The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-29

dulged immoderate laughter at a jest, without apparent wit or hu- nor, and upon being asked what could be found in the remark to excite his mirth, replied ''its start ling absurdity." The Orion Era in its last issue furnishes us with a refreshing novelty cast in the same mold, and gropes amidst the con- fusion of it's statements and fig ures with such bewildered help lessness that the mind of readers is impressed with feeling in which amusement and compassion strug- gle for mastery,
 An expert accountant would shrink aghast and hide his dimin- ished head in attempting to recon cile the book-keepers art with the brilliant and wondrous result of the figures, and a learned judge would blushingly acknowledge hls unsuspecting ignorance, in the face of such declarations of law, and in very shame surrender the sacred ermine to be used in all future times as an endowment robe." The learning and wisdom of the peda- gogue has been exhausted his oc- cupation, like that of Othello, is gone; no more will his exalted tai ents find contentment in the ele- mental principles of mathematics no more will his startled ambition find repose in teaching how domes- tic happiness consists in it's much ness; but as did Solomon, even with his seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, he ex- claims, vanity of vanities, all is vanity" He has tasted the for bidden fruit, and learned all there is of good and evil he has peeped into the beautiful, entrancing, GOV eted folios of that ledger; he has long waited and watched but now he has climbed the mountain of his hopes, and fancies he views the promised land, in the near distance. There is an unspeakable yearning for more intimate acquaintance with the mysteries of county af- fairs, and who knows what might follow in the line of promotion for kind and seasonable service. So we'll has the question of that bond been argued, so soft and low are the accents of remonstrance, and so unofending is the simplicity of the modest writer, that we are con strained to believe he has been out among the focks which represent its value, and has returned with the firm determination to embody their plaintive bleats in the type of the Era. The bondsmen who with drew from that bond are not sub jects of discussion, and we only mentioned them incidentally as necessary to give history of the case. The people have no interest in matters which are now their pri vate concern, and were so from the time they were released from ia- bility on that bond. If the Era has comments to make regarding them, 1t shall do so without further no- tice from us. It shall be, so far as possible, the mission of the HER AID only to urge such matters as affect or interest the public, and to regard the private affairs of citi- zens, as business with which noth- ing warrants us to interfere.
 The April bond of the Treasurer is practically ''functus oficio," and we gave the tax assessment of the sureties on the lately disapproved bond as taken from the books. We now call upon the Era, to consult those books and deny our publica- tion. The Supervisors made refer ence to the only accessible au- thority, and according to the en- tries the. security was insuffi- cient, and they very properly said so. Ordinarily real estate furnishes the only valid security for bond,