The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-02-21

regards to my canvass" he asked.
"Well, yes" replied. find
the female portion of the village,
the element that is most deeply in
terested in pure municipal affairs,
all in your favor, and"
"Yes, yes" butted in the phi
losopher, ~ was always a favorite
of the gentler sex, but between
you aud |, / actually dispise them.
"And, / was going to say / CON
tinued, 81 discovered two more
prospective candidates, M o e
Woltz and -"
"Mose VOLT! exclaimed the
philosopher "why you might as
well elect Dan Goss or Charley
Wharton. Nose Woltz is great
sight the worse trader of the three.
and it wouldn't take Nose six
months to have the whole town
traded off for horses, watches,
etc. besides his war record is none
too good" "But ] was GO
ing to add another one when you
interrupted me. heard Albert
Wear is very favorable spoken
Of" "Albert Wear! Shades
of Washington replied the phi.
losop her. "Albert Wear for
mayor Great ceasar, would mt he
be peach. Why that is the laz-
lest man that was ever in the I'm
ion Army. ! have many of his
comrades say that he was one of
the most econmical man that was
mustered in the service, that when
he was given his forty rounds of
carriages he hired the first sar-
gent to load his gun, and never
fred the gun off during the re-
bellion. He was to dern lazy to
pull the trigger, He turned in
his gun, loaded with that same
cartridge, / can prove this by j.
E. Barron, and 80 rounds of car
tridges. Besides he is getting
very comfortable pension now and
has two or three pension agents
engaged in hunting evidence for
an increase. Moze Woltz and AL
bert Wear for mayor. Bah, Pm
afraid of neither"
"Well, Mr.. Philosopher, you
must consider that both these
gentlemen have their friends, are
honoraoly discharged soldiers and
draw big pensions, very handy
article in campaign. But con-
siderlng all that 1 am of the opin-
ion you have the best of it. l will
now have to bid you "good night"
as 1T is an hour after bedtime"
Shaking hands they parted, the
philosopher towards the river to
mediate and / to my virtuous
couch.
The next morning bright and |
early l was out on the streets to
enjoy my usual pipe before break
fast, and the very first man | met
was School Examiner, Stoughton
dressed up in the most fantastic
manner possible. He had ON a
red, white and blue sweater, one
of Nose Woltz's cavalry horse
girths for belt, drawn up to the
last notch, with the end hitting
his legs; a cowboy hat of the vim
tage of 81 with stars all around
1t, pair of corduroy pants with
double half souls near worn away;
a pair of cavalry boots with
mexican spir on each heel rife
in one hand and a meat ak in the
other; a milestone over each ear
and two bottles, sticking out the
top of his boots. He wore happy
contented smile and celluloid
collar.
"Why old man, what is the oc-
caslon of all this very peculiar at
tire9" l asked as we ap-
preached.
"Butcher," was the only reply.
Butcher, Oh, yes, understand"
| said.
"But you have no knife to stick
the hogs with and to scrape."
"Oh, i have a knife in each
boot, with cork screw in each,
large enough to stick with. But
| don't need any scraping, burn
the hair off"
"Burn it off. / never heard of
such thing. Where did you get
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