The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-04-05

Came the warriors of the nations,
| Came the lanky, tall Doll-shuh.gah
Came the medicine. man. March-gebis,
Came the small chief, Welkerpaugtk,
Came the fiery Eynon-sogum, 4
Known to tribesmen as the Long-pipe;
Came the janitors, the coal beavers,
Came the papoose Clark-i-no.it,
Came custodian of truents,
Came the clerks and other warriors,
Who desired to hold their soft Jobs;
All the warriors drawn together 7
BY the vapor from the platform,
To the park, the Nimisilla
Came they all but Burnheimwatha,
Who, somehow, had missed the signal.
Baird-be-wawa, the almighty,
The creator of the platform,
Looked upon them with compassion,
With paternal love and pity;
Looked upon their gentle notions
AS the product of small children,
AS the thoughts and views of children.
Then with gazing most hypnotic,
Over them he stretched his right hand
TO subdue their stubborn natures,
To allay their fears and tremblings
That they might lose all their jobs yet.
Spake to them with voice majestic
AS the sound of far.off waters
Falling into deep abysses,
Spake to them and hypnotized them,
| Warning, chiding, spake in this wise:
"I have given you platform
That is wonderfully fashioned.
That will fool the people surely
Once the spell of it has seized them.
l have given you art exhibits
And gum shoes to buy the frames with;
When we get the thing a-going
We will have such plenteous money
| That the janitors, coal beavers,
Will have work that is less heavy,
Shoveling into the school furnace
All the surplus paper money
That the board cannot make use Of.
~ shall get another prophet
Get another superintendent,
Who shall guide you and shall teach
you
Who shall toll and suffer with you;
You shall listen to his counsels
And shall multiply and prosper"
Gently then the Baird-be-wawa
Waved his hand and looked fierce at
them.
Shone his eyes like sparks of fire,
Like the words of Burnheimwatha
When he broke the school board quo
| rum.
Soon the influence had seized them
And the mighty warriors two-stepped;
Danced the dance that Baird-be-wawa
Simply thought within his mind out.
Through with that he rolled them over;
Then upon their hind legs stood they,
Did the waltz and the mazourka;
Laid them down upon the green sward;
Through the hoops they jumped with
war.whoops;
Rolled them over and then played dead
While the spell of Bairdbe-wawa
Was most potently upon them.
Then upon the ground the warriors
Threw their implements of warfare;
Jumped into the. mighty river
From the feet of Baird-be-wawa
That had flowed in great stream out
Leaped into the rushing river
Washed the war paint from their faces
From the river came the warriors
Clean and washed of all their war.
paint.
On the banks their hatchets buried
Buried all their warlike weapons
While the mighty Baird dbe-wawa,
Now custodian of the whole thing
Smiled upon his helpless children.
Thus the lowering clouds that threat
ened
From the skies were cleared entirely
And the mighty Baird-be-wawa
And pretender, Reed-obridge-way,
And the rainbow, Rustle-chase-it,
Saw before them in the distance
That deceitful, fair horizon,
Circumscribing all their chances
For political preferment
And determined to assault it
And get straightway to that heaven
That they find within the school board
Mingling with the pretty teachers.
They would enter the fair heaven
While the warriors all were subdued;
Make a hole right into heaven
And let out the summer weather,
The perpetual summer weather
That delights the politician.
So the mighty Baird-be-wawa
Made the fair horizon stand still
Till he and his bold compatriots
Could come up and fierce assault 1t.
When they thus had come up to 1t
Jumped they high up in the ozone,
Smote their fists against the heavens
Smote against the sky political
With their broad and hardened fore
heads;
Smote the sky but could not break it.
Baird-bewawa, the almighty,
Vexed at failure of his purpose
Straightway climbed onto his platform.
On the pinnacle of his platform;
Made him ready for the encounter,
Bent his knees down like squirrel,
Drew his arms back like a cricket.
Once he leaped, did Baird-be-wawa,
Once he leaped and, 10, above him,
Bent the sky as ice in rivers
When the waters rise beneath It.
Twice he leaped and, 10, above him
Cracked the sky as ice in rivers
When the freshet is at highest.
Thrice he leaped and, 10, above him
Broke the shattered sky asunder
And ha d;counaa rod ,uithin a..