The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-02-03
! Dineo from the Dino
BY
JA1ES BARTON ADAMS
HOW JANE GOT EVEN.

O9839933S33990
HowJ-sE GOT EVEN.
This ere Jake smith a 'iopted boy
That lived a4oag q the idder Mccoy
runt of }, uugsg.r undeEsixs.
Win bushy topknot over Lis eye,
He didt never have much 10 say;
J-s went around i'll a quiet way
A doin' the CHORES fur tn. widder. and
A lendiu' the ueignb"rs u helpin' hand
The boys % the village didn't take
In friendly manner To this ere Jake,
An one espscial iy-my boy Vance
Was picsin al him al every cnAnee.
Him bein a 'Gopted boy without
A parent that oIe kllo~ed sbouI
Made ali 0 the otners feel that he
Was below EN- social sla ndin' set7
The wldier put JAKE In the vilisg. school.
An he ,oJn showed plain that he "a
no fool.
Furt seemed no trouble for him t. p4ss
The other youngsters Ia every elias.
This riled my varee. an ne picked asnt
That cost Jake half o his usual sign.
one eye N busted out o his head
WAlcn ses sure accident folks al aid.
There sas some excitement in low one
dag
When Jake missiu. He'd run away
The reason beiu' because o the low
Down NAY that the younssters abused
him
An he ieft note on hi garret bed
Addressed to .hv sIdder IN which h. aid
He would sure get even with that hoy
Vance.
II he waited lifetime to git a cl.ai,,e.
The years passed ON, an never WORD
From the oue-eyed iu.away boy sas
heard.
An the gr1S-d up boys left their dalIi,s'
care
To seek far their bett.rin' here an TN re.
Ny boy lii out fur the city. aud
Was ruther ~idish, Understand,
An it hit me setter to hear that he
Had got arrested fur robbery
Is love dfe .m2" asks PHILADELPHIA
poetess. 1t usually is, and III many in
stances matrmony quIckly dispels il
In taking Farr Toogood for a husband
Deadwood girl had perhaps failed in
finding one that was just good enough
A man who appeared in Denver po-
lice court with badly bruised face told
the judge it was the result Of falling
from water wagon which vas perhaps
true.
A Western Congressman has paid
500 down for a subscription to his coun-
ty paper for the next hundred years. If
paper should follow such a man after
death it would not be at all necessary
to print it on asbestos paper.
When they made Colonel Bryan dsito
He simply said la staccato;
= am proud, | confess,
But | shawn't wear you dress
And his bushes would shame II tomato
The lecture he got from the judge afore
Pernouncn' sentence sure cut him sore.
An 1t stunned him a-pIenty when he got
The hull durn limit the law had s0t.
wandered why he severe
When the crime Want desersin' more'n
year
TIL caught look at one eye tha, showed
1t was artIfcial-an then knowei.
If Secretary Taft continues to so rapid
ly reduce his weight there may soon be
nothing left of him but bundle Of
presidential aspiration and a suit of mis-.
fit clothes.
The Rockefeller class is going to give
pink teas. This may arouse the fears OF
the righteous that it may yet drift into
the smoker" class, with four round pre-
hmiuaries aud main event.
Russia has GOO, 900 people of noble
birth, large percentage of whom are
acting in very ignoble manner.
For RRNT-rwo or three rooms, with
modern conveniences at 1919 Miner St.
Rent reas enable.
Miss Nettie Ellis, who has been study
ing in the Oberlin conservatory of music
Oberlin, Ohio, would like to have pu