The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-05-26

Mercury to slay him. After trying
everything else, Mercury told Linn
that Bryan was elected, and he fell
dead. Juno took the eyes Of Argus
and set them i'm the tail of a pea
cock, where we may see them in any
fine morning in the country to re-
mind us of that oldest of domestic
tragedies inseparable from the his
tory of June.
The wedding march will fill the land
And the quail will get to pipin'.
The Muse win rouse the village band
And Patten s 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 breath of June Is blow
ing, when the golden harvest ebbs
and flows I'm undulatimg pillows. and
the water boy is fast asleep down
where the grass is green and 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 poultry is a
cunning. and the old familiar dinner
bell sets everybody running. There
may be men in Marathons that run
4 mile minute, but it's question
If st. Yves or Longboat would be in
II il he were working In field
| .honsh many times a winner, AM a
bun.t of twenty harvest hands knock
ed off to go to dinner.
| 1t 5 simply wonderful the way
A harvest hand gets going
You look at him one instant and
You see him calmly moving.
You wouldn It think If forty bells
Should ring that he would hear
them.
Or If ten banquets beckoned him
That he would venture near them.
He looks as whipped out as rag.
/ And dead to all attraction
Bat you want to hear the dinner
To see his triple action.
You want to see him double up
As If he had the collie,
And tear the field UP setting ont
| Upon that little frolic.
1t is as IL 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 corn cakes.
| pie,
| Fresh biscuits. or food such as
Gods eat teased him, keeping just
| Outside his eager clutches.
| The meadowlark will chbrp and
sing, and the bumblebee will humble.
the colt will do a Highland fling. and
:he tumblebug will tumble. the calf
will buck and jump for joy OF simp-
| ly being loose, the droll grasshoppers
sit around and spit tobacco juice,
| the luckless tramp resume his march
and the bulldog chase and bite him.
and the horsefly irritate the mule.
and so ad infinitum.
1t is hard to forecast tariff phenom
ena at Washington, but the prospect
is that when the dust of conflict set
ties this time we, instead OF the
trusts. will be found to be the goat.
Mr.. w. H. Taft will continue as
President, and Mr.. Theodore Roose-
veh as hunter to the Associated
Press. Messrs. Morgan and Rookie
feller will divide the money. Mr..
James Schoolcraft Sherman win fur
nish the silence. Mr.. Joseph G. Can
non will run the country. MIR. Nelson
| Aldrich will be the villain, and Mr..
Albert ]. Beverage will be the young
lady hesita ting between two lovers.
June will be notable in astronmy.
There will be two eclipses-a total
eclipse of the full moon on the third.
and a central eclipse of the sun on
the seventeenth. The eclipse of the
moon will be visible generally in
|
ern portion. and the eclipse OF the
sun will be visible as a partial eclips
in the United States and Canada,
except south of a line drawn from
San Francisco through Tucson. Ari-
IONA, to, Corpus Christi. Texas. The
effect of these phenomena will be to
make fishing better than it has
been for years. Subscriptions to the
fund of $10,000.000 which Prof. Pick
ering is raising for communication
with Mars will be received up to
the fifteenth. Country Newspapers
forced to send wood need not feel
embarrassed. Many of the large city
papers are only giving advice.
And then July will come again,
When the warlike boy and skittish
Will fill his little brother full
| OF what we gave the British.