The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-03-31
.ST. PETERS MISTAKE" "

treasurer Oi state, now nVlng IN New
York, after Lemcke had been
learning TO ride a wheel.
saint Peter stood at the golden gate
one sunday morning recent date
And saidtn Gabriel, lounging near,
How fearfully few the arrivals here;
IIow sadly seldom ticket l. seen;
In thirty days I've punched fifteen:
How screeches the gate a. II inward
swings,
The kevsare bunch OF old rusty things
u tint used, the neglected road
To the realm OF bliss will have to be
moved
In fact. unless more travellers stop
| fear We shall have u shut up shop.
Now Gabriel knew what the matter was :
And, thinking he'd better explain the
cause,
Rema ked, LET me have word beg. y
Then ch inged his weight To the other
leg,
And laid one wing on the picket fence,
And said, Fact l., that residence
q ON earth j. made so attractive now.
And cheap and easy az not 70 allow
OF Anv temptation To visit Heaven
such novel iovs 10 mortals are given.
They fiv over the earth on wings OF fire,
And under the Sea they talk on a wire,
And old Broadway j. lighter they say,
Than the radiant loft where our harpers
play
They have no slaves declare It's wrong r
| don't see how they can get along;
They have one wife that's overdone,
For YOU and wonldnt have airy one;
For the very smallest OF coin, I'm told,
The poor folks ride in chariot- OF gold;
Their monographs bottled the voice last
year,
Ola pers n that last week got up here;
Their commerce measures the planet :
girth.
And fetches fruit from the end of the
earth
While here no improvement method
the same
As wears gone by, when you and came I;
The same OLD grass, the same old gates,
The same old Groom OF the same old
mates,
The same old speech To the folks sent
down.
The same old halo, the same old crown,
The same old sermons, the same old
prayers,
| The same old hymns up the same old
stairs.
All things exactly a they were then,
And will be world without end, Amen.
The worst of it. Peter. l. this you know
That all the inventors have enc below,
And taken their traps, tools, IIggers and
things,
Their dynamos. wheels and sprockets
and rings,
Their graphs. and meters, and scopes,
and phones
s For measuring molecules, spectra. tones,
7 And that with these and machines in
accord
The lost ones seek their simple reward !;
Machines that swift a Lightning run;
Machines that paint with the brush oil
\ the sun:
Machines that tiy with splendid cars;
\ Machines that measure and weigh the
j stars:
Machines that laugh and talk and sing !;
Machines that are up to everything
With these 10 instruct, assist, beguile.
They've fixed uphell in first rate-style.
..Ho, IIo," sail Peter. my friend |
guess
II worst comes to worst that we can pro-
gress
II these inventions ich miracl do,
What hinders our having machinery,
too?
For. YOU remember, I've often said
That competitions the life of trade.
They've stuffed and fooled You, though,
about
The sun a. an artist-that | doubt;
And he that tells OF talk on wire
| venture to guess that mans liar.
But we might try with possible gain
The aneSthetics that conquer pam,
A carpet-sweeper instead of the broom,
A sewing machine and a patent loom,
Ele-tric cars with velvet seats,
sweening machine for the golden
streets,
4 gas retort for our light and fire,
Ana an organ back of the harper's choir.
I'm change nv plans and stay today
The first contraption that comes TINS
way.
, space was Gateman Gabriel mute,
Then shifted his weight to his other foot,
And. shading his eyes with his dexter
wing,
said ''Up the road Is coming thing
On single leg It's hopping along,
Without bride or bit or thong,
With double head and a crooked neck,
And some one airift on the upper deck
some one. say whether woman or
Perhaps YOU can tell-Im hanged If |
can
lTha, m moment the stranger, silent a. fate,
lpismounted in front Of the golden gate.
lie said. Good morning. AM wiped
his brow
And added "I'm almost sorry nov
IYour way il so narrow, crooked and
hard.
In didn take spin on the boulevard
N Ii hear that All the way down and back
They've got a lovely asPhaltum track
l..Morningi" said Peter. Is that mill,
Or a curious beast you rode up hlls2
The visitor answered "The forge.
birth
4 bicycle popular on the earth.
laAhof'' cool PETER rppliel "that