Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-03-13
SPINNING WHEEL.
A NARRATIVE POEM.

He wrote home: Mother dear, l have
A place that cannot fail,
I'm working for the commonwealth.
(He waS-he was in jail)
Il board and lodge at my employers
House,, ('twas true, you See.)
i have private room that has
Been set apart for me.
My habits are quite regular
/ do each hidden task.
My food" Ctwas bread and water lonc)
is all that can ask.
I'm held above my fellowmen
And my companions here
tile was the only prisoner
Kept i'll the upper tier.)
Il do not think that can come
To sec you Christmas day.
! hoped to, but l do not see
How / can get away.
= am to make a journey soon
Gle was condemned, you know,
For murder), but | cannot say
Yet just where l will 60"
The sheriff wrote after twas done:
Your son died suddenly.
Twas Just this morning he dropped off,
tIhe gallows, don't you see.)
Your son stood high among US here
tIhe galloWs was quite tall,)
AND hundreds gathered at the last
t1hey dld-to see him fall.)
q
And said, drying her eye:
An, we'll! Since he must be cut down,
IN glad he stood so hight
Bismarck Tribune
a certain amount Of freshness is nat
ural and desirable in youth, but there is
Il young man in social Washington who
is Extensively and incurably fresh, says
an exchange. One day last week, how
ever, he had & setback. which to most
persons would have been ample for all
purposes. He was at a tea and had
been presented to a young woman from
Ohio who believes in heroic treatment
of desperate cases, which she very soon
perceived his to be. In the course of
the conversation she suggested that
something might be learned from the
past.
"Oh," he said, 4 am The heir of all
the ages in the foremost files of time,
and | can't waste my precious moments
looking back, like Lots wife,
AT least she responded, with a
sweet insinuatiOn, 1.-The result in the case
Of Lots wife could scarcely be possible
in yours"
4 don't quite understand" he said,
cropping for her meaning.
Don't you remember she was turned
into a pillar Of Salt?'
u /.
and somehow afterward the conversation
lost interest for him.
Callahan-"Oi think Sharkey is til best
foighter in tn wourld,''
Casey-"So do Oh
Callahan--'But Oh think Jeffries is a
better wan
Casey-"So do Or
Callahan-'Be hivens. How Oh got to
In Wv 10 Sl,t
fule."-Puck.
There's 4 colony of bachelor maids in
a fiat in New York, and while they have
DUNG the six months of their existence
as such been enthusiastic over their con-
dition OF freedom, one of them has
paused, as 1t We're. to reflect She has
not said anything. but she has kept UP
Il dickens of thinking, and the other
day one of the compatriots discovered her
in brown study.
'Hellot' she exclaimed after the man
ner of bachelor maids, you seem to
have weight on your mind"
Il have" was the rejoinder.
Anything serious!
1T is to me "
What is it: [ suppose you can tell
me. can't you?"
Certainly. I was thinking how long
it would take for a bachelor maid to be-
come an old-maid maid. Have you any
idea:'
"Cm-er,'' hesitated the other girl.
well, no, [ haven't. [ never quite
thought CT it i'll that way before
At present that particular colony of
b. ms" is more or less perturbed in
mind
Many stories. mostly fabrications, have
been told about long. diffuse teIegraphic
messages sent by women, as If the fem
mime mind were incapable of expressing
itself concsely.
preston is, is well known by an incl
dc Mt reported by a contemporary. y
gentleman went to Paris on business. AS
he went away he said something to his
wife about buying her new dress. Just
before starting homeward he telegraphed
to his wife (Which shall | bring you
a diamond ring or silk dress.r
The reply was concise and explicit
one word: Both. London Tit-Bits.
"Say. old boy, I'm going to let YOU in
for good thing
ION the ground foor"
mop, on tn sixth floor Briegsy is
in it and Potter, and Thompson and me.
We want you to make the fifth man. OF
course there are others. but we like yGu,
and the boys agreed unanimously that
YOU was first choice
We'll, I'm much obliged, I'm sure,
but
'Of course, we wanted to pick as thin
Il man as we could. Briggsby is thin,
and SO is Potter, and SO is Thompson,
and I'm going to train down.
rs it tight?'
mo, of course not. You don't snore,
DO you!''
iii stay awake tonight and find out. .
Don't get mad. Do you kick?''
I'm kick mighty soon if you don't let
me know what in thunder you are dtiv-
ing at
You'll do. | told the boys you would
Couldn't get off a couple more pounds OF
flesh in four months, could you?'
See here, if you don't tell
That's all right, my boy. Don't get
hot. It's all for your own good. You'll
thank US when you know what we're
doing for you"
We'll; I'm just dying to thank you.
Ont with it,
well, you Sec
Yes"
You see we four have clipped in an
hired a whole bed in Kansas CITY for