Telegram-herald., 1891-11-22

When this letter il printed the great
question of future greatness or future
shame and degradation in Ohio will
have been settled Ohio will have then
east the die and crossed the Rubicon.
Win she rise above the political horizon
purified and ennobled. TO take her place
among the great sisterhood Of progress
i've, prosperous and giorifed states, or
viii she hang her head in sorrow and
humiliation In tho ranks Of the lost and
undone. amid tho bleaching wrecks and
battered hulls Of broken and stranded
ships which line the bleak and forbid
ding shores Of time. This viii depend
: greatly ON what paper you take.
.. Findlay. O.. u essentially gas town.
- every one knows. spoke there four
years ago to crowded house. consisting
ok the gentleman who introduced me to
The audience and bright young janitor
% whom tho chairman in . few well
chosen words introduced me. / spoke
feeAngly 10 the tanitor. and / am told
that he went away = better man.
In tho course Of the evening q violent
haistorm broke loose over Findlay, O.,
and As there was low tin roof over the
stage, l could not hear q word that said.
30 did not enjoy the entertainment so
much Is usual. / went TO my hotel won
dering u had made myseR clear to the
jsnisor. and As wrote my press notice
for the moraing psper said to myself:
"Have I made . stride in the right di-
sectioni Hzvo purified and ennobled
this janitor who has been placed within
the sound Of my voice7"
Since then EindIay has grown from
l.0oo people 10 81, GEO. and from the good
work done with that gentle janitor has
sprung up IN audience that would have
sweiled she heart of Frank Sanger.
Time heels over . wound quicker than
one wousd think
Btndlay now has gas wells which make
the Old KAsg weu look tame. Though
fcw PEARS aeo the Karg was the wonder
a the world. now. by tae sids of recent
discoveries, she lo>ks Like the dim light
In which my young and trusting heart
was won by one eo whom / afterward
gave my hand in marriage. together with
my worldly goods, consisting OF the
good VIII of . newspaper which was
pretty generally dishked.
The gas which forms IN the earth In
and sboss Ohio would Indicate very
unsettled state Of a.isirs in that region.
am getting accustomed 70 the use OF
natural gas now, having been tn The Gas
region and competing with it. - l may
my. snccessfUlly for two weeks. % that
ss my hotei yesterday lighted my own
gas stove Ipxs . newvpsper IN the stowe
and then slowly tsvned sn the gaa, hav-
ing first sgnisssi the paper. had lighted
The pspe~. which was ono of The New
York Sunday papers. By ths way. and
while Was sususng On TIE - ne blaze
ven. out This left the ssyvs fall of an
employed gas. though eoah net 80 it.
heing httle nsarnghtsd saywsy. So
when did iight 10 sueps@1nlly thGs
came pleasing lss<le surpvise in the way
Of an explosion. which hflsd the air fall
ef specil Sunday ARTICLES fssm the paper
md drove ny hcta psiDDv int NJ iak-
ssaad cue Of sight.
One should fr very cs-efol In lighting
M gas stovs. or he mss burn Oh his
whs<l<ers aud thus become manned fer
Ne.
Aesdville. Pa. is . very thirty md
tctarssgue town n the western psf Of
he state. where lad the pleasurs az
pending tlse sabbath Il is . very busy
e~n. and Inhabited by thriving and
enpst eesrsecss aud kindly people.