A Roadside Colloquy

"And so, Squire, you don't take a county paper?" "No, Mtyor, I get tiie papers on ïnuch better tonus, so I takc u ooupie of tlieiu.' 'But, S juiro the county papera ofton prove a great convciiionce to u. The more we encourage thum tho botter tho editor eao afford to make thein." "Whj, I dou't know any convenienee they are to me." 'The farm jou sold last Fall was advertiscd in one of them, and therebv you obtaiucd a customer. Did you ñutí" "Very truc, Major; but I paid for it."' "And you made more tha thiee hundred dollars by it. Now if your neigh bors liad uot maintainod the presa and kept it ready for use, you woukl have been without the means to advertise your propert)'. But I think I saw your daughter's marriage in thosc papera - did tbat cost you auvthing'r" "No, but-" "And your brother's death with a long obituary notice. And the destruetiou of your neighbor Bigg's house by fire. - You know these things are cxaggerated till the authentiü accounts of newspapers set them right." "O, true, but-"1 "And when your cousin, Splash, was up for the LLgislature, you appeared inuch gratiñod at his defeusü whieh cost him ñathing." "Yes, yes; but these things are news to the readers Thoy cause tho people to take the paper." ' Xo, Squire Grudge, not if all were like you. Now, I teil you, the day will surely eorae wlion somebody wilt write a long eulogy on your life and cliaracter, and the printer will put it in tvpe with a heavy black line over it, and with all your riches, this will be done for you as a gravéis dug fora pauper. Your wealth liberality, and all sueh things will bo spoken of; but the printer's boy, as hespulls tho words in arranging the type to the sajrings, will reiivirkof you- 'Poor mean devil. he is even sponging an obituary üood in ruing, S juiru !" [We maij havo pubhshod the abovc bcfore, but it is none tho worse for that. - " Line upon line, and preeept upon pre cept" is the Scripture rulo. Let your neighbor who dont take a county paper, - but always horro ws one - rcad it. - Eu. Aroús.