Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-02
Pi-LineS and Pick-UpS
The Tourists

The Tourists
Over mountain and through valley,
From the city street and alley.
They are coming by the thousands to
the place of ever-spring;
From the cold and snow and freezing,
Lands of cough and sneeze and wheeling
Are they hiking by the train load-every
day new hordes will bringl
Where Jack Frost is king they shiver,
And the breeze Off lake, sea, river,
Penetrates unto their marrow and they
pray for warmer CLINE:
Flannels, overcoats and mufflers
Bring but small relief to SUFFERS
SO they journey to this region, whero
the weather is sublimel
Far away from icy blizzard
That will freeze ones very gizzard
They are coming like an army, where
the flowers bloom all year;
Where the orange and banana
Seem to them real heavens mama,
And the soft and golden sunshine thaws
their hearts with summers cheerl
oh. no more the coal bills worry,
And no more the furnace-fiurry,
For on Christmas they will revel in
the roses of their June;
And on New Years, to the ocean,
They will pledge their hearts devotion
With a dip into the briny--and no one
will say: "You loonr'
Hence from east and north they're com
ing;
You can hear the car wheels humming,
AS across the trackless desert to this
paradise they roar:
And we welcome them most gently
Much we have, and that in plenty
Come, ye weary, cold-racked peoples
there is room for more and morel
If Taft will Just straddle the isthmus
and jump real hard, the ensuing crack
in the landscape will be all the canal
ever needed.
Carnegie wants to back a league of
nations. He might help out the Pa
cific Coast league while he's at it; it
needs help.
President McCurdy denies all charges
of extravaganza Probably he believes
there's nawthin too good for th'
Irish"
Palm-It ought to be fine to be u
poet.
Piue-Yes, but fine and imprisonment
both would be about right for some OF
em.
An Oregon county. Mo-, paper is rum
ming serial 1t calls "A Description of
He'll" The st. Louis city council is
said to be furious.
Well, where do the grand dukes
come in now?
The "off" part of the czar's family
name of Romanoff seems to be quite
appropriate at present.
Wanted-one dove of peace. Address
Nick Romanoff, ex-czar, Peterhof, Rus
sia-Quick!
If the car really wants to slay his
people, he might import few Los An
geles autos. They know their busi-
ness.
Miss Orange-Is she unmarried?
Miss Lemon-Yes; twice.
William Allen White says an "omin-
Gus quiet" is what's the matter with
Kansas" just at present. Amt it
aWtul?
The Equitable will choose thirteen
directors on December 13. No wonder
it's in hard luck
Sootty's Fate
He tackled the sands of the desert
They carried no terrors for him;
He oercame their thirst, heat and
hunger,
He robbed them of gold with a vim.
The burro, untamed and unruly,
He made both slave and friend;
A pet and companion his "Slim" is
Nor fears he Sims" active rear end.
He bucked UP against railroad traffic,
He conquered the engine and train;
He flashed cross the land like comet;
Speed limit he viewed with disdain!
Then he tackled the auto-alas, yes. I
He wouldn't be warned! Now, his
place
Is bed of deep sorrow and suff'ring-
He came, saw, was conquered! Dis
grace W. H.C