Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-02-15
DIAMOND OUT DIAMOND.

WHO uaU OuCe Deeu tuo JuuSe VI Iue
county, and we'll known all over it by
the name of Judge --. He kept q
store and sawmill. and was always
sure to have the best of the bargain on
his side by which he had gained an am.
pie fortune, and some did not hesitate
to call him the biggest rascal in the
world. He was very conceited withal,
and used to brag of his business capac-
ity whenever any one was near to listen.
One lainy day, as quite number
were seated round the stove, he began,
as usual, to tell of his great bargains
and at last wound UP with the express
sion:.
Nobody has ever cheated me; no.
they can't neither"
Judge" said an old man of the
company, "I've cheated you more than
you ever did me-" "How so?" said
the Judge.
eff you'll promise you won't go to
law about it, nor do anything, I'll tell
you, or else won't; you are too much
of law character for me-"
"Let's hear" cried half dozen
voices at once.
"Ill promise" said the judge, "and
treat in the bargain if you have.
"Well, do you remember the wagon
YOU robbed me of?
ct never robbed you of wagon; !
only got the best of the bargain" said
the judge.
"'Well, made up my mind to have
it back, and -
"You never did," interrupted the
cute judge.
Yes. I did; and interest too"
Chow so?" thundered the now en-
ragged Judge.
"Well, You see, Judge, I sold you
one day very nice pine log, and bar
gained with you for lot more. Well,
that log I stole off your pile down by
the mill the night before, and the next
day I sold it to you. The next night
drew it back home and sold it to you
the next day; SO kept on till you had
bought your log of me twenty-seven
times"
"That's a lie!" exclaimed the infu-
rated Judge, running to his book and
examining the log account.
You never sold me twenty-seven
lors of the same measurement"
II know it," said the vender in logs;
"by drawing it back and forth the end
wore off, and as it wore kept cutting
the end off, until it was only ten feet
long-iust four feet shorter than it was
the first time I brought it-and when it
got SO short, drew it home and worked
it up into shingles, and concluded l
had got tho worth of my wagon back,
and slowed away in my pocket-book.
The exclamation of the judge was
drowned in tho shout Of the bystanders,
and the log-drawer found the door
without the promised treat.
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WILD Oars. too often hear the
remark made, in reference to some
spirited young man, spoken in pallia-
ton. ''He will be different by and
by''-perhaps oil the better Christian
in the end for his thorough knowledge
of the world. But this illustration IS
very unfortunate-peculiarly so. be-
cause there is such an intimate connec-
ton between the sowing and the reap
ing. We cannot think of such a thing
as a seed-time without harvest. They
are most intimately yes, indissolu-
disconnected in the natural world.
Not less are they SO in the moral.
I" Be not deceived; God is not mocked
for whatsoever q man soweth, that
shall he also reap" If men SOW wild
oats. they must reap harvest accord
ingly. ~
The young ladies' debating society al
Paris, Ky, have decided that bachelors
are a nuisance, and that it was the duty
of every member of the society to d(
her best to abate the nuisance.
81 Be deaf to the quarrelsome
blind to the scorner, and dumb to those
H. 1nnuIoStivn