Columbia gazette., 1854-09-23
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LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE.

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Away with long faces, Wba'. IS tn
use Of looking as if you had sea'so
ticket for a funeral' Cant YOU fne
any better name for thi. world than ;
vale Of tears, /" and 7" a scene of tribula
tion'" If you can't, it will do you no
good to read letter which friend has
just furnished us. It it from wife in
Massachusetts, to her husband in Cali
fornia. She always looks at the bright
side. She dosen't intend going through
the world with an air as if 81 g
Mufied drums were beating
Funeral marches to the grave"
Here is the letter:
"Mr DEAR HUSBAND AS it is
some time since you left us for Califor-
MIA, I suppose you would be glad to hea,
how VIC are getting along in your alb.
sencc. I am happy to say that we are
enjoying very good health, on the whole
Just at present two of the boys have got
the small pox, Amanda Jane has got
the typhus fever, Betsey is down with
the measles, Samuel got hooked by a
COW the other day, and little Peter has
just chopped off seven of his fingers
with the Ratchet. It's mercy that he
didn't cut them all off. With these tri-
fling exceptions, We are all well and
getting alcng nicely. You need MT be
at all anxious about US.
! almost forgot to say that Sarah Ma
tilda eloped last week with tin pedlar.
Poor girl she's been waiting the last
ten years for chance, and I'm glad
she's got married at last. She needn t
have to take the trouble to elope though,
for I'm sure was glad enough to have
her go. She was great eater, and
find the baked beans don't 60 off near
so fast now as they did, The way the
girl would dip into pork and beans was
a caution to the rest Of the family. n
The COW took it into her head yester-
day to run away, which was very for
tunate, I'm sure, for the barn caught
fire last night and was consumed. l
was in hopes that the house would go
too, for its very incouvenient, but the
wind was the wrong way, so it didn't
receive much injury. ae
Some boys broke into the orchard the
other day, and stripped all the fruit
trees. l am very glad oft, for if they
hadn't l presume the children would
have made themselves sick by eating
too much f uit.
Hoping that you enjoy yourself in
California as well as we do at home, l
remain your aheciionate wife," {.
WHY is i1:-That the Eastern papers
speak SO disparagingly of the Golden
Slater We ''guess' the edito g may have
sent venture of rum and hoop poles
round the Horn, in charge of Capt. Hezsr
kiah Dewlittle, who sold the cargo and
refused to remit. 1t is aggrayating for
Californians to read the villainous libles
on their adopted home, which sometimes
get currency in respectable newspapers
on the Atlantic side. Ii our State be
the rendezvous for the cut-throats and
pick-pockets alone. why do our eastern
friends send their tender offspring among
us, where their morals may be ruined j;
Why not embark them in the tin-ware
business, where tho lessons of economy
learned in childhood are not likely to
be forgotten, particularly those relating
to a /" swap" If we are to credit
the newspapers on the other side. when
Belzebub undertakes to collect his jew
els, California will pan out " aufszin. .
Sierra Citizen.
W. wr K.Nr-tT do not want