M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-05-03

Scene ia the Life Of ~ Snowman
BY ARTEMUs WARD.

a snowman meets Win strange
sites. He sees human natur as she
are unmasked and without no close on,
and he must be stupider nor dead
boss il he duZzent stock his Branes
with several kinds of nollege.
The undersigned won't Boste. Igo
in for the fast sailin, snugbuilt & full
made skeuper United States, which
runs herself, she does, & on whose dcx
l man is as good as another man, &
frequently more SO, if he conducks
himself strate. To uss Shakspeeri.
an irase, line native and to the man
mere born & don't want to put on airs
simply oecaw5 I've met with great
sucksess in the proteshun (Which I've
been in goin on % years. My wurthy
projeunytors wus unable TO give me a
cussycal eddyeashun, & all nose !
picked up
Gas | sailed, as l sailed"
to kwote from Captain r Kidd, the
celebrated ?irut. But, thank beVen,
my sire u sires gave me a good name,
4 | pint with feelins Of pride & plesh
ure to the tack that nun of our family
was ever in Congress, or on the New
\ ork perlice, or Arms house Guvner.
The ensoOn scene in my checkered
career is respectfully submitted:
wIMIN's RITES.
| pitch my tent in a small town in
lnjanny one day last season. & while
was standing at the door takin mum
ny, a deppitashun Of ladies cum up &
sed they was members of the Bunculn-
vile Female Moral Reform & Vim.
in'S Rites Associashun, and they axed
me if the 4 cool 90 in without payin.
Not exactly" scz |, but you can
pay without goin in"
"Do you know who We airl" said
one OF the wimin, a tall and teroshus
looking crittur with a blew cotton um.
breller under her arm--"do you know
who we air, surf"
"My impreShun is" sed |, "from
kursefy view, that you are females. VI
"We air, sur" sed the teroshus wo.
man; 1--WE belong to a Sosiety which
bleeves wimin has rites---whitch
bleeves in raisin her to her proper
speer--whitch bleeves she is endowed
with as much inteleck as man is
whitch bleeves she is tramplid on G.
abooSed-and which will resist hens.
4th & 4ever the encfoachments of
proud aud doihineeriD man"
During her discours the xcentgic fe.
male grabid me by the coat kollar, G.
was swingin her umbrelier wildly over
my he'd.
II hope, marm," sez I startin bacl:
"that your intenshun is honorable.--
line a lone man here in a strange
place. Besides, I've wife to hum
Yes" cride the female. "& she's a
slave! Doth she never dream of free.
dom! Doth she never think Of throw.
in of the yoke Of tyranny & thinkin
& speakin an yotin for bersell7 Doth
she never thiuk oftheSe here thngs2'I
mot beings a natrul. born fool, ," sed
!, by this time a little rilcd, 81 kin
safely say that she doth not"
"Oh, whot!" screamed the female :,
swingin the umbreller in the air, "oh,
whot is the price that woman pays for
her experienced"
81 don't know, marm," sez |, "the
priiGfh pp riiGfhttPer ttPe # Under Sdefgh The statitS. lt6as
2 been the custom oil that city to !
d swarms of their agents all over
country, thus injuring leeal bnsi-
IS, and in many cases practicing a
ect systeai.Of Swindling. They Of !
their articles on very reasonable i
ms, and when orders are received, !
y are filled with Inferior fabrics. -
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