Daily Republican., 1883-09-05

He's AZ gay as Forest king:
For the God that made him ,hOws him
Praise and good In everything
i THE BAD BOY AND HIS pa
Peck's Sun.
What you sitting there ike a bum
on log for q asked the groceryma
of the bad boy, AZ the youth had sat ol
a box for half an hour, with his hand
in his pockets, looking at hole in III
floor until his eyes were set like dyin
horse. What you thinking of, any
way? 1t seems to me b Us set arOun
and think more than hey nsei tn whel
| was boy" and the grocelymal
brushed the wilted lettuce and shook i
and tried TO make it stand up stitf an,
crisp, before he put it out doors, but tn
contrary lettuce, which had been pick
al the day before, looked so tired tina
the boy Il, ticrd it,
| That lettuce reminds me of girl. -
Yesterday was in here when it was
new, like the girl going to the picnic
and il was as fresh, and proud, and
|
life, and AS sassy ~ a cir starting OUT
for a picnic. To-day it has got back
from III" picnic, AMI, ike the girl, the
starch is all taken out, and it is timber,
and langui'l, and tired, and can't stand
up alone, and il looks rs though il
wanted to be laid at rest beside the rot
ten apples in tn" alley, rather than be
set out in front of IA store 70 he sold to
honest people, and give them the gan
creme Of the liver" and the boy put on
n health commissioner air that fright
eDed the groceryman, and he threw the
lettuce OFT he back door.
"f"u never mind about my lettuce, -
said the grOceryman, can attend to
my affairs Blu now tell me what you
were thinking abOu, here all the morn
ing"
Il was thinking what fool King
Solomon was, said the boy with the
air of one who has made a statement
that has got 70 be argued pretty strong
to make it hold water.
Now, look a here" said the grocery
man, in anger, d" have stood it to have
you play tricks on me, and have listen
cd to your condemned iooiishness with
out murmur as long as you have con
fined yourself To people now living, but
when you attack Solomon, the wisest
man, the great king, and call him a
fool, friendship ceases, and you must
get out of this store. Solomon, in all
his glory, is u friend of mine, and no
fool boy is going 10 abuse him in my
presence. Now, you dry up -
80 Sit down IN iIu iun- ~ said Tho
boy TO the sroceryman. What you
need is rest. You are 'verworked. Your
alleged brain is equal to wlted lettuce,
and it can devise ways and means to
hide rotten peaches under good ones, so
as to sell them to blind orphans, but
when 1t comes to glasping great ques-
tons, your small brain cannot cOlnpre-
bend them. Your brain may 20 side
ways to a great question, and rub
against it, but cannot surround il, and
grasp II. That's where you are detorin-
ed. Now, it is different with me. II
can raise brain to sell TO you grocery
men. Listen. This Solomon is credit
ed with being the W se,t man, and yet
hls tory says he had a thousand wives.
Just think oft.
oo, ona and al ,,,a n.iy,,h'r. ha. On,
one, if they have had any kind of luck
Does not one wife make yOu pay a,,en-
ton? Wouldn't two wives b,eak yo
up? Wouldn't three causr: Won TO see
stars? How would tea strike Won .
Why, man alive, "Ju do not grasp the
OF Tie statement that Solo
mon had 4 thOuS sand wives a thou.
s'hS wives s'ahH'hS sac oy sac,
"on.d reach ABOUT i4ur blockS' March
ing by tours u "o''iu take theih twenty
minutes 10 pass given point. Inc
largest summer resort Motel oaly holds
about nVe Thousand people, so Sol,
would nave had 10 hire Two h"tel j. II he
took his wives out Tor day in the
country. If you would stop and thlnk
once in a while you would know mote. y
The yrocerynan' eyes had began TO
stick cut as the bad boy continued, as
the statistics had never been brought to
his attention before, but le was bound
to Sand by his Old friend Solomon, and
he said: " Well, SOlomcns wives must
have been different from our wives of
the present day.
" Not much, said The boy, rs he saw
he was paralvzing the groceryman.
. Women have leen about the same
.ver since Eve. She got ioafhed on the!
old original dude, Asd it stands to re,..
son that Solomon's wives wore no bette,
than the mother Of the human rack
Statistics show that one woman out Of
ten is red.headed That would Civ,
Solomon an even hundred red hea,is d
wives. Just that hundrtil red hea.l.,d
wives would be enough Ia make au rr-
binary man rhinl that there was a Il nd
that is fairer than this. Then there
would be,out of riie othsr,nine hunde ed,