Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-06

WIN tIle greeks. Hence the Saylug
Beware of the Greeks bearing
gifts. Santa Claus was invented by
the toy manufacturers of Nuremberg
Germany, where the Teddy Bears
came from.
The motto for this month will be,
Shut the doorl" Mr.. 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, ILL.,, st.
Louis, Louisville and Milwaukee, and
their war balloon will make daily OBJ
servatiOns of the movements of Mrs.
Nation.
The Anti Saloon League has con-
sented to let the Winter Solstice of
this year begin at pm. on the 22d;
but there must be no drinking, and
every one 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 22d. 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 20 with Kate
Shed slip in such way that she
win see q brilliaI star,
And he will deeply blush to see
How long her stockings are.
L nU money SCARE VIII qUIeU uown-
unhappy circumstance and money
will frequent again the pockets of our
pants The new gold coins they re
making now without in God We
Trust, will turn up in the hat at
church as priced as any dust. The
scrip we have will be retired, aud
real dough will look good, but the
old subscriber will insist on paying
up with wood.
On the I'd, Speaker Cannon will
assemble at Washington, where he
will re-elect himself and resume the
enactment of law in the presence of
the Democratic minority and other
onlookers. The final edition of the
Presidents message will be read,
Wall street will be officially declared
that this country cannot exist half
capital and half water.
Mr.. Fairbank will take refuge in
the dignity of the Senate from his
cocktail prosecutors, and several rev
members will be taken into that ex-
elusive club of multi millionaires.
Congress assembled will take up
great public questions like the need
for new federal building at Podunk
and Coyote Center; the growing de
mand for a more elastic CURRENCY.
and why nobody will stay in the
army at the generous inducement of
$13 a month and found-dead in the |
Philippines.
Person born under the sign of
the Goat are great |
orators, thinkers and teachers; self
and not meddlesome; good |
story tellers, eat too much, have /
style and pride. talk too much, are |
and can keep secret (if
males). They are selfish. and never
get the hot end of it in an exchange
Of Christmas gifts. They continue
to hang up their stockings when it is
q hardship upon others to fill them.
Girls born in Capricornus are hard
to win, generally preferring parrot
to the stork.
The want-wolfs wall viii wride the blast
Where poverty prevails:
A few late laggard geese will pass
With winter on their tails.
The sleigh will jingle up the road
the lines around the whip, and George
md Nollic, in the robes, will loves
own honey sip. The sleigh will hit
10 foot bank, and they will go rolling
Town, with Nellie's foot in George 5
ace-and walk six miles to town.
The new rule for farmers promul-
gated by the Farmhands' Union will Ii
70 into effect on the 1st, viz:Fai mers
will provide automobiles for all help,
md viii serve as chauffeurs; they I
will eat at the second table, and
sleep in the hayloft; they will rise at
our to do the chores, and serve
breakfast to the hands in bed at 8;
hey will provide q monograph and 1
he current magazines; hands will
supervise the teamwork from IL to II .
md from to 3; the esrnings of the
arm will be placed in a bucket every
Saturday and poured through ladder !
,leeed horizontally, with the ends on
wo chairs; what goes through, the