Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-06-06
PURE AIR.

The great majority OF mankind do not proper.
ly appreciate the advantages Of pure air. They
seem TO forget that when a crowd OF human be-
ings are shut up in close OF ilI-ventilated hall
or church, each one is breathing forth a most
deadly gas-carbonic ocid gas
We hope that all, and especially the sex.
tants" OF our "Meetin' Hou ses" will read and
profit by the following:
"a APPEEL FOR ARE TO THE SEXTANT
OF THE OLD BRICK MEETINOUsE. s.
BY A. CASPER.
o sextant Of the mectinouse, which sweeps
And lites the gass and sumtines leaves a screw
loose, file: (:
in which case 1t smells orful-worse than lamp
And wrings the Bell and toles it when men dyes
to the grief Of survivin pardners, and sweeps
And for the servases gifts 500 per annum.
Which them that thinks deer, let ern try
Getin up befoar starlite in all wetIlers and
Ktndlin fieTs when the wether is "a cold
AZ zero, and like as not green wood for klndlcrs
wouldn't be hired 10 do IL for no some
But o scxtanti there are kerInoddhy ling,
Wich's more than gold, which doant cost moth
Worth more than any thing exsep the Sole Of
mean pewer Are, sextant mean pewer Arel
. IL Is plenty out dores, 50 plenty IL doant no
What on airth TO do with itself but flys about
Scatterln leaves and BLOWN OIL mems hats;
in short its Jest free as are out dores
But sextant, in church its as scarce as picty
scarce as bank bills when aglnst beg for mis-
shuns,
Which some say is purity often (taint nothing to
Inc,
Wat give aint nothin to nobody but o sextant
u shet 800 men, wimmen and children,
Speshally the latter, up in a tite place,
Some has bad breths, some aint swete,
Some is feyery, some is scrofilous, some has bad
teath
And some haint none, and some aint over clean;
But every on EN- breethes in & out and outa and
in,
Say. so times a mint, or l million and half
breths an our.
Now how long will church ful Of are last at
that rate,
I ask you, say Is minits and then what's to be
did?
Why then they must breathe 1t all over agin,
And then agin, and so on, till each has took it
down
At least 10 times, and let it up agin, and wants
more.
The same indivldible doant have the privelidge
of brethen his own are, and no ones else;
Each one must take whatever comes to him.
o Sextant dOant you know our lungs Is beluses;
To bio the fer Of life, and keep 1t from
goin out; and how can belluses bio without wind?
And amt wind dTef put IL to your consehens.
Are is tho same to us as milk to babies,
Or water is to fish. or pendlums to clox-
Or roots and airbs unto an inju un Doctor,
Or little pills unto an omepath,
or boys to gurls. Are * for us to brethe.
Wat signifies who preeches IL can't brethe:
Watts Poi? Watts Polius to sinners who are ded?
Ded for want Of breth; why sextant, when we
Its only cause we can't brethe no more-that's
all.
And now o sextant, let me beg OF you
let little are into our church.
Pewer are is sertin proper for the pews)
And do II weak days and Sundays tew-
1t aint much trouble-only make hole
And the are will come in Of itself;
Ut luys to cum in WHARF il can get warm y
And o how 1t will rouse the people up.
And sperrit up the preacher, and stop the garps
And yawns, and fights, as efectooaI
AS wind on the dry Boans the Profit tells of.