Wisconsin Pinery, The (Newspaper) - June 2, 1864, Stevens Point, Wisconsin THE 1 I i C S WAYZE Editor Proprietor VOL No 46 TIIK STEVENS AT tEVENS POINT WISCONSIN FOB he square Ie Mf column column one week three weeks mouths six one year six one year six months cue year 1 00 1 50 4 in 6 11 00 20 00 31 00 81 OU CO 00 Im the county advertisements must be paid in for the benefit of Alt f or corporations can only be in- KrUd M J Legal Advertising ut the prescribed my LAV Xo proof of furnished Advertising Foes arc paid la no case will these terms bo departed roin Adventures of a Bashful Man Harry Gordon Singleton his d but into tho world on Friday We deem ed this fact worth chronicling rnce was an event of some importance to ou hero and because we hope to show un that the old taw about the un luckiness of Friday is correct From hi very birth Harry was il was an exceedingly pretty babe fai complexion blue-eyed brown haired plump and rosy but he was wit ha heritage far worse than a hump PER Live newspaper and lar worse than a hum of any paper back a club foot or a squint ii itri 1 AVER YllO USE Slovens Point Wisconsin House ii new aud thu this Kjg of Milwaukee and iu 13 always ou hnud to attend to Ihc my Guests The i with the best the affords also a large Burn which will A careful Oilier OKO sixty Horses in M OF STEVENS POINT under the General Law of the of I Will don General Bunking nnd aud LAKU nnd d VEit U S Milwaukee County Hunk Banks of of Milwaukee F Granger Adams Chicago Mew York OF THE INTERIOR ASD J Land Collection J WISCONSIN and sell drafts make I til points in Northern I Land locate Land I aud do all business connected wil i Hanking aud Kcal Instate I given to tho I Payment of led the Redemption of from Tax County was When tho ladies came to look at him in his cradle and to call him little express image of his would invariably put his fat fist into his mouth and hide his interesting face in n's pillow Mrs fair faced some very greatly this unfortunate trial in the ment of her beloved first and used every endeavor to break him of it but without success and Harry grew up to youth the most bashful and retiring of human beings He also singularly unlucky No child ever received so many and bumps since the fall of Adam his forehead was a populous archipelago of blue yellow and black in various stages of coloring When there was company at house Harry generally retired to an room in the where having ced himself in the bcpl which stood there I and in TOOK ALK BEEli M MALT front abroad All kinds of Grain good tor cattli ind on hand Charles Hoeflinger WISCONSIN J to the location mid lion of farming Lauds out itim of of IWs a Counties of Wood Slara Mr was Clerk for three Slates Laud at with the lioa lands in this District and 0 promise my patrons that any to me will be doue and despatch HOUSE way from bte w eTK r M au old mi aud knows wanL o lo who mav as to view of the door through which would emerge Her crimson hood in the doorway and his teeth in his head but his resolution was unshaken Ho made a sortie in her direction knocking over little James Brown ttlo barber and fearfully ting the new calash of Winn the milliner in the act but these were minor affairs and not worthy of his notice He touch the shoulder of Rosalie May home with you stammered he She put her little hand within his arm and they went out together into the starlight Harry seemed to tread on air This world was this would no longer but ho charmed paradise of impossibility and e dared not speak lesl be should break lie spell The little lady too was nt and the entire distance to the house f Judge Flanders was passed without a At the door Harry would have idden his companion good night but retained bis hand and drew him into ie parlor and there tho light of th bandolier fell full on the face of th woman and with dred disma that no but Mrs udge Flanders herself stood before bin e had waited on tho aunt and not the ece Uttering an exclamation h JS about to retire but Mrs Winder ood detained him 0 don't she said kindly you did bravely lam proud of yen 1 knew from the first that you had mad ie passed the day reading some old nova or book of history picked out of the great chest iu the garret used for the repository of rubbish or by way taion he sometimes took refuge in the bran and snugly hidden on the hay mow the time in silent meditation on his unfortunate lie would walk a mile around through thu fieMs IIP avoid meeting a young lady and when iii i In HI reel if he heard the sound of wheels he would leap over the wall or and prone ou the ground until the vehicle had passed by As he grew older ho lost none of his peculiarities and before he was sixteen years of age his mother's chief difficulty was the fear that he would live an old bachelor Hundreds of silver dollars could ji not have induced him to sneak to a i i cau m a ol i s own and Ins father was ed o forego Ins purpose of sending him nt Hc to the Academy and have J ml mistake but was fearful you would never try again if I denied your escort lie will be in soon wait for her Indeed be happy fact ma'am I believe I am at home Starting for the loor backwards in- stead of choosing that by which he cu tered he lied nut into the durk seized the handle of the first door linn Mrs Inlanders was following but before she could utter a lc word his good night was ho was elected of Congress I celebration of this even a grand in his honor was given at tho Whites Hotel Of course tho candidate must bo presented and quette demanded that he should bring lady with him The of ar waited upon him to this of this fact and you may well be the communication filled him will horror He begged of tho gentlemen to provide him a partner if he must have one stipulating only that the lady should not be a young lady hi coarse of time he was informed that he was to attend Mrs Grubbins the widow of the late Dr Thimothy Grubbins the wealthiest as well as he tallest and est woman in tho whole country The eventful evening arrived Mr Singleton took Mrs Grubbins to the hotel in a chaise The lady was attired in a double skirted ton with ribbons feathers nnd fearfully extended crinoline The thought of escorting that giantess into a mom filled with ple made him sweat like one under the influence of a powerful dose of anua But he was in for it and must get out the best ho could Mrs bins proud and triumphant preceded mi the passage and com- lesser people to yield the ground tion conveyed by the words of the Judge thrust his hand iri his pocket for his handkerchief when instead out cuno napkin tomato and all Mopping his forehead vigorously with it and tho vegetable unctuous tico transfiguring his countenance with tho and half dead with mortification ho tho napkin hack into his et and secured the handkerchief while the beheld him in silent amazement bleed inquired Mrs quite audibly the Goodness is creamed Judge Flanders only a slight cold thank you stammered Mr Singleton A is Faith WHOLE Josh Drafting and there BOB provided the widder already 2 yew to go in j the supreme court has decided thit thW v forever Once more If man AoM M with his draft ho t evir be allowed to stand the draft this luks fust lit it the -j Ink at it the yu can see the win dum into it are those who bav been drafted into th Staff now an yer lusl as sh tin ie arrived the threshold nose must be after turning itself us out exclaimed Mr he Irish orator Dean was laughing Flambeaux horrified Mrs Grubbins shocked ur friend Singleton was nearly ng with shame Leaning back iu his hair to recover his breath and as soon s he could speak begged to be moment as he did not feel quite well And forthwith he arose and m-ide for of hall she dropped her an and just at the the ence in thu three cheers for Hon Mr Slopping to her fan when lie multitude looked for their ho visible Cries in round he room and vchcnicnt: Mr Mr where Mr ami directly Mr looking very lint and very much from under the upper skirl of Mrs dress lady having completely ed tho honorable gentleman in the folds the had set on tho pocket containing tin napkin of tomato and his while loons were dripping red with the A shriek hurst from all assembled Good Mr Singleton is Call a tho Send for Dr bleed to Tho infuriated audience rushed hither mil thither and some one encountering the waiter with a carving knife Yus baud took bin for the ed immediately by series thump i rumblings in the of the cellar fur trying to git an living bi porting 2 wives tu also all then who and unsound on the goose also all cnts and fools in general agin No substitute will be who iz loss than three ten feet high be must know Inn tu chew and driak poore and bo of the itch nor the rebels Moral tcr ain't required as tho Government furnishes that and Conclusively A person cannot be drafted than twice in two different without his consent but all men has a right to be drafted at least i don't think even a writ of habeas cor- pus can deprive a man of this last d privilege How To cried a tor of tho seized upon him and The truth burst upon her at once that he had taken the Cellar door and ic seized a and There he lay with in a trough of ashes and his feet i look urn educated at the boy's school But notwithstanding Harry's otherwise injured Mrs Flanders would more regal than ever and Mr leaned against a pillar for sup port The announcement of dinner was a great relief Judge Flanders Mrs Grubbins ho scat at right Miss Flambeaux rat at have raised him up but he anticipated ve he grow up to be a fine aml fellow brave generous and handsome bounded up stair and made a dive here was not a town but would for be outer door the ashes streaming smoke home at of foot races County Ac wuse ng Rood M- on Clark herself honored by his presence larry however stood aloof from all the emale sex of a natural consequence was the subject of numberless prac ical jokes and the hapless occasion ol gigling among the gay girls at ie singing schuol When Harry was nineteen Patera came to Whitestown to pass time with her aunt Mrs Judge landers was a pretty yed mischievous fairy of seventeen id if the truth must be confessed she quite a liking to Harry Singleton afterwards but of course she was too much of a coquette to allow Harry to guess it He on his part thought himself dead iu love though he dared not raise his to the peerless face of his guiding star For ncvcr tempted whole days he racked his brain planning bow he should address her but without deciding upon anything definite One night at a singing school a bold idea flashed across bis brain its very ami Lucy Deanc the village belle was his vis-a-vis Our hero's position was exceedingly embarrassing to one of his peculiar delay John struggled swore and laid about him with right good will but ho was overpowered by numbers and at hist obliged to yield There wan a regular light and black eyes and swelled noses aided largely ii tho beauty of the scene The ladies to the Judge Flanders ran for a surgeon and during the melee made his escape No grass grew beneath his feet as ho sped for but tho night being dark and being he unfortunately mistook the muse entered nut his own ence but that correct old u ohm returning hurried from it aeon N hat sight my the old robin Oh white and running aud straining their necks and holding their heads ever so high See mother there there they go Geese my ly replied the parent bird looking over the field Through life observe that when you meet with any one makes a great fuss about himself and tries to lift his head higher than tho rest of the world set ng out behind him like a cloud of gray during not to refuse anything i some one that was him lest The door was opened from without at and Rosalie herself appeared At sight I groaned of the hatless smoking she tered a loud shriek and fell fainting tu the floor while our hero dated over her prostrate form and took the attack for its weight of edibles Tomato bis especial horror passed around a preserve plateful was alloted to from which he attempted to v a speed unequalled in the annals but il fast iu his throat it Breathless and used up i him and set him Mary Willis The houses were similar and Singleton out pausing lor a light rushed up stairs and into his own chamber as he thought where breathless anu exhausted he flung himself upon the bed Mary had retired some time and the sudden advent of Mr aroused her from a sound Springing from tho bed regardless o the the fact that her teeth were out anc generally the young man reached home j crawled in at a back window and retired a severe colj f to his bed which he kept for three days j Flambeaux madam thank you I j JTU i In spile of all apologies and trembling on the from Mrs of gentle advances from I you cat your ness made it seem practicable He would offer to escort It was an audacious act aud Harry trembled in every limb at the thought ot t a cold perspiration started uut ol f i every pore bis hair nc erect and his lace flashed hot as the ol He attempted to sing but his fine tenor voice broke down he coughed hemmed flourished his kerchief and was at last obliged W ii down in dispair The exercises of the closed you cat your there was Iruin Rosalie herself Harry Singleton could never be tempted to step inside the Daniel used to say judge and after vegetable empire waiting two years for to make j agreeable to her gave up the I very fine vain hope and became the wife of a sub- j essayed a second spoon stantial widower with four children i ful bad well nieh beet was quite agood beginning icr natural curls reposing in the bur cau drawer she fled to the house of her near est neighbors and scouring ance returned to the gleton just emerging from the door Poor Singleton tried to explain but Miss Willis would listen to nothing her reputation was ruined she said and Singleton must either settle or marry i too much fvr him and with Harry seized hit hat and rushed to tho entry whtte he took bit in full Harry went on his way alone as lic tho whole mother had feared and prophesied drinking a toast the exemplary little woman set tho dish and let teaching him to repair stockings and S run he napkin which place buttons with commendable patience i lic his pocket he had studied for law had been j and felt two years admitted to the bar and was A moment after Judge a talented and rising young man JJc proposed a ing also wealthy and handsome half the tlic ladies in the village were in love with him but he gave them a wide berth and them by Mr Singleton dabbled somewhat ia tbe aga of thirty but may he soon resign his seat to bo called single It it not good for man to be alone The sentiment was drink with applause Singleton blushing red at tho A fifty dollar was given freely mending the broken taught Singleton never to go to bed in tho dark The affair at the Whitestone was serious one The orator Toole had his broken Ur Spill- powder broke his wind to get there before he should bleed to death John tho waiter broke tho heads of half a dozen gentlemen who assisted iu his and Judge Flanders broke all the buttons off his waistbands running after the and shouting murder Mr Singleton is yet unmarried at fine a lellow at you could if you want to sec blushing just mention ato lauce to him once as a goose Lincoln It is amusing to see accounts of of littl and official too lazy or intemperate to obtain a living by honest labor sing Lincoln and spouting much tism on street corners Their love of the President so earnestly reminds us of a little story as OM Abo would say A man was riding through a rough and ruin marked country one day when he saw a half-starved lazy drunken long-fingered cuss digging like a dog at a hole in the bank says What aro you up to there diggin out woodchuck Do you expect to catch Catch Great God as Jii Lane says is no expect about It's woodchuck or starvation for there ain t meat enough in tho house to smell after it spoils and I'm busted at all the Crotte Democrat Why is a like s Because he never stops bleeding hij tiras till somo of them smash him Were we to thank God for blessing we should have complain of misfortune no to h Hilling tew Why ia a miser lika Because ho never Why it faith lika it A wag recently appended to the market in whistling A colored baa her at Syracuse N Y Her j nfa a dark of n Of 11 Ian
