The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-02-01
TAMPERING WITH TRIRr %
SPRING.

Down in Texas-grand oil Texa,l
Springs own self is in the air.
Borean breezes never vex us;
There blossoms everywhere,
There's the goldenrod and daisv
Morning glories wet with dew
And the bees hum makes YOU law
And the skies are deep and blpe
And you hear the powman singing
Where primeval forests stood
And-lts time that boy was bringing
In few more sticks Of wood
Please sec TO i'll was saving.
Yes-the birds are singing sve,.
And the blooms and grasses swarira
Form carpet for your feet;
Mother Nature hugs you to her
Leads you far across the lea
Where springs perfumed breezes wos {.
And the wondrous minstrelsy
OF the feathered songsters watkins
All you've ever dreamed of good
declare I'm fairly shakingi
Amt you fetchin in that wood7
All the days are long, but flowing
With that rhythmic swing and sw.,,
Smooth springs own zephyrs blow;
Luling all the world to seep;
Mother Nature, I'm your loverl
Hand in hand we'll walk awsv
Der the burns where fitting ployer
Call TO the declining day.
gu to--Geel Pm all a-duiveri
Bet I'll trounce that niger goodi
Letting sit here and SILVER
Catching cold. Say where's that wand,
* Il =
He was shot in old Houston where they dr;,t -.
dew and the mothers feed their babies on bo, [
stew; where you wake in the morning shot fu 4 Ia
holes and find your sole companions are disenbod;a %
He shot in old Houston, where their aim is av,, ~
and the principal amusement is shooting policemen ,S
where the doctors medicine for all the h,r M
dose or two of bullets instead of giving pills He v,, H.
in old Houston, where quarrels grow on trees and MH
from the rifles buzz through the air like bees Vb.r. a. i
strumentS they play VIXEN they give dance or A. =
the musical revolver, and they call off with Don Th
heard that Houston is hne old town. that the won.u n
all noted for their beauty and renown but I'll say II Az
where the cut less figure and the men no, q ~
damn quick to pull the trgger!-4lyin San
Aye he chose to die in Houston rather than TO III. \
where the people down at Alvin bak and dream h
hings-and heas. Better to be shot in Houston ruds 4
bullets zip and tear than forever live at Alvin or "A
halfshot down there Better handsome maids and m,rr
better peulance of trigger than waste ones smile, N
Alvin, where the cut less figure Neer man ~
ungallant confess thing like that Oh Y. wo--
fair OF Alvin where do such things leave YOU atl W.
the torrent of your anger seemeth nothing less At
slammed Prithee sir through all the future let it, tr
tide be damned.
Halifax policemen each carry a sack of salt with Wild
to sprinkle little boys sliding places This doesn't u,n
the seats Of the little boys pants but the slippery places
the sidewalks
A scientist has discovered the bacillus that is responsible
for our hairs becoming gray. Now will he please put /
split stick the microbe that hair b,csn
"aber nit1"
Up the State the other day young man walked hs |
sherfs office, and, saying that he had wives air
with in his voice to be locked This shows vsa
will be driven to by plurality OF mohers-in-law
Dispatches say that wireless has been received
from Marcon who is in midocean. The message proSSg
says Kiss, and let's make up, my darling"
Paderewsk having returned to this country, the laia
of the upper the qui vive learn it he Ia, NJ
vented any new ways OF wearing the hair
Il
Zen too much booze is fraught with good
More good than would think
For much drink brings low
That he can't get drink.
J, NJ LEwis