The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-03-13

charge Nv Mrs. McPH3tBr, who can tlrinl X,
OWN TO her hevin no stomach whatever
to speek NV, and she wnz charged to put
it under lock and key. and to git it out
for nobody onless we all wuz present, SO
that there Good be no adFantaEe taken.
This being done, they all took one sniff
one wich wood sustain EN- for an hour,
and went to the lekter, levin me with
Bascom.
Eight and nine passed, but not one NV
! EN- comet TO his old familiar place. Bas-
com wuz Uneasy. i took suthin hot with
him twice or three times, and talked nv
| the weather and things, but they. came
not Finally, at 81 they entered, lookin
grave and solemn.
aDeekin, McPelter, Issaker, viii yoo
take suthin,e sed i, displayin a dollar
note wich the Deekin he'd given me for
the purpose.
"Nol' sed the Deelxin, HI am not shoor
about drinkin. hex listened to pow
erful discourse about it to-nite, and hev
mostly made up my mind to try and quit,
eff / kin"
"QuitT' sed Bascom in amazement.
''are yoo crazy7'
81 too hev made up my mind to quit"
sed Issaker, and McPelter echoed him
Good mite Bascom" and we all went out
together to McPelter's, where we made
the jug consumptiye
Bascom was thoroughly alarmed The
next mite he put up a sign in his vinder
"Likkers is free here till further notis,
wich stood and read to the people, who
but for me never wood hev knowd it.
That mite the lectrer lectered, but it
wuz not to US. Bascom worked ez he
never worked before. The Deekin went
down first, Issaker next, McPelter next,
and finally suecumb bed. By this time
the Deekin wuz sober, then Issaker, then
McPelter and then me and so on till we
wuz all thoroly exhausted at about one,
when we quit ISIS
The same scene was enacted the next
mite and the next, and for week. Bas-
com wuz neerly rooined, but wuz restor-
ed by the announcement that the next
mite wood be the last. Then that wretch
ed lectrer's life wuz made miserable. He
ewuz at Pollock home, and. from early
morn to dewy eve he wuz besieged by
sich another host NV inebriates ez he nev-
er saw before in all his days, with en-
treaties to go on.
go on" sed the Deekin, "go on"
How kin 700 reconcile it with yoor dooty
to leave the Corners, and me in danger
NV goin down to drunkard's grave l
amt reformed yet-go on"
And McPelter, Pennibscker, Issaker,
and hundred more who he'd he'd all
they wanted for week. and wanted it TO
continyoo, begged him with tears in their
eyes to 60 on in his good work.
But it wuz no avail-he left and Bas-
com pulled down his sign and ikker he'd
to be paid for agin at the Corners.
The next day I met Joe Bigler.
He'd good time, haven't yooY sed
he
"Exoellent," sed I. wood it Good hev
continyood."
"Parson," sed this aggravatin Joe, 81
did this for three reasons. First-I spos-
ed that a week Nv unlimited supplies
wood kill the entire assortment of 700.
Second-I sposed that in q week yoo
wood break up Bascom, and third, we
wanted to organize the niggers into a
temperance society, to keep em from be-
comm sich loathsome obiecks as 700 are,
and didn't want to be interrupted in the
work. We hev only succeeded in the
last item. Bascom hez more money than
we spOsed he he'd. and yoor bowels
kin endoor more than sposed they Good.
/ hev been lenient with whiskey-I hev
sed that whiskey hez yooses. l told Pol
lock last week that ez whiskey wuz the
only thing that Good kill Nasbys and Po-
grams and sich, that it wuz not bad
thing to hev. But now that find it
won't do it-that it's only good men that
| it kills. shell fite it ez an unmittigated
cuss without any redeemin feechers.
am its enemy from this time out"
And he went away latin Vociferously.
Life isn't ez roseate now ez it wuz door
in that week. But thank Heavin the
recolleckshen NV that week never kin be
talxin- from me. 1t Yuz Heavinly. That
it may be repeated, / am. at the sejestion
NV Deekin Pogram and Issaker Gavitt, in
correspondence with all the temprance
leckters in the country. We want tenn
| of GnPnnrG
\ Temperance banner must be upheld at the
/ Corners.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
(Which wuz Postmaster.