The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-05-21

WHAT'S tnut yeW say! wen, III pe |
swished!
might a-guessed their hidln' place |
Bs' ] viii beat them cusses yet,
Er give 'em quite n lively race.
Why. bless your heart. it's fishin time
It's been, o gist n little late
But now ~ hull burned town is out
Afshih er diggin' bait!
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Hope.
Alexander the Great once gave
away all his early possessions. Re-
monstrated with at his liberality, he
cried:
Have not hope left!"
This mirage of the mind is won
derful quality Looking through hopes
horoscope one sees the auroia borealis
and whole litter OF possibilities.
Without hope there is only dun col
ored taste in the mouth and long"
ing for dyspepsia tablets.
A man devoid of hope is like
Fourth of July with no red lemonade.
Where there is hope there can be no
endeavor-where there Is no endeav-
or there is torpid liver and pros
pect OF catching smallpox.
Occasionally is met an Individual
whose lamp of life Is only smudging,
but hope dies hard.
''The wretch condemn'd with life to part
Still, stiTl on hope relies;
And every pang That rends the heart
Bids expectation Tise"'
Hope in youth Is twin brother to
Confidence. Later in life Confidence
is banged in the eye considerably, but
Hope remains buoyant. man VIII
cling 20 hope long after his physicians
have gravely shaken their heads, cred
itors have gulped down all, Death has
set his seal upon loved ones face
and the fish have quit biting!
Work with hope becomes task
half dome; without hope how the yoke
gals and the sfnews strain to ach-
ingl
Hope springs eternal in the hui
man breast"
Without this saving grace, this ex-
pectant rose dream, life would be one
! prolonged spasm of cat fights. Hope
! is the great panacea by the Grand
Philosopher of Life!
1 Tickle Grass.
Jokes that have no point never
prick anybody.
1t is unwise to expect cne fish to
love the fisherman.
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1t is so much easier TO be poor than
| to get rich that is why most of us are
still poor.
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1t is better to leave your name be-
mind you written in water than in
whisky.
If your boy is lazy and won't work
Ire may be genius. Perhaps, he may
be even poet.
How sweet it Is 10 know that by
living we have made other lives
brighter and better.
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woman believes everything that
a fortune teller tells fler except that
she will not marry rich man.
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The Iowa Soy who stole five cents
and was sent TO the reformatory. must
change his tactics to get into the plu'
tocratic class.
An editor Of the name of Williams
is already preparing the Fourth OF
July celebration in Rawlins, Wyo
You cant lose man of that name!
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The man who Is following the
Rooseveltian idea of families and has
20 buy shoes. shoHld be thankful that
babies haven't as many feet as cent?
pedes.
What wfey called her new gown
was "a perfect poem" To report here
what her husband called it when he
got the bill, would bar this newspaper
from the mails.
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We know not why one mans yawn-
ing makes another yawn, and yet ave
know that often we yawn at seem g
another yawn. Frequently we yawn
together. Is there yawn bacilli In the
air?
The investor doesn't seem to be
showing any particular desire to go
out and swim this spring. Probably
| ne rSHeHlptrS HoW wei the WhlSr III
the stock was the last time he took
plunge.
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A man who can court and win a
modern city girl. pay for theater tick
cts, dinners and flowers, can support
wife all right by cutting out the
pre.nuptial expenses such AS have
enumerated.
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During the recent big snowstorm,
Harry X. Thaw took especial delight
in shoyeling snow, we are told.
suppose Harry was rejoicing in the
thought that just about then he might
have been shoveling coal.