Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-07-01

regulars jumped him and cut him in
two in the middle.
There were Decius Brutus, the speak
err, and Cassius, boss of the Senate, to-
gether with others insistent upon some
political tenet. '"The party forever!'
they shouted, and what with that ter
rible slasher, Servilius Casca great
Caesar as we'll had been run through
| a hasher.
| At any rate, Antony found him cut
| up into fodder for fishes, and begged
this request of the Romans, who grant
ed the least of his wishes. And thus it
has happened and shall be so long as
the Tiber runs by the Pillar of Pompey
that Caesar shall live in the name July
| The Fourth shall return to discover
Us waiting in battle array,
And what with one thing and another,
Regretting we won anyway.
| The cannon shall boom, and the scramble
| For things on the medicine shelves
| Shall warn inexperienced countries
Aspiring to freedom themselves.
The dynamite cap and the rocket shall
remind us of tyranny thwarted, and the
valiant forefather shall turn in his cof-
| fin TO see what he started. The eagle
shall mount on his pinions and circle
the North ar d the South, and the rapid
fire orator stand on the platform and
shoot off his mouth.
This latter, however, is harmless in
a strict pathological way, but remains
notwithstanding an evil we must in due
season allay. Alas, how deficient is ma
ture that might lay this pest on the
shelf with ruling that shooting his
mouth off he gave the lockjaw to him
self!
This tetanus, we are quite certain,
has good and defensible uses, and all
of it's manifestations thus far have been
only abuses. The idea, as we regard it,
is not that it should be the cause of any
more serious matter than locking the
orators jaws.
You know that we never hear of it
except on the Fourth of July, and
whenever some innocent gets it we for
ever are wondering why. Well, this is
the fact of the matter, and by Jove, we
are willing to bet it turns out in the
long run that no one but lot of old
wind TANNERS get it.
However, be that as it may be,
And get whom the tetanus will,
The jubilant youth of the nation
Will resume with it's shooting TO kill.
The safe and the sane celebration
Will suit us who are not so skittish,
But the youngsters have got to do
something
To show what we did to the British
There never was anything safe in the
way the forefathers attacked them, and
as for the saner attainments, the old
fellows seem to have lacked them. They
simply cast fear to the bowwows and
waded into the affray, and a boy does
not think himself worthy if he can't
shoot himself, anyway.
At any rate Jeffries and Johnson will
growl like couple of poodles and OBJ
serve independence with beating the
hair off their mutual noodles. They'll
alternate making the other leviathan
howl for his mother, and if the country
at random is lucky they'll manage to
kill one another.
It's only plan to make money, de-
serving the strictest of structures, for
what they will have is a race war,
dividing what's made on the pictures.
We've been pretty mad in this country
for dollars, and power, and places, but
this is the first time we've trafficked |
upon the abyss between races.
The fat occupant of the White House
Will lie on his back in the grass
Beneath the green Beverly naples
Observing the aeroplanes pass.
The chauffeurs will keep right on chauf-
fling,
With seeing it's no one but Bill,
And they'll sigh just to think what had
happened
Had they flown over Sycamore Hill.
But not every man can be Caesar, as
someone has stated, alas! and in the
course of the matter somebody r1ust |
lie in the grass. It's hard on strenu-
Gus nation, affecting as all in a way,
but we'll look on the brighter side of !
it, and conclude it is good for the hay.
However. Time flies is proverb,
And one day, his foot on his gong
And his engine back-pedaling, August
Will come aeroplaning along.