Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1891-12-01

when this letter Il printed the great
question ~ future greatness % futur.
shame aud degradation Ia Ohio will
h.y. l.-n s.ttl.d. Ohio will have then
cas-, the ~, and cru~ss'i the Rubicon.
VIII she RI. above thu political horiIon
purih.,l and ennoble.l. Ia take her place
among the grra, sistcrhoDi - progrc.s-
i've. pr,~p-rOns And glorhcd staie-, OF
will she hang her head Ia sorrow and
humiliation In the rank. ~ tho lo-, aud
nndone. amid the bleaching wrecks and
battered hull. ~ broken aud stranded
ship, which lin. the bleak and forbid.
ding .hor,- - tims' This will dep-nd
grraily on what paper yon take.
Fiudiay. o.. !. essentially "A. town.
q. every on. knows. I.poke there four
year. ago D. crowded hous-. consisting
o., the gentleman who introduced me to
,h. audience and bright young janiior
to whom the chairman Ia . few well
cho-.n worl. intruluc-l m.. ! spoke
fc.lingly to the jAniior. and ] am told
that b. went away q l-itsr man.
In the cours. ~ the evening violent
hail.iorm hrok. loo~- over Findlay. %. 4.
anil ~ there was low tin rOof over the
siagr. could not hear wori that aid.
~ did NO, enjoy the entertainment -
much a. usual. went a. my hotel won
d.rius u had male my-clf clear 10 the
janii0r. and a. wrote my pres notice
for the morning paper ! aid % MYSELF
Have mad. stride In the night di'
rrctiOni Have purified aud eunobled
this jsnitor who has b-.n placed within
the souni - my voicc,-
Since then findlay ha. grown from
i.cco I..ople % O.cco. aud from the good
work done with that gentle ianiior has
sprung up an audisncs that would have
swellsl th. heart oi Frank Sanger.
Time heals over q wound quicker than
one would think.
fndlay now has gas well. which make
the old KArg well look tame. Though a
few year. ago the Karg was the wonder
oi the world. now. by the side of recent
discoveries. she looks like the dim light
In which my young and trusting hear,
was won by one to whom ] af,erwsrd
gav. my hand In marriage. together with
my worldly goods. consisting % the
gool will % newspaper which was
pretty generally dislike,l.
The gas which forms In the earth In
ani about Ohio would indicate very
unsettled state % affairs In that region.
am getting accustomed 20 the uss of
natural IA. now. having bren In the gas
rrgion aud competing with ~, as may
say. successfully for two weeks. - that
q, my hotel yesterday ] lighted my own
gas stove. Iput anewspaI-r In the stove
AMI then slowly turned on the gas, hay.
ing fir-i igni,ed the paper. ihai lighted
the paper. which was one Of the New
York Sunday paI-r, by the way, and
while ! was turning on the gas the blazs
went out Thi. left the stove full OF un.
employed Gas, though I could not see IL,
being a littl. nearsighted anyway. SO
when ! did light 1t successfully there
rame pleasing little surprise In the way
~ an explosion. which hlled the air full
~ special Sunday articles from the paper
and drove my hotel pillow into the ink
stand out Of sight.
One should be very careful In lighting
the gas stove. OF he may burn on his
whiskers and thus become maimed for
life.
Meadyille, Pa, Is q very thrifty and
picturesque town In the western part OF
the state, wher. I had the pleasure Of
spending the sabbath. II IL ~ very busy
town. and inhabited by thriving and
most courteous and kindly people.
II was here. I think. tina, ! heard Abou,
an abseniminded consumptiye who lu-
brica,ed his buggy all summer with cod
liver oil and do-ed himself with frAzer's
AL. grease. When I saw him he was
Improving rapidly.
Mr.. Burbank. who goes with me In
order 10 give an air of mirth and humor
10 our show, an air which u sAily needs
At times. ! think. is taking cod liver oil
too. Il is In = new form. The oil is con-
ceAled In flexible capsule about the siss
of thirty cent watermelon. Now and
then he asks me 10 join him In social
CAPSULE, but - far have not allowed tie
habit 10 fAsten itself upon me. The cap
suls IL % the shape aud consistency Of .
hens egg that has no, ~ yet had the shell
put ON H. Possibly the reader has seen
the Plymouth Rock roe In that condition.
The patient throws back his head. tosses
this cold. dank mas against his palate,
and with . sinuous movement OF the
neck. ~ an ostrich would swallow q
door knob OF q drowned colt, he takes
his cod liver oil capsule.
Cod liver oil IL not the most appetisins
thing I oan think Of anyway. but In this
new form IL seems 10 me too much like
swallowing some Of the campaign stats
tics which have heard secretly.
I presume that every one who wntsl
pieces for publication receives moro %
les In the way Of correspondence pro %
con. and . good deal Of IL IL evidently thu
work Of indolent or morbid minds, bal
now and then letter that u not only
gratifying. but full Of idess. relieves ths
monotouy.
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