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Rockland Gazette : November 5, 1857 I t a r f e U t t h anti Jrintinjv PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVENING, BY . Having made large additions to our former variety of JOHN PORTER,::::::::::::::::Proprietor PLAIN AND FANCY Office, No. 5 Custom-House Block, J O 33 T Y P E , We are now prepared to execute with neatness and des patch, every description of Job Work, such as TERMS, Circulars, Bill-heads, Cards, Blanks, If paid strictly in advance—per annum, 81,50 Catalogues, Programmes, If payment is delayed 6 mos. “ 1,75 If not paid till the close of the year, 2,00 Shop Bills, Labels, Auction and Hand (ET No paper will be discontinued until all arreara­ Bills, &c., &c. ges are paid, unless at the option of the puplisher. Particular attention paid to ET Single copies, three cents —for sale at the office. IEZ All letters and communications to be addressed VOL. 12. ROCKLAND, MAINE, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1857. NO. 45. P HINTING IN COLORS, to the Publisher. B R O N Z IN G . &.C. ie saying that too many men make them-' My Wife saved it for Me. ’ For the Gazette. Wood sold in small Quantities. ■' A R omantic R eality.—The Cincinnati [Here is an excelleut articles from the New­ Colonel YeU’s First Court. M Y M O T H E R . selves slaves to mere sensuous gratifications. Gazette relates that a few days since a white- buryport Herald, which will commend itself to We copy the following from the New One hot July afternoon, when the air When Colonel Archibald Yell, afterwards This one puffs away a fortune in real Havan­ haired old man was standing in one of the I am weary and sad to-night, mother, York Daily Times:—Few are probably scorched tho lungs as it was breathed in, I every reader of sound, practical sense.] killed at the battle ol Buena Vista, had taken Lonely, weary and sad aware of the extent to which the practice, as. That one swallows it in the guise of and no business was stirring to keep the market places of that city recounting the in­ bis seat for tho first time upon the bench, in Ar­ champagne. Another puts it on the backs Let Them Learn Trades.—There is a very Thinking of time niis-spent, mother, so common to the cities of Europe, of selling brain from going to sleep, I lay and dozed cidents which had happened to him during a general disposition, especially among the weak­ kansas, the bar was composed of a set of law­ Of pleasures I might have had ; wood in small quantities at the groceries, of his wives and daughters in finery, or quietly and shadily iu my room, which over­ checkered existence. It seems that about er minded men and the softer class of women, yers, who had always browbeaten his predeces­ For early in life my restless heart has come to be adopted in this city. One sinks it in a costly house, or squanders it in looked the street. Presently there came twenty years ago he deserted, in a cowardly to have their boys come up without mechanical sors, and had their own way. Judge Yell de­ Tempted me far to roam, fine furniture which he is afraid to use. A mood, his wife and three children, living in trades or a knowledge of other manual labor, as termined to put a stop to this. The first case From the side of those who loved me best establishment engaged in bundling pine wood voices. Two men appeared to be in confab on the docket was called, and the plaintiff stood will convey an idea of the amount of wood fourth, even more silly, suffers a few fast on my doorstep. The windows were wide Lancaster, Pa., because he had no means of a reliance for future years. The other day an From my own sweet Meadow home. advertisement was inserted in our columns by a ready. It was a case that had been in litiga­ daily cut up and bundled for sale in this horses to eat it up in oats. Or they work open, but the shutters were closed, and their supporting them, and took to the sea, visited tion for five years. General Smoot arose for tha Kiud friends are round me to-night, mother, like broken down hacks in a mill, day in c .d various parts of the world—Europe, the Holy party wanting a lad fifteen or sixteen years old, way. Mr. John T. Barnard, and an asso­ voices came up to me with great clearness, with directions to apply at the Herald office.— defendant, and remarked, in an overbearing But my thoughts are far away, day out through a long life, to supply these Land, South America, (where he remained tone :—‘ Our witnesses are absent, and there­ Turning to lang-syne sunnied hours ciate, formerly kept a yard for the sale of so that I had no choice but to hear. The Forsever.il days boys were calling upon us to wood and charcoal. In 1850 he commenced or other factitious wants. All this, too, is tenor of their conversation was curious. several years,) California, and lastly China; know what store wanted a clerk, and several wo­ fore I demand that the case be continued until When I played in the new-mown hay, at the expense of the higher part of their next term, in course.’ > Or gathered lilies by the brook, to put up pine wood in small bundles, for One, it seemed, had life cheery and pleasant but in all his wanderings, poverty adhered men asked to bo informed if it was a diy good nature. They starve the mind to pamper to him, like the shirt of Nessus, and a few store that advertised. When they were told ‘ Let tbe affidavit.be filed, for not till then can Or scattered o’er the floor sale to families, and to the grocers to sell and Fortune’s wheel had revolved with a J entertain a motion for continuance,’ was the The mosses I gathered in many a nook again. He began with an old blind horse, the body. They reduce the intellect, the touch of his finger, turning all to gold. months ago he returned to New York, in­ that a boy was wanted for an apprentice to a mechanical trade most of them turned away reply of the Judge. I never may search out more. using an endless chain power, and employed heart, the soul itself to the base condition of The other was at the foot of the hill, and firm, needy, and almost worn out. He com­ • Do you doubt my word ns to tbe facts ?’— a bondman to flesh. They leave themsel.es menced a search for his wife and children and made no further questions, though the busi­ Our mountain oaks are as green, mother, three or four boys. His sales amounted to grey headed, as I afterwards discovered.— ness was such as pays to journeymen as much as Gen. Smoot exclaimed sharply, and involuntarily no leisure to study or reflect. Instead of raised liis huge sword cane. As when beneath their shade only two or three hundred bundles per week, Both were men past the middle age. Both among his old friends at Lancaster, but the the average income of lawyers, physicians, for the first month. Shortly, however, the gaining broader views as they advance in were to all appearance, hearty and of a long- deserted wife and one of her children had clergymen, editors, or teachers, in the State of ‘ VoZ at all,’ replied the Judge with his bland­ My elder brother and I, mother est smile ; ‘ but the law requires that the facta Our mimic lime-kilns made ; little bundles of kindling wood became pop­ life, their ideas become narrower and nar­ lived stock. Each had gone his way lain years in the grave, and the old man again Massachusetts It really began to lessen our rower, until, at last, they are mere drudges, set forth a wanderer and a stranger in the estimate of the common sense of the communi­ justifying a continuance must appear on record, But in this work-a-day world with its troubles and cares, ular, and in three months the business through life, and a chance meeting had led and tho court has no power to annul a law, nor I have tamed down the fancies wild and have no thought above what they shall theui°both to sit dewu on my doorstep to land. Chance directed his footsteps to Cin­ ty, to see how many parents wanted their boys doubled; he increased the number of his to measure muslins and sell tape, rather than any will to see it annulled.’ " liich revelled unchecked through long sunnied hours hands and in six months the business had eat and drink, or wherewith they shall be cool off in the shade, and they fell into an cinnati, and while he was relating his adven­ The Judge's calm and business like tone and In the brain of your careless child. clothed. I t would be infinitely hotter for to have a substantial business that would make doubled again. He now sells from four to earnest talk. Evidently schoolmates once, tures to a group of listeners, as above men­ them independent in any part of the world; and manner only served to irritate the bully, and he the happines of the individual, as well as They tell me years ago, mother, seven bundles a day, and sometimes nine of later years they lad seen a little of each tioned, a young cabinet maker paused to we had less hope for the future, when we saw retorted, shaking his sword-cane in the direction No form with yours could compare ; thousand.
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