Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-02-26

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oh, doleful was my heart to-day
AS l came Flooding down the way
The world. a cold and heartless hag-
was holding back her bone and ragi
Depressed and melancholy's core,
1 paused beside an open door,
Ny moody eyes took in the view
And met woman coming through.
Decrepit, old and torn and gray,
She staggered out upon her way.
Upon her weak and rounded back
She held unsteadily a sack
The gift Of charity and slur
The grudging agent gave to her.
And as she passed me. swaying by,
I caught the pleading in her eye.
The dumb appeal that hunters meet
With stricken rabbits at their feet.
And in the throng's unbaffled rage
Unkempt and foul and torn with age.
She tottered on beneath her load
To squalor and her foul abode.
And I, oh, migrate. signing NOPE
I oped the f1oodgates wide to HOPE.
I threw the portals wide to TRUTH
And thanked my God for LOVE and
YOUTH!
For STRENGTH and HEALTH and
WILL TO DO
And TRIUMPH ere the fight is
through!
Not in Her Case.
Rhoda is a physicians daughter and
at the philosophical age. Not long
ago she was playing with a little
friend at the home of a neighbor
The little friends mother being of a
religious turn of mind, was explaining
to the children from whence all bless
ings flow.
Everything you eat, drink or
wear she said, admonishing the chill
dren, comes from God and you
should be thankful to him fer it ALL
"Oh, no it doesn't please, Mrs. Ora
ham," interposed Rhoda. "At least
not at our house. My papa is doc
tor and he has to work awfully hard
for everything we get!"
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HighbaIIs.
Some men make more per day beg
ging than others by using q college
education.
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eff you must fall in love-" says an
exchange, "pick out a soft place to
land" Oh, l don't know; there are
lots of orphans left yet!
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If ever we go to war with China,
Uncle Sans army will be composed
entirely of hired girls. If they can't
smash China, no soldiers need apply.
An optimist is man whose winter
coal bills are paid and whose bank
account still has balance enough to
pay for an Easter bonnet and an ice
book.
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A man may call his wife the old
lady" to her face innumerable times
and she likes it, but let him make that
break behind her back when he thinks
she doesn't hear him, and she does!
Poor man!
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One of those monkey-doodle Michi-
gan fellers says man in his midst
drank a quart of wood alcohol and
when he came to he was out in tho
woodshed saving wood, Knotty!
knotty!
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Just about now, when a man is
reasonably happy and contented, some
forward villain has to insert an adj
vance advertisement in the home
paper: Watch for our announcement
of new Easter Hats"
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When a young man is sparkling
young woman, he will hang around
church for her three times a week.
After they are married, he growls
every time she mentions religious SER
vices. One would almost think he had
crouch because he spent so much
time wooing her there
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A Chicago News philosopher says
homely wife is better than one that
isn't home much. One good scheme is
to watch the weather report and when
the weather is to be wet and stormy.
ask your wife to come on down town
and take dinner with you. After get
ting wet and bedraggled few times.
she will learn to love her home and
stay there
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OVERRIDING.
The editor of the Andrews Qnd
Signal is SompfhipC of a