White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-27
BABBLING BROOKS
IN THE DESERT

For more than eleven years on
cid pal, George N. Doyle, held dow
the office Of Postmaster Of Osceola
After he laid down the cares OF of
fec and retired to private life hi
books and records were gone owe
by the various grades of experts o
Washington. Meanwhile he hat
moved to Ely and engaged in tn,
garage business. His conscience bein,
clear he had about forgotten al
about the fact that mis- accounts wer'
being examined into and OF his in
tegrity being at stake. when a shor'
time before last Christmas he opened
a large official envelope and out fel
a government voucher for $7.331-3.
Being unable TO figure out its mean.
ing he turned il over a few times and
at last uncovered President Wilson s
accompanying letter of explanation
1t said:
MY Dear Mr.. Doyle: May not
return to you herewith enclosed a
voucher in the sum of 1888 1-3.
You have made an error, Mr.. Doyle,
not having retained the 10 10 cents
a year you we're entitled to as salary
as may of Osceola. Otherwise your
accounts check out TO a gnats heel
Please accept my regrets for your
voluntary severance of u delightfui
personal relations.
"p. s.: BY the way, George, is ii
true that YOU and Roy Matthias voted
against the League Of Nations? ]
have been informed that such was
the case and wish TO know from YOU
over your signature.
What's the use a'havin this ere
Celtic wit without applyin hit tyer
business" is the motto of Bill
Geraghty, the Ely transfer magnate.
Hi wuz down on Aultman street
front q Lars's Motor shop says
Bill, IAN n tall Teller calls to me.
SEE e. See ere. Hi got a trunk al
Mister Heddy's hoffus an hi want y
tub 'aul hit hup tub Ugh street Hi
went an got tn trunk an roundin
tn corner Hi card a noise but Hi
thought hit wuz tn trunk ittin
agin' tn flare boards so Hi didn' look
When Hi got hup theer, e
comes hout tn door an SEE e, 'Wot
dom hup ere, like that?' SEE HI,
wot d. We mean SEE e, Hi didn
tell We I come hup ere an git tn
trunk an take his t Heddy's. HI
told We L go { Heddy's an git III
trunk an bring hit hup ere. Hex
cuse me- seq Hi, like that, an Hi
never let on. If Hi 'ad looked back
n tn truck fir tn trunk 'eida tum-
lied. But Hi knew like a flaGh that
Hi thought Hi card tn trunk
ittin' agin tn flare boards hit fell
nout. an Hi 'urried back 'fraid hit
might be gone, but hit wuz theer in
h street. an Hi took hit hup I
eem."
Harry Lambert says: I'D be jes
as many dead soljers long tn road
as ever on'y they's gethered up fer
h. b."
Nose Anderson says: I'm Just
loin' ordinary ranchin' out here and
wish these society editors lay OF
On that pink tea stuff. 80 far as I'm
concerned.
Grant Robson says: Not that II
,uts any ice with me one way or the
)ther, but 1t amt a fair shake for
the fellows who take girls to the
jances to have them mark their
baskets SO they can be sure and buy
he right n and eat supper with
hem. and | don't care who knows
f. o. Clement says: mo use
porryin' kase we CANT ship no COP
per. / reckon we caine write poetry
here an SEN 1t out an make all KIN
o. money
And that Just reminds me of a sad
circumstance. You and / have often
heard of deserving young men and
women losing rightful fortunes by
rich uncles dying suddenly without
the papers made out, etc, but
here is a case where not fortune ex-
actly but fame is all but denied a
yonng man in like fashion. was
about to mail Mr.. Clements maiden
poetical effusion to b. l.. T., that ne
might reproduce IL in the forty OF
fifty papers using his column, when
the sad news of the. latter's death
came laundering over the wires.
Fame thus having been denied the
Ely poet in the manner l had fully
intended, which was the best l could
do, / will do the next best. which Is
the utmost that I can do at this time
by giving the peroration-the clos
ing verse-publicity here. as follows:
lows:
when all life's shadows
Have passed away,
And we pass into the beyond,
Would we have rather stayed?"
r. BROOKS.