Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25

| Repentance cau.e too lute. " '
| And though freely do forgive,
| The wound is ranking yet;
| The scorn, injustice and Deceit s
j neccr can forget.
| SO It's best that we have severed
The links of friendships chain
And we shall meet strangers meet,
| When we shall meet again.
Muscatine City, Feb. 14th, 1859.
| ~.~.
| From the Cleveland Plaindealer
Letter from the EtI.,era1:t Show
man.
BALDINsvILLE, INDY, Feb. 10th, 1889.
CENT? lime in a sad & senterment-
ul Mood ternite. / thawt at 1st Ide
kourt the Muze 4 did so try to do, but
the Muze refuzed to be kourtid, & SO
methincs III let my thawts express
themselves in Proze. & speakin Of
kourtin remines me Of how I wood &
one Mrs. A. Ward, which l dessay will
interest the readers Of yure valerble pa
per. Twas earn, still mite in Joon,
when all natur was husht & nary Zeffer
disturbd the screen silense. [ sot with
the objeck Of my hart's affeckshuns on
the Tense of her farthar's pastur. I
had experiunsed hankerin after her
fur sum time but darsunt proclaime my
pashun. Wall, we sot there on the
fense, swingin our feet two h frow &
blushin as red as the Baldinsville skool
house when it was fust painted & look
in very cimple, I make no dowt. My
left arm was ockepied in ballunsin my
self on the fense while my rite was
wounded affeckshunitly round her
waste.
Sez I, "Suzanner l thinks very
muchly Of yu - & side deeply.
Sez she, ''How yu do run on !"
SeZ I, 81 wish there was winders to
my sole soze yu Good see sum Of my
feelins.''
l pawsed heer, but as she made no
reply | continnerd in the follerin strane:
car! Good yu know the sleeplis mites
l pars on yure ackount, how vittals has
seased to be attractiv to me & how my
Inns is shrunk up, yu woodunt dowt
me by no means. Case on this wastin
form & these sunkun ize!" cride,
jumpin up, & [ shud hav continnerd on
fur sum time longer, probly, but unfor-
tinatly lost my balluns & fell over in
to the pastur ker smash !-tarin my
close Il seveerly damagn meself indi-
vidshally. Suzanner sprung to my as
sistunce & dragged me 4th in bubble
quick time. Then drawin herself up
to her full hite she sed:
81 wont listun to yure infurnal nom
cents emmy longer. Jest yu say rite
strate out what yu air drivin at. II yu
mean gittin hitched, Ime in ~
l considered that air cnuff fur all
practical purpusses & we went to the
parsun's at onct 4 was immejitly made
l. I've parst threw CRATE many tryln
Ordeels sins that memorabel mite, but
Mrs. A. Ward has bin troo as steal.-
By bein virtoous I've one a repaltashun
fur honisty which few shomen (a-lars,
a-lars for the perfeshun!) injoy, & by
attendin strickly to biznis I've amarsed
a hansum competunsy, & my show is
exalted by few & exceld by none, en-
bracin as it doz a wunderful culleck-
shun Of liven wild Beests and Snaix, a
endless variety Of wax Figgers of life
sise & the only framed Kangeru in hull
Ameriky-the most amewsin littel cuss
ever interdOOsd to a discriminatin pub
lik.
4 why am l sad ?-methincks l heer
yu ask, Jcntle reeder. Becawz [ fele
that the show-Biznis, which hav stroy-
en- to ornyment, is bein usurpt by
Poplar Lecturs, as they air caWld, tho
in my pinyun thay air Poplar humbugs.
Easturn individuals, most on EN- from
Bosting, who git hard up, embarck in
the lecturin biznis. Thay kram thair-
selvs with hi soundin frazis, frizzle up
thare hare, git trustld for SCOT Of
black close & cum out West to lectur at
$50 pop. Thay aint over stockt with
branes, but thay hav Brass cnuff to
make suffishunt kittels to bile all the
sope that will be required by the en-
suin sixteen gennerashuns. Peepel
flock to heer um in crouds. The men
60 becawz its poplar 4 the wimin folks
go to see what other wimin folks hav
on. When its over the lecturer goze Il
RECALLS hisself with gin & Sugar, while
the peple say "What charmin lectur
that air wasp etsettery, etsettery, when
9 out Of 10 Of EN- don't hav no more
idee of what the lecturer sed than mi
kangeru has Of the 7th speer Of hevun.
Thares more infurmashun to be got out
Of u well conducted noosepaper-price
5 sents-than thare is out Of 10 pop-
lar lccturs at $25 or so dollars pop,
as the kase may be. These same pc
pie, bare in mine, site up ther nosjs: sis. .Os -
Moral wax iggers Il sagashus
Thay say these things is low sg; BY :s,is 3
it grevcs my sole in my olaA. ROGERS:
line in the ''shoer Il yelle''' Mu''''in'' i''
cote from my Irish friend ~
to see that the Show = RANes xc'
much plade out, nigh to the cPe.k." 60 b.
Howsomever | shall lcl. u... = .... :,
the spring. Ime neg6,r =. ..e.. : ors
last Joory in the hiram : LA .;,s = STM Which
l kin git them remarkiblad. and nsishbors.
tys think shall make a. Cone shsn .na = sss 3,
sun Of it. Very respectivcnd ..:ts ndi.sp
ARTEMUS Wbs%a. srEwA
gs Every man has faults to CO.
quer, but which he delays to combat.