The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-05-12
From the Portland Transcript.
Letter from Ethan Spike.
HORNY, Anerill-lShS.

Figgeratively speakin - this is a world
OF changes-an what makes it wus--jts
mighty ousartin. No man knows the
eend tharof, or by sarchin kin make ono
hair of his statooary white or black
likewise the tetootum which sometimes is,
an sometimes isn't. Tharlore, with Solo,
men--King of Sheber-I concludes that
all is vanity, saith the preacher. Change,
change is writ on everything Change is
everywhere, except whar its most wanted
in feller's pockets. My own ideas
change frequently, and on special occu-
sions, oftener.
When Gineral Pearse wouldn't give
me n nofs, for instance, [ had an idee
that republic was ongratefool, but when a
suvrin people ris in thar majesty, and
made me a civil magnatary, an sot me up
as pillow of State, that idee changed in
the twinklin of wheelbarrer. I felt
good all over. l loved everybody-(ol-
lers exceptin federalists an niggers) an
thought republics was very gratefool in
deed. All mater looked different. The
blew skye in the firmyment lookel blewer
the airth more airthy and greener-likc,
the treeses waved more gratefuller. Even
the dumb critters an creepin things, like
wise todes an grasshoppers witch jump, an
amfiberous vermin, wot cant live in the
water an dies aout of it, all was viewed
from different standpoint. Everything
seemed to have stars an stripes onto it
The winds whisted Yankee doodle, and
the brooks danced to the music. l used
to wake up in the night an sing hale kerr
lumby in my sleep.
But naow haow changed The skye is
spanish brown, the arth amt nigh as
airthy as it was, the trees is done wavin,
critters looks like critters agn, an every
thing but the fernymental hyperian, looks
as blew as dye-pot. don't see no stars,
nor nothin streaked. Even the old bug
horned caow is sheddin her streaks |!
All. well, SIGH is life Mans life is SPAN
shuckle, an as full of evil as a dog is of
heas. Today todestool - tomorrow a
Joner's goad-stick.
Mr.. Editor bear with me eff I do ap-
pear eggisted. I'm disappointed man
I've lost my ofiis-I'm a--oh that I
should live to say tim an aout I'm
nothin but common citizen-Im Of no
accaount--I aiu't looked up to at all.
Common folks, SIGH as l didn't use to see
when l met EN- on the streets-are gettin
to be dreadful familiar, an the boys amt
afraid of me any longer.
Mr.. Editor, its dreadful thing for n
publick funkshunery to be turned aout Of
offs, an gin over to the cold an gainsayin
world, specially one as has stood high, in
his own estimation. I didn't used to think
SO when | was in Fact, | oilers
kinder liked to see other folks turned aout
but kim to try it onto me, modl6es the
idee good deal. / don't think folks ev.
err ought to be turned aout, that is, onlesS
some teller had got into place wich
wanted. This l believe is sound doctrine
l finds it hard TO get realizin sense o.
my sitooation. Sometimes afore knows
it, 1 stick my thumbs into the arm hole:
of my weskut-an strut off just as
used to.
" But alas-recollecton at hand
Soon hurries me back to despair"
and / wilt like a newl y sot cabbage plan
in the sun, an meach off like a kickeC
dog. I've bin advised to pertest agin TIT
election on two grounds. In the fus
place the hull number of votes was q
four of wich was gin for me, while tothe
II was scatterin, or wot amounts to tn,
same thing-they was hev for SOMEBODY
else. Naow take four from II an q re
mains, then ought times ought is ought al
two to carry, wich bein divided by tn
highest given number, the remainder i
the multiplicsnd.
Then take any number that comes han
diest for multiplier, which brings every
thing into vulgar fractions, and leaves M
majority Of one an 1918, long measure
Tother ground is that l was d5fdct
iRnus ttttuS-that is, the only constitoc
tional candidate, in consequence of bein
in possession, which is nine pints in Law
As / was sayin, its hard to realiz'
Don't seem possible that ! am actooall
daown agin in the vulgar walks of con
mon ono6shal life, that the robes of j
dy2atoor has bin stripped off my bac
like the skin of horn-pout, an 0beege
to resume the peajacket an overalls vic
nertains to ex-official sitooations