Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1878 — Glorious Spring, All Hail! [ARTICLE]

Glorious Spring, All Hail!

The warm season comes on apace, and the lightning-rod man invents a bagful of new lies and departs for the rural districts to devour the substance of the unwary granger; the book-agent prances about with a fiendish desire to persecute mankind; the poet swoops down on the honest, hard-working newspaper man with his “Ode to S ;” about these days the able-bodied males gather on the public highway and tell naughty stories and call it working out their poll-tax; the gentler sex play croquet nineteen hours per day and talk scandal at the rate of fifteen knots an hour; Benedict, the married man, catches his meal on the fly, while his softer half is in the ecstasies of “ spring cleanin’;” the fashionable young blood hies himself unto the barber, and comes away with his head resembling a beautiful billiard ball; the man who maketh a garden crieth “Shoo!” to his neighbor’s hens; the alamagoozelum soda-fountain fizzles in the drug-store, and the ice-cream man imposes on the swain and swainesses; the turkey-gobbler swells with importance, and innumerable small boys career madly around, dressed in a straw hat and holy pantaloons; the mixer of ungodly beverages setteth a green blind before his door; the old man arises in the morning an 4 beholds his front gate

banging by one hinge, and the old man’s daughter keepeth her own counsel; the poor young man is often seen in a brown study as to how he is to get a S4O spring suit on as 3 per week salary; the bullfrog croaks dismally, and tbe Thomas cat yowls with renewed energy; the sedate gander stands on one foot and meditates over prospective goslings : the garter-snake crawleth around, the tum-ble-bug stands on his head, and the Covington, Columbus and Black Hills railroad man talks proudly of continuing the road “right off.” By these signs does the wise man know that spring has arrived. —Dakota City {Neb.) Eagle.