Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-11-28
GanderbOne's Dec. Forecast


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 e en-;
When the last sweet lullaby is sung
And children's whispers cease,
And the wee sweet stockings all are
strung
Along the mantelpiece.
December of The drum and horn
And bundles slyly hid;
December of the one great morn
OF mornings for kid
When the chimes of sweet and mel
low bells
Are welcoming the dawn,
And the house rocks with the merry
yells
Of kids with nighties on.
December was the ninth month in
the old Roman calendar, and its name
is from decem (ten). When Julius
Caesar became Big Stick of the empire,
the month contained but twenty mine
days. He added two more-one more
to make ready for Christmas, and the
other 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 manufactur-
ers of Nuremburg, Germany, where
the Teddy Bears came from.
The motto for this month will be
"Shut the doorn' 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, Louisville and
Milwaukee, and their war balloon will
make daily observations of the move
ments of Mrs. Nation.
/ The Anti Saloon League has consent
ed to let the Winter Solstice of this
year begin at seven p. m. on the 22nd !;
but there must be no drinking, and
everyone must be in by Curfew. The
2lst 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 is0uch 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 everyone will skate;
The mollycoddle, modest swain,
Win 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 none,
, will frequent again the pockets of ou
pants. The new gold coins they L,
, making now without I'm God w
, Trust, will turn up III the hat a
church as priced as any dust TIL
scrip we have will be retired, and rea
, dough will look good, but the old sub
: scriber will insist on paying up witt
. wood.
:, On the 2nd, Speaker Cannon will as
o semble at Washington, where he will
re-elect himself and resume the enact
. ment of the law in the presence of tn
a Democratic minority and other onlook
a ers. The final edition of the Presi
g ents message will be read, Wal
i street will be given another physic
- and it will bs Officially declared tha
this country cannot exist half waite
and half capital.
Mr.. Fairbanks will take refuge i
the dignity of the Senate from hi
cocktail prosecutors, and several ne,
members will be taken into that ex
q elusive club of multi -milliOnaires
"a Congress assembled will take up grea
4 public questions like the need fC
" new federal buildings at Podunk an
i Coyote Center; the growing deman
l. for more elastic currency and wh
- - nobody will stay in the army at IL
! generous inducerent of $13 a mont
and found-dead in the philippines
Persons born under the sign of Cal
=. ricornus the Goat are great orator
thinkers and teachers; self-conscio,
:. and not meddlesome; good story te
= lers, eat too much, have style an
-. pride, talk too much, are distrustfr
and can keep secret (if males). The
are selfish and never get the hot end
it in an exchange of Christmas gift
IS They continue to hang up their stoc
NJ ings when it is a hardship upon othe
al to fill them. Girls born in Capricorn
10 are hard to win, generally preferring
as parrot TO the stork.
" The want VOLTS wall will ride q
blast
Where poverty prevails: =
A few late laggard geese win pass
y ~ With winter on their tails
:. The sleigh will jingle up the roa
I'd the lines around the whip. and Geor
and Nellie in the robes. win Love