Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-28
5 GANDfRbONE'S DEC. FORECAST
copyright 1907 by C. II. Rieth.l

December of the drifting snow
i And Yue-log blazing bright:
! December. when the cold winds blow
! Across the fields of white
| When winters chill is in the ground
And the nights are clear and still,
And the boys go belly-buster down
The slick and shiny HILL
December of the Christmas tree
! And childhood s brightest dream;
December of the ecstacy
OF haowed Christmas cen
When the last sweet lullaby is sung
And children's whispers cease
l. And wee sweet stocking all strung
Along the mantle-piece.
December of the drum and horn
And bundles slyly hid;
December of the great
OF mornings for kid;
When the chimes of sweet and mellow bells
Are welcoming the dawn,
And the house rocks with merry yells
/ OF kids with nighties on
December was the ninth month in
the old Roman calendar, and it's
name is from Deem (ten) When
julius Ceaser became Big Stick OF the
empire, the month contained but
twenty-nine days. He added two
more-One more to make ready for
Christmas, and another to recover
from it. Christmas gifts originated
with the Greeks. Hence the saying,
Beware OF the Greeks bearing gifts. .
Santa Claus was invented by the toy
manufacturers of Neuremburg, Ger
many, where the Teddy Bears came
| from.
The motto FIR this month will be,
"Shut the door," Mr.. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Bryan will be the leading presi-
Dental candidates, and prohibition
will continue the burning issue. The
liquor interests will build walls
around Peoria, Ill, st Louis, Louis
vile and Milwaukee, and their war
balloon will make daily observa-
tons of the movements of NJ s.
Nation.
The Anti-Saloon League has con-
sented to set the Winter Solstice of
this year begin on the 22nd but there
must be no drinking, and every one
must be in by Curfew. The Dist will
will be shortest day in the year.
This will be on Saturday, and if you
are at church next day and stay for
the sermon, you will notice that the
22nd is much longer.
The moon will be full on the 10Th
and the sign of the zodiac for the
month will be Capricornus the Goat.
+ This will make butter go up, and
send kids to Sunday school.
The old mill pond will freeze again.
And every one will skate;
The mollycoddle modest swain,
VIII thither go with Kate.
She'll slip in such way that she
Will see brilliant star,
And he will deeply blush to see
How long her stockings are.
The money scare will quiet down
unhappy circumstance-and money
will frequent again the pockets OF
our pants. The new gold coin they
are making now without in God
We Trust" will turn up in the hat
at church as priced as any dust. The
scrip will have to be retired. and real
dough will look good, but the old
subscriber will insist on paying up
with wood.
On the End Speaker Cannon will
assemble at Washington, where he
will re-elect himself and resume
the enactment of law in the pres
ence of the Democratic minority
and OnlOokers. The final edition of
the Presidents message will be read,
Wall street will be given another
physic; and it will be officially de-
clared that this country cannot eX
ist half capital and half water.
Mr.. Fairbanks will take refuge in
the Senate from his cocktail persecu-
ters, and several new members will
be taken into that exclusive club
of multi-millionaires. Congress as
sembled will take up great public
questions like the new federal build
| ings at Podunk and Coyote Center;
the growing demand for a more
elastic currency, and why nobody
will stay in the army at the gener-
Gus inducement of 1913 month and
| fOund-dead~in the Philippines.
Persons born under the sign of
Capricornus the Goat are great ora
tors, thinkers and teachers; self-con-
scientious and meddlesome; good
story tellers, eat too much, have
style and pride, talk too much, are
distrustful and can keep a secret (if
males). They are selfish and never
get the hot end of in an exchange
OF Christmas gifts. They continue
to hang up their stockings W hen it is
a hardship upon others to fill them.
Girls born in Capricofnus are hard
to win, generally preferring a parrot
to the stork.
The want-wolf's wall will ride the blast
Where poverty prevails;
few late laggard geese will pass
With winter on their tails
The sleigh will Jingle up the road
the lines around the whip, n d
| George and Nellie in the robes, will
loves own honey sip. The sleigh
will hit a 10 foot bank, and they'll
go rolling down, with Nellie's foot
| in Georges face-and walk six miles