The Falls City tribune., 1908-07-31

had apatn of rambe that no mortnc could walk through,
wheret the blackberry and the horse weed and the honey sucke grew
And he sun lower and the ragweed" md the rambling wild grapevine
And the poison Ivy and thistle did lovingly ehwini
And every weedy creeping thing brought forth by rain md sun
From our rich e0askas soil grew rank as they had DONE
Before the foot of white man hsv virgin soil had nod,
When the wild man in the wilder woods knew mott the white mans God
One days some Christian aides from QUIT the nearby town
Came riding by and @dn me" Why don't you cut them down?
with such undghuy iunges, It's worse than the dgersn Lair
With a shame faced look 81 know" said e" tits horrible but then
It's rather hard work for man like m e. past three score years and ten
And the weather so hot" Hold on said they" I'VE do not mean that you
With your whnenea hair and trembling limbs such aavsh work should do;
But pardon u.s. we navel erd it said, in fact are oan told,
That somewhere you have hidden away greats stacks ofshning gold;
And pardon u.s. I'D man, rso your time may come t" go
Aud ucannOt taket Witty ~ as one of your Smem must know.
sogo and hire some younger man. SON ny school athletes
Twerej mth the thing for his musces hew would think it Quite aueat
Besides he needs edolar thaty sonw viii leave behind,
So give him a emncen devdOp hsmu"Aesa ndh his mind"
"Ts happy thought" said l. "andI n. sure thank you well
For your kindly speech and manners far more than words can tell"
And the first one that Icame to wasas rlusyh lad,
With mmts@ hard irn. mntronzed youdt think h had
Been cuttng junges all his mG Ind it made ne oud to know
Ihd paid tibet tax to choolh lin ad make those muscles row.
In qmverng to@sI accoaedh him um old and feeble yOu s)
would you Ikea lne work to do?' Work. and HI looked at m
With APPLYING stae work old man. orkd i'd hear you say?
What Ask me to work? Who sal" woOd2' his laugh "aO 1.-the and gay
Then his voice oneneda IlOokeda bashed, 81 WOULD old man. butt them,
Today is the base ball tournament and m one of the mna field men,.
So comes aud see mi toll ands wat in the "Mry summers sun
nsharder than cutting jungts but Their. you know it's FUN
And tenI tried noher and another butts Ill thes ame
Each was Wiling and anxious to work. and after this base ball game
And the foot BALL land the field meet and the circus had com along,
And Chamauqua lays were over ct was always tes same ole song
1t makes me proud to Se the" as with @surly pace they STROLL
Andh makes mepoud" "e then as with an artists skill they roll
Their cg~etaa and pay the ~~"e he~funy, III well,
I'm paid whenI hear the music in thrm odernh high school,. YELL
And close by the high school buldng, it peses me to tell,
lean hear my neighbours donkeys reheardngs that high school yell
And doG my hat to the real thm; for in they ears to ome
whenth this old world lis busy with e rnle and the hum
That shall feed the eming millions tMrp progeny will be
OF some use to heir umanh friends but tibet wl eggedk kind, oh gel
Wena last grew dbgusted md thenI said I'll try
To cut that jungle down myself here are many ways to die,
And maybe I'll gets nsuokea and then when lam goe
The preacher wilt tell how good was how died with the harness on.
Then whaed up my brush @ythe as ora fathers used to do
When they tMd In the wild wood junGes, when this ole world wasn W;
And early and heI 1abWedm thNr ar and tangled mass
Till it's now thhg ofbeauty, which, think, mayhspw will pass
Fora fairly cean blackberry Pt;a and as feast on jen
Made from te luscious berries will hear some kind of YELL
And I'll feel I'm compensated, when theirs rmaces Iee,
Y,e Early and late labord,a and nc onew ever know,
How m old heart throbbeds and huuered,a as cleaned each tangled row;
And how Itook their teing as heirh heightened rigs woudp pass
md low sw@ta md stuggledi in that sulMy tangled mass.
Oed day IN fned dressed people we're cutting quite aswen
In shining, putting thing hey aneda an httobeinhe
And the I'D man. hucked, too as he thought their oreb bill isn't paid.
But compensation is natures law, and soneimeh they will find
There asc ome a day of reckoning for people of herk kind;
FOL" Age md Want is an nLmachedp pair, and SOM int they will know
They womdbe better have learned athletics with the sickle and the hoe