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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4532, 14 July 1883, Page 1

1 MAIDEN MEDITATION. • "rildonmykercWef bhw, wßhe«ud, ' " And wter my Buday gown, ja* For every mom with ligntaome tread, \ A youth goes by to town. \ " And ever as he passes by, j • Methinks he Walks more slow, And glances up, with wistful eye, - To where I sit a?d sew. " Aiwf sometimes, withS War ieind, He whistles soft afntf W^ - . 1 How can that gentle yoatX hare found ' "Hisilashi^eyeiiiMvaalTihTiod, - 1> They are flo very br^A;' *' \ And erer in his button-hole". He sticks a lily white. ' ' '■& He never dons tf flaunting kme, •:) -1 r<) " Bnt always wear* the Mne; ' Perhaps it ißbecdise he falows - " ■ ' ' That Lily is my name! . " I'll wear a wreath of. lilies white, t Methinks when I'm a ilbride'—'!' ' ' '' Oh, here he comes, with footstep light— But—who walks at his side ? ' ' " It's some one in a' scarlet shawl: Perhaps he calls her fair, " ' < ■• « Bnt I don't think ahe'e nice at aUt " f < I hate that yellow hair! 1 " How tan he walk with such a fright ? 1 Oh, dear, what shall Ido P : ,■; i ' - He's given her that,blossom»-wiuto!" ' la her name Lily too ? ' " Bnt now I look 'at him he seems' ' 'J Less handsome than'befoW; His eyes have lost their radient gleams, His voice is sweet no more. r *\\ f % " His hair, methinks, is getting red,. -•' - -His nose less straight appears: v ,- ■ I conld not such' a creature wed, •"'- Though ho should sue for years! " And other youths for' nic may Bigh, And I may love again,{ * ' But'never-never more wjll I Watch at the window-pane!" Conitafiae C t W. Haden. THE LIME-KtLN CLUB., " Heah am a letter/ said the old man as he held up a missive, " dated at Wash - ington an' writ in a> splendifoiviui han', win' to have de poeihun of dii elvb on ▼aruH queshu.tjs au'flubjiokrfdefined forde benefit of de public. De Secretary afjSttt* JUA>post up in hUolfiCTi elefolleritt'fkctS: "On religun dis ciub rather lean» v *o de Baptist kind, but am notjsp bigoted as to Rtan' idly by au' gee;a Methodist Church consumed by £ah orear'd of bj a freshet. "On pollysticks we w*qte split tickets, itimin' to elect de smaller rsßoal an' to beat masheen nominashops. ,/, .'• : , " As to free trade and protection; dil club can't express;its cdhtempt far a guVment which levies a tariff often per cent, on women's corset* an', can't bring a millioo»dollar official embezzler to jaatice. . "On civil sarvice reform w« doan r slap ober worf sucks. "De cry am as holler as an old log an' as thin as de woiee of a Connecticut baby. " On social etiketfe, ire eat vid • fork, address ebery Rem'lan as * RsnseV an' we ginerally manage to start for none befo' bein' kicked out. ' "'" ■ ' " On de temperance question, we argy dat if a man doan' know mo' dan to let whisky git de upper hold of him he'd • better be tied to some lamp-pott whar' de fool-killer kin find him. - "As, to de labor qaeahmi, pay, far "wAgea, demand squar' work, aY keep de jail doors open fur demagoguea who encourage kicks and atrikef,} „ . .. -, 41 Daft whar' an' how %c ataa', from ebery Sunday mornin' to tetuvkiy sight, an' 1 may add dat we shall be .happy at any time to counsel wid Coagreea, giv advice to de Legislaehvre^'ii'^ftraw out walusble suggeshuns to MtiaH bodies. Let us now attack de reg'htt'pi^ramWe of bianess."—Detroit 1 Free Preaai ' - , THE "GUYASCUTtysV'^JfAN.. * Joe Meek wka the finest lookingl wan* I ever saw.' He was'about aiz. feet one inch high, and splendidly proportioned. He was the first white man that ever crossed the Bocky, Mountaina in the winter. His frienda at the trading-posts in Missouri used to joke with him a good deal when he came ia- with hit loads of furs, and Joe resolved to get even'with them. So, next time fie came in he told a wonderful story of a attange, fierce animal, half grizzlj, half human, which he had, captured and' brought with him,, but he would let nobody see it until, a certain, day, whtn he proposed to hold a public exhibition. He rented an old log ehuroh for,the purpose, and wben the time came itwaa filled with people at two bits a head., Joe had a curtain fixed up, behind which the audience could hear a great growling and rattling of chains, and his first performance was to open all the doom and windows, tolling the people that the guyascutus was such a strong and terrible beast he could not guarantee that its chains would hold it, therefore he thought it best to provide for their escape at any moment. This done, he went behind the curtain, smeared his face and dabbled his hair with blood, which he had ready in a bucket, while bis assistant began • furious growling and howling. Suddenly Joe flew out from behind the curtain, the very picture of fright, and shouted, "Save yourselrea! The guyaseutoa has broken loose. Of course the audience, tambled out, without waiting to hear more, .while Joe made his escape, but he told me; five years after that he did not dare 'go back to that town for fear he would be shot on sight. . A philosopher says:—Live your life in such a way as to show a oontemot tor wealth!" Tank's.?■■ p Wewnotowdailv lite so intermingled with-wealth, at it were, that familiarity will breed oontempt. * 1,-.- '„■« yd . -, .