Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-31
OCTOBER 81, 1907.
Ganderbone's Novem-
Der Forecast

Long we've waited for Novem-
Der, when the winds are swift
and chill; when the hrst-cCme
SHOWS of winter drift along the
window sill; when the hunter |
finds pneumonia waiting for him
down the lake, and the pies we
get resem BILE those that mother |
used to make.
Everybody fond of mince pies, |
Dances MIN bly,, feeling good;
Now and then an old subscriber
Comes up with load of wood.
Winters coming and the bad
boys
In the schoolroom sing and
dance,
For the teacher cannot feaze
them
When they ware their winter
pants. |
November was the ninth
month in the old Roman calendar
and gets it's name from novem
meaning nine. The "ber"
which we would spell burr, was
added by Nimrod, the quail hun
ter. He had an Irish setter
with which he hunted in Noyem
and the dog got so many burrs
on his tail that he called the
month Novem Der. ?: Like all
burrs this one stuck.
.November's place in the calen-
dar was changed when Thanks
giving was invented. The Ro-
mans debated this in the Senate.
Some of the Senators thought
November should continue the
ninth month in the year. Tur-
keys, they pointed out, were
large enough to eat. and there
was enough to be thankful for
by that time of year to 20 right
ahead with the fire works and
the escalloped oysters,
Cicero had been very silent all
this time. When the senators
who wanted to observe Thanks
giving three months before
Christmas had all said their
say, he arose and disposed of
them saying: But cranberries
won't be ripe!"
The hills are painted red and
gold.
The forest is boar and white,
The moon is sailing white and
Across the skies of night;
The Fish and Hartman dis
pute
Will become mortal strife; !.
Instead of proxy ballots,
They'll demand each others
life.
So each will take of strychnine
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 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 pa
per bills.
Sagittarius the Archer is the
xodical sign for November. His
name is from the Latin word
sag:ta, meaning arrow, and is
typical of the sudden cold shoot
ing into the earth and caucing
the turnip to run to the cellar
like a Witches From the
first to the twenty-second of the
month the sun will be in the con-
stellation of Scorpio, which is
Mr., Bryau's unluky constellation
and will make it difficult to tell
whether he is coming or going.
From the 22nd to the 30tb, the
sun will be in the constellation
:of Sagittarius, in which Mr.. Taft
andSthe white House are at aphel
lion, and he will look as if he is
about to finish the fifth.
On the l&th the sun will rise
with the-traasmit of Mercury on
its disk. For three hourss and
thirtysix minutes the. planet
will describe. short chord on
the northern limb of the sun.
causing money to run to its hole
in Wall street. and Standard Oil
70 tell ever ythiug
Mercury which, win be. an
evenisg star during the first two
weeks of the month. will tire of
lovers and buggy-riders on the
18th. aud will be morning. star
tpfssaae. rest of the mouth. 1t
ssM east enough light 90 key
hcte for sports to find them