Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-09-01
AS WI GO Alone
Scfatch-pad Reflections, Wise and
Otherwise.

Come N the speaking silence of a
dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and
eyes as bright
AS sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
o memory, hope, love of fnish'd
yearse
bitter sweet,
Whose Weakening should have been
in Paradise,
Where souls brimful of love abide and
meet;
Where thirsting, longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may
live
My very life again, though cold in
death;
Come back to me in dreams that
may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath;
Speak low, lean low,
AS long ago, my love, how long ago!
To follow the laughing ways of life
the first requisite is a heart tina never
grows old.
There is really no sadness in the
fate of the sere and yellow leaf. 1t
has been useful and its day of service
is ended.
In the Book of Life the name of the
man is written large who never wastes
his time signing over what might have
been.
A poet tells how a man wandered
the world over in search of love and
then turned home and found his
mother at the door. The only love
that never tires of waiting. I
A contemporary discusses "a Rel
luctant Monarch" If he is like most
other monarchs, he is probably re-
luctant to pay his bills.
The Philadelphia inquirer is anx-
ry. The right sort wait until they
are asked.
The Florida Times-Union says an
Atlanta bachelor was arrested for
beating his wife. He must be a very |
e~nterDriSin bachelor.
You can always tell a crank when It
is as hot as it is now and he insists
Oh discussing pragmatic pantheism.
Attention, pie eaters!" says the
Lynchburg, Va, Advance. Produce a
piece of pie, if you want to get their
attention.
1.-THE Maligned Frying Pam is the
title of an editorial in the Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot. In it's proper place
the frying pan is of great service to
humanity, but it should not be used
to fight with.
sometimes d peach OIL d gil CufUS |
out to be a regular lemon.
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch says
the jail there is the coolest place in
town. Naturally, being the cooler"
A Tennessee widow, e~ighty-one
years dc sat smoking a clay pipe
while her marriage papers were being
made out. Nothing giddy about her.
Hail to the freck1e!" says Col
lier's Weekly. You never hear a girl
talk that way.
An Indiana man wants a divorce
from his wife because she has a cal
pacity for thirteen bottles of beer and
more a day and because she humili-l
ates him by taking in washing. Maybe
it's working hard that gives her such
q thirst.
A man in Buffalo laughed himself
to death over a funny story. When
the ~newspap humorists meet in
Buffalo next month everybody there is
| expected to wear mourning.
A news dispatch from Hanlmerfest,
Norway, states that Walter Wellman
< waiting for the wind to get right. In
the meantime the Walter Wellman
hammerfest is kept up right merrily.
why not fake a pole?" asks the
beaming P%ittsburg Sun. Because ii
would have to bet set SO far north or
south to convince anybody. that it
wouldn't be much more trouble to go
ahead and find the real pole.
A co1ored m in Kentucky
the title of the South's champion wa
terme1on eater by ~devouring four
large melons, out she is a dead cham
pion now and can't heal the applause.