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VOL. VIII.
MR. BONSALL'S MATCHMAKING.
My nncle, Alexnnder McFnrlane,
was wailing breakfast, an event very
uncommon with him. for Aunt Nancy
was the soul of punctuality. Never
theless ulio was a little late this tnnrn
inj;. Eight o'clock was the breakfast
hour, and it was no w fully toil min
utes past.
Aunt Nancy was not my Uncle
McFarlane's wife, lie was a widow
er of some fifteen years' standing.
Fifteen years before his wife had left
him a delicate little boy for a keep
sake, and had gone away, whispering
with ber last breath that she was very
happy. Her mother and sister, who
had come to the house to nurse her,
remained after her death, according to
Uncle, McFarlane'a particular request,
lie would be so glad, he said, if it
were not exacting too much of a sac
rifice, to have Mrs. Howard and
Nancy stay with him, keep up his
house, and attend to his little boy.
So Mrs. Howard, who is a widow
with a very siraileiied income, rented
her little house in the New England
village where -he had always lived,
and came to preside over Mr. McFar
laues's spacious mansion and liberal
housekeeping iu Greenwich Street,
New York my Uncle McFarlane
lived in Greeuwich Street, a fact
which marks the date of my story
with sufficient exactness.
Mrs. Howard had been dead three
mouths, and still Aunt Nancy presid
ed over Uncle McFarlatie's household.
Neither of them had ever thought of
a chauge as either necessary or desir
able. Nancy had been a fair, prim,
and somewhat quiet girl when she
came to live in Greenwich Street.
She was still a fair, somewhat prim
woman of thirty live, with pretty,
soft brown hair, violet blue eyes, and
a pure, soft, somewhat changeful com
plexion. She was not in the least ' ke
a modern young lady's heroine. She
had no particular aspirations beyond
the limited and old-tUshioued one of
doing her duty in that stale of life to
which it had pleased God to call her.
She diil not consider herself a martyr
to uncongenial circumstances, because
she made Uncle McFarlatie's shirts
and mended his Ktockiugs, and even
the fact of going down into the kitch
en, to do up his immaculate ruiH.-s,
when old Mrs. Brown's bauds were
too lame, and the chambermaid's too
unskilful to be trusted with them,
did liol awaktn iu her iniuil any de
sire to rush out into the world in
search of a career. No such lancy
had ever entered Nancy Howard's
head. She was absolutely 'contented
with her present condition." (tilling to
go on making Uncle McFailane's
shirts, keeping his bousv, spoiling bis
child, and "making it pleasant for
him," as she simply said. Her great
pleasures consisted in doing muslin
embroidery, visiting the poor, going
to church, and reading the English
classics, with now and then a novel.
If Hie had any trials she kept them to
herself, confiding them to no spiritual
director, newspaper editor, or female,
friend. Such was Naycy Howard at
fiveand-thirty.
My Umle McFarlane was a fine
goitleman iu the true sense of the
phrase. He was unimpeachable in
integrity, unspotted in morals, in
manners absolutely perfect a lit lie
set in h:s way, ami possibly somewhat
particular in eating ami drinking.
He was also given to amusing him
self in a quiet way with the peculiari
ties of those about him. Bui he never
willingly hurt or neglected any one,
and he had a certain genial gracious
ness of manner, which made all his
employes, from Mr. Saunders, his con
fidential clerk, down to Black Sam,
the carman, and Davy, the errand
boy, feel the belter when he spoke to
them.
"Miss Nancy is- a little late this
morning!" observed Uncle McFar
lane, as Brown, his man, brought him
the paper.
"les, sjr. she was out till alter
twelve last night, at Sam's, sir I"
"Indeed ! How was that
"Well, you see, sir, Sara's girl was
look with a quick consumption last
spring, and his wife ain't very rugged
either. M'88 Nancy, she's been there
a good deal, and when Susy was
struck with death last evening, she
went and stayed till it was all over.
It was a great comfort to them, sir.
Yon see, Sam's wife, she's got a little
young baby, too, and altogether it
comes hard !" .
"I should sar m, indeed. We must
see that everything is done, Brown.-
Find out when the funeral is to be,
And let me know, and tell your wife
to send them something comfortable
when she coes to market. I3ut here
comes Mies Nancy. Send tip break
fast, Brown."
Breakfast was usually a somewhat
eilent meal, save for Ahck s chatter
with his aunt; lor Mr. McFarlane al
ways read the paper, invariably ask
ing JNliss JSancy s permission.
"Why do you look at me 60 closely,
Alick r asked Miss .Nancy, as she
caught her nephew's gaze fixed upon
her. ' .
"1 was thinking how pretty, you
are !" answered Alick, with his usual
frankness. '"I think you are a hun
dred times prettier than Miss Kegina
ocuuyler, that they make such a tuss
about. And I don't want her for a
6tep-mother. So there!''
"What is that about Miss Schuy
ler?" asked iny uncle, lavinz down
his paper. "It strikes roe that you
are- taking rather a liberty with
that young lady to say nothing of
myseli." -
"It wasn't ; me, father; it was Mr.
Bonsall," answered Alick. "Mr.
Bonsall asked me if I wouldn't like a
young lady like Miss Regina Schuy
ler to come into the house ; and I told
him no I didn't want any one but
Aunt Nancy. Then he said Aunt
Nancy was an old maid; and I said,
it she was forty old maids she was a
hundred .times prettier than Mi-s
Regina and so Bhe is !" . ,
"We won't discuss that matter 1"
said my uncle, annoyed, but repress-
"You
We all
know his ways!"
low nis wnysi -,-
There was somevning in latnor s
tone which made Alick aware that ho
had better drop the subject. Uncle
McFarlane went on with his paper,
but now and then glanced over it with
an expression of some interest.
"Nancy is pretty!" ho said to him
self. "There is something in her face
which reminds mo of my mother."
Jlreakfast being over, my undo put
on his overcoat, asking, as he did so,
his invariable question, "Have you
any commands for the city 1"'
"And, by the way, uleajo see that
everything is dono for Sum's ' lamily.
The poor womau will perhaps be the
belter for some port wiue, or ale, and
let everything be nice about the luner
al. I will take the expenso on my
self. Sam is a good lailhful fellow."
"Really Nancy is very pretty!"
said my uncle, as he. walked out of
the house. "I never thought much
about it before, but she is decidedly
pretty. Miss Regina Schuyler, in
deed. Really Bonsall is too bad to
put such notions into the boy's head."
And Mr. McFarlane pursued his way
to the oilicc, unconscious of the fate
awaiting hnu there.
"Auy letters, Sannders ?" he asked,
as he passed the clerk's desk. "I see
the packet is in."
"Yes, sir. They are ojjyour desk,
and Mr. Bonsall is waiTrtig lo speak
to you in your room. What ails Mr.
McFarlane':" said the clerk to him
self, as his principal passed on. "I
don't believe he ever before forgot to
ask lor my wife. I hope nothing is
wrong." Mr. Saunders had an inva
lid wife, who was indebted to Mr.
McFarlane for many little comforts.
Mr. Bonsall was waiting in the of
fice. He was a stout man with red
hair and whiskers, and a bin IT, un
compromising manner. He had a
habit, on which he prided himself, of
always "speaking his mind' that is,
of saying everything and anything
which came into his head a habit
which did not cause him to be beloved
by his acquaintances. He and Uncle
.UcrurJaue had once been partners,
and they stiil kept up a kind of inti
macy at which many people wnmlered.
"Well, Bonsall, how goes Ihe world
with you ?, asked my uncle, leisurely
tailing o IV his coal and overshoes.
"Oh, well enough. It it dun t go
to suit me, I make it, thats all, an
swered Mr. Butisall. "But, see here,
McFailaue, I didn't come hero to
bandy coinplimeti's. I want to l&ik
to ou about a serious matter."
"Well, w hat is il?" asked my uncle,
preparing to l.stcu, not without a long
ing glance at his loreign letters and
papers.
i in going to fpe.ik my miml, as 1
always do!"' said Mr. Bonsall. "I
want to know what you mean to do
about Nancy ?"
"About Nancy! repealed my
a
tincie. Willi a Utile slarl. "Ylhal
about Nancv ?"
"Aye, what about her? that's just
it. Of course vcu can't go on as you
do now. It wan well enough when
the old lady was alive; but her death
changes at thai, and lolks will talk.
Nancv ' an old maid, lo be sure
lorty, if she's an hour "
"1 hirty-hve! said my uncle, cor
recting him.
"Well, five vears don't matter much.
She's an old .naid, as I said. Still,
folks wilt and do talk, and you ought
to gel rid of fcer. The truth is, Mc
Farlane, you ought to marry again;
and of course you can't with Nancy
in the house."
"You think so ?
"Why, of? course, not. There's
Miss Regiua- Schuyler, now. She'd
jump at the chance of marrying you;
but you don t suppose she would set
up housekeeping with Nancy How
ard, do you '?
"1 must beg, Ronsall, that you will
not bring Miss Schuyler's name into
question," said my uncle. "Such lib
erties are not to be taken with re
spectable yung ladies."
"Liberty ' or not, she woald have
you in a minute. And there's another
thing al.oCt it. Nancy Howard is
dead in love with you, herself, and of
course you can't marry her that is
out of the ijtiestion."
"Nancy J Howard !" repeated my
uncle, iii a (tone of bewilderment
"To be .sure, man. Any one but
you woiil have seen it, though Nancy
is not the woman to throw herself at
any man's! head, I'll say that for her.
My wife has known it this long time,
and I can see it, too. Of course you
can't marry her. She is old, and poor,
and plain, and in delicate health be
sides. So, of course, all you can do
is to get rid of her. Send her home
to her tiative place with a pension,
marry. Regina Schuyler, and begin
life anevjr.
"Does Mrs. Bonsall really think
that tliat Miss Howard entertains
such sentiments ?" asked my uncle, as
Mr. Bopsall paused for a moment :
"Women see such things more clearly
than men."
"Oil course 6he does. She was
talking of it last night. 'Nancy
ought ito have a change,' says she, 'if
she don't fihe'll go off like her sister.
She's a quiet, patient creature,' says
she; 'but it is easy to see what ails
her,' (Now, you see, her being con
suupljive is another reason why you
can't (marry her. So, there! I've
spoken my mind as I always do; and
I hop you will have sense enough to
act urjon it." ,
"I shalljcertaiuly act upon it !" said
my uAcle, calmly.
"Alid soon, I hope!" said Mr. Bon
sall, rising, "the sooner the better."
"Tie, sooner-the better !" echoed
my uricle. "I quite agree with you.
Thank you, Bonsall, thank you.'! .
;. "I j'think t d;d a good work this
mornling !" said Mr. Bonsall to his
wife, las he was preparing to go out:
"I spbke to MeFari jpe about Nancy!"
And pe repeated the substance of the
conversation. Mrs. Bonsall was a
quietl kind-hearted woman; but, like
her husband, she sometimes spoke her
mindi - She did 60 on this occasion
ing his annoyance; as usual,
need not miml Mr. Bonsall.
ALBANY, OREGON; EIUDAY, MAY 9, 1873.
"Bonsall, you are an idiot! Most
ot men are iu such matters, and you
aro a periect one."
Mr Bonsall lookod as if some one
had thrown a wet towel iu his face. -"Why,
Mary Anno! What's thft
fcr r
"You'll find out soon enough. Go
along, do, and leave mo in peaeo."
Mr. Bonsall was always very meek
when his wife took these rare fits ol
plain speaking, and ho shut the door
without another word. Mrs. Bonsall
sat looking at the lire with un expres
sion of vexation, which gradually
changed to one of kindness.
"After all it might bo worse," said
she, speaking to the fire : "Nancy is a
good soul, and as sweet as honey.
Sho will make him happy, and be hap-
Cy herself, and it will bo good for the
oy. But I think I see Boiisall's face
when he hears of it !"
For two hours my undo sat look
ing through his ollice widow without
even looking at his letters. Then he
drew a deep breath, as of one relieved
of a doubt, and turned to his corres
pondence. Ho did not go homo to
dinner, but left the office early, stop
ping at a florist's, where ho bought
some beautiful hot-house flowers, and
two nice hyacinth bulbs in pretty
glasses, which last he sunt Mrs. Sauu
ders.
"Father, may I go up and see Tom
Saunders?" asked Alick after tea.
Aunt Nancy was silling at her work
table, fresh and neatfroin top to toe.
She was composed as usual, but my
uncle fancied ho observed a slight
chango in her manner toward himself,
l'robably Alick's remarks might have
disturbed her a little.
"Certainly, my son. And be sure
to ask, particularly, how Mrs. Saun
ders funis herself. I quite forgot it
this morning. I was the more ready
to let Alick go its I wish to consult
you on a matter of great importance
to us both." And then, in his usual
kind, somewhat formal manner, he
opened the subject. He was desirous,
he said, of going abroad for some
time, perhaps for some years. He
thought the change would be good
fur Alick, who showed signs of deli
cate lungs.
Aunt Nancy's heart fluttered, and
her color weut and came; but she
hail long been schooled in self-control,
and she made no other sifii. "It
won't be for long!" said tho quiet,
breaking heart to ileclf, lillle guessiug
what was iu store.
My uncle continued. I dou'l know
exactly how he worded it, but ha
made it plain that neither he nor the
boy could live without Nancy.
Would Nancy consent to become his
wife, and be a mother to Alick in fact,
as she had long been in name? And
so iu an hour the mailer was all set
tled. "We are asked to a wedding!" said
Mrs. Bonsall lo her husband some six
weeks alterward.
"A wedding whose wedding?"
asked Mr. Buuaall, not greatly inter
ested. "Nancy Howard's!"
"Nancy Howard's you don't mean
" The idea which occurred to Mr.
Bonsall fairly struck him dumb.
' "Yes; Nancy and McFarlane!" an
swered liis wife, enjoying her lord's
discomfiture. "They are to be mar
ried at St. Paul's, very quietly, and
sail fur Europe as soon as posible."
"The deuce they are. And after all
I said to, him !"
"After all you said to him !" echoed
Mrs. Bonsall. "The moment you told
me what you said to him, and espe
cially as to Nancy's being talked about,
I knew you had made tho match.
You could have got him to marry old
Miss Paget in the same way."
"But such a sacrifice, Mary Anne!"
"Oh, well, I don't kuow. I dare
say he might feel it a little of a sacrifice
just at first; but by this time ho has
persuaded himself that there never
was such a woman, and that the favor
was all on her side. I don't think,
for my part, McFarlane will ever re
gret it."
And I don't think Uncle McFarlane
ever did. Vom 2'ie AMine for
It will be remembered that recently
during the session of Congress Vice
President Wilson called . Senator
Gordon, the ex-Confederate General,
to preside over that body, and the
event was of enough significance to
telegraph over the country. It was
the first instance of an ex-Confederate
occupying the Vice-President's
seat, and it is 'remarkable how this
olive branch was accepted by the
South. The Now York Commercial
Advertiser refers to it in this Ian
guage: '.
"Most of the Southern papers are
charmed at the courtesy of the Presi
dent of the Senate, in recently calling
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, to tbe
chair. Gordon fought gallantly in
the Confederate army, was a first-class
rebel, and believes to this day that he
did right; and , yet, ' sitting as the
presiding officer of the United States
Senate, deciding parliamentary ques
tions in a througnly loyal . body, he
didn't do anything more terrible than
convince bis colleagues that the most
li
ronounced 'traitor may be an honest.
ligh-minded Judge and a true gentle
man." , . . .. J . . '
Two ladies were m conversation
the other" day. One lady remarked
that sparrows were useful in ridding
certain cities ot canter worms. The
other lady said she' would rather be
tormented by the latter than sparrows
Just then a gentleman approached
and was appealed to., "Mr.
which do you think the worst, the
sparrows or the worms?" He blushed
a little and said "I don't know,
never had sparrows." - '
The man who ate his dinner with
Ihe fork of a river has . sprained bis
foot while trying to spin a mountain
top- . : .
DIVOIiCKH IX DIKFKKKNT C'OlLTItIK.
Australians Divorces Lave never
beeu sanctioned iu Australia. '
Jews Ia olden times the Jews
had a dincrctiotAiry power of divorc
ing their wives.
Juvans If a wife -be dissatisfied
she cun obtain a divorce by paying a
certain sum. '
Thibetans Divorces are seldom
allowed, unless with, tbe consent of
both parties neither of whom can
uftcrward re-marry.
Moors If a wife does not become
ihe mother of a boy, she may be di
vorced with the consent of the tribe,
and she can marry again.
Abyssinians No form of marriage
is necessary. The connection muy
be dissolved and renewed as often us
tbe parties think proper.
Siberians If a man be dissatisfied
with tho most trifling act of his wife
he tears. tbe cap or veil from her
head, and this constitutes a divorce.
South Sea Islands Tbe connec
tion burdly deserves the name of
marriage, us it is dissolved whenever
the husbuud desires a cbungc.
Corean The husband can divorce
bis wife at pleasure, and leave ber the
charge of maintaining their children.
If she prove unfaithful he cau put
her to death.
Siamese Tho first wifo may be di
vorced, but not sold, as the others
may be. She thcu may claim the
first, third and fifth child, and the!
alternate children are yielded to tbe
husband.
Arctic Regions When a man de-
sires a divorce, he leaves the house
iu anger and does not return for
several days. The wife understands
the hint, packs her clothes and
leaves. . , . j
Drues and Turkomans Among
these people if a wife asks her hus
band's permission to go omt, and he
says -Go," without adding, "but
come buck again," bhe is divorced.
Though both parties desire it, they
cannot live together without being
re-married.
Cochin Chinese If the parties
choose to separate they break a
Kuir of chopsticks or copper com in
the presence of witnesses, br which
actiou the union is dissolved. Th
husband must restore to the wife the
property belonging to her prior to
marriage.
American Indiaus Among some
tribes the pieces of stick given to the
witness ol the marriage are burnt as
a sigu of divorce. Uauully new con
nections are formed without the old
one being dissolved. A man never
divorces bis wife if she Los bora him
sons.
Tartars Tbe husband may put
away bis partner aud seek uu
other whenever it pleases him, and
his wife mav do the same. If she be
illtreuted, she complains to tbe ma
gistrate, who, attended by some of
tbe principal people, accompanies
her to the bouse and pronounces a
formal divorce.
Chinese Divorces are allowed in
cases of criminality, mutual dislike.
incompatibility of temper, or too
much loquacity on tbe part of tbe
wife. The husband cannot sell the
wife until she leaves him and be
comes a slave to him by action of
the law for desertion. A son is
bound to divorce his wife if she
displeases his parents.
Circassian Two kinds of divorces
are granted Circassia, one total, and
the other is provisional. W here tbe
first is allowed tbe , parties can im
mediately marry again; when the
second exists the cpuple agree to
separate for a year," and if, at the
expiration of that time, the husband
does not send for his . wife, her re
latives may compel him to a . total
divorce.
Grecians A settlement was usual
ly given to a wife at marriage for her
support in case of divorce. The
wife's portion was then restored to
her, and tbe husband to pay monthly
interest for its use during the time he
detained it from her. ' Usually the
men could put their wives away on
slight occasions. Even the fear of
having to large a family sufficed.
Divorces scarcely ever occur in Mod
ern Greece." '
Hindoos Either party, for a sin
gle cause, may leave the other and
marry again. Where a man calls
his wife "mother," jt is considered
indelicate, to live with her again.
Among one tribe, the "Garros," if
tho wife be unfaithful the husband
cannot obtain a divorce unless he
gives her all the property and. the
children. ,. A woman on tbe contrary,
may leave when she pleases, and
marry another man, and convey to
mm me enure property oi ner ior
mer husband.
-. Romans In olden times a man
might divorce his wife if she were
unfaithful, if she counterfeited his
private keys, or drank wine without
his knowledge. They would divorce
their wives when they pleased. Not
withstanding this, five hundred and
twenty-one years elapsed without one
divorce. Aiterwaras a law , was
passed allowing either sex to make
the application. Divorces then be
came frequent on the slightest pre
texts. Seneca says that some women
no longer reckoned the years bv tbe
Consuls, but by the number of their
huubands.5 St.' Jerome speaks '- of
a man who buried twenty wives, and
of a woman who buried twenty-two
husbands. The Emperor Augustus
endeavored to restrain this license by
penaitieB. jjenci ana liar.
Tbe Cincinnati Commercial says
that the Senate ought to fully develop
the powers of pur statesmen. . And
so it does.. . In a square-built, bang-
up, broad-guage game of draw-poker,
few players can hold four aces oftener
than your average United States Sen
ator. ' '; - - '"'-.
PKXCIL SOTKU V0031 Til IS YOMEMITK
HKOION.
"The moon is looking down into the
canon, and how marvelously the great
rdckskiudle to her light every dome,
mid brow, and swelling boss touched
by her white rays, glows, as if lighted
with snow. I um now only a mile
from last night's camp , and have been
climbing and sketching all day in this
difficult but instructive gorge. It is
formed in the bottom ot the main
canon, among the roots of Cloud's
Rest. It begius at tho dead lake
where I camped last night, and ends a
few hundred yards above, in another
dead lake. ' The walls everywhere are
cfaggy and vertical, aud in some pla
ces they overlean. It is only .from
twenty lo sixty feet wide, and not,
though black and broken enough, the
thin, crooked mouth of some myste
rious abyss ; for in many places I saw
tho solid, seamless floor. I am sitting
on a big stone', against which .the
stream divides, and goes brawling by
iu rapids on both sides; half my rock
is white in the light, half in shadow.
Looking from the opening jaws of this
shadowy gorge, South Dome is imme
diately in front high iu the stars, her
face turned from the moon, with the
rest of her body gloriously muffled in
waved folds of granite. On the left,
cut from Cloud's Rest by tho lip of
the gorge, are three magnificent rocks,
sisters of the great South Dome. On
the right is the massive, moonlit front
of Mount Wutkins, and between, low
down in the furthest distance, is Sen
tinel Dome, girdled and darkened
with forest. In the near foreground
is tho joyous creek, Tenaya, singing
against bowlders that are white with
snow. Now look back twenty yards,
and you will see a water-fall, fair as a
spirit; the moonlight just touches it,
bringing it in relief against the deep
est, dark back-ground. A little to
the left, and a dozen steps this side of
the fall, a flickering light marks my
camp and a precious camp it is. A
huge, glacier-polished slab, in falling
from the glassy flank of Cloud's Rest,
happened to settle on edge against,
the wall of the gorge. I did not
kuow that this slab was glacier-polished,
until I lighted my fire. Judge
of my delight. I think it was sent
here by an earthquake. I wish I could
take it down lo the valley. It is
about twelve feet square. Beneath
this slab is ihe only place in this, torrent-swept
gorge where I have seen
sand sufficient for a bed. I expected
to sleep on the bowlders, fur I spent
most ol the afternoon on the slippery
wall of the canon endeavoring to eel
around this difficult part of the goige,
and was compelled to hasten down
here lor water before dark. I will
sleep soundly on this saud; halt of it
is mica. How wholly infused with
God is this one big word of love that
we call the world ! Good night. Do
you see the fireglow on ray ice
smoothed slab ? And do you heir
how sweet a slccp-song the fall and
cascades are singing ?" From UA
Geologist" Winter W'tlk," in the
Ooerland Jlotdldy for A pril.
EXTntVAGANCE OK THK CiOVEO-V-31
EXT.
By the published summary ot the
appropriation bills for tho action of
Longresss iho present session we see
tbe total amount is a littlo over one
hundred and eighty-one millions of
dollars, and considering that the
amounts of some have been or are
likely to be increased, tbe total may
be set dowu probably at one hundred
and ninety millions. This, as our
readers are aware, is for current ex
penditures of the year, and does not
include interest ou the national debt.
Tho interest on the debt being about
hundred millions, the entire expen
diture will amount to two hundred
and ninety millions. But, deducting
the burden of the debt, which is a
legacy of the war, why is it necessary
in these times of peace that the cost
ot tbe government should be more
than double what it was thirteen
years ago ? Admitting' that the thir
ty millions for pensions is a proper
charge, and also a legacy of the war,
and as such deducting that from the
hundred and ninety millions, there is
still left a hundred and ninety mil
lions, as the current yearly cost of a
peace establishment. But the thirty-
two millions set down for the post
office department will be balanced by
the earnings of that department less
some five or six millions. That leaves
a hundred and thirty-four millions tor
the civil, military aud naval services,
and lor miscellaneous objects au
amount too largo by forty millions at
least. Under the Head of "sundry
civil expenses," apart from the regular
appropriations for every department,
the sum Bet down is nearly twenty
eight millions. What are these sun
dries that amount to as much as the
whole expenses of the government in
its purer days thirty or : forty years
ago t , We have fallen upon evil
times, when extravaganca and corrup
tion go hand in hand together. Xea
York Herald. ' -
A Vermont farmer Bent to an or
phan asylum for a boy that was 6mart,
active, brave, tractable, prompt, in
dustrious,' clean, intelligent, good
looking, reserved and modest. ' The
superintendent replied that their boys
were all human though they, were or
phans, and- . referred , him . to New
Jerusalem if he wanted to tret his
order filled. The farmer, in return,
wanted to know where th New Jera
salem was situated,, as he'd "never
hern tell on the blasted placejbefore.
A La Crosse, Wisconsin girl has
been turned out ol .ner house and
home for rubbing her cheeks against
her sister a husband's beard when
she wanted to get up a healthful
glow for a ball.
A cow at Rome, Ga., lay down re
cently and her tail lroze to the ground
A Southern paper, in giving a pathetic
account ot the atuir, says that when
the cow got up ' there 'was "another
I snap. - ' . - .
NO. 30
. MOW TO Kt'.V A PAPEH.
,t Don't, give it up so. A brother
editor is worried because he cannot
please everybody with his ' paper.
Better, givt up trying,: and run the
institution to suit yourself. Fairfield
Democrat. , , , .
. That is, the idea exactly. Run the
newspaper business 'as any. other
business is run. If an editor 'under
takes to please too many persons be
will please none, not even himself.
If a person has not judgment suffi
cient to run a newspaper oCice, Ui
had better abandon the business; and
if ho has judgment ample to make u
success out of it, be hud better ud
it, in preference to pulling too much
reliance upon other men's judgment,
who know nothing of tho business.
We know of no better way to do busi
ness than td do it according to one's
own judgment and capacity, and if
he finds that, be does not makei suc
cess at it, when cntire-ly relying upon
his own resources in these particulars,
be may put it dowu that he cannot
make a success by hearkening to every
body's suggestions that ' may come
along. A iriiiB must have a purpose
in view in every tiling be undertakes,
and must follow out that purpose
with all the resources he can com
mand. If ho relies upon others, be
will be one way of thinking to-day
and somebody else will put him in
another way of thinking to-morrow.'
Let every editor pubiUh an inde
pendent and hign-toned journal, and
publish it as tbe emeuation of his own
resources and purpose. Give to his
readers what he conceives to be the
true doctrines and principles, aud
not waver one particle, except as time
demonstrate errors. There will be
those who think such and such ar
ticles ought to bo published. Some
comiuiiuicatious ought to be publish-
eu aim some ought not to be. This
w
ll be accepted as an admitted fact
N
OW. Who IS to draw th divJ.liiwr
line between that which ought to go
in und reach the nubile fin1 that, wl, ;--!.
should not, but the editor? It is his
si
d
uty to exercise that judgment, and
if
ue uoes not, lie will publish a very
idificrcut and uninteresting narwr.
n
He
must exercise this nrirortiv
and make the paper hix paper and hi
uusiness a uusiuess upon which he
.(? r ,. ... ...
ties ior a livelihood, a newspaper
not a public institution. Tt i
private business, and should becon
ducted upon the same nrin(-in! .f
any other private business. The man
or men fehould be responsible, to the
public, and if the nublic t,ubiin it
they may rest assured that their
course is indorsed, and this is the
only crucible iu which to test any
niau h capacity to conduct tbe busi
ness iu which he mav ba piita',.,!
Burlington Gazelle.
noiV THE EOT ARISES.
Callin? & boV tin in tl.O m.il-ninrr
can hardly bet classed under the bend
oi pastimes, especially n the boy
is fond of exercise the day before.
And it is a little sinaular that the
next hardest thin?? to P-pitin a
out of Ld is getting him into it.
I here is rarely a mother who is a
success at routing a boy. All moth
ers knOW this: SO (, tlifcl'r L.rc
And yet tbe mother seems to go at it
n the ri"bt war. Kha nmn t! cir
door and insultingly observes: John
ny, mere is no response. "John
ny 1' Still no response. Then there
is a short, sharn
moment later bv a prolonged and em-
puatic "jonn Henry! a grunt from
the upper region signifies that au im
pressioa has been made, and the
mother is encouraged to a.f.l YmiM
belter be gettiiig down here to your
oreakiast, young man, before I come
up there an' irive vou Bompthinfr
you'll feel." This so startles the
young man that he immediately goes
to bleep ajrain.. Aud the operation
has to be repeated several times. A
father knows nothing about this
trouble. He rnerelv onenn hia in mi f h
as a soda bottle ejects iU cork, and
the "John Henry" that cleaves the
air of that stairway goes iuto that
boy like electricity, and pierces the
deepest recesses of his very nature.
And he pops out of that bed and in
to his clothes, down the stairs, with
n promptness that is commendable.
It is rarely a boy allows himself to
disregard the parental summons.
About once a year is believed to be
as often as is consistent with the
rules of health.; He saves hi f:itrfr
a good many steps by . his thought-
imness.
An editor is a man who livpa nn
what other people owe him until he
M. .1 . 1 A
starves to aeatn. . a subscriber is one
who takes a naner and s.ivm h is u-f 11
pleased With it, and he tells everv-
i . . j. -( . ... . .. .. .
oony eiso "no ought to subscribe."
After he he has suliscribed hrt
seven years, the editor writes to him
anu asks mm to let him have ?2.5 '
(two dollars and fiftv ccnts mid thon
the subscriber writes back to the edi
tor and tells him not to send his old
paper any : more, for there is nothing
in it, aud then the poor, editor goes
vna starves to death more. Shenan
doah Herald. :
The i 'summary ftyle they have of
doing little personal ' differences in
Kansas, is thus told in one case, by a
correspondent: f Wild Bill you re
member him? haa been A
gentleman from Texas whose brother
we wiia one uad sent to the spirit
laud, came up to Kansas to . have a
shot at William. He shot the wild
William so dead that he never quiv-
ereu. xuins oi a man s buying a
grand horse and riding him 900 miles,
last to kill a fellow: When tha T,J
shot Wild Bill,: he asked the crowd
in the oar-room if any gentlemen had
a desire to "mix in:" if nn h 'rnnM
wait until he "heeled," and take
great pleasure in Kijlmg him. No
gentleman expressing a desire to ; be
killed, the Texan got on hisM horse;
and remarking that he had business
in Texas, sloa y started for the Lone
Star State.
Busineno notlcro in thj Local Columns, 2j
cnt per line, each insertiiif,.
For legal and tron.icnf adrerti.em-r-ts 2 f. ;
per juiuore of 12 Um-.t, fr tlio nrt ii.-crtior .
and 81 00 per sqnar fo tach cuWrno.t in
sertion. ,
rejrtlTi.itvry Journal.)
r ' a stff cmi!i.v.a,
, . Tbe man loolred at bU boy proudly,
sternly, sorrowfully. The lad looked
into his father's face sadly, exulting
ly, heroically. It was a living table.
no arlist could reproduce. 'Billy,"
says tbe father, gravely, "I 'took
your mother and sister to church
yesterday." "Ye, hir." "And left
you to ,e to the thing?." "Yes.
sir," replied "the b y,. g-izing out
through iiin window at tli iukcr as
it hitcue-.l down tho gate-post,, and
finally dropped iiiio the gra-tn vi;h a
shrill cuirp. "And you Ji :.n t wa
uv the pigs" "O o-o! Ob, ir:
Geroudyi Oil, ije! ': La way, Li-vsy
iu6l"- Tne slender scion of ai arple
tree Tell iu tiie band of Mr. Coul
ter, and up from the jaelot of the
lad, like incense from su nVair, roar,
a cloud of dust mingled with tbe
Bap of jeans, Down iu tha youa;;
clovtr of the meadow the lark en a
sparrows sancheeiilv, tiic gnit
and flies duuet-d up. und down iu the
sunshine, tiie fie.-h soft leave of
vines rustled, snii all vvaj n.ei'ry
deed. UiiJy's even turned
toward the iiwu of Lis father in
the
tri
pealing agony, but slili with a sharp'
bies'the h witch cut the air, failing
steadily and mt-rcilesily on bis shoul
ders. And a'oijir the irrecn biiik-i of
the river, the willows fcbook their
shiny lingers at the lifting fog, and
the voices of children going by Vj
school smote the weet May vir.d.
"Oh, pup, I'li not forget the pigs
no more! " "'Sped you won't, nei
ther." Tho vtiud, by a ud '.en
lifted into tha room ;t shower of
white b!oofij (. petals' from a sweet
apple-tree, letting thfer fall grace
fully upon the patch-work cir.ct,
the while a yIow:iau whistled ihiiat-
ively in the distant fiiild. "Oatch.
Crackee! OL! pap, papf ''.ihut
your mouth, or I il split yo;i to th&
. o .
places iu the woo..'s. Low many cool
spots besides the iuur.uuri:ig river,
would have been more p'.eaiaut to
Billy than the place he then occupied.
"Oh, ine! oh, me'" ytllel the lad.
Stiil tbe dust rose and tiunccd in tha
slanting jatof the rUllliiit tliat fell
across tbe room, aod tha bens out at
the barn cackled und sang fr joy
over new eggs laid iu choice places.
At oue time during lbs failing of tlio
rod tbe girl quit wishing, and thnt-t-iug
her head iuto tha kitchen said iu
a subdued tone, "My hind, ain't Billy
gitten' an awful one?" "You're
mighty right." replied the mother
solemnly. Along toward the lasi
Mr. Coulter tiptcd at c-verv s!roke.'
The switch actually gj:r-nmeu t:irouifa
the air us it fell. Billy danced.'
"Novy go. sir!'' cried the v.zu, tak
ing the fiizzid stump of the gal ui
at the window. "Go now, aod the
next time you water theai pigs."
And, while the fiuch poured out u
cataract of melody from tbe locust,
be went. Poor boy! that wai
a terrible thrashing, aud, to inuke it
worse, it had been promised to him
the evening before, so tuat ho hud
been dreading it aud Liveriug over
it all night. Now, as ho walked,
through the breakfast-room, jis t-is-ter
looked at biia in a commiserating
way, but, on passing through the
kitchen be coulJ not catch tha cyo
of his mother. Finally he stood iu
the free, open air, iu front of tbo
closets. It was just tbea a speckled
rooster on the barn-yard fence Hop
ped his wings and crowed vocifer
ourly. A turkey-cock was struttiug
upon the gross by tbe old cherry
tree. Billy opened the door of the
closets. "A buy's will is tho wind's
will, and the thoughts of vouUi aro
long, long thoughts." Biil peeped
into the closets, and then cast o.
glance about him, as if to ee if any
thing was near. At length, duri -ga
pleasant lull ia the inorniug wind,
ai d while the low, tenderly weliow
flow of the river, wa3 .disticfcji: au
dible, aud the song cf the bach in
creased in volume, and tha bleating
of new lambs ia the meadow died ia
fluttering echoes under the barn, and
while the fragrance of apple-blooms
grew fainter, and while the sua, now
flaming just above the eastern tree
tops, launched a shower over him
from head to foot, he took froia un
der his jacket behiud a doublo
sheepskin, which, with an ineffable
smile, he tossed into the closet.
Then as the yellow flicker rose rapi 1
ly from the grass, -Billy walked off,
whistling the air of that once poou
lar ballad:
"Oh, give moback my fiftoeri cints."
The Sural New Yorker, of July
20, 1872 contained the remedy belovy
for dyspepsia, and in tho number for
November SOlh a correspondent sas
, , ..... - 1 .
ue uas inea it ana was cured in six
weeks. It is as follows: "Sweet
cream or milk, the richer tbe 1-oMter;
use as often :as convenient. hen
any burning or. sour sensation at the
st.omach appears, driuk a half pinfc of
sweet cream or milk, and relief U
evident. Make free use of it at meals.
Total abstinence from the usa of to
bacco, coffee, strong drink, or any
hing very sour, must bs strictly ad
hered to:; (; Coffee is the worst of- all
thingsfor dyspeptics."
From an Eastern exchange wo copy
this, which will lve equal applica
tion to thiscoast: Postage must bo pre
paid on allaiewspapers af ter the 1st
of July, 1873. j. There are no excep
tions to tlm rule. Country papers
do not go fre within the" county.
There appears to be soma doubl as
to this class of publication; but the
law includes them aud, all others.
The postage must be prepaid by the
publishers, aud subscribers will . be
caUed upon beforo the time fni9ntioB
ed to send to the office of publica
tion the acaout necessary to that cud.
; The. Hartford 'fost says: r "In the
introduction of postal cards vo are
behind Kngland, Germ-any, ' Switzer
land,'; Belgium f Hnll.wif, - N nrwny,
Sweden, Denmtr!, ' . Ru!xid. S;w:n.
Port ucal and Greece, on 1 ahoad &'i
1 the Modo.-s."