Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-09-23
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 ; SALAMAGUNDI. ( ( By wALTHAM WINKER.
TT < A FACT THAT


 scion, loe Hanf. Ask him for q tip on Nellie Sly and Nancy Hanks.
 That the mules are still a kickine.
 That mercury is about done up ready to be thernometered for next summer.
 That we believe that it is just pos sible that we Lay have another wood famine To be fprewarned is tO be forearmed. If sucn q condi- tion should exist, we advise as q preventive from freezing to death (when you can't freeze to anything else) subscription to the Graphic. Irs warmth, we hope, will be felt by all those who read it.
 It's cruel, unkind, it's not right to insist or that aying, "she is q good old girl when speaking to an- other young man Of your fair and loyable inamorata The girl won't have il! good "old' girl. The idea Give the girl q chance. It's meant alright as matter nf con- versation, but the fellow who k your audience, mA Why he'll aetu- ally look that woman in the face so much, that it will cause her to pose before her mirror constantly and ponder her features to such an ex- tent that in no time she will come to the conclusion thas man, hateful thing; always criticising, never no- tlces nething; don't compliment me on how 1 look and oh shucks. 1 don't care mamma, I am not going to do no such thing. If he wants that stuck up Miss Plaster Paris in preference to me he can have her I know l am as poor as plas CT, but that's no reason Pm go- ing to get stuck on him or the wall to hang with the old maids. No! I'n die {my hair) first; paint my (not the fowu) face and cry my eyes out, just forspite know what I'll do. 1 won't speak to him, talk to him. nor look at him, l swear it by the order of the "long feather in my hat. That oath will ever be on her head. So you see boys the injury of such well meant criticism You love your girl, if the fellow likes her when he sees her-face without the drug storianfacial destroyer. 
 The ladies will. without notice, remove their hats this season, be- cause we have no opera house.
 The new reporter caps the clis max. This is a header.
 Ed. Roser berg says that "i;s a fact" that lie asked a conductor to drink with him. and the engine smoked Now. pull the throttle and let her go Gallagher"
 That great many of our citi- zens have their thoughts buried in that gol1 mife we are the happy possessors of - in our mind.
 The schools open today and now for the "tug of war" for the ensuing year
 -T. G. Wilson must have had a pipe dream when he saw monkeys picking cotton. ] G. won't do to monNey with.
 -Wnl Allison is now with the Sauthprn Grocprv Comnanv havino succeeded Ed. Saunders as cotton sampler. Ed. is with s. C. AleXan- ner < Co,
 Allie Dreyfus is making prepa- ratiops 10 leave New York. He will catch the pas-sas-san-ger on the Bow-wow ".
 -"SiormN Lynch is no cyclone, but is ore of the most popular con- auctors on the Cotton Belt.
 Our Valiant contemporary should wake up He's ok when it comes to making "cut."
 -Re,rand Altschul is a critic on tlse ball and prize figh5s
 "A society boy passed Friedman's s place of business in this city recent- ly in company with a visiting socie- ty leader. and informed bis friend from far away to step inside and ascertain what time it was-by his