Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-03

and before he could get the mortgage on the south end of it recorded it was due on the north end {"
 A gentleman residing in Glasgow told me that he would not like to live in America or account of the cyclones. 'sThey must be intensely disagreeable. judge" said he. ''I was reading only the other day in an American paper about the immense power of suction they possess, sort of electric. imagine. for in this account it stated that a cyclone passed through large dairy fsrm in South Dakota and sucked the cows en- tirely dryl Marvellous, isn't it.''
 "Yes," said. "It must have been. ["
 And yet" he added thoughtfully as he poured out for himself another bowl full of Scotch whisky. which tasted like an old pair of smoke tanned buckskin moccasins, ''it is even more marvellous to read about the escapes which some people have from death in these phe- nomeua l saw not long ago in an American paper description of how a young negro was picked up bodily by one of these cyclones and hurled head first through brick college without injury He found. too. when he returned to con- sciousness, after passing through the college, that there was a diploma in his pocket. The account goes on to state that he still imagines that in passing through the college somebody tried to haze him. It is marvellous how these at mospheric phenomena work, is it not?'
 had to admit that it was. But had to catch a train and could not remain to tell him how hyperbole in America fur nishcd more phenomena than electricity.
 The author of this work on America comments sadly. too, on the mobs which are composed of ladies and gentlemen, and on page l10 describes mob that opened with prayer. This was in Bos- ton. They were the gentlemen of St. Louis, says the author. ''who burned the black man and banished the students of Marion college. They were tho gen tlemen of Cincinnati who denounced the abolitionists and raised the persecution against them. They were the magis- tratcS and gentry of Vicksburg who hanged wayfarcrs. gamblers and slaves in a long row. They were the gentlemen of Charleston who broke open the post office and violated the sacred functions to the insult and injury of the whole country.
 But this author should remember that those were the days when our forefa- thcrs were right fresh from England and had still in them tho spirit of the mother country. which led the gentry of England to burn down cathedrals and all such frolic as that. We know better now.
 While We aru on historical subjects take the liberty of offering here, in verse, an item of North Carolina history regarding the time when the old blue laws were more active than at present. The poem has hCcu carefully corrected as to spelling and grammar by ]. M.
 Fuller. IL. D. and Ph. D.. editor of The Cleaner. Asheville; price. 10 cents per
 annum. q mean that the paper is 10 cents. Not Mir. Fullcrl It is entitled: MERE THoUGHrs. An. how Time has mowci his millions Since the dnyS uf which l sI,'ak uf C'IrrlCSSlikc and sort of rCclSl,Ss- | MuwrSl the. g.,',sl and sparcd the wicked. | Lift the burtnrk and the thistle Whilst he slash'Sl the meek eyed violet, From his p,cll,t t"ul his whctstonc. Put edge ulH'n his falchiOn, And his blade sang in the moving | Whilst the wynd ll,'w through his whiskcrs IL was many. many autumns | Erc tho days of kupC Elias | When We had the nasty blue laws, and to kiss ones wife sunday Was against the dark blus' stItut,-~- | Stat1it in such c:Is, provided. I.if. was hardly worth the living. | And thvrc was a wrung impr,eSSiun | A tu whcth.. the Guod BCiny Had m atom of affection For the wrctchcd, wrrtched human | Hts inl unnflfs fnr his nmusfsmgut- | Mad,' in al unEuar,l,Ll moment. Then il was Napul,on Pangburn | Fractur,L one of these blue statutes | In n manner quite annoying. | Brulic the law and hurt his feelings, SnurCd his milk of human kintn,~Ss '. |! ;z| z..a,. l |AlzzN l |'WVFS'SS211ll7y | WITH FROFoI ND GRAVITY OF FACE. | Err. he had n chance tO skim 1t, | Left his milkhou=c lone and empty. | Lone and empty left the milkhouSe | Of his milk of human kindness, | Of the milk of human kindness | That was once Napoleon FanGbOrn's. | l.. amongst tho dark blue statutes | Lurk.Sl ti,' un, that tried Napoleon. It was made Ia punish swearing,
 And it made it quite expensive
 For a man who swore like ho done | When things seemed to 20 ngin him. | Then he d do some Offhand swearing,
 Something that betrayed his genius,
 Something that would hold one sI'cllbound | This it was of which I speak of
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