Fort Atkinson Standard (Newspaper) - November 15, 1860, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin THE STANDARD is PUBLISHED at Fort The STANDARD be furnished Subscribers at a yearr jn RATES OF One column one Half column one t 2500 Quarter of column one 15 00 one 10 00 00 3 1 Business one 5 00 JOB and every kind of plain and printing done at the STANDARD office in. a neat and workmanlike and at Cur All letters should be addressed to J. C. The world is half darkened with croakers Whose burdens are weighing them dovt n. They croak of their stars and ill And grope in the dark for a folk to the wind of thy Or clutch at distinction and gold If them canst not reach high on the canst steady its base by thy hold. Tor the flow though hid in Will as finish its ill for a sparkle of sunshine That clouds not chanced Ami would thou be less a flower With and a and a wait for the dribbles of hen thei u's something that these may com- mand food to be won from the And that want to be hett n Tin re s marble untouched by the Days that bieak not on the forehead of Will you let the plow rust in the furrow a house or a hall NOT hid the stones awake from their silence And fret as if fretting were all 1 Go learn from the blossoms and There s something your labor must Like the that pierces the Strike the clod trom thy path and Lhe not trail thy face in the dross in the track of the brainless and proud Lift the away from thy Thou rt robbing the dead of a There are words and pens to be There arc thoughts that would die if unsaid thou saunter aw ay amid Or sepulcher dreams that are dead No drag the hope to the Dreams dead honi the ashes Look not n ou the for its There is sunlight for thee in the AS YOU HAVE BV T. 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Mr. Frazier sat reading in his He was in the midst of a piece of interesting when a lad came to the floor and Do you want a sir Without his eyes from the Mr. answered u to the and in rather a rough Before the lad reached the con- had compelled the merchant to listen to a rebuking You might have spoken kindly to the poor at said This is an Mr. Frazier let the paper fall from be- fore his and turned to look at the He was twelve years to but The merchant tapped against one of the in the and the boy glanced back over A bigu from the merchant caused him to re- What did you say just now Do you want a sir The lad repeated the words he had a few moments Mr. Frazier looked at him with a denly awakened He had a girlish dark brown eyes and though slender and delicate in stood and with a manliness of that showed him to be already con- scious of duty in the But there did not teem to be much of that stuff in that is needed for the battle of Take a said Mr. an involuntary respect for the lad getting session of his The boy sat with his clear eyes fixed on the merchant's How old are you I was last replied the What splendid said the ant to And I have seen them dark and lustrous as a an's Away back in the past the thoughts of 3Ir. Frazier borne on the light from those beautiful and for some ments he forgot the present in the But when he came back intp the present he had a softer heart towards the stranger You should go to school for a year or two he I must help my replied the Is your mother very poor Yes and she's The lad's voice and his soft woman's eyes grew brighter in the tears that filled Mr. Frazier had already forgotten the point of interest in the news after which liis mind was searching when the boy in- I don't want a boy said Mr. may be I might good word for and that would help you I think you would make an useful But you are yes I am strong And the hoy stood up in a brave The merchant looked at him a steadily increasing J. Editor EQUAL RIGHTS AND JUSTICE TO 50 A IN Vol. 2. FORT is your he Charles There was an instant change in the merchant's and he turned his face so far away the boy's eyes could not see its For a long time he sat still and long that the boy Is your father living Mr. Frazier did not look at the but still kept his face His voice was low and not very No He died four years Where The voice was quicker and In long since you came to Two Have you been in this city ever since No We came here with my un- cle a year But he died a month our What was your uncle's name Mr. There came another long during O which the lad was not able to see the merchant's But when he did look at him there was such a new and kind expression to the eyes which seemed almost to devour his that he felt an assurance in his heart Mr. Frazier was a good and would be a friend to his Sit there for a little said Mr. and turning to his desk he wrote a in without permitting the lad to see what he was he enclosed two or three bank this to your he handing the note to the You'll try arid get me a won't you The boy lifted to him an appealing O You shall have a good But you haven't told me where you At Melon Very Mr. Frazier noted down the street and And now take that note to your The merchant did not resume his paper after the lad He had lost all interest in its For a long time he safe with his hands shading his so that no one saw its If spoken to on any he answered and with nothing of his usual in- terest in The change in him was so marked that one of his asked if he were not I feel a little was evasively an- Before his usual time MT. zier left the store and went As he opened the door of his the dis- tressed cries and sobbings of a child came with an unpleasant shock upon his He went up stairs with two or three long and entered the nursery from which the cries What is the darling he as he caught the weeper in his What ails my little Maggy sobbed the clinging to his and laying her wet face close to said Mr. looking at the speaking with some ness of why is Maggy in this manner The girl looked excited but She's been was her No I aint been said the child lt I didn't want to stay here all and she pinched me and slapped me so hard and the child's wail rung out and she clung to his Has she ever pinched and slapped you before asked the She does it most every answered the little Why haven't you told me She said she'd throw me out of the window if I told Oh dear oh Don't let her do It's a exclaimed the Just look at my poor The child said this in a with her lips laid close father's Mr. and baring the child's leg to the saw that it was eted with blue and all above the there were not less than a en of these disfiguring He ined the other tad found it in the same Mr. Frazier loved that child with a deep She all to Her between whom and himself there never had been any died two years and since that his pre- cious apple of his been left to the tender mercies of hired over whose conduct it was ble for him to have any right He had often feared that Maggy was troubled himself oa her a suspicion of cruelty like this never came into his imagination as Frazier was profoundly but even in his passion he was he said I wish you to leave Mr. Silence He so stern and even in his suppressed ance of the Jane and left the room Mr. Frazier rung the and to the waiter who answered See that Jane leaves the house at I have discharged Send her trunk er she may wish it Here is the money that is I must not see her As the waiter left the Mr. zier hugged his child to his heart and kissed her with an eagerness of ner that was unusual with He was but quiet in his Now the sleeping impulses of a strong heart were all awake and In a back chamber sat a ing a letter which had just been left her by the Thank God she as she finished reading and her brown eyes were lifted It looked very but the morning has broken she A quick step was on the and the door was pushed hastily The boy entered with an excited I'm going to have a er he cried to the moment his feet were inside the The pale woman smiled and held out her hand to her He came quickly to her There is no necessity for your getting a place We shall go back to mother The boy's face was all aglow with Here is a letter from a gentleman in New who says that he is directed by your uncle Wilton to pay our passages to if we will God is my Let us be Charles now drew from his pocket the note which Mr. Frazier had given and handed it to his What is this she The gentleman who promised to get me a told me to give it to The woman broke the There were three bank of ten dollars en- and this brief sentence written on the sheet of paper God pent your son to a true Take Let him come to me Who gave you this she Her pale face was growing warm with den A but I do not know who he I went into a gieat many stores to ask if they didn't want a and at I came to one where the gentleman was who bent you this He spoke roughly to me at and then called me back and asked me who I was my I told him your and how father had died and jou weie Then he sat a good while and didn't and then he wrote the and told me that he Mould get me a He was a if he did speak roughly at tee what name was on tho sign I never thought to replied the I was so glad when I came But I can go straight to the will write the gentleman a thanking him for his and you must take it to him in the How light it makes my heart feel to know that we are going back to dear God is to my and we must be obedient and Just a little before the evening twilight word came up to the woman that a gentleman had and wished to see Go and see who it she said to her mother It's the gentleman who sent the exclaimed in an under coming back And he wants to see Can he come up There was a hasty glance of the woman's eyes around the room to see if everything was in then a few slight changes in Ask him to come my she and Charles went down stairs A man's firm tread approached the It was and the boy's er and his friend looked into each other's Edward fell from her lips in a surprised and she started from her and stood before him strongly He not ing until he had taken her by the I never thought to see you He said it in a evenly modulated but her ears were finely enough corded to perceive the deep emotion that lay But I think there is a providence in our he They sat down and talked long together times gone of the causes that separated them while their hearts beat on- ly for each the actual present in their I have a motherless he said at a tender little thing that I and to-day I find her body purple with bruises from the cruel hand of a will you be a mother to that child You have a noble boy who is let me be to him a If the old love fills your heart as it fills there are golden days for us in the And so it The lady and her son did not go back to but passed to the merchant's stately she becoming its and he finding a home and a truer father than the one he in former called by the same Do good as you have an Only a week before the lad's application to the had this injunction been urged in his by an eloquent and the words coming to his led him to call back the boy his almost Many times wards he thought of the and of the small event on which such a issue almost trembling in view of what he might have had that slight opportunity for doing 2'ood been A Chinese The following description is given by a China correspondent of a paper I was lately invited to attend the of a young a relative of a high functionary of You are aware perhaps that polygamy is not sanctioned bj the laws of no man can have more than one legitimate but he may have as many of what are called little as his moans enable him to The position of these rior is little better than All the of the upper clashes are kept in complete seclusion till their which is invariably settled by and generally through the um of a or kind of female monial whose profession is ered very Tins agent makes all the preliminary inquiries respecting the fortune and position of the and then consults a soothsayer as to the ad- of the This person casts the nativity of the young and if he declares the stars to be the future bride and bridegroom are to each other in the of their but the lady is always ly veiled till alter the marriage is To return to the wedding I have just On at the residence of the 1 all the family assembled in the ancestral an apartment consecrated to religious When all the company had the who appeared to act as tress of requested the head of the family to take his place on an elevated at the end of the and ordered the bridegroom to be The young man on saluted the com- pany with and prostrated himself en the On in ence to his father's the youth the table in the middle of the took up a of spilt a few drops of it. and diank off the rest of it at one He then knelt oa the floor and listened to a long speech from his acknowledged by to show his respect and When the father ceased he and nied by his friends and went to fetch his As he stepped into a lanquin which was waiting at the an astonishing concert of gougs and brass in- of all kinds accompanied by loud explosions of This deafening noise was kept up till we ed the lady's where everybody alighted and entered the As soon as the had been ly his leading the bride by the came out to receive I happened to be in a favorable sition for seeing the who wore a long cloak of blue ornamented with She had on I bracelets and Her head was covered by a but I could distinguish her and plainly saw that her cheeks had been painted and her tinted with After a short the was conducted to her the bridegroom entered the whole cavalcade was soon in As the bride the threshold there was another fearful outburst of trumpets and Her palanquin advanced in the midst of the musicians and a crowd of persons carrying lanterns and On reaching her future she and her husband knelt down in the ancestral while the marriage contract was The bonze then performed the religious part of the which terminated a prayer repeated in chorus by all The newly married couple were then conducted to the nuptial chamber to receive their The day concluded with a grand The first act of the newly married couple at the was to drink out of the harne The bride merely touched it with her the groom then drank of the contents and broke the After partaking of a great variety of the company and I returned well pleased with what I had but stunned and stupefied by the horrid which had assailed my ears with but little respite for so many WE don't know exactly what the of but we have seen many fussy little specimens of not more than five feet a poor woman thinks she can do nothing without a and she sets finds bhe can do nothing with A Chat about Could tho census of the rats be it would undoubtedly show that their bers greatly exceeded those pf any stock in spite of and all the ances with which they are for by universal consent the rat is voted an out- whose life to be at sight provided you can catch Other races of animals have almost disappeared under like To say nothing of er black and gray the hateful and copper and many minor creatures have long been unknown in the more thickly settled But the rat takes up his bed and board under the roof his he forages boldly in the kitchen and confidently rears his young in tition adjoining our living and leads them forth in nightly and right merry gambols through the This persistence of the race is due to two Hats are They commence breeding at the age of three and bring forth a litter of from eight to and even five or six times a At the ordinary rate of a single pair and their if all should would in throe years number but for the vigorous crusade continually ried on against there would in a few years be nothing left but An- other fortunate is their easy adaptation to every kind of A rat is. a true He can feast with a or with a He revels in the tempting luxuries of a pastry but will with equal gusto feed on a flitch of bacon in the store or a sack of corn in the barn nor does he upon good to attack the the feeble and in merous instances even children have been mutilated by these daring He is not particular as to climate or he nibbles at the fruit in the and shares the train oil of the There was no necessity that the tors of the existing race should receive special command to seek shelter in the long before its no they had found snug and laid in their sailor will tell you that his berth in the forecastle has been their favorite lurking You will see one of these animals lame or or in any way When one is injured by any his companions fall upon kill him out and make a complete finish of the work by eating The anxious mother rat has continually to not only against the prowling for her young are favorite morsels with the who frequently feasts upon his own Although the veriest coward when alone and when there is a chance to the rat when driven to a or emboldened by numbers of his is quite a dable A cat will hesitate to attack one unless sho may take him at a vantage by springing upon him several instances have occurred of an at- tack upon persons by a horde of from whom escape was made with and it is related of a poor pie baker in that having missed a quantity of his ho one night set himself to watch for the and was overpowered and devoured by The tools of the which also serve as formidable are four long sharp two in front of the and two in the lower These are set like the outer part is covered with hard en- the inner is a bony This softer part is worn away in which gives a sharp cutting edge to the with which the animal can readily make his voyage through the est he must keep gnawing from for tho teeth grow so that if they would soon protrude far beyond the mouth and be- come A rat was which had lost one of his upper and the lower had continued to grow until it formed a curved tusk reaching over to the side of his and threatened to pierce his Until within a few excepting among the Chinese and a few other tern the rat has been turned to no Some genius at length ered that the skin of the rat could be ned into a pliable and very fine little inferior to sines the skins have in and London also we a regular market the capture of these animals has been quite a ble business for that class of inhabitants are not above descending to the ers and other vatty places in pursuit of a We might include in the profits of the ratting the sales mude to fancy who purchase large numbers for training particularly the to destroy so much w ith a view to the as to afford to the roughs that gather around the rat pits and bet upon the destroying powers of their favorite The methods of keeping these vermin within are too well known to need We can hardly hope to be entirely rid of bilt a faithful cat kept in the and two or more at the will usually make the quarters too unsafe to allow any great Without some they will make ous inroads upon the mows and bins of the and a terrible ance to the cmi 1 Odd A new book by Capt. under the title Odd t t t gives a description of some of the races of in the Here is one: Docs everybody know that the little republic in takes at its name from the Fairy City of the Such is the When the Spanish discoverers sailed round Lake they saw to their ment not only single but whole villages apparently floating on the On approaching nearer they perceived that those houses werfe raised some feet above the and supported by posts or piles driven into the This gested and the discovered gave to these superaqueous habitations name or which was afterwards applied to the entire The as the occupants of these houses are have a good reason for in this That reason be understood by word too thick on shore to render existence erous insects not venture out over the Rare sport hunters on Laloe Maraj Ducks and other aquatic fowl haunt its waters in countless The having no catch them by a simple yet ingenious by which the timidity of the bird is lulled and their At a spot in the water frequented by and of such a depth that the water will not reach higher than his chin When standing the Water Dweller floats a number of of When his decoys are all he paddles back to his and awaits the The birds are at first shy these round yellow objects intruded on their as hours and they perceive no harm in they approach and even curiously examine the yellow no longer regarding them as objects of they swim freely about of sit quietly on the water side by side with Now the Water Dweller goes to He draws over his head a fitting like those on the only furnished with and a breathing Swimming where the water is too shallow to wade without ening the he makes his way towards keeping his shoulders below the and advancing so slowly and ly that he scarcely raises ripple on the placid The unsuspecting birds see the destroyer approaching without having the slightest misgiving of They fancy that the is only another of those inanimate objects by their another drifting out upon the water to join its In a little while the gourd has drifted silently into their and is seen approaching first one then as if it had special business with This business appears to be of a very mysterious and in each case is suddenly brought to 4 by the duck making a sudden dive into the head foremost according to usual but in the reverse as if jerked down by the feet before the creature had time utter a single In a short time tho gourd moves and ife wearer may be seen emerging from the water with a double tier of dead ducks dangling by their necks a rope about his and forming a sort of rather too heavy for Giving a Concert under A anecdote is told the when in He had announced a concert in one of the new ies in the and sent on to Francisco for to his great it did not The audience had and the unlucky musician expected nothing else than to be knifed by the ing his they asked him what was the whereupon he confessed 0, never mind the said two of we don't care for it. We came to see you make us a Hertz did his and they had all nearly forgotten the when its arrival was A com- pany of men carried the hall and placed it on the It was a or and Hertz promised himself to astonish the He seated himself on an empty whisky keg and struck the Not a sound did the piano save that of the keys ing in The Californiana who had brought the from San Francisco finding it had floated it to townt and on dragging it out upon the neglected to pour the water from the in- tho of man art at which we look with praise or der are of the resistless of It is by this that the a and that distant with If af man were to compare the gle stroke of a or of impression the with general design and lost he would overwhelmed by the sense of there yet those petty in time the greatest and mountains are and oceans bounded by the slender force of humane Do you pretend my butter is old old enough have lost its dear
