For years and years we have took them two “stanch and substantial” noosepapers without ceasin. We have took them simply because one was a Dimicrat paper and the other a Republican. We have took them when payin for them kept me from gittin a new dress or Jobe a change of pants. We have took them though durin all them years they have said the same things over and over agin, aginst each other and aginst the party they wasent, jist at the time, gittin any campaign money or county printin from. The _Dimicrat_ has allers called the Republicans rascals and sich, and the _Advercate_ never fails to show how the Dimicrats are worse still. Always, when the _Advercate_ comes, Jobe he sets down and reads out loud all the abuse agin the Dimicrats; then, lookin over his specks at me, says: “Now, Betsy, you see what kind of a party you belong to. You see now what kind of leaders youve got,” &c., &c. Its a regular thing for Jobe to read the same things week arter week and then to criticise me and the Dimicrat party time arter time, until for years Ive been in the habit of goin in and settin down and a listenin to Jobe read the _Advercate’s_ abuse of the Dimicrats, and a waitin for my regular weekly tongue-lashin. Ive done it jist for the good it seems to do Jobe. [Illustration: “‘Now, Betsy, you see what kind of a party you belong to.’”] Sometimes to answer him I jist read from the _Ohio Dimicrat_ the same things he has read from the _Advercate_—only where the _Advercate_ says “the Dimicrat party,” the _Dimicrat_ says “the Republican party.” Then Jobe will flare up and say: “The _Ohio Dimicrat_ is a dum dirty sheet, and full of lies.” He knows that I dont swear and wont say that about his _Advercate_, even if I know it is the same kind of a paper as the _Ohio Dimicrat_ is, except in the name at the top of the fust page. Of course it gits its campaign money and public printin from the office-seekin canderdate fellers of the other party.