The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-02-10
!. Dinco from the Dino
4 JAMES BARTON ADAMS
A COWBOYS NIGHT THOUGHTS.

th-gll .hy sS.y by day.
Thoughts that finger round le hesrt-strings I'll
teller oFn feels
Tender ike an queer sensation. from his head
clear 20 ht- hes
-i.eds his oruery Daylight sildness sheds HI.
every though; o sin
A.the rsi, esusk- in the sprinstime sheds II.
outer winter -ki'4.
in. there's voices s=-In 20 reach him In = son A.
tender tone
Hhea iellers ridin' night-herd al siour
Hears the voice O thai o. mother whi.perin To
hIsa ia the night
From the gh1,'ly slient shadders in The din
srz-. tsinkliu' light;
ofthat mother who was carried % her last eter-
nal rs;
>ince he quit the Of home ranges fur the rang.
o the w-.t
HrArs be- szyia' a. she used to; Now l lry
ne dow. 70 sleep
When II at her feet was kneelin, Pray IT,
tori my soul to keep"
A. his SOU s---ms tuned in ke-pin with u
bFe--za. npUr' ful moan,
When feller's ridin night herd all alone
He kin -ee hs happy boyhcod. ere within h..
youthful bresst
Flamed the fires o mad ambition fur 8 wild life
in the west
An when he in his unrire manhood, from the 'ol
home turned his face.
He Kin her tear drops talin'. feel her quvrin
last embr ace,
An the st nt'u' spurs o. conscience cut him deep
toth.uk how he.
Driven by false ambition. caused her years 81
misery.
An the spurs sink deep an deeper till they cut
him To the bone.
Whena feller's ridin' night herd all alone
Nothing ever takes the " idness from rider O. the
range.
So,niu' ever bum hes feeiin in his bosom queer
an strange
Like the thoughts thai come driftiL' down
the irail ia noiseless fight.
PoiuIIn' their feprovin fingers through the shs3-
deto he night,
An he wishes he could wake an find it all a dream
an hear
once again the mothers unset faIin' On his
list'uiu ear;
O. the thoughts that comes troopin in would
melt heart Of stone,
When "a feller's ,idI' night herd all alone
Too thoughlless men alas regard with cold
di>dsiu
lAe women " nom Inc astfr made win features
coarse and plain;
Deny them the attentions they bestow on other
whom
He favored with rsre confines. as fresh as
flowers in bloom.
They never stop to call To mind the words with
fhth 10 lraueht
That Beauty is but skin d1ep''-neyer give 1t
e'ena thought
Else they might realize the fact that many a
queen of grace
And angel nature holds The fort behind a homes
face,
An eastern editor has discovered that
in ancient times kissing pretty girl
was a cure for headache, and he wants to
see the cure again become popular.
1t is surely worth a trial.
Kansas man who went to mix the
COW was found sitting on the pail and
milking on the stool, and his action wss
attributed to absent mindedness. Per-
haps it might more appropriately come
under the head OF presen, booziness.
The Mothers Magazine asks; How
shall We entertain the children on Sunday
afternooue" Ifthey are real good dur
ing the forenoon and their parents are
orphans, they nigh, enjoy being taken
to see their grandparents graves.
1t some observatory will allow Poult-
ney Bigeiow the use of its telescope for
a few moments we would like to have his
expert opinion of the canals on Mars.
Sir Oliver Lodge, scientist, says the
sun will be cold in 400 900 900 years.
We have sufficient worry of home pro-
duction, Sir Oliver. without having
worry forced across the water.
/ The Washington surgeons think that
the man who has had a rabbits eyes
grated in his head will be able to see.
II he should see with the vision Of rab-
bit ii would ainuse the small boys to see
him light out for hiding place every
time he saw dog.
Two heads are never better than one in
that cold gray dawn of the morning
after"
! Theodore Roosevelt has been made a
Red Man and William Jennings Bryan
has been N .de Miudauoa datto, We
may next hear that Grover Cleveland has
been made presiden, Of Woman's club
! oh gaze al that heaven wrought visiout" We
| cried
To the maid from the Eastlsud who xtood a,
our side,
"Ihose mountains ali capped with their helmets