The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-08
THE PIkERs' LAMENT.
THE BAREFoorED BOY.

TIE PIkERS' LAMENT.
THE BAREFOOTED BOY.
! The bare-footed boy is here once more
Stunning the house and its open door,
And his feet are pressed by mother earth.
| AS he patters along with reckless mirth-
Teachers rejoice at the cheerful news
| That John and Willie have left their shoes
At home on the porch, quite soiled and
worn,
Or under the bed till Sunday morn
For they know that shoes on restless boys
VIII oft try their nerves with rasping
noise,
And know as we'll as they ever will
That boys at school will seldom keep still.
The bare-footed boy is here again,
Rejoicing in wind, and dust and rain.
Like playful fawn in the forest park.
And proud as a steed and gay as lark
He's one step nearer to Nature now,
But tarries not asking why or how,
AS he speeds toward the brook, the wood
and the flowers,
All Needless of care and the swift fleeing
hours.
Yes, the bare-footed boy is abroad today,
And is ready as ever to skip and play;
For Of fun, il seems, he never is tired.
And TO lead in the race has ever aspired-
Thus still will it be in future times.
And when the poet cons his simple rhymes
His soul viii be radiant with unwonted
joy,
AS in spirit he follows the bare-footed
boy.
GEO D. PHILLIPS.
Oklahoma City, Aprii2 1903.
EDITORS NOTE:-To fully appreciate
this poem, it will be necessary for the
reader to lay it carefully away until
about next June or thereabout. A bare
foot boy these days would stand q fair
chance OF having his toes frozen.
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One thing at least can be said Of the
Clearwater band. Its members are
nervy lot. They got right out on Douglas
avenue yesterday aud played Hiawatha.
:..O-O..:
At the present prices, stealing water
melons is serious business. A jury of
twelve farmers who lost their melon crop
might consider it penal offense-
j ..(o).. l.
A Coffeyvilie preacher announces that
he has returned from his vacation and
will talk on Christ disposed Of" Farmer
Georgevitch Doolittle says: 1T seems to
me that the devil would have done that
while the preacher was away"
& &
LANGLEYS aerodrome is a regular
fish. 1T abhors air and takes to water.
S....()
Shaw wants an elastic currency, but the
elasticity In the postoffice department
will do the people for a while.
10. .(o)-
If Langley EVER gets his Aerodrome
above the surface, ne should ANCHOR it
there.
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Yesterday was a legal holiday. and no
government official can afford to work,
and it is well that the weather man kept
his office locked up and hied himself to
the tall timber and underbrush, for the
weather bird heard some very mean re-
marks about the kind of goods the
weather man dished up for the celebration
of the laboring man. The wind just
howled and the dust whistled. The union
men declared that the weather man didn't
belong to the international Brotherhood
Of Dispensers of Rain and Sunshine, or
he would have opened another bottle and
IL would have been dry goods without
trimmings instead of clouds, wind and
dust.
Yesterday was a whole lot better than
some labor days, and the weather man
thinks today will be better circus day
than the last one was. When the weather
man said that he expected hot. but dry
weather for today, he grew seven inches
taller In four minutes, in the small boys
and the circus man sent three
comps" with reserved seat coupons to
the weather office. Taking everything in
to consideration, yesterday was a good
day for a celebration 1t is proper on
the Fourth of July, Labor Day and big
picnics to have the girls who wear white
dresses to change TO a muddy color be-
fore night and every collar that does
not wilt must be constructed of celluloid
rubber or leather. Ditto circus day. And
the necessary rain came along at the
proper time. Eagles EXPERT Weather
Regulator.
:-(-)-'
Servian officers demanding that army |
officers who slew their king and queen |
be court-martialed. have been arrested |
WHAT A LOVELY PLACE Servia would |
be for anarchists.
..(&)-(&)..
For the TRUE article of poetry, the fol-
owing from the Blackwell Record is re- |
spectfuly submitted:
Corn Cutting Just Beginning,
Hay Making Season is On,
Grapes Getting Ripe,
Most of the Fall Flowing About Done.
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