The Parker post., 1914-01-10
JANUARY
FORECAST

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole an egg, and away he run;
But where they had in time before
Pursued him lightly through the door,
And laughed to see him dodge the
cops,
This time they were as mad as hops.
The startled Tom looked back to
find
The butcher believing behind,
The State militia turning out,
And marshals scurrying about,
He felt the earth beneath him throb
With all the impact of a mob,
And ran as he had never run
In all the thieving he had done.
When someone rang the village bell,
He knew it's meaning very WE'LL
The fleet Boy Scouts were turning
out,
And troops were leaving their re-
doubt.
A military aerOplane
Set up it's poppety refrain,
and Tom turned faint and deathly
pale
When bloodhounds bayed upon the
trail
ALAS" he said: "My lucky star
Deserts me-I have gone too far!'
With which he took one look around,
And seeing he was losing ground,
He deftly doubled OH his track,
And put the casus belli back.
Numa Pompilius, the second King
of Rome, was very much like Presi-
dent of a big university before he
was called to the throne, he knew
all about everything, and had a re-
form program that kept Roman Sen
ate at work in season and out When
he got rid of his tariff and currency
bills, he took UP the calendar. There
were at that time 10 months in the
year, which began in March. Numa
proposed to increase the number of
months to II, and to have the year
begin two months earlier. His speech
before the Senate, in which he dwelt
Upon the general happiness that
would result from giving everybody
TWO months more pay and the hui
name necessity for making the 18th
Of March come at a season when
people in the Irish provinces could
march without being exposed to the
blasts of winter, has been incorpor-
ated in all the works on the worlds
best orations. The bill passed imme-
diately after the Christmas holidays,
and a commission of experts ap-
pointed by Numa inserted the months
OF January and February in the cal
endar, where they have remained un-
disturbed.
January takes it's name from the
Latin Januarius, which was itself de-
rived from Janus. the two faced go
who looked both fore and behind.
and hence was chosen by Numa as
typifying the new year. 1t was from
this fact that the two-faced custom
or sending one bill and at the same
time wishing him a happy New Year
arose. Caesar tried to DISCOURAGE if
on the ground that it was hypocrisy,
but he was assassinated by Brutus.
Casca and other of the more promi
nent Roman merchants of that time.
and no one dared to question the pro-
prlety OF the custom from that day to
this. Marc Anthony, who was the
leading chautauqua lecturer in Rome
during t reign of Caesar, had a
Wlttlcism on this score which he fire.
quently got off to the great amuse-
ment of people out in the provinces
He said that Caesar tried to reform
business and got his gall divided in
to three parts.
Romulus, who founded Rome, had
thought that the year should begin in
March, but after long and bloody ex-
perlence the Romans concluded that
MARS was not proper god to preside
ever SO important an event. The peaoe
party, which has become very power
ful at home while the war party was
away extending the boundaries of
the empire, persuaded Numa to adopt
Janus. His announcement of his deci-
sion was characteristic of the man
who invented money and did so many
other amusing things. He said that