Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-06
Pi-Lines and Pick-IIns
HELPS

Helps
On every little helps" he sang;
re was an optimist;
Ne thought that he was en- sinoere
On IT, the Book. he'd kissed.
on every little heIpst" Perhaps
IL you're wise to the game
Ihat chap, tho has raised his tune
Since his first baby camel
IueSuay VIII demonstrate that there
vs. olnerence between enthusiasm and
votes. ei'u
Shonts says there are no chinese
working on the Panama canal Ie
anyone else? "i' 10
The Chinese army Is so mproved tb,t
soon 1t will be fit to use the nordar
Chinese invented. p'"u''
Are political f1oaters NOT ,.,,.u..
from the submerged tenth?
Palm-Has she eyes like a dove7
Pepper-No; feet; she's pigeon-toed
Now Thaw will get a show in the
New York yellows again.
IL wise VOter tnat recognizes his
own ticket on that blanket ballot.
w. d. Howells might include cam
palgn speeches in his list of useless
noises.
me, too" says Marlborough to Boni.
The New York Times asks: "who
made Hearst possible7" He isn't.
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Rather Quiet at Present
There amt much news in this neigh.
borhood at present. Mrs Fred Hast
ings was taken down with pains i'm The
back one day last week, and Frank
Walton lost one of his most valuable
horses as a result of drinking bad
water. James Olson, who has been
working for Fred Whitfield all sum.
mer has changed places and accepted
a job with man eight miles east of
| here, whose name we do not know
James has our sincere congratulations.
as we think he has much better lob.
News of any consequence in the citv
| is quite scarce at present.-Hilton Cor.
Mayfeld (Mo.) News.
The straw hat season is over: tho
straw vote season soon will be.
Secretary Shaw says money was
dangerously plentiful last summer
Notice it?
You can't Judge woman's wealth
by the size Of her pocketbook.
|
Olive-Where did she meet him?
Peach-She didn't; she overlook him.
Faith, hope and charity: these three.
But the greatest bluff is charity.
Trains to New York are all crowded
now. Mrs. Sage is giving away money.
The average drink bill in America
is $1.50 week. Some must exceed the
average a great deal.
Salton sea may be conquered. but
Salt river will engulf a lot of men
| this week.
Ye Gentle Voter
He went unto the polls to vote; twas
early m the day.
He thought hid soon get rid of 1t and
| go his busy way.
They handed him a ballot; Il was folded 4
| very neat, 80 t-fE
And to a booth they slowed him. that
he there might scan the sheet.
He limbered up his good right arm; un-
folded it with glee
| He knew whom he would ballot for; no
hidebound chap was he!
| A ticket split in many parts he planned
| should be his there,
And so he full prepared to read that
ballot with great care.
He opened fold on fold of it; he opened
page on page,
But still the ballot grew on him with
each unfolding stage;
Till finally it filed the booth, and spilled
out on the floor,
While every time he looked at it, 1t larg-
grew, and more!
The man astounded was. and scared; was
| hedged about with fear;
He wondered if he'd made an error;
should he vote in here?"
He asked; they told him that me must.
Back to the pen he went,
And. wond'ring thro' that maze of paper
gazed at 1t intent
A Chinese puzzle twas to him, with cir
cles, names and squares;
TL more he studied out the maze, the
deeper were his swears.
A cross due there. a cross due here; no,
that was wrong, he thought;
Should he erase a name or not? He won
dered If he ought
He read 1t up, he read it down; he read
it across and back;
The more he puzzled DER the sheet, the
more it's sense did lack;
He bit his pencil quite in two; he
chewed the rubber stamp;
He cussed and prayed and howled and
ragged, and threatened to decamp.