The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-02-24

OF Queen Regenta we've had enough
We're done with bluff
From weyler the Tough
We're up to snuff We're up to snuff!
COLUMBIA descending from her perch joins
the company. which gazes on her with rev.
erence and Affection:
Why, you are very fatt-ring, you're kind as
kind can bel
Such pleasant speech from foreigners is rath
err new to me,
For II confess it trankly) tn" theories that
preach
The rule OF the whole people and the right of
freest speech
Seem not to strike the ia cy of the crowned
heads lar and nea",
And q lite unpleasant things are said of me
and mine, l!fear.
So thank you very heartily. And now, If
you'n attend,
I'll answer Senior Cuba in the spirit OF friend.
CHORUS
She will answer 81 n triendi
Did you notice? "As q friend"
She's dandy-no, II lady
Spite of our complexi ms shady,
Hnd or clothes, ali torn and fadey,
She's our trieI
To the end!
COLUMBIA:
Then hear e, as vOur honest friend. Your
spe Aker truly SAWS
As babies you are ignorant OF this big worlds
q .eer avs.
But before talk OF policies OF government
and such,
Before counsel habits tina will bring wealth
overmuch,
Before l say a word tor echools, that wisdom
you may g'ean,
Before all else. my first advice to you is
KEEP THINGS CLEAN
Clean out your fever bTef ding hottest D"ain
off your swampy dells!
Pull down your mOuldy fabrics. fill up your
noisome wells!
Let fire and acid demon strate their purifying
way
Thus good begins: fl st cleanliness, tnen god
Illness, say.
And now, concerning other ings--
CUBA.
o, Mietr' IS, if you please,
Excuse the interruption l beg you. on my
knees
But, as concerning other thi gs."it seems to
me quite clear
Five minutes OF example Will beat precept
preached year;
And where is such example tor nations yet to
be,
AS thine own self, Columbia the model OF
The Freel
What say you, cousins? Shall we not, IN this
our day OF choice.
Decide to follow where she leads, in practice
in voice?
PORTO RICO (talking to himsel):
Really, this is quite annoying;
Here am l, in peace emf 1ying
The good fortune which has landed me in
Sweet Columbia's arms;
While poor Cuba, me forgetting,
Thinks that I, like him, am tretting
Over prospects of future that is lurtd with
alarms
THE PHILIPPINES talking to themselves):
Deed ana double. sister truly
Cuba's worrying unduly-
We are sorry tor the job he has to tackle
soon-but say,
Why's he worrying bout the twins?
It's case OF "outs" and "ins"-
And we're Sin tor will be, certain, one OF
these fine days.
HAWAII ito Cuba):
Well, If this don't beat the divill
Pardon, Senot, me uncivil,
But your memory seems to fail you, and
reckon you forget
That I'm in e PlRribus Unum-
When l sing the only tune ana
"spangled Banner"-Halleluiahi I've come
in from out the weti
CHORUS (CUBA Joining:
o Fate, do not vex us!
Our trials perplex Us!
Inexperience wrecks us
While Liberty becks usi
The big world neglects U.S.
Her GOODNESS defects us
Our neighbor suspects usi
There is none that protects usi
o Columbia, annex us
Make as brethren to Texas!
We're socked in the plexus
If you should reject usI
Annex usl Annex usi
Carl Bader, Jr., shot q fox near Otto
Green's. The fox was eating fish on the
ice.
The Woman's club met with gentle
men at Watts hotel on Thursday instead
of Monday evening, and pleasant as
well as humorous time enjoyed.
The snow storm kept those who were
here from getting away, and those who
were away f. ON getting back. Mr. Van
Slnderen was delayed from going back
to the city, much to his annoyance.
E. K. Rossiter is in town improving
the sleighing with his family.
Mrs S. J. Nettleton was called tolFish-
kill, N. Y, last week, by the death OF
her brother, William Stephens.
Miles Soules, who is quite feeble, has
been confined to his bed for some time.
Mrs Frank Hallock, with her two
youngest children, spent the time during
the blizzard In Bridgeport.