The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-02-04

'Tisn't hard to guess the rest
Ottawa, H., Feb. 8, 1855,
His hair was damp, and dank and thin
A stubby beard o'erspread his chin;
And he sat in the cellar. so dark and dim
But the sun didn't shine.
He pondered deep, with waning grin,
For suckers were getting almighty thin;
He saw not the glitter Of jingling tin
At ten cents a line.
And as he sat and pondered there,
His eyelids closed in slumber fair;
And his form bent low in the busted chair
Twas silent on the Rhine.
He dreamed of land in the far-away,
Where backsheesh bold and aspersion stay
And revenue editors hold their sway
At ten cents line.
Where the elections come each day in the
year,
And candidates in trembling fear
Made bold to ask of him good cheer
Oh! it was fine!
OF lucre in silver and lucre in gold,
Of candidates poor, left out in the cold,
And editorials wantonly sold
At ten cents line;
Awakened rudely from the dream,
How damp and drear the world does seem
Will chance soon come for ghouls to CLEAN!
Sometime!
For when mans friends catch on, you see
To the drift of his little campaign bee,
They vote as they please-a fruitless fee
This time.
Rose, batiled in his attempt to secure the
delinquent tax list by making it the price
of his support, now comes forward, and
generously makes a standing offer to dc
it for $3.50 As the tax list contains at least
one-half more matter than Norton's Finan.
cial Report of La sale County, and Rose
stoutly maintained at the time of its issue
that 5000 was cheap for that work, il
seems that he has changed his mind, and
by this comparison admits that the financial
report job was about $3.50 too high in
price. Of course it may be doing Rose an
injustice by calling attention to the com.
parison,. but we are not to blame, as we
have not seen the key to his scale of prices
Perhaps 1t was all right but it may be
interesting to know that the first consign.
ment of the Financial Report" as deliver
ed to the members of the Board had stiff
hard covers, of colored paper, while the
last or great bulk of them had covers of
common newspaper. This may have been
agreed upon, as the work was done Sc
cheaply, you know.
Since the closing of the Institute at Strea.
tor, We have investigated the charge of
drunkenness preferred against one of the
male teachers from La Sale, and find II
substantiated No criticism is too severe
for man who is capable of making such
a beast of himself. He should be dis
charged Immediately.
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SCENE.-The Giro uit Court room.
OCCAsroN.-The quashing of the Phin.
ney larceny indictment.
Tho Courf GVTh;o ,ba oo,a &c he
barber, isn't it,"
Mr.. Moloney-"Yes, sir"
Mr.. Madden, (mildly)-"tt was close
shave"
Mr.. Seeley-"Razor one."
Mr.. Blake-"He never would have done
it II he hadn't been strapped"
Mr.. Pat Carey-"What barbarous
deed"
Mr.. Moloney was carried out on stretch
er, but was revived by the Katy-did song
under his chin when his barber shaved
him.
Fred. LIE Roy, of the Ind. Times, was
called on the last petit jury. Fred. didn't
want to serve--he wanted to get off the
worst way. His plea to Judge Blanchard
was about this: Judge, must get off;
can't possibly stay, in view of present cir.
cumstanoes. Miller, the night man, is liza
BILE to break loose on the Q. road at any
moment, and should travel homeward