Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-10-05
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The Man About T-nu,r,

taS wan <ADoLL own,
In the Shade ofthe Old Apple Tree
Where you hear the sweet hum ofthe bee
With gun and a knife
have owned all my life,
am waiting and watching for thee.
Revolvers have two or three.
And an axe that is sharp as can be,
And Ill use oil these things
On the first man that sings,
In the Shade of the Old Annie Tree
a grand banquet tonight at theWar-
ner House by the G. O.P. An old
Democrat says the desert will proba-
ply be mineral water.
Politics is booming and soon the
spellbinder will be heard from the
court house steps to the head waters of
Hicks Run; from the snake caped sum
init of Bryan Hill to the scrub oak
borders of Sizerville, the glad hand
and Pittsburg stogie will meet YOU
from the candidate, but after election
1t Will be the marble face and I DON'T
know you.
would not die in autumn
When candidates are treating
And buckwheat cakes and sausage
Make mighty healthy eating.
Secret and quick movements were
observed one day the past week by
one of the delegates to the Free Metho.
dist convention held here. Some bows
had lot of advertising matter in the
shape of 81 Green Backs, which at q
distance looked quite natural. Thew
stuck one in a crack in the side walk
near the church, and when one of the
gentlemen passed, he saw it and pick
IL mp, With look east and west, north
and south, he deposited it in his panta-
looms pocket with a move that would
have made the fly wheel to a carlesg
engine blush.
uncle Pete Beattie says there is nc
need of people having bad teeth, al
though walking around on borrowed
time his are as sound ae q dollar. He
drinks no warm drinks, eats no acids.
cleanses them every day and when he
goes to bed at night, puts them in 8
glass ofcold water. Peter is a philoso-
pher. He says science is getting toe
progressive, it is doing everything for
a man but pay his debts and keep ci-
gar makers from using corn husks for
wrappers. He sighs for the good old
days when hog and hominy was the
diet and baked beans and Johnny cake
made q Thanksgiving dinner. "Oa.
meal mush, graham gems and pepsin
he entirely eschews, but has to eat
them when he is tired and cannot de-
tend himself; but when he is called and
they hold a post mortem, ne don't
want the doctors to find an houored
citizen filed with bran.
person walking along the Riato
evenings see many white robed maidens
and the scions of the first familiar, with
pants creased to their ears and bodies
circled with patent leather circingle
walking arm in arm. The soft music
of the phonograph playing in some
near by house, floats gently on the
breeze and in imagination, he sees the
Rivera or the gardens of the vaticans-
when he reaches the bridge near How
ards store and gets Whit of the tan
merry and hears the gentle, tingle Of
the COW bell across the creek, his i'm
agination ends
Brother Blume over at his bachana-
ton resort has a Plymoth Rock hen
that on Monday was observed picking
up stray tacks around the yard. The
next day she laid a carpet.
The brown month of October hangs
softly over the mountains, along the
banks of West Creek, the cottonwood
and willow have turned to gold, the
dark green of the scrub oak is farther
back against the autumn sky and a
thousand gorgeous dyes have spread
over the dying summer and you caE
buy bed bug tonic and arnica at God
sons pharmacy. Old time is our
master; soon we will be called TO the
great beyond, either in pereon erby
proxy and shake hands with those we
lent five shillings in the long ago.