El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-12
A Tip for Greece.

ShOp-wOrn AgamemnOnS lying arounu
Loose?
Or an occasional Hector
Or two?
Now here's tip;
May the First is Moving Day.
And what in Hellas
Is the matter with moving the Mos
lens
On that occasion?
While the Turk lies dreaming
In his guarded tent of
Greece her knees
In Suppliance bent,
Then's the time to trot out
A bunch OF Nymphs,
Or.an Aphrodte.
Grease her knees
All you like, only
Turn the Sorceress loose
With power to act,
While ZeuS
Plays second hand low
From his rez- de-chaussee
On Olympus, and Neptune
Rolls d wave over 'em
From Alpha to Epsilon
Or hereabouts,
And the frogs of Aristophanes.
Sound a funeral dirge.
o Greece
Only take this tip,
And they wont do a thing
On the banks of the StyX
For months to come
B ut entertain the
Turks. New York Sun.
To the visiting firomen:-Here' the
key. Take it. Everything is yours
but the jail.
Welcome strangers to the Pass City.
Bunting and banners are the order Of
the day.
Our own Johnny is the prettiest of
them all.
Some queer mistakes occasionally
appear in newspapers. Recently a
paragraph was written and handed to
the printer, which described win
| ing and dinipg,' but the chirography
was so bad that it was set Up ''windei
| and denied" Another paragraph was
written: ITO fill the unexpired term
Of" and appeared "Filled the uneX
pected term Of" Another paragraph
| was: And their shouts rent the air >
| It appeared. And their shouts rent
| the arr
A story is told of child witness in
an Irish court, who was asked by the
Judge: "If you took false oath what
| and at last said: Il suppose I wouidn t
get my EXPENSES"
This is the time of year when the
fre-bell souDdeth out sudden alarms
which mean nothing but long run
and whole lot of fun.
| w. L. Kitchens is hereby nomn lted
as secretary of the state fremen's as
sociation. If the state fremen will
wait until after the McGinty blowout
they will surely want to make the
Pass City their headquarters forever,
and Kitchens will be their permanent
secretary.
"Uncle John" Julian Frances around
among the state fremen, over whom
| he presided two years ago, and is just
as active as the young b!OOds who have
stepped in to take the places of the
older fire fighters.
The Fort Blist band waited sweet mus
| lc over the ambient air and allayed the
turbulent spirit of the Ell PaSO polti-
cian-whack, bang. tP. S. The artist
has just thrown a grown brick and cut
off further discourse on this subject
| From the United States and Texas
| flags that are floating today the fire
men cannot forget that they are still
under the folds of "old glory" To-
morrow night our Mexican neighbOrs
will show them true Mexican hospital
ity in a way that the firemen will al
ways have yearning for Mexico, and
no doubt many OF them will forget the
girl they left behind" and will go TO
bed to dream of the pretty dark-eyed
senorltas they saw in Juarez.
| Tonight the wheelmen of Ell Paso
will turn out and show the visitors how
the cyclers of the Pass City can make
things hum on the wheel. The parade
is expected to be large and the decora-
lions and transparencies elegant.
! Tomorrow will be parade day. The
first thing after noon will be the hose
run of twO-bundreI and fifty yards
between the FL Paso and Fort Bliss
| hose teams. The run will be made on
San Antonio street and the teams will
connect with the fire plug at the corner
of the court house squa e. Some quick
work is expected and will no doubt be
accomplished as both teams are fas t
aud active and it is toss upas to which
will win.
At , o'clock the fire bell will sound
the alarm and the department. viii
make an exhibition run. The engine
and hose No. will go to the plug at
the northeast corner of the court