Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-01-02
And the girls will use a wire,
They'll hook us like a poodle
When the licenses expire,

anu tne SiIiS VIII use q wire,
They'll hook us like a poodle
When the licenses expire,
An they'll dump US in the wagon
An. we're off to find squire,
For they're laying for the bach'lor
In the mornin,."
The big bet, this month will be
Taft. The Atlantic feet will ap-
proach the Hora with a bent spy
glass, looking aroundfor Japs. go,
He'll" VII ispered in Uucle Joe Can
mons ear, will be the password to
get anything before Congress. jap
an will have q slack month at the
Nagasaki navy yards, and will build
only 81 more wiz ships. The guess
on Roosevelt's future for this month
will be that he will become Con-
gresham after he leaves the White
House, and will go into the ring with
Williams and DeArmond. Mr..
Bryan will walk around the Demo-
cratic nomination with a hammer,
to see if there is any place where he
could nail it down. Money will
continue shy, rising out of range
and flying eight'miles. Mr.. Lawson
will put his mask on and go back
into the game, jobs will continue to
run when they see you coming, and
sometime during the month Mr..
Morgan will decide whether he has
all the money he wants now, or if he
will continue the panic.
After the 2oth we shall be under
the influence of Aquarius the water
carrier, the eleventh sign of the Zod-
lac. Under this favorable sign,
Prohibition will establish about
eighty more storm centers, booze
will run another mile in nothing
sonth of the Mason & Dixon line,
andsCarrie Nation will work with
hatchet in each hand. TO quote an
Omar of the Oklahoma desert,
Hush little bar-room
Don't you cry
You'll be drug store
Byand BY.
January was named after Janus
Bifrons. known as Two-Faced
janus" He was the originator of
what is known as "the politicians
life-saver." A wave of prohibition
was sweeping Rome, and Bifrons,
candidate for the Senate, had to
declare himself one way or the other
to every third man he met. But he
was foxy Dago, and when he was
asked, ''Do you drink, Bifronss" he
would slyly ask in return, "Is this
an invitation, or do you just want
to know"
Rome had a gate named for Janus.
1t led from the Palatine to the Quiri-
nal Hill, and was closed only when
Rome was at peace with the world.
This occurred but four times-under
Numa, Augustus Caesar and YES
patian, and after the first Punic
War. Julius Cesar kept the gate
open wider than anybody. Just to
satisfy himself that no other Roman
had ever had anything on him in
this respect, he once drove twenty
loads of hay through the gate abreast
as against a record of fourteen loads.
Caesar was a great joker, and his
favorite fun was made at this gate.
Riding through when the sun was
setting, he pointed at the sunset with
one hand and at the passing railroad
| construction crew with the other,
and exclaimed to his lieutenants,
i" Behold; the day goes"
Another year (mark we'll the
rhyme)
Has joined the host of Father
Time.
A few more banks will burst
To many trusting ones disgust.
The widow recently bereft
Will pop the question right and left
And luckless man, of Leap YeaI
butt,
sWill scramble for the tall uncut.
The sport in Congress will consis,
of battles with the horney fists, the
Igentleman Missouri bred will call
someone noodle head; they'llcl
and bite each others cheek, the
frightened galleries will shrek, the
Speaker will get out gun, the mar
from Arkansas will run, the sergeant
will bolt through door, the fighl
will spread upon the floor, the CLERK
will climb the chaplain's back, and
the ar sound with Biff and Whack,
the War Department will turn ou'
the Senate will get in the bout, anc
Fairbanks with triumphant cry viii
black Ben Tillman's other eye; the
President will get his hat, his boxing
gloves and trusty bat, and will ex