The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-05-01
FOR MAY.
Copyrighted by C. H. Rieth Tor
Chas. G. Moreau, Publisher

One water boy,
Three photographers,
One taxidermist,
Two skinners,
| One ammunition wagon,
| And 400 busbeaters.
AT lcngth the lion reached his lair
Backed into it in deep despair,
| And vowed as long as life was hi:
| TIC fight, though sorely wounded
| VIZ.
One leg shattered,
Two knife slashes on back,
-Four ribs kicked in,
One dum-dum bullet in head,
Two steel-nosed bullets in body,
One ear blown off,
And bitten through the windpipe.
The shouting and the tulmut grew,
The angry bullets spat and flew,
And when the king of beasts was not
The following fireworks were shot:
Six Skyrockets,
Two flower-pots,
One spinwheel,
Four Roman Candles,
Three Booker Washington chaser
Two medium sized bombs,
And one Son-ofa-gun.
May gets its name from Maia,
who was the mother of Mercury. the
Roman god of prosperity If business
is going to improve at all, it will do
SO under this favorable sign, for May
was named for and dedicated to gain,
and during its thirty-one days busi-
ness has usually been good and
money comparatively abundant.
In addition to Mercury's temple in
Rome, an altar was raised to him
over a well near the Porta Capena,
and here the merchants repaired on
the festival of the god (May 25) to
sprinkle their goods with the waters
of the well, that they might be puri-
fled and yield big profit This was
the origin of watering stocks, and
even to this time the 25th of May
is a holiday in Wall street and the
New Jersey Legislature.
. Wake me early, mother darling, at
the breaking of the day, for I'm to
be queen of the May, mother, I'm to
be queen of the May. l have the
bonnet, mother-its the strangest
ever seen, and you bet your bot
tom dollar it's the bonnet makes the
queen. 1t has the seeming, mother,
of a coal-hod upside down, with the
spout projecting backwards from the
flower-covered crown, while the cir
n 10 r
my chin-wake me early, am
crazy for the voting to begin.
The meadow-lark will warble, and
the apple tree will bloom, the frog
will WOO his true love with his mel
ancholy boom, the barefoot boy will
issue his spring challenge to the
tack, the lamb will frisk and gambol
like a jack-knife in the back, the
playful winds will frolic in the fields
of waving green and the terrible
mosquito press his face against the
screen.
Come out into the garden, Maude,
the vines begin to run, and the seed
our Congressman sent out are Sprout
oyster plant are seven inches high,
and the mint q wonder does he
know the state has voted dry. A
Congressman in Washington can
keep himself so wet that even if
his State is dry, he's likely to for
get) However, that may be, the
squash was never looking fatter,
and the first fruit of his seven terms
is threatening the platter.
The news from Washington will be
What it has always been
Since Roosevelt stepped down and
out
And Taft was ushered in,
The capital will rise at s,
Retire again at 10,
Get up for lunch at noon and go
To bed at 1 again,
Arise at 5, stay up till s,
And finally retire,
And there will not be a dog-gone
thing
To put upon the wire.
The correspondents who were wont
to listen at the cracks will sit
around the White House steps en-
gagged in playing jacks. The presi-
dent will ride upon his bucking rocky
horse, the gun men will turn up their
toes and perish of remorse, the tar
if argument will drone it's weary
way along, the strong will battle with
the weak, and right will wrestle with
wrong, the vested interests Will
howl, the planter will protest, the
miner will exhort the law to succor
the oppressed, the women will COM
bat the tax upon a Paris hat, and
about the time we settle it we won't
know where we're at.
Until the goth May will be under
the zodiacal sign of Taurus the Bull.
Mr.. Roosevelt will by this time have
reached the Albertine Basin. and the
influence of Taurus will cause MIN
to do a good deal of roaring. The
lions and other fairly good roarers
after they have heard him roar two
will compete with him while, Du'
~ throo timoS thew will bust up q