Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-08-28
\ DUN IN THE RUNIC MEASURE.

We hud the following floating about iD th
papers, and II fits our case SO we'll that we cau
not help copying for the benefit OF certai
large aud respectable class Of our customers
We have taken the liberty to add fifth an
concluding stanzs to which we ask particulc
uttention. 1t III y not be rhyme, as Sy vest,
said To Ben johnson, 'but it is the truth"
Ben Jouson said to Sylvester:
Should you ask me why this dupniDg,
Why these sad complaints and lurmurs,
Nlurmurs loud about deliuquents
Who have read the paper weekly,
Head what they have never paid for,
Read with pleasure aud with profit,
Read of news both home and foreign,
Read the essays and the poems,
Full of wisdom and Instruction;
Should you ask us why this dunnug,
We should answer, We should tell you,
From the printer, from the mailer,
From the pruL4p. did paper maker,
From the landlord, lrom the carrier,
From the man who taxes letters
With stamp from Uucle Samuel
Uncle Sam the rowdies call him--
From them all there comes message,
Message kind, but firmly spoken,
PIease to pay US what You owe US.
Sad it is to hear such message
When our funds are all exhausted,
W hen the last bank note has left US,
When the gold coin all has vanished,
Gone to pay the paper maker,
Gone to pay the toiliug printer,
Gone to pay the landlord tribute,
Gone to pay the active carrier,
Gooe to pay the faithful master,
Gone to pay old Uncle Samuel-
Uncle San, the rowdies call him
Gone to pay the Western paper
Three -and-twenty hundred dollars!
SAD 1t IS to turn our ledger,
Tur0 the leaves Of this old ledger,
1uro and see what sums are due US,
Due tor volumes long siuce ended,
Due for years of pleasant readiug,
Due for years of toilsome labor,
Due despite our patient waiting,
Due despite our constant dunning,
Due IN sums from two to twenty.
"Would you lift burden from US?
Would you drive spectre from you?
Would you taste pleasant sumber?
Would you have a quiet conscience?
Would you read paper pum for?
Send US money, send rs money,
Send us money, send us money,
SEND THE MONEY THAT YOU OWE US %
Do not put it off a minute,
If you do you may forget it,
All you surely aoW forget it
As 50 mauy have before you:
And though 1t may be small to you,
ic esteemed a litter matter,
CT to US ii is no trihe,
Yet to US it is important
nat We have what each man owes us.
Bat we would not have you stop at
he mere payment Of your just debt.
No indeed You should 70 further:
You should send usa subscriber;
O"e at least; but we'll not grumple
Should you scod list of twenty.
The above is from an old number of tha
excellent agricultural paper, the Souther
Pmtr.
CoURTsHIP IN GREENLAND. There is som,
thug exceedingly melancholy in the accouot
which are given of the custom of courtship i
hiccnIand. Generally women enter upon th
blessed estate with more willingness and les
>ohcltudc than men. The women of Green
E'nd are aD exception to this rule. A Greer
atdcr, having fixed his affection upon som
i"mrle, acqualuts his parents with the state q
his heart. They apply to the parents of th
g'r', aud If the parents are thus far agreed, tn
htXt proceeding is to appoint two female nc
HolIators, whose duty it is broach the subiee
to the young lady. This is a matter of erea
tact a.d deiicacy.
The lady ambassadors do not shock tb
young lady to whom they are sent bv anv snd
lrn or abrupt avowal Of the awful subject 9
mus mission. Instead of doing this, the
Iaunch out u praises of the gentleman VIII
seeks her hand. They speak of the splendo
u MS mousse, the sumptuousness of his furni
lure, OF his courage and skill iu catching seals
aud other accomplishments The lady, prt
tending TO be atfrouted even at these remot
h'ntS, ruDS away, tearing the riDgIets of be
halr as she retires, while the ambassadresses
haVlng got the consent of her parents, pursu
her. take her by force to the house of her des
tined husband and there leave her.
Compelled to remain there, she sits for dav
with diSheVeled hair, silent aud detected, refu,
irg every kind of Sustenance, till At last ;f lin
v1treatles do not prevail, she is compelled b
'rce, aod even by blows, to submit to the DE-
tested uplon. lD some cases Greenland wome
ia'nt at the proposals of marriage, in other
They hy to the mountains, aud only return wbe
Compelled to do so by hunger and cold. lion
QUITS ott her hair it is sigo she is determine
to res list to the death. The Greenland wife
The slave of her husband, doomed to life
'''', drudgery and privation.
:, Say, Mister said soied-lookiug boy O.
',e wharf yesterday, do you ever give piec
w"ter-meIoo to poor boy whose father ;
lNOlhcr' dead n ,phn aaas =. O.