Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-06-22
Volume XL.---No. 2.

slop bowl on the front steps and the
potted plants in the hall she wanted
to kill pa, and guess she would only
for the society of the delegates. She
couldn't help telling pa be was bald
headed old fool, but pa didn't retail
ate. He is too much of gentlemen
to talk back in company. All he
said was that woman who is old
enough to have delegates sawed off ON
her ought to have sense enough to tell
her husband, and then they all drifted
off into conversation about the con-
vention and the boxing match, and
everything was all right On the sur
face, but after breakfast, when the
deiegales Went TO the convention, no.
tlced pa went right down town and
bought new slop jar and some more
plants. Pa and ma didn't speak all
the forenoon, and guess they wouldn't
up to this time, only mas bonnet come
home from the milliners, and she had
to have some money to pay forit. Then
she called pa pet, that is twenty
five dollars. Dear old darling means
fifty dollars. But. say, those Christ
ian young men do heap of good,
don't they? Their presence seems to
make people better. Some boys down
by the store were going to tie a can on
"a dogs tail yesterday, and somebody
said here comes the Christrian Asso-
ciation,' and those bad boys let the
dog 60. They tried to find the dog
when the crowd had got by, hut the
dog knew his business. Well, | must
60 down and charge the soda fountain
lor picnic that is expected from the
country
Hold on minute said the grocery
man, as he wound a piece of brown
paper around a cob and stuck it in a
syrup jug he had just filed for Gus
toner, and then licked his fingers, i
want to ask you a question. What
has caused you to change SO from be-
ing bad? You were about as bad as
you make 'em up to few weeks ago,
and now you seem to have soul, and
get in your work doing good about as
well as any boy in town. What is it
that ails you?'
90, sugar, don't want to tell,' said
the boy. as he blushed and wiggled
around on one foot, and looked silly.
But if you won't laugh | will tell you.
1t is my girl that has made me good.
1t may be only temporary. If she
goes back on me l may be tuff again,
but if she continues to hold out faith
ful, | shall be a daisy all the time.
Say, did you ever love girl? 1t would
do you good. If you loved anybody;
regular off fashioned, the way | do,
people could send little children here
to trade, and you wouldn't palm 20.
any wilted vegetables on to them shot
weight. If you was in love. and felt
that the one you loved saw every act
of yours, and you could see her eyes
every minute, yoa would throw away
anything that was spoiled and not try
to sell it, for fear you would offend her.
| don't think any man is fit to do
business honestly unless he is in love,
or has been in love once. Now |
couldn't do anything wrong if tried,
because | should hear the still small
voice of my girl saying to me: Hen
merry, let up on that. [ slipped on a
banana peel yesterday, and hurt my
self; and was just going to say some
thiag ofiul, and | could see my girls
bangs raise right up, and there was a
panied look on her face, and tear in
her eve, and, by gosh, | just smiled and
looked tickled till her hair went down
and the smile came back again to her
lip, though it hurt me like blazes
when | struck the sidewalk. | was
telling pa about it. and asked him if be
over felt as though his soul was going
right out towards somebody and he
said he did once on a steamboat excur-
sion, but he eat lemon and got over.
Pa thinks it is my liver, and wants me
to take pills; but l tell you, boss, it
has struck in me too deep for pills,
unless it is one that weighs about a
hundred und forty pounds and wears
a hat with feather on. Say, if my
girl should walk right into burning
lake of red-hot lava and beckon me to
follow, l would take hop, skip and
and jump, and
%, give US rest said the grocery
man as he took basin of water and
sprinkled the floor, preparatory to
sweeping out. You have got the
worst case | ever saw, and you had
better 60 out and walk around the
block, and the boy went out and for
got to hang out any sign.