Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1910-03-11
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For March.

Aey heep u neater IN Its pen |
And give itlquinine for cold.
You wouldn't know the lucky brute
Since pork went UP to thirty cents,
They pet it SO and keep itsin
y Such unheard-of magnifcencs.
The farmer always tastes the food
ST To see If It will make him. iii,
And An 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 forestalleds
!, By Gaping them with creme de
+ mint. $7sEi sft T.. Ssss, - IS sz
You wouldn't know It for a stye
The hog is Hquartered In today.
1t has ventilating fan, -. .E*a>:,.s
+ A roof, q skylight and spray;
And how It sleeps, eats, drinks ana
/ ,sS \ feels, ~s>ia s3 :ts$s s.issSs
: And. how to safeguard it from harm,
Is all they think can talk about. i:szst:st
These piping days upon the farm. "a
The farmers lie awake % nights &s2
Devising prophylactic trouhs. 4
The doctors fly from farm to farm
Examining hiccups and coughs;
And nowadays when farmers meet fz.%
Each other out upon a;jog f-2ass t15z5s$$5s21
Their first and most solicitous 81 !s
inquiry is, How is your hog?" =.
= March was the favorite month Of
the old Romans and the beginning of
their year. It. was named for Mars,
their god Of war, and continued to !
rank the other months until Al B. c.,
when the peace party in the Senate |
allied with the insurgents and reduced
1T to third place on the calendar. Bru-
tus and some Of the others thought |
the empire ought to make less of war /
and more OF business, so they made
January, named for the Two-faced
Janus, the beginning of the year, and |
the month of Februus, who typiied
the dark and evil ways Of business, to
inmed iately follow. i Caesar, who was
speaker of the Senate, stood pat on
the old calendar upon the ground that:
while war, as someone had said, is
hell, business, when 1t reaches the
trust stage, is: q good deal heller. A !
few regulars of the war party support,
ed him, but the allies were 3irresiatib1e,
and he was finally stabbed.
Revising the calendar was as great |
an issue in Roman politics ais revising I
the tariff has ecome in our own, and
more than one brave leader laid down
his life for the division of time as he
thought it ought to be or 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
yperity OF the people as a whole. IL
. 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 will run along the backbone
Of the calf He'll buck and dance
upon the mead and hoist his hinder
hall. a. He'll dream of blooming clover
|: fields and waving curly dock, and gam
Dol with his rigid tail stuck up at 6.
O'Clock. s5} 4, 3s3 49,
The blithesome meadoWlark will
sing the gtories Of the dawn, and the
robin will turn somersets upon the
greening lawn. The spring intoxtcat-
ed colt viii do-si.do about, the festive
frog win wake up TO help the Weather
sBurean ont the poor Consumer win
rejoice and hope Tor better luck. and
the trusts will sit around and dam the
conaing garden truck.
On the 4th MI. sTaft WIN celebrate
bid arss anniversary In the White
House with q lInasaaerade There
has never been . masquerade there
hut Mr.. Taft 10 very anxious to haya
everybody come, and M View of tAed
unsettled political conditions. the Bal
lingerP inchot controversy md some
other things, he feels that % long 40
nobody can dsterTnine posi- lively who
#else iss nresent there VIM ia no occasI
sion Tor anyone staying away Pink.
tea win be served, and there WAl be d
picture of MT. Roosevelt under the
coal pile ID the basement. Take-ons