The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-03-14
SPINNING WHEEL.
A NARRATIVE POEM.

My habits are quite regular,
do each hidden task.
My food" Ctwas bread and water lonc)
rs all that / can ask.
Pm held above my fellowmen
And my companions here"
tHe was the only prisoner
Kept in the upper tier)
Il do not think that / can come
To see you Christmas day
hoped to, but / do not see
How l can get away.
= am to make a journey Soon
Tie was condemned, you know,
FOR murder), but l cannot say
Yet just where | will go
The sheriff wrote, after twas done:
our son died suddenly
was Just this morning he dropped off,
Flhe gallows, don't you see)
4 1,p5r son sol ! s stood high among US here
AND hundreds gathered at the last
tIney Qld-to see him fall
The dear old lady heaved a sob
And said, drying her eye:
All, well! Since he must be cut down,
L M glad he stood so hight
Bismarck Tribune
A certain amount of freshness is nat
ural and desirable in youth. but there is
a young man in social Washington who
is extensively and incurably fresh. saws
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 young woman from
ONO 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, II am the heir of all
the ages IN the foremost flies of time.
and | can't waste my precious moments
looking back, like Lots wife,
AT least" she responded with a
sweet lnslnuation, ''the result in the case
OF Lots wife could scarcely be possible
in yours"
Il don't quite understand he said.
groping for her meaning.
Dont you. remember she was turned
into pillar of salt?"
He understood it then, for wonder,
and somehow afterward the conversation
lost interest for him.
Callahan-''Oi think Sharkey is til best
foighter in tn wourld.'
Casey-'So do Oi!'
Callahan-"But Oh think Jeffries is a
better wan
Casey-"So do Oil"
Callahan-"Be hivens. How Oh got to
poke yez in tn jaw to shtart foight, We
fuler'-Puck
There's colony of bachelor maids in
fiat III New York. and while they have
n n hn civ he, ~,
as such been enthusiastic over their con-
ditlon Of freedom, one of them has
paused, as it were, to reflect She has
not said anything, but she has kept up
dickens of a thinking, and the other
day one of the compatriots discovered her
III brown study.
'HeEor' 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 your
Certainly. | was thinking how. long
it would take for q bachelor maid to he
come an Old-maid maid. Have you any
idea?"
"Um-er," hesitated the other girl.
well, no, / haven't I never quite
thought Of it in that way before"
At present that particular colony of
"b. MS is more or less perturbed ia
mind
Many stories, mostly fabrications, have
heen told about long, diffuse telegraphic
messages sent by women, as if the fem
mime mind were incapable of expressing
itself .concisely.
How false and slanderous such an i'm
preston is, is well known by an incl
de Mt reported by a contemporary. A
gentleman went to Paris on business. As
he went away he said something to his
wife about buying her new dress. Just
before starting h0meward he telegraphed
to his wife: (Which shall / bring you
a diamond ring or a silk dress?"
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 f1oor"
mop, on tn sixth floor. Briggsy 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 you,
and the boys agreed unanimously that
you was first choice"
WELL I'm much obliged, I'm sure,
but
t'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."
Is it a fight?'
NO, of course not. You don't snorc,
do you?"
TN stay awake tonight and find OUT
Don't get mad. Do you kick?'
III kick mighty soon if you don't let |
me know what in thunder you are driv-
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.
Out with it,
well, you see
Yes
You see we four have Clipped in an |
hired a whole bed in Kansas City for
the Democratic convention, and there's
room in it for just one more! What do
you ?"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A good one is told in the Atlanta Jour
nal on Decatur street pawnbroker
he kept seeing the words loom Paul.
IN the n1O+Arc without tho Z r,,Uor of+onh