Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-09-27
FOR OCTOBER

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The same as in a church.
The miracle of party.
And the perfidy of doubt.
With the usual statistics
Till the Waterman puts him out.
A woman with banner.
Another with a drum.
| And another with curtain pole
Revolving on her thumb.
Some folks say it's nothing.
But others think it is,
And like as not it won't be long
Till man is getting his.
The bull moose and the donkey,
The elephant. the zoo.
The trusts against the people,
| And the false against the true:
But do not get excited,
Or take it very hard,
For they III all lie down together
In the same barnyard. .> u
October was originally the eighth
month of the Romans, but it brought
water melons and pumpkins in at the.
same time, and Numa Pompilius, who
liked both. pushed it along to tenth
| place to keep from, laundering him.
self. A Bull Moose party formed to
dethrone him. but he held on. and
. was able in the end to pull the skulls
of his enemies around on string on
Hallowe ZEN, with a candle inside,
from which We have our present-day
Jack Lantern.
The zodiacal sign for October is
EScorpio. meaning the Scorpion. 1t
typifes the manner in which candi-
dates sting one another in the last few
weeks of the campaign. October has
always been the favorite month of
the year. That more people have al
ways married in June has only been
explained upon the theory that mas
much as they are undertaking the bat
tie of life together they probably con-
slider that it would be just as we'll to
begin at once upon the mosquitoes.
The gentle spirit of the Fall.
Will come to glorify TIE air..
And the football player will appall
The population with his hair;
The referee will climb the poles
| And sound his shrill official toot.
And the moth will drill few more
/ holes "
| In eYerybody's Winter suit. .....
| !: There is no glory to compare with
! that awaiting just ahead. when the
d :gossamer gets, in the air. and the
i sassafras is flaming red. A million
: harps have duly twanged upon the
\ gIories at the time but saspoete still
4 were rather hanged than not 4intone
4 his little rhyme. r.
: You may destroy his 'throbbing Tyre
! and pitch him headlong in the sea,
] but death alone can quench the fire
4 that underlies his melody. He'll
: string a horse hair on pole, and
even stronger than before uplift the
passion of his soul with getting back
Il upon the shore.
AT such time. though you may laugh,
! 1t would as probably avail
ITO catch the acrobatic calf
And tie brick upon his tail.
One Whit of Autumn in his nose.
And lowering his playful head,
His rear appendage still uprose.
Though weighted with a keg Of
.;:' lead. = ". -
You can't restrain the joy of Fall
That paIpitates in living things, mol
Ek6p9 to dissipate the thral1 in which
"a poetasteF Sings. The calf will kica
Gand bdck around, the colt will cut 1
: Flew high jfnks. and the poets zithel
/ will resound, despite what anybody
! thinks;
The better quality of air :
Will speed the presidential race
!. And a cockleburr placed here AMI
|. |, there
) Will help accelerate the pace.
: The troubled earth will gently sway
Beneath the violent attack.
1 And the trusts will hustle corn ant
+ hay
T Along the fence inside the track.
| / The eager riders. %all inclined a
o least resistance to the air, will lasl
Q their quadrupeds behind, and fee
|, them tagging in despair. The hun
$ CRY brutes will smell the hay. an
a catch the fragrance of the corn, an
: in their torture curse the day tina
saw the first reformer born. Ill rue
the time when plenty shows helpin
! hand on every side, and still nobod
It ever throws bite for being vilIified
( 1t never was that way before in an