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. TALENT NEWS. FEBRUARY 15,1893. VOL. 2. The TAI. EN T NEvVSi- publi.<ie.l the 1st. and 15th. of each month Editor. EDWARD ROBISON', SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 25 cents, One year...................... Six months........................ 4 <>fa dollar, Two bits. Three months................... Entered at the Talent Post Oflire as second clubs mail matter. ' CRINOLINE. • 4 Rumor whispers, so we glean From the papers, there have been Thoughts of bringing on the scene This mad, monstrous, metal screen, Hiding woman’s graceful mien. Better Jewish gabardine Than, thus swelled out, satin’s sheen! Vilest g.'.rment ever seen! Form unknown in things terrene; Even monsters pliocene Werj not so ill-shaped, I ween. Women wearing this machine, Were they fat or were they lean— fcniall as Wordsworth’s celandine, Large as sail that’s called lateen— Simply swept the pavement clean : Hapless man was crushed lietween Flat as any tinned sardine. Thing to rouse a Bishop’s spleen, Make a Cannon or a Dean Speak in language not serene. We must all be very green, And our senses not t >o keen, If we can’t say what we mean, Write in paper, magazine, Send petitions to the Queen, Get the House to intervene. Purin fashion’s transmarine— I^et ..s stop by quarantine CaV, trophic Crinoline! —World. Mamma—Did you ami Ethel play church with your dolls? Little Pora—We tried to but we couldn’t, ’cause we hadn't any boy doll for a preacher. We dressed up Johnny’s jumpin' jack an’ tried him, but he was a little too live ly for a reg’lar church, so we turned it into a revival.—Good News. Parry—W hy did Rowley marry her? Strung—He was attracted by lur conversation- ul {Otters. Barry—Ami why is he Applying for a divorce now? Strang—Same reason.—Nett York Herald. * NO. 2. WAR • STORIES. BY B. SHERMAN. FORAGING AND GETTING P0I80NED( ’) One morning the foraging party heard of a grocery store a few’miles ahead w hen- i some of the cavalry boys (who were al ways in advance of the main army) had got some poison in their w hiskey that morning early. We also learned that foraging was good in that locality, so mv boys didn't want any better excuse than “poisoned w hiskey ( ?”) to get to“clean out the ranch,’’ which they hurried on to do. 'lhe foragers reached the place about lunch time but to the disappointment <d some and pleasure of others the foraging was of a different sort than formerly. We found nothing but a small grocery store gable-end to the street and residence in the rear end and no other building near. We noticed a slight bustle among men and horses and with others I went inside. Directly a heavy-set cavalryman crowd ed in all excited and facing the grocery man he asked in a loud voice, “Are you the son of a - - that sold our boys poison ed w hiskey this morning?’’ At the same time he grabbed his cape at the bottom and tore it open from bottom to top with out unbuttoning, and then the coat pro| er the same way and jerking the coat off and throw ing it on the counter he commenced rolling up hi? sleeves, and, with oneexple- tive close after another, he said to the trembling, cross-eyed grocery keeper, ‘I’ll skin you alive.’’ At this the fellow shot out through the back door and on through the house amid the jells and jeert of the crowd. That was all the boys can’d for him as a merchant. Thej’ then fell to helping themselves to what they wanted viz, crackers, cheese, candy, tobacco and whiskey. When they left th at store the valuables were all in their haversacks or in the street, and setting lire to the stole they left in great hilarity. If the man who scared that secesh grocervman out of that house was not comrade James Harvey, I am badly mistaken. I know he wasatith Illinois cavalry man and looked and talk ed like Mr. Harvey. Whether anyUdv had been poisoned by that reliel, I don’t know but I do know we hail a jolly set < f foragers the balance of that day an d night and another thing I learned that none < f those grocerymen got very rich specul.it ing( ?)off of our foragers. To Is- (Olitimi« <1