The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-03-25

As If a body wasn't miserable as coul,
be. John, he sleeps and snores ~ /
his boys were safe in their beds At home
Give men their victuals and let 'em r
to sleep and earthquakes won't wax,
them
And yet You seem to take a good dea
oftrouble in your husband
That's so. / hadn't been married "a
him long before found out he was a
well fool; aud never see him any
way different since. If scold him he
laughs; do what you will he laughs
He was awful sick last year, aud the
doctor rsaid-"John, ninety mine chances
out Of a hundred that you'll dis. -
"Well,' says he, "I'll take the one
chance" aud he laughed. So he gol
well. He never would work. do oil
myself, outside and inside. For all that
he's good, honest rlan. He never
harmed man nor beast. He's old now.
and foolisher than when he was young.
He can't take care of himself. He list
ed and went off uni elk nown to me-and
what would he do with a gun? If the
rebels did not shoot him hid shoot him
self. Now, dear" laying her hand on
mine, "tell the Gineral he amt got no
cause t" fret. John aint no loss to him
nor the government. But" and she
raised her voice while her face flushed
up, "he better not send no soldiers after
him. l don't mean no offence, but
may as well speak plain. If he comes
up to our place to take John for de-
serter-he or his soldjers-he'll get a
tea kettle Of hot water on him. IN
spile his uniform for him. You better
keep him where he is If you want to
keep him out of harms way Good
bye, dear" she said, calming down.
"God bless you"
'But your husband?'
"DOn't worry about him. III see to
him. I'll take him home Tomorrow,
l couldn't get here Saturday night, but
tomorrow II do"
A short time after, heard ofthe wor-
thy couple. When last seen the old
volunteer was pairing apples by order Of
his wife, when he observed to neigh
Dor who had come in to talk about the
war, "Them regular offices be very stiil
and thinks u sight of themselves. but
my old woman took the sperrit out Of
the one that listed me in Concord"
Hold your tongue, john" said
voice from the next room. "He was
glad to get rid Of you. Keep that old
apron of mine over your clothes. You
we got enough soldier clothes to last
~ ~ -. ~r ,"", ,irr. Iiry ulun't
cost me nothing. but is no use to spile
them. Hurry up with those apples, or
III take the sperrit out Of you"
Henry Ward Beecher on Interest.
We imagine we hear some of our
readers after reading the following and
drawing long sigh, say. That's a
ract.n
NO blister draws sharper than inter
Est does. or all industries none is com
parable to that of interest. 1t works
day and night in fair weather and foul.
1t has no sound in its foot steps, but
travels fast. 1t gnaws at mans sub
stance with invisible teeth. 1t binds
industry with its film, as the fly is
bound upon Il SPIDERS web. Debts roll
4 man over and over, binding hand and
FOOT, and letting him hang upon the
fatal mesh until the long-leggel interest
tevours him. There il no crop that can
afford to pay interest money on a farm.
There is but one thing on farm like it
md that is the Canadian thistle, which
'warms new plants every time you
break its roots, whose blossoms are pro-
ilic, and every flower the father of a
million seeds. Every leaf is an awl,
every branch spear, and every plant
ike platoon of bayonets, Il field of
hem like an armed host. The whole
'ant is torment and a vegetable curse.
And yet a farmer had better make his !
Ded of Canada thistles, than attempt to
lie at ease upon interest"
a METHoDICAL YOUNG LADY.--We
hear OF a very precise and methodical
young lady in town who divides her
lime up with tho utmost exactness.--
For instance, she allows just so much
ime to eating, so much to reading, so
much to visiting, ETC., and on no ac-
count suffers herself to deviate from her
'ules. IL she has caller, she says,
ooking at her watch: Now / have
ust ten minutes to see you in without
infringing upon my time for medita-
ion.' A friend called not long ago to
'elate to her the sad particulars Of the |
ieath Of her much loved grandmother. |
The inethodical young woman was af
ected even to tears, but didn't forget |
Ter time card. She drew forth her
watch at the most touching point in the
tory, aud begged her friend to cut
t short, as in four minutes and twenty
NO seconds she must practice with her
lumb bells! There must be madness in
Ter method-at least, we should think |
hat her friends would get mad over
t.
4 Terrible Fight with Wild Cats |
From the Middleton IN. " Mail.
Over in Sullivan county, along tho