Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-13
SPINNING WHEEL.
THU MAKING OF A SOTDTFp

! SPINNING WHEEL. ;
THE MAKING OF A SOLDIER.
Joe Jerry hoed in a stony field.
Under a sweltering sun.
The boy and the rock and the native weed
Fought for the life in battered seed,
And the struggle was just begun.
Get cut of the mud and follow me-
Said the man with the better clothes.
frost;
You will anger nature with labor lost
Come where fair wind blows"
But the boy digged on in the stony field.
with the struggle barely begun.
81 put the seed in this ground, said he;
Il think had better stay and see
Whatever may be DONE
Joe jerry quarried and placed the stones,
And fitted the tmberS true
Then his neighbors, came, with fevered eyes;
"G0ld-panS of gOld-just there it lies!
Shall we wait day for you?'
A soft voice rifted the evening CAIN,
Singing the death of day.
tired child came and went with kiss
Il have wife and a homeland this;
think | had better stay"
war! On to Variant the cry came
Il have dying wife and these;
l shall stay with them if God so please
But he went at the second call
"Come on!'' they cried. Its death to waltz
His face was bleeding and grim;
He picked a rifle out of the dirt
AND answered simply: The captains hurt
1 think I'll stay with him
Frederic Brush in New York Sun.
Mrs. Mulligan-"An' wat did his ON
ner say to you this morning?" Mrs. Null
cahy-" Can you and your husband live
together without fghting?" Mrs. Multi
gan-"An' W at did you say?" Mrs Null
cahy-" No, yer 'Onner, not happily -
Memphis Scimitar.
At the end of meal at Hayden 5
house, Keats proposed a toast in these
terms: ''DishonOr to the memory of
Newton The guests stared at him III
questioning surprise, and Wordsworth
asked for an explanation. 1T is" an
sWered Keats. because he destroyed the
poetry Of the rainbow by reducing it to a
PRISM And the artists all drank, with
one consent, confusion to the savant.-
San Francisco Argonaut.
"Why don't they revive that song that
used to be SO popular a few years ago.
Il don't know what one you mean"
''Why. it ran like this: The Spanish
cavalier stood in his retreat. "-Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
A Texas judge was robbed of a horse
not long ago, and the thief, being appre-
hended. was brought before him for trial.
The Judge eyed the prisoner with deep
satisfaction for a minute or so. and then
delivered himself of the following: COW
ing TO q personal prejudice. the court
will not hear this case. 1t will be tried
by the bailiff. who will find a verdict il
accordance with the facts. In the mean
time" he added, impressively. the court
will go outside and bend a rope and pick
out good tree. San Francisco Bulle-
tin.
Harry-''I don't know what to make of
that Miss Dandy. She is awfully cool
with me; she doesn't treat me at all the
way she treats the other fellows"
Harriet-"Don't you know, silly, a girl
is always cool with the fellow for whom
she has warm regard |-BostQn Tran
script.
''There is nothing in his pocket" re-
marked the sergeant of police, who, in
the absence of the captain. was the rank
ing humOrisr of the precinct, but a
hole
The man who had been arrested for
walking on the sidewalk in violation OF
the new bicycle ordinance, and was now
being searched for discriminating evi,
dence, laughed heartily, for liberty was
dear to him.
It's all my wife will leave there" he
| exclaimed, somewhat alphabetically De.
trOit Journal.
Little 5-year-old Willie had a very bad
| memory and his mother had hard time
| teaching him to say eff you please" when
| he wanted anything. The other evening
| butter" IF you what, Willie" she
| asked. why, If you can reach it," was
| the reply.
Lord Shaftesbury told me the following
when the Queen became engaged to
Prince Albert she wished him to be made
| King COnsort by act of Parliament, and
| urged her wish upon the prime minister
! Lord Melbourne. At first that sagacious
man simply evaded the point, but when
her majesty insisted on a categorical an
| swer, l thought it my duty to be very
| plain with her. l said, For G-'s sake
! let's hear no more of it. ma'am: for il
you once get the English people into the
way of making Kings, you will get them
into the way Of unmaking them. - .
Pittsburg Dispatch.
| 1t is related Of a certain clergyman il
| Edinburgh that he was so careful OF
| his quotations and so fearful of the
| charge of plagiarism that once, in ad
| dressing the Deity. he surprised the con