The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-23
Moonlight in the Poplars
Being Dissertation by Private Burke on Love- Poverty and
War.
RUTHERFORD
war.
BY RUTHERFORD CORBIN.

1 went to see what my friend, the sport
ing editor, afterwards called King Kra-
mer's Triumph ana to endure twelve
minute event with fourteen seconds of
happening and afterward the high lights
and the popUiace of Salt Lake City; con-
sisting mostly of individuals from Provo.
New York, Des Moines, Ia. Ogden and
other suburbs having butted in and
grown tiresome. | sought the honleward
trail of pipe smoke and poplars to retro
spect-
In big walk carefully turned from the
incandescent and facing the natural fake
illumination l found on bench my ola
friend Private Burke. Seated on the bench
he was remarkably sober. and contem
plating the twilight and the pOplars by
the gate I safe beside him. Where is
Cassidy" said L
"A man must occasionally get sober"
said Private Burke, Ito become acquaint-
ed with himself. Cassidy was an imped-
imcnt- There are eleven ways of getting
over jag. Rule l.. shake your friends
you've too many. Rule IL. a Turkish
out of coin; rule v, and last which is me
FRIEND Cassjdys; and not copyrighted;
more booze, i1hc other six I've forgot.
But" added Private Burke. sole mniy.
its d long ways till payday. 50 let s
have a drink. he added, for it's hard
time / had finding YOU
Burke, ! asked. were YOU looking
for me-or at the moon-for. said |,
BY rights, sir, replied tbs honest
interruption 10 respectable sequence Of
narrative I should reply. Shall / re
ply? I Will GIVE Your friends that they
expect and not what they ned. You see
me :7ettin' here in the shade, alone. save
for a suspicious movement in each of the
dark spots adjacent Alone" added the
Private. thoushJfuily; you can be alone.
if yOu mind the signs. Don't throw
rocks at the pears under the trees: don't
pick up the peaches in the park. and
don't let EN- pick yo.- up he concluded.
Alone as II the ORG nal Orchard. And.
by the Wa. was il an apple or a lemon
or an abs'ntne the serpent set up? l
dunno said Private Burke. They say
tn, a"sinthe makes the heart grow fon-
der.
80. seem me ~ettin' alone SEE you to
Yourself. sez you. it's lonely is Tommy
Burke He is musing on the DAYS thai
were The moonlight silvers the poplars
saws you. and the band is playin There
is true lovers concealed in every shadow
and his heart tur..s back glmmering
seys you, in a dream of the days that
We're.
O7rom here on Laura Jean Libbey please
COpy)
You lock at me uniform, Mars, says
YOU: at the soul that's in every man,
whether he knows il or not. Venus says
YOU. and at the moon. The great mixer.
says you. He ought to be pinched and
not allowed in the park, says you. You
assume the combination of a hangover
and Chauncey- Olcott'' said Private
Burke (which is" he added. unfair to
assume
''Hay l borrow your tobacco and con-
tinue my efforts at reading your mind?
I've found it" said Private Burke
1T IS moonlight over the lake of Kill
Iarrey. Through the poplar the gentle
light Sits as dainty as a real lady picks up
her skirts. Terence is bidding Nora COCO
bye Terence is a manly lad with the
world before him. Nora has yellow hair
excuse me- interrupted Private Burke,
turned by the moonlight into spun gold
Her mouth IS Ike = rosebud It's June
and in the hedges the nightingales sing.
She SAYS, goodbye. my lover and my
King. You will come to back to me-" He
SAYS: The world is not wide enough nor
time long enough for me not to find you
again.
. Hearts of gold she says. never grow
old That's what l should be thinkin' -