Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-05-09

clouds that fingered about the West. The
full moon rode high in the heaven, and
one by one the stars became VISIBLE
Gin such a night
Stood Dido with a willow in her hand a,.l
Upon the wide sea banks, and waive her love
10 come to CARTHAGE ''
The opened window by which we sat
looked out upon garden stored with a
profusion of rich and rare flowers, from
which were exhaled and rose around us,
delicious fragrance. forming fit at
mosphere for such a scene. The time.
the silence, the scenery, everything was
appropriate, and she, the beautiful, the
almost unearthly, seemed by intuition to
understand my thoughts and intentions,
as with head bent down, she gazed ear
nestly. (and with slight blush upon the
lair cheeks around which her auburn
curls were playing,) upon moss,rose
which she was earnestly engaged in pull.
ling to pieces. was employed in the
equally serious occupation Of opening and
shutting a small fancy snuff box which [
held in my hand. @
Alas! where now was the Alexander
or Napoleon courage that had inspired
me! felt my valor oozing out of the palms
OF roy hands. But at length summoning
resolution, like man upon the scaffold
who wishes to die with at least seeming
tortitude, or to use more forcible illus
tration, gathering together and concen-
tratlng, as it were, ali the energies of my
mind, after the manner of one about to
submit to that most inhuman of all earth
ly tortures, the extraction of tooth;
say, with such energy as this, | raised
my eyes to those Of Isabella, and in the
language of my prepared speech said,
"Miss Adams" .. ......
The unnecessary and startling empha.
sis with which this rather formal com
mencemens was delivered, seriously
frightened both parties. The rose drop
ped from her fingers. and the box from
mine; and was only able to follow up
this impressive exordium with some com
mon-piace remark about the beauty of
the evening, after which we relapsed in
! to our former silence.
Gathering, however, energy from de-
feat, made, after slight pause, "a second
attempt:
"Miss Adams" said Lin slow. solemn
sePucbral voice, "oriI you -wiI you-
wiu yo,I-alloaO me to offer you--to
offer you--G, pinch of snuff. .-
with pleasure, sir" replied a soft,
sweet voice, which in contrast with nv
own, sounded like strain of soft music
following up the rumbling of an earth,
quake. felt my eyes starting from my
head / felt the red blood mantling over
my face, brow and neck. fell the veins
Of my neck were swollen like the streams
of a spring. heard the loud beating OF
my heart; and in an agony of both bodily
and mental pain, in which the rack, the
wheel, and the gibbes were paradise,
rushed from them the room, hurried 10 my
house, and entered my own chamber
locked, double, trebly locked the door, lesi
any one should observe my shame, and
vented my spleen in idle imprecations on
my own stupidity. s..- su
An hours walk across my chamber
served, however, to calm my spirits
and with a composure that seemed really
supernatural, compared with my violent
agitation, sat down and wrote: a..
''Dear Isabella: Take pity on an un-
happy youth unable to utter three consec.
utive words in your presence ! lam mis-
cradle till | hear from you
This note was Immediately despatched
and in half an hour was the happiesr
man in the universe. My Isabella proved
a pattern of excellence. was never Of
Tended with her but once, when she dis
PEELED my wrath by asking me, in mock
serious tone of voice :-''uiH you-wili
you-allow me- to offer you = pinch o.
snuf!"-N. Y.Sptrdt Of the Times.
GI pray you, o. excellent wife, cum.
Der not yourself end me to get a curious
ly rich dinner foI this man and woman
! who alighted at our gates; nor bed
ehambel made ready a; too grea. cost
these things if they are curious in them
they can get for few shiIiings in any
village; but rather let this stranger see
if he will, in your looks, accents and be.
havior. your heart and earnestness,, your
thought and will, which he cannot buy a.
any price in any city, and " hioh he may
we'll travel twenty miles and dine sparely
and sleep hardly to behold. Let not the
emphases of hos pitality lie ,in bed land
board; bu. let truth and love, and honor
and courtesy. flow in all thy deeds.
To BAD.-"I can't stand this" ex'
claimed good houses to Connect
lieut. pedler;-"I didn't find word o
fault with your sassatras nuImegs, cause
| know'd you couldn't afford real 'uns 81
cheap-apd there was some spicy taste
TO 'em; but the last you sold me was made