Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-11-10
1 Comes up with a load Of wood.
Winters coming and the bad boys III

Winter s coming and the bad boys Z
IN the school room sing and dance,
For the teacher cannot feaze them .5
When they wear thsir winter pants.
November was the ninth month in
the old Roman calendar, and gets its
name from novem, meaning nine. The
her, which we would spell burr, was
added by Nhmrod, the quail hunter.
He had an Irish setter with which he
hunted in Novem, and the dog got so
many burrs on its tail that he called
the month November Like all burrs,
this one stuck. d
e November's place in the calendar
was changed when Thanl1sgi wing was
Invented The Romans debated this
in the senate. Some of the senators
thought Noyembe IN should continue the
ninth month i'm the year, Turkeys,
they pointed out, were large enough
to eat, and there was enough to be
thankful for BY that time Iii the year
to so right ahead with the fireworks
and the escalloped oysters. Cicero
had been very silent all this time
When the senators who wanted to OBJ
serve Thanksgiving three months be-
fore Christmas had said all they had
to say, he arose and disposed Of them
forever by simply saying: But cram
berries won't be ripe 81
The hills are painted red and gold
The frost is boar and white,
The moon is sailing white and cold b..
Across the skies of night; =
The. fish and Hartman dispute
VIII become a mortal strife: st5 " 4
Instead Of proxy ballots, i p !:
They'll demand each others life.
So each will take of strychnine Z
A good and deadly lump.
And then they'll shake the dice to see
Which gets stomach pump
The president has gone for game
and killed a lady bear, the days are
growing short and soft. and hazy is
the air; the country editors who once
had money in their tills, are selling all
their diamonds now to pay their paper
bills.
| Sagittarius the Archer is the 20
diacal sign for November. His name
| is from the Latin word sagitta, mean
/ ing arrow, and is typical of the sudden
cold shooting into the earth and caus-
ling the turndp to run for the cellar
Ike whitehead. From the first to
/, the twenty-second of the month the
sun will be in the constellation uf
Scorpio which is Mr.. Bryan's unlucky
iconstella tion, and will make it diff,
cult to tell whether he is coming or
going From the 22na to the Both. the
sun will be in the constellation of Sag
ittarius, in which MIR, Taft and the
White House are at aphelion. and he
will look as il he would finish about
/ fifth.
On the 18th the sun will rise will
I the transit of Mercury on its disk. Fol
hours and 36 minutes the planet vii
/ describe a short chord on the north
ern limb Of the sun, causing mons.
/ to run to its hole in Wall street, ant
Standard Oil to tell everything.
Mercury, which will be an evening
star during the first two waeks of Thu
month. will tire of lovers and buggy
riders on the 18th, and will be al morn
/ ing star for The rest of the month. &
Il win cast enough light ON key1holes fo
sports to find them without using
i funnel, and will look with contemp
into the chambers OF mollycoddles AMI
milksops.
Il The girl who suld summer man #
Where cool sea hreezes course,
i VIII keep on suing inthe courts
4 And capture her divorce; !. u.s.
/ The Watered railroads win contrive
TO have a few more wrecks, 5
i And the press will print more lists o
names " MI
With broken backs and necks. 5
The loving maid will feed her beal
on good dyspepsia fudge. the farme
with the smokehouse will touch Of
/ his hick'ry snudgs, the proclamation
will come out, and the hired man vii
fsout the turkeys head upon the blocl
and arnputate his foot. ss
i The flower for this month will b,
/ the chrysanthemum and the birth
stone viii he tine topaz. AZ
Ared Or pink Tchrysanthemum is til,
i symbol OF love. white one signifie,