The Glenwood post., 1910-07-23


OF August it may first be said, its
name is from Augustus, whom men
have likened unto Ted, perhaps with
out injustice. He made the world 60
round about as many times a minute,
and the news was always dull without
the great Augustus in it.
He had his Ananias Club for liars and
for takers, and he loved to sail his
little tub among the Roman breakers.
He counted peace sort of plague, and
never did pursue it, but let it rally at
The Hague, and you couldn' It beat him
to it.
He preached about the same old
things that Teddy has been preaching,
and most oil Eome's awakenines ,e-
salted from his teaching. He bas..ri
hotly for the right, and valiantly i'm
bued it, and the stork could not attempt
to light but what he up and shooed it,.
There was, however, one affair to
tell which is to tattle, and that was
where this Roman bear was coming in
from battle. He had, of course, put
everything opposing him to slumber,
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 greeting tina.
he got from that admiring chorus,
the which desire, of course was not Il
bit like Theodorus.
But howsoever, when he died the
month that loves to grill us was being
written far and wide the season of Sex
titus. They wanted to commemorate
the hot time he presented the nation
with, at any rate, so August was in
vented.
The dog days will resume again,
And the man who voted water
With the weather down to eight or
Below will grow the hotter
With wishing that he had forseen
The season hot and stewing,
And nothing but choice between
Pink lemonade and bluinz.
1t will not strike him, we're afraid,
as when the cold was stinging, and
up and down the wind-swept street
the ieices were clinging. There's
nothing like a dry parade, the shouts
of Hallelulliah, and the children skill
fully arrayed for what you want to
fool you.
It's very easy to forget there's such
thing as Summer, or such quantity
as sweat, what time the busy drum
mer is rub-a-dubbing up the street .
million bumps minute, and the line
sweeps by with rhythmic feet and the
little shavers in it.
1t somehow makes it seem that booze
is only fit for motors, and in the scuf-
fle that ensues not very many voters
bethink them that a chance remains
that milk won't give them gristle to
I"oo Wheh august DoilS Iuclr OTalHb ana
their ears begin to whistle.
A crafty temperance is that contriv-
ing its elections when Boreas is at the
bat in these disputed sections. There is
time for everything, to labor and to
potter, and one to sit way back and
sing inaudibly for water.
At any rate, the world will spin
With very small pretension,
And the Fall elections will begin
To clamor for attention.
The next few weeks will fire TIE gun
Repeatedly and oftly,
And lot of folks begin to run
For Office very softly.
The bold insurgent will have polled
the principal chautauquas, and will by
that time have been told how far dis
Greet his balk was, or if to follow his
attack with further demonstration, or
quietly to tip-toe back upon the reserva-
Hon.
The hopeful Democrat win tool this
way and that way training, and hope
to have us as a rule have none Of their
explaining. Hen carefully &Eta sp IL
wicks and get his pump pulsstiaG ead