The Parker post., 1913-06-28
JULY FORECAST.

July, which was the Quintllls or
fifth month of the old Roman calen-
dar, got it's name as result of the
great lobby investigation in the Ro-
man Senate. Caesar, who was trying
to pass some legislation to which
his party was pledged. exposed the
lobby with characteristic fearlessness
and demanded an investigation. Soon
after the investigation began he was
personally attacked by the lobby,
which had armed with knives, under
the Pillar of Pompey. First cutting
off his retreat, these representa-
tives of the protected interests, led
by Brutus, wool man, and Casca,
sugar, closed in on Caesar and
cut him up into fish bait Mark
Antony. who made the funeral ora
ton, proposed that Caesars birth
month. which was Quintllis, be
named for him. He pointed out
that while a monument or some other
cony entional memorial might do for a
man who had divided Gaul into three
parts. it could scarcely express the
empires gratitude to a man who had
forever ruined the Roman lobby This
impressed everybody favorably. The
initiative was invoked, and the month
Of Quintilis gave way to the new
month of July.
The summer breeze will bear the
9 sweet
Perfume of clover newly mown,
and the cautious tramp will flee the
heat
And claim the cooler for his own.
The football player, stacking wheat,
Will give his college yell and die,
The iceman's auto truck will beat
The fire department going by, +
The sun will concentrate it's fire
Upon the swimmers blistered
back,
The kingbird, sitting on the wire,
Will feel it's toes begin to crack,
The willy lobby will escape
Among the thick Potomac trees,
And the summer girl will play her
shape
Around the circuit of the seas.
The anniversary of all our in
dependence will return, and young
enthusiasts will fall with patriotic un
concern. Their elders will not yield
their lives so readily for seeing flaws
in freedom prone to crystallZe in
flimsily constructed laws. However,,
they will furnish fire, skyiooKets,
caps and dynamite to anyone who
may desire to see it celebrated right.
The ambulance will be on hand, the
antiseptics sorted out, enough wind
furnished for the band, and cops dis
tributed about. While not expecting
that the new and better notion Will
prevail. we still are hopeful to sub
due some things with camping on
their trail For every boy the doc
ten; we'll stop that monkey bus
mess yet, though goodness knows
exactly when. For every Briton that
we shot. we've shot ourselves a mil
lion times, but we're getting over
that lot, thanks to illuminatlve
rhymes, appeals to reason, ridicule,
and all those agencies of light that
ultimately set a fool and dunderhead-
ed country right.
The founts of oratory sealed by
long chautauqua entire acts VIII
burst upon us freshly healed with
new philosophy and facts. The war
like fisherman will beard the dread
mosquito in it's den, the mamma bird
who disappeared will reappear with
brides ten, the fat man, plying the
thin, will float around upon the sea,
the new efficiency will pin medal
on the busy bee, the special session
will debate the truths of tariff and
finance, the nimble colt will dem
onstrate the new here comes your
daddy dance, the picture show Will
still the cat with weird canned music
from tent, and the grape juice bot
tied on the Platte will pop the stop
per and ferment.
The blower will be clapped upon
The baseball races for the flags,
And fat men, bounding like the fawn
Will deftly spin around the bags.
The crush around the soda fount
Will beat bargain rush for fights
The man out camping on the mount
Will balsam his mosquito bites,
The controversy with Japan
Will sleep the middle of the day,
And the ever busy little fan
Will blow our troubles all away.
On the morning of July 3 the sun
and the dog star Sirius will rise at