The Ottawa free trader. [volume], August 13, 1887, Image 5

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A wisn.
Ob, (bou great invigorntorl
' Shades of tbe refrigerator !
It were nice
If I were a steak for broiling,
Laid away to keep from spoiling,
On tbe ice.
WHIM'KR.
When you walk and sweetly talk,
Ob, whisper, gently whisper.
For fuiries hear from far and near;
Oh whisper, softly whisper.
Oh, when thou thinkeat thou art free,
And whn thou'd sentimental be,
Thou canst not tell who's watching thee,
So waisper, gently whisper.
Now every tree cm hear and see,
So whi sper, gently whisper.
And every stone bath ears its own
Oh whisper, gently whisper.
For, while this warmth is pretty steep,
Some peoplo do not go to sleep,
But sit and silent vigil keep
On whisper, gently whisper.
MORAL IN ADVANCE.
Suppose thou art making an ass of thy
self, Harry Warrington, of Virginia! Ar
there not people in England who heehav
too? Kick and abuse him. vou who hav
never brayed, but bear with bim all honest
fellow-feeling: long-oared messmates, rec
ognize a brother Uoukey ! inacktray.
VERY LOVELY.
They stood in the moonlight, under a
large, spreading elm. The elm stood near a
oruer, an 1 its broad brunches bid the front
window of a second story room in the corner
bouse. The wearber was excessively warm,
and the windows were all open. The moon
was up, and it was a beautiful, balmy, hun
Jred and ten in-thc-shade sort of an evening.
I couldn't Bee their faces, and I don t know
who they were, but they were very badly
gone- I think they must have hailed from
either Zulu or Streator, They came along
from Columbus street, walking eastward,
and stopped under the large tree. It was
very late, and the porches in the neighbor
hood wore all empty. They stopped under
the tree and leaned up against the fence.
They were talking very earnestly. If they
had known that there was a bad, wicked
reporter sitting in that upper window, they
would not have talked so earnestly.
The youth was speaking of the way that
the whole world was a blank without her be
side bim, and was telling bow glorious
would be everything on earth if only she
would consent to become his wife.
"George," said she tenderly, " fleorge,
will you you allers love mo this way? Won't
you never git sick of mo and go to lovin'
somebody else? "
"No, Mary, I won't never love nobody
else but you!"
"Well, then I'm yourn!" sho exclaimed,
emphatically, and there was a noise as of a
five-cent firecracker and they fell into each
other's arms. Fretty soon she straightened
back and stood a few feet nwny from him,
eyeing him very intently. Then she said :
"George, aro you sure you'll allers love
ine? There's lots purtier'n I be, and don't
you think thot some day you'll love some
body elso mor'n you do me?'' George pro
tested by everything that was sacred that
he would love her only, even unto death.
"Well, then I'm yourn! " exclaimed she,
and there was another tableau. Pretty
soon sho straightened back again and looked
him full in the face with a quizzical and
dubitativc air.
"George," said she, "George, I don't
'spose I'll allers be as purty as I be now.
When I get old, there'll bo wrinkles on my
forrid, and maybo I'll look re-al ugly. Do
you 'spose you'll love me then, George, jist
the same?" George assured her that it
would make no difference with the constancy
of bis affection.
"Well, then I'm yourn!" said the maiden,
and there was another explosion, followed
by a grizzly bear embrace. In a moment
he was struck with another thought. Her
soul was harrassed with another doubt.
"George," said she, " George, when I git
old, I 'sped I'll look awful. There'll be
oreases and wrinkles in ray forrid, nu may.
be I wont have any hair, and I'll have ter
wear store hair, Roman, and twitches. Do
you think you could love me just the same,
George?" George renewed his protesta
tions. "Well, then I'm yourn!" she said, with
determination, and there was another very
loud osculation and a tableau with blue
lights. Ia a moment she said :
"George, I-l-don't know but maybe when
I git old, I may-may loose my teeth. And I
think I'll be vry horrid, George. Just
only think. There'll be wrinkles on my
forrid, and I won't have no hair, and won't
have no teeth, and I'll have to wear switch
es, George, and ttore hair, and false teeth,
and and and
"What's the matter with a glass eye and a
wooden leg?" observed the reporter in the
window, by way of as.sting the fair damsel.
Then there was a tableau! f- There was a
s-.itfled screim, a big oath, an 1 then the way
that coupie moved down Paul street would
hive bankrupted a camel-race.
A I'LEDOB.
A friend who is solicitous for our wslfare,
tends us the following' pledge, with the
friendly request fiat wo sign it. We have
done so, anl commend it to the considera
tion of our friends. It is entitled "A 'local"
pledge, after a Suoday-sohool picnio.
Pledye.
I. the undersigned, do hereby solemnly
promise to abstain from the use of all iotox
icaiing liquors i except as drinks), and cider
three limes a week, and profanity, except
as prescribed by a physician.
(Signed )
.
MRS JINKINS ATTENDS THE RACES.
Mr. and Mrs. Jinkins bad been to the
races. They had Keen the horses, had seen
the trotting, had been, in fact, through the
entire programme as completely as any lady
and gentleman could be expected to. When
they had been home some little time, and
sat down to supper, Mr. Jinkins said:
" Well, Mary Jane, how do you like the
fast horses? Aren't they pretty?"
'Y yes John, I think tbey are very
pretty a great deal prettier than tbe fast
men."
"If there is anything I do like to see,
it's those fine, high-bred horses, with their
shining coats, their clean, strong limbs, and
their intelligent faces. Do you know, Mary,
I thought when I saw them being led around
the yard there that they seemed almost hu
man." "Do you know what 1 thought when I
saw them being led around the yard? I
thought what a pity it was that the horses
couldn't lead the men around by a halter in
stead of its being the other way. The horses
were a great deal nearer human than the
men."
"Mary Jane Jinkins ! You arc certainly
out of your head to talk so! Thoso horses
get the very best treatment possible. Tbey
enjoy the racing as much as the men do."
"Oh, I haven't anything against the
horses, nor the way they are taken care of,
but what is the good of it all ? They have a
big track up there, and everybody goes up,
and they get some horses out on the track,
and make 'em trot, and all the men stand
around, and spit and bet, and damn, and
damn, and bet, and spit, and 1 don't see
wlint. it's good for, at all."
There are a great many things in this
world that women can't be expected to un
derstand, my dear. There is a great deal of
money made ly the races. Tftey bring a
great many people to town, and are useful
in mnny ways."
W well, John, what do the men all go
down under the grand stand for between
all the heals r"
"Why, th they that is they get the
reports of the races down there."
"Oh, do they?"
"Yes. Mary."
"W well, John, there's one thing I don't
understand; I don't understand it at all."
"Well?"
"Why do all the men come up with such
very red faces when they go down to get
the reports of the races, under the grand
stand?"
"A little more tea, my dear; there,
that's enough. Whioh one of thoso pacers
lid you say you liked best, my dear?"
"Oh, I don't know, John Henry Jinkins,
don't think horse races are nico a bit.
They can't make any money, except as they
win it from somebody else, and the peoplo it
brings to town are most all roughs and row
dies, and they all talk so dreadfuUy wicked,
and get so very drunk. I I don't like it.
AT ALL."
"My dear, you can not be expected to un
derstand all about these things, so let us not
attempt to discuss them."
"Well, I looked the best I could, and all
I saw was some horses trotting as hard as
they could, and a man in a little box, talk
ing about "five to twenty" and " field," and
yelling so I thought he'd split his throat,
and all the men talking about holdin'er in,"
and " sendin 'er," and all spitting tobacoo
juice, and betting, and swearing the most
awful oaths, and going down under the grand
stand every five minutes to get the reports
of- the races. No, sir; don't like horse
races."
EXTRA.
At the driving park on Thursday there
was a little scene enacted that did not ap
pear on Flynn's score card. The bell on the
judges' stand rang, to call tbe attention of
tbe audience, and Mr. Smith, the starter,
said that Mr. Harry Hammond was wanted.
Mr. Hammond will pleAso to come for
ward, if he is present," yelled the starter.
There is a lady here who wants to see Mr.
Hammond. It is a young lady and a hand
some lady." Mr. Hammond was making
his way to the judges' stand, and halted in
front of the nm; ' Iioatie, confused by the
remarks of the starter.
"Ladies,'' c.U.y 1 Mr. Smith, pointing to
where Mr. II .iinnuud stood blushing like a
bashful girl, aud nervously fingering his
gold-headed umbrella, and gazing confusedly
at the grand stand, "Ladies of the audience,
allow me to introduce you to Mr. Hammond.
There are very few better looking young
men than Mr. Hammond." There was a
loud round of corroborative applause from
the stand, and Harry stood there hat in
hand, nervously grinning, and not just
knowing whether he had better muke a bow
to the ladies, or go up into the judges'
stand and punch the heal of the Hen. Mr.
Smith. After a few moment" of uncomfort
able suspense, Mr. Hammond beat an able
bodied retreat and bid behind one of the
pool boxes.
Services at tbe B-iptigt church Sundiy
morning. Kev. .nr. mint, oi i,a will
preach. .Sunday-school, a usual, i:nm'!i-
ately after service. Priyer meeting at 7
o'clock. At last account. Dr. Frederick was
at Marquette. Ife writes that the weather
is cool, an I tbe Fill on thi ln'cos dflijrb'f ;!.
He had visitel Minneapolis, St. Paul, La
Miunetonka, Miunehaht Falls and Duluth.
for llit i'ltc 2ruJer.
Old Love.
BY J. II. U.
The old man sat In his easy chair
On the farm-bouse porch, of a summer
day.
He called back his life, bright, dark and fair
As he sat and half dozed the time away.
He was W by his mother's kind hand again,
lie remembered her tears as he strayed
from " the way,"
Hi called back her face, so wrinkled with
pa'n,
As in his young manhood the passed
away. K
He remembered the days when he aought
his wife,
A neighboring farmer's daughter, fair,
He lived again in her welcoming smile,
At he bashfully placed a rose in her hair.
And then came their struggle for piace in
the world,
At their children cemented their love,
How she strengthened his heart by her good
words and work,
And how her affection a blessing had
proved.
The old man sat in bis easy ohair,
He dozed into sleep, and a matron, grey,
Came to his side, and stroked bis bair,
As she tried to kiss bis wrinkles away.
The old man awoke ; there's a tear in his
eye;
It's the warm tear of love that's often been
sung.
How tenderly calm that deep, loving gaze
God bless the old hearts that.are always
young.
1881
1881
endota Fair!
HENDOTA, ILL.,
Aug. 30 to Sept. 3.
New and Special Features in
all Departments.
TWO GOOD RACES EACH OAY
On the licit Vinlle Truck la the State.
AtlmUaion Wrt (Vntx. Exeumlon Itatct on
all KUru(l. binJ fur I'mmum Ll.t.
WM. IKPUAK.
I'mident.
J. A. LAMBKUTOV,
titvreurr.
Ottawa, 111., Aug. 9, 1887.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Ottawa Building, Homestead & Savings
Association will be held in the room of the
Association, postotlico block, Monday, Sept.
5, 1887, at 7:30 p. m., for tho election of di
rectors. D. Hapemin, Pres't.
Thomas K. MacKi.nlay, Sfc'y.
As an "aside" to the races, the driver of
Bay Diamond ami and a couplo more of race
toughs were run in Tuesday night for being
drunk, and fined 3 and costs by Galvin on
Wednesday morning.
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