New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-23

cogs and wheels Of the college marking system nave
ceased to act The who makes brilliant success at
college is expected to make brilliant success In life
His future is mortgaged to his own hopes and the ex-
pectaons OF his friends Even If his head does not ache
and his digestion is unimpaired the ghosts OF his youth
full hopes will haunt his future. Blessed be med0crlty
at the university for less is expected OF IT. II hap
pier the little that comes and has health wherewth
TO enjoy It'll Did not Thackcray that II was bet
ter for boy to have middle place III the FORM WIN
thrashng now and then, than to be the COCK OF the
SCHOOL,
With Mr.. William E. Dodge on the temper
platform in Texas and Mr.. Neal Dow writing Proh-
bOn letters TO the newspapers in Mane the line OF so
ca reform may be said 10 stretch across the continent
and Congress longer in session the continuity OF
the movement is not broken midway at Washington
The sturdy pioneer in the temperance cause "away
down East" loves to write down the frewaer epoch OF
pauperism, wretchedness, rags, and ruin in Maine
Portland" he writes The Press in the old rum time
had immense numbering trade and West Indian trade
the the better for it, The way OF 1t
this The farmers and their sons in Winter were Nv
ing in camps in the woods logging as the phrase and
the leading article Of their camp supplies was rum in the
Spring they driving the rivers, and in all that work
it rum, rum Arrived at the mills, the busy
saws were at work night and day converting the logs
into lumber and in the mills and all about the villages IL
Der was Portland and thence to the West
Indies, and the returns always in rum 50 that II
may be said truly that all the immense pine forests OF
boundess value went down the Threats OF our people IN
the shape OF rum"
San Francisco is vened with romance. While
the corvette veadnck the Russian fleet lying in
the dry dock, Lieut.. Georges dc Kaands, the second
officer fell in love with Jennie Burdick, the foremans
daughter and like gentle Alice Brown OF the Bah Baad
she recprOcated it. Tho elder Burdicks were pleased
with the Russians attentions their daughter so long as
they supposed that nothing would come Of the hrtaOn
but when he asked their consent to marriage ana
talked of taking her the seas. they robeed ana
showed him the door. An eopement was planned by
letter. He ride by the house after dark ana on
catching glimpse OF light in her window was TO lean
out Of the carriage and light cigar The signals were
exchanged accordingt the agreement but the odgente-
man suddenly appeared with shot gun and opened IRE
AT short range wheIeupOn the lover did not taTy Tor MS
sweetheart hut back to the city She kept her
word. Ayl she dropped like a snowh fake from her
window and hoated high board fence ike a
feather Down road she tramred without bonnet or
shoes and hired bOatman her across the river,
her girsh figure shiverng in the night air her DacK
hair streaming in the breeze and her pink toes IN hcr
tattercd hose freezing III the lcaky galley III was
rheumatic and romantic She summoned her lover anu
was escorted by him TO a hOaldnr wlelc ntr
father found the next dayMarch Island carried
her home with in her and bad cola III Der
head. In few weeks she viii be of age ana then, WIN
bonnet and vail CATERS and OvershOes, ana FAINT t0uc
of the old rheumatism, she will go 10 him.