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Little Bobbie’s ‘
Pa ?
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
WAS reeding a book last nite
I wich was called Grate Lines from
the Poets, & I saw a line wich
sed
I herd like the eternai
Sussurus of the sea,
& 1 sed to Pa, What is a sussurus.
I doant know until you tell me how
it is used, sed Pa, & the way it is
spelled, Then I spelled sussurus for
Pa & sed Sussurus of the sea.
Oh, 1 see, sed Pa, of the sea, or, in
other word®™wé.the oshun, What was
the naim of the man wich rote the
lines? sed Pa.
. His naim was Bliss Carman, I toald
Pa. Now what does Sussurus of the
Sea mean?
I take it that is sum kind of a fish,
Pa. sed, like a sucker or a shark.
Now that I think of it, sed Pa, there
is a fish down in the South Sea is
lands wich is called a sussurus. It is
good to eat & has a savage nature.
You doant say so, sed Ma.
Oh, yes, sed Pa, I remember in the
old days we used to catch quite a
lot of them. They bit on a spoon,
the saim as a mackrel. The plurel is
sussuri, Pa sed.
You doant know what you are say
ing, sed Ma. How offen have [ toald
you not to fill up littel Bobbie's hed
with a lot of nonsense like that. 1
think from looking at the poem that
sussurus must mean something like
the word murmuring or sobbing of
the sea, or sumthing like that. It
cuddent mean a fish anyway, Ma sed,
beekaus, it says The Eternal Sussu
rus & a fish can’'t be eternal.
I doant see why not, sed Pa. Suck
ers are eternal & suckers are fish
Wen one sucker dies another is born,
wich is the saim as eternal, & I sup
poas that when one sussurus breathes
its last thru its worn old gills an
other sussurus is born, or maybe two
sussuri, Pa sed.
You are fooligh tonite, sed Ma. Why
Go you try to explain big words that
you do not know? 4
Why does a poet dare (o use a word
that littel Bobbie doesnt know the
meening of? sed Pa, If Bliss Carman
ment murmur, why dident he say
murmur? Mister Shakespeer nevver
used the word sussurus, Pa sed.
Neether did Lord Byron or George
Cohan. They used words that eeven
littel Bobbie cud understand, & that
is the true test of a riter,
I think it is a butiful poem, sed Ma
It meens so much that the common
mind can not understand it. It isent
yure fault, dear husband, sed, Ma, if
you have a common mind. 1t sounds
like a butiful line to me.
You are jest like the rest of the
wimmen that reads potrey, sed Pa.
Do you reemember the other nite yure
frend Miss Berenice Bunkington red
them lines of her poem
The room swam with a strange per
fume
& then I knew the Swoon of Doom?
Dident you all say that Swoon of
Doom was a butiful fraze”? sed Pa.
It is, sed Ma.
All rite, sed Pa, then I throw up my
hands. It is
Stars and Stripes |
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New Haven road defies Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Will it never recognize a danger
signal?
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Federal I.eague is *“put out at
first” in game with United States
Court, and it is contempt to talk
back to the umpire.
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Efficiency exhibition with model
laundry and Kitchen shows that
man purposes to have things
comfortable and easy when he is
relegated to answering the door
bell and doing the housework,
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Andrew ('arnegie sat promi
nently in the House gallery the
other day and ostentatiously ap
plauded defenders of the surren
der of the Panama (Canal to Great
Britain. He felt perfectly safe in
absenting himself from the Sen
ate, being represented there by
attorney
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Illinois women voted I,ooo° sa
loons out of business, which is
proof they don’t know how to use
the ballot, in the view of “Bath
hbuse John.”
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Church jury finds a Dr. Price
Zuilty of kissing pretty women of
his flock, but doesn't blame him.
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Chicago is puzzled over failure
of a professor to return to his
boarding house. Other boarders
might explain the mystery.
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Record wheat crop is predicted
for United States. Suppose we
ought to be glad John Bull will
get the most of it
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i OSMAN, A BORN LEADER.
{ f'r\H E dog and man have condlered
| 1 the potes.
{ Neither could have succeed
i ed without the other.
| It would be “base ingratitude.” as
{ well as defitnce of the plainest truth,
|to deny this fact. The time may
| come when locomotive machines—
| balloons, aeroplanes, auto-sledges, er
what not—wjll take the place of dogs
| in the exploration of the great white
' worlds that encircle the ends of the
earth’s axis, but up to the present day
flh-- dog remains man's indisnensable
ally in polar investigation.
| The hooks of Peary, Amundsen,
Shackleton and Scott are tributes to
the dog, not only as a living locomo
tive, but as a companionable worker,
whose cheerfulness and devotion (o
duty eniicarten even his human com
} rades.
!flgf’m-‘fll of a team of dogs, as de
' scribed by experts in the work, are
very interesting. Cecil H, Mears, of
’Lho British Antarctic FExpeditipn of
1910-12, is such an expert, a(;‘d ne
tells some stories about sledge dogs
on Captain Scott’'s expedition that
heighten the reader’s respect for the
| canine race
| One of our photographs: shows Mr.
Mears making dog harness in a win
ter hut at ('ape Evans, and another
exhibits the way in which each dog in
a team is attached to the main trace,
by which the sledge is drawn. Thir
teen (dogs ordinarily make up “a
|team." They are hitched up in six
pairs, the two dogs of each pair being
on opposite sides of the main trace.
The thirteenth dog is the chief or
leader of the team, and is attached
ahead of the main trace. It is his
business.to choose the way amid the
difficulties of the ice and snow, and to
obey the calls of the human driver to
turn rigiit or left or to stop. An able
leader controls his team with aston
ishing ease, as a good shepherd dog
controls a flock of sheep.
~ If a leader behaves badly says Mr.
Afraid of Lawyers.
An old colored man, charged with
stealing chickens, was arraigned in
court and was incriminating himself,
when the judge said: “You ought
have a lawyer. Where's your law
yer?'
“Ah ain’'t got no lawyer, jedge,” |
said the old man, waving his l:n'-;
“Very well, then,” said his honor. |
“I'll assign a lawyer to defend you.
“Oh, no, suh: no, suh! Please doat
do dat!” the darky begged. l
“Why not?” asked the judge. it
won't cost you anything. Why dont
'you want a lawyer?”’
“Well, jedge, Ah'll tell you, suh.”
said the old man, waving his tai
tered old hat confidentially. “Hit's
jest dis way—Ah want uh enjoy dem
‘chi(-kens maself!”
! A DISCOURTESY TITLE.
. The precedence just granted to
| Count and Countess Gleichen lends
point to a story of the Count's father,
who became a British Admiral. -
’ While he was midshipman on a
man-of-war his ship put in at a set
tlement where there were English
troops, and the commanding officer
came on board. Presently he asked
the captain .whether there was not a
prince, a retative of Queen Victoria,
among his officers, and, on learning
that this was the case, asked to be
introduced to him. \
“By the way,” said he, “ought I call
him ‘Your Highness' or ‘Your Sere g
Highness,’ or what?
“Please yourseif,” sall the captain;
“we always call him ‘Sausage,’ be
cause he's a German.”
THE CENTER PICTURE ON TOP SHOWS MR. C. H. MEARES,
WHO WAS WITH THE SCOTT PARTY, FIXING A WOODEN TOG
GLE ON TO A SET OF DOG HARNESS. THE DOG ON HIS LEFT
IS KRIS, A FAMOUS HAULER, WHILE THE BOTTOM ILLUSTRA
TION SHOWS HOW A DOG IS HARNESSED TO THE MAIN
HAULING ROPE.
i Mears, he is put back in the team. and
' he feels the disgrace very keenly. He
| appears to take pride in his work, and
looks for approval of it. He seemsg to
feel his responsibility. Mr. Mears
tells of one occasion when he saw a
leader pull a whole team away from a
seal which they -were straining to at
‘ tack, contrary to orders,
‘ The dog is an observant animal,
}full of curiosity, and a team will not
work so well if it has nothing to at
tract its attention and arouse its in
terest as it passes along. A dull,
dreary landscape and a lifeless ex
panse of level snow are as depressing
to the dogs of a team as to human
beings. But if they see something
moving they brighten up and trot off
faster and more cheerfully. Even dif
ficulties may encourage them by
awakening their senses.
A tyro undertaking to drive a dog
team would be likely to find himself
suddenly left alone at the very start
A Garden of Roses Red ® “ies”
araen o 1 xXoseés Ke RHYMES
e e e e ee e e e e
DREAM of a garden of roses red,
I A garden of roses rare;
Of morning dew on a mossy bed,
And glorious morning air.
Oh, the glerious mornings of childhood's davs'
Of days now dead 1o me.
But the mem’ry of them ever stays
Thank God for Memory!
The morning’s pasl, ’tis noontime now.
But, oh! i{ seems 1o be
The time of seiting sun, somehow —
' The time of rest to me!
But who would rest ere the work is done,
Ere the Master's salisfied?
So teil we must till ithe sel of sun,
lest the hire be denied.
And so till the set of sun toil on
Oh, soul of mine, achieve!
Till the grand reward and the glorys wor.
For Life's not make-believe.
And then for a garden of roses red,
A garden of roses rare:
Of morning dew on & moasy bed. :
And gloricns moraing air!
of the journey, for Mr. Mears says
that, unlike trained horses, a team of
dogs will not wait for its driver to get
good and ready after the sledge has
been broken out from its anchorage
in the snow, but will start on a run
instantly.
At the beginning of a journey the
driver has to hold in his team by
applying a steel shod pole alyrfalt four
and a half feet long as a brake, press
ing it into the snow like a lever, If
the dogs are given their head they
will, at the beginning, quickly tire
themselves out.
Look at the photographs of two of
the dog heroes of the Scott expedi
tion, “Osman,” a born leader, who
managed his team with astonishing
intelligence, and “Kris,” the great
hauler, who would tug at a load as if
he felt that the fate of all depended
on his exertions.
They and their portraits will both
deservedly go down into history.