The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-04-07

NHlIe ueltly uaHCllB bhrouBH the
trees
The festive bobolink will sing.
The plumber will collect his bills
And journey west to see the fair,
The robin will intone his trills
Upon the soft and balmy air,
The walking hired man will shed
Eleven pairs of winter pants,
The playful goose will blithely tread
The vast, ethereal expanse,
The changing temper of the days
Will mark the last of winter gone,
And in the night the mole will raise
His loves initials on the lawn.
There is no other time of year pos
sessing quite the charm of Spring,
when young spring onions reappear,
and all the birds return to sing. One
wants to storm the Dardanelles of
ones more functionary lot, to shoot
his liver up with shells and rouse his
gizzard with shot. How fancy pic
lures on the view the good ship Sas-
safras advance! How rashly daring is
her crew! How little there is left to
chancel She sights the hookworm in
his fort upon the Oriental shore, and
drops him with loud report to kick
the bucket on the floor. She sees
! Spring fever in his trench and browns
him deftly with shell. She spies
Fort Ague on a bench, and leaves it
lparalyzed as we'll. Her flag shook out,
fig for mines, for submarines or par
apets, she goes right on between the
lines as if the foe were suffragettesl
The waking frog will raise the voice
of six Carusos in the night, and all the
poets will repoice for what is beauti-
full and bright. The farmer on his
tractor plow will gaily tool about the
farm, the kingbird swinging on the
bough will wait for doodlebugs to
swarm, the ice cream suit will take
the air on pretty Sunday afternoons,
the world will turn to greener fare
from canned asparagus and prunes,
the picture show will move outdoors
where failing plots can get their
breath. the tramp will holystone the
floors and do the carpeting to death,
the COW will show a redder plush
against the field of green velour, the
bright spring ballads Of the thrush
will render musical the moor, the
heart Of humankind will thump for
love in spite of its regrets, and all
the girls will make us jump exhibit
ing their pantalettes.
Alas! for war-except for that
We might rejoice without restraint.
And all our hearts go pit-a-pat
For joy of papering and paint.
The shadow of that great to-do
+ Is ever cast upon US here;
1t makes our daily humor blue
When it were otherwise cheer.
They cannot knock a Moslem fort
Upon its back, or shoot a Greek
But one can hear the dull report
In Dun or Bradstreet in a week.
A plague upon their houses all,
And on their warriors a pest
We take no part in all their squall,
But still must suffer with the rest.
There will be nothing especially new
about the war in April. The attack
on the Dardanelles will continue a
picturesque feature Of that fool bus
mess, but the grand opening every
where has been set for May, and there
will be no further indications Of how
the war is going before that time.
Since the failure Of the Spring Equi-
nox and other astronomical phenom-
ena to bring the participants to their
senses, nothing Of that nature will be
attempted in April. The moon will
simply pass through its usual phases,
being full on the 29th. President Will
son will run another month in his
now famous drama, Don't Rock the
Boat" The Mexican revolution,
which has been keeping Lent, will be
little livelier. Japan will continue
in the role of international cut-up.
The first twenty days Of the month
will be under the influence Of Aries,
the Ram, the first sign Of the zodiac.
He has thus far failed to do anything