The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-11-04
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THE MATRIMONIAL MUSE.


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The editor Of the Simpsnnvill,
Sairdust was putting the mariiay,
notices in.p shape, aud as The
names of the happy couples were
rather unusual, il occurred to hin
tina, he might m Ike il pleasant
Tor all concerned. aud possibly sci
few more copies of his paper.
"Let me see," he said, chucklips
tn himself, and sorting over the
copy, 'here's jim Oh and Fannie
Smith. Jim's been ON The bool s
for a long time. | wonder how
,his'll strike them" and he wrote
Our city is proud of the youth of her girls,
They're younger each year to behold,
Aud since we've been here, now many a year,
Sweet Fannic's the first to get Old.
"There, | guess that's good tor a
dozen copies" and with a sigh Of
relief he pulled oul another:
"Um - Mr.. English and Miss
French" he soliloqulzed. They're
high flyers. Want something nice
and quiet. Don't like to see their
names in the papers, but they buy
up all the copies they find" and
he worked away for len minutes.
81 guess that's the pole Will
knock the persimmons," he smiled
as he wrote this after The formal
notice:
"Je taimc," he said.
II gave her heart a wrench,
al do not understand" she said,
81 am not French"
"You wero," he said.
al did not like you SO,
And hsev made you
English, don't you know"
He read ii over once or twice
with evident pride, and went lol
another.
"Whliam Higgins and Katie
Black" he said thouglifully. IL
don't know Katie, bnt Bill owes
me 81 for printing his wedding
cards a month ago. guess I'll re.
mind William of his promise to
pay on The spot" and he took up
his pen savagely aad wrote:
May blessings be with Bill this day,
Although he is a slack one
He couldn't get n girl that's white,
Aud SO he took a Black one.
"If that doesn't fecth him."
laughed the editor softly, IN give
him the 81 for wedding present.
He looked up another.
"Ah. here's Harry Thorn and
Ann Rose !; that's an easy one. |
can write that kind al so much a
mile running MEASURE" and he
dashed off this:
Oh, Happy Harry, Happy Ann,
Rejoice that you were born,
And thank the man who said "There is
No Rose without Thorn"
"That isn't bal," he unused, as
he reached for more aids TO poesy,
and he dragged out another.
"Mr. Hogg and Miss Mary Law"
he repeated as he chewed on his
pencil. "Well, Ill say what |
please, | think, as l don't know
either one Of them, and here goes"
lie worked a few minutes and had
this
He's taken a Law mo his own hands,
And happily may they jog;
She loved him true, or she never could do
Such a thing AS marry a Hogg.
'Tha,'s little left. handed,
maybe" he sighed, "but it will
amuse their friends, even if they
don't like it themselves. Besides,
Iloggs haven't any bu mess get
ting married, anyway"
"llere's something BETTER" he
continued as he picked up another
notice.
"Mr. Sweet and Miss Angel.
Think of it,"he murmured. "Why
IT. Just makes itself u poem" and
he acnbbled away for this:
May all the joys Of life bctidc
This sweet young groom and angel bride !;
The groom's in luck, he's drawn a prize I;
Nor is the bride much otherwise;
She's bound to Sweet for all of her life,
Aud he's got an Angel for a wife.
That's worth at least twenty
copies" and the tickled editor be-
gan 10 .]uggle the extra dollar IN
his mind.
'Here's one more," he went ON
rs he studied The names. ''Char-
ley Poor and Harriet Home.
There's a good deal in that, posi-
bly," and he began 10 grind the
machine and ran out this :
All, woman's trust in man is great,
Surprising all endeavor;
Sweet Harriet leaves her Home content,
Though she be Poor forever.
by gravy" said the editor,
"that's a corker. lll BET"
Hi, there" broke in the devil ;
'Ihere's a fight on the corner and
the feller's got out his gum" and
the editor dropped The muse and
hustled out for The news.