Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-05


taniety about all his work that places 1t
on the high plane of real literature.
Among the poems reminiscent in
theme are ION Lonesome Avenue"
"wood Scents" my Fond Coquette,"
IAN Old Mans Comrades and "The
Maiden Fancy" all of which breathe
q tender sentiment Best of all in the
verses that reveal his exalted View
point of life. "Junetime," THE Mys-
terry" "A Lyric of Interludes," "The
Winners of Laurel and Never Mind"
are fine examples of this class of the
authors writings. In THE Cheerful
Heart" he says:
ask not gold
To hoard and hold
Beyond my need from day to day;
Nor wealth of lands
MY life demands.
Nor stocks and bonds to file away
Nor costly trophies of the mart.
And yet to riches 1 aspire,
One splendid Jewel I desire
Give me, o God, a cheerful heart!
Mr.. Love is best known by his dialect
verses and these are most original and
characteristics. They have a charm all
their own, although many of them are
set in the same key as poems by Eu-
gene Field and James Whitcomb Riley.
Every man who treasures the memory
of boyhood-and what man does not? Z?
will feel heart throb when he reads
"Back on Simmons Crick," "Jist Plain
jim 1.-THE Land of the Big Red APP
n
Went a-Fishing With and Back in
Old Mizzoury." Following is one Of
the poems that has been much copied:
THE PIKE COUNTY NEWS.
ABBY Subscriber in New York City)
You-all can read your Trybune, your Herald
and your Sun,
Chuck full of furrn nonsense, and talk
that's never done,
And what goes on in congress, at Wash
Where we pay politicianers to join that
jabbaree.
You can read your high-tone papers, with
tariff rates and rot,
And political palaver; but for me-Pd ruther
not
When I'm a-wantin' readin' I'm like as
little old Mizzoury sheet-the Pike coun-
ty News.
to death.
Nor pictures of disasters that makes you
hold your breath,
Nor any ornery poetry by some jimcrack
galoot
The editor was sorry for and didn't like
to Shoot
Nor it haint no blamed opinions things
you don't know what
And no man lvin understandable all
these sheets have got
It's just the plain old homespun facs
feller can peruse
When readin' in "A like the Pike Conn
ty News
1t makes me peart and chipper-like and
tones me up sight.
All week [ ben perusin of these picture
sheets they sell
Here in Moo York. but mostly gets their
Or some'eres in that latitood, and serves it
To scar the souls of youngsters, and spite
them like not.
I tell you. when the mail man comes a-Fri-
days l enthuse.
For / know he's got the sheet l want-the
Pike County News.
1 grab that paper eager and hustle for
And when l yank the wrapper off there's
always perfume
OF good old Country Campbell press and
Purt' nigh intoxicatin' as raal old-fa
ion drink
the aromer in
1t beats your French sham-pag-ne and it
lays all over gin
No use to drown myself in drink to chase
away the blues:
Jist gimme this old sofy and the Pike Coun-
ty News.
wy, here's the Personal" column that tells
how Homer Smith
Has gone to take his bridal tower-and
who he TUX 1t with:
And how Max Michael's in Moo York, a-layin'
in his stock
(I'il hunt him up and chin him. II II takes
till twelve o'clockD
And how Ras Pearson, that knowed when
he was bout fourteen.
Is states attorney now and fights "the ring"
at Bowlin' Green.
These things is all important, and ever one
II didn't pay my dollar for the Pike
County News.
And here's a piece about VIII Gray. that
used 10 The Press
when | done local ON It and made holy
He's got 10 be the probate jedge and passes
on estat's-
lucky journalist, for now he gets the legal
He used to offer me advice bout what he
And when | mentioned litratoor he said
''Now. Iook-ee here;
You'll only starve to death at that; think
well before you choose"
But stl | live on litratoor--the Pike
County News.
wy. here's a picture OF Dave Ball. a Teller
that was raised
'LonRside OF punkins I'm the fields; I'm not
n-tall amazed
To read that he's candidate for gov'nor
of the state.
For that's the kind o eornstalks that has
the runnn' gait;
And when he gifts elocted--as you better
believe he'll git
I'm headin' for Mizzoury. to strike him for
a sit;
hsnker for sinecure, a job where l can
snooze
And sit my breath and sal'ry. and the
Pike County News.
This page is where the marriages and births
and deaths is found;
There amt name that / don't know from