The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1916-09-06
SEPTEMBER

Ol the hOlhdlSt anu lhtN were tii itAul
not to let some politicians who wanted
to get his name in the calendar do so
at her expense. One man tried il. He
was the Emperor Domitian, who
thought to perpetuate his name as
Julius ami Augustus Caesar had done
by naming September for himself.
After he was found dead in bed one
morning with the poet Horace's but
cher knife sticking through his wind
pipe, it became pretty well understood
that the name Of September was not
to be changed.
There was no finer season in the
imperial city. Then it was that the
rich returned from the baths at Pom
pei and reoccupied their great piles
on the Palatine Hill. Military life
took on something Of the charm Of
camping out, and there were reassur-
ing crowds around the recruiting sta
tions. Candidates in the fall elections
began TO beguile the street crowds
with their meaningless sophistries
Work became less intolerable with the
change in seasons, and there were
fewer strikes. Business men who had
been making a holiday Of prepared
ness broke up their training camps
and joined hands with the pacifists.
1t was in September that Lucullus
could be seen slipping down to the
market in quest Of pawpaws. Crowds
pressed into the cafeterias after pump
kin pie. oysters resumed their place
on the bill Of fare in the full appro-
baton Of the Board Of Health. In the
cool and starry Roman night one
could hear Marc Antony rehearsing
those tender ballads with which he
was to conquer Cleopatra. College
boys came back to the universities and
gave Rome that touch Of high life
which we can best appreciate by re
calling the kind Of candles they went
to bed by. Virgil, who knew the au-
tumn in Rome very much as James
Whitcomb Riley knew il in this coun-
try. said you couldn't beat it, and you
probably couldn't.
September was the seventh month
Of the Romans, and gets its name from
their septum Cseven.J Caesar was
responsible for the place it occupies
in the calendar now. He had a theory
that if the quarrels between labor
and capital, which usually come to a
head about the first Of September,
could be advanced to a season when
they would have the advantage Of a
change in the weather, there would
be fewer strikes. Labor readily agreed
to this, and freely admitted that it
felt more like working after the heat
ed term Capital. however, doubted
the wisdom Of such a change. 1t said
il was right in these matters, and
couldn't see that anything was to be
gained by postponing settlement
Caesar won, but when he went out at
noon for his customary green apple
dumping and cup Of coffee, he was
set upon by delegation Of railroad
presidents and hacked to pieces with
coupon clips.
The eager calf will sniff the breeze
And show the Castles up for bliss.
And bits Of color in the trees
viii tell Of Autumn's tender kiss.
The hired man will cast about
For blankets in the chilly night,
The frost will set its icing out
And put the doodlebug to flight,
The plumber will come tooling in
From some place where it wasn't
hot,
The summer girl will show a thin,
Wisp-voiced adventurer she caught,
The soda clerk will quit his trench
And put his earnings in a Ford,
The thrifty country wife will wrench
The mortgage loose with summer
board,
The wild-eyed candidate will groan
For perils hard upon his heart,
And the farmer will come in to loan
The farm loans bank enough to
start.