The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-12

no confuSlOn ~ nearly 70 0r1ve crazy INC
male Dobbs. On that first pleas
Mt Sabbath Mrs. Dobbs utterly destroys the
ppetite of her most object lord and gives
i'm the blues for the remainder of the day,
y making, at the dinner table: the startling
that on the morrow she will
commence housekeeping. Visions Of
gony and household war! What is it that he
ears? But there is no use grumbling the
dict is final Theophilus is Gin for it."
For seven and one half minutes after day |
reak Monday morning there is quiet in the |
)obbs domicile. Dobbs is awake ane think |
ng. His sonl is disguised within him. He
wonders why house cleanings were ever in
rented; wonders if Mrs. Jones makes her
as disagreeable as Mrs.
Dobbs; wonders if his bachelor friend, Mr..
Jenks, isn't after all happy dog; wonders
Why he ever called upon Sophronia Sabbath
evenings looking so sprucefy that she had to
fall in love and marry him. He wishes it
would rain, wishes that Sophromia would
conclude to put it off until next week ; wishes
that Arminta Annettee, the youngest Of the
Dobbs' responsibilities, might show signs of
taking the measles. But Theophilus is
brought to by Sophromia who comes to the
surface in the most astonishing of costumes
and begins piling things about in dire confu-
sion.
There it comes, dust. carpet shakings,
bare floors, Uttered chairs, wash-tubs, basins,
soap-and- water, cold lunch, young Dobbses
wailing and refusing to be comforted, Mrs.
Dobbs asserting. herself, Dcbbs unable to find
anything where he put it, unable to get any.
thing to eat, unable to keep the babies quiet,
in mortal terror of Mrs. Dobbs, sits on
broken chair cold, gloomy, hungry. dispirited,
trotting the two youngest responsibilities on
his knees while third Of his precious off
spring pulls his hair from behind and squalls,
and the nervous twitchings about the mouth
of Theophilus would indicate that he is in
the first stages of hydrophobia- Over the
picture we drop the curtain-it is too harrow
ing
Dobbs, friend of ours, most miserable of
benedicts, from our soul we pity you. In
the bliss of our bachelor exemption from the
woes in which you are now involved; from
regions into which even the shadow Of yonr
domestic grievance cannot reach us we send
ont to you words of invitation. We would
not have you absolve yourself from the ties
which unite you to your devoted Sophronia
but you can come and stay at our hotel until
your family affections are over.
DRY Goods are now selling at the New
York Store at extremely low prices. All
goods marked down to the lowest selling
price in plain 6gures-no second price.
Great inducements offered to wholesale cash
buyers. apr6 dot. eod.-w4t
! At the closing exercises of the Public Schools
on the 9th of April, at the Central Building among
the many good things which transpired was the
yaledictory of Miss ALLIE NEWELL, which w
with pleasure give room in columns.
valeaictory.
The merry chime Of the old school bell has called
US together this afternoon for the last time. An
other bright and happy school-year, with its gold
en- hours, heaven -fraught, il gone, and the ties
which bound us, both teachers and pupils in one
endearing band, are about to be severed, NJ we 20
forth to other duties on the stage Of life. Soon
the last fond kiss the last gentle pressure of the
hand. will have been given the last kind fare
we'll spoken, and We part-never, some Of US, to
meet again, until called to stand before the grea,
| judgment seat.
And what progress have we made during the
past term What record has been written for us
on the roll Of our teachers? Years hence strang-
ers may turn to it and judge from it the charac-
tiers we have formed the faithfulness with which
we have fulfilled our work in life thus far. All
fear that We pupils have not accomplished
what We might have done have not improved the
talent given us, as was our duty and privilege
Still we feel that we have done much that will re
suit in our own good and that of our fellow NOR
tails.
| Our associations, although brief, have been very
pleasant, and certainly very profitable, for which
we feel indebted, in great measure, to our kind
| instructors.
As representative of the School / have beer
chosen to show them the gratitude felt by each
heart-a pleasing yet delicate task :-pleasing be
cause it is an errand of love delicate tecause diff
6cult to find words to express the true emotion OIL
the heart Truly
The Towering moments Of the mind
Loose half the petals In The speech"
| To you, Mr. McLane, feel under many obi.
! cations fer the interest you have ever manifested
in our welfare. You have pointed out to US ths
road Of science and led gently over its steer
and rugged places. You have awakened our ener.
gies. and made US feel thatwe are to be something
more than mere cyphers in the world more thar
merely to eat, live, and die, and be forgotten
| Your wise teachings and kind admonitions are
cherished, we trust, the good ground Of ouu
hearth, and will result sooner or later, in bringing
! forth much fruit
L H. -.
Kindness and forbearance with US, and our sincere
| wish that the future may have in store for you
LIES choicest blessings. and that at last you may
! secure your full reward in the world to come
| To you, Miss Seymour and Miss Conn, we come
| with hearts overlooking with love and gratitude,
| Language cannot do justice to our feelings Ever
greeting us with pleasant smile, ever sympathi.
| zing with and aiding us in time Of trouble, ever
ready to encourage us; when falterng before din
culties you have twined yourselves around oul
hearts and found place upon the tablet of our
memories that mot csen the sands of time may
erase. Perhaps We may have often panied you
with our carelessness-our seeming ungratefulness
Tor your unceasing labors in our behaf but do moi
feel that 1t from want of love and respect
Certainly, far from it. In our future lives, what
ever road We may take, Whatever changes may
come, the Impressions you hays made uDon our
minds will ever exert their sweet influence over
us May yod1ln the future, - in ~ pssf. CON
.,nue 20 scatter blessings - you co. lviBR to see
| the result Of your labors in this world and TIA
world to come. -
passing tribute il also due cur kind teachar
who labored 20 faithfully aaaosR N until calIsd
away to Other aaties short time since. Ever tr.s
toher callin she has Ieft = N example ven vor.
thy Of imitation, and . shs il with a. TODAY.
We assure her that We still romanbee erntefulv thu
unselfsh devotion she ever manifested in our in
terests
70 you schoolmates, We next cosne with = mart