Judge — March 9, 1895 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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154 uage “Vell, phy don’t ye gift me er light !" THE HAMMOCK THAT SWUNG IN THE PAST. AGAINST the clouds of memory two trees stand tall and high, ‘With arms outheld entreatingly before the glowing sky, To gather all the happiness of dreams fast floating by And hold them for the dreamers that beneath their shelter lie, For {rom those trees there used to hang. in long-gone childish days, ‘The hammock of our silent times, the hammock of our plays; ‘That swung and swayed to laughing heights and wild and romping ways, While all looked haply hazy in the sunlight’s reeling rays. Or else it rocked and wavered with a creaking, sleepy strain As dreams dropped from the shadows to a story-weaving brain, ‘Tall birds and bees about me sang a drowsy sweet refrain That slipped away upon a thought where slumber came to reign. from present time tll life is yet aglow. ih mists of thought and tears of years { see the long ago; For childish hours are brightest and the world I used to know ‘Was sweetest in the hammock old which swung me to and fro. TEDITH LIVINGSTON CRARY, A WOMAN'S REASON. Dorcas—“1 never knew any good come of keeping Lent.” Mrs. Dorcas —" Why, my dear, look at Mrs. Hillaire. She was cleaning a fish the other day and found a diamond ring in its inside.” MERCENARY WRETCH. Client —“ Well, did 1 make a good witnes: Lawyer —" Yes; between you and that stupid jury you knocked me out of a clean hundred.” Client — “Why, 1 won the case, didn’t 1?” Lawyer —* That's just the trouble. I wanted a chance to appeal.” A GOOD WORD FOR A BAD HABIT. THOUGH not as wise as many, he was always up to snuff ; You found him handy at a pinch in fort- une’s stern rebu! Though modest his equipment in the way of cash or clothes, It is strange how many people he has taken by the nose. He was never to be sneezed at as he met rude fort- une’s shocks, For at every entertainment he would always take a box; And his hearty sternutation as it musically rose Made his angry English neighbor shout aloud, “Oh, blow his nose !" His box was highly scented, he could fill it for a cent, And none might know how many tots filling yearly went; But how social grew the circle as he gently tapped the lid, And each neighbor ‘* took a leetle jest because his neighbor did.” Ah, those days of wily statesmen ne'er again to us will come, When fate and snuff were gently pinched twixt the finger and the thumb, ‘They'd point a moral, end a tale or turn to some good use And then inhale their Maccaboy and sneeze the shingles loose. WILLING TO OBLIGE. Mrs. Darley (pouting) —" You never sty to do anything for me, as you did when we were first married. Then you were happy to render any service in your power.” Mr. Darley —“1 don't see how you can charge me with neglect of your wishes, dear. When I heard you singing +I want to be an angel,’ yesterday, didn't I offer to drop everything and run for the doctor ?” A CHANGE THAT MEANT SOMETHING. SERVANT—** Mr. Softy ter see yer, Miss Alice.” Miss ALICR—"* Very well (handing servant chair), now show him up here.” Edwar Pous' * Las the seve began i throat a Pression accomp: remedies tinued ditions much m pares thought for cuts for any tity on chest. night, I pressior the fear passed. prised | pletene sprains effects mend w. chemis “1 and te my m chemic ing an injury nerves fault, | gether ria me . I comicbooks.com