Show THE KEEPAPITOHININV 44 i imimm hw— iimim hmm v - ' coRnaaposTsacrcs tne chief place there is none greater than hast thou not heard that I was talked of as Joseph’s counselor and wilt thou not be my son? I will adopt thee and my greatness thou shalt share only as a son thou shalt obey and sustain me” Then were the hearts of those who had wealth (for these were his choice) glad forwas not Amasa their father? They gave him gifts and he waxed great and fat his soul swelled within him and he said who hath such a kingdom and such influence as I? No compunctions in that hour of his success about exercising “priestly power” “stifling thought” and “ hushing the voice of reason” no fears that he was “holding in abeyance the sentient qualities of the soul preventing their growth and keeping his trusting followers the helpless and hopeless slaves of ignorance and the victims of a most vile and wicked prostitution of the priesthood” no shrinking from the thought of “a personal aggrandizement in which God and humanity were forgotten ” no scruples about the false tricks he used to win his game of kingdoms No thought of this troubled him then In his opinion he possessed all the capabilities and could furnish all the rich provisions to meet the necessities and wants of the souls who accepted him as their oraclei Halcyon days were those for the Amasa of my sketch ho had paddled his fragile bark from the midst of the seething waves into green pastures and was happy Of the greatness of Amasa son of Roswell and of his kingdom which he didn’t build up I will relate more in my next I Mr Keepapitchinin : — Didst thou over read the history of Amasa son of Ithra? Thou knowest how Amasa led the traitorous and rebellious host of Absalom against his liege and father and the But I would speak of anbloody result other Amasa who was a man’s son by the Ithra s son Amasa name of Roswell he dealt in blows but Was a warrior his namesake of whom I write was a fel low whose chief strength lay in pretty He “planted his childish foot words steps in the incipient stages of his upward journey” he “in the artless innocence of uneducated youth was cast upon the g con world's broad ocean of ditions and circumstances and in his fragile bark he pursued his way over the seething waves of life’s storm-tosse- d ocean to find in the prosecution of his imposed labor all of life’s opportunities for the cuhure of the soul and the development of its own constituent divinity” This he did by reading novels whenever lie could His fragile bark had only ocean partly crossed life’s storm-tossewhen he reached Nauvoo then inflated by the pictures of his own vivid imagination ho said: I would be great I “will with unfailing walk1 forth and tread safety the airy fields of boundless space in quest of the elements which 1 need I will pursue my upward way until I pass all tlie waymarks that indicate the consecutive stages of my ever progressive yet never-endi- ng journeyings ” 1 will distance all my companions though unsucv' Not Joab cessful beyond all others at convincing and baptizing men the game of kingdoms NUMA is one that I can play at Sor ho went forth among the people We understand Dr Numan is on the way and said to one and another: “ Lo and behold I am Amasa knowest thou not here Should he fail to obtain the Taberthat I am great and though I do not fill nacle for discussion our columns are open ever-varyin- d o IIt Talk of poetry as you please my masters! and the sovereignty of the East in respect to song! But the West is the Here is one of the place for singing latest Prairie SoDgs “List list oh! list ” “Great western waste of bottom land Flat as a pancake rich as grease Where gnats are full large as toads And mosquitoes are as big as geese Oh! lonesome windy grassy place Where buffaloes and snakes prevail Thefirst with dreadful looking face The last with dreadful sonn ling tail I’d rather live on a Camel’s rump And be a Yankee-dood- le beggar Than be where I could never see a stump And shake to death with fever and ager” Avery young mother divested herself of some divine afflatus on “baby” a short time since Here is one pathetic verse: dinkle-udam “Doxery doodle-uTurn to its armzzery mozzery mum Tizzery izzery hoozery boo No baby so Bweet and so pitfcy as oo” ADY RRTIa KM ENTS HURRY UP FOR FISH! tn Lafcetown south end THE undersigned Bear La fee Valley are ‘prepared to C4tcb fish on short notloe for any who may avor them with their patronage All should nr'ng their own barrel and salt Terms liberal and all kkndsofgood pay tsiren CHRISTOPHER RTOKE8L W P NFBRKKR THE GOLDEN GATE! The only establishment in the wide world " where you can obtain two plates of John H Kelson 8 celebrated Tee Cream for a quarter and a glasa of Nectar to wash it down IF YOU WANT YOUR JPUJ2TW TAKEN with a high forehead and smiling go to Savage dsOttinger nUftEUKX AND REXAGERIE Go and See the Razor that shaved Barnum from 9 a mto 5 pm |