Paragould soliphone., 1921-11-02

that I was soughing through the trees also, and am really no slouch as sougher when get started.
 'The horse was hanging by the |breeching from the brough of a large butternut tree, waiting for someone to come and pick him.
 T did not see my brother at first, but after a while he disen- gagged himself from a rail fence and came where was hanging wrong end up, with my personal effects spilling out of my pocket. I told him that as soon as the wind kind of softened down, wished he would | go and pick the horse. He did so
 and at midnight party of friends carried me into town on stretcher. lit was quite an ovation. To think lof a torchlight procession coming out way out there into the woods
 at midnight and carrying me into town on their shoulders in triumph. And yet I was once a poor boy! Tt shows what may be accom- lplished by anyone if he will pre- serve and insist on living differ ent life.
 "The cyclone is natural phen-
 omenon. enjoying the most robust health. It may be pleasure for a
 man with great power and iron con- stitution to study more carefully Unto the habits of the cyclone, but,
 as far as am concerned, indivi- dually, I could worry along some way if we didn't have a phenomenon | in the house from one years end to another. M
 "As I sit here, with my leg in a silicate of soda corset, and watch the merry throng promenading down the street, or mingling in the giddy torchlight procession, cannot re- press a feeling toward cyclone that almost amounts to disgust Irish jokes are plentiful as black
 berries. Here is a good picking from Irish Life and Humor," it. self compilation, we'll put together, by William Harvey
 In court, the magistrate some times tries to draw" the prisoner, l and occasionally endeavors to elicit Information without the medium of counsel. What passed between yourself and the complaintant?" in quired the magistrate. "I think, sor," replied the worthy O'Brien,
 "a half dozen bricks and lump of paving stone" -
 An Irishman twas charged with begging, and the magistrate asked: Prisoner. have you any, visible
 means of support?'' 'Yes, your honor,'', responded the prisoner; and then, turning to his wife Ga laun- dress) who was in court; said: Bridget, stand up so that, the court can see yez!" pen .a4e Bench and bar sometimes engage in passage of arms. When an
 Irish barrister 5l was pleading one | day donkey prayed loudly outside the building, when the judge, with
 questionable taste, remarked: "One at a time, if you please" When counsel had resumed his, seat, and the judge was, summing up, the
 same interruption occurred. where
 upon the barrister arose and politely
 said: 'I beg your 5lordship's pardon. am anxious not to lose word
 of what you say, and there is such an echo in the court"
 You are charged" said the mag
 istrate, with talking back at an
 officer, sir. Have you anything to say?" ''Dayvil wurd, yer honor, replied the culprit. "Oi've sed toe
 much alreddy."
 eff it blaze the court,' an Irish
 attorney said, "if I am wrong in
 this, I save another point that is
 equally conclusive"
 ''The evidence" said the judge,
 shows that you threw a stone in
 this case" Sure" replied Mrs. IO'Hoolhan, "an' the looks av the
 man shows more than that. yer
 honor. It shows that Oi hit him. "
 Were you ever up before me?" asked magistrate. "Shure, I don't
 know, yer amer" was the reply. What time does yer amer get up?" Come along, now, quietly" said
 a policeman to an inebriate he was
 hauling to prison, 'or it will be the
 worse for you"
 "Oi'll not" was the reply. "The
 magistrate told me last time niver to
 be brought before him again, an
 begorra, I'm going to obey his in lstructions.
 "Why didn't you go to the as sistance of the defendant in the l fight?" asked the judge of a police
 man. "Shure," was the answer, "an Oi didn't know which av thim was 'goin' to he the defendant, yer honor.' The judge was delivering judg-
 ment in an action brought before
 him to two charming ladies, and, with that wit peculiar to. Irishmen, | he began thus. "Eyerything in this