The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-09-29
o, Sweet Refrain.

A veiy impromptu meeting of the
board of library trustees was held
Monday evening, and there were
present no members except the
President l.. ID. Vickers and Secre-
tary DOllison. The other members
were sighted, not being notified.
The president and secretary eager
ly discussed and cussed affairs in
general, until the sidewalk where
the meeting was held, was crowded
with an earnest audience. The
president called the secretary all
kinds of unrighteOus names, and
threatened to kill him out right.
The crowd about, knowing that the
president-postmaster was pretty
handy at killing, and all having a
burning love for the infamous cur,
set about to each gather up brick
or two, to punctuate the argument
or puncture his tire. They were
seemingly itching for just one
swipe at his block, but their itch
ings were left to still itch, as the big
bunch of bluff sneuked off like the
cowardly cur that he is. The crowd
Kissed him as he skulked away,
and audibly dropping their bricks,
kicked themselves, because the op-
portunity passed to use his bag of
wind for foot ball.
So the postmaster is going to kill
DOllison is he? O, sweet refrain.
Sing without lining. We are a
poor, slim consumptive anyhow,
and that would so pleasantly put
us out of our misery. The good die
young, all editors die early. And
then the sweet knowledge that a
lynching bee is already formed in
Logan for the postmaster, makes a
martyrs death so pleasant. The
lion and the lamb go down together.
The law-and-order mob can hardly
be held by cooler heads now from
giving the william a coat of tar on
general principles. But let him
strike citizen or insult any more
ladies, and the supreme moment of
the organization is at hand. They
are eager to fulfill the ultimatum
of their obligation. The order is a
secret one, but we will append the
oath as administered in the first
degree of initiation, as It was hand
ed us b. one of the friends of the
insulted school teachers: "I with
your name) do solemnly promise
and declare that on my life and
honor, l will never suffer any viii
liam from Vinton county or any
other county, to insult any more
ladies in Logan, or threaten or
attempt to kill any citizen of Lo-
gan, or otherwise make himself a
general public nuisance. / will re-
member the main object of this or
ganization, that of revenge for past
infamy. | will keep on hands a
nice bucket Of tar and clean goose
feathers, also knife for self de-
Tense. / do especially promise and
more solemnly declare that will
protect the poor, weak half starved,
consumptive editor from any as
saults from wicked man, and look
to him for the sacred high sign
when to bring to the IMPRoMPTu
meetings my bucket of nice tar and
clean goose feathers. And more
especially than before do / promise
to smear the sacred tar more aptley
than congressman use white wash
brushes. All this / do solemnly
promise and declare without any
mental reservation or other un-
necessary incumbrance, so help me
the big chief, and may he keep me
anxious"
This organization is increasing
in membership rapidly, class of
fifteen stalwarts joining last night,
and twenty more applications. A
good many soldiers have Joined,
but the membership is mostly made
up of young men who have sisters.
The next meeting will be held i'm
mediately after the issuing of this
paper, and continue in session, with
their guards of the wicked on duty,
for several days.