The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-30


HIS MOUTH.
bered. During the last fortnight he
has been confined to the house, and
when called to see him an hour ago
| was told by the doctor that he
would not live. the night through.
Gentlemen, this does not come to us
with sudden shock, as might have
been the case II he had fallen off a
haystack, but at the same time we feel
like asking why a good man is re-
moved from our midst. Shad is hardly
forty years old and he comes from a
sturdy race, and why is death reach
ing out to clutch him instead of some
Of the rest of us2 The doctor has
peered and peeked and squinted
around and has finally decided TO call
the complaint erosion of the liver, but
some of us here know better. We have
known for long months what is the
true complaint. It's a complaint with
moral attached to it, and hope that
every one within sound of my voice
will benefit by the moral.
"Ten years ago Shadrack Joslyn got
married /, don't say anything agin
that. The Lord intended man to mar
ry. i myself am now living with my
third wife, and IL she should be taken
away I'd look around for fourth. 1t
hain't in the getting married, but it's
in who you marry. 1t looked at the
start as If Shad had made a good
match, and only a few of us knew bet
ter after few months had passed.
"Shad Joslyn had always been a
homebody and hard worker. He had
never attended even a camp meeting.
He had never stopped work on the
Fourth of July. He had never attend
ed spelling school or a circus. He
once saw dog fight, but he could
boast of nothing further. He jest
worked as glar as the clock, and If
a funeral procession went by when
he was hoeins corn be never looked
up That's the way he got the nick
name Of old Steady among us. As
to the gal he married, she could wash
and bake and sew and make soft soap
and all that, but she had seen heap
in her day. She had been to six cir
cuses and TO Niagara falls and had
rode on the cars and visited her aunt
in New York.
"She begun right away after mar
riage 70 crow over poor Shad She
loved him, but she couldn't help but
boast, Every morning at breakfast
she told him about the boa constructor
and rhinoceros she saw with the cir
Gus. AT noon she told him about the
awful roar Of Niagara falls, and at
supper time she switched of on the
sights she had beheld on the BOwery
In New York. She kept that up for
months, and then she changed TO tell
ing about the railroad cars, the FIRE
engines and the big buildings. When
that got old she changed agin, aud so
she has kept it up for years. She's
Jest kept poor Shad crushed to earth.
If anybody was visiting at the house
she'd talk Of other things for awhile
and then start OF with:
4 was telling Shad last night about
a balloon / saw go up at the Podunk
county fair, but the poor man can't get
y through his head. It's such an aw-
ful pity that he never Travelled around
any,
Would Hurt His Feelings,
We all know how sensitive Shad
was, and Of course such things would
hurt his feelings. Mebbe he's find
dead sheep ln the field. That would
be a big ching for him. After walk.
ing round the body a dozen times and
wondering What killed it he'd start for
the house on a run to communicate
the news and expect to see his wife
jump two feet high. She wouldn't