Judge — April 21, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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THE FIRST FLOWERS. RTH will be drear,” the good All- Father said, “If beauty gladden not the pass- ing hours.” And lo! while sullen desolation fled God made the flowers. ea0ta c. down. THE AGE OF CON- VENIENCE. Mrs, Waggles —" Church- pews are much more comfortable than they used to be.” Waggles— Yes, | wouldn't be surprised if some day they were fitted with alarm-clocks to wake you up when the sermon is over.” THE WRONG CLEW Pity the sorrows of a poor country minister! He has been following this couple about town all dav, thinking they were looking for somebody to marry them, and finally learns (from Jeb Martin, who knows everybody for fifty miles around) that they are brother and sister, AT EASTER-TIDE. USIC and crowds, and day a perfect flower A-blossom from its calyx, night; And we two, captives of the witch: ing hour, Lulled in its leash of song and light. Refore the altar, like the mom's white soul, 1 ‘The lilies breathe their fragrant —" Well -looki ge TN just prayer; Rat—" Weil, you're a good-looking egg. I'll just And all the air is quick with dreams TRUE PREDICTION. they toll From Apnil’sfancy-haunted lair. N HER trouble she sought a fortune-teller, and the fortune-teller told her of misfortune. J the dealer in futures, “ be robbed. Dim hopes and thrills, too vague for word of tongue, And strange insistent moods of loom, As if some strain that Persian Omar sung Were prisoned in their sweet perfume. er's den straight to the gas-oflice, where she paid a bill amounting to seventeen dollars and eighty toa lanky clerk with black hair and eyes. Or were our souls at some far Easter-tide, Of which to-day is still a part, Before the altar folded side by side Within one lily’s golden heart? JOMN DAML WHITE, —erack your skull, — GE i% eae IN YE EARLY DAY Dracox—" Say, princess, T wish you wouldn't cook onions any more. 1 don't like the taste.” —Whew! That was a bad egg.” comicbooks.com