Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-01-28


"The Lord God omnipotent reigneth,"
he murmured in voice broken like an old
mans. And with half connected senten.
ces, he went on at intervals, vengeance
is mine, I will repay-the bruised reed
and smoking Aax-into outer darkness,
where shall be wailing and crashing of
teeth"
His head dropped forward on his breast,
and his words sank into indistinct NUT
terings.
V.
1t was long after midnight. when the
governors wife, awaking and not hndinig
her husband at her side, proceeded in
alarm to his study. She opened the door,
and seeing him sitting in his chair, as if
asleep, approached to arouse him. But
when she came nearer, she started back
with shrek, dropping her candle, for
she gaEed on the stark face of the dead.
No one heard her shrek: fortunately,
as she afterwards thought; for, on look
ing to see if there could be any cause for
this sudden death, she deserted the letter,
and afterward the locket. She read the
first; then burned both, and finally calm
| " summoned the household.
An eminent physician gave certifi-
cate, the next day, that Governor Stanley
had died of a stroke of apoplexy ; and the
widow, who alone knew the truth, offered
no contradiction.
But from that day, it was observed,
she never smiled How could She? For
she carried, in her bosom, one of these
awful secrets which scar the heart forev-
er, and from which there is no rcpose but
in the grave.
NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIBERS.
The following classification of newspa-
per subscribers we take from the "Prai-
rie Farmer" and from our own expert
ence, we can safely say that the picture
is drawn as natural as life. First come
| the
! UpR1onrs.-Thesc are the men who
take newspapers, pay for them, and read
thrm. Observe the order in which these
things are done: the pay comes first
the reading next. These men consider
they get the worth of their money IN tho
bargain. 1t seems as far and just to
them that the newspaper should be pala
| for, as barrel of sugar or new coat
They never entertain any other opinion.
they are Oh hand with the pay. There
is no more difficulty in remembering this
period than Sunday or the first of Janua-
ry. If one of them wishes to stop his pa
per, he either calls, or writes letter to
his postmaster in due season, like man.
This class is dear to the heart of the edi-
tor. Their images arc cmbalmcd in his
warm affections. May they live thou
sand years, and see their sons sons to the
fourth generation. The second now in
mind is the
Do WELLs.-This class is nearly rela-
ted TO the others, so near, that it is hard
to tell where the one begins and the other
ends. These men always pay in advance
in the beginning, and intend to do so con-
tinually. But memory fails a little, or
some mishap intervenes, and the time runs
by-sometimes littlo-sometimes quite
a period. But their recollection, though
nodding occasionally, never gets sound
asleep. 1t pronounces the words in due
time-"th the printer is not paid" and
forthwith their will to do we'll kindles in
to activity. Now comes the paying up.
4" Meant to do so before. Don't mean to
let such things pass by" A publishercan
live with such men They have warm
place in his memory only little back of
the Uprights. If such man dies in ar
rcars, his wife or son remember that he
may not have paid for his newspaper, and
institute inquiries. They remember that
part of the benefit was theirs, and estate
or no estate, so that the printers bills are
not among their fathers unsettled ac
EASY DoERs.-These men believe in
newspapers. They have fully settled it
in their own minds that newspapers are a
good thing. They take them, too. Some
times at the first they pay up for the first
ycar--at any rate they mean to pretty
soon. If they have done so, they sit
down with the comforting conviction that
their newspaper is now settled for; and
this idea having once got into their heads,
obstinately refuses to be dislodgcd, but
keeps its hold from year to year--a truth
oncc--now an illusion, grey and rhcuma-
tic with years.
The editor making the elongated and
clongating space in the accounts current
of their dollars, begins to ask if they are
dead or gone to California. Now he be-
gins to poke bills at them. They sud
denly start at the reality that they are in
arrears; and, like men, as they arc at the
bottom, pay up. They never dispute his
bills--they know books tell better stories
than moss-covcrcd memories. If the
publisher has faith enough or long
purse, and can live like ALTERNATING
bear, he may survive this class. But il
he is mortal only, woe be to him. The
next class is
The BOWS HrLlERs--ITere he begins
TO slide over to the other side. Our pic
ture suddenly gets dark The down hill
lers will be suddenly dispatched. One of
these takes paper because his wife wants
one, or the children are Jealous to read
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