Fort Atkinson Standard (Newspaper) - February 21, 1861, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin The W furnished to in RATES OF one 00 column t 2500 of Column 15 00 one 1000 Square one 91 00 3 1 50 Business one 5 00 JOB and every kind plain and mental printing clone at the STANDARD a neat and nnd at All letters should be addressed to J. C. Editor and A Winter The frozen in the The church is decked with Mistletoe hangs from the kitchen To fright away cling to the milkmaid's Younkers on the pool Blackbirds perch on the golden And how the cold winds There goes the squire to shoot a Here rung Dick to fetch a You'd swear his breath was the smoke of In the frosty morning is breaking the ice for the Old and roving as they go The round red snn forgets And how the cold grinds JAMES Courtship and Cleaning BY HELEN FOREST It the most golden and glorious of J. G. Editor EQUAL RIGHTS JUSTICE TO A m CE Vol. FORT FEBRUARY 31, September The vail of blue haze hanging like a canopy over the seemed absolutely to quiver in the radiant glow of the autumn and tise whose clusters blushed through trellis of clinging grew deeper in color and more as if they had stolen the rial dye of a thousand sunsets and brilliant as the sun mounted higher suid higher in the cloudless dome of Xo frescoed hung with was ever more beautiful this arbor of grape where the aud shadow danced in fitful with every moving so Hi chard as he came up the garden path that led to his I The mansion was far from presenting the gala aspect which all and our hero's nance underwent a ludicrous as he eyed the yawning windows and Ry all the said he to Isabel isn't cleaning house again women arc the most unaccountable CUT I do believe they delight in turning things upside and making and the rest of the world un- What's the use of choking with dust and deluging with and water twice a year let the dear enigmas have their own I'm sure I'm the last person in the world to With these philosophical reflections yet iu his Mr. Mayfield deftly threaded way through a colony of whitewash pails and lime kettles that surrounded the and the scene of It was quite plain from the shout which the children greeted his that he was Uncle we're cleaning house V cried Master Henry Augustus who was mounted astride of a feather castigating it fully with his mother's best silk it Uncle Dick ex- claimed Miss who was endeavoring to pry the principles of sound from a by a into its interior while Mrs. half distracted by calls from all was totally un- conscious of the mischief being I am so puzzled and ihe Here is John called to the by a pressing and the whole house upside that was what you ladies said himself upon the top of the din and rescuing a shell basket from the destructive grasp of the smallest Mayfield of And my cook has and the fire won't and the haven't come this and the is half and you know the is to be here to-morrow and what will I do Don't said I'll make the fire or I'll know the reason and I can finish the ceilin for me. Didn't I whiten my own room at when the Boys had smoked it into the color of an old And then I'll tack the carpet and see about putting those dislocated bedsteads you must be too tired after dancing twelve o'clock at the Where's the refractory stove The very fire not proof against Dick's It broke into a cheerful the he at- tacked its face ened with which he next erected a and mounted panoply pails and waa perfectly rather pale aristocratically small feet and conveyed the idea of one who was adapted only to Broadway pavements I suppose the workmen didn't leave their when they went away last Bell he when he had the rather perilous said his Then just hand up that old and a piece of don't you admire my tout Uncle Dick looks like a said Master Henry No he he looks like the old ler down at the stuck in Miss Upon my I don't know which of you is the most ob- served Richard clear the every soul of and give rue a And he worked now breaking into a a merry now pausing to vey his but oftenest of relapsing into thoughts of the beautiful young damsel at the last who had been so studiously cold and re- served towards She won't like thought aud I can't for the life of me tell as I said women are unaccountable said Miss to her pretty young I wish you would just run over to Mrs. Mayfield's with this are at and I have no one to said while a fresh tinge suffused her delicate I don't want to encounter that superfine young he isn't is ing with Harry then I will take the said and looking around for her yet for all Amy was quite surprised when Mrs. Mayfield came in carrying a little basket of cheeked peaches from a pet tree beyond We believe it is one of woman's special and incontrovertible privileges to change her therefore nobody was much astonished three months there was a rumor of the engagement of Mr. Mayfield and Miss Pick always declared that it was an insoluble mystery to him perfumes had all failed to win an entrance to the a whitewash brush should have been the unromantic weapon at brought down the the more as his slender figure little gipsy u You are the strangest said her What can be the reason that you dislike Richard Mayfield He is so handsome and so I don't fancy these merely ornamental said Amy My band must be of some use in the How do you know but that Mr. field is Can't be said archly shaking hex His hands are too small for anything but lemon-colored kid I'll wager a new that he never did anything more laborious than to carry a box of cigars in his Miss Brownleigh and Amy massed out of the vine-wreathed wondering within herself whether Mr. Richard Mayfield had been very much vexed because she had refused to dance with him the evening Mrs. John Mayfield's house was at no and as Amy was quite in- timate with that and understood the domestic that was at present transpiring within her she did not think it necessary to but opened the door and walked in without There stood the apex of a midal scaffolding of his fine doth raiment obscured by a heet which was girded around his waist jy a ponderous knot of and his black overshadowed by a coarse old straw working away as if for dear His back was towards the and supposing the step to be that of his he without turning his head is the carpet ready so Bell I'm just through and I'll come back and tack it down in one Not receiving any he threw down the brush and turned Miss Brownleigh He never had looked so handsome in his that was the first thought that rushed in the midst of all her for Diek had the advantage of the young lady in this was embarrassed and he was He to the and threw of his ghostly You must think I have a curious taste in but the truth is that Isabel has been disappointed in her and my brother is away from so I am helping her clean did not thought you had stammered ly speaking out her You supposed that I was nothing more than an ornamental piece of ture Ask Isabel about said half half r But can I be of any use to you now I had a note from my cousin for Mrs. said speaking scarce above her down .to the farther said It is some dis- and not a very straight If you will wait I remove a little of this I Shall be happy to escort you down The Census of 1860. Mr. Superintendent of the Census Bureau at has furnished for cation the following table of the population of each of the States and and the ber of Representatives that they wil ly entitled to in the nest representation being Free Slave Pop Pop. New Rhode New Delaware Maryland North 32S.37T South Georgia Kansas 143.64o Ohio Illinois Oregon be tlie ratio of 37th 5 U 3 10 1 4 30 23 5 1 ti 11 T 4 7 1 C 5 4 3 4 8 2 8 19 11 13 Total pop. OF THE Nebraska Xen of Total pop. of Total free population of all States and the Slave There are several suggestive facts illustrated by the above In the first place it will be seen that the free population of the Slare States is less than eight ani a half that of the Free States is twenty-three nearly thrice as Even including the the total population of the States is but 1-2.433.968, against 23.213.374 in the States and is worthy of in the next that while almost all of the old States more or less in their representation in. the next the North West gains Wisconsin and Michigan doubling their present number and Iowa increasing fi om two to it is gratifying to our State pride to know that though one of the youngest States iu the now passes nineteen of hT sister sovereignties in ranking fifteenth in the family The growth of Wisconsin his indeed been The U. S. Census for 1S40.1S50. and 186CK indicates the rate of our own 1840 30.0no With the return of peace in our tional Councils and a continuance of such seasons our State has been blessed with during the past two we confidently anticipate large accessions to our population from the Eastern aud Southern and the Old A Storm of As we went quietly through the streets the two soldiers by whom I was escorted a sudden Allah Allah turn away from us this plague by which we aie and direct it toward the land of the Wherefore this cry asked I of those who uttered it. Turn your eyes toward the said I looked in that and perceived that the horizon wrapped in the stars appearing as it obscured a on asking my attendants the cause of they said Do you riot see the locusts coming Allah protect us Now a drowsy tumult began to vibrate in my increasing in loudness until it broke out into a deafening In ery dii action the were to be seen issuing from their armed all such utensils of iron and copper as they could lay their hands and now began to beat upon their pots and pans with all their piercing in and crying at intervals with ing iron In spite of this fearful the locusts kept steadily The black vail by which the east was ob- kept enlarging and spreading out until it came over our the air be- came thick and the sky from our gaze as if a great sheet had been spread out above with holes in it here and through which a few stars were Then I felt a pelting as if of elastic which rebounded from aud in a few moments the earth was thickly covered with a dense layer of the the easterly wind on which they came now ceased to a gale from the north beginning to whistle wildly carrying the plague away with it toward the tribes encamped to the south of Once upon the the locusts devouring everything they could feed but as their fall was of short the devastation committed by them was not very and the people were grace of the Prophet and the power of the word haddid saved us this said my in- stead of being an in this tion will be a gain to for the locust is as useful when dead as he is destructive when He eats up our now and well we eat him iu our The scene was a striking one as I ad- into the Each tent was lighted up to an unusual while ery member of the armed with a torch and having a bag slung round his was occupied in catching Satisfaction beamed on every so that one might have supposed these good ple were picking up the Arabs arc remarkably fond of which they dress in several Some boil or broil having first cut off their and Others dry them in the sun and grind them to which they mix with milk or knead up with seasoning with butter and salt the paste thus But it is not the Arabs selves only who love this curious for the and all do equal honor to it. The in devour it It is dried or cooked for them by being heaped up in a large hole between two of burning the Moorish It is rarely that Moorish ladies of rank ever leave the precincts of their own Whenever they do it is for the purpose of attending and their transit thither abodes is effected in a closely covered their faeces at the same time being studiously concealed from the vulgar There was one respectable old lady who had been seventy years in and be- ing one day persuaded to pay a visit to a European waa the size of the town and the appearance of the country of which she more than if she had passed her life in an The most they ever do is to walk on the housetops at and enjoy for a short time the serene beauty the evening and the dazzling magnificence of the planetary orbs how wild and untutored as enter into the magic poetry that breathes around in every wavelet of the scarcely concealed blue of the atmosphere Dead alike to the external and knowing naught of the unexplored recesses of the inter- they live a life of unconquerable ennui and die like no hope for of aught save the dark eternity of Yet the Moorish lady has one object in as fat as she possibly can. The more she makes the better she is as the Algerians look upon beauty in a larly solid point of judging it in a great measure by the number of pounds avoirdupois or which it may The larger her the more chance has the Mauresque of curing her husband's by no means inferior consideration in a country where wives a staple article of com- To attain this there are few things she will shrink from eating and and a legend dubious I am is afloat concerning a an who actually succeeded in making a Moorish woman swallow a teaspoonful of cod liver which she had with truth in- formed her would fatten most The poor barbarian made a terrible face after and appeared as if were about to call for the I need not preferred ever after her own dietary principles to the most skillful THE DIVINE Author of nature has shown that it was not beneath His care to provide for the gratification of sentiments precisely similar to those which are addressed by the The composed of hill and mountain and not one boundless plowed field to yield food dressed in gay and bright not in one sober-suited color filled the music of its streams and not doomed to endless monotony or lasting such a the of the school of their the temple of their plainly shows that they were not destined to be pupils of cold and stern utility alone Louis NAPOLEON'S IN the Paris court of correctional a by no means advanced coquettishly to the witness stand to give her What is your name 1" Virginie Your of in- credulity from the The lady's evidence being she regained her still coquettishly and the next witness was This one was a full grown young Your name said the Isadore Your age Twenty-seven Are you a relative of the last ness T am her u murmured the mother must have married very drews Very f the drummer means was for vita tbe boa was as thing fortunate enough Id lose sabie ob- an aged in an with a sable boa i round her she immediately very much resembling her quite forgotten following the old she place of ing to call day and make inquiry i missing her doing fast was again at saw old woman with tbe Waiting till she came the lady up and I ask where you got tbat for I think it is very like one I lost The old woman brought jne and it mony The lady know you bad it for it is ten years Ii lost I'm sure it is mine from joint in it's no it's mine ain buoy I've this twelve returned the old walking indignantly leaving the dy more convinced than ever that the boa was Proceeding to she sent a policeman to the de- scribing tbe he would know it if the lining was he would see her name on the The and tbe old seeing that the evidence was too clear to admit of a confessed that she had found it exactly years as tbe man walked off with said she hoped he tell the lady to give her two shillings and sixpence for having taken good care of it. ONE DROP AT A you er watched an icicle as it formed You noticed how it froze one drop at a time un- til it was a foot long or If the wa- writing from savs I received ter was clean the remained clear and almost imposing other sparkled brightly m the but if the admitting me with a party to the but slightly muddy the icicle and so although hardly and lts thinking it woith but they are ly one of the wonders of The or as I call are under the gallery of the and there must have been more than one hundred horses belonging to his Each horse has a large stall to with his name over the and his manger is constructed of black We wefc shown all the state some of which were loaded with gilding and lined with white but of many and diversified then carne all the which were of of beauty and When is our try to work out a higher and to show that everything graceful in art may be with everything useful in ty that tion in is and one not the least of the interests of Half an hour Amy would have haughtily informed him it was quite un- necessary ber to trouble now she stood still and a long under the spreading shadows of noble bending with their weight of crimson and russet through meadows in ple and and nodding plumes of and when we had visited the we did not wonder that such a grand card of was necessary for the so our characters are One little thought or feeling at a time adds its If each thought be pure and the boul will be and will sparkle with happiness but if impure and there will be final deformity and Sold at A public joke at P. T. Barnum's ex- is not an B. for many years having had the laugh on the other But at length the prince of showmen has been shown a trick that he did not know and tbe hero of the occasion has as is very usual on such a son of tbe Emerald It seems that a few waa in a great hurry to be and entered his ordinary place of tonsorial der the Park New but all the operatives were rone er brawny just and with a heard and head re- quiring very extensive tween the exhibitor of tbe What and his turn as I am in a my good man 1" said ad- dressing you give me your turn I will for what you want AIL responded tbe lighted tbe showman was soon shaved on his way to keep his merely saying as he left tbe door proprietor of the Do what this man pointing to the ex- ile of and charge it to No sooner was he gone than Patrick took off bis and a thick cotton at the game time the Now tell me all you ed the tonsorial we cut and curl shampoo isaid all them things to Sorra won of me knows what they but as he said for just do them God bless you 1" The barber saw the joke and did as putting the big Irishman through all these and bringing him out so pleasantly altered that he scarcely knew We leave our readers to imagine Barnum's face next when the proprietor of the loon handed him a For shaving 10 cutting curling 25 shampooing 25 bathing 25 cents for Barnum at once acknowledged the a re- for the but hp was after the Irish and if he catches him he will place him between the What is it and the truest criterion of a man's character and conduct is invariably THE do not go from but we from stepping from the old into the and always leaving behind us some no longer serviceable on the Look back along the way we have trodden there they every one in his holding fast all that was left in trust with Some keep our some our and all have thing of ours which they will give up to neither bribe or opinions near the truth as for a man to ask the hopes that went with us no What is thought of me by the the cares that have had I circle of my own fireside Would i j i j n T 11 i to be found in the opinion of his own ily having daily and hourly opportunities of forming a judgment of will not fail of doing so. It is a far higher testimony in his favor for him secure the esteem and love of a few within the privacy of his own than the good opinion of hundreds in his immediate or that of ten times the number residing at a dis- In next to a close and i tial no question comes so A SHOWER OF gold and silver rattled down from the they would hardly enrich the land so much as soft Every drop is silver going to the The roots are and catching the willing they assay roll stamp and turn them out coined and All the mountains of California are not so rich as are 'the soft mines of very little all the You stand in the en- gine room of a you admit the steam to the and the paddles turn a touch of a you admit the steam to the and the paddles turn It is in the moral The turning of a straw decides whether the en- ines shall work forward or CONTENTMENT in some all those which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the and if it does not bring it does the same thing by ing the desire of If it cannot re- move the disquietudes arising from a or it easy under i little girl of four years old was recently called as a Witness in a- police in answer to the tion as to what became of told she innocently replied they were sent to A GREAT poet says that the tains that no thing for to t and the follies be reviewed and called up for evidence some SOME men's minds are so badly tumbled that they can't be made that all remembered SOME after reaching the summit of pull up the ladder by which they and look down with scorn upon those who held it for IN most quarrels there is a fault on both Both flint and essary to the production of them may hammer on wood ft no fire will either and LITTLE of rain and little acts of en the MOST however to make a full of feyes full of MANY persons advance of their behind it's with PRAY te if in
