The Ottawa free trader., 1890-06-07
MIN HB0uE TOWN.
DECORATION DAY.
She sets of her face
With n hit az Inca

And adorns her dress with ribbons gay,
While she looks so neat
And so very sweet
/ wish it always Decoration Day.
Chase and Campbell have been at 1T
again. | know IT,, because the Lima
(Ohio) Daily Republican says SO. 1t
doesn't mention either Chase or Camp
bell in person but it describes little
confidence game which bears their
ear marks. 1t was the same game they
played on poor old Fred Gleim. One
of them met James McGuire, OF Lima,
who had just sold his farm. They
came the three card tramp act on him.
1t worked beautifully, lost sister and
all, and when Mcclure opened the tin
box it contained only pair OF soX. Re
invested $1,000 with Chase & Camp
bell and he hasn't seen it since. He
won't, at least not for some time now.
Did a certain young Benedict ever
tell you how he was once shaved by a
woman? No? Well, he was down at
Senachwine for couple of weeks,
long before he became Benedict, and,
as there was not barber to be found,
soon accumulated somewhat OF a
beard. 1t bothered him terribly and
he had been chewing the rag around
the place for day or two when the
landlord asked what allied him.
''Oh, all enough" he growled; i've
got an eight-days' growth on my face. y
why, my wife can shave you; she
always ShaveS me-"
She shaved the young man. That
1DI oh hl
pulled the beard out by the roots and
that every swOOp of that terrible razor
left path of blood. He chewed nc
more rags. She never shaved him
again.
Frank Kendall bought a cow the
other day from farmer living west OF
town. The COW got out on Monday
and went back to the scenes of heI
calfhood. On Tuesday he overlook
her near Buffalo Rock. On Wednes.
day he located her down in Hess
second addition. On Thursday he
found her eating May apples on the
canal. Since then the COW has been
anchored to his back fence by means
of log chain.
Did you ever go behind the scenes
during the progress of play? Most
of you who never did. Most of you
never saw an actor in all of the hOr-
rors of his makeup away from the
fore of the foOt-lightS. Don't 'try to.
You won't like it. A venerable old
sire, in the glare of the foOt-lights, is
really young fellow with "a sack of
-four evenly distributed over his
countenance. A disSipated, middle.
aged man, is fellow with regula.
tion Apache war map face done in
brown paint. The old lady is study
in flour and old New England var
nish. No, don't 60 behind the scenes
if you would enjoy the play.
When an actor will follow a girl about
'Steen blocks and is then compelled to
see her take the arm of another fellow
and look back with saucy turn of her
head, have my thoughts, but they
are not sympathetic to the actor. l
think he is fool. Eth, Gilbert?
The Rev. Martin f. Cady, an unaS-
suming, quiet, well-meaning methO-
dist parson of Rockford, has suddenly
bounded into local fame, if not hot
water. He was called upon to preach
the funeral sermon of a member of the
G.. A. r. He had been good soldier,
good citizen and the kind-hearted IA
ther of family; but he had become
the slave of strong drink and died a
miserable drunkard. The honest par
son did not fail to ''imprOve" the Occa-
sion of delivering his funeral discourse
to ring in" scorching lecture on
temperance, enforcing his denuncia-
tion of the evils of drunkenness by
pointing to the awful example before
them. The comrades of the dead sol
dier, Mortified and indignant, were al
most ready to lay violent hands on the
poor dominic, whose sermon at once
became the town topic of reprobation.
The parsons explanation of his viola
lauiOn of the maxim againt speaking
i'll Of the dead is that he had solemnly
promised the dying man at his bedside
to preach such sermon at his fu-
neral.
The people of Granville were shock
ed on Monday to hear that Chas. Sick
niger, highly respected farmer living
near that village, had died suddenly
of poison. 1t appears he had been suf-
fering with tOOthache, and during the
night had been taking few drops of
laudanum at time into his mouth to
ease the pain from a four ounce vial.
1t is supposed he swallowed little
from time to time until he became un-
conscious and then drained the vial.
Tn tho p,nrpi N u he was SO far Uopa ha T.