Morris tribune., 1908-06-06

I "Alabama!'' cried the clerk,
And some there were went daft
When a U. s. Marshal showed hi
head
Out in the seething mass and said:
ssCount % for Taft!''
The Cannon men turned pale al
ghosts,
And the Hughes men gasped fol
breath"
The men for Fairbanks chung to posts
AS colorless as death. J..
"Askansas!" the clerk exclaimed,
And the hall shook fore and aft
Whena spry postmaster, white Of
hair, 80
Hoped to the main deck of his chair
And cried eighteen for Taft"
The Fairbanks men exuded groans,
The Cannon men shed tears.
And the Hughes nen 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 20 more for Taft!"
The Hughes men looked at the Cam
non 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 in
side,
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'll spar around
the room bit, and Ted will cry, "See
here Bill! I know the whole affair
must look Naturalization queer,
Bill; but listen: You'll be named for
vice, and when we're both elected,
why I'll resign. You'll get it, Bill
fact is, that I suspected Bryan would
defeat you, Bill, which made it neces-
sary for me to head the ticket, Bill,
lest everything miscarry,"
And Bill will sink into a chair,
aware that he has messed it, and will
exclaim III see it now! BY Jove, I
should have guessed it! O., most un-
grateful wretch am I, to think that
you wi o made me-my benefactor
andamy friend-had shamelessly be-
trayed mel"
Whereat they will embrace and hug
AS lovers reunited,
And Ted will rest on Williams breast
And softly say delightedn'
June gets its name from Juno, the
Roman goddess of marriage. Juno
was supposed to see rybody
happily married. She was highly
qualified to do this, for she herself
had married Jupiter, who was a worse
runabout than Boni Gould. When the
chorus was playing Parnas-
sus, Jupiter hung around the stage
loor like q Pittsburger. He stirred
~ more scandal than Tom Platt, and
was as bold as Gilmanahe Corey.
Juno finally avenged herself upon her !
'ivals by turning them into cows,
which made Jupiter cattle king.
HC SOA1CSO SioNIAooS WI ASnA
The Macedonian cry
Of Kansas farmers who must get
The wheat cut by July.
They'll rustic out while yet the lark
Is chirruping has matin,
And chase the binder round the tseld
Exuding Greek and Latin.
The dinner bell will bring the sage,
he scholar and the cynic, and dinner
will become soft of scientific clinic.
astronomers will talk of Mars, of
,aturn and of Venus, and Latinists
ecall a few romances of Silenus.
NE Junobug will be mentioned as
he genus Lachnosterna, and other
Jugs will speak of land as being terra
Irma They'll quarrel, shout and
ometimes swear in Arabic and Greek.
nd now and then dainty hand will
lasp damask cheek. And all the
While the farmer, full of wondering
nd doubt. will deeply marvel what