Show 0 ea A scene at armageddon A warrior in tin and every now and then a shout from the din some foil fell s fancy woodrow ond and others fancy bill and others still for theodore ai aie e N ery cry hopeful ua still A table and a pitcher A speaker on his perch and here and there someone asleep the same as u in a church athe j the miracle of party aid and the perfidy of doubt with the usual statistics till the watchman puts him out A woman roman with a banner another with a drum and another with a curtain pole revolving on her thumb some folks say its nothing but others it is and hi lil e as not it won t be long till man is getting his the bull moose and the donkey the elephant the zoo the trusts against the people and the false against the true but do not get excited or take tale it very hard for they 11 all lie down together in the same barnyard october was originally the eighth month ot of the romans but it brought watermelons and pumpkins in at the same time and numa Pom who liked both pushed it along to tenth place to keep from foundering himself A bull moose party form ed to dethrone him but he held on and was ras able in the end to pull the skulls of his enemies around on a string on ballowe en on with a candle inside from which we have our present day jack 0 lantern the zodiacal sign for october is scorpio meaning the scorpion it typifies the manner in which candi dates sting one another in the last few weeks of the campaign octo ber her has always been the fa fronte month of the year that more peo pie have alwa s married in june has only been explained upon the theory that inasmuch as is they are under tak ing tile battle of life together they probably consider that it would be just as well to begin at once upon the flies the gentle spirit of the fall will come to glorify the air and the football played will appall the population with his hair the referee will climb the poles and sound his shrill official toot and the moth will drill a few more holes in everybody s winter suit there is no glory to compare with that awaiting just ahead when the gog gossamer samer gets in the air and the sassafras bassa fras is flaming red A million harps have duly twanged upon the glories of the time but a poet still were rather hanged than not intone his little rhyme lou ion may destroy his throbbing lyre and pitch him headlong in the sea but death alone can quench the fire that underlies his he 11 tripe a horse hair on a pole and even stronger than beare bea re uplift the passion ot of his soul with getting back upon the shore at such a time though you may laugh it would as probably avail to catch the acrobatic calt calf and tie a brick upon his tail tall one whiff of autumn in his ills nose and lowering his playful head hia u rear appendage still though R eigher with a I 1 eg of lead you can t restrain train the joy ot of fall that palpitates in living thing nor hope to dissipate the thrall in which a poetaster sings the calf will kick lick and buck around the colt will cut a few high jinks and the poet s zither will resound despite what nhat anybody thial s I 1 the better quality of air will speed the pi evidential lace and a cockle burr r placed here and t eie will help accelerate the pace the troubled earth will gently sway beneath the violent attack and the 0 trusts w will hustle corn and I 1 hay bay ft v rf along the fence inside the track the eager riders all inclined least resistance to the air lash their quadruple qua drupe Is behind feel them fagging in despair hungry brutes will smell mell the hoy hay and catch the f fradra gragra ragra ice tee of the corn and in their torture curse cure the that saw the first i le former born III rues the time when plenty shows a helping hand on every side and still nobody ever throws a bite for being vilified vilh villi fied it never was that way before in any other race they ran and many a good and lusty roar will sound the perfidy of man but that s the kind ot of race it is aay any creature what he will and each man s chance is ii only his with somehow keeping it at it still A strictly uncorrupted trot with emp ty stomachs stomach sall around is R what hat they entered and they vo vc got to make wake then their charges covet ground if rockefeller and his set dedire a little sporting bout why let them wait a bit to get their their trust f d steeplechase stee eis els out we re having haning one per hops the first we ever had ind while it toils tolls we 11 take a care to hold bold a gun upon the pirate and his spoils the hunter s moon will sail the sky to the human race and men will trail the pumpkin pie through many a city eating place the cider sign will rill grace the store to offer men its ancient boon and customers will bulge the door with getting out of the saloon the twelfth of the month will be the anniversary of the dincov ery of america and rocke feller morgan and carnegie R will ill give a dinner on that date to christoph er columbus who found it for them the will rill be the anniversary of the landing in this country of the man who put the penn in pennsyl and it will be celebrated in an appropriate manner by everyone who has put the important lable in anything since the moon wi will be lull full on the and the pass pas word for the month will be apple butter and then november will renew with somewhat cooler weather neather and the poor consumer sewing tw tv 0 thin union suits together |