The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-06-18

AAopONA IL WOQlQ NC Ui19uL GAu UdlIlY
for the poor woman don't get but two
maternal feasts in year and two pa
ternal kisses. I was sick the night
before and she was up with me half
the night and slept late. l had creep
ed in to breakfast and slipped five
dollar gold piece under her plate and
intended to rise and kiss her unwrin-
killed. brow when she appeared, but she
slipped up behind me and kissed me
first. She never did it that way be-
fore, and the boys hint that she saw
the gold shining and it excited her
labial views and osculatory glands
and she couldn't refrain.
Gold, gold, gold, gold,
Bright and yellow, hard. and cold,
Heavy to get and light to hold,
Spent by the young, but Rugged by the
old,
To save, to ruin, or to curse to bless,
Now stamped with the image of good
Queen Bess,
And now of bloody .Aary."
But she got more than l gave her,
and nobody got kiss but me. Chill
dren," said I, this is your mothers
seventy-second birthday. You know
that the stars fell seventy-two years
ago and that's the reason they did
fall. They knew that brighter light
was coming and so they paled their
Intellectual fires and fell to the ground
and expired.
81 am only H." said my wife. "Why
do you try to make me 72?" BE
cause" said I, "you have had seventy
two birthdays. You had one the day
you was born. When you were
year old you had had two" She then
gave it up.
These birthdays are the mile stones
that measure the journey of life. Next
Monday will be II. On the 23d one
Of the girls will be 40. On the oath
my mother was born and so was my
little graHdchild. Caroline, who WIS
named for her. My wife can tell the
birthday Of every child and grand
child, but know only Lalf a dozen.
Well, the Mexican boy did come and
FOR whole week we have Toasted on
his presence and listened to the same
old songs he used to sing. He is a
fine singer and has plenty of help
from the children and grandchildren.
And the night was filed 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 hilarity and tries to sing, and
holds up his skirt and dances the
cakewalk and kicks up his feet and
bows to the audience with great SOL
emnity. He plays monkey in the show,
and his young mother thinks he is the
smartest and prettiest child in all the
world, and l think so, for they say he
! Is Just like ne. What kind of a world
would this be without these little chill
dren, and yet the last census says
they are not wanted up in New Eng
land any more They say that Roose-
velt loves children and wants to en-
courage maternity. Well, I'll give him
credit for that when he retracts and
apologies. Our Mexican boy says the
poems of Mexico have them by The
score. Their adobe houses have but
one big room, with dirt floor, and
you will see a man and his wife and
flock of dirty, lousy, greasy chill
iren and a half dozen dogs all gather
cred there by day and roosting there
by night. A peon is the biggest vaga
bond on earth. He will work one or
two days in a week for 81 cents day
and be paid in Mexican silver that is
worth half what ours is, and he and
the family and the dogs will live on
this for a week They will steal ev
erything that is in sight and not
locked up; says he has known them tc
break into a car that was sidetracked
and steal and carry off 1000 pounds
Of machinery. They will get it to the
city some way and sell it to junk
shop for dollar or two. The Ameri
cans do all the manufacturing; the
lGermans do all the hardware bust
ness: the French all the silk and fine
goods, and the natives all the shoI
business and run the saloons. De
sides the archbishops and bishops, nc
LESS than twenty-five priests ofi1ciate
around the chancel in the great cathe
liral every day. Somebody must stay
There to receive the offerings and
lyrant absolution and remission Of
lsins. This is the largest cathedral IN