Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-02-05

the l4th. This will be the biggest
day of the month, irasmuch as il
will give the people who believe in
protecting American art an oppor-
tunity to show Us just what the tariff
is doing for it. Theirs will, OF COURSE
be few of those hideOus caricatures
which everybody got when our ma
tive artists were compelled to com.
pete with the cheap labor of Europe,
but in the main the valentines viii
be great improvement upon any
thing we have seen. After looking
them over we shall be able to deter
niue pretty well whether art, like
the steel industry, is now quite able
to take care of Itself, or II 1t Ia still
an infant and needs all the baby toaG
that Uncle Joe Cannon can give it.
But while the symbel of q love
That dieth not nor fails
And other kinds of valentines
Are going through the mails,
And almost everybody is
On edge to take shot
At the coward who addressed to him
The cruel one he got
While all of this is going on
In lighter humor, still,
T0a !l bet yopF bott9Eml ed.9llar that
The Secret SERVICE will
Be on the job for Roosevelt,
And watChtul to a man
To see no ugly oneS are sent
At present to Japan.
On the second Wednesday in Feb.
ruary the vote OF the electoral col
lege will be formally opened at a
joint session of both houses OF Con.
gress, and it will De found that 32l
votes were cast for Fatt and Sher:
man and le2 for Bryan and Kern,
Dir. Carnegie says figures prove
nothing. but the recurrence OF these
will nevertheless prove a little EN-,
barrassing.
Between ST. Valentines day and
Washing:on's birthday there will bc
lull enlivened from sime to time by
Carrie Nation in London Tower,
newspaper editors sentenced to hard
labor on the Panama Canal for Cos
siping about the Government. and
the Duke OF the AbFuEli giving up
all for Miss Elkins. The 9eet viii
continue on its homeward way, max.
ing Spain, where there will he tre-
mendous ovation rendered ID ON Feb.
81.
And then The day OF days will come
When everyone will try
To honor most the name OF him
Who never told q lis--
Who never wrote q nature. fake, =
Or lied about deal rs
In timber lands, or called the sale
In Panama steal.
Or represented Standard OIL
Behind the country's back,
But always made very straight
And unsuspiciOus track.
T. R. will take . cherry tree and
drag it through the aisles OF Con-
gress till the country whoops and
even Congress smiles; and having
surfeited himself with this amusing
skit, he'll center Tillman out and
run him up and down Bit
At night the Ansnias Club will
burgeOn with ball and all the liars
will disport and frOlic IN the hall.
The cheerful liar will consort and
mingle with the plain, the UMPIRE
meditated type will trip to the re-
frain, the wilful liar will essay the
Merry Widow waltz, the suave in
fernal liar will be welcomed for his
tsa'ss, the artful liar will conssgR the
truth to utter Hades. and the droll
dam liar will delight the none too
squeamish ladies.
The season for sitting the ashes
ends on Ash Wednesday, Feb. "a.
The supposition is that we can make
ends meet in some other way during
Lent, which immediately follows.
February was named for Februus.
an old Etruscian god with . bad
liver. Information or him 10 meager
but history calls hima holy ssrror, !.
and he appears to have been . prov
idential preparation Of the earth for
the subsequent occurrence Of Pres-'
dent Castro.
The password for the month, will
be "Possum. Prosperity will re-
turn on the 18th.
And then the ides Of March will come
Which long ago played hob
And the latest man we ever chose
Will 90 upon the job.