Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23


ZAP Bixby, Burt Lesion Taylor, S. E.
klser and myself are going to spend
the summer months. Goethe says,
On every mountain height is rest"
This high altitude laxitv is all right
for some of the literati, but others
are insisting there shall be no
saloon in the valley" They want it
on the mountain top, where they can
buy cracked ice at a nominal figure
Last summer Burt Taylor, The
'Line-otType" man, went to Grand
Marias to cure a bad attack of IN
p" nervous prostration). He is now
busily engaged in saving enough
bands to insure a second summer at
this popular resort. 1t is understood
he will not have the same Indian
guide this season. Chief Splatter-
water, who "canoed" him about last
summer is no more. At AIDES sug-
gestion he mounted the famous water
wagon, fell off and broke his neck
AIDE will further combat IN. P" by
keeping flowers on Splatterwater's
grave during the open season.
ZAP Bixby will soon repair to his
summer residence at Medicine Hat.
1t will be remembered that Medicine
Hat is where the billiards. originate.
In summer it is as cool as the proven
bal swine on CONCEALED water. Blk"
has had a new bathrobe built and
will "cut some ice' with his pencil
during the torrid months.
Mr.. Kiser is preparing to set sail in
his "a1fprOofinp He oOoc
on one current and returns on the
other. The objective point is Utopia.
Opie Read will soon leave Chicago
for "Jucklins' Roost," where he will
be the biggest cock of the walk One
of the chief delights at the ''Roost"
is the mineral spring, along the rivu-
let of which mint juleps grow pro-
fusely. Mr.. Read will he Companion
ed during his trip by "a gentleman
from Kentucky" and the governors
of North Carolina and South Carolina.
You will recall what they said to each
other.
George AIDE will continue to tour
the states in his automobile, THE
Little Whooping Cough" returning
now and then to see that no time is
lost in his fable" factory. 1t is under
stood there is the prospect of strike
in the factory during the hot summer
months. The fables insist they are
being overworked, but Mr. AIDE,
knowing the rapacious appetite of the
"Whooping Cough" insists he can
afford no increase in wages. 1t is
suggested that board of arbitration,
consisting of Charles Eugene Banks,
Clutch" and Gerald Sullivan be ap-
pointed to settle the difficulty.
James Montague, on our recommen-
dation, will visit Waxelbaumville,
Minnesota, "the place where the big
fish grow" He will take cottage for
the summer, observe all the rules and
ride on the railroad velocipede to
Lakeville for supplies. If said sup
plies drop out of his pistol pocket, hit
the railroad track and spill, he will
also hit the track and return with
more supplies. We have furnished
him with a map of the swimmin' hole
and have loaned him our treatise on
How to be Lively and Catch Frogs"
That he will thoroughly enjoy his
vacation there can be no doubt. Board
reasonable.
AS for us, we had intended going
abroad to our Cupola at Sketches (ac-
cent on the second 'e'), Italy. Owing
to a misunderstanding caused by our
corporate manager butting in, we
have altered our plans slightly, and
will remain in the city with our wife
who has been on her vacation
and who is lonely when we are far
away. We have found much comfort
in these words by John S. Dwight:
REST is not quitting the busy career:
Rest is the fitting of self to its
Friends who seek us, therefore,
during the oozy summer days, will
find us busi1y engaged in fitting our
self to our sphere. First door to the
right, ground floor. Ask, the Office
boy.
Somehow the terbacker in my oil
pipe never tastes like the other fell
ler's smells Uncle By.
Strange, isn't it, how many writer's
have put imaginary flowers in the
lustrous hair of imaginary women
and we continue to like seeing them
there. Must be there is a great ap-
in this, splendid affin-
ity of roses and soft, luxurious coils.
The climax is reached, however, by
a spontaneous dreamer who tells us
not only of the odorous rose, but of a
beautiful inamorata's fragrant hair,
New kind of dandruff cure probably.
But anyhow, it suggests something
like this:
Oh she wore in her hair rose
At the dreamy twilight's close;
A fragrant rose. blush red rose
rose chose my own sweet love.
And yet her fair and fragrant hair
the rose 1 scented therei
The rose exhaled a rich perfume
Its rapturous odorr filled the room
But dropping. died in meek despair
Beneath the incense of her hair!
Ca
Mrs. Amanda Caskie Thomas, who |
ever she is. of New York, considers
81 900 a year for the gowns of So |
ciety woman low figure. And still |
we wonder at the increase of bache-
Iors!
According to the newspapers, a |
Philadelphia woman, stopping in Chi
cago, lost her diamond stomacher at
L theater. Is it anything like liver
pad?
1t is not labor that makes city |
nan round-shouldered it is settling
he question of ITO tip or not to tip"
hat waiter
10
THE EDITOR
When wives agree, and husbands might |
There seems but little news to write:
And yet he tolls at awful pace
There's still the vexing negro race!
A wife who has been niggardly