Year: 1879

One Of our contributors disposed to
make sport Of the recent election, treats
1t in the following style:


There is tribulation in Zion
The faithful went out to do battle
with the Philistines, but fainting in
work, the enemy waxed us like thun-
der, and We are in much sorrow and
many tears thereat.


The chilling winds Of Heaven and the
weepings Of munidcent nature were too
much for us-we, the offspring Of high
toned and silk stocking creation.


Who'd have thought iti


The ways Of the wicked are devious
ways, and Satan holds their sinews of
action. Selah


The strong mon and the fat men of
our tribe were as naught before the at
tack Of the enemy.


Our mighty leader, tho Count, sitteth
among his wares and rspineth bitterly.


The chronicler of records Of the tribes
and the keeper Of the "ducsts" mourn
at the slaughter, while around him is
heard the 6endish mirth of the sate-
litss of perdition


Oh comfort ys us:


Our heads are bowed In sorrow;


Our brows are furrowed with grief;


Our temples throb with pain


While the "innards'' of our enemy
overfoweth with the soothing draught
Of five cent whisky.


Away unto the gray hills of the west
looksth We for hope; but hope, there is
none


The breezss Of the north bring to our
noses the filth OF Philistine corruption,
and the ghosts Of our dead driveth US
back n


We turn to the east, and behold
the Philistines have mounted the bat
Elements:


70 the south We turn but alas, the
pathway is covered with the slain, kill
ed in ignominious battle.


Our cry ascendeth to the bastions of
Heaven:


Oh mighty ruler, dry our tears and
visit vengeance upon our humiliators


They have no shot guns ; but they
encompass US with the woof of q
SPIDERS web, and We are as flies in
their grasp.


That punishment, O Ruler, let it
come quickly.


Fall upon them in the night time of
their existence, for they are sly and
will bulldoze even thy omnipotent will,
0 mighty ruler


They licketh us bad yea, verify
they do.


Sounds Of their mirth ara heard over
the breadth Of our land,


Grinning at our misfortune and
chuckling at our deep sorrow;


They have destroyed our hopes and
and made unhappy the minds of our
children.


Our eyes are as springs, as the leak
ings thereof ningle with the earth and
destroy the grass with their heat.


Yea, we are in deep sadness and
our hearts are filed with apprehen-
sion:


Our storehouse is filled with our
riches, and the enemy has possessed
the keys thereof;


The danger is great


Aliens have entered our houses and
seduced our sons and brothers over to
the tents Of the wicked


For this let the Judgment for iniqui.
ties descend upon them.


They have flooded our people with
tax receipts, which wor-
rieth yea, worrieth us much


For this weaken their minds and
paralyze their energies, SO that we can
set upon them.


They have assaulted eur manhood
and blotted from the books of our tribe
the names of those who would deliver
us;


For this give us weapons whereby we
can kerwhollop them and drive them
out Of our tents into the plains beyond
the city.


Do this, O Mighty Ruler, and thou
will gladden. the faithful IN Israel.


Do it quickly or else they swalloweth
us up as was swallowed Pharoah in the
trouyh of the sea.