Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-05-08
GanderbOneS forecast
For MAY.
FoR MAY

IN 10 ne queen or the May.
Put the alarm clock close beside you
To announce the bfeak of dawn
For must rustic out mother
And get my glad rags on
Wake me early. mot1sr darling,
For I've business TO be at.
For m to be queen of the MAY mother
have the biggest hat.
The password TO" he month will
be What 5 the scorer Book in
stallments will be paid on the 1st.
Gas meters will run slower. aud pres
idehtial candidates will run faster.
Pride. which has been going before
fall, will go behind go cart Straw
berg measure will be:
Twelve Quarts make crate.
One pint makes quart,
Top be ries make sale.
Nobody makes kick
Mr. Taft will appear at Chicago,
and engage quarters in the garage
for one. 40 horse power elephant and
one 80 horse power Teddy Bear.
Mr.. Bryan will start for Denver in
1-mule power runabOut. Congress
will adjourn about the 10th, and the
members will go home and explain.
The wstchful tabbycat will get
The helpless little flicker.
And thc prohibitioniSts will set
Anew more traps for liquor.
The sun will rise at SIX O'Clock and
90 10 bed at Z; and the sweet June
bride will ol.template the near APP
proach OF Heaven The breath of
May will bring the fern. the rose and
buttercup, and and the farmers wife
will milk and churn before the men
get up. The boys will skin the slip
perry elm with Jimmie's barlow knife,
and the ice-man will be out to skin
the innocent housewife. The frog
will. sound a richer bass from rivers
and ravines and man will tone his
system up with sassfras and greens,
And then the city boarder will
Begin to correspond
With some bucolic country place
OF which his wife Is fond.
The host will promise country fare.
That most rcvcred OF boonS,
And place his order up at town
For seven tons OF prunes.
The graduate will choose a theme
for his great June Grafton, and plan
to tell us what is good for this neg
lected nation; the music school will
graduate Ophelia and Viola. aud
when they both come home they'll
buy themselves pianola.
The thr sher will descant at eve
UUon the passing day,
The festive colt will fill his tum
With prophylactic hay;
The chicken-hawk will pounce upon
The fat bu"-cochin fries.
And tie horse will whirl his tail-piece at
The all-tarnatiOn flies.
The Saxons called the month Tri-
MiIki, because ut this season the
dairyman makes his milk of three
parts-ore part milk, one part water
and one part formadehyde.
May is from the Latin Maius, just
as June takes its maine from JunioreS,
the Juniors. That is, this is month
when old heads are at their best,
and young men like Bill Taft and
Ted Roosevelt will have to look out
for old tops like Uncle Joe Cannon
and Uncle John Rockefeller I.bout
the 18th, nobody much will care to
bet that Uncle Joe will not be NOM
mated for president, or that Uncle
John will pay that thirty million
dollar fine.
May is bad month to wedi
Because. We are told. it is said in
Such eases the Stork, rs q custom begins
/ The young husbands troubles, o
horrowS with twins
After the 23d May will he under
the influence of Gemini, the sign of
the arms Boys born in Gemlni will
want to bear arms. They will be
soldiers and work for the govern
ment at $13 month Gemini peo-
pie are restless. They move all the
time and you always have to ask
them where they are living now.
They have brilliant imaginations,
and think Bryan will have a walk
over. They are foolish and think
Taft won't get the colored vote.
They are brutally honest, and gen
orally Il the young mother that her
baby is ugly.
The June announcements will be
made, and Madam Gould will don her
fighting cap and say she will marry
Prince Sagan; wtereat her Boni,
whom she had to forcibiy detach,
will challenge Hehe to come out and
fight a splitting match. The prince
will buy some navy plug, and Bony
buy the same, and both will hurry to
the field of sudden death or fame;
and while the doctors hurry up, lest
some bold fighter dies, the dudes will
spit tobacco juice in one another's
eyes. The second will cheer on the
fight, the band will play tune, and
BOni will hit Helie with silver-rib- |
bed spittoon; receiving which the
doughty Prince will down him in the
mud, and wash his hated features
with wet tobacco cud
And then John ID. viii get in line
With sundry growls and hollers
And pay his June installment on
That thirty million dollars.