The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-04-17

wrong. But have got to have the real evidence
before abandoning our belief-Rockvie Republican
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AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE
AS one who cons at evening DER album all alone,
And the faces of the friends that he
has known,
So | turn the leaves of fancy till in shadowy
design,
find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of
mine
The lamplight seems to glimmer with flicker of
surprise.
AS I turn 1t low to rest me of the dazzle in my
eyes,
And light my pipe in silence. save sigh that
to yoke
Its fate with my tobacco and to vanish with the
smoke.
It's a fragrant retrospection-for the loving
thoughts that start
Into being like perfumes from the blossom of
the heart;
And to dream the old dreams over is luxury d.
vine
When my truant fancy wanders with that old
sweetheart of mine.
Though hear beneath my study, like futter
ing Of wings,
The voices Of my children, and the mother as she
sings
l feel no twinge of conscience to deny me any
theme
When care has cast her anchor in the harbor of
dream.
In fact to speak in earnest, l believe it adds a
To spice the good trife with little dust of
harm
For find an extra flavor in Memory's mellow wine
That makes me drink the deeper to that old sweet.
heart of mine. . -.
face of lily beauty. with form Of airy grace,
Floats out of my tobacco the gen from the
And thrill beneath the glances of pair of azure
AS glowing as the summer and as tender as the
skies.
l the pink sunbonnet and the little check
cred dress
She wore when first kissed her and she an.
swered the caress
With the written declaration that, "as surely
the vine
Grew round the stump" she loved me-that old
sweetheart of mine
and again l feel the pressure of her slender little
hand, l-a'
AS we used to walk together of the future We had
planned
When should be poet and with nothing else
But write the tender verses that she'd set music
/ to;
When We should live together in a coy little
Hid in a nest of roses, with fairy garden spot,
Where the vines fruited and the wealth
ever fine,
And he eyer air for hat Old
heart of mine.
When / should be her lover forever and day.
And she my faithful sweetheart till the golden
hair gray;
And We should be so happy that when others
lips dumb
They would not smile in heaven till the others
kiss had come.
stair,
| And the door is softly opened, and-my wife is
standing there;
Yet with eagerness and rapture all my visions
| resign
To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart
| of mine.
| james Whitcomb Riley
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| Democratic paper In the East exultingly says
that the tariff measure reported is "a second Wilson
BILL" Perhaps. 1t will be remembered that the first
Wilson tariff bill brought overwhelming disaster. to
the Democratic party well devastation to the
industries of this country Salt Lake Tribune.
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In reprntng the message he read to congress
| President Wilson changed message" to address,"
conforming to the distinction between the two.
Let the country have addresses every time they
are so infinitely shorter than messages.
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General" Flora Drummond says that the suf.
ragettes chest has been increased by he ad-
dition OF fifteen thousand pounds. That fact JUS
titles them in being somewhat "chesty."
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