Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1879 — Why Should He? [ARTICLE]

Why Should He?

E. C. Stedman sings in Scribner, “Why should I fear to sip the sweets of each red lip?” Why? Because, Mr. Stedman, you have a conviction that the gloomy-looking old gentleman in the background, with blood in his eye, and a cane, like the angel of death, in his hand, will make a poultice of you if you do any such sampling while he is in reach.— Burlington Hawk-Eye. Madame Bonaparte left $1,400 to buy a suitable monument.