Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-02-12
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AN EVENING WITH A NEWS
PAPER.

my study window. THE people, l
said, will not expect me to be out
among them this evening, and unless
there is pressing reason for it, no one
is likely to call upon me-"
Reasoning thus, 1 pulle my study
chair up very close to the fire, took upa
newspaper, seated myself comfortably
and began to read.
The first item of news startled me.
It was taken From a Late London
Print" and among other things said
that it had been declared ''both just
and necessary that a revenue should
be raised In America; and accordingly
the House of Commons, representing
the people of Great Britain, proceeded
to grant to his Majesty the property
of his American subjects" l have
been hearing much of late about an al
lance between this country and Great
Britain, but l have not heard of any
enactment whereby the House of Com
mons has been empowered to give our
property to the British crown. In
fact, have some most excellent rea-
sons for believing that the House OF
Commons knows that such an enact
ment would be difficult to enforce.
Farther. .on read, "It is talked of
that public thanks, by authority. will
je returned to the merchants of New
ork for their patriotism" There is
uch talk of the generosity of Helen
could and everybody has been hearing
II the gallant Theodore Roosevelt
and his daring Rough Riders, but
lad not heard that public thanks by
merchants of New York for any special
iat Of patriotism on their part, nor
could l quite make out ny what author
lty the thanks were to be returned.
IAe item interested me so much that
/ completely forgot about the falling
mercury and became deaf to the creak-
ing snow.
One of the most surprising state
ments was to the effect that tho New
York demand for Check Linen was so
great that the Liverpool merchants
have been obliged to buy single pieces
in little reatil shops" That, ii seems
TO me, must be rather humiliating to
the Liverpool merchants; and l am at
loss to know why New York should
make such a demand for Check Linen.
A short but pathetic paragraph con-
veyed the information that on Tues
day negro lad, belonging to Samuel
Quincy, Esq, going into cellar, drop
ped instantly dead. OF course, l i'm
mediately inquired why a negro lad
should belong to Samuel Quincy, and
furthermore why should such lad at
temptto go into cellar with the pros
pect of instant death staring him in
the face
| thought 1t little impudent in the
editor, just now when our gas bills are
running up as fast as the mercury runs
down, to put the following notice in a
most conspicuous place in his paper:
All persons indebted for this paper,
whose accounts have been above IL
months standing, are requested to
make immediate payment" II the ed
ltor would just stop and watch the in
dicators on my gas meter for half
minute, l am sure his sympathies
would be so wrought upon that he
would not again disturb my peace of
mind thus until after the February
thaw.
l almost jumped out of my chair
when / read: ITO be sold-A very |
hearty, likely negro boy about seven
teen years of age, for want Of employ |
ment." 1t is true, no doubt, that there |
are great many negro boys in the |
who are without employment, !
and the race problem is looking SER
Gus. But l am not in favor of selling |
those boys. 1t seems to me it would |
be far better to send tnem to Tuskee-
gee and let Booker Washington train !
hem in the art of self-support as he
aas trained hundreds of others.
Glancing down another column, my |
eyes fell upon this interesting notice: |
Yesterday morning at six o'clock, |
died very suddenly at Newbury, of an
Asthamatic fit, almost universally re-
-retted, that man of God, the Rev. |
George Whietfield, in the fifty-sixth |
year of his age. He had been on a Wis
t to Portsmouth, at which place and at
flttery and York, he preached every |
.av last weel., and was to have preach |
yesterday morning at Newbury on |
as return hither, had not this sorrow
ful event taken place
1t seems to me the Squires are deal |
ing out justice in a somewhat high !
handed manner, as the following item |
o. news will indicate:. Last Monday" |
so, the paper stated, "one Moses Saun-
ders, belonging TO Watertown, was
caken up at Reading for stealing sund- |
ry things at Wilmington a few days |
before, for which the justice sentenced
him TO receive twenty stripes. which
was Immediately inflicted upon him,
and he afterwards committed was
to goal for want OF money to pay the |
charges, Now, with the weather as |
cold as it is at present, it seems to me
a little severe to take a man out and |
lnfilct upon him twenty stripes and