Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-30
For November.


A farewell and n promise.
A benediction aft s.
Some folks think it's Bryan.
And others think its Taft.
A man with twenty dollars.
Another man with ten.
swift exchange OF challenges.
And two excited men: Il
A showdown and wager. Is
\ banknote and q draft
Some folks think it's Bryan.
And others think it's Taft.
A homestretch and tumult.
AspyglasS and II shout.
feverish excitement while
They try to make them out:
flying dust cloud leading.
second cloud abaft-
Some folks think it's Bryan
| And others think it's Taft.
In the old Rcman calendar No
vember was the ninth month. Bless
ings fell early and the empire gave
thanks just before the first frost !;
but about 700 B. C. the trusts left
the people so little 20 be thankful
for after nine months that it was
decided to wait a while and see if
anything would come OF the Roman
elections. Numa accordingly made
November the eleventh month and
had Thanksgiving fall with the
! first SHOWS, Notwithstanding the
month gets its name from the Lat
| in novem (nine.)
The frisky colt will sniff the air
and hear the whistling quail, and
the festive calf will indicate the
zenith with his tail. The frost
will paint the forest with a deep
and redder dye, the hired man
will shuck the corn, the pumpkin
vine will pie. the politicians will
hit up their officeholding feud,
and the modest maple tree will
blush and conc out in the nude.
And then the presidential rice
Will hold royal SWAY.
And everyone will exercise
His liver, anyway.
He'll bounce it up and down between
| His pancreaS and giEzard.
| And waltz it through his inner works
From A around to lizard.
And even though his present race
| Nav 1rove to be in vain.
He'll have the health and strength to run
Sometime. perhaps again.
At any rate the candidates will
dash into the stretch, and both
Bills-o' the isp will make them
selves quite hard to ketch. They'll
squirt in spirited response to many
wild arousers, and fan the dust up
with the slack downhanging from
their trousers. They'll come in
sight exhibiting score of fancy
PAGES, and only hit the trembling
earth in, four or five high places.
The air will darken with the fight
of gravel, dirt and sods, and the
crowd will sound its hattie cries
and give and offer odds. And Ted
dy meanwhile will wedge in quite
close beside the track, with some
thing that he has concealed within
a paper sack, and when his entry
charges down, hot-footing like the
wind, T. R. will hang a hornet
nest upon him down behind.
And then there will be doings on
This aaitated sphere
The earth will ditch and buck to beat.
| A frenzied Texas steer.
Tho S,,D rrill enip around and rourd
And blow up once or twice.
The moon will turn a very dark
And bloody ball of ice.
And no one will remain to see
Who won the race for vice.
The election will be held on the
3rd, and the trusts will hold an all
night prayer meeting on the End.
Mr.. Bryan will cast his vote for
Mr.. Taft at Lincoln. Mr.. Taft
will return the courtesy at Cincin-
natti, and Mr.. Rockefeller Twill re-
ceive the news at Cleveland. The
quadrennial ass who VIII eels another
quadrennial ass through town on a
wheelbarrow will start from the
postoffice at 10 o'clock on the morn
ing of the 4th, followed by 80 boys
and the Foolkiller. The complete
returns will be in by the 18th.
The annual showdown between city
and country life will be complete
by the Goth, when the farmer will
have his cellar stocked with po-
tatoes, turnips, kraut, honey, nuts,
hams, sidemeat, souse, popcorn,
pickles, pigs feet, apple-butter,
lard, sweet potatoes and sorghum,
and the city man will enter the
winter with his cellar stocked
with ten tons of hard coal and
two gas meters.
The man who made election bets.
Relying on his knowledge,
Will write a sad note to his son,
Withdrawing him from college.
The football season will wind up.
The classroom claim it's braves
And the faculty will order flowers
And decorate the graves.
A double fleece lined coat of
hair will come in style for dogs,
and the farmer will put on the
pot and kill his fattened hogs.
The air will TEEN with shots and
squeals and sundry fiavors sweet,
the good housewife will render.
lard and scrape and pickle feet.
the spared old hens will get a
note of terror in their cacklings
and the children will refresh their.
tums with good old fashioned
cracklings.
The sac faced gobbler will address
His young and fearful flock,
And clip for memOry'S sweet sake