The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-05
WAITS AND wHIrrs
10. THE PaOR INnraE

AND Wanders on IKE fome poor tramp turned eo..
:, Behind him leaving wigwam, tuuaw, papooe
7 Poor 10 he disregards the goid7n rule
and steals the settlers horses OK and muir
/ IT'S seldom that he leaves their seams beb;ns
e Or any little trife ne may find;
q This done, no longer there he cares to stay
And homeward HOW he plods his wearTway
An apt observer he of natures laws
Ne leaves all Labor to be done by sauaws
! While he on weigltier matters of the stata
, With pipe in hand, sits down to mediate
And pesceful thoughts his simple mind ,,~rvaa.
While contemplating where to make raid
d naughty soul to conquer, he ne 'er stoops
Unless persuaded by the o. 4. troops
) To lay aside his proud, disdainful mlien
By musket-balls or sabers sharp and keen
For they believe--at ieasi I've understood
That only Indians who dead are good
On where thy equal, monarch of the woods?
You burn our houses and you steal our goods,
The seonrse of every settler the plain
Pray, get thee he9ea, and meier return again
Your image, may 1t ne er confront us more !.
Unless IN front Of some tobacco store
e.. Young swell should like /.
nave my mustache dyed" az Polite bar.
Der: Certainly; did you bring II
with you ?"
Those who have made mistakes and
suffered for them are the ones to helm
others; to show that any error can be
atoned for.
You may mend rent in damaged
reputation 80 that it may not show, but
you can never make the reputation quite
whole again.
"A student inquiring for Prometheus
Unbound, at q certain bookstore recent
ly, was informed that they only kept
the bound copies.
Reware of prejudiees they are like
rats, and mems minds are like traps.
Prejudices creep in easily, but it is doubt
tul if they ever get out.
There is believed to be only ons
thing slower than molasses in January,
and that is lady making room for an
other Lady in street car.
Put new pair of trousers or BOY.
and in fifteen minutes he will have them
stuffed in his boot tops to cover the holes
in the knees OF mis- breaches.
Thompson says you may talk of
your water cures, your movement cures
and your blue-glass cures; but there is
nothing like the sinecuge, after all.
Friends do not grow on every bush,
though lovers may, and when one fndsa
good, true friend, one ought to value
hlm---nor feel ashamed of it either
-" We dou't know everything, re-
marked the professor, Sand we don't find
many that claim to,except now and then
one Or two in the sophomore class"
There is young lady in this city
who goes by the name of" Earthquake
among the boys, because she has shaken
80 many OF them Toledo Commercial.
..Adolphe to Ariminta, on their way
to church: 4" How j would were the
prayer book you Clasp go lovingly"
Reply: "How ] would you we've for
then i could shut you up"
How womens hearts long for home,
love and protection only they and God
know. Some are compelled to accept a
substitute for it, but q true
woman never accepts the counterfeit
coin.
Ethel: Isn't it shameful! That
young Parker declares that when the
light was turned out for the dissoEving
views he kissed all of us--exeept onep
ALI simultaneously: Except one?
W aich could that have been"
"A member of q fashionable uptown
;ongreg CATION called at music store and
inquired: Have you the notes of
,iece OF music called the Song of Solo,
nom? adding: ''Our pastor referred to
t yesterday morning as an exguisite gem,
nd my wife would like to learn TO play
t."
An agent vino had sold Dutchman
ONE goods was to deliver them at the
esdenee oi the purchaser. The Dutch
nan gave him the following directions:
You shoost goes behind de chutcn; den
gu turns up de right for while till
Oh come 10 q house nit 8 biz bog in
he yard Dots me-
10 classical student: You ask ii
Atlas supported the world, what support
Atlas?" The question, dear sir, has