Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-10-03

'N'-S hiis JNot S't IIN II LlO",
scttin' up fer me. For the love of
Mike shake up them cards. I amt
had as good ats IL pain of Juhus since i
got here.
Il otta duck in 10 minutes. so il
you feilerS want any of my. dough you
gotta het EN- up. IN crack her for 10
cents"
I'm goin' ia invite Il different bunch
next time. You all start To talk about
DIN home as soon as you git Your hats
off. If l evcr git married-Gee! Well
come little strangers! What do you
think of three *. boys. IN boost that
pot two bits. You better all stay out
II You amt got anything.
T.. m.
"Ho-hum. Wfat'll my wife say?
Deal 'em. Steve, and if you ever want
to borrow my lawnmowcr again YOU
gotta come across With openers"
Ut is TOO late for me to go home
now. I'm called suddenly out of town,
understand. My wifell strangle me-.
but I've got to- get back what I've
anted in here. oh, Judas 1scariot, are
o pick!n' my cards out With tweetz-
crS?"
I'm going home after five more
hands. My wifc's probably r,ackin' up
to go home to mother right now. What's
this, three bell boys and II pair OF
stenograplers? Well, what do you
Amt YOU rabbits ever going home?
i can't afford to sit here and lose
every hand and pay fer the lights, too.
And IN tell you, the next time you
come here you'll bring our cigars.
If don't get a hand this time I'm
goin' to turn out the lights"
4 y. N.
.Mo-hum. Your deal. Steve"
Stop throwin' them cigar butts on
the foor. This amt no saloon"
ELECTION TIME.
Lem Higgins says he doesn't know
Just how h country's going to
=. go:
lis mighty hard for even him to YEN
u to prognosticatc.
When Lem says that it's plain to see
surprises are In store, for he
ls quite the greatest eNper tina we
have on grave affairs Of state.
The country ma go democrat. he
wouldn't be surprised at that;
And it may so the bull moose way, for
Things are mixed up very bad.
He says there's only one safe bet. 1t
won't go prohibition yet.
But none can tell just what will come,
for folks have all gone tariff
mad.
Lem says the tariff on yarn socks
will put q criinp in Taft and
Knox;
1t looks sometimes as though the
"AiCIG VII DuIiCl Is kOlIlR 10
be upset.
He a y that predatory wealth is bad
for our commercial health, .
And that the postal savings banks
are going to f1gger quite a lot.
Seems like they got old Lem per-
picked for once, and us folks are
all vexed,
Bekus we always bank on him to find
out how We ought to vote.
1t saves US worry, don't you see, to
shift responsibility,
But it seems like a bigger load this
year than Lem can safely tote.
Lem has been busy since last spring
Just readin' up regards the thing,
And he ain't satisfied the way the
ship of state 10 headin' now.
He says Bill Taft has gone to sleep
and that he amt no man to
keep
A-putterin' round the White House
any longer. we must all allow:
But still he says he amt so sot in
the opinions that he's got.
But what he might not vote fer him
again. %providin' he makes good.
a 10 all right in lots Of ways and
Lem don't think 1t ever pay
To count a Teller down and out, while
he's still sawin' wood.
Fact Is Lem don't know where he's
at--epublican or democrat
And Won't while them progressives
keep right on a-ratsin' merry
hob.
He's goin' to save his mental force
n let the blamed thing a
Its course.
AS town expert m politics, Lem Hig-
gins has throwed up his job.
~
BACK TO THE SOIL.
They're urgin' weary city men to go
back to the soil.
To tinker UP their shattered nerves BY
They say 1t oes a Teller good to live
close to h ground
With. not a high toned French cafe
for fifty miles around.
That may sound fine and dandy when
a Teller ls town bred,
And doesn't know q spring tooth
harrow from a foldin' bed,
But to US fellers on the farm who've
been agin' the game
All Of our lives. that sage advice
sounds purity doggone tame.
It I SO gold dunn dandy. and 1t amt
SO gol dunn ine
To hop out OF the hay at four instead of
eight or nine.
It amt so 'tarnal cheerful to do three
hours work before
The farmers wife yells: "Breakfast."
:. from the old farm Kitchen door.
It ain't no sort Of easy snap to work
right through till night,
And DO back-breakin' stunts az long
as there IL any light.
They e It is a rest-cure and It pos
sibly may be.
But az a rest It never yet has quite
appealed to me.
The poets write quite purity Of the
everlastin' hills,
The wooded glens ana lowin' kline and