Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-04-30

One ear blown off,
And bitten through the windpipe.
The shouting and the tumult grew,
The angry bullets spat and flew,
And when the king OF beasts was pot
The following fireworks were shot;
Six skyrockets.
Two fiOwerpots,
One spinwheel,
Four Roman candlds,
Three Booker Washington chasers, ..
Two medium~sized bombs,
And one son-of- q gun.
May gets its name from Maia who
was the mother of Mercury. the Ro-
man god of prosperity. If business
is going to improve at all, it will
do so under this favorable sign. for
May was named and dedicated to
gain, and during its thirty-one days
business has usually been good and
money comparatively abundant.
In addition to Mercury's temple in
Rome, an altar was raised to him
over a we'll near the POrta Capena,
and here the merchants repaired on
the festival of the god (May 26), to
sprinkle their goods with the waters
of the well that they might DC pu-
rifed and yield big profit. This
was the origin of watering stocks,
and even to this time The 2bth OF
May is 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, Pm
| to be queen of the May. have the
bonnet mother-its the strangest
ever seen, and you bet your bottom
dollar it's the bonnet makes the
queen. 1t has the seeming mother,
of u coal-hod upside down, with the
spout projecting backwards from the
the flower crown, while the
circling bail upon it. passes under
meath my chin-wake me early! | am
crazy for the voting to begin,
The meadowiapk will MARBLE, and
the apple tree will bloom, the frog
will WOO his true love with his meIan-
choly boom, the barefoot boy will
issue his spring challenge to the tack,
the lamb will frisk and gambol like a
jask- knife in the back, the playful
winds will frolic in the fields of waS-
ing 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 are sproutihg
every one. The gumbo and the oyster
plant are seven inches high, ann the
mint q wonder does he know the
state has voted dry? A Congress-
man in Washington can keep him
self so wet that even if his state is
dry, he likely to fOrget.) However
that may be, the squash is looking 1
fatter, and the first fruit of his seven I
terms is threatning the platter.
The news from Washington will be
What it has always been
Since Roosevelt stepped down and out
And Taft was usnered in.
The capital will rise at 8,
Retire again at 10,
Get up for lunch at noon and 60
To bed at / again.
Arise at 5, stay up till s.
And finally retire,
And there will not be doggone 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 at playing jacks. The Pres
ident will ride upon his bucking
rocky horse, the gun men will turn
up their toes ane perish of remorse,
the tariff argument will drone it's
weary way along, the strong will
battle with the weak, and right will
wrestle wrong, the vested interests
will howl, the planter will protest,
the miner will exhort the law to
succor the oppressed, the women
will combat the tax upon Paris hat
and about the time we settle it we
won know where we're at.
Until the 10th May will be under
the zodiacal sign of Taurus the Bull.
Mr.. Roosevelt viii by this time have
reached the Albertlne Basin, and the
influence of Taurus will cause him
to do a good deal of roaring. The
hons and other fairly good roarers'
will compete with him for a while
but after they have heard him roar
two or three tsmes they will bust up
a good deal of brush getting on the
other side of the Congo.
People born under Taurus have
very intricate minds, and they I'M
derstand the tariff debate, They
are unerring in love, and generally
marry their affinities at the outset.
There is natural attraction be
tween persons born under opposite
signs of the zodiac, and a Taurus