The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-17

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WHAT YE CLASSIC POET
THOUGHT OF YE FLY.
me ny that sips treacle is lost in
the sweets" IN
Gay, in "Beggar's OPERA
Busy, curious, thirsty fy.
Drink with me, and drink as II
truly welcome to my cup
Couldst thou sip and sip 1t up.
Make the most Of life you NAV.
Life is short, and wears awav,,'
WIN. Oldys.
"Oh, that memories which survive nc
here Us
Were half SO lovely as these wings
shine mat
Now thou art gone"
-Chas. Turner Con finding a fly crush
ed in a book.)
So much for We antique poets-daod
ones. The modern poet assigned tba
job, would embalm the memory of
the musca domestica after this fash
ion, thus escaping the wrath of the
lady proof-reader, the highly moral
editor, and the postal regulations:
Obi - -. a fiyI
Oh, double his legs and
wings.
He rb is III. -, 49,
The Bible says: .'rhe rain falls
upon the just and the unjust
Seneca said: EFT sceleratis sol
crltur." (The sun shines even on the
wicked.) 1t has been bluf1ng for
three days, and unless it rains before
this goes to the stereotypers, we will
feel that Seneca was the better
guesser.
the Standard OIL trust. This means
that the U. S. court has discovered a
solvent stronger than sulphuric acid
Phoebe Cousins is down and out
Young ladies entering into this suf-
frage thing should observe that even
the cheaper cuts of matrimony bring
better results. There is no alimony
chaser to suffrage.
Before deserving the subject of an
tfque females: Bernhard has been on
the job So years. and she didn't start
before the pin-feather stage, either.
Sara has done more to endorse the
theory that advertising pays, than any
other living specimen, unless it be
Theodore. W.
Richard Harding Davis says there
are no soldiers of fortune in the Mex
lean insurrecto army" says Hondo
Murphy. "He may be right. John
Sarsfeld Gilvie may not be on that job.
l haven't heard from him for seven
years, and he may be dead. But If he
| is alive, he is in that scraP Gilvie is
not a grand-stander. He wouldn't be
much as a. hero in one of Davis books,
but hold that he is-or was,-a real
soldier of fortune. His itinerary, to my
knowledge, included session in the
| Cuban rebellion as liectenant,-the
only comm ission he ever held,-and
brief balances with three South
American disturbances and a job with
the Beers just before the Ladysmith
| incident. Upon his return from one
of the South American fizzles, he re-
marked: It's dang shame I didn't
learn the works av thin Maxim ma
chine goons. I could have pulled down
a hundred a month if I had known
how to work wan av thim.' Gilvie was
neither a CRATER nor a hero. He work
ed at war just like he would work in a
saw mill. 1t was his trade, and IL he
wasn't-or isn't-a soldier of fortune,
there isn't any such thing"
That soldier pitcher, according to
the observant fans, was not the only
Leak in the Kaw.
| BASEBALL TALK.
The sport reporter makes the change
l. In Noah Webster's written word,
And uses language new and strange
That some of us have never heard.
Rather poor, mace paw? But did
YOU ever attempt to write any kind
of rhyme every day for year and years
AND years? Possibly not. comma,
possibly not.
Roosevelt is in doubt IS to whether
he should invade the trapped north in
search of polar bears or remain and
search for further political honors. He
should decide according to his personal
preference in temperatures. He can
have a cold hunt or a hot campaign
but he might really get polar bear
Licenses to use the wcrd activity"
will be granted to any one desiring to
comment upon Attorney Hanson's legal
movements.
The word "perspiration" is hereby
declared public property. The copy
right has expired.
ADD RAIN: ''The rain comes when
the wind calls. R. Weldo Emerson:
For the rain it raineth every day.
l-Shak espeare, in "12tn Night"
Were these worthy poets on the job
at the present writing. they would both
run Doc Cook a close second for first
place.
| However. IL NAV rain before this
gets in print.
/
| Here's hoping it does.
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