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Mary had suggested* that they must
have some wine at the wedding. She was
not herself in favor of its use; ‘ but what
would folks think?’ Sebastian scratched
his head and hesitated.
‘ Plague take the tarnal stuff I’ he said;
‘you know I’ve had too much of it in
my days, Mary. I’ve sworn .that I’d nev
er bring auother drop into the bouse.’
‘Butonly this time, Sebastian. You
needn’t drink it, you knowbut only
thiiik what folks will say if wo have no
wine.’ ! ■ .
4 1 don't care what alb the folks in crea
tion say, only you, Molly ; and seeing aa
'you want it; iteball be-hud;’—
4 Thank you, ray love and she kissed
him, little thinking what a temptation
she was throwing in his way.
Sebastian. went to the village, which
was culled Dayton Centre,' and the Ural
thing he did was to wait upOa, the town
clerK tind get hla certificate;-
4 It’s lucky you came Justos you did,
Sebastian,’ suld*the clerk, as ho hamicd
over the certificate; l . tor J urn going to
Taflpbory to spend Christmas, and stop
the week out.- Yours is the only ct riili
cate I’ve got, and that was' made out so
long ago that I’d entirely forgotten it. I
should have been ott'in hulfan hour, and
my. folks wouldn’t have known anything
about It. However,it’s all right now.’
From the ejerk’s Sebastian went to his
friend Burke’s, and got hla goose* And
it was a beauty—ail picked and Unladed
ofl* us smooth and as fair os a chicken.
4 Tell Mary that I’ve cleaned it all out
inside,’ sold Mrs. Burke. ‘Bho’Jlknow
my work; and when Busan Burke says
a gCose is clean, sne’Jl know It is clean.'
Lemons, nuts, raisins; and
then came the lutjt item on the list; one
gallon of Madeira wine. '
fottitaL
BEAUTIFUL BA IN.
BY STEPHEN MAfISET.
Oh, the rain, tbo beautiful rain,
Falling alike bn bill, dale, and plain I
Over the turnip-tops, ’talers, and leeks—
Over the butchers’ carta, nil full of raoate-
Fourlng,
Whirling,
Rushing along,-
Beautiful rain, coming down so strong!
Rubbing the paint off a lady’s cheek.
Making herglvo ail ImWrk shriek, *
Beautiful rain from the Heavens a,bove—
Come out of it quick, or you'll catch cold, level
Oh, the rain, the beautiful ralu!
Bashing against the window-pane,
Coining down In Its drenching fun—
II Kotiks the pedestrians, every one,
Whee/iug,
Suooalug,
. ■ Coughing by—
It moistens the nose and bungs up the eye;
And oven the ducks, with a quack aud u bound
Basu Into puddles Jrom ground,'
Tno peoplu too,.rush On to catch the train,
And gut out of the damp oi the ••beautiful raln r
How tlio wild crowd goes swearing along,
Because theybuvb'lcft their umbrellas ut home!
How tlio gay “Grcu’u bonders” iikemeteois dash
DieucUed to thoslcluj but.betwuouyou and I,
They ain’t singing,
B or swinging.
But diugglng the train,
Over dirty pavemet*. soaked witu the rain—
Ruin so pure when it lulls Horn the sky
-Right into big uutei-hulls, by-uhd-b> ;
Ami the young ones are wack’a lor getting wot
leel
Or playing with boats in the horrlbloslrcol I
Once I went out lii the rein, and I fell—
Fell like the rain drops—into a well; - -
. I ell to be cramped In my stomach, my feet ;>
Fell several leet, till I lelt dead beat—
Bleeding,
Swimming,
Heaviuga sigh, .
(Only I couldn't bo heard, by-the-by.)
I’d given my head for a morsel of bread,
Fori feared hiy friends thought mb "very dead.”
Messrs. Mosses «k Sous I thought ot in yum.
For a waterproof coat to keep out the ruin.
Once I went to a Fair—in the beautiful rain, -
And made love to aglrl.in a shady'lane, •
And I kissed t her—1 did—and her name was
“Grace,” .
And for it 1 got a slap In the face,
Father, *
Mother,
Bisters, all
Said I deserved It, as much us my fall!
Anti I felt like some wretch that goes shivering
.by, •
Or a very small sweep in a chimney high,
For, all that was on or about mo ’twas plain,
There was notulhg that hud not been soaked by
the rain!
It Is not at all strange that this beautiful rain
Should fall on some sinners both handsome and
plain, '
It is not at all strange when the night coiucSagain
It should rain quite os hard on my desperate
brain,
Panting,
"Wringing wet, •
Drying—alone,
Quite too wet for prayer. Two weeks for my.
moan, • - •
That can’t be hoard In the splash of a crazy town,
Gone mad, in its joys at the rain coining down'
While i lie In a nightgown made of muslin dj
lalue ’ - '
Cozlly tucked up in bed—out of the “beautiful
111ti%rifiatteve%,
TIIJB WCDIiINO GOOSE.
Jn those days the law of marriage was
strict. Fourteen days public notice of an
intention to commit matrimony was re
quired ; ami the clergymau, orthejustice,
who performed the marriage ceremony
without having received a certificate to
the effect that the said public notice had
been given, was liable toaheqvy penalty.
Augustus Sebastian Walpole hu i long
ioVe'd and adored Mias Mary-Almira Al
lard; aud it had for some months been
fixed that they should be wed ou Chriat-
Luas evening ; and fcebabiiuu looked out
that his * luieuiiou 1 was published In due
seasuu. He regarded it as a mo
•luentous affair, and he entered upon the
preliminaries with much fear and tremb
ling,
. As Christmas drew near, preparations
for the happy event were made. Mary
would not be married at her own home-;
and her step moihe* was very glad when
she heard Ute decision ; so it was arranged
c at the cefembuy pjace at
debautiauj3,. and bluty.’s Sier
Hoiry w«uX, over lo.keep-Uer c. mpany,
and-to help hei in : the labor of prepara
tion; lor she was .determined with her
own hands to prepare the weddlug least.
Christmas Would come on Thursday.’
They were to he married at six o’clock in
the evening, auu alter that tho wedding
feast was to be served, ■ .
There was not a grown person at Day
ton Corner who hud not heard of Mary
Allard’s ‘Smothered Goose.* . Nobody
else, since Mary's own mother died, could
smother-roast agoosoiike her, The pro
cess was not only a mystery, butaoexact
were the culinary requirements, that lew
could acquire the art. Tho goose cooked
iu this way the table brown,
sweet, tender, excessively juicy and with
out a particle of that oily flavor which
renders goose aud duck so unpalatable to
some. 01 course smothered goose was to
bo the main dish of the.feast; aud that
Mary might have a goose worthy of her
skill, Sebastian had selected one several
mouth's before', from a flock owned by a
friend near the Centre, and this friend
was to shut it,away from its mates a low
weeks before it would be' wanted, and
give It.extra food..
Wednesday carae—the day before
Christmas—and after dinner Sebastian
hitched old Dobbin to the-sleigh, and
matte ready to start for the Centre, there
to get his marriage certificate, Ids goose,
and various other articles too numerous
to mention; one of which, however, was
a gallon of good*old Madeira. Aud let
me make a remark :
CARLISLE,, PA., THUIRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,1869,
‘Taste of that, old follow!’ cried the
storekeeper, holding up a tumbler half
full of the clear, blushing: liquid, That
was before the days of the .Maine Law
and Adulteration,
- Sebastian tasted of it—tasted again—
smacked his lips, and sipped again.
‘ Don’t be afraid of it. That’s the stuff
,that puts life and vigor iuto a man.’
- And Sebastian drank it do^vn*
* -By glory, Walpole, you ought to have
some of.thls old Sherry, to. go with it.—
Just try that ‘ If.ydu dont say that s the
best Sherry you ever tasted, I’ll give it to
you.’ ;■. ’• ■
A man, fall blooded and vigorous, who
had tasted nothing stronger than coffee
.for two years, could pot contain a gill of
old Madeira without feeling it in bis
brain very qulpkly,, waited
not to be asked b secuijd time 16 take .
the Sherry. He drank otf halfa tumbler
full, and then entered Into asplrited con
versation. Mercy I liO'V hia tongue hod
loosened; and how liberal he felt I Of
course he would' have a gallon of the
Sherry.
‘lsold Sol Marshall going to be at your
wedding
‘Certainly.’
1 Got any brapdy at home?’
• * Ko/ •
1 By glory I you ought to have a quart
—say a bottle of,U-just for old Sol. He’ll
appreciate it. And then you’lf want it
in the house, you know. I’ve got about
the best article 6l pale Marlel that ever
crossed the.water..The-e, just put a drop
of water in-tbat-r-not too much—don’t,
drown ill’
hebasliah poured a very little water into
about half a gill of pure old biamly.; and
b«ving*held Jt up to tbeliirhi, and mark
,ed the oily waving of. the bright topez
Muted liquid, he poured it down bin
throat. It was good, capital. He wduld
have a,boltje ol.lt. Yen, ‘ put me up two
bottles of It'while you're about it. Thun
derl a.fellow isn't married only once I'
*Tlmt’s the idea, Sebastian.’.
Ah! Thin ! Charlie ! Harry !—bow
are you old fellows ?’
* Jerusalem I Sebastian, is it.yoti ? Say,
old chap, It’s coming off to-morrow V
‘Yea.’
‘ Then you ought to.do the .handsome. l
f Of course I‘will. Come up—What'll
ye have?’
The three young men who had just en
tered the store had been old cronies of
in his days of fun and frolic,
and they were glad enough to find him
in asocial moou ; rerouting me past two
years they hufl enjoyed but little of his
companionship. But lie was pleased to
meet them, now. With the tire in his
blood that set him on the road to frolic,
they were the three of all others he would
have chosen for companionship at that
time.
There is no need of enlarging here.—
When Sebastian commenced to drink
with his old, cronies he was. gone. He
bad a jolly good time, no doubt j. but h©
was to carry Ifitle remembrance of it
homo with him. • ,
About two o’clock on Christmas morn
ing, Mary, wha had been watching all
night, saw old Dobbin turn into the yard,
with the sleigh behind him; but she
could see no Sebastian. Calling Polly,
she ran down to the door. She did not
stop for a lantern, for the moon was,up
and gave light enough. In the sleigh,
flanked with demijohns, bottles, bundles,
aud goose, lay Sebastian. At first Mary
grew faint with a great fear: but very
soon she divined the truth, ’ Was she in
censed? No. Her first thought was—aiid
she spoke it aloud-‘lt’s all my fault,
Polly! It’s all my own fault, ami not his.
He didn’t want to buy the wine,, but I
GortS!S>fc , Ti,-.fjiML a LS e ±astianl o; -
They got Sebastian up,and got him in
to th.e house, he the while declaring: -
‘No, no, boys—(hie)—notanor’er drop!
I—(hie)—tell ye—(blc)—Molly’ll cry! I'm
a—(hie)—cussed looi [—(hie). Ob, dear
Molly, (hlc)wha’ for!d ye (hie) want me
to get the(hlc)deru’d stufl’for? Oh 1 git
me home ?’
Towards tlje middle of the forenoon
Sebastian awoke, and Mary was soon
with him. He had said enough in his
wanderings while she ami Polly hud
been getting him to bed, to give her an
understanding of the whole-affair, and
.instead of blaming him, her first words
were of love and kindness. She ueknowl-'
edged that it was all her own fault, and
that she had been sufficiently punished
for persuading her lover to do that which
he lelt ho ought not to do;
‘ So let us think no more about it, dear I
cried Mary, with a kiss. :
But Sebastian was not willing to leave
his Mary, bear the burden of blame. He
claimed it for Ids to bear, and acknowl
edged his sin, and promised not to do It
He looked into his pocket book,
and found his money all gone—every dol
lar; bui that wasn’t worth crying about.
To be sure there had been something over
a hundred-dollars;' -but” he could make
that up ill, time; and lie professed to. hope
tlmc r .Um / leason might .he . worth that to
him" He sa'w. :what tm Supposed to-be
the important paper he put
ir, and that was all right. . -
The day passed on; a cup Of strong
coffee, and a little eserc’se in the open
air, very soon brought Sebaa'ian up to
something like himself. The pits and
the cake and the pudding were made,
ami the royal, goose was in process of
smothering, and' everything seemed In
readiness for the grand event.
Agustns Sebastian had donned his
wpudinggarb, and having drawn a five
dollar bill from a little reserve ho chan
ced to have in his desk, he thought he
would put it in the certificate, as he had
been iniormed by Mary that that was the
way It was done. ’
‘Como Sobasliau are’Wait
ing.*
*Tn a minu:o love. Let me put the
money in the—’
He meant to say certificate, as he sup
posed ho had taken the paper: from bis
pocket book ; but upon opening be read
—not, “Know all men by tliese presents:**
but “Agustus S. Walpole, to B. F,
Grantly Hr. to one gal. Madeira wine—’* 1
&c.
‘Heavehs and earth ?* ' r
Mary rushed into the room, aud found
her lover pale and trembling. He had
lost his marriage certificate I They hunt
ed through every bit of clothing Sebas
tian had touched since the night before:
and then they wont out and looked
through the sleigh ; but the paper could
not bo found. They looked again and
again—and' looked once more—looked
into possible, and Impossible places. The
old minister was summoned, and the
lofts was explained to him. He knew
they had been regularly published ; and
as soon as Mr. Harney came back from
Tails bury he would getanew certificate,
dated back to agree with the old one. O!
couldn’t he—wouldn’t he, for mercy’s
sake! marry them?
Person Bebee , was a kind hearted,
whole souled, matt ; but ho was unswerv
ingly conscientious. Not for the worfd
•’would htf violate mo statue-of his State.
And moreover he explained that such a
ceremony would be no marriage in Jaw.
Children borne of such marriage would
bo illegitimate, and all concerned would
be liable to prosecution, No, he could,
not! .
One more lust long search, and the
CerUllcuto was given up. .The minister
hud been down.und explained the wholo<
matter to the waiting company.; and they’
said, “Let us have our feast-let Joy take
the place of sadness—and at another time
wo will come to a quiet wedding.’
The parson himself thought it-would
bo too bud to disappoint the invited guests.
‘Let's carve Mary’s Wedding Goose—’
‘Not a Wedding Goose,’ groaned Se
bastian. . . . , .
‘Well, we’ll call it so. .Como, cheer up.
Many a storm worse than tills has blown
dyer without harm to anybody.’ -
Thu great old sitting-room was ablaze
with a score of Jumps, , and when tiobas
tiun-uud Mary hud taken their seats to
gether at the table —sitting in the centre
oi the long side, opposite the old minis
ter—uud when they found how truly kind
and considerate their friends were/ they
■*-
began to take heart and Maty whispered
to her lover..
‘Let’s bo happy ifwe can, Sebastian.
It won’t bo for long that evil shall
with us.’
Parson 1 Bebeo •invoked the Divine
blessing,; aud thou seized the carving
utensils and attacked the Smothered
Goose, the royal savor of which had com
pletely filled the house with its delicious
odor.. He took off the wings, disjointed
and separated the legs, and then out,
down at the breast, and pared of! the
thick rich layers of meat from the sides
of the breast bone. This done, ho insert
ed the point of the carver into the thoruio
cavity, for the purpose of extracting the
stuffing.- , A few bits of rich stuffing, and
then something interfered—there seemed
to bo a hUbslance that did not belong
there. The parson got the point of the
fork into it, and finally pulled it out,
*A dish rug!’ inadvertently uttered an
unsophisticated female guest.
‘Oh 1.1 thought Susan hud cleaned it?’
gasped Mary, turning as red as lire, and
then paMog to an ashen hue.
‘Hold dnl’ exclaimed the parson, who
having partially opened the extraneous
substance with a knife aud .fork, now
teok it into his hand. ‘You ueddn’t be
‘ut&ir'uJarmtiU, my dear eluld,’ lie" went
on, at the same time standing erect, and
overhauling the thing in *uch a manner
that those who were sitting could not s-e
. it is all right. The goose is all prop
fir, Augustus Sebastian Walpole and
Mary Almira Allard, X want you both to
stand up. I can’t do us I like to do, but
I’ve thought that our Wedding Feast
would seem more like the real thing, if
we only went through the form.. Come
—just to please us all—stand up. Stand
op and take hold of hands and I’ll just
show yen how tilings ought to bo done;
for !declare I can't serve qut this goose
without just a little more than a single
blessing.', • ■
‘Oli, yes! yes! do! do,'came from all
parts ot the long table.
.Ami without thinking—moving like
machines—their sell-wills fairly' crushed
out—the twain arose and took each other,
by the hand, and the old pastor went
through the marriage with such
unction that old Deucoh Allard, Mary’s
uncle eqclalmed : • •
‘Ain’t that ere- a little.too much like
the real thlng, parson?' *
‘ ‘Well—uh--I think not,' replied the
ministexv / ”
-Ami thou ho. showed them what he
had found in the goose, to wit I ,' Sebasti
an’s money and marriage certificate.
• .Was there ever.such u time ? The old
paroOU, the moment ho ceased.'speaking,
shot buck his chair, and popped around
and kissed the bride; and everybudj'
else followed aultr—she laughing and cry
ing..by turns, butat the time as happy us
she could be.
And then, with the bright gloaming
of great joy, and the blessed, dreams of
happy promise, making jubilant the
feast, the assembled company set to work
of testing the excellence of com
missioned aud accredited Wedding
Goose. . .
Timubx Tvxarcii.
BY OHAKLfiS READS.
The 10:16 train, glided from Padding
ton, May; 7,1847. lii the left compart
ment of a certain first-class carriage were
four passengers ; of these, two were worth
description. The lady had a smooth;
white, delicate brow, strongly marked
eyebrows, long lushes, eyes that, seemed
A man could not see her nose for her
eyes and mouth; her own sex could and
would have told us some nonsense about
it. She wore ah unpretending gaylsli
dress, buttoned to the< throdt, with
lozenge-shaped buttons, and a .Scotch 1
Ahawl that agreeably evaded tho i respon
sibility of color. She was like a duck,
her plain feathers fitted.her, and
there she sat, smooth, snug and delicious,
with u book in her hand, and a soupcon
of her wrist just visible us she held it.—
Her opposite Ueigobor was what X call,a
good stylo of muu—the more to his credit,
since he belonged to a corporation that
frequently turns out the worst imagina
ble style of young men. He was a caval
ry officer, aged twenty-five. He hud a
•moustache, but not a very repulsive one;
not one of those sub-nasal pig-lulls on
which soup Is suspended like a dew on
a shrub, it was short, thick and black as
a coal. His teeth hud not yet been turn
ed by tobacco smoke to the color of juice,
his clothes did not stick to nor hang to
him, he hud an engaging smile, apd
what I liked the dog for, his vanity,
which was inordinate, was in its proper
p!uc his heart, not in his tace, jostling
mine and other people's who have none—
in d word, ho was wnai one oftener hears
of; than meets—a young gentleman. Ho
was conversing in an animated whisper
witn a companion, a fplfiAv.officer ; tin y
WerfeHglkiug about. What it is far; better
not t«- do—women.. Our friend clearly
did not wish to be overheard, • for hb
cast ever and anon a furilive glance at
his lair vis-a-vis and lowered his voice.—
Bhe seemed completely absorbed in her
book, and that leassured him. At last
the two.soldiers‘came down toa whisper,
(the truth must be told,) the one who.got
down ttlough, and was lost to posterity ;
bet ten pounds to three, that he who was
going down with us to Bath and Immor
tality, would not kiss either of the Judies
opposite upon the road. 'Hone, done!’
Row I am sorry a man I have hitherto
praised should have lent himself, oven in
a whisper, to such a speculation, ‘but
nobody is wise at all hours,* not even
when the clock Is striking five and
twenty.; and you are to consider his pro
fession, his good looks, and the tempta
tion—ton to three.
After tilough the party was reduced to
three ; utTyvylford one lady dioppod her
handkerchief; Captain Holignan fell on
it like a tiger and returned it like a lamb;
two pr three >vords were interchanged on
th'ia J, occaal6u. At Heading, the Marl
borough of our tale made one.of the safe
investments of that day, bp bought a
Times and Punch; .the latter full of steel
pen thrusts and wbod outs. Valor and
beauty deigned to laugh at some Indented
humbug or other punmured by Punch,—
Now laughing together thaws our human,
ice: long before tJvvlndou it was a talk
ing match—at Swindon who so devoted
as Captufh Holiguau—he handed them
out —He souped them—he tough chicken
ed them —he braadied and coohiue&led
one, aud tie braiidied and burnt sugared
the other; on their return to the car
riage, one lady passed into the Inner
compartment to inspect a certain gentle*
man’s seat oh that side of the line.
Reader, had it been you or I the beauty
Would have been the deserter, the ave
rage one would have stayed wlth ua,; till
all was blue, ourselves included; hot
v more surely does our slice of bread and
butler, when It escapes from our baud,
revolve it ever so ttftelr;' ailfetu facedown-'
ward on the carpet.’ But this was a bit
of a fop, Adonis, dragoon—so Venus re
mained in tele a-’teto' with him. You
have seen a dog meet an unknown
female of his species; how handsome,
how emprewee, how expressive he'he
comes; such was Bolignau after Swin
don, and to do the dog Justice, he got
handsome and handsomer; and you
have seen a cat conscious of approachiug
ore.!m-r-such was Miss Huythoru; she
became'demurer and demurer; presently
our captain looked .out of the window
and laughed; this el cited an enquiring
look irom Miss fclaythum.
‘Wu are only a mile from, the Box
Tunnel.' ",
‘JJu uivvays laugh .a' mile from the
Box Tanner*’ said the lady.
‘invariably.!
••‘•What fmV' r
:*'Why,,hem! it is a geutloman’s/joke.’
Captain Boliguan thus encouraged,
recounted to ;Miss Hay thorn the follow
ing:
*A lady and her husband sat together
going through the Box Tunnel—there
was one egutlemau oppositoj it was pitch
dark; after the tunnel the laiy said,
‘George, how absurd of you to salute mo
going through tbo tunuel. 'I did no
such thing.’ ‘You didn’t?’ *No! why?
because somehow I thought you did!’
Here Captain Dolignau laughed, and
endeavored to lead his companion to
laugh,-but It was not to be done. The
train entered the tunnel.
Mis3,Haytborn—ah!
Dolignau—What is the matter?
Miss Huytborn—l am frightened.
Dolignan (moving to her side)—Pray
do not be alarmed; 1 am near you.
Miss Hayihome—You are near me—
very near mo, indeed, Captain Dolignan.
Dolignan—You know my name!
Miss. Haythorn—l heard you mention
It. I wish wo were out of this dark
place. ,'.
Dollgnah—l could be content to spend
hours here, reassuring you, my dear
lady. •
Mias Haythorn—Nonsense?
Dolignan— -Pweep! (.Grave reader, do
not put your lips to the next pretty crea
ture you meet, or you will understand
what this means.)'
Miss Hay thorn—Eel Ee! Eel
Friend—What is the matter?
Miss Haythorn—Open the door! Open
the door! . ..
There was asound of hurried whispers,
the door was shut and the blind pulled I
iown with hostile sharpness. 1
If any critic falls on me for putting
nartlculate sounds ,in a dialogue as
above, I answer with ail the insolence I
can command at present, ‘Hit boys as
big as yourself;’ bigger perhaps, sufch as
Sophocles, Euripcdes and Aristophanes;
they begun it, and I learned it of them,
sore against my will.
Miss Hay thorne’s scream lost most of
.its oflect because the engine whistled
forty thousand murders at. the same
moment; aud ficticious grief makes it
self heard when real cannot. •
Between the tunnel and Bath our
young, friend had time to ask himself
whether his. conduct hud been marked
by that delicate reserve which is sup-,
posed to distinguish the perfect gentle- ,
man.
With a long face, real or feigned, he
held open the door; bis late friends at*
tempted fo escape on* the other side—im
possible! they must pay him. She
whom he had insulted (Latin.fof kissed)
deposited somewhare at bla feet a look of
gentle, blushing reproach, the other
whom he had not insulted, darted red
hot daggers at film from hor ond ea
they (Juried.
It was, perhaps, fortunate for Dolignan
that lie. had the grace to be a friend to
Major Hoskyns of bis regiment, a vete
ran laughed at by toe youngsters, lor the
major was too apt to look coldly upon
billiard-balls and cigars; he had seen
cannon bails and ; linstocks. He had
also, t-> tell the truth, swallowed a good
bit of the mess-room poker, which made
it as impossible for Major Hoskyns to
descend to an ungentlemanlike word or
action as to brush his own trowsers below
the knee.' .
. Captain Dolignan told this gentleman
his story in gleeful accents; but Major
Hoskyns heard him coldly, and os coldly
answered that he had known a man lose
his own life for the same thing.
‘That is nothing;” continued tho Major
‘hut unfortunately he deserved to lose
At this, blood mountod to the younger
man’s temples; and. his senior added,
‘l.mean to say ho was thirty-five; you, X
presume, are twenty-one!'
‘Twenty-five.’
‘That is much the same thing; will
you be advised by me?'
will advise me.'
White the‘j£37thafTe may thmk*you
have lost the bet.'
* That is hard when I won it.’
1 Do it all for that sir.'
Let the disbelievers in human precept!-
bilicy know that this dragoon capable of
a blush did this virtuous action, albeit,
.with violent reluctance; npd this was his
first dumper. A week aftefc those events,
he was at a,ball. Ho was imthat state of
factitious discontent whictibelongs to ua
amiable English. He was'looking in
vain for a lady, equal in personal attrac
tions to the idea he had formed of George
Dolignan as u man, when suddenly there
glided past him a most delightful vision !
u lady whose beauty aud symmetry took
him by the eyes—another .look; ‘lt can’t
bo! ‘Yes, itis!’ Miss Haythorn I (not
that he knew her name!) but what an
apotheosis! ’
The duck had become a peahen—radi
ant, dazzling, she looked twice os beauti
ful and almost twice as large as before,
llcioat sight of her. He found her again.
tShe was so lovely she made him ill—aud
he, alone, must not dunce with her, aueuk
to her. If he hud been content to begin
her acquaintance the usual way, it might
have ended in kissiug, but haviug begun
with kissing it must end in nothing. As
she danced, sparks of beauty fell from
her on all around, but him—she did u*»t,
see him; it was clear sue never would
see him—one gentleman was particularly
assiduous; she smiled on his assiduity ;
he was ugly, blit she smiled on him
Holiguau was surprised,at his ill taste,
hid ugliness, his impertinence. Holiguau
ut last found himself injured ; 4 who was
this man?* ‘and what right had he to go
on so?’ -He had never kissed her, I
suppose,* said Hody. Holignan could not
prove it, but he felt that somehow the
rights of property were invaded. Ho
went home aud-drearaed of Miss Haw
thorn, and hated all the ugly successful.
Ho spent a lortnight trying to find out
who his beauty was—he never could on-,
counter her again. At last be beard of
her in this way: A lawyer’s clerk paid
him a little visit and commenced a liale
action against him in the name of Mis.s
llaylhorn, for insulting horin a railway
tram. •
The young gentleman was shocked ;
endeavored to soften the lawyer’s clerk ;
that machine did not thoroughly com
prehend the meaning of the te'rmi Thu
lady’s name, however,.was at lasi reveal
ed by this untoward incident, from her
name to her address was but a short step ;
and thosame day, our crest-fallen hero
lay in wait ut her door—and muiiy a sue
cectiiugday, without effect. Butoue fine
afternoon she issued forth quite natural
ly, us if she did it every day, aud walked
briskly on the. parade.: Holignan did the
same, met and passed her many timed on
the parade, and searched for pity in her
eyes, but found neither look nor recogui-'
lion, nor any other sentiment,- for ail
this she -walked laud- walked,V tilt all
other promeuaders were tired and gone
then her culprit summoned .resolution;
and taking off his hat, with a voice trem
ulous lor the first time, besought permU
sion to address her. She stopped, blush
ed, and neither acknowledged,nor drs
owned his acquaintance* He blusbuj,
stammered out bevy ashamed he was, bo w
he deserved to Unpunished, how he was
punished, how llxtie she knew bow un-
nappy he wos, and concluded by begging
her not to Jet nlMlm world know thedisr.
'fefaceof'u- iuan,who“ was'alreadymorf i -
lied enough by the loas of her acquaint
ance. 1 tine asked an explanation; he told
her of the action that hud been com
menced in her name: she gently shrbg
ged her shoulders and said, * How stupid
they are I' : Emboldened by this, he
begged to know: whether ‘Or not* a life
of distant unpretending demotion would,
after a lapse of years, erase the memory
of his madness—his crime!
; *‘tide did not know I’
Bhe must now bid him adieu, as she
had some, preparations to make for a ball
in the Crescent, where everybody was to
be. They parted, aud JDoligmui deter
mined (o bo at the nail, where everybody
was to be. Mo was there, and after some
time he introduction to Mi*s
Huythoni, and ho danced with ner. U«*r
munuer wua grUploiis. VVith the womW
fui tact of her sex, she seemed to have
commenced the acquaintance that
iug. That night, for the first time, Bo-
Jiguan was in Jove. X will spare the
reader air a lover’s arts, by which he suc
ceeded in dining where she dined, la
duuciug whore she danced, In overtaking
her by accident when iho rede, His de-
a
VOL. 56.—N0. 13.
votion followedh"roven tochurch, where
the dragoon was'rewarded by learning
there is a world where they neither polk‘
nor smoke—the two capital abominations
of this one.
lie made an acquaintance with her
uncle, whb liked him, and he saw at last
with joy that her eye loved to dwell up
ofe him, when she thought ho did not
observe her. ,
It was three months after the Box
Tunnel that Captain Doltgnau called one
day upon Captain Maythbrn, E. N.,
whom he bad met twice in his life, and
slightly propitiated by violently listening
to a cutting-out expedition ;, he called,
and in the usual way asked permission
to pay his addresses to his daughter. The
worthy captain straightway began doing
quarter-deck, when suddenly ho was
summoned from the apartment by a I
mysterious message. On his return, he |
announced with a total change of voice,
‘lt was all right, and his visitor might
run alongside as soon as he chose.' My
reader had devined the truth ; this nauti
cal commander, terrible to the foe, was
in complete and happy subjugation to
his daughter, our beruiue. “ j
As he was taking leave, Doilgnan saw
his divinity glide into the drawing-room.
He followed her, observed Xl sweet con
sciousness 'which encouraged him; that
consciousness deepened into confusion—
she tried to laugh, and cried instead, and
then she smiled again; when she kissed
h»r baud at tile door It was ‘George’ and
‘Marian, 1 instead of ‘Captain’ this and
1 Miss' tue other. A reasonable time after
this'(for ray tale la merciful and skips
formalities aiid torturing delays), these
two were very happy; they were once
moreujam the railroad, going to. enjoy
fficir honeymoon all, by themselves.
Marian Doilgnan was dressed Just us be
fore—duok-llkeatul delicious; all bright,
exceptlaer clothes; but George sat beside
her tbistime instead of opposite; and she
drank him in gentiy'iro'm her long eye
iashes<
‘Marian,’ said George, ‘.ninrrleJ people
should tell each other all. Will you ever
forgive me if X own to you: no—-’
* Yes! yes !’ . ♦ •
‘Well, then, you remember the Box
Tunnel.’ (This was the first allusion ho
hud ventured to it.) I am ashamed to
say I had £3 to £lO with White I Would
kiss one of you two Judies;’ and George,
pathetic externally, ehuokled within-.
*1 know that, George; you,’
was the demure reply.,;
?Qh-|. .you.overheard .m** 9 !({?’_
‘Anddid.you notuear me whisper Id
my compauiou? I made a bet with her.?
‘You made abet! how singular!. What
was it? r
‘Ouly a pair of gloves, George.’ .
‘Yea, I know; but what about it?’
‘That if you did, you should be ray
husband, dearest;’
*Oh, but stay; then you could not have
been so very angry with me, love. Why,
dearest, then you brought that action
against me ?’
Mrs. Dolignan looked'down.
‘I was afraid you were forgetting me!
George, you will never forgive me!’
•Sweet angel! why, here is the Box
Tunnel!?
Now, reader—fie Ino! no such thing !
You.can’t expect to bo indulged in this
way every time we come to a (lark place.
Besides, it is not the thing. Consider,
two sensible married people. No such
phenomenon, I assure you, took place.
No scream issued in hopeless rivalry of
the engine—this time I
FOII.EII BY A WOMAN.
A Leaf from Tlio. Diary Of Aii Old
- - Defective. . ,■ -
‘Madame, it is my duty to arrest you I’
‘You dare noti’
The lips were white with passion rather
than fear, and the lady stood before me
like a lioness at bay. Even then I could
not help but note the splendid beauty of
this grand lady. Tall and slender, eyes
black and flashing—almost luiid now—
thespectacia she presented, standing there
in thelhiddle of the apartment; was more
the appearance of a queen than a hunted,
criminal.
‘I must,’ .! replied. ‘I do riot doubt
youriunoobhoe. .Looking into your face,
it is strange that any cue could couplo it
witirguiit; but lam constrained to do
my duty, Madame, however inimical it
may be to my feelings.’
‘Will you allow me to change my
dress!’ she said, in a tone almost pleasant.
The hard lines around the mouth bad re
laxed, and the passionate glow on the
face gave way to a pleasant smile.
‘Certainly ; I will wait for you here*’
‘I wish, also, to send a messauger fora
friend ; will you permit him to pass?’
■‘Certainly.’
This was my first' Interview with Bur
genia ■ ornille. I had seen her formduths,
the leader of our gayest and must fash
ionable ••oclety. Xu her splendid, mansion
, she dispensed the most profuse and ole
gant.hospltality. :
ANpauish lady—a widow she bad rep
resented herself -and bad been resilient
here almost a year. No one ever suspected
her of being aught than what she seenmp,
until ope day 1 was ordered to arresther
as u.murderess.
It was now alleged, said Mr. If.,' that
this young beauty was no other than the
woman who had poisoned her husband
in Havana, and fled with all his wealth.
An immeuse reward was offered for her
apprehension, and the circumstances that
hud come to our knowledge pointed her
out beyond all doubt as the person wo
were in search of. Yet the person who
.recognized her the evening before nf the
theatre advised us to bo careful lest she
should escape us, 1 laughed at the idea.
Mr. I. and myself, wore surely sufficient
to nrrest a lady. Wo wore old cnough.in
the ways of cunning to deleat any suen
attempt.. When the lady left mu 1 step
ped to the window, and said to Mr: i.,
who was waiting at the door:
‘The lady desires lo send a messenger'
for u friend ; suiter him to pass.’
Almost the same instant, the. door of
the apartment the lady hud entered
opened, and a youth—apparently a mu
latto boy—came out aud passed hurriedly
through the room iuto the hall, aud from
thence into the street. It was, no doubt,
the messluger, 1 thought, aud I picked
up a book aud commencen reading. Near
ly an hour passed, aud still the Judy did
not make her appearance, nor did the
boy return. The friend shu hud sent fur
must live at some distance, I thought; or
the lady la unusually carotin about Her
toilet; and so another hour went by. At
last I grew impatient, ana knocked at the
door. ‘Madame, lean wait no longer.’
There was no reply. 1 knocked re
peatedly, and at last determined to force
an entruuce. iSlruuge fears hairasAdmo;
1 began to suspect, X know not what. It
took but a moment to drive lu the door,
and, once lu the apartment, the mystery
was revealed. The robes ot the lady lay
upon the floor, and scattered ever the
room were sijita of boys' wearing apparel,-
similar to that worn by hoy.
On the Bible was a cosmetic that would
stain the skin to a light delicate brown.
1 was foiled for a surety ; the lady had
escaped Xu the disguisipof a messenger, i
should have delected the use; I felt hu
miliated, aud determined to redress my
error. X knew she would not remain in
the city an Instant muger than sue could
get away: - i Jiurrled to iier hankers, hut
louud .that she hud drawn the amount
due her au hour before. '
‘Who presented the cheek?’ I asked
of the clerk.
‘A mulatto boy.' it was made payable
to bearer.’ . '
There wna yet a ciiauuu. The X'Tench
steamer left within an hour; it was pos-d
hie she wimld seek that'means of escape.
1 jumped m u eab ami arrived there- ten
minutes before she Jell,the wharf—juat
in time to assist uu aged, decrepit gentle
mau Into the cabin. There were lew pas
sengers ; none of (hem answered the des
clrptiouufiho personX sought. Xstood uu
the wharf watching the receding vessel
until It disappeared. X was in the act of
turning away when a hackmun ap
proached me with the remark ;
• ‘Mr. F, did you see that old man ou
Hates for 3ltoCtttsing.
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board 7 He bad a long white beard, and
bair that fell on his fihoulders.’ .
•Yes.' •
‘Well, there’s something curious about
him.’
■Why?’
‘Why, sir, when be got into my car
riage ho was a mulatto Coy, and when ha
got out he was an old man/
I will not repeat the expression I used
then—it was neither refined nor polite—
for I knew the vessel would bo far out to
sea before she could be overtaken. J was
foiled by a woman. Nor could I help re
joicing, now that the chase was over,
that she had escaped.
Innocent or guilty, there was a charm
about her none could resist. The spell of
her wondrous beauty affected all who ap
proached her. It lingers In my memory
yet; and I could not have the stain of
her blood upon my conscience.
For downright ignorance and utter ob
i liviousuess of all things theological, the
i following cannot be beaten. One can dis
cover nothing on the part of the hero
verging upon impiety; for he was evi
dently as benefit and sinceie as could be.
.After a weary tramp through a long lay
of unbroken forest an agent of the Ameri
can Bible Society, late in the evening,
came out upon a small clWnng wherein
- stood a substantial log cabin, with good
yards and outhouses. A rap upon the
door brought a middle-aged, stout-framed
matron to view, who when she saw the
siraugcr, invited him to come in and
make himself comfortable. . Later In the
evening our colporteur found the family
all assembled. The host was a stout,
swart pioneer, of about, fivo-and forty'
genial and frank, and as warm-hearted
and Iree as man can be. The good wife
was a lit companion; and the six children •
ranging in age from ten to two-and
uvenly, were evidently used and willing
to tlie bearing ot tuelr share of toil.
Alter supper the traveler gratified the
curiosity of hie host,by informing him of
his business; but the baokVoodsman was
not enlightened. A Bible Society was
something of which he had never heard,
and be hud very little idea Of its use or -
object. In the course of con vernation the
colporteur learned that his host had been ■
burn oh tbe frontier,'aifd that during his
whole life he never visited what .might
be culled a civilized settlement. He was -
literally a primitive man, and as unused
to the ways of enlightened society as a
ITOW“DOT 11 uuuu* up muuivaitw mp lantl ■
and shot game in the forest.
In the morning, after having partaken
of a substantial breakfast of venison aud
coarkp wheat bread, the colporteur asked
his host if he was the possessor of a Bi
ble.
• ‘I reckon,’was the answer- -
‘Because,’ pursued the visitor, "if you
had none, X would esteem it a privilege
to make you a present of one.. But you
say you have one?’ . , ~ •
'Waal—now let me see—l dono, stran
ger. We did have some, I reckon ’twas
some Bible.’
Upon this the colporteur said he should 1
like to leave the family.in posesston of a
Bible—he would do it for the sake of the
children. And he took from his port,
manteau a very pretty edition of the So
ciety’s Bible.
.‘Betty,’ said the. host to his eldest
daughter, ‘do yon go into the loft an’ fetch
down that yor Bible.’ ■
Betty went up the ladder, an(J soon re
■turned, bearing in her hand abdlita doz
eo'eolled and crumpled leaves of an old
quarto Bible, with one calf-bound cover
attached. The backwoodsman took the
fragment and slowly counted the leaves.
1 * . '— l -I .... .# 1-- I
expression, and said: .
‘Stranger, seein’ as you’ve made the
offer, I don’t keer ef I do take one o’ them
yer Bibles. 1 I’d no’ idee we was so hear
A Two-Cent Dog.
Yesterday afternoon a two-cent ,„dog -
sprang from an jfltey, closely follbwed by
afiye eenfbriok.- Hounding the corner
at right angles, he came in contact with
the feet of a Dutch woman, who was car
rying a jug of molasses in one band and
a basket of eggs in the other. The sud
den collision of the dog with her lower
extremities threw her front her feet, and
she sat down upon the basket of eggs, at
the same time breaking the jug of mo- ’
lasses,upon the pavement. A young gen
tleman, carpet-bag In band, anxious to
catch the train, waa runningcloeebehind,
and stepping on the fragmenta-ofthe jug
and its coutents sat down bo the chest of
the.Dutch,woman, who said ‘Mine Got.'
The young man said something about
mad dog, but in the excitement said it
backwards. In the meantime the dog
had fun against the feet of a team of
horses, attached to a load of potatoes, and
they taking fright, started for home. The
end-board Ueiug out, they unloaded the
potatoes along the street as they. went.
Grossing the railroad track, the Wagon
caught in the rails and tore one.of them
from its place. A freight train’ coming
uloug a few momenta latter was thrown
from the track, smashing up a dozen cars
and killing thirty or forty hogs. .The
horses on reaching home ran through
the barn-yard and overturned a milk
pail and coutents, which another two
eeut dog licked up. , One of the horses
ImvingTiroken bis leg, was killed ibis
morning, and the other is crippled for
llio. It is now a mooted question whether
the man who threw the brick at the two
oeht dog, or the man who owns it, Is re
sponsible for the chapter of accidents
which followed. Borne think they do.—
Richmond Journal.
A Bkautifui. Incident.— A corres
pondent of the New York Evening Post,,
.writing from Frankfort-on-the-Mom, re
lates the following: Little American
school girls, are much beloved In the
German schools, especially if they hap
pen to possess loving dispositions them
selves. A few weeks ago the writer saw
tlie corpse of a pretty eight-year old
American girl who bad been conflued to
her. bed by disease for .nearly nine
months,'duiug the whole of which time
her former teaohecs and follow-scholars
paid repeated visits to fier home, to in
quire alter her health, and bring her
little presents of flowers, of whatever
else they thought might please her.
These visits were continued up to the
week ot her death, and wore a great
happiness to the little -school girl. Fi
nally when death oame, a. trait of Qer-
was seen which must have
helped to soothe the. deepest’, sorrow of
the parents. The. little body was laid
out, and on the last evening before in
terment, when it waa placed In the little
Gothic coffin, and after U bad been deco
rated wlih.flowers, as it la the Gorman
custom, a troop of young girls were seen
approaching the house along the garden
pathway. These fellow, scholars of the
little American girl then In her coflln,
and what a pleasantly sad.suprlse did
they, bring to the parental . Ba.ob.girl held
in her baud a beautiful boquet of roaes,
and ofterenterlng trie room containing the
corpse she approached timidly the 11: lie
coiliu, looked for a few moments sadly
on her little compaaiouls face, and de
posited her boquet upon , the body.—
When all had done {this, scarcely a' ves-*
Inge of the white burial dress could bo
seen' so completely did the flowers hide
it. Months hud-passed away since the
little deceased one had lost been, among
them, yet such is their training and lov
ing character that they hover forget a
little schoolfellow playmate.' The cost
of the flowers 'clone bought by-these
school children,Gaud by friends and
neighbors, could not- have amounted to
much leas than' seventy;'guilders—so ■
many boquots, indeed, that'the coflln It
self would uot.ooutain them.
—Jay Cooke, the celebrated Govern
ment financier,.built and carries on at ‘ a
bis own expense an Episcopal church
near his summer residence; on Lake
Eiio. The irreverent In the neighbor
hood call it the Church of the XJoly Five
Twenties,
A Quaint Idea.