Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1903-06-27
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every day and every night since the
1st. and we didn't like IL az my house,
for 1t was my wife's birthday, and we
hoped il would be bright and balmy.
for the poor woman don't get but two
maternal feasts In g year. and two
paternal kisses. ] was sick the night
before. and she was up with me half
the night and slept late. had ereeped
in TO breakfast and slipped a fiye-dol-
lar gold piece under her plate, and in
tended 20 rise and kiss her unwrinkled
brow, when she appeared, but she
slipped up behind me and kissed me
first. She never did Il that way be-
fore, and the boys hint that she saw
the gold shining. and Il excited her
labial views and osculstory glands,
and she couldn't refrain.
"Goid. gold, gold. gold.
Bright and yellow. hard ana cold,
Heavy TO get and light TO hold,
Spent by the young but hugged by the old
To save 10 ruin. 10 curse or TO bless.
Now stamped with the image OF good
Queen Bess
And now Of bloody Mary"
But she got more than I gave her,
and nobody got kiss but me. Chill
dren," said !. "this is your mothers
seventy-second birthday. You know
that the stars fell ~ years ago. and
that's fhe reason they fell. They knew
that a brighter star was coming. and
so they paled their Intellectual fires
and fell TO the ground and expired"
~ am only H." said my wife. why
do you try TO make me 72?" Be
cause" said /, ''you have had ~ BIRTH
days. You had one the day you was
born. When you were a year old you
had had two" Then she gave Il up.
Well. the Mexican boy did come. and
for whole week we have feasted OF
his presence and listened 10 the same
old songs he used 70 sing He is o fine
singer, and has plenty OF help from the
children and grandchildren.
And the night was nlled with music
And the cares that infest the day
Folded their tents like the ARABS
And silently stole away.
And the little boy. who Is only 20
months old, and looks like me, joins In
the hilarify and tries to sing, and holds
up his skirts and dances the cakewalk
and kicks up his heels and bows to the
audience with great solemnity. He
plays monkey In the show, and bis
young mother thinks he Is the smart
est and prettlest child in all the
world, and | think so, for they say
he is just like me. What kind of a
world would this be without these lit.
tie children. and yet the last census
says they are not wanted up in New
England any more. They say that
Roosevelt loves children, and wants IL
encourage maternity. Well. III give
him credit for that when he retracti
and apologies. Our Mexican boy say
the poems Of Mexico have them by th'
score. Their adobe houses have bu
one big room, with dirt floor, sDt
you will see a man and his wife and 9
flock Of dirty, lousy, greasy children
and half dozen dogs all gathered
there by day and roosting there bj
night. A peon 10 the biggest yaga
bond on earth. He will work one OF
two days in week for 81 cents day
and be paid in Mexican silver that 4
worth only half what ours IL, and b.
and the family and the dogs viii liy'
on this for week. They will stea
everything that IL in sight and no
locked up; says he has known them q
break into a car that was sidetracke'
and steal and carry off 1000 pounds o
machinery. They will get IL TO tb
city some way, and sell Il 70 iunl
shop for dollar or two. The Amer
leans do all the manufacturing; tn
Germans all the hardware business
the French all thes and fine goods
and the natives all the little sho
business, and run the saloons. BE
sides the archbishops and bishops, n
less than rs priests ofieiate around th
chancel in the great cathedral ever
day. Somebody must stay there to r.
ceiye the offerings and grant absolt
tion and remission of sins. Thisisth
largest cathedral In the world, exceT
three. II is 46 feet long, 400 feet wid'
and 40 feet from the floor 70 tn
ceiling, and the walls are literal
overlaid with gold and silver image
and cricifxes. The church Is rich an
controls President Diaz. Diaz col
trolls the Castilians, and the police a
over the towns and cities, and the p
lice control the poems and the commo
people. So at the last II Is the prizes
hood that dominates the government
Liberal concessions are given TO Anne
leans to build railroads and dig cana
and To mine for precious metals. III
charter under which the Mexican NJ
tional was built requires IL member
of the board of directors, and five I
. them must live in Mexicog the othei
/ may live anywhere. Our boy Carl
, a Mexican director, having lived thei
long eEcugh TO become eligible, ar
i that Is how be was called to New Yoi
/, last week TO a meeting Of the boar
and got chance TO come by hon
and see Ms for week. And now Il
time Of tribulations is near st han
] and be will leave US. and We may new
see him again. Such Is life, and on
death viii end it.-Biil Arp, in Allan
Constitution.