The Parker post., 1913-10-04


The festive calf will buck and dance
For joy of Autumn's golden glow,
And the football player will advance
Upon his fat and padded foe.
He'll strew excelsior about
Until he finds the inner man,
And subsequently put him out
AS mercifully as he can.
The gentle chemistry of Fall will
turn the sumach tassels red, and the
lusty hired man will bawl for thicker
covers on the bed The desolute and
dying fly will hang around the kitchen
fire, the poet with frenZied eye
will deftly fall upon his Tyre, the
dreaded mosquito will expire, its face
still pressed against the screen, the
ghosts of Nineveh and r yre will
waltz around the scene, the katydid
will yield it's soul to immOrtality's
grim chance, and the moth will drill
another hole in everybody's winter
pants.
The loud-complaining cider press
will render sweet the passing breeze,
and ladies in the new slit dress will
show the populace their knees. The
butternut will bounce around upon
tie sere and yellow leaf, the sink
ing bullfrog will eXpound his final
theory OF grief the artful wife will
Paris hats, the lesser bugs with one
accord will get swallowed by the bats
great Nimrod and his mystic thral!.
will beckon from the autumn sky, and
Wen have the same old riot calls
where the restaurants serve the
pumpkin pie.
There is no other season quite 81
beautiful as that ahead, when it TAX
es a stick of dynamite to get the
farmland out of bed The golden
glory of the morn will fill the soft,
high arch Of space, the quail will
whistle in the corn until he has to
rest his face, the wild goose with it's
honking brood will wedge its way
across the sky, the hunter in the
solitude will mark them with
his wistful eye, the pneumococcus in
the lake will long to pierce h is rub
Der boot, the melancholy coots. will
make dry jokes about his fancy suit,
the ducks will see him all the time
and laugh and chatter all the day, but
the prospect still will be sublime,
and h ell have the outing anyway
The Hunters moon will sail the sky
To render beautiful the night,
And the bobolink will bobble by
Intoning carols of delight
The scent Of moth balls will arise
From many crinkly-looking suit,
The tramp exiled from Paradise,
Will hit the city destitute.
The colt will breathe the bracing airs
And do the Cubanola glide,
And the audience will seize it's chairs
And chase the picture show inside,
The first % days of October will
be under the influence of Libra, the
seventh sign of the zodiac. Persons
born under the influence of Libra
are very conservative and are not
paying bills until they see how the
new tariff law is going to turn out
The last nine days of the month
will be under the Influence of Scor-
pio, the eighth sign of the zodiac.
Scorpio people have tremendous will
power, and can hold a son in college
down to his allowance. Col. Roosevelt
is a typical Scorpion.
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The moon will be full on the 18th.
and Halloween will come on the 3lst.
Halloween comes down to us from
the Roman festival to Pomona, the
goddess Of fruits. 1t has been cele-
brated N :nnumerable ways, but bob-
hing for apples has come to the crI "
as the world has grown older and
more practical, inasmuch as after hay-
ing the fun you can still eat the ap-
Iple
There will be no exceptional astro-
nomical phenomena during October,
the necessary majorities for both the
tariff and currency meaures seeming
to have been brought into line by