You don’t deserve; prize naught on earth above her;
Keep step and be through life her faithful lover.
The new town of Guffey, the liveliest in Colorado, thirty miles from Cripple Creek, is fitly named in honor of James M. Guffey, the successful Pennsylvania oil-producer and political leader, who has big mining interests in that section.
The Fonner pool, Greene county, was the oil-sensation of 1897 in Pennsylvania. The Fonner well, struck in March, and territory around it sold for two-hundred-thousand dollars. Elk Fork wore the West-Virginia belt, Peru took the Hoosier biscuit and Lucas county the Buckeye premium.
Say, boys, seein’ how fast th’ ranks iz thinnin’—
Th’ way thar droppin’ out sets my head spinnin’—
An’ knownin’ ez how death may take an innin’
An’ clean knock out our underpinnin’,
I kalkilate we oughter swar off sinnin’,
Jes’ quit fer keeps our dog-gon’ chinnin’,