The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-08-30

man or whether ther is Il stran ger from
Louisville there, and | roll off toward
my peeceful couch at about II, and sleep
ez hev alluz done. Why, then, should
| dreem more now than | used to?
In my dreem last mite, methawt the
old giant, Dimocrisy, wuz trotted out to
be put in order for the regler four yeers'
race. His old grooms and hackers wuz
with him, but it looked ez tho by COM
mon consent they he'd turned over the
keer NV him to moo lot wch he'd him in
hand. There was George Wilyum Curtis
and the eddytur NV the Moo York Times,
and Henry Ward Beecher and lot of
fellers from Massachusetts, witch wuz a
eXaminin him critikelly and maxim seies-
tuns eZ to wat shood be done to improve
his condishn.
George Wilyum looked him all over
keerfully.
"There's too many spots on him, wuz
the remark.
"llere is very sore spot marked
Slavery, another 'Seceshn.' another
'Repooiiashen, another Free Trade,
another States Rites, and dozen 9th
ers, witch are positive blemishes. They
must be removed
"Iroo, sed the Massachusetts fellers,
but doubtlis they are only skin deep,
and kin easily be rubbed out The fust
thing to do therefore is to rub them out. -
"Eggsackly," sed Curtis. eve will
immejitly perceed to rub them OUT
The old hackers smiled sardonic
smile, for they knowd the giant better
than that, but they cheerfully furnished
brushes and consentratid lie and all sorts
of powerful soaps, and George Wilyum,
Mr.. Beecher and the Massachusetts, fell
lers went at it.
They applied the soap and the hot
water and they scrubbed at the spots an
hour or two, till they wuz out NV breath,
but it didn't somehow remove them. In
fact the frickshen made EN- shine out all
the more prominent.
They stopped and gazed at EN-.
Trooly," sed George Wilyum. 81 hev
scrubbed faithfully and hev ledoosed the
size NV the giant a inch, but the spot
remains ez doleiully plain ez ever
''Nerily," sed the Massachusetts fell
lers, ''the spots we hev bin workin at are
not eradicatid by no meens; on the con-
trary, they are even more disgustinly
visible to the nakld eye."
Then they commenst agin. The body
NV the giant wuz bein visibly redoost
under the operashen, for it seemed ez
tho all Their wuz NV him wuz dirt, but
the spots remained.
They wuz puzzled to know wat to
make NV it. Finally, Henry Ward Beech
er, witch he'd scrubbed more faithfully
than any NV EN-, took a pen-knife and
jabbed vishusly around the spot he he'd
bin workin at, and made an eggsamina-
shen, and threw down his brush and soap
in despair.
cts no ycosew wuz his breef remark.
'Scrubbin is in vane These spots are
not merely skin deep-7hcy 90 clear
Nrough."
''Troo," said George Wilyum Curtis.
Il hev made the same diskivery. Let us
cut EN- OUT
Then the old hackers interfered, and
prohibited it. EFF 700 cut EN- out, 700
kill the giant. It's born in the tlesh and
can't be eradicated. To eradicate the
spots wood be to eradicate the giant. It's
NV no yoose. 700 must take him ez he
is
The MASSACHUSETTS, fellers took one
good look and one smell NV the giant car
kiss they he'd bin workin at, and holdin
Their noses retired with CRATE rapidly.
George Wilyum Curtis and Henry Ward
Beecher tried to git away, but they he'd
permitted the giant to git grip onto EN-
and they coodent and they laid down be-
site him. Just then awoke
one knows better than do. The fact is
Dlmocrisy is Dimocrisy, and it amt
nothin else, We can't make it over or
improve it. Wat Dimocrisy wuz "a years
ago it is now, and it amt nothin else.
Horris Greeley tried to reform us, but it
ended in rooninin Uorris without dom
us any good. We are now tryin to h ide
behind Cleveland, but Cleveland is 700
thin, and the people see through him.
Behind him is the same old carkiss
George Wilyum Curtis and Henry Ward
Beecher and them fellers are tryin to do
suthn with it, but they can't undo facts
or change the uacher Nv the animal. Di-
mocrisy is Dimocrisy, no matter who is
in the saddle or who is engineerin the
race. It's one and indivisible, alluz the
same and eternal Eff we Good only lay
down and die and be born agin, or suthin,
it would be encurridggin; but no matter
wat cloak we put on, or wat we profess,
it's the same cd cancer, which kills
everything IL ooucneS.
| am afraid | shell never sit in that
postoilis agin, nor will Deekin Pogram
toast his shins at the cheerful CRATE in the
Collectors offs. Our strength is our
week.-mrs.. If we don. It stay Dimerkratic
we amt nothin and if we do stay Diner
kratic we are killed. We can't 60 over
to the Republicans for wat chance wood
we hev there, and to stay by ourselves is
starvashen.
| am going to call Convenshun to
make compromise with Blaine. | am
goin to offer him the privilege Nv runniu
the Government eff he will permit us to
hold the otfises. Ef he declines this, our
case is hopelis indeed.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY,
(Like Bunyan in Prism
How Canned Goods are Poisoned.
Rochester Post ErpreSS.
\ good many persons have been pois-
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