Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 7 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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I sez enough ’s a plenty, so I’s done had all I wants o’ snow. Dean snow! Dess now fo’ miles en miles Ontlll a body’s tempeh spiles En she gits thinkin’ dat dey is Gwlne keep dis up ontlll we’s friz. Lawd, gimme a rain en a thundehstohm. Wld de llghtnln* crackin’ a yellow streak, / Fo’ I’s chilled plum thoo en I cain’ git 1 wahmSo rain en rain, es de roof do leak! 1 Dat snow come spltfin* down de way Dess ’s If it settle hyuh to stay. De sun come out den go right back— De fiel’ one mess o’ rabbit track; En when yo’ think Ol’ Wlnteh go It sets right In to snow en snow. Lawd, tu’n it aloose wld a drizzlin' rain Er a thundehstohm whah de llghtnln* slzz; En I’d love dem draps on de window pane En dess be glad wld de rheumatlz! Why, hyuh ’tls spring en nothin’ done! De green-grass-growln’ aln’ begun; De trees dess stan dah plum asleep In snow dat’s all o’ two foot deep. Is things gwlne back’uds? Tell ’em whoa! “ Enough ’s enough when It am snow. Lawd, sen’ us a rain dat’ll dance along On de woodsy hills en de in-betweens. En I’ll perk right up en I’ll sing my song Whilst I wait fo' dandylion greens.

OUT OF SEASON.

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"Ah, my worthy friend!" exclaims the ardent uplifter, grasping the hand of the astonished workingman who is trudging his homeward way. “Let me voice to you my sentiment of brotherhood! Let me say to you that such men as you are the bulwark of our—” "Haven’t you been mixin* your drinks?’’ Interrupts the workingman. "This isn’t election week.”

Hopeless Visionary.

“These inventors!" says our acquaintance, with a helpless shrug of his fat shoulders. “They are the limit! Why, just the other day I met one of them. He had perfected an Invention that is sure ’-to sell tremendously. It may be manufactured at trivial expense and sold at a large profit, and there will be an immediate and vast demand for it. Yet, would you believe It?—that fellow simply would not let me assist him to produce his Invention!” “You don’t say. And why?” “I made him a proposition to pay him a thousand dollars outright for 99 per cent, of the stock and the title to the patent, and to give him a position as superintendent for two years at S2O a week —and he would not be convinced that It was best for him.**

Give Him a Medal.

He has become a plutocrat, But firmly holds this attitude: When with reporters he will chat He will not speak a platitude.

Deserves Punishment.

‘So they are going to try that minister and have him fired out of the church?” asks the first unregenerate. “I should say so. It will go hard with him,” answers the second. “What did he do? Deny any of the dogmas?”

‘No. He argued that they ought to stop taking up collections.”

Just So.

Pessimism comes from worrying over what may happen and making excuses for what didn’t happen.

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