The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-04
FOR DECEMBER
Copyright 1910 by C. H. Rieth.

v But when, with bacon 40 cents,
He thought upon the consequence,
: And what he probably would get,
In case he landed in the net,
The lawyers he would have to hire
- To save him from the butchers ire,
The money Cudahy would spend
To push it to the bitter end
The merciless concern of Swift
To see he was not set adrift,
The sum that Armour, if he fled,
Would offer for him live or dead,
And how the unforgiving lust
| For vengeance would move the trust
To make example of him lest
Some other piper's son protest
Against pork chops at thirty flat,
And picked pigs feet selling at
Six-blts a dozen, souse a bit,
And sausage even close to it
When Tom considered it, in brief.
And also how much more a thief
He would be this time than before,
He wisely passed the butchers door,
Rejoiced that self had stood the test,
And went on hoping for the best.
! December is from the Latin decem
meaning ten. It was originally the tenth
month of the year, but owing to the
widespread unpreparedness for Christ
mas it has ben showed along from time
to time, until it occurs now as far back
as we have been able to get it. Caesar,
who was in the habit of making each Of
his soldiers some kind of present, even
suggested pushing it further along still
and having about fifteen months in the
year, bit the Roman merchants protest
ed that it was impossible to sell holiday
goods except in very cold weather, and
Brutue Cassius and several other Roman
business men finally stabbed him.
The custom of giving presents was
originated by the Greeks, and they had
such faculty for getting the better of
it when they exchanged presents with
anyone that the expression Beware of
the Greeks bearing gifts!' became his
toric.l- 1t was on Christmas day when
all the Greeks were showing what they
had gotten and were laughing about it
that Diogenes, who made a practice of
criticising the national faults in some
amusing way, set out on his famous
search for an honest man. The Persians
one time resorted to arms in an effort
to get their presents back, but they were
badly defeated at the battle of Marathon,
and no serious attempt to get presents
back has ever been made from that time
to this
The calf will burrow in the stack, and
the festive colt will arch his back and
ganbol at a fearful gait to make his
ichor circulate. The bear will slumber
in his bed and dream that Roosevelt is
dead, and the Winter night will worry
through with the wolf ki-yi-ing down
the flue
The wind will push against the door
and our old friend Boreas will roar and
I'll the Winter night and fell with SAM
pies of his college yell. The price of |
eggs will feel inbued to beat the mark ),
for altitude, and butter will cavort |
around about two miles above the |
ground
o happy man that has his hold stock
ed up against the Winters cold, and has
10 urgent need to recks how many |
storms may sweep his deck. Who has
lis scuppers bu1ging kraut and all things
in and out, andl all the prod
lets OF his cline right at the portfolios
all the time
o happy day that fixed our pick upon
his land and babe us stick Our
lew born colors in the ground
md claim the country lying round
And cheers, moreover, one, two,
hree, for freedoms aborigine, who
lid not prove SO awful stout but what
We all could throw him out!
1t is the place, and no mistake, for
aising provender to bake, and giving
RELY of the least essential to a Christ
mas feast. A bug or so is on the job,
nd the weather frequently plays bob,
tut on the whole and in the sum we're
happy that we come.
On the 2Ist of December the sun will
ross the Tropic of Capricon which will
i've the trusts the bail on Our fve-yard
inc, one down to go. They will go over
N the next play, and Mr. Rockefeller,
gho is playing greenback for the trusts
his year, will kick goal The feature of
christmas will be that Mr. Roosevelt
Won't have any. He isn't taking any
hances of Santa Claus even handing
i'm anything else this year
Our Mr. Morgan will revert
To hanging up his spacious shirt