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M BESSIE’S MISTAKE.
mT vounc nieces ana I—sitting dose-
W ' bis white German Stove ; for the
B''‘ marked forty degreea of frost, and a
m* >om u for coldness a thing to remem-
U) tike of in the days to come. It
I l '" 1 .„ in the evening, and the three girls.
■ f whom w»8 nearing sixteen, had just
°t th t inv weil-lovcd brother John—
WjZyluw *«P mother, who loved gaiety
I. ■■ M (»ir matures ftf J*ff-«ge are *P» to
■T;,*r departure in the freeing January
h had already, since the frost set in, nip-
H", life out of two coachmen on their boxes j
■ three sentries at their posts—in search of such
B .. t „ w. found at the ponderous entertain-
E up regardless of expense by the mer-
Btj.flnofi of the Free Town.
»„,!■ 5 i,,.j r ,] L -ar mother s death -a sad event
■ Mlt had happened six years before, time
■ r.tirifully softened to us all—l, being an tttd
Bj ~., | more than willing to make myself gen
s', iwfu!. had taken up my abode with John,
Br. lav,.red, to tne best of my ability, to sup-
B jjace of her whom they had lost. They
B ' i <■!:il*lien, affectionate and compliant. —
that which was said of me might be true,
|V , ili.it I over-indulged them as little ones,
8.»...1 lack of judgment as they grew older ;
■ iiguincnt from results, no great harm was
j.ilui was satisfied, and both before and
8,.* ml marriage everything went on
Btb.) in his household ; a state of things which
Blr and ar felld*, being of an indolent turn of
B was ipiite capable of appreciating at its
■ n . xs , (!l for our being at Hamburg during the
B ,viMt.T of 186 — were partly business ones.
B« V ife had been half a Dane ; and some
B'viw.c living at Affona being desirous of
■ , with their deceased kins-
B • ciiiluivn. it was decided (seeing that a
B. v.,- ,!,?•>• old bachelor uncle was failing fast)
E. u.m- do mid be lost in complying with hi 3
■ Mav''—we all called th) young step-
B, i ; i u -r t’hrisiiau naasi*, for she was young
i..cure,l -made no obj jetions; had she
B "•' hu v.have yielded at once. So we
Kg '■■■:■ party—via Hull, for our home was
K ~,( Jf i;:.g!:uul—to the cold but hospita-
B\,,r!i V: city.
H v y.-ars bvfcfe. when the girls were j
Hk ; hi.i.vd 1 .V. tie, the youngest, had not |
,B.t> ii.ee on life's stage—l hadac- j
iuv brother ami his family on a three
Hlk'visit to ill) place in which we had now,
B, ;mrl:nc:its on the Jungfernstieg. in
\. . \ s for the winter. Twelve years
■ ; u .i ,;i..- r d away since 1. a comparetivc
.; •, then, passe 1 a gay Hamburg win-
HtinV..v acquaintances, and cementing
B :-.-v with one whom I then thought a
f. i.non*st the rich inhabitants of the
B < ' It wa3concerning this last men-
B . ;.,»Y ;, 4 to whose character and merits I
■ h. covered that 1 had made a very
Hi.; meu'.n'. i’lat I was about —after scSme
H v tr ur. the irirls. to *tbdrn 1 had once prom-
B ry" api\)’.v)S of Hamburg society—as |
Ho.r s:u r-Mi't i the well heated stove, to open j
B . 1,, tof ray memory. Perhaps I was wrong
B.uv»,i» doing so. They were so young, it,
H.oviil tL.;t die knowledge which is required j
voreen v-i.-e should come by degrees, and
by the" precept upon precept ” which
Bhdpu> neutralize its ill effects; andso.be-
Biy n this possibility, I b«gan my tale as fol-
Ha prwtu-r or a iticr* warning Croat urt tllaii ]
Bmlo Ruckmann it woiild have been hard— |
■if year* &go. mind, darlings—to find. You
H] r «i»ab\y Soon be able to judge for yourselves
she has kept the promise of her youth ;
Bwur father heard yesterday that the Ruck-
Br* who hare been spending some time in
rt. intend shortly to return here for the
of the winter. Togo hack, however,
st. ry. Gertrude s mUtlifcr was atl English
au.l about two months before our depart-,
H*. '.a inu her acquaintance at home, and 1 1
»c ha I Kr.inie what girls edll friends—!
B 1 ■ dot fora aid to meeting her again in her
• av. »Vt Tp< rerv gay, fond of admiro
>l!y. in her way. clever ; and as she
■ • s. ; i up p v mutual consent the intimacy'
• !v;a ! _,un at home, it followed that
: - v ' ‘O' or.aiidv felt no shyness in talking
B tTV a, ''i Iter admirers, intrusted me with a
B ” u: yet the small secrets of her heart. — I
B vr but this is forestalling, was her
■ u,vi >. .: li-.ting tor a young officer in the Han
> : • t.v. vfit'se name was Compton, and
B ctaialy handsome, as well as agreeable.
I 50 justify her penchant.”
r ;• •' •" tinmy n irative I was momentarily
‘ : v ;t:: excited little spring from her place
B" 7 me of Minna, my second niece, j
B--* a nmianti*' little puss, who took pre
: in a love story. The approaching;
of the hero on the scene had been too ,
‘ '' T her equanimity, and hence the eager!
V vd by an exclamation of delight, which
I tfss fx. '.table sisters was summarily and i
HB 4 . V V' u » down.
I AKT ertipton.'' T continued, “made his fiM
** * aj! us as a single man—”
B .* 1! - "vs married I" in a voice of utter dis-
r.ui Minna, whilst even grave Laura ejaett-
V ajllt how very flat 1”
| U " ‘ Jr a n '*°ment, feeling sorry in my
‘ -he poor children s disappointment, and
I BU 80 ''Singly :
■ J wait a little, and listen patiently.
IN Smfltai &ul
VOL- VI.
my dears, you will perceive fthat the individual in
my story in whom I expect you will take the most
interest is not the handsome major who for a short
while turned all our heads, more especially that_of
Gertrude Ruckmann. When this girl, whom I
was enough to call, for a short time, my dear
est friend, was first introduced to Burford Comp
ton —he had Irish blood in his veins, which mjy
partly account for the peculiarities of his conduct
! —she hail not been many days in Hamburg. Her
1 youth S»td girlhood had been passed in England,
and the German relatives with whom she had
come to spend the winter mohths being quiet un
worldly people, there is little chattte oi.their young
guest becoming early initiated into tne gossip and
on dits of Hamburg soejety.
I “ The ball at which Gertrude Ruckmann made
her debut was as brilliant an affair as money and
liberality combined could make it. The festive
entertainment was given by the gay young mer
cautile bachelors of the'city, foreign as well as
German, and the cost of it was said to be prodig
ious. By some it was estimated at 100,000 marks,
but that roust, I think, have been an exaggeration,
I shall never totally forget our first dibner at a
table d’ liote, for that dinner was at the Hotel Pe
tersborough, where a number of young men, who
were seated opposite to our party, gave free veiit
to their high animal spirits, whilst they discussed,
now in English and now in German, the arrange
ments for the. already famous fete, which was in
a few more days to ‘ come off.’ Amongst those
who were most remarkable for their reckless talk
and extravagant propositions stood first and fore
most a young officer—for such he, even to our un
' initiated minds, appeared to be—whom we were
j destined to know later as Major Burford Comp
j ton. I can see him now in his fair Saxon beauty
—blue-eyed, brown haired, tawny-bearded! That
handsome beard of his was, I ri collect, a subject
for good-humored chaffing amongst his friends;
for, as it would appear, foreign officers are obliged
to be closely- shaven, and Compton, who had been
six months on leave in England, could hard y ven
i ture to report himself at headquarters with that
j decidedly ornamental appendage to his face. Ihe
! dinner, as is always the case in Germany, was a
I very long anali 1 ; and as it progressed our neighbors
grew more sue! more uproarous, sending the cham
pagne corks right up, when the startling -pop’
came, to the vaulted skylight above our heads;
and at last-, when the numerous courses had been
discussed, and only the dessert remained upon the
table, coolly taking up their cigars, preparatory to
then and there enjoying the ‘smoke in which
their souls delighted. Y ou may suppose that, after
such a demonstration on their parts, our stay
amongst those noisy, light hearted, and, I fear a
little-excited young men was but short. \oui
dear father was evidently a trifle put out ; for. as
: he said, ho was an old-fashioned person, and could
! not bring himself to approve of tobacco smoke be
iug r uffed from strange men's lips into the faces
• of hU womankind.
| And what a conceited looking fellow the fair
: good looking one is!' said your poor dear mother
when we began to talk them over.
“In this opinion I was inclined to agree; but
yoUf father, although strongly objecting to any
thing approaching to puppyism, differed a little
to mv surprise—from us both.
“‘ I don t know when I have ever seen so pleas
ant a face,’ was his remark, as he warmed his
hands over the big white earthenware stove that
stood in the corner of our sitting room. 4 So thor
oughly English! A countenance which makes
one feel it would be so impossible to mistrust the
man I J must inquire who he is—no common
character, I'll be bound;’
“ It was thus that my brother spoke of the hand
some soldier, who, little more than a week later, I
watched evidently making himself so agreeable to
Gertrude Ruckman on the night of the famous
bachelor ball. She had danced with him twice,
and I was admiring—l hope without a shade of
envy— the beautiful color which exercise and
pleasaut excitement had called to her cheek, when
your dear mother, who had been for some time in
close converse with a Hamburg lady who was con
nected with her by marriage, approaching the
place where I was standing, and said in tt low
voice:
“ ‘ I have been hearing the strangest story about
Majof Compton. He seems to be very unfortu
nately situated. He is a married man which I
for one never should have guessed —but his wife
and he—owing, as most people say, to her bid
conduct—live apart. She Is in England at pres
ent, and I shdiild think it would be just as well to
give Gertrude Ruckmann a hint of her existence.
Only look how she is going on with him!’
“ Poor girl! she was indeed, as your dear moth
er in her impressive way described it, going on— j
whispering, flirting, receiving his attentions with I
such sweet smiles of encouragement! It was in ,
truth time to open her mind to the melancholy
fact, that she Gertrude Ruckmann. could not, in
the normal order of things, hope to be Major
Compton s wife.
«* My deafest Gertv.’ I whispered to her, the
moment I found my friend alone (I hated the task ]
before me, and being young and fooiish, my heart
was beating fast,) ‘ have you heard about Major
; Compton ?’
“ She answered me with provoking composure :
| “ • What about him ? Is anything the matter ?
j lie was here talking to me three minutes ago. and’
! —with a coquettish smile— ‘ will probably three
minutes hence be here again.’
“ • O. don't talk so !’ I said excitedly ; * but you
won t when you know all.’
*• * Know what ? My dear Bessie, what a fuss
you are in!’
“ * And so trill you be.’ I exclaimed, a little pet
. tishly I fear, for her way of taking the matter pro
voked me, • when you hear that Major Compton is
a married man.’
‘“Greatly to my surprise and dismay, Gerty at
this announcement laughed contemptuously.
' ‘“So people sav,’ she rejoined carelessly ; 4 but,
my poor Bessie, you will learn in time that you
cannot always judge correctly from appearances.—
But here he is,’ she whispered ; 4 not a word more '
I will tell >ou everything to-morrow.’
“ This she did, and the ‘ everything ’ amounted
to this, namely, that Burford ComptonTjhad. by
his own account, providentially discovered that an
informality in his marriage with one who—ac
cording to his'version of the case —was simply "de
testable. empowered him at .any Slcwnent to free
bimselffroin his kated bon<N *»?ite himself,
should he so choose/Ttcfa tewe c'Jft^HlafparFnerT'
“ * I never heard of a more odious woman ?’ said
Gertrude, on whom the details of the miseries by
which the handsome Major's conjugal life was em
bittered had evidently made a deep impression.—
4 She is a foreigner, and |has not, he ;says, a single
nice English habit. And then she is so iil-tem
pered, and so dreadfully unfeeling. The poor lit
tle boy was lost,—is supposed to have falleii into
the Alster—just the very day before the great frost
set in. Major Compton says that he was in des
pair, but that she took it so coolly ! Even when
she w r as told that it might be weeks, or even
months, before the poor child's body could—thanks
to a thaw—be sought for, and possibly recovered,
she seems to have shown no signs of emotion.’
44 4 And where is Mrs. Compton now ?’ I asked,
feeling, I must own (so apt are we to be run away
with by strongly urged testimony, especially when
that testimony eomes from the lips of one who has
a right to be well informed on the matter.) a con
siderable leaning in the way of sympathy toward
this ill-mated Englishman.
44 1 don’t know—traveling somewhere, I believe.
Major Compton is quite sure she is running him
into debt; but he shrinks, poor man, so’ sensitive- I
ly from taking the necessary steps to restrain her. !
It reai'y seems a sad case. And he has such a
kind heart; and actually cannot live, he says, with
out sympathy and affection.’
“After this, Major Compton—of whose married
life, by the way, very little was kiiowD in Ham
burg—became a frequent visitor, both at our house
and the one where Gertrude Euckmanu temporar
ily resided. We all liked him ; indeed he was uni
versally popular, and society was apparently Unan
imous in the opinion that the lady .who had been
so little known in the city—indeed she had only
“esided therein for one short fortnight, the fort
night preceding the loss of her little boy—was the
one r>f the two who was solely and cntiudy in fault.
't he excellence, the perfection of his temper, and
the kindness of Burford Compton's heart, spoke
in a manner not to be mistaken in every feature of
his handsome sane. There covld be no mistake
about it, les absents out toujours tort; and Mrs.
Compton—or Countess Fenigstein, a® her husband
said she insisted, notwithstanding his great objec
tion to her doing so on being called—was repro
bated and abused accordingly.
Well, to cut a long s'ory short, Gertrude im
pressed with the belief that the major was in real- j
icy a single man, grew as attached to him as her!
nature was capable of being. That she would one j
day — when the truth concerning his marriage with j
his supposed wife should be made apparent —be ,
led to the altar by her fascinating admirer, the ;
infatuated girl firmly believed ; ahd it was when j
this blissful dream was at its height that the frost j
broke up, the passage of the Elbe became open sos j
steamers, and the hour of our departure drew nigh.
But before we took our leave of the pleasant sun
ny Jungfef&steig. we were made cognizant of the
fact that the search in the now unfrozen watets df
the Alster. for the bodies df those MdibSe remains
had beefl for months locked up therein, was taking
place. Many w-ere taken out, but amongst them,
much to the surprise of Hamburg society, was hot
the little six-years old corpse of Major Compton's
son. He, during that trying season of suspense,
remained in his own apartments; but it leaked
out that bis state of excitement was most interest
ing, and public sympathy with his sufferings was
proportionately great. It had hardly begun to
subside when our party—something to my regret,
sos we left many kind friends behind us—found
ourselves steaming rapidly away in the John Bull
to London.
444 And flow, my dears,” I continued, “ comes the
pith and marrow of a story which you have, I fear,
found lacking in interest, but which I have under
taken to tell in order that you may see the advan
tage of looking before you leap, or, in other words,
of not being carried away by your impulses.
“ I had not been more than a week in London
before I received a letter, in an unknown but for
eign hand, signed Marie Compton, nee Fenigstein,
requeuing me in meek yet urgent terms to meet
her. at any hour w*>ich it pleased me to appoint, in
Kensington gardens. You may imagine my sur
prise. For a short time I hesitated as to whether
or not I should accede to this strange request, but j
curiosity got the better of every other feeling, and .
I jvent.”
44 And what was she like f O, Aunt. Bessie, how
oddly yah mast have felt!”
« Oddly, indeed, and a good deal ashamed of my
self, too. wh°n I looked at the sweet gentle face,
and heard the plaintive uncomplaining words of
the woman who had come to meet me.
‘“You will forgive me, wont you? You IcOk
kind, and you will tell me how I can make my
English husband love me ?
« ,'his was the burden of her piteous soDg. She
! had heard that he had been much with os and with
Mademoiselle Ruckmann. and she hoped to learn
! from me how, with all Her love for him, she had
failed to win his tenderness. There was no ieal
-1 ousv. no word of complaint of him , only a break
ing heart clinging to a last and well nigh desperate
hope! What could I say to her ? How preach
1 to that gentle creature on the text of her great
FOR THE RIGHT—JUSTICE TO ALL.
BAIXBKinOB BA., MAY 4th J 872;
folly She had given up all for love, and what
was left to:her in exchange ? Simply nothing!
*• W e talked together long, and she seemed to
take such comfort from my {sympathy, that we
parted like friends of years.^Afterward I learned
that heV appearance,_her„ words and? manner, had
not belied her character. time I
speak of j,Was
staying with his people, who fully recognized her
sweet and
I am doubtful whether she was not in fault there,
doing eYll that good might dome—had never been
lost at aJL, but was taken away by his anxious
motbjr, flsir hiHi the'effectsol evil ex
■ ample ; the example of a parent who, whilst caring
nothing for the boy, amused himself by teaching
the little fellow to drink, and use bad words. Ah,
hers was a hard life, fpoor.sdui, and certainly she
acted for the best.”
44 did it end ?”.~ 44 Did she go back to
him?” 44 And are they happy were the
questions with which, in their haste to hear the
sequel, I was simultaneously assailed by my young
auditors.
44 Yes,”. I "answered dreamily, for my tiifughts
were with the pastthe poor thing reamed to
her loving mate, for her sense of duty was strong.
Happily, however, for her—although
whether she ever realized that trutfi—Major
Compton was killed *sooned after in a duel, £nd
she, I
child, which is the. source of all jier
piness.” f
44 How sad !’’ murmured Minnie; 44 1 was so in
hopes that she and her husband would have been
happyYogethfer in the end.”
44 It may be,” I said, 4 ‘ that?;to the last poor Mrs.
Compton shared that hope; b**' -ear children,
remember this that in marrying a thoroughly sel
fish man who has no principle to guide him
straight, a woman’s chances against shipwreck of
her happiness are simply nil. And now, for the
fire is burning low, suppose we take ourselves to
b6d. It is ten cblock, and we must not forget our
beauty sleep.”
Half an hour afterward the girls were in the
land of dreams, whilst I, as middle aged folks will
lay long awake, thinking of the days gone by, and
the youth which had fled away forever.
{low to Live Ijoiigr*
Thcv*live longest, ‘‘as a class, who lead
calm and even lives, mentally and physic
ally ;who are most exempt from the turmoil"
and shocks and strains which are incident
to human existance, and who are assured of
to-morrow’s bread'. There is no one thing
aside from the blessedness of an implicit
reliance on the providence of God, which
has such a direct influence in promoting
longevity as an insurance, felt to be Well
grounded, of a comfortable provision for
life, for ali the ordinary wants of oitr Station.
Kot long ago a man died in a poor house in
England, where he had been taken care of
for ninety years ;he had no anxieties for
to-morrow’s bread, he had no quarter’s day
to provide against in default of which wife
and children would be turned into the street
from the doors of the elegant brown stone
mansion. He had no notes to meet in the
bank, which if not paid by a day and an
hour would involve protest and financial
ruin. Ah this load of debt, how it grinds
one’s manhood to powder ; how it agonizes
the sensative heart ; how it shames a mans
honor *; how it has driven to desperation, to
drunkeness, to suicide, to murder! How
the anguish of it takes energy and health
out of a man, and makes him pine and
languish for weary days and weeks onbedß
of thorns, which pierce through the body
into the soul!
So, one good way to avoid sickness and
premature death is to avoid debt as you
would the devil.
A Hint to SancttHil fcdtirigers.
'The following little bit of advice, which
we find in the Summit Times, will suit sev
eral other localities.
Don’t take a seat at ye itemizer’s table and
read all‘his papers while he is busy. If
you w-ant a certain paper, ask for it, and
take it off a little to one side for perusal.
Don’t sit right in front of him, or close by Lis
side, so that you can note every movement
of his pencil, and hear the sizzling of a
brimestone, idea which accidentally strikes
him under such circumstances. Don’t
elevate your feet upon his desk. Don't con
sider it your duty to call every time the
mail is brought in, to take all the freshness
out of the newspapers by a first perusal.
I Don’t take things so confounded easy in
■ the workingmans sanctum. You may dis
turb him. You are in imminent danger of
laboring him. You run the risk of scatter-
I in? his thoughts to the four winds, and thus
robbing the world of many brilliant scintil
lations.’ He may think “damn it” when he
' ought to be praying; You are the prolific
cause of many short cummings, and are re
sponsible for a considerable amount of pro
fanity. Kightly considered, an editors
sanctum is the most unsuitable place in the
world for spending “idle hours,” and should
never be resorted to until all other imagin
able schemes and appliances have been fairly
tried.
The Story of a Born Thief*
The New York Tribune, of Tuesday, tells
i the story of one of ike most Remarkable
swindlers all things considered, of whom
we hare ever heard.—He is represented as
of a family ‘pre-eminent since colonial times,
for alert intellect, scholarly culture, nervous
honorable sensibilities and
lack of finnancial ability—a race of cavaliers
but this man was fettrn an incurable thief,
who began to steal when he began to walk
though surrounded by the purest home and
Christian inflcnfes which could be brought
to bear upon him. He stole lead, iron, his
sisters’ jewelry—fevery thing in short, he
could lay his hands upon, and without the
slightest regard to whether it could or could
not have any value for him. When he was
eighteen years old, his thefts reached the
dignity of grand larceny, and for one crime
of this sort he was arrested and thrown
into prison. He suffered from epilepsy and
confinement brought on a fever, and finally
he was pardoned on condition of close con
finement in his father’s house for a term Bf
years.
These years proved of intense physical
pain, and during the time part of his limbs
decayed and fell off in consequence of the
fever. While confined in this manner in a
close chamber in a country village, he devot
ed himself to hard study, and a serious of
frauds hardly matched in the calender of
crime for subtlety and audacity combined.
Lying on his back, says the Tribune, “he
carried on correspondence with bankers,
poets, and scientific men here and in Europe.
He personated a dozen different characters;
drew a large income by means of forgeries;
supplied himself secretly with the opium
on which he lived; established a credible
position in literature; edited and introduc
ed the works of'a noted English author to
the American public and swindled not only
an English poet, but one of the shrewdest
of Boston publishers. So genuine was the
strength displayed in these letters, and so
delicate were the sensibilities, that many of
the friends who know him only by letters,
believe in him still.—For the last fifteen
years his course has run alternately through
insane and inebriate asylums, the highest
religious and social circles of the South and
West, and jails and penitentiaries. He has
played the role, successfully, of soldier,
preacher and tbacher, only to prove hiinself
a thief in all, when he knew to thieve was
immediate and sure destruction.”
TVhat Washington knew about farming
was worth knowing. In 1?87 he had five
hundred and eighty acres in grass ; sowed
six hundred bushels in oats, seven hundred
acres of wheat, and as much more in com,
barley, potatoes, beans, peas, &c., and one
hundred and fifty with turnips. His stock
consisted of one hundred and forty horses,
one hundred and twelve cows, two hundred
and thirty-six: working oxen, heifers and
steers, and five huiidred SHfeep. He con
stant ly employed two hundred and fifty,
hands, and kept twenty-foiir ploughs going
during the whole year, when the earth and
the state of the weather would permit. In
In 1790 he slaughtered one hundred and
fifty bogs for the use of his own family and
provisions for his own negroes.
The Texas papers say that the rains which
iatSty visited that State came too late to
save many thousand head of stock from
starvation. Last summer was hot and dry,
and cold, and as a consequence, when Win
ter set in the te was neither hay, grass nor
water for the immerlsh herds. More snow
fell than is usually seen, adding still another
trouble; and Texas papers report that any
number of cattle literally starved to death.
In Victoria, Dewitt and Gonzales counties
the loss is estimated at forty thousand head,
and other counties are greater lossers.
A Hint to Grumblers. — ■* What a noisy
world this is!” croaked an old frog, as he
squatted on the margin of the pooL
“Do you hear those geese, how they
scream and hiss ?” “ What do they ild it
for?”
“ Oh, just to amuse themselves,” answer
ed a little field mouse.
“ Presently we shall have the owls hoot
ing. What is that for ?
“It’s the music they like the best,” said
the mouse.
“ And those grasshoppers—they can’t go
home without grinding and chirping. Why
do they do that ?”
“ Oh, they’re so happy, they can’t help
it,” said the mouse.
“ You’ll find excuses for all : I believe
you don’t understand music, so you like
the hideous noises.”
“ Weil, friend, to be honest With you,”
said the mouse, “ I don’t greatly admire
any of them ; but they are all sweet in my
; ears compared with the constant croaking
of a frog.”
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The Local Paper.
Aii intelligent persons admit the impor
tance of a good local paper. Such a. jour
nal is worth fifty to a hundred 'dollars io
every commercial man in tke town in which
.it isbublished, cveu if he never puts tax ad*
vertisoment in it. If lie is a judicious ad
vertiser, it is worth still more, to him. It is
the local paper that does more tfcUh afiy
one interests in buildifig tip a town. If m
good one, eveis Citizen is indebted to itt
But this Ideal pdjver ifiUst U supported either
at home dr from abroad by advertising pat
ronage, The subscriptions are insignificant
in the support of a paper, dTrtytcrmakeit*
good advertising medium.
If the local merchants do not support it|
it must draw its support from abrdad. The
more of its patronage it is forced to get
abroad from enterprising advertisers, the
more business is drawn from the communi
ty in which it is published. The best thing
therefore, a community can do is to sustain
its local paper, ahd not forth it to seek Act*
vertising patronage from foreign merchants
Who seek trade at the expense of the local
merchants.
Merchants and business men ought to be
sagacious enough to see these points, and
act accordingly. Sustain the local paper
liberally, but judiciously, and not force it to
seek patronage from the more enterprising
men abroad. The more foreign advertise
ments appear in the local paper, the mbre
trade of such towns will be attracted .to en
terprising business houses abroad. Business
men too often fail to see their own interests
in their disposition to be 4f peny wise and it
pound foolish.”
Be Sensible.
Do not be above your business He whd
tnrns up his nose at his work quarrels with
bread and butter. He is a poor smith whe
is afraid of his own sparks : there is soma
discomfort in all trades except chimney
sweeping If sailors give up going to sea
because of wet ;if bakers left off baking
bread because it is liot work ; if plowmen
would not plow because of cold ahd heat;
if tailors would not make our clothes for
fear of pricking their fingers, what a pass
we would come to. Nonsense, my fino
fellow, there’s no shame about an
calling ; don’t be afraid of soiling your
hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
You must not be afraid df iirdrk if yoh
■wish health and wealth. You cannot get
honey if you are frightened at bees, nor
plant com if you are afraid of getting mud
on yotir boots.
When bars of iron melt under the south
wind ; when you can dig the fields with
toothpicks ; blow sbipfl along with fans j
manure the crops with lavender water, and
grow plum cakes in flower pots, there
will be a fine time for dandies ; but until
the millenium comes we shall all have a
deal ta put up with.
The Liberal Republican Party*
The speeches of Senators Trumbull;
Schurz and Grantz Brown have placed an
impassible barrier between themselves and
the administration or Grant party. They
cannot go back and they must go forward.
They are terribly in earnest, and they have
buckled on their armor and entered thb list
for the fi&lii Already tiieir adherents are
numbered by hundreds of thousands id
every section of tho country. The Cooper
Institute meeting last week was a magnific
ent success. It looks like sounding tnS
death-knell oi centralization, corruptioii,
military usurpation and political bstracismi
The prospect is* briglit, Arid iKe political out
look betokens an uprising of the people of
the whole country who oppose centraliza
tion and favor ah honest Administration of
the Government, with a return to the ,prin
ciples of the earlier and better days of the
Republic. We of the South can only watch
arid wait The ddetriries of Truriibhll,
Schurz and Brown will be endorsed by the
honest and intelligent Republican masses-m
the Middle and Western Stated. With a
respectable candidate on their Liberal[plat
form, there is a strong probaility tliat the
new movement will be successful m the
Presidential election. We published yes
terday £he substance of the df Sena
tors Trumbull and Schurz. To-day we
published the speech of Gov. Gratz Brown,
delivered at Topeka, Kansas. We devote
a great portion of onr space to these sp*»
ches because we fed confident no more- ac
ceptable matter could be presented to our
readers.
■ Ma,” said a little boy, “has aunty goi
bees iri her mouth ?” No, my dear ; why dd
you ask?” “Cause Captain Jones caught
hold of her, and said he was going to taka
honey from her lips ; and she said, “well
haste ”