Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-06-04
GanderbOne's June Forecast.
(CqtJyigAt BY c. II. Riefh, I9oSJ

Copyright BY c. H. Ritfh, I9oSJ
1t was the seventeenth of June,
And great was the convention
The vote was coming pretty soon,
And thrilling was the tension.
''Alabama" cried the clerk,
And some there were went daft
When U. S. Marshall showed his
head
Out in the seething mass and said:
Count % for Taft.
The Cannon men turned pale as ghosts,
And the Hughes men gasped for
breath
The men for Fairbanks chung to posts
AS colorless as death.
Arkansas the clerk exclaimed,
And the hall shook fore and aft
When a spry postmaster, white of hair,
Hoped to the main deck of his chair,
And cried Eighteen for Taft. -
The Fairbanks men exuded groans
And the Cannon men shed tears
And the Hughes men uttered none but
means
That once had uttered cheers.
California - doomed the clerk,
And the whole convention laughed
When revenue collector rose
And whistled shrilly through his nose,
Count 90 more for Taft %
The Hughes men looked at the Cannon
men,
And they crawled out of their chairs
And the Fairbanks fellows joined them
when
They pulled their Teddy Bears.
And they all rushed up on the center
stage
AS men who had made ready
And when the din and the tumult died
And the dust had settled down inside,
The candidate was Teddy.
And when Bill Taft discovers what
mean trick they have played him,
he'll shed his coat and go to find the
man who has betrayed him. He'll
lumber up the White House steps, with
each jump growing warmer, and Ted
will hear him coming in, and slip into
his armour. They II spar around the
room a bit and Ted will cry, ''See
here Bill | know the whole affair
must look all thunderation queer, Bill
but listen: You'll II be named for vice,
and when we're both elected, why,
I'll resign. You'll get it, Bill-fact is,
that suspected Bryan would defeat
you, Bill, which made it necessary fo1
me to head the ticket Bill, lest every
thing miscarry.
And Bill will sink into a chair,
aware that he has messed it, and will
exclaim, Il see it now By Jove,
should have guessed it O, most un,
grateful wretch am |, to think that
you who made me--my benefactor and
my friend-had shamelessly betrayed
me
Whereat they will embrace and hug
As lovers reunited,
And Ted will rest on Williams breast
And softly say, "Dee-lighted -
June gets its name from Juno the
Roman goddess of marriage. juno
was supposed to see everybody happily
married. She was highly qualified tt
do this, for she herself had married
Jupiter, who was worse runabou
than Boni Gould. When the celestia
chorus was playing Parnassus, Jupite,
hung around the stage door like I
Pittsburger. He stirred up more scan
dial than Tom Platt, and was as bolt
as Gilmanaire Corey. Juno finall.
avenged herself upon her rivals b,
buIHlIS UlOlu lilbO bONCJ NhlNll
Jupiter a cattle king.
The college graduate will hear
The Macedonian cry
OF Kansas farmers who must get
The wheat cut by July.
They'll rustic out while yet the lark
Is chirruping his matin,
And chase the binder round the field
Exuding Greek and Latin -
The dinner bell will bring the sage
the scholar and the cynic, and Dime
will become sort of scientific clinic
Astronomers will talk of Mars, of Sat
urn and of Venus, and Latinists recaI
a few romances of Silenus. The Juno
bug will be mentioned as the genu
Lichnosterna, and other bugs wi
speak of land as being terra tirma
They'll quarrel, shout and sometime
swear in Arabic and Greek, and nON
and then dainty hand will clasp
damask cheek. And all the while tn
farmer, full of wondering and doubt
will deeply marvel what the hotel Bil
it's all about.
The Anti Saloon League willing, tn
81 will be the longest day of the year
Upon that date the sun will reach tn
Tropic of Cancer in the northerly dc
clination and will start south again
On the same day the month will pas
out of the influence of Gemini th
Twins, and persons born after the 21:
need not be afraid They will nC
have any. Upon the contrary, th
stork will fill only single orders unde
the zodiacal sign of Cancer the Grail
Children born under this sign wi
crawl backward and cry for crabappl
Jelly.
The smiling heavens will inspire.
The skylark and the linnet