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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2619, 31 May 1877, Page 2

The Cause of the 'spiosion.—" I would invite you to my house, brudder Jackson," «aid Deacon Johnson, as he emerged from church last Sunday evening, " but I dunno as we'll get any supper di» night, the cook stove am «o dreadfully" out ob repair." " What's de matter wid de stove ? " " Why, you see cold wedder am comin' on, and wood's gettin 1 skasean' high, an' I've 'structed de folks to be berry ekuocomical in de usiu' ob it. We'se bin buyin' in small lots, an' last night, bein' out ob fuel, I sent one of my boys ober to a neighbour's to borrow a few sticks. De man •or his family had gone to bed, owin' to de lateness ob de hour, an' dat boy, who would 'spise. to do a unhonest transaction, wrote out his note for de value ob de wood, an' droppin' it in a prominent place in de wood-shed, shouldered an armful an' brought it home." V'Jess so." ," Well, a fire was kindled, de tea-kettle put" on, de old woman she is gettin' de supper. All of a sudden, puff went de stove, zoon ; ke swish, kushlush went something, an' as I tumbled over I saw de ole woman makin' for de roof wid the tea-kittle and de stove plates followin' her, while de boys and de gals was as black with smut as de ace ob spades. De stove's goose was cooked for a fact." ' • What was de cause of de 'splo,~ shun? " "I'm strongly 'clinedtobelievedat dar was powdefin dat wood, an' dafe de powder was done put in dar by dat white man to ketch some thievin' darkey* what nebber buys no wood, an' bressed ef I don't think dat man spects me, kase he couldn't find dat note, an' won't make any 'pologies.'V .." That am an outrage?' " Fora fact, an' de children's supper was* ■ spiled, too."-—Keokuk Constitution. Bage is essentially vulgar, and never vulgarer thau when it proceeds from mortified pride, disappointed ambition, or thwarted wilfulness. .