Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-08-08
ALMOST TIME FOR THESE.

old Stars and Stripes"
When you leave the polling place
on election day. fellow patriots. cav
1t with the knowledge that you hav
your full duty by yourself and
by posterity by having dropped in q
vote for Septimus w. Soggs for coroner
OF this great n glorious county which
you call your home"
CAMPAIGN TIME.
oh. let he eagle scream and screech,
An let the welkin ring.
1t is the era of the speech.
It's time for statesmen all to preach
And glee clubs all to sing.
Let ultimate crowd
Once more the old town hall.
To hear the sentiments highbrowed,
And to applaud them long and loud
And cheer them, and all.
Let poor .Taxpayer' near how he
Has suffered many Sights
And how the speaker would curtail
Expenses soon and without fail,
And set things dead to rights.
Well hear the same old campaign guff
We've heard oftimes before;
They always pull the same old stuff
ring the same old tiresome blur.
And make the same old roar
The same old ultilmatum rolls
Upon the torrid breeze: 5
And yet those truly patient souls,
The voters, will go to the polls.
And vote for whom they please.
IMPOSSIBLE.
Tell me a tale that has never been told.
Sing me a ong that has never been
sung,
Wink me q wink that has never been
Wunk,
Think me a thought that has never
been thunk,
Spring me a joke that has never been
sprung,
One that is novel. is fresh and is
young.
Write me a story that has never been
writ.
Do me a sum that has never been
Preach me u sermon that's never been
preached.
Screech me q ballad that's never been
screeched.
But I will tell you ere you've begun,
There's not a thing new under the
MEMORIES OF LONG AGO.
Chalk talks.
Horseshoe paper weights.
Horsehair watch chains.
Embroidered parlor notices.
Rectangular pies.
Free silver.
Street carnivals.
Strined stick candy.
Corduroy trousers.
Mullins.
SAY NOT so.
eH@l1 ~-~ r.
Life is but an empty dream:
That those touted garden seeds are
MOI exactly what they seem.
Tell me not that / will labor
With the spade and hoe and rake,
TIL I'm lame and sore n weary.
To plant seeds that will not take"
1t has always happened hat way.
But I hope twill be my lot
To raise more than one cucumber,
Some day on my old back lot.
APPEARANCES ARE DECLINING.
A travelling man was waiting on the
platform OF a small station for the ar
rival Of the 7:45 train one evening
when n of the natives with long flow
ing whiskers told him he might AS
we'll go up town and wait at the hotel
been on time in II years. said he con-
fi~dentially. 1T is always two or three
hours late and often more than that"
Suddenly a whistle sounded down the
track.
We'll. I snum." exclaimed the ma
tive. that's a boss on me, all right
for I CUES she's on time for once"
The train snOrted up to the depot
and the astOnished native approached
the engineer whom he had known for
q long time.
well. Jim" said he. "I see you're
on time. How In tunket did it hap
pen?"
ION time" replied the engineer;
We're just exactly "a hours late. This
is yesterdays train"
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CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
Belgium has loaned China money.
Now that It is borrowing money
China acts like q real republic, after
all.
Hearst says Wilson Is not a demo-
. Hearst ought to know. He
personally has been q democrat v
A Chicago cab driver has been
nominated for congress-. Chicago cab
drivers are among the few who can
AFFORD this luxury.
It Seems that Diax let 90 the Mex
lean situation Just about the phych0-
logical moment.
A New York woman has divorced
the same husband twice. She must
be sort of losing her taste for that
man.