The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-04
THE MERRY
MONTH OF JUNE
Ganderbone's Shrewd Predictions
Why the Month was Dedicated
to. Juno-A Poetical Fore
cast for the Coming

Why the Month was Dedicated
to. Juno-A Poetical Fore
cast for the Coming
Four Weeks.
June was dedicated by the Ro-
mans to love and marriage, and was
therefore named for June, whose
experience was thought to more
nearly typify that of the average
married woman than anything that
had happened up to that time.
Juno married Jupiter, one of the
best and most exemplary of gods,
giving him her simple trust and all
the rope compatible with reason
able enjoyment of liberty though
married. Nevertheless, they had
not been married long enough even
to feel sure that they were suited to
each other when the bride made
the terrible discovery that the CO.
owner of her wedding presents and
the man who was to flag the family
breadwagon had an affinity.
Fortunately, though it had proven
to be with gods as it is with men,
it was not with goddesses as it is
with women. Juno had a, come
back coming to her, and sne got
buster than a mother robin rustling
worms. She turned her husbands S
affinity into heifer, and set Argus
to watch over her as shepherd.
Argus had a hundred eyes, and do
what he could, Jupiter could not
catch him asleep all around and steal
the heifer away from him. AS al
last resort he sent Mercury to slay
him. After trying everything else
Mercury told him that Bryan was
elected, and he fell dead. Juno
took the eyes of Argus and set them
in the tail of 4 peacock. where we
may see them any fine morning in
the country to remind us of that
oldest OF domestic tragedies INSOFAR
able from the history of June.
The wedding march will fill the land,
And the quail will get to pipin',
The Muse will rouse the village band,
And Patterns wheat will ripen.
The old self-binder will come out
And sing a few sweet stanzas,
And the college graduate will shout
And hit the trail for Kansas.
Come out with us at harvest time,
when the sickle sings at moving,
when the rose is blooming in the
field. and the breadth of June is
blowing, when the golden harvest
GIBBS and flows in undulating billows.
and the water boy is fast asleep
down where the grass is green ana
deep beneath the shady willows.
There's nothing like it anywhere
upon the earth or over, the air is
fresh and fragrant with the sweet
breath OF the clover, the birds are
singing operas, and the puoltry is
assuming, and the Old familiar din
ner bell sets everybody running.
There may be men in Marathons that
run a mile minute, but it's a ques-
tion if st. Yves or Longboat would
be in it If he were working in a field,
though many times a winner, and a
bunch Of twenty harvest hands
knocked off to go to dinner.
I
a harvest hand gets going
You look at him one instant and
You see him calmly moving.
And wor' 'dn't think if forty bells
Should ring that he would hear
them,
OF if ten banquets beckoned him
That he would venture near them.
n 1tyhi
And dead to all attraction
But you want to hear the dinner bell
To see his triple action.
You want to see him double up
AS if he had the collie,
And tear the field up setting out
Upon that little frolic.
1t is as if the fumes of beans
Had reached him, or the vision
OF chicken had appeared to him.
Or else that some Elysian
Mirage had shown him corncakes,
pie,
Fresh biscuits, or food such as
Gods eat teased him, keeping just
Outside his eager clutches.
sing, and the bumblebee will humble,
the colt will do a Highland fling, and
the tumblebug will tumble, the calf
will buck and jump for JOY of simply
being loose, the droll grasshoppers
sit around and spit tobacco juice, the
luckless tramp resume his march
and the bullfrog chase and bite
him, and the horsefy irritate the
mule, and so ad infinitum
1t is hard to forecast tariff phe-
nomena at Washington, but the
prospect is that when the dust OF
conflict settles this time we, instead
of trusts, will be found to be the
goat. Mr.. w. H. Taft will continue
as President, and Mr.. Theodore
Roosevelt as hunter to the Associat.
ed Press. Messrs. Morgan and
Rockefeller will divide the money
Mr.. James Schoolcraft Sherman will