Hence the printing of the journals was discontinued.

Then the United States sternly rebuked the Secretary for disregarding the "instructions," and warned him to correct his ways.

Wherefore he got some printing done, forwarded the bill to Washington with full exhibits of the high prices of things in the Territory, and called attention to a printed market report wherein it would be observed that even hay was two hundred and fifty dollars a ton.

The United States responded by subtracting the printing-bill from the Secretary's suffering salary--and moreover remarked with dense gravity that he would find nothing in his "instructions" requiring him to purchase hay! Nothing in this world is palled in such impenetrable obscurity as a U.S.
Treasury Comptroller's understanding.

The very fires of the hereafter could get up nothing more than a fitful glimmer in it.