tup: battalion.
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the eldest daughter of our distin
guished president, sponsor.
The formation of the staff is as
follows: J. E. Abrams, 1st lieu
tenant and adjutant; C. P. Rog
ers, 1st lieutenant and quarter
master, succeeded by T. W. Grif
fiths, Jr.; F. R. McGinnis, 1st
lieutenant and private secretary;
L. Fitzgerald, 2nd lieutenant in
charge of signal corps; C. Spring-
ston, sergeant major; I^L Elrod,
quartermaster sergeant, and Eich,
blatt 2nd sergeant and battalion
clerk, with Miss Ellena Edmonds,
the younger daughter of Colonel
J. E. Edmonds, sponsor.
The band is doing some excel
lent practice and will certainly
hold the good reputation it has
made for the last few years under
the direction of Prof. F. H. Mil
ler. Cadet Japhet has been made
drum major and T. H. Clement is
1st lieutenant. Miss Esta Boat-
right, of Bryan, has been elected
sponsor and the band, as ever,
showed its good taste in this
choice. This completes the for
mation of thecorps of cadets, and
by November 4 we hope to have
four of the best drilled compan
ies in the state.
>he Bag.
Willie called on his girl at her dwell
ing,
His story of love he was telling,
As he gave her a hug
She got kissed by the bug
And Willie got blamed for the swell
ing.
A girl who had never been kissed
Thought a pleasure had surely been
missed,
Till a kissing bug small
Bussed her in the hall,
And her lips grew as big as my fist.
There was a young man of Belmar,
Who rode on a Madison car;
He was bit by the bug
On his abnormal mug,
And now he’s gone home to papa.
An actress, a little passe,
To her agent did quietly say:
“If the bug kisses me
I’ll get an ‘ad’ free”—
And, strange, she was bitten that day!
A kissing bug out in St. L,ouis,
Said, “I’m feeling exceedingly bluey,
I don’t care what they say,
I must fight night and day,
To reach New York in time to kiss
Dewey.”
“Hobson’s rival I am, ’tis true,”
Said a kissing bug as he flew
On the lips of a maiden,
With sweet honey laden,
Making victim twelve hundred and
two.
A kissing bug, silly young jigger,
Once lit on a pretty wax figure;
He chewed on one place
Till he ruined his face,
And swore ’cause it didn’t grow bigger.
A kissing bug—this is quite true—
Bit a maiden of Kalamazoo,
She didn’t cry out,
As you would, no doubt,
But said, “Bite again, now, please do.”