The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-10-18
Ganderbone's October Forecast

| "AOA VIC yuan oAdAA "AlosA0 0uIlAA,
when the coal man gets in action
with his pesky little bill; when the
frost and pumkin poet sings the old
familiar strains, and the football glad
iators scramble one another's brains.
Doub]y welcome, hallowed season,
When the wild goose travels space,
When the hunter in the wildwood
Shoots the rabbi in the face.
When the last years made over -.
Shows up in the new fall stock,
And the bug-fed turkey shoulders
Every time he sees the block.
Secretary Taft will be the leading
presidential candidate for the month.
He will reach Japan on bis trip
around the world, and when he steps
ashore, the island will tip up. The
Mikado will have him lifted to the
imperial Roof Garden with block and
tackle, and the populace will hold the
roof up while Bill and Mutsuhito eat
rice cakes together and open a few
bottles of saki to the continued amnity
of nations.
In our own country, President
I Roosevelt will proceed early in the
month upon his annual fresh water
cruise. He will 60 down the Missis-
sippi from Keokuk to Memphis, while
cheering multitudes congregate on
the banks and count his teeth. Un-
Gle Joe Cannon will buy another
thousand feet OF lightning rod, buck
wheat cakes will renew their tug-of
war with EPSON salts in the innards
of man, and the cost of living will
take birds eye view Of the econom-
ic proposition.
The autumn nights inspiriting shall
grow little longer, and the breath of
fall on cider sweet shall grow little
stronger. The husbandman shall sell
hogs and think to prosper on it, but
the good housewife will take the
dough aud buy a winter bonnet. 4
County fairs will be in full blast.
The heavy fragrance of roasted
peanuts will decoy the cautious nickel
from the pants pocket of the loving
swain. The toy balloon will drag the
small boy around the grounds. The
man with the long awning on his cap
will sit on the tails of the winged
footed trotter and slap her around the
tract with a barrel stave. The man
in red underware will rise in balloon
hanging by his toe nails, aud the fa-
mily that Roosevelt is enthusiastic
about will weave thru the crowd tied
together on long clothesliue.
The husky husker in the corn
Will,tr his little ballad,
The raccoon in tho forest deep
Will eat persimmon salad,
The robin redbreast, growing chilled,
Will slowly southwark Autter,
And angels in the sky will catch
The scent of apple butter.
The moon will be full on the 2lst.
Campers will 60 off to the woods to
play poker all night and sleep all
day. Hog-killing time will fill the
hog with concern for his near future,
and he will hustle around after acorns
in philosophic enjoyment of his last
few days. s.,s -.
The football rooter, full of root,
will go off on his Autumn foot; the
player with the college hair, the while
the horns and trumpets blare, will
outt around till he is thrown. and
someone breaks his collar bone. The
lusty sound of rah-rah.r ahs will urge
the fell and bloody cause; the girls,
in mass and colors come, will sing
and scream and swallow gum. The
giant fullback, fierce and stout, will
pick a little fellow out, kick in bis
Stats and change face, and maui him
up and down the place, and when the
foe shall cease to brethe, will proud
~ claim the victor's wreathe. 81:
The farmer with the mortgage
Who is prone to giving notes
Will figure up the proceeds !
From his wheat and corn and oats,
And wonder if his cash in hand
Will pull him out the hole 4
Or whether he will have to give :,:-.
a mortgage on his soul" : -.
): The hunting season: will keepEEthe
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