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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-02
LITTLE PROGRESS
MADE IN CLEARING
WYOMING WRECK.

CASPER, Wyo., Sept. 29.-(By
The Associated ess)-Althoug
4S hours had passed since the Den
ver-bound Burlington passenger
train No. so plunged through weak
ened bridge over Cole creek, east Of
Casper, Thursday night, carrying
many Of the passengers and crew to
death in the swollen stream, the
problem of determining the exact
number of fatalities was little near
err solution tonight than it was a
few hours after the wreck.
Heaps of sand swept down by
second unexpected rise in the stream
last night was piled over and around
the cars which had crashed through
the bridge, and although a crew of
more than fifty men tOiled all day
in the sandy creek bed, only three
bodies were brought out. They were
identified as E. J. I<love, brakeman,
of Casper; G.. w. NOurse, Of Gunni-
son, Col, and Albert Hill, negro, of
Dodge CITY, Kan.
One Pullman car, one chair car,
combination car and d smoker fol
lowed the locomotive into Cole creek
Thursday night. Only the top of the
Pullman car is visible.
Where the waters have receded so
deeply the car is imbedded in the
sand. The smoking car lies under
meath one end of the day coach,
which in turn is partly clogged with
sand and debris.
Although the relief crews still
were working early tonight, A. C.
Grissinger, division uperintendent
of the Burlington, made the state
ment that on account of the diff
culties encountered by the workers
it was not probable that more bodies
y1,Ci116 ho found tOnicrhf
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Coroner S Verdict Leaves
Mystery in Death

CHESTER, S. c., Sept. 2o.-Cor-
oner J. Henry GLADDEN. Saturday
concluded the inquest over the body
of William Miles Howell, who met
his death in an unknown manner
last Saturday. Howell's body was
found near the Seaboard Air Line
railroad track in the Baldwin mills
village, and the supposition was that
he met his death by being hit by a
train. The verdict of the jury, how
ever, was that Mr.. Howell 'came to
his death from a wound inflicted in
the back of the head by some in
strument, the cause of which is un-
known to this jury"
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GRAIN
BY GEORGE c. scHNAcKEL
Leased Wire Service to The Journal. }

(Copyright 1929
CHICAGO, Oct 1.-The wheat market to-
day rcGaned some of the ground lost on
Saturday. The strength shown was largely
due to the bulge in corn and also to the
fact that bears have lost confidence over
failure of hedging pressure to develop in
volume and over the failure of the market
to reflect the bearish situation. Locals
were on top of the market at the start be-
cause of the weak cables, but good commits
sion house buying developed and shorts soon
scrambled for cover. Visible supply showed
further increase of 80, 900 bushels and
Canadian visible increased 100000 last
week. Seaboard advised that cables from
United Kingdom Paris and Antwerp told of
a poor demand with re-sellers under offer
ing American exporters. The Minneapolis
market felt the effect of hedging pressure,
but the firmness in Winnipeg in the face
of the heavy movement was hard to under
stand.
Wheat closed sc to 1@sc lower; Decem-
her. $10G3S @1.0G#li May, $110A q l.lO's
July, 81 .0G3i.
New high points OF the. season were reg
iStered in corn today. Nat &. Murray es-
tmated the crop at 1893, 0O0O 600 bushels
and Snow at 2,9Se, 600 900 The last gov
eminent forecast was 3,076 900 bushels.
The reduction due to frost damage.
This report the cause for heavy buying
by commission houses and locals. Flood
damage in Iowa also caused some buying
for country account. Cash corn failed to
follow the advance in futures fully.
Corn closed sc to 2Bc higher; Decem
Der, 741s a 74c: May, 73c; July, 1875 074c.
Oats also scored high points of the
season. Snow and Murray both made bull.
sh estimates and this caused good commits
sion house buying.
Oats were 11sc to 1l4c higher; December
4312c; May, 4512c.
Trade in provisions light. Deferred
futures eased in the later trading.
Lard closed Zoe higher to PFC lower.
There trade in ribs.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
the exchange today:
Prev
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
WHEAT
Dec. ....1.O5H LOIS LOIS logs O54
May 81 .O9al 1.111S 1.09 1.105s .09I2
LII. nc n-&L nlIL nGa.
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SPOT COTTON MARKET

Atlanta, steady, 28.25c.
New York, steady, 29.50c.
New Orleans, steady, 2S.50c.
Galveston, steady, 2S.5Oc.
Savannah, steady. 2S.10c.
Wilmington, steady, 2S.10c.
Norfolk, steady, 2S.13c.
Houston, steady, 2S.4Oc.
Montgomery, steady, 2S,2Oc.
Augusta steady, 2Sc.
Memphis, steady, 2S.75c.
harleston, steady, 2S.25c.
Dallas, steady. 27.j0c.
Little Rock, steady, 2S50c.
Boston, steady, 29.5Jc.
St. Louis, steady, 2S.7Jc.
Mobile steady, 2Sc.
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CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS

CHICAGO. Oct. Wheat, No. 3 red,
$1.04a4 al .O519A No. > hard. $1.07A lib.
Corn. No. ? mixed, 01}4@94c; No. vel
low, 9112M94Hc.
Oats, No. = white, 43@45c; No. white,
II 4 n 44c.
Rye, No. .. re.
Barley, 57M72
Timothy seed, 81 O06fS 90.
Glover seed, $40 00@ %, co.
Pork, nominal.
Lard, $3.50.
Ribs. 50. 21NI 10. -
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METAL, MARKET
Naval Stores

tAvANNAH, Ga, Oct. 1.-Turpentine
hdy, 931ac; sales 200; receipts 534; ship
hts 666; stock 16, $50.
kosin firm; sales 100: receipts 1853
hments 1857; stock 1915 Quote: b.
E, F, G, II, I, X. NJ. S4.55; y, $4.SJ:
h., S5.15; WV, ", S525.
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Sugar Market

NEW YORk, Oct. 1.-The raw sugar
market was quiet early today. Spot Cubas
were quoted at 6 cents cost and freight,
equal TO 7.7S for centrifugal, but full duty
sugars for later arrival were available at
2sc below this quotation. No sales were
reported.
There was not much activity in raw
sugar futures. but prices were easier under
scattered liquidation by commission huoses
Noon prices were 3 to points net lower.
There were no changes nj refined sugar
with fine graduated quoted at from sec
to $50.
Refined futures nominal
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Mr.. Edward Miller
Drowned In Knoxville

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept. So
Mr.. Edward Miller. teacher at Etc
wah High school, and expert swim
mer, was drowned here this after
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CoMPARATIvE FORT RECEIPTs
Total, all ports .......35,372 ILL.,;
CoTToNsEED OIL MARKET
ATLANTA CoTToNsEED PRODUCTS
MARKET

corrected by Atlanta Commercial Elk
change.)
S. meal at common rate
hldc oil, basis prime. tank. 5 $50 800.
lttonseed cake. per cent
S. meal, i per cent am
monia, car lots ........... Al 90 $40. 90
S. meal at common rate
points, car lots ........... 1000 90
S. bulls, loose, car lots. 1000 100
$. hVlls, sacked, car lots. 1880 1850
Linters. first cut, So @9c.
hters, second cut (cottonseed hull fiber
or shavingS, care.
hters. clean, mill run, 5@512c.
POST & FLAG COTTON LETTER
NEW YORK, Oct. There has been
tile doing i'll the market which looks well
tned up for the reports tomorrow. Prices
IRE trifle carrier more on lack of sup
tt than because of any real pressure, and
lille the tone was rather heavy, it is
I'll understood that these pre-report super
sial tendencies are liable to violent re-
fsals if the figures when published hap
ned to favor that. report around forty
Re with an indicated crop just under elev-
! looks fairly well discounted, and move
hits in either direction depend on the
tent TO which the figures vary from that.
ere is no suggestion of any essential weak
Is in the situation as a whole, however,
u If prices break on the report the
portunity will be provided for which many
Ne been waiting in order to buy. Based
private reports the loss during the past
nth looks to have been about the aver
Z of five to six points. which is par
bly, at any rate offset by the heavier
yield per acre. Speculative commit
nts either way do not look large, and
ual producers and consumers will fur
b most of the power which carries prices
! way or the other.
METAL MARKET
sew YORK, Oct. topper easier; cleo
lytic spot and futures, 1895 1877.
tin firm: spot and nearby, $42.37; fu-
Is, S42.12.
ron steady: 70 l northern, $4,000; No
iorthern, 1928 20; No. southern, SD .00HQ
Pc.
kt st. Lou\, spot and nearby, $6.S0GG
&. antinnnnN snnt s. EnG Il
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ST. LOUIS QUOTATIONS.

ST. LOUIS, Oct 1.-Wheat: Cash No .
red, $l.i2@1.14; No. 8 red, Sill; Deem.
Der, S1.0S34; May, Sill.
Corn-No. white. 93@941@c; No . yell
low, 91@92c; December, 7434c; May, 1873
Q73&c.
oats-No. white, 45c; No. 3 white.
44Jnc; December 44c
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NE WORLEANS, Oct. 1.-Favor-
able weather over the greater part
of the belt put the price of cotton
lower by 10 to 20 points soon after
the opening today but when Decem-
Der got down to 27.59 cents pound
0 fairly good demand was met and
by the end of the first half hour of
business pieces were back to 27.78
tor December, with the list one point
up to one point down, compared
with the close of last week. Much
bf the trading appeared to be of an
evening up character, in prepara-
ton for the bureau reports tomor-
row.
A regulation pre-bureau market
developed, with traders Of all classes
waiting on the government reports
hat are due tomorrow. Fluctuations
kere Hstless and narrow. At noon
December was trading around 27.7o.
clearances of 64,2S1 bales for for
ign export from Houston excited
omment but did nothing more than
teady the market Savannah clear
ID 16,349 bales and large exports
Jere expected out Of Galveston.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices II
he exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 2s.50c, steady.
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n!\AmkyMarktRpoTt
COTTON

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-The cotton
market opened at a decline of three
to Il points under liquidation and
some southern selling due to reports
of generally good weather in the
belt, and unsettled European polit-
cal news. October sold off to 2S.4S
and December 2S1S, but there was
considerable covering for over to-
morrow's government report. This,
combined with a moderate demand,
checked the decline and caused rail-
lies during the early trading, which
carried October up to 2S.6o. and
December 2S.37, or four to seven
points net higher. Liquidation con-
tinued, however, and the market was
rather irregular and unsettled.
A private report made the condl-
ton 52,S and the indicated crop H.
S91 900. 4 canvass of New York cot
ton exchange members showed an
average expectation that tomorroW's
government report would show
condition Of 1914 These figures had
no apparent effect on the market
and trading was comparatively
QI1iet around Midday, Wnen prices
were about net unchanged to two
points higher.
The market remained very quiet
during the middle of the afternoon
with prices ruling around 1888 for
December and 27.79 for January or
about four points net lower to four
points higher.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices IN
the exchange TO-DAY:
Tone, steady; middlng, 29.5Oc, quiet
nSt
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Fatal Lamp Drops $50 Feet

NOTTINGHAM, lIng. JChn
Clough, miner at Torkard, dropped
His lamp 900 feet down the shaft
and it killed another miner at the
bottom.
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Steel Quotations

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-Steel prices +. o. b
tbsurg, per 100 pounds: Blue annealed
bets, IS 90; galvanized sheets. 81 %;
sk sheets, $5.I5@S.65; steel bars, $40
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RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
VISIBLE SUPPLY

VISIBLE SUPPLY
The visible supply of American grain
shows the following changes:
Wheat increased 7G2 900 bushels.
Corn decreased 2S9, 900 bushels.
Oats increased $40, 600 bushels.
Rye increased 73S, 600 bushels.
Barley increased 10000 bushels.
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ALL men. women, boys, girls. II to 50, will
ing to accept government positions, $1l7-
$3.50, travelling or stationary, write Mr..
Ozment, 1854 St Louis, Mo, Immediately.
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KANSAS CITY, Oct. Wheat: No. 2
hard. $1.07Q1.25 No. 2 red $1.15GII7.
Corn-No. yellow, Gle; No. . mixed. 90c
Oats-No. . white. 4412 Q4512c; No. ;
mixed, 431a @441ac.
Barley-G0lh m61c
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BE a detective $50-$100 weekly, travel over
world pXpericnre unnecessary. Amerl-
car Detective Agency, 1913 Columbia, ST.
IOuiS
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WANTED HELP-MAIE

young men teagraphers and railroad sta
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WANTED HELP-FEMALE

AN exceptional opening those desiring PLAIN
home sewing. No canvassing. City, coun-
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Cloth CO., Ire, Asbury Park, n. j.
'VANTED-Women TO do fancy Work at
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EARN money at home during spare time
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M1NNEAPOLIS, oct. 1.-Wheat, No.
northern, $1.fJl4 @l1.20H.
Corn, No. 3 yellow, 85I20S6.
Oats, No. white, 1875 a 4O2s.
Flax, No. l. 50. 461aGf2. 49,
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Mexico Breaks Off
Diplomatic Relation
With Venezuelans

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 30.-Mexico
has broken off diplomatic relations
with Venezuela, according to re-
port published in the newspaper Ell
Mundo last night.
The break followed a series Of al
legged incidents in which Mexican
nationals were mistreated by the
Venezuela government, the news
paper said.
An official statement was awaited
from the foreign office.
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AMBITIOUS men-women- girls, IS up, want
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month. Paid vacation Short hours. Pleas
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Experience unnecessary. Write today sure
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Rochester y. Y
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MAKE $1,000 DAILY. taking orders for $3.9s
Union-made raincoats. Factory prices. Fast
sellers Wonderful values Your pay daily. We
deliver and collect American Eagle Raincoa,
Mfg. Co. 1876 n. Union St. Dept. u, Chicago.
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TOLEDO QUOTATIONs

TOLEDO, Oct. 1.-ClOver seed, prime,
$14.15; October, $1,000; december $14.75;
January, $3.50; March, $14.55.
Alsike, prime, 5000.
Timothy seed, prime old, $500; new,
$3.50.
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WANTED-AGENTS

AGENTS--Make a dollar an hour. Sell
Mendets, a patent patch for instantly
mending leaks in all utensils. Sample
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1UMMAGE sales make $4,000 daily. We start
you. Representatives wanted everywhere
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS. Dept 90. COS
Division Street. Chicago.
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QunTATInNS
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET

DULUIH, Mimi, Oct. I.-CIOsing, lax,
October $2.491a bid; NOvember,e $2.4935
bid; December, $2.47A bid; May, $2.4312
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BALTIMORE QUOTATIONS

BALTIMORE, Nd, Oct. Hay, per ton,
$23. GOA ~ 90.
Butter: creamery prints, 400 4Sc; dairy
prints, 31633c
Eggs, native and nearby firsts. loss off
34c; southern firsts, loss off 33c.
Live poultry, old hens, 2O02Sc; ditto.
LeghornS, 20GI 22c; old ROSTERS 163s lie;
springers, 25@32c; ducks, young Pekins, %
@23c.
Potatoes. per 100 pounds eastern shore
Maryland and Virginia No. 50 25@2. 10;
native or nearby No. l, s.. 25@2.75; ali
sections, No. ., 81 .O06l1 %; hweets, Kappa.
hammock and York River, No. l. SO. 500
$50; North Carolina, No. /, So .0003. 80,
eastern shore Virginia, No. l, So .00M3.5O
Apples, early June No. l. loose barrel,
81. 5O@3 90; No. >, $3.50.
Onions, all sections, yellow loose, pound
31a use; ditto red pound, 2M2Iac.
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NEW 4ORh, OCTOBER l. Flour firm and
quiet
Pork, quiet; mess, $25.5O@26.oO.
Lard firm; middle west spot, $12.S5@
12.95.
Sugar, raw. dull; centrifugal, 9G-test,
IFS: refined, dull; granuated $910m9.5O.
No. Santos, 1874 M14%c.
Tallow, dull; specials, 1HM7kc.
Hay, quiet; No. 1, $1.40GL1,4J; No. 3,
$1.15M D; clover, $1OO@1 80,
Dressed poultry, firm; turkeys, 2G@39c;
chickens, 23@43c; fowls, 14@33c; ducks,
pc
Live poultry, firm; geese, 21@22c: ducks.
15M31c; fowls, 24M35c; turkeys. 35040c;
ROSTERS, 14c; broiers, 21M2Sc.
Cheese, firm; state milk, common to spe-
Gals, 22W2Si2c; Skins, common to specials,
J@19Mc.
Butter-Firm; receipts 1850; creamery,
extra, 46Ac; do. special market, 47Hc;
state dairy, tubs, 3S@46c; Danish, 45@4Gc;
Argentine, 42c.
Eggs-Steady; receipts 9,234; nearby
white fancy, 64@6Gc; nearby state whites,
3S@64c; fresh firsts, 34@46c; Pacific coast
extras, 37@j6c; western whites, 3S064c;
nearby brown 476TG0c
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noon, when seized with cramps while
in swimming.
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POULTRY

MAGICAL GOODS - Novelties. LOdestOne,
Herbs, Cards. Dice, Books. Catalog Free.
G Smythe Co.. Newark. MO.
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MEDICAL,

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WANTED-SAI.EMEN
PERSONAL
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FOR SALE-Genuine Mcclellan army sad
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PATENTS

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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
The Short Dat Crop.
From the Triton Gazette.


The oat crop in this section is almost to-
tai loss; perhaps an estimate OF One-tourth
OF a crop would be conservative. AT one
time prospects were fine for a bumper oat
crop, a large acreage being sown, but I'M
usual weather conditions brought on rust
which has practically destroyed the great
majority OF the crops During days drive
last week we saw only three promising oat
crops. Many farmers are pasturng their
stock on what is left of the oats. The state
board of entomology was asked to send
man here to investigate. and did so, but he
said that nothing could be done at this stage
to save the crop The rust did not develop
until the oats were we'll on the way to ma
turty.
Added to the loss of the oat crop is the
short corn crop, which will make the feed
question a problem. Ordinarily, oats would
be available for feed early i'll May, but there
will be few oats this year, and already many
farmers are buying corn. Perhaps this mis-
fortune will be a lesson that will result in
larger feed crops another year, but such les
sens are soon forgotten. Triton has about
$4,000 invested in mills for the purpose OF
converting corn, velvet beans, hay and rice
into food and feed products; it has invested
$250,000 in packing plant; all these are idle,
and have been idle for more than two years,
because people insist on taking chance try
ing to grow cotton, to the neglect OF food
and feed crops.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
The Mad Dance Contest.

The endurance dance is something in
expressing the frivolous natures of young
men and young women who are attracting
more attention by their torturing exploits.
A psychologist when asked why they did it
made no positive, direct explanation, but a
professional dancer did not hesitate to say
it was for the sake of cheap publicity. The
dancer added that the spectacle was nothing
less than disgusting.
The tests of endurance that make heroes
are those which save life or principle from
destruction, not those that bring empty no.
toriety. The man who endures agonies to
rescue little children from burning buildings
or drowning is fsroic but "shiek" who
whrls a "sheba' in dance for 50 hours or
SO is a misft in society. To be able to endure
physical pain or mental anguish for the sake
OF something OF great value is virtue. 1t
were better by far that human beings should
attempt to see what their characters could
endure in refrainng from those things in
life that are injurious rather than to try their
bodies beyond the strength provided by ma
nSure By all means put a stop to the mad
! durance dancing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
The Fever Thermometer.

This bald old bard has had flip from
what they call the fve-day grip-the same
old germ our war years knew, except that
then we called it flu. I've wandered lar in
torrid lands, my feet have walked on burn
ing sands, the tropic sun has burned my
back and baked my fair complexion black,
but nothing else was half so hot as this here
fever-heated cot O in my sick-bed acrobatics
| figure out by mathematics, how many at
titudes I take in which to sweat and fret
and ache. Right side, left side, back and tum
but all the four alike are bum. The arms
and legs in different stations give sixty dit
ferent varations-each posture worse than
any other in which to growl and cuss and
smother. Anon approaches my Sultana, who
in these rhymes is known as Hannah. She
mostly brings along with her a clinical Their
mometer. | rally all my fainting powers and
suck that stick OF glass for hours. There's
naught in all the world so useless, so mean,
so tasteless and so juiceess. My fever, Han
nah claims, would slump did | not act so
like chump, in short so much like Andy
Gump; but nothing brings it up so quick
as that gosh dinged old fever stick She'll
have her way with me, l wist; | have not
gumption to resist. But when my strength
comes back bit the pieces from my jaws
I'll spit No more III lie here like mullet
with her glass bait stuck in my outlet.
BOB ADAMS.