Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-01-24
NUMBER 33.
Scattering Drops. No. 10.
Waterloo, Jan. 18th, 1862
Mr.. EDITOR:

Mr.. EDITOR:
: Here | am, alive and kicking.
} Yes Sir! Like Daniel Webster. You
knew Daniel, didn't you? brother to Zeek,
you know. Il still live" Daniel is no.
where since came onto the carr et What
a strange world this is. Now, when l
came into this world, most of folks wouldn's
have believed that should have had more
influence than Daniel of Massachusetts,
but now he is nowhere. only up home.-
Well, you see, good many folks, and
more too, have wanted to know where
Quli is The Irishman said, Faith, an
| am here, sure I am )" end so am l.
Well, | was talking about my being smart,
and you all know that and then think
what | have done since l wrote. First
thing | done was, just to annibilate that
'Rebus" man in Lake Mills, so that be
dldn' dare to stick his head up and yeep
as much as a chipmunk Well, served
HIM right: these little back country villages
have no right to stick themselves up and
try to compare themselves with cities like
ours Well another thing I have done
you see, was just to run over the state and
| tell the boys that Aleck wasn't exactly
what wanted for Governor any longer,
although he done first rate till the war
broke out, and then he got leetle too big
Tor his - b - br - braces. Sol
told him would fix it all right, and the
boys would just set Harvey on that stool
out to Madison, and so they did and then
l wrote to Abraham at Washington and
told him to just send Aleck to Rome, for
| thought be would like to 90 there if he
could get his expenses paid, and had an
Idea that Sam could afford to do that,
SO after awhile Abraham concluded to tell
him he might 60, if Bill Seward thought
best, and Bill said if Aleok wouldn't saw
anything sarcastic to him about his advi-
sing the army to send the niggers back to
their masters ''acco' ding to the constitu-
tlon," why. he would let him 60. So A
leck happened to think how he used to
like to Ego to Rome" when be was boy,
at the kitchen junkets at Deacon Joneses
and Captain Smiths. and so be kinder
promised he wouldn't But am running
into ''perlite-ics," as Mrs. Partington
says
Well, | have done lots of other tbinos
since some folks thought I was dead but
| amt dead, nor I amt going to tell all I've
done since l wrote. q guess I hadn't
better } But there has lots ofthinps hap-
pened in our city of Waterloo. Perhaps
Vanslyke had gone into the livery business.
Everybody knows Girls. and he's so full of
fun that folks go there to get horses to
drive because they get fun enough for the
money they pay, and so they get the ride
for nothing. aud that is cheaper than you
can get livery team anywhere else in the
state Then they have built one of the
best large framed livery barns that | ever
saw, and right close to it, so as to accom-
modate folks, Dave has built a fine
blacksmith shop Dave who?" Why, Dave
Sanders. of course; he ought to be known,
for he can shoe horse just a leetle the
best Che always shoes mine) of any black
smith about, except two or three others in
our city, who can do it almost as we'll
Then Fl. NJ. and c. P. Mead have built a
fine residence on the hill just West of their
drug store, that improves that part of the
town very much. Various other i'm
p-ovements have been made besides
good many that have not, that ought to be,
one of which might mention is that cur
burying ground is left unfeneed 1t may
be true that one live person is worth a
dozen dead ones, yet as long as it is Gus
tomary to show respect to the casket tha.
once held the jewel of the soul, to which
we were allied by the siken cord of friend
ship, and the golden clasp of affection, it
would look at least respectable to enclose
the greund in which the dust of those We
loved was entombed. Mr. Editor, 1t looks
strange to me and very much like hypocri-
sy, to see the friends of the dead weep. as
it were, great fountains of tears, dress in
the sombre garb of mourning, while preach
ers are engaged to pray with fervent heart
and preach with that intense feeling and
sympathy that affect the living soul SO
that all feel as though sit were better to 90
to the house of mourning than to the house
of feasting," and then, with all the forms
and ceremonies, deposit the remains of the
dead in the grave, two feet wide and SIX
feet deep, encased in coffin of costly ma
terial, as if to show our respect, and then
leave the ground to be trampled over BY
cattle running at large, or hogs roofing
over the graves, like SO many hyenas seek
ing the bottles Of the dead. If we care no
more for tie bodies of our dead friends
than for those of carrion, and only bury
them to coyar IN the stencil why mako 6,