange fact that the
cheerful loafer had a sum of money.
He had found three tourists, the three
had found him. stting-sitting, notice. nd
not standing-at a well-known bar. The
tourists being as lonely as a crust of bread
behind trunk, acquaintanceship was soo1
formed. Above all, the sreat-hearted,
clear-eyed, bright-faced natures nobleme n
desired 10 know what could be done in the
abs'rdly overrated capital of pleasure
of an afternoon. The night is all right, >
they admitted.
Who suggested it my friend forgot. But
he told them, in his capacity of an honest
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tiger. The first six on the list are sitting
in. Each has declared his stake. one fifty
dollars. say. one eighty dollars. and so on.
the limit of the declaration being. say
again. one hundred dollars. Chips are
banded each, to represent the varying
values. and the game begins. With some
bizarre improvements the game is poker.
Real Freeze-Out.
The limit in betting Is the amount of
chips before one The man with the hun
Gred dollars worth of chips. to make a
superstition, bets all of it on the third deal.
What shall the ffty-dollar man do there.
with a fair hand? He may put up his fifty
have sight for his good money, and so on
the others. Many try. but only one sue
ceeis. The Others cleaned out, nettoyee-
TO cleanse, TO scour. to wipe. to purge. to
discharge of incumbrance. to unoil when
oiled). to humidity and to clear (by means
of artilleTy)-being the equivalent. exact,
in French slang. leave the table; and their
names are marked Off They are scratched.
For style and Gain.
These Frenehmen sit at poker in the
Press Club both for style and gain. And,
as they have understood the game to be
a game of bluff and way-up betting, they
are not willing to sit quietly. Or were
four willing to play moderately, following
something like the value of the hands. the
other two would shame them. tempt them
dare them and gain glory plus the antes
valuable antes-by continuously push
ing. For sure the buffer will be caught in
time-but in the meanwhile how the pooI
mug shiyerS at the thought of being
pushed out of II, where admiration. won
derment and awesome curiosity surround
the table two rows deep,
Another good man is turned down.
jules calls the next name on the list.
The list is long.
1t is not to insinuate that these gentle
men IN evening clothes are babes and suck
lings at the game. and that any clear-eyed
frank-faced. true-hearted American ma
lures nobeman need only to appear tc
stand them their heads. 1t has been
tried. one night | saw 1t tried.
The players all had strong views on the
good form and utility of the straddIe
Their practice, indeed, was nothing more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-21
FOREIGN DEVILS.
Mothers In China Use Foreigners 10
Brighten Children.

Chang WI in North China Eerad.
When was a youngster my mother used
to keep me quiet by threatening to give
me to the yang kueitze. l thought then
they were real devils. mind you. And what
wonder with their outlandsh clothes and
big hands and feet. hairy faces and great
gcggiing blue eyes, enough to scare any
child into fits? You often hear people FAY
they are half blind, with those staring blue
eyes, although they have the power of
seeing into the hills and laying bare the
treasures of the earth. But let me tell you
that is all nonsense. They can see just as
sharp as you OF 1.
A younger brother of mine, wEo was
servant at a consul-devils, and now has a
about the eating and drinking, and at first
1 wouldn't believe him. Think of people
who can so for weeks and months without
touching morsel of rice. And they haven't
the least scruple in eating beef; such a lot
OF IT! They are worse than the Hui-hui
butchers, who slaughter it for them Nut
ton, too. They fairly smell of mutton.
They do now, truly. And every day of their
lives they take bath to try and get rid
OF the smell, but no use! They don't have
the meat carved into little morsels before
hand and help themselves with chop sticks.
like reasonable creatures. No, they hack
it with sharp knives and claw it up with
four-pronged forks: it puts you i'm mind
OF Juggiers swallowing swords. I'm sure
tney must sometimes slice off a bit of their
great noses or dig the fork into their eyes
1t IS just the same when they want 10
amuse themselves. None of them ever
think OF flying a kite Or sauntering out
with bird in cage and setting it on a
grave to sing. But you will see their high
est mandarins daring each other to feats
OF strength, like SO many junkmen or COM
mon soldiers, and rowing boats and rush.
ing about after a ball for hours together:
mere never was anything so ridiculous
They actually like to go walking long dis
tances at furious pace. when all the time.
tney might have sat quietly at home And
whether in dread of meeting enemies or
Whether 1t is religious rite, 1 don't know.
put they are never without a stick What
with the stick, and what with their out
iandlsh appearance. is it any wonder they
nave an the dogs of the country barking al
their heels? a.
nat Is queerer still. men will stroll out
IN company with their wives in broad day-
light without blush. And will Won heiie,,e
INA. men and women take hold of each
others hands by way of salutationp on
l nave seen it myself, more than once
Not only that but they sit down at table
together, and the women are served frst
reversing the order of nature.
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
Schedule In effect June 5, 1897.
Leave Washington from station corner a,

.
Leave Washington from station corner OF New
r. Jersey avenue and & 81.
TOT Shicaso and Northwest. Nestibuled Limited
trains, 1000. ii AZ a.m sos pun.
, For Cincinnati St; Louis and indianapolis. Ex-
press, IL 20 am vestibued Limited. Gao pm.
For ri,ts5nrg and Cleveland. Express daily. 1000
For Columbus. Toledo and Detroit. u:ao,ym
r"r Leicester and way stations. 1900. tI1:i5
tamooga, IA, knexvilIe. Bristol and Roanoke. lilo
For Inray. $40 pm. daily.
s s1ilo Ma, i5ss $50 ESQ $50 s'1 ,lssS
SO, H9;o5 x5;lo, x5;3o xe:e0. $50. s.oo. Sis.
DAYS 1il' III 80 Pan s and ,lsSi might; sun
hl2;de. 90. S3;oo $40 :s5. ,s:o5. .5:io ESQ.
For aDnsso .;i?; nli 80 PM sa Alsol night
40 30 Pm IN: SUNDAYS: $40 :. m, t:s5 pm;
For Hagcrstown. 10000 am and * 80 pm.
$50 4as pm p' sunda TseA s eoS' a9 iI5
psF @ ss sHa Say 80 g1 sss T ss days
.o5, II 40 pm. Sundays 900 am. I:l5. i:33.
For Washington Junction and way points. 500
am, $50; 5:3e pu.. week days: 900 a. m, LIS
For Bay Ridge. week days, a:l5 an. 40 D. m
S RnTH g;sI E-mi, 30 END and siI Pm xo,r
an trains Illuminated with piutsch light.
For Philadelphia. New York. Boston and tho
East. week days. EOS, 500, 1000 am, 1904.
u2:4o Dining Carr. 500. t5:o5 Dining Carr. u2;oi
night: Sleeping CIR open at 1890 o'clocS). sun
days, 1.o5. 300 Am, u2:4o Dining Carr. 500
t5:05 Dining Carr. 1901 night, Sleeping Car open
1000 O'Clock. Additional trains for Philadelphia.
week days. daily. 500 pm.
Buffet Parlor Cars on all day trains.
For Atlantic City, 1895, 1000 am. 1900 noon.
12:4o and 800 pm. week days. l2:4o pm. sun
days.
For Cape May, 10 90 noon.
Except Sunday DAILY. sSunday only.
xExpress trains
Baggage called for and checked from hotels and
residences by Union Transfer Co. orders left at
ticket Offices. 6l9 Pennsylvania avenue NV. New
York aveIue and 18th street. and at Depot.
WM. NJ. GREENE, ID. B. MARTIN.
Gen. Manager. Mgr. Pass. Traffic
JET
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A Severe Critic ON Carlyle.

n
From Tid-Bits.
CariyIe's severest critic. and a critic CT
his own school. was an old parish roadman
al Ecclefechan.
Been q long time in this neighborhood?"
asked an English tourist.
Been here a. ma days, SIR"
Then you'll know the Carlyles?"
"Weel that! A ken the whole of them.
There was, let me see.'' he said. leaning on
his shovel and bordering. There was
Jock; he was a kind o. toughither sort o.
chap, doctor. but no a bad fellow, Jock
he's deid, men."
And there was Thomas?" said the in
Quirer, eagerly.
"Oh, ay, Of coorse, there's Tam-a use
less. mune-struck chap that writes in Lon
den. There's naething In Tam; but mon
there's jamie, owre in Nowlands-there's a
chap for We. jamie takes mair swine into
Eoclefechan market than any ither farmer
+ the parish
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TOM the Linn Greek MOI DemOcrat.
Joe Bowers was native of Pike, and
went from there. In those days letters
were few and far between. Joe left wife
ard two children. After long years and no
letter, Mrs. Bowers concluded Joe was
dead, and married again. Finally Joe re-
turned home in company with King Col
lett around the Horn. He arrived at the
old homestead when the man of the house
was absent. The two children met him at
the door, but when he stepped inside lie
saw a red-headed baby lying in the cradle,
and gave utterance to that immortal re-
mark, We'll, Hannah! who has been here
since I've been goneT' He left the house,
and the next weeks Pike County Courier
contained the following:
My name it is Joe Bowers,
Pm all the way from Pike,
But never in all my travels
Have I ever seen the like.