Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-02-24

The Now Maud Muller,
Maud Muller, On q summers day,
Mounted her wheel and rode away,
Beneath her blue cap glowcd a wealth
OF large rcd freckles and tirst-ratc health,
Singing she rode, and her merry glee
Frightened a sparrow from his tree,
But, when she was several miles from
town, . =
Upon the hillslopc, coasting down, .
The sweet song died, and a vague unrest
And a sort Of terror filed her breast
A fear that she hardly dared to own;
What If her wheel should strike a stone?
The Judge scorched swiftly down the
road
Just then she heard his tire explode;
He carried his wheel off into the shade
OF the apple trees to await the maid,
And asked her if she would kindly loan
Her pump to him, as he had lost his own.
She left her wheel with a ~sprightly jump,
And in less than a jiffy produced her
pump.
And she blushed as she gave it, looking
At her feet, once hid by a trailing gown.
Then said the Judge, as he pumped away,
"'Tis very fine weather we're having to-
day."
He spoke of the grass and flowers and
trees;
| OF twcnty-mile runs and centuries:
And Maud forgot that no trailing gown
| Was over her boomers hanging down.
But, the tire was fixed. Alack-a-day,.
The Judge remounted and rode away.
Maud Muller looked and sighed, "Ah, me,
That l the Judges bride might be.
MY father should have 81 brand new
wheel,
OF the c~ostliest make and the finest steel,
".And I'd give one to ma of the same de-
sign,
So that she'd cease to borrow mine."
The Judge looked back MS he climbed tho
And saw Maud Muller standing still.
"a prcttier face and form more fair
I've seldom gazcd at, l declare.
"Would she were mine, and | to-day
Could make her put those boomers
away"
But he thought of his sisters, proud and
cold,
And shuddcred to think how they would
scold
If he should, one of these afternoons,
Come home with a bride in pantalOons.
He married a wife of richest dover.
Who had never succumbed to the bloom
crs' power;
Yet, oft while watching the smoke
wreaths curl,
He thought of that frccklcd hloolner girl.
OF the way she stood there. pigeon tocd,
While he was pumping beside the road.
She married n man who clerked in n store,
And many children played round her door.
And then her boomers brought her joy;
She cut them dOwn for her oldest boy.
But still of the Judge she often thought,
And sighed DER the loss that her bloom
ers wrought;
Or, wondered if wearing them was a sin;
And then confessed, ut might have
BEEN" .
Alas for the Judge! Alas for the maid!
Dreams were their only stock i'll trade.
For of all wise words of tongue or pen
The wisest are these: ''I.eavc pants for
men,"
All, we'll! For us all hope still remains.
For the bloomer girl and the man of
brains,
And, in the hereafter, boomers may
Be not allowed to block the way.
Buffalo Commercial.
The Wealth of Nations.
These are the figures of Mr.. Mullalt
concerning the relative wealth of eight
Of the leading nations, including real
estate, railways, buildings, merchan-
disc, the circulating medium, ETC.:
The United States. .$s1, 5000 600
Great Britain .......... 50,O3O, OOO, 1000
France .............. 47;05O, OOO, OW
Germany .............. 4O,2GO,OO 900
Russia ............... 81, 125, OOO, 600
Austria ............... q ,5GO,O OO 900
Italy 15,SOO,OOO,OW
Spain .............. 11.3OO,O tO, 900
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