The Ottawa free trader., 1884-03-01


the hens the slightest
"She wore black silk circular
saw her from afar
She stood with back towards me,
Awaiting for the ear.
Her dress was simply splendid;
| could see her shapely boot,
Her motion, grace and poetry,
As she poised upon one foot.
| SAW my fate before me.
And felt that must win her.
She turned Great Scott" yelled,
She's black--as Pm sinner"
John NJ. Rolin
Nine tenths of the people killed by the
recent cyclone in the south were negroes
John Sherman and his bloody shirt com
mittee must look into this.
II seems a little hard hearted TO joke on
s. serious subject, but the Columbus tOJ
Times couldn't lose the opportunity to say
that "Cincinnlti is not only the Paris OF
America, but the Saratoga of the west"
Such good watering place, you know.
Yes" said the Colorado statesman, look
ing down on the Senate, there ~ lom
Bowen, the best poker player in Colorado
one of the best in the world. You see
his cold, changeless face; he's got poker
Iface He always has good poker hand,
too Al least YOU think he has. Lots OF
nerve Tney say Of him out in Denver
that when he wanted four jacks once at
poker, and had but three, he quietly
dropped his fourth card and substituted
his photograph. He played 1t for jack,
too. | guess that was well on toward
morning. Bowen has quite poker in
come. He's like Pinchback of Louisiana.
asked a man about him the other day,
Doing we'll the man said. What's his
incomcY | asked About 100000, he re
piled. But he only gets $4,000 as Collec-
tor of the Port Yes he said; but his
poker income is fifteen or twenty thousand
year. His official income gives him
stakes"
He was a lightning rod peddler How
do you manage" said retired Ottawa
business man to him, "in travelling from
farm to farm in the country, to get along
with the savage dogs that stand guard at
the doors of SO many farm houses? =
Easiest thing in the world" said the
Knight of the copper point; 81 neither
coax or pat them on the head simply
take off my hat TO them, and invariably
they stink away. The philosophy of it is,
that the dog looks upon man as he does up
on dog or other animal, as unit or en-
tirety When take my hat off to him
take myself to pieces-take off my head,
as il were, to his crude perception, and
awed by what to him is miracle, he
sinks away" "Well, WELL" said the re
tired business man, laughing, "that eX
plains what to me has long been mystery
When | retired from business had large
number of unsettled bills outstanding
many of them in the country, and | made
occasional horseback trips to look them up
But these savage farm dogs were constant
trial TO me- One day had got into the
ycstibule of fine, large farm house, wher
to my horror at the door behind me ap
peared huge, grinning, ferociouS mastiff
ready to pounce upon me. In my despera
ton bethought me of my bills, which iol
convenience carried in my hat and by
the presentation of which had scared 81
many of my old customers; and taking OF
my hat | took ont "A bunch of the bills anC
presented them To the dog. To my amaze
ment he whipped his tail between his leg
and slunk around the corner as if shot AT
ALI we'll; | thought il strange the bills
though causing frequent tremorS on thei
presentation To men, should have had III,
same effect on their dogs. But you
philosophy explains il all Very glad Il
have met you Take suthin?
III. MAHDI.
In the Nile land, through the desert,
From Taioorah west To kOfod,
From III Charghh far To northward,
Reaching Ia the Lake NyanZa,
In the southwark of the river,
Does the name of great FL Mahdi,
Like II new railroad ton papcrl
Ramify to every portion.
, ranfcckcea, Gondokoro,
Walagiga, Menawashy,
Bir Bajuda, Bedesecyeh,
Towns ond mountains, rivers, valleys,
All in universal chorus
: Sound his fame and raise III Mahdi
: While the great False Prophet madly
, Raises FL without the Mahdi,
Though Nahdi must De very surely,
Thus to shake 10 its foundation
An the country of the Nile land