Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-06
FOR AUGUST.

SOpyriSDL l0lU Dy ". n. heiun.
OF August it may first be said, its
name is from Augustus, whom men
have likened to Ted, perhaps with
out injustice. He made the world
go round about as many times a
minute ,and the news was always
dull without the great Augustus in
1t.
He had his Aanias club for liars
and for takers, and he loved to sail
his little tub among the Roman
breakers. He counted peace a sort
of plague and never did pursue it,
but let it rally at the Hague and
you couldn't beat him to it.
He preached about the same old
things that Teddy has been preach
ing, and most of the Romans awak-
enings resulted from his teachings.
He battled hotly for the right, could
not attempt to light but what he up
and shooed it.
There was. however, one affair to
tell which is to tatle and that was
where this Roman bear was coming
in from battle. He had, of course,
put everything opposing him to slum-
Der and Rome awaited him to sing
some laudatory number.
But here the parallel desists, Au-
gustus said them, No Sir! and when
he entered with his lists it might
have been the grocer for all the greet
ing that he got from that admir-
ing chorus, the which desire of
course, was not bit like Theodorus
But however, when ne died the
month that loves to grill us vas be-
ing written far and wide the seagcr
of Sextilus. They wanted to crm
menorate the hot time he presented
the nation with, at any rate. so
August was invented.
1t will Lot strike him, we'lc
afraid as when the cold was stinying
and up and down the wiDI swei t
street the icicles are clinging
?nere's ncthing like a dry varado,
the shoots of Hallelullial and tho
children skilfully arrayed for win
you Nint to fool you.
It's very easy to forget the.es
such thing as Summer or such a
quantity as sweat, what time the
busy drummer is rub-a-dubbing up
the street a million bumps a min
rhythmic feet and the little shavers
in it.
At any rate the world will spin
With vary small pretension,
And the Fall elections will begin
To clamor for attention.
The next few weeks will fire the gun
Repeatedly and oftly.
And lots of folks begin to run
For office very softly.
The bold insurgent will have poll
ed the principal chautauquas and
will by that time have been told
how far discreet his balk was, or if
to follow his attack with further de-
monstration, or quietly to tip-toe
back upon the reservation.
The hopeful Democrat will tool
this way and that way training, and
hope to have use as a rule have none
of their explaining. He'll carefully
trim up his wicks and get his pump
pulsating, and pass the grand stand
every six or seven seconds waiting
Therell be some dust put up it
seems, when this event gets going,
and some things starting at the
seams that wanted proper sewing.
No wonder Roosevelt came back,
and nowadays his gun is rusting in
the shooting rack, when here is
where the fun is.
The time Of green and growing
things will near its termination,
and the song the thrasher sweetly
sings will come with moderation.
Well sort of think Of autumn time,
the hunter and the nutter and the
fishing hole will wear a slime as
thick as apple butter.
And then September will return
In good autumnal fashion,
And the poet fall upon his harp
In something of a passion.