The Portland daily press., 1878-11-13
THE statement is made that Buffers can
didacy cost him S225,O0O.
UNLESS care is taken GOODNESS will grow
up between Butler and Kearney.
The Ventilation Eiend.

He dresses always In manner peculiar to
his tribe, does the fresh-air idiot. He wears
two pairs of woolen stockings and heavy cork
soled boots; two suits of flannel underwear. q
chamois chest protector, double knit jacket, q
woolen vest, lined pantaloons that weigh about
eighteen pounds and are as impervous TO air
as a rubber blanket; double breasted coat. fur
gloves aud o seal-skin cap pulled down over his
ears. Thus attired, 1t is the delight of his one
ideal soul to meet you some bracing November
morning, and regard, with fixed stare and
wild howl of dersion, you in your fall suit and
light overcoat "Off with II, man," he yells
shifting his chest with his buried hands. "Off
with it'll Why, bless my soul, haven't worn
an overcoat for more than ten years What do
you want with an overcoat? Brace up, inhale
the fresh air; fill your lungs with it, till 1t
makes your nerves tingle with natural, health
giving glowing warmth. And be tries to drag
you OF for bleak walk down by the edge of the
rver and it IS all you can do to get away from
him, and when YOU do, he go.s off sneeripg at
men who can't bear a little bracing November
ar and have to mutfie mp 10 overcoats, and az
he goes perspiriBg down the street, YOU know
that if you muffled up in half the amount of
rsiment ne carries, you would smother 10
minute- lie bangs in upon you in your office.
LOU nave on a hight Office coat and your slim
pers, and your Office is warm and comforts BILE
La comes the man with the ventilation hobby
fresh from outdoor, mnffed to the ears as usual
w hooiF' be suorts. looking wildly around
him, what an ovenl Don't you know YOU
are killing yourself in here? WLewl this air
comes from lime-kiln. 1t dries up my lungs
Ike parchment" And he leaves the door
wide open. and torrent Of icy wind rushes ia
ana Dathes your slipDered feet in chill that
doesn't leave them for a week. he rushes
across the office and opens q window on
your back that makes you shudder hours
after you are asleep that night; he closes the
ofafss nd opens the stove door, and then sits
close behind it out of the draft he has opened
on you and tells you how warm aud comforta-
Die he is, and how he never permits his room
TO get so hot as yours vas when he came into
It, Hs deluges you with his twsodle about
fresh air and ventilation, and dOesu't 90 away
and let you make yourself com mfortsble until he
wloter, cost you 1926 for medical services, and
tnen Kill you in the Spring. He sits down BE-
side you 10 the railway car as soon as be sees
you take OF your coat, makes you sit next the
widow and then opens 1t on you. If he hears
you cough ne tries to pull off your muf1ers
lie runs bis fingers down your back to see if
you wear hannels, and hows his discovery in
derlsive accents to the bystanders, and makes
you feel uncomfortable and effeminate He
pursues you with chilling drafts and icy deluges
OF east wind. Hs is a nuisance of nuisances.
Wicked men swear at him Christians hate him
and humanity fears him and would like TO
kill him.-Builington Hawkeye.