Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
The Busy Natives.

TIL depot platform er tn stove,
But 1 can't find tn cuss tail
Since buds is Dustin in tn grove.
Cy Jones is gone. an Billy Black,
An Grandpap Higley's missin', too!
I wonder where them fellers is
That used L sit around an chew?
TIL hull blamed town is sorter still
They's not a soul about, by kraut,
Fer me Z talk er argue with
What air them pesky sllunks about?
What's that yew say? Well. I'll be
swished!
I might a-guessed their hidin' place
Be 1 will beat them cusses yet,
Err give 'em quite a lively race.
Why, bless your heart, it's fshin' time
It's been, gist little late
But now tn hull burned town Is out
A-flshin', er a diggin' bait!
G @ Q
Hope.
Alexander the Great once gave
away all his early possessions. Re-
monstrated with at his liberality, he
cried:
Have 1 not hope left"
This mirage of the mind is won
derful quality. Looking through hopes
horoscope one sees the aurora borealis
| and a whole litter of possibilities.
Without hope there is only dun col
ored taste in the mouth and a long
ing for dyspepsia tablets.
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 a torpid liver and pros
| pect of catching smallpox.
Occasionally is met an individual
whose lamp of life is only smudging,
but hope dies hard.
1.-THE wretch condemn'd with life to part
| Still, still ON hope relies;
| And every pang that rends the heart
Bids expectation rise!"
Hope in youth is twin brother to
Confidence. Later in life Confidence
is banged in the eye considerably, but
Hope remains buoyant. A man will
cling to 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 a task
half done; without hope how the yoke
gals and the sinews strain to ach-
ing!
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!
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Tickle Grass
Jokes that have no point never
prick anybody.
| Z 4 =
| 1t is unwise to expect the fish tt
love the fisherman.
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1t is so much easier to be poor thar
to get rich, that is why most of us are
still poor.
1t is better to leave your name be
hind you written in water than IL
whisky.
If your boy is lazy and won't work
he may be a genius. Perhaps, he ma.
be even poet.
How sweet it is to know that b
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brighter and better.
& Z Z
A woman believes everything tina
a fortune teller tells her except tina
! she will not marry rich man.
Z Z Z
The Iowa boy who stole five cent
and was sent to the reformatory, mus
change his tactics to get into the pit
tocratic class.
An editor of the name of William
is already preparing the Fourth c
July celebration in Rawlins, Wye
You can't lose man of that name!
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The man who is following tn
Rooseveltian idea of families and ha
to buy shoes. should be thankful tina
babies haven't as many feet as cent
pedes.
, What WHEY called her new gov
$ was "a perfect poem" To report her
what her husband called it when h
got the bill, would bar this newspape
; from the mails
N = r =
n We know not why one mans yawI
= ing makes another yawn, and yet W
'e know that often we yawn at seem
u another yawn. Frequently we yaw
ID together. Is there yawn bacilli in til
Is air?
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b. The investor doesn't seem to
s. showing any particular desire to G
" out and swim this spring. Probabl
he remembers how wet the water 1
4. the stock was the last time he too
a plunge.
y = 4
Il A man who can court and win
modern city girl, pay for theater ticl
cts, dinners and flowers, can supper
wife all right by cutting out tn
pre-nuptial expenses such as I hav