Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-02-22

more untiring, and his children may proudly
say, successful representative than in him =
For, the accumulated result, at the life-close
of any man, tells the story Of his ability and
bis industry. Three journals, of entirely dis
similar nature, permanently established and
living at this very day I; the Eastern Argus,
(political y the Boston Recorder, (religious y
and the Youths Companion, Guvenile.) Of
these three journals, the last two were the
pioneers of their kind-the type of that species
OF periodical; and since that time, what hosts
OF similar and initiated journals have arisen
and fallen in this country!
Now-we could not but refect-does man
willingly do the hard work of life to such an
extent as this particularly where any one
of those journals had success adequate to
furnish him alone and the partner of his life,
with so handsome a support to their life's
close! Not so-but the necessities of many
and much loved children may urge him neces-
sarily and energetically on to it. And what,
in this case, through evil report and good re-
port, through hard times and happy times,
must these journals per force accomplish
Our Imagination dilated upon the impressive
fact of nine children each of whom was
sustained and reared from infancy up to full
maturity. Ye divinities of household ex-
penses what illimitable bread-and-buiter =
what interminable roast beef what exhaust
ed establishments of summer and winter
suits what Ossa-upon-Pelion heights of
small shoes and stockings Really, ones re-
spect for the productive capacity of journalism
somewhat increases by such view. For,
sustaining in city, from infancy up to ma
ture age, nine children affording them, sue
cessively the very best education which New
England facilities near home and far from
home, collegiate and academic, could furnish !;
with the various collateraIs of incidental ex-
travagance natural to city-bred children-im-
plies positively small fortune spent upon
each ! fortune in each case almost adequate
to support the parents themselves. Any man
of figures could reckon this out; at least any
parent, who has ever reared to maturity and
literally educated child.
Therefore, in our thought we honored Jour-
nalsm-or rather the old man in whose ener-
geiic hand it had proved thus productive
And the more so, that this was journalism,
not OF our present rampant and luxuriant
growth, when large fortunes are suddenly
made (and sunk) in them, but the modest, pi-
oneer journalism of this country; launched
upon the public wave and sustained and forced
onward without prestige-without secret,
moneyed patronage of men or parties-utterly
without capital, except industry, and the in
domitable energy of an enterprising, selfedu-
Gated and selfreliant mind.
God bless the heroic old man for the man
IS social hero, who with such materials TO
work with, and under such circumstances
can accomplish thus much as family-father
and as citizen in the community where he
lives All! brother thought we-if the
children of such man, have any self-won
Iaurels, they ought. and must, by right, TO rest
upon his honest oak-leaf chaplet from which
was transmitted and impaired the virtue and
educated power that produced them. And
when the aged hands, from very habit partly,
and from necessity partly, (alas for those
child-spent fortunes y still falteringly insist
upon their daily labor, let us sing, at least,
nm hoartfalt in af ind =
cheer and re-animate them and devote one
s,rophe of the filial pean to a grateful cele-
bration of the sturdy virtues, and the lifelong,
earnest devotion of a true men and loving
father to his children children who, even in
the vicissitudes of their maturer years, always
found him ready to fill the breach, to the very
extent of his loving ability
[As our readers may be curious to know
something more of this noted family, we ap.
pend the following paragraphs, from an edi
torial article in the Olive Branch of last week
The information here given is, we presume
in the main reliable j
Good old Deacon NATHANIEL WILLIS wa:
hard-working, hard-plodding, honest man
who resided 'once upon time, in Portland
Maine. He came to Boston to seek his for
tune some thirty or more years agone. Herr
he established, in the good Puritanical times
weekly paper called the Recorder. He wal
protector, proprietor, editor, foreman aud com
Positor in his own office for season, and un
t til money flowed into his pockets.
The Recorder was the acknowledged orgal
of the Orthodox, 'Calvinistic,' or Congre
gational family Of Christians. 1t had grea
circulation and great influence in its you'll
and manhood, and perhaps it has to the pres
ent hour. The very best theologians and mos
popular divines of the Calvinistic school, con
tributed gratuitously to its columns. (Di,
Fanny Fern ever write without money, ant
without price !') The profits of the Recorde
soon handsomely supported the large Willi
family. Nathaniel. the poet, eldest son o
Deacon Willis, at one time induced his fathe
to publish some poetic sketches which he hat
written from Biblical history, and they a
once, by their beauty, polish, brilliancy, ant
excellence, secured for their author nam,
which has not to this day been blotted out
the memory of man, woman, or even child.
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