Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-06-09
sE CITY, OHIO, SATURDAY, JUNE ., 1888.

--thereis is no calculating how much influence
was givento Jackson's administration, by the
universal belief that there was concealed eye
aid hand behind the machinery of Government,
by which every thing could be foreseen, and
the hardest deeds DONE"
Mr.. Kendalrs situation, at the present time,
reminds me of story of one of the early Ger
man comic writer's. The Schildenburghers
purchased mouser, and with it their own ruin.
Snow it happened" says the story, that
there were no cats In Schilda, and 80 many
mice that nothing was safe even in the bread
basket; for whatsoever they put there, was
sure to be gnawed Or eaten; and this grieved
them sorey. And upon time there came a
traveller into the village, carrying a cat in his
arms, and he entered the Hotel. The host in
quired, ewhat sort of beast is that 2 Said
he lit is mouser.' Now, the mice at Schi-
da were SO quiet and SO tame, that they never
fed before the people, but ran about all day
long, without the slightest fear. So the tray-
eller let the cat run, who in the sight of the
host caught numbers of mice. Now, when
the people were told of this blythe host, they
asked the man whether the mouser was to be
sold, for they would pay him well for it. He
said 1t certainly was not to be sold, but seeing
it would be useful to them, he would let them
have it, if they would pay him what was right,
and he asked an hundred forins for 1t. The
Doors were glad to find that he asked SO little,
and concluded bargain with him, he agree
ing to take half the money down, and come
again in six months to get the rest. AS soon
as the bargain was struck on both sides, they
gave the traveller the half of his money and
carried the mouser into the granary where
they kept their corn, for there were most mice
there. The traveller went off with the money
at full speed, for he feared greatly lest they
should repent them of the bargain, and want
ther money back again; and as he went along
he kept looking behind him to see that no one
was pursuing.
Now, the burghers forgot to ask what the
cat was to be fed upon; SO they sent one after
him in haste to ask the question. But when
he with the gold saw that some ono was fol-
lowing him, he hastened so much the more, SO
that the boor could by no means overtake him;
whereupon, he called out to him from afar off,
"what does it eatl what does it eatl What
you please-what you please;' quoth the trav'
eller. But the peasant understood him to say
'rnen and beasts--men and beasts There
f fore he returned and said as much to his mas
ters. On learning this, they became greatly
alarmed and said, 'when it has no more mice
to eat, it will eat our cattle; and when they
are gone, it will eat US. Sad it Is to think thai
we should lay out our good money in buying
such thing. And they held council together
, and resolved that the eat should be killed; bu
| no one would venture to lay hold of it for tina
3 purpose. Whereupon it was determined tt
sci fire to the granary, seeing it was better tina
they should suffer common loss, than all los
their lives and limbs. So they set fire to th'
! granary. -.
t But when the cat smeed the fire it spranf
out of window, and fled to another house
} and the granary was burned to the ground.-
, Never was sorrow greater than the Schil
, denburgherss when they found that they coul'
not kill the cat. They counseled one with an
} other, and purchased the house to which th'
, cat had fled, and burned that also. But the
cat sprang out upon the roof and sat the e
washing itself, and putting its paws behind it
| ears, after the manner of cats. And the Schil
; denburghers understood thereby that the ca
lifted up its hands and swore an oath that !
would not leave their treatment unavenged
Then one of them took long pole and strucl
at the cat, but the cat caught hold of the poll
and began to Chamber down it; whereupon the.
grew greatly alarmed, and ran away, and lef
| the FIRE to burn as it might. And because NJ
! one regardedthe fire, nor sought to put it out
the whole village was burned to house; an'
notwithstanding that, the cat escaped"
This is the case, exactly, with the people ii
regard to Mr.. Kendall. We have looked up
on him as the Schildenburghers looked upo
: the cat: we have fantied him an evil genius
monster in human shape, who, when he ha
destroyed all the mice in the government Golfer
would require human bodies to satiate his ap
petite. Amos Kendall is nothing more than
man, and unless we stop prosecuting him, W
: shall soon fnd him occupying the highest plac
! in the synagogue.