Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-18
Clark's Strategy.

IT lS wise anu appropriate hpuOTlSm
that Experience is dear school, but
fools will learn in no other" Clark has
just received diploma from this cele.
brated institution of learning, and now
he sits in pensive meditation DER the past,
in his little room uptown, occasionally
relieving the dull monotony of the hours
by reading Esop's fables for the homely
morals they impart; and he is honest
enough to acknowledge that the delinea
tions of a certain long.eared animal are
most applicable to his case.
Clark "reckotied without his host" he
counted his chickens before they were
hatched;" he built his castle in the air"
He had q dream of love as beautiful as
an apple of gold set in picture of silver; I;
but when he grasped the fruit it crum-
bled to ashes. Poor Clark this was the
dream: He had been summerihg up in
Fulton County, and there met a golden
haired beauty, the very memory of whom
made everything seem like sunshine to
him. He adored pumpkins and dOated
on carrots, because they were so near
the color of her hair Her father was a
farmer, with broad acres and good bank
account; and Clark would stand, like
Moses, and view the landscape DER from
neighboring hillside, casting his wish.
full eyes DER the fair and happy land that
he hoped might yet be his possession, if
he could get the girl and the old man
would kindly step down and QUITO
the graveyard
Clark, by the way, aoas sentimental
youth, full of romance and poetry, but
without sufficient courage to come up
and stand flat-footed and say nice little
pointed things to the girl, so what he
lacked of brave heart to win fair lady"
he decided to make up by strategy. He,
| therefore, planned coup detdt as brill
| liant as one of Napoleon's campaigns /;
but, alas! for Clark, his Grouchy didn't
turn up as he expected and, like the i'll
fated Corsican, he, too, had his Waterloo.
He had read in his favorite romance OF
those loves that sprang from rescued
! life, or from watching beside the pale
sufferers couch, and his plan was formed
at once. He would walk slowly down
the dusty road in the hot sunshine and
fall from the effects of the heat insensi-
BILE before the home of his fair adored
! They would gather around him, tenderly
raise him up and gently bear him in, and
during the long days that he was slowly
recovering she would minister unto him
like an angel and read to him and sing
beautiful songs that would ripen the sen
ments of love; then, with beaming eyes
and thrilling heart, he would plead his
cause in glowing words and her head
would fall softly on his shoulder; ther
sighs and kisses and all would be we'll
Jack should have Gill and nought
should go ILL.,"
1t was we'll planned, but Clark in his
enthusiasm, forgot what old Bobby
had said of "the best laid schemes oil
| To mi
EXPRESSION, it didn't "pan out" well.
Unfortunately, the girl had just gone of
on a visit to some distant relatives, 81
when Clark came painting UP the no
road and fell and rolled over in his gooC
clothes In the dust, and kicked out spas
medically with his feet, the old farme
and his harvest hands came out ant
looked at him. The old farmer said h,
was drunk. This was rather discourag
ing to Clark; but he was equal to tn
emergency, and from the delirious wa,
in which he raised his hands to his heat
they decided it case of sunstroke, ant
taking him up by the arms and legs the,
, carried him into the house and stucl
him under the kitchen pump, while
: farm hand ran for the doctor. 1t was
courage worthy of better cause, tn
way Clark held still as the stream o
cold water gushed over him and soake,
his suit but knowing it was a desperat
J game, he played it well.
, Soon the old doctor came over to eN
: pertinent on the first case of sunstrok
: he ever had, and he determined that tn
country should resOund in praise of hi
, wonderful skill. He got Clark on tn
! bed and began TO lather his head pr,
+ paratory to shaving it as clean of ha
! as a billiard ball. This was MOI
than Clark had bargained for, an
: he began to wiggle; but he didn't CT
z many scallops, however, for four me
4 held him still while the doctor shave
. his head of every hair. Then, Will
a Clark groaned and tried to kick, old ~
]. culapius put a huge fly blister on IL
caput of his sunstruck patient, and, lea
b ing it to draw, he laid fine mustaI
d plaster Just under Clark's waistban
u while four men rubbed him with cras
! towels to get up a circulation. They g,
Z up the suspended circuit of the Wit
n fluid, as Clarks raw hide clearly inc
: Gated and his yells we're joy to the o.
@ doctors heart, for he knew his patiel
|. was out of danger, and leaving an oil
u cross-eyed woman to nurse the convale
. cent patient the doctor went home al
=, the farm hands to their work.
a Clark had borne all this terrible tres
lie ment, thinking the girl was at home, al
n that she would tenderly watch over hii
e but when he learned from the old wom'
l. that his beautiful adored had gone on
a two months visit he Topped out of tn
a bed and danced like Fiji Islander, al
N as soon as he paid the hundred-doll
n doctor bill for saving his life he got o
ID of Fulton County, He is at home no
te but entertains no visitors, HIS he
At looks like IA red billiard ball, and he
y very tender where the mustard plast
u NJ rested.-N Y. Dispatch.
es aS Notwithstanding its aim ost univ
se sal use in kindling fires, there are now
of hand 4. .000, 900 barrels of surplus pet