The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-07-03
horace Greeley,s Private Habits.

the NloTulHS 1ol ~ - ouc VI uis loNoiieS
maxims that only early rising can keep
tho health unimpaired and the brain
vigorous, He then wakes up the whole
household and assemblies them in the
library by candlelisht, and after quitting
the beautiful lines: 81
'Eagiy TO bed and early to rise
Makes man healthy. soalthy and wiss,'
he appoints each individuals 5 task for the
day, and sets him at it with encouraging.
words, and goes back to bed again. [
mention here, in no faulttinding spirit,
-but with the defercnce due to alman who
is older and worthier and wiser than I,
that he snores awfully. In moment of
irritation, once, l was rash c.:ough to
say that never would sleep with linn
until he broke himself OF this unfortunate
habit | have kept my word with big
oted and unwayering determination.
At half past IL o'clock Mr. Greeley
rises again. lie considers that there is
great virtue and economy in shaving
himself. lie docs it with u dull razor,
sometimes humming part Of u tune, Che
knows palt Of Il tune, and takes an inno-
cent delight in regarding it as the first
half of Old Hundred but parties famil
lar with that hymn bave felt obliged to
confess that they don't rccosnize it, and
| therefore the noise he makes is doubtless
an ori sinal composition of Mr.. Grcelcy's),
! and sometimes when the razor is es-
pecially dull, he accompanies himself
with formula like this /: "Damn the
| Id razor and the ID outcast who
made it -
lie then goes out into his model garden
and applies his vast store Of agricultural
knowledge to the anchor .tion of his
cabbages ; after which he writes an az
ricultural article for the instruction Of
/ American farmers, his soul cheered the
while by the reflection that if cabbages
were worth Sll piece, his model farm
would pay.
He next goes to breakfast, which is a
/ frugal ahstemious meal with him, and
i consists of nothing but just such things
rs the market affords, nothing more.
! He drinks nothing but water, and tea.
and Scotch ale, and lager beer, and lem
onade with fy III it-somctmes !. house
fly and sometimes q horscfy, accUdin.
to the amount of inspiration required tt
/ warm him up to his daily duties Dur
ing breakfast he reads the Tribune all
/ through, and enjoys the satisfaction oil
j knowing that all the best things in it,
written by Cooke, and Uassard, and
myself, are attributed to him by confid
ing and Internal public.
After breakfast he writes short cdi-
torial, aud puts large dash at the be-
ginning of it, thus -, which is the
same as it he put II. G. after it, and
takes savage delight in rejecting that
none of us understrappers can use that
dash except in profane conversation when
chafng'over the outrage. He writes his
own editorial iu his own handwriting.
! He does it because he is SO vain of his
pcnmanship. lie always did take an in
ordinate pride in his penmanship. He
hired out once, in his young days, as a
writing master, bu; the enterprise failed.
The pupils could not translate his remarks
: with any certainty. His first copy was,
"Virtue is its owp reward, and they got
it, Washing with soap is wholly ab-
surd," and SO the trustees discharged
him for attempting to convey bad morals
through the medium of worse penman-
ship. But, as l was saying, he writes
his morning editorial. Then he tries to
read itovcr and cant do 1t, aud SO sends
it to the printers, and they try to read it,
and can't do il; and so they set up at
random, as you may say, putting in what
words they can make out, and when they
get aground on q long word, they put in
sIeeonstruction" or suniverss suffrage, y
and spar off, and paddle ahead and next
morning il the degraded public can tell
what it is about, they say II. G. wrote
il and if they can't, they say that it Is
one of those i,nbcciic understrappers, aud
so there is an end Of IT.
On Sundays Dir. Groeley sits in :
prominent place in Mr.. ChaTin'a charch
and let's on that he is asleep, and the con.
+a - (
gregatioon + regard It q. ep efoen:gieity o
genius. feHtss's sAfsasssT ! q
! When hs is to appear in public, Mr..