The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
JONATHAN BEESWAx.
Debating clubs will row spring up
In every district school,
And giant minds will crit;c;oo

N0ootAub C'uuo VIII Low spring up
In every district school,
And giant minds will criticise
Our country state and rule.
They'll tell how Lincoln saved this land
From chains and slavery,
And how our history doth abound
In deeds Of bravery.
And then they'll speak OF setting hens
Till plot and story thickens.
OF wheather tho hen that hatched the
Is mother of tho chickens.
And thus they'll argue pro and con
In passions earnest heat.
Till April's genial sun proclaims
lis time for sowing wheat.
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When man has the smallpox can it
be properly said that he is in small bust.
ness?
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The first thing tho battle ship Wiscon.
sin did was to get stuck in the mud near
Mare Island. This came near being q
horse on the boat.
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Many man with large stomach i'm
agines himself to be prominent citizen
when the fact is he is only "a protubcr
ant one.
Scientists claim that only one thou
sandth-millionth part of the suns heat
reaches the earth. It doesn't require 9
great deal of urging to make US believe
that this weather.
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The telephone wire broke, between
Colgate and Hope last Friday night, anc
! about bushels OF conversation ran out
on the ground before leak was discoyes
cd.
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A young man claiming to be repre-
sentative of the Salvation Army, went
through hero last week, soliciting donat
ions for that institution. He seemed t
be very meek and humble sort of :
fellow, but notwithstanding all this. ;
number of people around here doubted
his over having enlisted in tho Army
Tho young man seemed to bo laborins
undor great sorrow and was constant
ly bemoaning the undone condition ir
which he found his fellow man. This if
no doubt, tho reason he was around try
ing to do them up.
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went into the Colgate Athletic Clut
rooms the other nighi to watch a coupl,
of young fellows pound each other. ir
what they called. q friendly way. Wher
first went in l was quite forcibly
struck by the scientific manner in which
the young fellows handled their hands
and after being in there for few min
utes l was quite forcibly struck with {
large fat mitten attached to one of tn.
contestants who had aimed blow a.
his antagonist, but being poor marks
man. had missed his aim by several fee,
and 1 got the benefit of another mans
reward. One OF the young fellows de-
serves special mention for his deftnesl
and dexterity in the art Of boxing. Sew
eral times during the contest I thought
he would surely be knocked out, but
evesy time his adversary would aim q
deadly blow at him he would, by quick
and dexterous movo. guard off the blow
with the bridge Of his nose in such 8
way as to win great applause from the
spectators. The members OF this club
are quite blooded young chaps. but il
they continue all winter in the same
reckless way they have begun. tho,
wont be SO blooded in the spring-no
by several quarts.
IS
Latest French reports state that Colono
Picquart is charged with forging tn,
petit bleu" and the military powers ar,
preparing for n "coup d'etat". ! have
been afraid all along that something
like this would happen over there anC
now that u has come; may Heaven have
mercy on their souls