Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1915 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

fox. It may be cat, it may be dog, the ladies, bless them, do not care. They’d wear the bristles of a hog if fashion wore them anywhere. Thank God, the women are so sweet, it’s hard to make them seem a fright; but seeing them upon the street, one’s courage sometimes says, “Goodnight!” A lovely miss with two fur bands around her dainty little limbs can make a man throw up his hands and say the words of beven hymns. At any rate, the war of kings wiH keep our exports on the jump, and what with making guns land things, we’ll keep our purses pretty plump. The pickle works will turn out shells, the cooper shop will take to caps, the stove works, turning to what sells, will fashion cannon for the Japs. The smoke will rise from smokeless flues, the wheels of business will resume, the miller will

contract for fuse, the old spaghetti works will boom, the tinner will make coats of mail, the cracker works will come to bat, the locomotive plant will hail an order for a very far-seeing, and they knew that will do their best, the powder mills run day and night, the smelting works around the west will take all .orders with delight, the country editor will turn his type machine to making balls, and in the end of this great fight we’ll all reside in marble halls.

But be it as it haply may, The weather will be very fine; A tender haze will fill the day, The\ air will be as rare as wine. The robin will return to rest A moment on the leaf-strewn lawn, The wary duck will be our guest A watchful moment getting on, The cidey will begin to work And pop the stopper in the jug, And the allies, working on the Turk, iWill join the now departed

November will be a quiet month politically, the chief interest centering in two or three big drives to be made by the woman suffragists. They are still fighting on the eastern -battle front, but they are having sort of Russian luck. The moon will be full on the 21st, and the first twenty clays of the month will be under the influence of Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac. Scorpio people are bomb-proof hat, the shovel works some widow would get the President. The last ten days of the month will be influenced by Sagittarius the Archer, the ninth sign. Sagittarians are cold-blooded, and they seldom care whether the janitor fires up or not. Jupiter and Venus will divide the responsibility of being evening star, alliances being fashionable just at this time. Thanksgiving will come on the 25th, but until it becomes clear which side is winning in Europe it will not be possible for a neutral country like this to be quite sure what it is thankful for.

And then December will return, With bitter cold and snow, And Santa Claus will try to learn How far we’d like to go.