El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-02

Lay of the Texas Hen.
We have read of Maud on q summers
Who aked, barefooted, the new-mown
We have read of the maid in the early
morn,
Who mil ked the COW with the crumpled
horn:
We've read the lays that the poets sing,
OF the rustling corn and the flowers OF
spring..
But OF ali the lays of tongue or pen
There's naught ike the lay OF the Texas
Long. long before Maud rakes her hay,
TIE Texas hen begins h5r lay,
Ana ere the mllkma d stirS peg,
The hen is up and has dropped Ter egg.
The corn mns5 rustic and the ho"ers
spring,
If thev'u hold their own with the Darn
yard ring.
L Maud is needing a hat or gown,
She doesn't hustle her hay to town.
She goss to The store and obtains her
suit,
For basketful of fresh hen fruit.
If the milkmaid's beau IN axes a Sunday
call,
She ooesn t feed him on milk at all,
But she wO- ks the eggs into custard
pie,
When the old man really wants horn,
Does he take the druggist ~ u load OF
corn?
Not mucn. He simply rObs nest,
And to town ne gues-you know the
rest.
He fingers there and talks perchance
OF true reform and correct fee-nance,
While his poor wife stays at home and
scOwls,
But i, saved from want by these SELL
same iOwis,
For, while Ter husband fingers there,
She watches the cackling hens with
care.
And gathers eggs, and the eggs she'll
hide.
Till she's saved enough to stem the
tlGe,
Then hail, all hail, to the Texas hen,
The greatest blessing OF ali to men.
Throw up your hats aud make home
howl,
For the perseveriug barnyard fowl.
Though cotton's king, It's plainly seen
That the Texas hen IS really. queen.
Tee Fruitman's Guide.
The bottle with which Fred Diamond
was assaulted in toX car II the Santa
Fee yart night before last Is now at
the police station aud may be used as
ev .dence ia the case. The Car i'll which
b. atfrayG took place was Sa TIA Fe
box car No. i6llI and it looked as
though beef had been slaughtered
there The sides of the car were spat-
tered with blood and the floor showed
where the cLmbataniS had Wrestled
ard slipped ia human blood.
Now that the city is fast Kidding it.
self of foreign trampS and buns 1t
would be we'll TO take hold CT the local
bum and buncO nuisance. 1t the city
cannot get enough tramls from other
places to do the street work. 1t would
be well to call on the home brigade
There s plenty OF that nd OF mate
rial at home with which to do street
work.
The Knights of Labor have appoint
ed a com mlttee TO wait on several mer-
chants in the city who have been ac-
cused of selling goods on Sunday, let
ting their custome rs in by rack door.
The committee wi | inform such mer-
chants that they have eviGe1c that
such 4leS have been mace ard lh"y
VIII ask the merchants no. 10 furtt err
violate the contract that vas Drawn
up q favor of the O'Clock and Sunday
closing movement
On November meeting Gale by
Gov. Culbarson and seconded by the
Chamb-r of commerce of Galveston,
aud the b 1ards of trades and CONNER
cal ubs of Texas will be he'd TO de-
eide what the Lone S ar state will do
toward making a cred table showing
at the trans-M ississippi exposition to
be held a Omaha in 1898. Every city
and town in Texas should b. represent
ed If the great west is convinced that
Texas is in earne st bout her deep wa
ter pO' is and in carr est rega ding her
great agricultural in, ere-ts, then the
tide will come our way and this state
will prosper under the new trade that
will Open. A call has been issued to
the effect that the mayor Of each town