The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-22

OF passion, says she will write for a
living in the future. Friends will kind
ly omit flowers.
Deacon Stubbs's mule Hyacinth is
suffering from the artistic tenpera-
ment and Dock Hanks has been called
i'll. Doc says he cured the Deacon, SO
he ought to be able to cure the mule.
The Teller who burns the candle at
both ends may be eXtravagant, but it
is cheaper than electric lights, at that.
The Good Old Times.
SEE Lemuel Hicks, SEE he to me,
The times amt like what they used to
be
When Teller could go with ten-cent
piece
And get enough bacon for to grease
The pancake griddle all nice and neat
And then to have a good chunk left
to eat.
Then butter was Is cents a pound,
And we always had enough to go
round.
A Teller could go with a dollar bill
And a whole blamed grocery order fill.
But nowadays fer a five banknote
A Teller can't get more'n he kin tote
Right home in the pockit of his over
coat.
Peats all how fur Teller could go
On dollar back forty years or so.
Rut prices are gittin' so gol dunn high
Wen all eat hay like a boss bime by.
Them good old days we will see no
more
When a man with a dollar could buy
out store,
But there is one thing that We must
allow,
There want so many dollars as there
are right now.
Mr.. Binks and the Doehouse.
Mr.. Kinks is the SORT of man who
likes to have somebody working for
him and so when he got the carpenter
to come to build a doghouse for
Queenie, he was perfectly happy
1t was first necessary to find the
proper location in the back yard for
the doghouse, a place where it would
not be too sunny and not too shady.
Mr.. Binks and the carpenter spent one
day picking out the site. Then they
drew the plans. 1t was not to be any
thing fancy, for Queenie was only
IS dog in her palmiest days and her
paimiest day had long since passed
Queenie didn't want a doghouse any
more than she wanted another tail.
A doghouse was miles beyond her sta
ton in life, but Mr.. Binks wanted it,
ruler of that particular patch of
ground. Mr.. Binks really didn't want
the doghouse as much as he wanted
somebody, preferably a carpenter, put
tering around. Mr.. Binks had kept
Mrs. Binks cleaning up after carpen-
tiers for thirty years.
The plans were finally drawn and
the lumber was purchased Mr.. Btn6s
went to the lumber yard with the car
penter. The lumber cost So, the paint
81 and the hardware 81. The carpen-
ter suggested that Mr.. Binks might
make the job a little more expensive
by calling in the steamftters and hav-
ing steam heat piped from the resi-
dence to the doghouse. Mr.. Binks
could do this for Ss7. Queenie was
only a So dog, but it was a good plan.
Mr.. Binks would think it over.
Mr.. Binks sat on the back steps five
days watching the carpenter build the
doghouse. In order to make 1t large
enough they built 1T around Queenie.
After it was all Enclosed and painted
they found that they had forgotten to
make a door and Queenie was inside.
The doghouse had to be torn down and
rebuilt.
1t was decided after an afternoons
debate to hold Queenie down In front
of the doghouse and then mark out the
exact size of the door that would fit
her. While the carpenter was holding
Queenie down she grew peevfsh and bit
the carpenter through the thumb, after
which the carpenter had to go to the
hospital for two weeks. Mr.. Binks
called another carpenter and had the
Job finished In three days. Mr.. Binks's
expense for the doghouse was as fol-
lows:
lJum Der --'$ 5.VV
Paint ---...- LOO
Hardware 1.OO
First carpenters time ..... 5000
Hospita! bill ............-. 114-56
Second carpenters time 800
TT is some expensive" commented
Mr.. Binks but l had the time of my
life T bossed those two men for thir-