The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-06

J ig DAILY CALENDAEt,I NlAttCti lOtn. III
n 19O3-senator Barksdale's pure elections
4 bill postponed by the House Of Delegates
1876 Postponed some more. \,
5ayvarning-pr r. crastinaHon is the THIEF
| Of time. aE & I'll; iss
Maud Muller as the snow fell down,
| Took UP the notion to go to town
| The grass had faded and so had the hay
she htched UP the oxen and hied away
| She wanted to see what there was IN store
| She passed Judge Campbell and what
was more, ' 54f6 g5s !. (,
IIe stood near the spring and mopped his
hair, III 4.
And said as he gaspcd, he couldn't sec see
such reports could be given with evil
IS dence IN
That tended to make a good Judge Of him.
Maud wept n few weeps as the team ran
! down. b
| The good Judge sprarg from his Mule to
And said as he gazed in her face SO fair,
| That11f 1t panied her he didn't care.
| Thon he looked away back. In the dis
tant past 5$ I
AS he squeezed her hand in a mighty
grasp, Z. !. @jg,
"1'll get on top again. no said. IS
ALTHOUGH I'm gone. am not dead
Then he got on his mule and rode away,
And Maud went back to her faded hay.
we don't see why, because the mercury
went Up to 90 degrees without warning,
that everybody should stop US on the
street and ask us why we didn't throw
away our spring overcoat # n
It don't seem to us to be pertinent to
the question. s{, 4,
The overcoat Is ours, and we have worn
It SO long that the man won't take IL
back. We might be wearing the over
coat because We want to keep It from the
burglars who break into our home every
now and then to carry off valuables. 81
Or we might be wearing It to let the
public know that we have an overcoat z
There are various reasons that we
might advance as to why we continue to
wear our overcoat. While other people
appear IN their straw hats.
we have good and sufficient reasons
but in order to ally the alarm displayed
by our friends we will say that the main
reason is that we have worn our trousers
for a long time. because we like the cut
Of them, and by constantly sitting on
the benches in the park we have every
reason to Believe that we look better
with our overcoat on than we would
without, because our undercoat Is short
one. - I'D
We understand, anyhow, that It's going
to turn cold again just as suddenly as
1t turned warm.
Johnnie got papa s gun ono day,
And went with the boys out to play
Flowers are on his grave, they say: q 4
Little Johnnie got too gay. .t
y Mr. Clyde W. Saunders Is now liking
arrangements about his flower garden.
He has received his usual package Of
seeds from, washington. and has made
up his rows so that when the seeds
sprout out they will present beautiful
effect.
He has posted notice on his front
fence, warning all children to keep OF
the grass, and he has purchased an air
gun, so that 1t Is quite likely this SUM
mer that he will have plenty OF fried
chicken for breakfast I'll
We are going to try to stand in with
Mr.. Saunders, for we are fond Of fried
chicken ourself. z
The noise in Monroe Park the other
night, which kept people for blocks
around awoke. was nothing serious.
It was just Mr.. Johnnie Lauer and MT.
Charlie Traheri having q wrestling match
with Mr.. Sidney Gates and Dir. Charlie
Magnonl as referees and bottle holders
Nobody was hurt. for the ground was
soft.
Another match is being arranged for,
we unders tand, for some time In the near
l ~ q 2 - = HARRY TUCKER.