Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-01-03
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sold SHE PROPOSES A REFORM
FOR BLAINE.-Old ST waded through
Blaine's speech with the patience of
martyr.
ION de face OBJ de returns," said he, 'sez
lade down in his speech, de niger hez los
his grip on freedom, ter be shop
sit does look rough when you don't care
what you say.''
''Dat's hit! But den, yer mus skuse er
man OATS been sun stToked an run ober
on de way ter de White House by de whole
State OBJ Ohio! Yer heZ ter make 'lowences
for dis man, kase he's jess paddlin' round
searchln' for er onokerpied life-persarver."
''You don't agree with him, then?''
swell, T does in de konklushun, but,
yer see, I don't cline up ter hit de same
way he do!''
''How is that?''
"Why be SEE dat somefn's got ter be
done, an done in er moughty hurry, else,
why dar won't be huff ni4g gers votin' in
dis country ter leckt DELIGHTS ter er kon
yenshnn 'g1nst de hog law! OATS what
l SEE myself But. den, tain t no use ter
say dat hits 'kase dar's bull-dozin' an en-
timerdashun-d done played out long
ago!''
ssWhat is the cause?7'
de prinserpul cause are Diet freedum
foch on taxes, an IF yer don see de tax
kollector, de managers at de ballot-box
kant recognized yer nohow. Somehow er
'nudder, yer seems not ter be yerseff! An
jes so long ez de niggers buys mo- Ticker
dan he do tax receeps, jes so long is dis
'skrepency 'gwine ter pear in de 'leckshun
returns!'
'fThat sounds like sense.''
s'Dat's what hit is-mark dat! An eff
Mister Blaine, er emmy udder oh dem
'publicans wants ter see niggers swarmin'
at de polls down hyar. all de got ter do are
ter envent Ell mefsheen ter pay niger
taxes wild, an 'stribute dem round thoo
de Soufi Ontel den de tax collectors is
gwine on wild de bulldozn'. Year heah
mel"
BnLING1SM.-Therei is no general rule
for happiness; man heZ tn be measured
for hiz happiness jist az he duz for hiz
boots, and even then he don't always get
good fit.
Joy will make man change ends quick
or than sorrow.
If man don't find ennything else that
he liz fit for, like to see him carry gold
headed kane.
Pitch in yung man, he'd fust. and rekol
lect this, the world don't owe yu but l
thing, until yu have earned it, and that il
square phuneral.
Experience liz good teacher, but she IL
dredphull slo one. before we git haff
thru her lessons the bell rings. and we are
summoned to judgment.
I luv rooster for two things. One il
the crow that il in him, and the other il
the spurs that are on him to back up the
crow with.
If you expekt tn have yure opinyuns re-
spekted mulch amung men yu must keep
them backed up with at least quarter NV
amillyun.
1t takes live man to do bizzness now
DAYS. Idon't care if you have got copy
ov the bible to sell, you have got to talk it
up strong.
The CRATE mistake that menny make,
they seem to think they wuz made before
the world wuz, instead of since.
I notiss that when man runs his he'd
aginst post he cusses the post fust, all
kreashun next, and sumthing else last, but
never thinks ov cussin himself.
The goose. like all other phools, alwaze
seems anxious to prove it.
TEMPERANCE LECTURE ON THE RAIL.
-sTwenty years ago." said the passen-
ger with the red ribbon in his button hole,
st knew that man whom you saw get off
at the last station. He was young man
of rare promise, college graduate, man
of brilliant intellect and shrewd mercantile
ability. Life dawned before him in all the
glowing coiors of fair promise. He had
some money when be left college. He in
vested it in business and his business pros
nerei. He married beautiful young girl,
who bore him three lovely children"
The sad-looking passenger, sitting on
the wood-box: "AI at one timer"
The red ribbon passenger: mo, in
hiennial instal]ments of one. No one
dreamed that the poorhouse would ever be
their home. But in an evil hour the
Young man yielded to the ternpter. He
hogan to drink beer. He liked it and drank
no drank and encouraged others
TO drink. That was only fourteen years
ago, and he was prosperous wealthy man
To-day where is her.
The clergyman in the front seat, SOL
emnly: ssA sot and beggar."
The red ribbon man, disconsolately:
son no: he is member of Congress and
owns brewery worth $4,000"
sometimes it will happen that way
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