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TIME HARVEST. 
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not been out of the prison twenty-four 
hours until I was beastly drunk. From 
that time, I have led the life of a tramp. 
Why choose a higher calling? I am the 
obedient servant of my appetite. I have 
pawned the very clothes I wear for liquor. 
And here I am, a miserable drunkard, 
without money, without a home, without 
hope. I can’t last many years longer at 
best, and the sooner it’s over the better.” 
Here the tramp was stopped by a lit of 
coughing. He did not resume the con¬ 
versation, and after remaining a short 
time longer, Tom and I started for home. 
What became of the tramp I am unable to 
say. I have never seen or heard of him 
since; but I have thought many, many 
times of his strange story and the lesson it 
teaches.— L. T. Murphy . in Farmers’ Ad¬ 
vance. 
-- 
Editorship. 
I SCREAM. 
Tell us not in mournful numbers 
That this life is but a dream, 
When a girl that weighs one hundred 
Gets outside a quart of cream— 
And then wants more. 
—Elmira Gazette. 
Life is real, life is earnest, 
And the girls know what they need, 
But on cream they ai e the biggest 
Set to show their grit and greed. 
No encore. 
— N. Y. Times. 
Be not like dumb, driven cattle, 
Be a hero in the strife; 
Never with her mother battle, 
Save the ice-cream for your wife. 
Proceed. 
—Brooklyn Eagle. 
Let us then be up and doing, 
With a heart for any fate; 
But never let us go a-wooing 
» Girls that want another plate. 
How’s that? 
—Meriden Newsboy . 
The Louisville Courier-Journal aptly 
says: “Some people estimate the ability of 
a periodical and the talent of its editor by 
the quantity of its original matter. It is 
comparatively an easy task for a frothy 
writer to string out a column of words 
upon any and all subjects. His ideas may 
flow in one weak, washy, eveHasting flood, 
and the command of his language may en¬ 
able him to string them together like 
bunches of onions, and yet his paper may 
be but a meager and poor concern. Indeed, 
the mere writing part of editing a paper is 
but a small portion of the work. The care, 
the time employed in selecting is far more 
important, and the fact of a good editor is 
better shown by his selections than any 
thing else; and that, we know, is half the 
battle. But, we have said, an editor ought 
to be estimated, his labor understood and 
ap predated by the general conduct of his 
paper—its tone, its uniform, consistent 
course, aims, manliness, its dignity and its 
propriety. To preserve these as they should 
be preserved is enough to occupy fully the 
time and attention of any man. If to this 
be added the general supervision of the 
details of publication which most editors 
have to encounter the wonder is how they 
find time to write at all. 
Lives of such girls all remind us, 
As we float adown the stream, 
That the boys who come behind us 
Will have to pay for lots of cream. 
JShe-x-t. 
— Yonkers Statesman.. 
And, departing, leave another 
Bill for unpaid plates of cream, 
Which, perhaps, some forlorn brother, 
* Seeing, may take heart again. 
And get trust also. 
— N. Y. E. R. Journal 
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow 
Is our destined end or way; 
But to treat, though cash we borrow, 
Deserted when we cease to pay. 
Don’t it? 
—Palmer Journal. • 
Trust no girl, however pleasant, 
With one plate to be content; 
She’ll eat until her lover hasn’t 
To his name another cent. 
And then shake him. 
—Somerville Journal. 
We don’t credit these vile slanders 
On the gentle maiden’s art, 
Freeze to one and you’ll find she carries 
A warm, palpitating heart 
That has never yet been chilled by all the 
ice cream these miserable fellows ever went in debt 
for on her account, 
And don’t you forget it. 
Have you seen Reed’s advertisement on page 24. 
Look at it and order at once and you will not regret 
it. He will do just as he says he will. Send you 12 
choice Concord vines for $1.00. A good crop, second 
year. Order now. 
