Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-11-28
Decemher Of the DIR lifting snow

Across the fields of white:
When winters ring 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 hallowed Christmas cen;
And children's whispers cease,
And the wee stockings are all
strung
Along the mantel piece.
December of the drum and horn
And bundles slyly hid;
December of the one great MON
Of mornings for kid
w hen the chimes of sweet and
mellow bells
Are welcoming the dawn,
And the house rocks with the
merry yells
OF kids with nighties on. 7t.
December was the ninth month
in the old Roman calendar, and its
name is from decem (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 re-
cover from it. Christmas gifts or
igInated with the Greeks. Hence
the saying, beware of the Greeks
bearing gifts. Santa Claus vas
invented by the toy manufacturers
OF Neuremburg, Germany, where
the Teddy Bears came from.
The motto for this month will be,
''Shut the door - MIR. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Bryan will be the leading
presidential candidates and prohi-
bition will continue the burning
issue. The liquor interests will
build walls around Peoria, H., ST.
Louis, Louisville and Milwaukee
and their war Balloon Will make
daily observations of the movements
vi lNdtlOI.
The Anti Saloon League has con-
scented to let the Winter Solsticc of
this year begin at p. m. on the
22nd; but there must be no Ldrink-
ing and every one must be in by
Curfew. The 21st will be the
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
18th and the sign of the zodiac for
the month will be Capricol nus the
Goat. This will make butter go
up and send kids to Sunday school.
The old mill pond will freeze
aga n,
And ssery one will skate;
Ths<nollycoddle, modest swain,
Vsfll hither 60 with Kate.
She'll slip in such a 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 circumstances and
money will frequent again the
pockets of our pants. The new
gold coins they're making now
without I'm .od We Trust,' will
turn up in the hat at church as
priced as any dust. The scrip we
have will be retired and real doug h
W i'll look good, but the old subscrib-
er will insist on paying up with
wood. s.tirf .4 w
On the 2nd, Speaker, Cannon
will assemble at Washington,
where he will re-elect himself and
resume the enactment of law in the
presence of the Democratic minori-
ty and other on lockers. The final
edition of the Presidents message
will be read, Wall street will be
given another physic; and it will
be officially declared that this coun-
try cannot exist half capital and
half water.
Mr.. Fbirbank will take refuge in
the dignity of the Senate from his
prosecutors, and several
new members will be taken into
that exclusive club of multi million
aires. Congress assembled will
take up great public questions like
the need for new federal build
ing 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 $13 a month and
found dead in the Philippines.
Persons born under the sign of
Cspricornus, the Goat are great or
ators, thinkers and teachers; self
conscious ard not meddlesofne