Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-11-13
THE CREASED POLE.


lHE UhEADEU IUIE.
showing how Zelke PhiIot got Sucked
in, and then a8zrin how he Dadn't.
Ezekiel Philot was born in America,
somewhere near the head waters of the
Penobscot, and when he arrived at the age
of nineteen, he had got his growth and
cut his eve teeth a circumstance which
was generally admitted by all who knew
him. - Sc -'
Zeke was bound foi' Bosting with load
Of genuine apple sass and he expected
ere he returned to make slight eommo-
ton, if not more, in the great metropolis.
The old mare was halnessed, and in the
course of time Zeke and his load arrived
in Bosting, where the tsssses' were dispos-
ed of to good advantage, and with seven
ty-five dollars in his pockets, our hero be-
gan to look around to see the sights
@HeEIow," exclaimed Zeke, as he stop
ned one morning before blazing placard
which adorned one of the brick walls in
Flag Alley; 'wat'n tarnation's that "A
Golden Ladder road to Fort-u-n-e-
fortin, that's it, road to fostin."
Zeke went to decypher the reading be
meath and gradually obtained the intelli-
gence that, on the Back Bay, there was
to be pole twenty feet high, on the top
of which the proprietor would place prize
of 5000, to be retained BY any one who
could obtain it. Chances three dollars.
"Wal, tew hundred dollars is some pun
kins,' soliloquised Zeke. I've clum some
pooty skinny trees in my time. I'll jes
walk into that fellers' tew hundred, rot me
if l don't" Y
Mr. Ezekial Philpot found his way to
the spot where the people had already
began to collect around the Golden Lad
derr
"Hellow," exclaimed Zeke, as he came
up, "where is the chap wot keeps this ere
pole?"
"I'm the man," answered hurley fellow
with red nose and pimpled chin, who
occupied chair near the pole: "do you
want to try chance! Walk up gentle
men-only three dollars, who"
"Hole OF ole feller," interrupted Zeke,
tew hundred dollars in that bag up't top o
that pole?'
"Certainly."
can if kin get it its mine?" Gasp
"You can have a chance for three dol
lars.n u4
Exactly. Wal, now there's yer three
dollars, an meow here goes for the hull
lott .# alFz7f114
Zeke divested himself of his coat, rolled
up his shirt sleeves, and giving powerful
leap, he grasped the pole about ten feet
from the ground. A single second, not
longer, he staid there, and then, slid back
upon terra .frma. Zeke looked at his
hands, and then down upon his striped
trowsers. Then looked at his hands again,
and rasing them to his nose while deep,
long smell set his doubts and queries at
rest, he uttered ~ @,
"The ID! hogs fat, by hockey!
O, A loud laugh from the crowd soon bro't
Zeke to his senses, and convinced him that
he was sold. But ere he could find his
tongue again, an oldsalt, about three sheets
in the wind paid for his chance and es-
saved to climb the pole. The sailor hug
ged and tugged, get half fway up and then
Slid. The crowd laughed again, but this
time their attention was turned from Zeke
to the aspirant, and after remaining mo-
ment in a sort of brown study, our hero
slipped away, remarking to the red nos
ed man, that he was goin' to get 8 dollars
more, and then he'd be DANCED if he didn't
try agin." 80"
In an hour, Zeke was again upon the
ground. .''-..., 80
9as'Neow, ole feller," said he to the man
that took the entrance money, 4 want to
lest try that ere thing wunst more, an |
want YOU to understand that shall Jest
take off my shews." @
"Got nothing in your stockings? % sug-
gested the red nosed man.
"Nothin' but my feet" returned Zeke as
he planted thirteen inches of flesh and
bones in the lap of querist.
Zeke put up his three dollars, and minus
coat and 'shews' he grasped the pole
Slowly, yet steadily, he crept up from the
ground. He hugged like blood sucker
to creased pole, and by degrees he near
ed the top. His hand was within few
feet of the bag Of dollars, and he stopped
to get breath. One more lift and then the
prize was within grasp. Zeke Slid to the
earth with two hundred dollars!
"Thar! l know'd l could do it. /
haint clum spruce and white maple all my
days for nothin'! Good bye, folks, an eff
you ever come down east, jes give us a
call"
Zeke left the crowd in wonder and made
the best of his way to the stable. He shut
the door of the shed, and pulling up his
trowsers, he united from the inside of each
knee one half the steel toothed leather of
his old horse card.
'Well, old Dobbin," said Zeke patting
the mare affectionately on the back, while
he held the pieces Of old card leather in his
hand, the scattering teeth of which had
been filed sharp, 4 rather guess ] kin af-
ford TO buy you new keard now."
ANCIENT CHURCHES IN PHILADELPHIA.
The oldest church in Philadelphia is the
Gloria Del, which was erected in 100, on
the same site as its predecessor, which was
built of logs, and served the double purpose
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