The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-06-08
RAIN.
j. II. NJ.

Hark, the patter of the rain!
1t is pouring down again;
Hear it dripping dripping, dripping from the
How the storm-wind shakes the shutters!
While the dissant thunder mutters
And the lightning through the murky night-air
cleaves.
Hear the dashing of the rain
AS it beats against the pane!
Now tits whirling, whirling by in ftful showers;
Though, in heavy volumes pouring,
On the tempest it is roaring,
1t has come to add new beauty to the flowers.
Like evil SPIRIT vain,
Comes the rushing of the rain,
Dashing, splashing, on the firm and solid walls;
And, like evils, unavailing
When the walls of right assaling,
1t is backward hurled, and harmlessly it falls.
Just beyond the falling rain
There brighter skies again,
And the morning light will inge the clouds with gold
Though at present shadows hover,
Soon the darkness will be over,
And the cheering light of day again unfold.
Like the gloomy, chilling rain,
Come our days of care and pain,
And we tremble, tremble, with awful dread;
Yet from one who rules above us,
And VII never cease to love us
On our gloomy hearts precious light is shed.
Though there comes the evil rain
Falling our social plain,
Inough malignant clouds obscure the nO0n-day
Like the blooming of the flowers
After fercely beating showers,
Bursts forth the sign ofTRIUMPH FOR THE RIGHT.
WAS it the same man who struck Bill Patterson
that struck the Pond Bill?
HAD Scott shoemaker in his mind when he wrote
the slay of the last MINSTREL"
DECORATION DAY was, in many places, indeed
Decoration Day.
NEW paper in Chicago is called 'Cheek." 1t is
supposed that nothing will ever break it.
MAN is hardly ever so forgetful as to carry eggs
in his coat tail pocket more than once.
SURFACE indications are not always best. The
wisest heads not those that have the most hair
upon them.
MANY feels it to be his duty to truckle to the
doggery-keepers, and to intemperance, generally.
Just as dog loves to roll in carrion.
IF man attack you, keep your mouth shut-let him
do all the talking and he will convince himself
that he is listening to scoundrel and an ass.
WHAT wonder that the topper with the turn-u up nose
got mad when small boy praised him by saying that
he was brave man, and ''ncrer O~crsd his cOtorsf
AN Ohio man sued School Teacher short time
ago for taking jack-knife away from his But
he took the jack-knife two years ago. and forgot to
return it.
BEFORE the decision of the Supreme Court, some of
the citizens of Ohio grieving that they could
not get beer enough to fill their stomachs. Since the
decision these same citizens grieve that their tom
achs are not capacious enough.
GEN. ABE BUFoRD lectured in q Louisville theater
the other night, taking the ground that churches
should encourage horse-racing. He Informed the
people that he Joined the Church because of its ped-
gree-Sire the Holy Ghost, dam the Church at Jeru-
salem
THE "Dunkardsr held camp meeting at Brook
Vile, Ohio, last week. when members of this
Church meet they hug and kiss each other" says
report of the meeting Then the tantalizng reporter
goes on to say that many of the members pretty
| maidens." Here goes, to join the ''Dunkards."
AN editor out West blackguarded a brother editor
for long time, when the latter retorted that the el
low like the skunk that wraps its odorous
tie of fog about its disgusting person and says f
can't out-write you, cal out-stink you!''
THE dignity of the National House of Representa-.
tives upheld one day last week by quarrel be-
tween Springer, Democrat of Illinois, and Speaker
Keifer. Springer literally sprang out of himself the
Members began to wonder who would Keifer Spring
er now when Proctor Knott arose and said that the
ruling was not right. The Speaker admitted that he
not certain but that Mr. Knott not altogether
wrong. 1t was Knotty wrangle at best
HE was walking leisurely along, this weather
prophet enjoying the sultry breezes and occasionally
casting wise look toward the dark blue clouds tina
foated suddenly about the sky.
"Do you think we will have rain to-day? 2" ash
ofhm.
the skies thoughtfully for long time, then replied
with great fmness: 'tNo! Not to-day.'
Two hours later that weather prophet might have
been seen rushing wildly through the peting storm
his coattail turned up over his new hat, while Wig
orous stream of rainwater trying to find its way
to the Mississippi River by way of his spinal column