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A FINE HAUL OF FISH. hands, burned by the sun, tanned by As to Damian, he, like the sun The Ghost Story,, Why She Refused The Minister. Fofthis reason it was that, with ontfpausing wind and rain, and smelling offish seemed in better humor than on the From the New York Tribune. 1 to further examine bisstrange A few gossips of the southern end irom a rod away? And she so soft, so preceding evening, if he might be visitor, he slammed the heavy Covered with glory and with wounds "I was in the cab with Tommy of St. Louis,Mo., are just now discussing smooth, so dainty, dressed^ and perfumed judged by the lively and frolicsome portal to, excluding her. in the War of the Succession, and the strange romance of ayoung like a Madrilena. Burns, one of the best engineers in manner with which he ascended the Scarcely had the echoes died away\ woman who has for something over It is true that if the poor fisherman without a penny, in his purse, as in terraces of the castle, followed by fche company's service, and our run when the silence of the house was a year been a resident among them. was ill-dressed this was to give some other fishers, all singing the those days was the case with most was between Jersey City and Philadelphia.^We again disturbed by a series of unearthly The story was told by a clergyman finer, better raiment to Carmen that most villainous jota that had been warriors and herors, the noble scion left Jersey City at 9 rumblings from below, accompanied if the husband should labor less, to of the Episcopal Church,who has been produced in their country. They o'clock one Saturday evening, pulling by sundry quasi-human of Mequinenza returned one day to the end of sparing his hands, the wife a sufferer from the lady's strange reached the drawbridge, crossed the squeaks in crescendo. All was still a long train of passenger coaches his dismantled castle, to rest from would have worked far harder, with fate. The lady in question is but a courts of the castle, still lying in silence, after that for about a minute, and the result of sparing her white ones and reached the plane fronting and three Pullmans, After we left visitor to America, whence she came the harsh fatigues of the camp and then—a step was heard, slowly a true, also, that those eels, which were Damian's cabin. to try and shake off the spell of which Newark we struck a 60-mile an hour •eat in peace the lentils that came cending the stairs from the cellar. indeed ill-smelling, paid for the sweetscented she firmly believes she is the victim. "How loud the cascade roars!" pace, and watched the telegraph with his-title. Meantime the old gentleman had soaps in which Carmen delighted. A few years previous to her leaving said one of the men. $•*$& ^i ^^^f] poles flash by. We had struck the stood irresolute in the hallway, not" But who makes such observation-* Two words let us give to the soldier "Historic Caledonia" she returned "But what has become of the plain at Princeton Junction when knowing what on earth to do, it was. to a woman? above ally if and other two to his birth-place. bridge?" cried another." "True for from the patrimonial estates of the A altogether natural under the circura-* Burns, who was looking out of the that woman is nineteen years old and Don Jaime de Mequinenza, baron of you! Look! look! it has slipped from family, nine and one-half miles stances. If he fled up stairs he mighty cab window sajs to me: pretty, airy, and graceful as the rainbow that name, who had fought as a each end! it has sunken into the cutting—it from the Holyrood Palace, in Edinburgh, be followed by the bugaboos and cornered, with its seven colors. Ah, yes! •captain for the interests of Louis the has broken!" "'Look-a-here Jack! There is a to Aberdeen. By the death of there being no escape by the* gratitude may well be a sentiment Fourteenth, was at that day a man "But how can that be? Such white dog runnin' alongside what's her father, since her arrival in this roof. The said bugaboos were certainly too sober for a young woman, and •of five-and-thirty years, tall, handsome, beam—so long, so well supported by been followin' us for five minutes and country, she has become heiress to a coming up the back way, and* justice—fairness—an uncomfortable rough, brave, and energetic its length! so heavy! and oi walnut— blamed if he ain't keepin' up to the large estate. She is refined, graceful a he could not get out of the front idea for a joyous imagination. These injine. Look at him.' f^ little lettered, but jovial and gallant a wood as strong as iron!" and handsome, but the fatality door without encountering the lower5 virtues are borne of suffering, and to the last degree with women— "I shall have to buy another," said "It took me some time after gazing attaching to her makes her life an half of the lady at the entrance. It^ Carmen was almost quite happy. particularly fond, indeed, of pretty Damian, shrugging his shoulders out of the window before I could unhappy one. was indeed a painful dilemma, a Given these conditions, it was not "but come, boys, let the bridge be, make out the dog. Finally I saw peasants. Add to this that he was one which might well nonplus a re-lit at all inconsistent that the thoughts and help me with the seines before it him skimming along like a swallow. When but seventeen years old she an orphan, an only child, a bachelor, spectable business man who was nn-Cs and interest of the fisherman's wife grows later." 'And, taking up the Now in the glare ot the window he became strongly attached to a and you have the picture of the accustomed to the ways of spooks. should turn to Don Jaime de Mequinenza, thread of his interrupted song, he began could be plainly seen, then he would nephew of the Bishop of Carlyle. Aragonese hidalgo. As to his castle, But the step on the stairs was toogA from the day that the news with the others to draw up the get out in the line of darkness and One day, while riding across the it was.the same as its master, barring much. There was something aboutf of his return to his baronial halls eel-nets. **!& would lose sight of him. But he heath in his company, she had a presentiment in strength. Bi-t as to-sol£?ariness, the deliberateness with which it as-ijjf came to the village at the cliff's foot. would be sure to show up again in a |'The devil! how it weighs then!" that he would propose pride, and poverty, it was not cended that was in itself appalling.1^^ And in effect, when she set eyes upon cried one of his comrades "thou hast few minutes. Mile after mile the that night and that she accepted. behind him. It was not, for it has Something awful it was bound to be^fy1* his worship, Carmen's butterfly brain done well with this haul, Damiancito!" white dog was alongside. She saw him, in a momentary vision, crumbled to decay generations since. —most likely the other half of the fe-^ and her unloyal heart alike sung to 'Jack,' says Burns all at once, lying, pale and cold, by the roadside. Figure it, half-built, half-cut from a V. male at the front door, comingup to*% her that this was a lord, a fine gentleman, this is more'n I kin stand. If our Bewddered, she involuntarily stopped solid rock, lapped on one side by the "At the least it is ten arrobas,'* meet its complementary part and^&t and a hero—here was a man eyes ain't mussed up there's somethin' her horse and in another moment waves of the Ebro, and the other said another "oh, a fine catch! unheard make a whole one. The dash of theold worthy of beauty and charm like wrong, somewhere. I am agoin' fell in a swoon. He bore her leaning against a mountain that of!" gentleman made for the burglar|% hers. to stop her.5 to a cottager's near by and on her towered skyward. "I believe you!" shouted a third alarm and rung in a signal to the-lfc As for the lord of the manor he 'Sure enough he stopped and we *H recovery the bashful young man's "it is more likely he has caught, not police station that set a dozen bells J, was already in love with her species, both got off the cab. The conductor eels, but the bridge of walnut wood!" love had been so intensified by anxiety ringing at the same time all over thet&%| At the foot of this rock was a dozen and as the greater includes the less, came running up and wanted to that, in a moment of mutual Damian only smiled without speaking. house. cots and hovels, tenanted by the he was undoubtedly smitten with know what in blue blazes was the tenderness, they were betrothed. "Why, William Henryl What are"'-&| vassals of the baron, or it might Carmen. It was not long before they matter. We told him about the After escorting her home he had to "Do you say that net is heavy?" you about?" told each other, by the telegraphic rather be said iby the husbandmen white dog running alongside the engine called one of the men, pulling on the pass the same spot to return to his It was the voice of his wife, who-*#j& code of looks and signals, their who tilled the few fields left to his and we looked about to show second seine "well, this one is not behind domicile. The next morning they made her appearance the same moment mutual and respective sentiments, possession. From the hamlet to the him the blamed animal. But, to our it. This weighs not less than lowid him dead near where she had through the door under the but this platonic systsm became to surprise, there was no dog to be seen. castle the road climbed by fourteen twelve arrobas—all of three hundred fallen. His horse had evidently CW stairs, having evidently come up by" both alike insupportable. The conductor laughed at us, and •or fifteen steep terraces, above which weight." thrown him and he had been killed that way from the cellar. In the meantime Damian went on Burns and I got aboard again. was a moat, with its drawbridge, the "Oh! it's a couple of big rocks that by the consequent injury to his "G—goodness me!" stammered thehusband, fishing. Burns pulled back the throttle and moat filled by a canal or wide ditch have fallen in!" said an envious-minded head. not yet recovered from his Now, whether it came to pass that we started on slowly. There was a tapped the Ebro a league the northward, fellow. The lady recovered and eighteen fright. Wha are you doing here imf curving just ahead of us. Fifty the people of the hamlet, failing to and then fell, below the fortress, months afterward she was betrothed Damian was gloomy, trembling, your petticoat, and where isthe skirt' yards from it before the wheels had realize and appreciate their abject in a noisy torrent back into the swelling to an English naval officer, who was covered with a cold sweat. '-So one of your dress f^A fairly begun to revolve good, the contemptibility, came to criticise the river. suddenly ordered to the West Indies seine weighs heavy as the other," he "I left it out on the front step. Forgot headlight flashing on the track before doings of their feudal master, or Perched on an almost inaccessible to join H. M. S. schoolship Eurydice. muttered "oh but it can not be!" my latchkey and didn't want to ?&$£ whether the fisherman chanced to remember us showed us a rock that must flank of the mountain, separated by The next spring, on the return of the He stepped up out of the water and spend the night on the curbstone. I 4 that his wife was a pretty have weighed two tons on our track. this channel from the castle, and, like ship home, she was wrecked and all took his way to the cabin. rang and rang at the bell, a We stopped the engine with the cowcatcher woman and Don Jaime a hot-blooded it, hanging above the Ebro, there on board but two were lost. The By this time the seine was coming one seemed to hear me so, the nighfcojr not twelve inches from the gallant, and that the castle and the was another rocky spur, crowned by young lover was not one of the up to the bank, and in it appeared, being dark and not a soul on the-|pj| stone, which, loosened by rams, had cabin were not so widely separated— a cabin and a little garden, which in saved. truly enough, the bridge of walnut street, I took off my skirt, slipped? if/"" rolled down the bank. Had we not there came a time when this worthy that spot suggested the hanging Time healed the lady's twice wood. Not all of it, but the half. It through the coal hole and here I am. ^Jf husband displayed less than his usual stopped on account of that white gardens of Babylon. A heavy beam wounded heart, and her affections was not to be doubted that during I only gottwoorthree trifling bruise* dog we would have struck it on full eagerness to make his frequent of walnut wood spanned the foam-ing were won by an English army officer, "the night the bridge had been sawed sliding down over the coal pile. Butpl|" headway, and you can see what that rounds ot his eel-traps. He developed, £"0^ current between the castle and who was drowned shortly after the across the middle. The men who tell me, what on eaith were you do- 5%M would have meant." also, certain rheumatic twinges in his the cabin, connecting these, as the betrothal. The night he was drowned dragged it out were staring with surprise ing ringing those alarm bells?" tf"v^ $ left knee, that impaired his agility in drawbridge afforded communication she was attending a ball, and according and terror they started back i— Of course an explanation followed. walking, and so he hired a strapping to her statement was seized between the eastle and the hamlet. with horror-stricken faces, shrieking. Sequel To A Duel. The skirt left on the step outside had fj lad whom he made his substitute in with a sudden attack of dizziness and On the lordly crag, then, dwelt Don At the same moment, Damian appeared stood erect, as any fashionable skirt $i conveying the eel-baskets among the Judge W. C. Ferril. of Denver, Col., fainted. On recovering, she said she Jaime de Mequinenza, and on the feudal in the door of his cabin, with will, by the aid of its multitudinous purchasers of the vicinity. The proceedure one of Judge Rucker's backers in this had seen, in a vision the ball room rock an eel-fisher, who had won a his hair on end, his eyes fixed and whalebones and steels, which form a. %*y of the fisherman watfar from famous duel with Senator Blackburn, suddenly transformed into a submarine rich revenue from the daring thought starting, and a look of utter stupidity, sort of skeleton in the lining. Soifc^Mf meeting with the approval ofCarmen of Kentucky, which never came off, cavern, containing nothing of building his hut in that lonely and yet screaming with laughter—a is not surprising that the old gentle- ^m and Don Jaime. was in the city recently looking for a but the corpse of her accepted lieutenant. menacing spot. It hadv occurred to laughter like a voice from Bedlam. man mistook it for the lower half of Iff bride instead of a duelist. He married One beautiful May evening the two She could never be induced Damian, for such was the name of He had found his home deserted and an actual woman. It was agreed l^ a beautiful young lady in the spouses sat at the door of their cabin to dance again. the fisherman, to swing from the little the couch of Carmelita untouched by that the joke should be kept in the *|f vicinity of Gotham, and they are *en and watched the sinking sun—the It took a great deal of persuasion bridge two vast nets, through her since the day before. And the family, but it was too good to pre- PJ same sun in those days of a century route for the far West. A week or so to induce her to become a fiancee whose meshes swept the torrent, so fishermen had seen in the net with serve in secrecy, and so it hy&leakg&i*„,«,» and so it hi,~ and a half since that we see now ago Col. John Arkins gave in an interview again. But the persistence of an that the teeming eels that rushed the walnut timber the pallid face of out. above us. That evening it was sinking in the Mail and Express a American sea captain conquered hers through the cutting, toward the Don Jaime. W as slowly and majestically as if it graphic account of Judge Ferril's reluctance and she accepted him: I he police were told it was amis-take mother waters of the Ebro, were A moment after, their frightened expected never to rise again. It was career as an Indian fighter. The account He returned to Philadelphia with his caught here on their course back to when they came, mates drew out the second seine, with one of those splendid and solemn moments showed that the Judge had ship for the purpose of putting his their birth-place, and held for the ^.*"t* the other half of the bridge and the in which it seems that the waded through a great deal of gore. affairs in shape for the wedding. Automatic Turnstile. hand of the fisherman, who, although body of Carmelita. world has reached for the first time It came near breaking off his marriage. While his ship was at anchor off the he sold them at a low enough price, The principle of the automatic "She also?" Damian shouted "oh! its apogee of beauty a melancholy His intendent read the account Delaware breakwater he was also yet derived from this slippery source boxes, which form such prominent I did not look for that! I thought hour in which the soul appears to and was alarmed at his record. He drowned. The bride elect came to a very respectable income. she would wait for him in the house! assist at the tragedy of the day's objects at our railway stations, haa hastened East, presented himself to the Quaker City afterwards, and, Yet for all his labor and enterprise death as at a new occurrence, which I never dreamed she would run to his bride, and made matters all right having relatives in Carondelet, resolved been applied to doors and turnstiles. the poor fellow7 could never save a meet him! But she did, you see! She will not be repeated. by saying that Col. Arkins's style, to make a long visit to them. |»A coin of the proper value must be-r^ cuarto. He was not a drinker, for was impatient to meet her lover, and Carmen and Damian, regarding while graphic, had in some respects a The clergyman who furnished the all the cold and wet character of his dropped into slot before the door «%,4 she went on the bridge to meet him. that sun, whose rays dyed the horizon hyperbolical vein in it. The Judge facts above related met and loved business he was not a player—indeed, But I had been there before them. can be opened, and thus the services with a strange prophetic light, presented his case in a logical and the lady, and she apparently reciprocated, he knew not the terms oi brisca, I sawed it! sawed it! sawed it! Oh! felt then' very souls stirred within of a money taker are dispensed with. .-* at the same time romantic way, and but when he proposed she replied con quien, or mahlla, his cigarros what a fine haul we have made today, them. Uncultured and rude of nature won. In cold type it sounded harsh by telling him her story, and Such doors are applicable to the entrances were of the commonest sort, and cost boys! a good catch of fish is as they were, they could but feel that and realistic to read that one man all his eloquence failed to cnange her of exhibitions and places of *4y him the merest trifle and for womankind, this we have made, boys!" And this was a critical hour, full of doom, alone killed seventeen Indians in a resolution never to marry. His attention he had not so much as a passing shrieking, he ran and shut himself in amusement of mystery, of fatality. pitched battle. In manner the Judge to her had been a matter of glance, save only for Carmen. the cabin. When the sun had set entirely Their special use, however/ is for society gossip, so that there was is mild and winning and no one would Save only' But then, caray, hombre' both breathed heavily, as those who When the officers of the law came lavatories and the like. For such, something of a sensation when there ever suspect him of being the hero of that was sufficient exception. have completed a long and severe cases it is necessary to insure at to arrest him they found him still appeared in the society columns of the Pine Creek fight. He laughed For—oh, Carmen, Carmela, Carmelita' task. The tacit compact was signed grasping a saw, and the cabin the doors shall always be closed after the Globe-Democrat an item stating softly when asked about Judge Rucker's Here was enough to squander between them, each to his own crime, drenched with blood. The eel-fisher a person has passed out through* that she had gone to visit friends in duel and turned the conversation. the revenues of an alcalde, a regidor, not to be renounced, but irrevocable, nad sawed off his left hand, and with them, and that they cannot be ag»,m the interior of the State, and would a prince—let alone a fisherman. For as the death of the day that was expiring. *he right he still drew his weapon opened except by the proper coin. To""? soon return to her home in Scotland Carmen was a beauty—a Spanish They looked at each other •across a gaping wound in his throat, this end folding doors, meeting at to reside permanently.—St. Louis blonde, think of that, ye connoisseurs!—who Couldn't Becall His Child's ffame. full and unreservedly. Damian lifted while he gasped, with dying voice: the middle, are employed. To the* Globe-Democrat. would have tempted "A grand catch of fish we have his eyes to the castle, on whose topmost inside of each ddor. and at right angles Americus (Ga Republican. Saint Anthony himself, if the grace made to-day, boys!"—From the terrace stood the Baron of to it, there is fixed a gate. A gentleman from an adjoining Only Half a Ghost. of God should have been withdrawn Spanish of Don Pedro de Alarcon.. Mequinenza, whom he saluted. The When the doors are open the two* county walked into an insurance office by T. H. Addis. from him for a moment. Such a lord had his eyes fixed on Carmen, A weird and startling adventure gates close the passage, and when here recently and took out a policy waist! such .a neck! such ankles! who also saluted him easily. Damian the other night befell a respectable the gates are open the doors are mt for a good amount upon his life. As his And Carmen tknew her own good stretched his rheumatic leer, and closed. A person wishing to enter an old gentleman residing on Commonwealth children were to be his beneficiaries in Drove Hiin Away, points—nonelbetter!—and women of turning to his wife, said, dryly: "I unoccupied apartment finds the doors avenue, in this city, writes a case of his death, it was accordingly Mark Twain, during his early such merit as hers fall in love with think my leg is well again, I feel open and the gates closed. He drops* correspondent of the St. Louis Globe. asked by the agent to write them themselves when they have not lovers—or the pangs no longer. I think I will days, did not stand well among his penny into the slot and them down. He started and got along On the evening referred to he went to go down to the village and stay the when they" have for that pushes open the gates, the doom fooarding-house keepers. The drawling very well on the first seven, but on bed quite early, having come home night there. There is a fellow owes matter—and «o Carmen spent the closing behind him. When he emerges youth was too lazy to pay his the eighth name he made a break. tired from his bank that me some money he will be in price of all the eels in the Ebro on he opens the doors, and atthe" tooard. Once while working on the He scratched his head in a preplexed day, while his wife ventured out by with his pay near midnight, and I same timo the gates close behind aprons, kerchief, earrings, ribbons, manner and went carefully over the St, Louis Republican, Twain, after will catch him before he spends it. I herself to visit a neighbor and gossip him. Thus the entrance is alwaysbarred. fallals in general, though there was list a second and third time, but it will come up in the morning in time not a soul so see them but her own saaany boaiding-house hardships, less than a block away. About eleven was no use. "Well, I don't know to take out the fish of to-nightfa fish. .dear self. Damian, her husband? P.M., as the clock on the bedroom cast his hungry lot'V5 with that young one's name," he said in Ea, Carmelita, God be with thee." •oh, but he counted for nothing, less mantlepiece informed him, he was a hard-featured widow named PerMnsje^The T- r#A Well-Descended Woman* .» desperation I knowed them all V/y "Good-by, Damian," saidCarmela, than nothing! for if husbands in awakened from a sound sleep by a printers had told him heart when I left home this mornin'.'* The death has been announced of mechanically. in general are ciphers, what was this ring at the door bell, and surmising But in apite of all efforts to recall Mrs. Harriet Horry Laurens Ingraham, They had never before parted in that she was a woman of gentle nature. swretched 'fisher .of eels?—a lout, a that the partner of his joys returned the name of No. 8 he finally had to wife of Commodore Ingrahanv this way, but to both it seemed quite clown, a clod. Qh! that is quite apparent They gleefully awaited the end without her latchkey, he hastened to give it up and actually went out in of the rebel navy, at the age of 74r natural. Damian took his hat and convinced mo doubt of her of the first week- Monday morning search of a neighboor who knew the jump into a few essential garments years. She was, says the BaltimoreSun, his staff and crossed the walnut-wood high mission in ithis poor w?orld of when Mark came to the office his face the grand-daughter of Henry bridge-way and the fosses of the castle. family well in order to find QUjt and run down stairs?•-% A dim light •sorrows, 'Carmen every day diressed wore an anxious expression.^ J*%vfk The sun was still gilding the Laurens, president of the continental name of his own child. raiBM^' was burning in the vestibule, and as herself as if she were.going to a ball peak of a distant mountain. congress during the revolutionary "How are you, Clemens?'" said tne or atfuncion, and sat herself down at he opened the front door a few rays Twelve hours later the sun shone war, Governor of South Carolina tSae.daor of the cabin, ^where she was were thrown upon a most extraordinary The Tanderbilt Marriages overthe cabin. All the sadness and and the first chief justice of the supreme islow. mafkkAJJm ^m seeaa-of the Ibirds, the nockthyme, amS apparition which stood without "New York Cor. of Cincinnati Enquirer. foreboding of the day before had court of the United States. "That's a fact. Glad to see that tfee skies—andof naugjht else. Still, on the top step, as if waiting tto A quiet citizen,worth his half a million Ibeen pure farce. There was the sun Her uncle, Col. John Laurens, was you have entered upon the week in so she awaited tranquilly the momesait be admitted. The thing—whatever or more, said to me recently: "I again, red and joyous as ever, climbing Washington's aid-de-camp and theminister truthful a way. How is your landlady?" 4 of her destiny. it might be called—was of the feminine up the heavens as blithely as if always had some respect for the late to France who arrainged In the .days -when 'Carmelita first (t«his was his first journey there, and William Vanderbilt and his wife when gender evidently. It even wore the negotiations with the French* took .up hea* station at the door thu« a *m «b.edding life and movement wherever I saw how indifferent they were in skirts. But if a woman, she was assuredly government that brought about xhesurrender "dressed \with parsley," the castle of "Did you pay ^.her SaturdaJ ffiis rays reached. This was the sun the marriage of their children to ot Yorktown. He was a night?" a most peculiar and unpleasant .'. Mequinenza was still without Don t$aa£, in those hours of absence, had money consideration. In most cases pointed commissioner by Waahing~^ "No," specimen. For she was not only Jaime, its lmaster, and no&uman eye crossed the ocean, bad called the they let their children marry persons ton to draw up the articles of Corn^rf "What did she say?" beheld her from closer raoge than headless, but actually did not appear noonday inithe Americans, had served wallis' capitulation. The original* "Nothing, but she looked as though of respectability and good parentage, that of the sands ibelow, whence she to have any body above the waist. as «.god for theidolators of the Pacific documents, with Washingfcon'sinterlinear she were chiseled out of a stone." but without fortunes. Thi3 has been looked like some great blossom set 2tf In short, it was the lower half of a ihad bgihted the way for mariners corrections, are stall in the* "I should think," a tramp printer almost uniformly the case. William on the edge of the precipice. Her fashionably dressed female which had in China, had gilded the spices family. Another uncle, Edward Rutledge, rejoined, "that she looked as though K. Vanderbilt, who built the $2,000,, husband had forbidden her to go Hindostan, had kissed the stones apparently been ringing for an entrance. was one of the early Governors she were chiseled out of board." jfe 000 house, married a Virginia woman down to the village in his absence, the Holy Sepulchre, and had marked of South Carolina, and with* Twain cast a quick glance a he and she obeyed him hiplieitly* beleause who could hardly keep her wardrobe, the hour of death for some modern Henry Laurens signed the declaration speaker, and, lazily reaching tor his it is the will of Goof that wives I have understood, from going Now, the old gentleman is a worshipper Greeks and now that sun was returning, of independence. CommodoreIngraham obey their husbands, and because— of the sex. He is notoriously S J'^f 7 2 a 8 1 a I yeV' said'he, "in near- fall of cariosity to know her husband, is now 8 7 well, because there was nothing a ladies' man, in fact, despite his 1 S a ly every case they appear to be hap- whajb had become of two fisher people of sarcasm. Good-by. years of age, and is the only snrviving py folks who go together. How mflch pleasing to her in the rustic youth* years. But, as he subsequently took of Upper Aragon, whom he had left He dragged himself out ofthe office." naval officer of the war or of the village. How should they better it is than this everlasting greed occasion to remark, he wantsVhole thenigfri before seated at the door of His career as a printer was at an 1812—14, in which he served with* please her any more than her husband?—they, to make love itself minister to avarice/i women or none^^Taken in sections, their hut. end.—Arkansaw Traveler. disticntion. rsi Mke him, rough, badly they are not nearly so attractive. slad, and dirty, with thorny calloused