The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-03-01
oANpERoNE's
FORECAST FOR MARCH

tcopyrisi,ted' 1910 by G. H. Rieth>
o, have You heard about the hog
Since it III worth it's weight in gold?
They keep ! heater in it's pen
And give It quinine; for a cold.
You wouldn't know the lucky brute
Since pork went up to thirty cents,
They pet 1t so and keep it in i
Such unheard-of magnificence.
The farmer always tastes the food
To see If it will make him ILL.,
And rich and appetizing soups
Are given it instead of swill
The best and most expensive foods
Are set before it without stint,
And indigestion Is forestalled
BY Gaping them with creme de mint.
You wouldn't know it for a stye
The hog Is CHARTERED in today.
1t has a ventilating fan.
A roof. skylight and a spray:
And how 1t sleeps, eats, drinks, feels,
And how to safeguard it from harm,
Is all they think and talk about
These piping days upon the farm.
The farmers lie awake o. nights
Devising prophylactic troughs.
The doctors fly from farm to farm
Examining hiccups and coughs;
And nowadays when farmers meet
Each other out upon a jog
Their first and most solicitors
Inquiry is, How is your hog?"
March was the favorite month Of the
old Romans and the beginning of their
year 1t was named for Mars, their
god Of war; and continued to rank the
, other months until A B. c., when THO
peace party in the Senate allied witt
the insurgents and reduced it to thin
place on the calendar. Brutus AMI
some Of the others thought the emf
pire ought to make less Of war anQ
more of business. so they made JAM
uary, named for the Two-Faced
Janus. the beginning Of the year. and
the month of Februus, who typfied
the dark and evil ways of business, to
Immediately follow. Caesar, who was
speaker of the Senate, stood pat on
the old calendar upon the ground
that while war, as some one had said,
Is hell, business, when it reaches the
trust stage, Is a good deal heller. A
few regulars of the war party sup
ported him. but the allies were ire
sistible, and he was finally stabbed.
Revising the calendar was as great
an issue in Roman politics as revising
more than one brave leader laid down
his life for the division of time as he
thought it ought to be on his party
had pledged. The Romans discovered
very early in their history that it is in
the nature of man to revise some
thing. and they finally agreed upon
the calendar as the thing over which
the politicians could fight with the
least damage to the peace and pros
perity of the people as whole.
The melancholy days will pass and
spring will come again to freshen up
the faded grass and wake the hearts
of men. The grounding will awake
again. borne out upon the whole, and
the geese will march across the sky
to see about the pole. The thrill of
spring win run along the backbone of
the calf He'll buck and dance upon
the mead. and hoist his hinder half.
He'll dream of blooming clover fields
and waving curly dock, and gambol
with his rigid tail stuck up at s
o'clock. r. -
The blithsome meadowlark will sing
the glories OF the dawn, and the robin
will turn somersets upon the green
Ing lawn. The spring intoxicated colt
will do-si-do about. the festive frog
will wake to help the Weather Bureau
ont. the poor consumer will rejoice
and hope for better luck. and the
trusts will sit around and dam the
coming garden truck
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On the t4th MATaft will celebrate
his first anniveftary in the White
House with masquerade. There has
never been masquerade there. but
Mr. Taft is very anxious to have ev-
erybody come. and in view of the un-
settled political conditions, the Bal
linger- Pinchot controversy and some
other things. he feels that as long as
nobody can determine positively who
else II present, there will be no oc-
casion for anyone staying away. Pink
tea will be served, and there will be a