The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-05-30
GANDERsoNE's JUNE FORECAST
Copyright 1908. by C. H. Rieth.)


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 a L. S. Marshal showed his
head
Out in the seething mass and said:
Count 22 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 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
OlCc Hdu uttered CnSerS.
california;" doomed the clerk,
And the whole convention laughed
When a revenue collector rose
And whistled shrilly through his nose,
Count 20 more for Taft"
:'he Hughes men looked at the Cannon
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 q
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
a bit, and Ted will cry, See here, Bill.
1 know the whole affair must look all
tbunderation 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 sus-
pected Bryan would defeat you, Bill,
Which made it necessary for me to
head the ticket, Bill, lest everything
E,iscarry"
And Bill will sink into a chair, aware
that he has messed it. and will ex-
claim, Il see it now! By Jove, should
have guessed it! Oh, most ungrateful
wretch am /, to think that you who
made me-my benefactor and my
| friend-had shamelessly betrayed mel"
Whereat they will embrace and hug
AS lovers reunited,
And Ted will rest on Williams breast
And softly say, Delighted"
June gets it's name from Juno, the
Roman goddess Of marriage, Juno was
supposed to see everybody happily
n arried. She was highly qualified to
Go this, for she herself had married
Jupiter, who was a worse runabOut
than Boni Gould. When the celestial
chorus was playing Parnassus, Jupiter
hung around the stage door like a
P.ttsburger He stirred up more scam
dial than Tom Plat, and was as bold
as Gilmanaire Corey. Juno finally
avenged herself on her rivals by turn
ing them into cows, which made Jupi-
ter cattle king.
The college graduate will hear
The Macedonian cry
or 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 dinner
will become a sort of scientific clinic.
Astronomers will talk of Mars, of Sat-
urn and of Venus, and Latinists re-
call a few romances of Silenus. The
Junobug will be mentioned as the
genusLachnosterna, and other bugs
will speak of land as being terra firma.
They'll quarrel, shout and sometimes
swear in Arabic and Greek, and now
and then a dainty hand will clasp a