Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-02-26
(C0ntinued nert 7ceet.l
Proven, s.

! There was once man upon a time
who kept store, and sold goods at
wholesale aud retail
Aud he became melancholy, because
times were hard and customers shy.
And my ruin is more painful bear
because it is slow in progress, even as
wafer doth gradually become hotter in
the pot wherein the lobster boilelh, un-
! I'll the crustaceouS shrieketh out his soul
i'll anguish.
Lo 1t is better to be ruined quickly
than to endure this slow torture.
VIII give my money to the poor man
even the poorest, which is he who
prlnteih newspapers 4; and will shut my
shop, and wrap myself in sackcloth OF
desolation, and pass my days in the per-
ilous or broken banks, cursing the hard
ness of the times and rending my gar
ments.
And the howling of Rome shall be n
dulcet sounds of dulcimers, and they
who blow the flutes and instruments Of
music compared to the din | will make
in the ears of the wicked, even in the
ears of the bauk directors.
And even as he said, so he did for he
was not like other mems sons, who are
foolish and know it not, and they will do
so and so, performing that which is COLI
lrary.
For the sons of men are tickle, and he
thai is born of woman, doth spite his
face by diminishing the nose thereof.
Aud, 10 d! the printpr-eveu he who
publishes newspapers-was made glad
10y the bounty of him who sold whole
sale and retail, and he did sound his
praises and PRINT them moreover aud
did blow his trumpet of fame respecting
that mans dealings from the rising OF the
sun even 10 the going down Of the same.
And he-even the printer OF papers
did magnify and enlarge upon the stock
of goods " lIch the trader had i'll his
store, and did publish the variety, and
the excellence and The newness and the
beauty, and the cheapness thereof, till
the pcople-yea, all OF them, tar and
near, were am1zed.
And they said, 10! this man has gath
cred from the East and West costly mer-
chandIse and wares of wondrous value
evea the workmanship of cunning arlti-
GERS, and we knew il not.
Go to them. We lay out our green
backs iii those things which the printer
printed Of, aud that which the printer
doth publish shall be ours. For this
mans merchandise is better than the
bank notes Of tho,e WHO p omise to
pay, and therein he, even banks of de-
pUslt, which beguile us OF our money,
and swnde las like sin.
But the trader was still sad, and he
said The money these people bring
me for the gOous IN my store | will give
to the printer, and thus will ruin myself;
| will do that which no man hath yet
done i'll my time, or betores | will make
the printer, whom all men storu tor his
poverty, rich, aud he shall he clad iii fine
linen, and rejoice, a.. .s..
Aud the sons of men shall meet him
in the market place, and the sheriff shall
be rebukcd, aud shall take off their hats
TO him that was poor.
And he shall flash the dollars in the
eyes of the foolish, and shall eat sand
wiches and green,nekS,
Yes, even Shall he light his pipe With
cotton money, aud cast his spiItal on the
boards of other men.
For | shall ruin myself, and he that ad
vcrtises shall enjoy my Substance.
But, 10 the trader, even he who sold
merchandise, became rich, and even as
the unclean beast lieth in the Inire, so he
stirred not by reason OF much greenbacks.
And people flocked to his store, from
the North aud from the South, aud from
the East, and from the West.
Aud the printer rejoiced, and his 'phat'
did abound.
Bnt the trader could not become poor,
and his melancholy ceased; aud the smiles
Of bappiness We're upon his face.
And his children did become mighty
by reason of The dollars which many OF
the people who had read his advertise
menls had poured into the traders money
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A dateh Justice in Stark Co. decided
recently that verbal contract is not good
without stamp on II. !,