Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-09-07
w. C.. r. U.
This Co'umnis Edited anderthe Direction
ofthe w. G. Z. Union. OF Perrvsbu
A PoSTSCRTPT.
Cynthia Ann NnSby on the Polltlcnl
Situation.

| Uncle Sam failed 10 deliver ii.-Ei.1
DEAR Union SiGNAL:-Whcn see
hadn't wrote . cents worth postage, |
waited TO get back from Shekawgo, aud
tell how we come out there.
We wanted Brother Griffin, chairman.
but they said every little schoUl-huuse
temp'rance crater IN the party wns telling
what the Republicans done IN Kanaas, aud
1t was to give Californy show, pertikirel.
ly as they brought their own likker, in
stead OF DRAWN on the convention for 1t.
a dozen Of us made II look as lively Ms we
could at the aunti-ssloon headquarters
between neetins. Once in awhile we went
over TO the resolution shop where they wns
making the platform. Brother Griffin
he'd job there, and he was always whit
tim, but noticed whenever he handed
ennything in, the boss lay il on the table,
and il wasn't used. Feared like they was
jest letiin' him amoose himself.
Brother Carroll carried our plank over,
and Mr.. Farwell laid it on the table with
Brother Griffin's whittlin's, sayin' as he
did 80 "1'm jes' as good a temp'rance
man MS there IL, but we amt here for temp'r.
dnce we're here tor party success"
When we get into the White House and
Cabinet, they'll be thar, for temp'rance,
expect. Brother Carroll told 'em it would
strengthen the platform to put it in, but
the delegate from Arzony and some others
didn't agree with him.
Moral swayshun is good, but IL don't
ailus work. When my Jeems Allen was
13, l said to him :"Now, son, yon're too
old and too big to be licked. Hereafter
I shall let that young hickory by the barn
grow, and 1 will appeal to your moral
sense"
The change that came over that bow
was astonishin'. He honeyed round me
JeS' the same as ever, but coodent depend
on him to do nuthin', even II he promised
Finally, one Sunday went TO help Law
out a woman that had died about 8 mile
off, and left him to perfect the home,
his pa want never there. SalOon-keeper
Bascom's old sorral mare run the road :;
she coodent jump nore'n | can, but she
had trick of leanin' up ag'inst fence
till she wood push off one board to a time
and get IN. None Of Bascom's customers
had good fences, and ours was very POOR.
When got back, two lengths lay fat.
Appearantly the old mare had took every-
thing top of the ground, and Ike Gavitt's
SOW and pigs had finished the job; the
onions was all twas left. ] jes' went ont
and trimmed mp the hickery tree, sayin'
TO myself, we'll try change of admin
i'tration." About sundo wn Jeems Allen
come home fetchin' punkin seed bass and
sinners on string, and lookin' as it he
owned the place. Ses l, "Son, take of
your blowse." Ses he, "What for, moth
er" Ses /, were're goin' to hev new
party here Tonight" warmed that boy
till he didn't feel the need of blowse, and
| told him wood wollop him till he was
81. IL he didn't mimi without. Next day
| hired him out to Jo Bigler for his bored
and what garden sass could use till
school begun In the fall, and it was the
maxim OF him never had to lick him
sg'in, cause lie knowed wood If he de-
served il.
Mebbe can't handle resolution COM
mittee, but kin raise boy, without no
help from his father, either. Look at
Jeems Allen! conductor on the Haze
Brush Branch raie rode, with a vote tharll
count fer AZ much IA BIaine'S, besides
his inioonce with the engneer-he's 8 his
own breakesman. Lots of prayers aud
kisses, with some green hickory done it,
neither one alone won't make a good boy.
When was in Shekawgo I slaid with
Cousin Adamses folks. The morning after
We carried in the aunti.saloon plank, /
woke at daylight awful dry aud slipped
out IN the hall 10 get me drink. Il was
hot enuf for st. LewiS, so their bedroom
door was open, and there lay John Adams
dressed and snorin' gone to bed with his
boots on, aud hrs wife settin' in chair
by him with her back to the door. | waa
80 still no boldly heered me, and twice
while stood there abe kissed his hand
and laid her forehead on his arm; when
he stirred, sle raised up and tanned him.
1t riled me the more because il's been goin'
ON for 10 years. There was a great place
on the back. ..ot her neck where the skin
was gouged out, and il had been 3eedin'.
| cood-ut stand II, and went right in to
her, and zee there WAS blood on the ends
OF two fingers and nnder the nails of the
hand she'd been kissing, aud knowed
how il cum there, Ses "Phebe Ad,m~
you're n fool Why don't yon leave that
~ ~ ?-ea-y rs divorces il here T.
She turned such face to ME, that l
louked right ont to see il the sun had ris,
hnt 1t hadn't. That light spread down
over hls gown ill il wasn't like tho white
ness of earthly linen, aud the little silk
shawl across her lap and bare feet, glitter
ed like a white sea gull In the sun Sas
she "The Savior bids us love as lie
loved. What II His love had tailed when
lie WAS forsaken, denied, Reourged, cruci-
fed? What II He had called in the
legions oil angels then aud left ns 90
"He knowel there was good stuff IN Pc
ter" says 1, "if he did sware at Pilates
hired girl, and 'lwood work out after
awhile" Ses she, and the bright cloud
was on her all the while, "The best tim
ber that was ever put IN man il here in
Jack. His finest feelings have been hard
ened by alcohol, but the Lord Jesus knows
how to soften 'em oh, you don't know the
glory that's to be revealed in Jack when
all my prayers Ia answered"
Just then huckster boy went by
smgn', "SwIng low, sweet chariot"
looked at her, little and frail, and then at
the great hulk on the bed. "Yon'll die
frat Phebe,"