The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-05-20

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least, altogether removed. Even te
tanus, or lock jaw, has been subduet
by it, and in two instances, of an ex
trerne kind, so effectively as to war
rant the credit of what may be truly
called q cure.
THE TRUE STORY OF MORGAN
Batavia, my friends said the fat
passenger, sis the home of the late la
mented Mr.. Morgan. Mr.. Morgan, in
his day, was goat rider of consider.
able celebrity. But he went back on
the goat. Here ia the Office of the Ad-
vocate, one of the weekly papers OF
Batavia. In this print shop, in the
days of the Advocates ancestor, Mr..
Morgan printed book, and told all
about the bad habits, the deceltful
tricks and the bad ways of the goat.
He gave the frolicsome animals Of the
Lodge away bad, He described his
amusement; he told how he did it and
what he called it. He just told all
about, and literally took the goat by
the horns, which, Mr.. Morgan ayerred,
were not the only kind of horns taken
in the Lodge.
1.-The detected animal brooded over
his wrongs. He felt that Mr.. Morgan's
offense was rank. 1t couldn't have
been much ranker than the goat, but
the goat didn't think Of that; he only
thought of revenge. He had his re-
venge. One summer night the goat
backed out of his closet, got out of q
window in the Lodge-room,sli slid noise
lessly down the lightning-rod a few
blocks further on. That very night
the doomed and recreant Brother
Morgan was out taking q walk in the
starlight. The great exposer strayed
carelessly down one street and another,
his hands clasped behind his back and
his head bent in thought. AS hewalk-
ed with an uneven gait, his back sway
ed to and fro with what an ordinary
geat might consider challenging ges-
ture. He did not look around and SO
he did not see terrible figure that
folio we'd him. A gloomy, threatening
fearful shape-a part of the night, but
not of it. Now aud then, as it came
close to Mr.. Morgan, it would raise
itself up in the air with its head bent
down, as though in mockery of its
victims attitude and for brief second
it would retain this attitude, looking
in the gloom like a shadowy letter S
with legs. Then it would let down
and pause to eat circus-poster, and
after having finished this frugal lunch
it would hasten on after the doomed
Morgan.
"By and by, the traitor stood on the
bridge oyer the Towanda. He folded
his arms, crossed his legs, and leaned
easily on the parapet. AT this instant
the goat ran up to short range, un-
limbered, and went into battery, action
rear. He Strengthened himself up like
lightning-rod, then he curved himself
into an interrogation.point, then he
shot himself out straight horizontally,
and came down in one time and two
motions.
"He butted Mr.. Morgan. He only
butted him once but once was all the
bill called for. 1t was an immense
success. The doors weren't open ten
minutes before the house was crowded
room all gone, and the last
man that came in had to leave his cane
outside. The goats neck cracked like
tornado with the conclusion, ,and it is
on the records Of the lodge that he
wore a porous plaster on his back for
the next two weeks. Nothing like it
ever happened in his family since his
great grandfather hired him out to
Augustus Caesar for a Roman catapult.
"As for Mr.. Morgan,he was amazed,
and pined and disappointed. Disap-
pointed becouse he could not die right
away, and be done with it. He was at
loss to know just what had happen
ed, and was surprised that no one else
felt the shock of the earthquake. When
he landed against the side of noun
tain, about four miles the other side of
the creek, he began to realize the ter
rible truth. He was seized with an
intense sickening fear of all goats, and
no wonder. The next day, when he
was standing at the mantle-piece eat
ing his dinner, he laid his hand on his
heart, which had been knocked clean
up into the back of his neck, and took
q solemn oath that he would go where
he never again could see, hear, feel or
smell q goat-especially feel. Mr.. Nor
gan seems to have been a man who
didn't have any too much regard for
the sancity of an oath, but circumstan-
ces assisted him in keeping his vow.
He started to escape from the pres
ence of goats the next day.
Naturally when he hid himself
from the nod of the headstrong and
erratic goat, he disappeared from the
eyes of men. He couldn't help it,
Wherever he found men, there were
goats. If he slept in stable, the goat
was there, breathing sweet perfume
from his cashmere locks. He found
them on tho dreary mountain side,
fattening OH the dried moss of CEN
turies. If he went to the crowded
cities the goat, while he solemnly
chewed bits of twine and tomato can
labels, looked at Mr.. Morgan convivi-
ally, as who should say, Brother Nor
gan, you have my eye II he went
out into the painless desert, the goat
met him and Hospitality invited him
to 'have cactus And so he fed,