The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-08-18
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Hope.
Alexander the Great once gave |
away all his early possessions. Re- |
monstrated with at his liberality, he |
cried:
Have I not hope left!"
This mirage of the mind is Won
derful quality. Looking through hopes
horoscope one sees the aurora 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 a
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 a 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 riser
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 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!
Tickle Grass.
Jokes that have no point never
prick anybody.
It is unv-ise to expect the 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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It is better to leave your name be-
hind you written in water than in
| whisky.
II your boy is lazy and won't work,
he may be genius. Perhaps, he may
be even a poet
How sweet IT is to know that by
| living we have made other lives
brighter and better.
A woman believes everything that
a fortune teller tells her except that
| she will not marry rich man.
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The Iowa boy who stole five cents
and was sent to the reformatory, must
change his tactics 10 get into the plu'
| tocratlc class.
An editor of the name of Williams
is already preparing the Fourth OF
| July celebration in Rawlins, Wyo.
You can't lose a man Of that name!
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The man who Is following the
Rooseveltian idea Of families and has
| to buy shoes. should be thankful that
babies haven't as many feet as cent?
pedes.
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What wiley 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 we
know that often we yawn at seeing
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
| he remembers how wet the water In
the stock was the last time he took
a 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
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During the recent big snowstorm,
Harry X. Thaw took especial delight
in shovellng snow. we are told.
suppose Harry was rejoicing in the
thought that just about then he might
have been shoveling coal.
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