Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-11-10
NOVEMBER

Offers this, his proclamation:
Whereas, Providence continues
Blessing us from day to day,
And the boon of independence
Has, we take it, come to stay
And whereas, Indulgent Nature
Lavishes upon us still
Bounty in excess of what the
Weather and the bugs can kill;
And, whereas, the old republic
Coundn't be improved upon,
Notwithstanding everybody
Gets to run it off and on;
Therefore, /, as delegated
Now and for a short time hence
President, decree that turkey
Shall go up to twenty cents.
That's about all there is to it.
once the country raised its own, and
the White House proclamation was
not greeted with a groan. Father sim
ply grabbed the Ratchet, mother got
the water hot, father read the proc
Iamation to the turkeys in the lot
all the young female turkeys prompc-
" tainted from the shock, and after
due farewells the gobbler laid his
head upon the block.
No one telephoned the butcher,
asking what a turkey cost No one in
his deep resentment wished the Pill
grims had been lost. No one, while
the feast proceeded, knew the torment
Of the rack figuring upon his napkin
what the day had set him back.
Everybody was provided, as the
founders pre-supposed. No one can be
very thankful, if the truth should
be disclosed, paying what we pay for
turkey. and, for all of Heavens gifts,
feeling that the day was founded for
the Armours and the Swlfts.
November gets its name from the
Latin novem (nine) and was origin
ally the ninth month Of the year
This brought Thanksgiving around
two months earlier than we have il
now and it became unpopular. Tie
insurgents. who constituted a major
ity in the agricultural districts, were
bitterly opposed to it. They made
two contentious: First, that young
turkeys were not old enough to mar
ket: second, that crops had not pro-
crossed to the point where it was
possible to make out whether there
was anythink to be thankful for or
not. In 713 b. c. the storm broke The
insurgents carried Gaul Britannia
and seventeen other doubtful states.
and the Foru immediately assem-
bled and made November the eleventh
month Of the year
The festive colt will sniff the air
and don his heavy underhair. and
the frenzied candidate will jump and
hop around the stump He'll point
with pride and view with fear, and
suck and blow the atmosphere, and
then. together with his cult, await
with prayer the result
Does reason haply hold it's sway,
or is it madness for day will tell
tehpeople what to think and PIT
the county on the blink? One cannot
tell, but must abide the count that
sees him justified in courage. con-
fdence or doubt. according as it may
turn out.
One think alone is sure. it seems.
and that is this: No one esteems a
patriot in politics We only trust him
while he sticks to war, with all ITS
thrill and throb. me moment that
he wants a Job somewhat conspicuous
for p~y. by Jove, we don't know what
to say.
But whether we do IN or well,
election day alone will tell, or wheth-
er love for us and fear did any good,
will then apnear. We have to judge
men as we may. and where the cam
didates all say about the same thing
in the end. one scarcely knows who
is a friend
AT any rate. the snow will fly and
the wild duck spin across the sky
with both eyes focused on the
ground. and his tail-piece going
round and round. The eager hunter
will deploy and supplement the live
decoy and the pneumoeoccus, while
he toots. viii perforate his rubber
boots.
A little shooting now and then is
relished by lot of men, They like
to gallivant about and let the farm
ers run them out. It does them good
to feel. by jing, that Morgan don't