Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-12-24

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Certainly you have observed how
strangely sometimes the clouds, at morn
ing and evening, group themselves around
the sun, and are lighted up by it. and
you have thought sometimes: "H this
should be represented in painting, people
would say, 1T is unnstural-it is not
true So, even, in human life. We
often find events looking, when related,
or described, even unnatural, and yet are
perfectly true to reality, to nature. though
not every day nature. For example, if
any one should tell, that once first kiss
was given by modest young lady, pub
licly and in public square, to a young
man that she saw for the first time. GER
tainly all young ladies. and old ladies,
and young gentlemen, and old gentlemen,
would with one voice cry out: at is
not true, it is impossible" Well, / en-
treat your attention to the following little
story, for whose truth and reality / will
be responsible
In the University ofUpsula, Sweden lived
young student--a lonely youth, with
great love for studies, but without means for
pursuing them. He was poor and with
out connexions. Still he studied on, liv-
ing in great poverty. but keeping up a
cheerful heart. and trying not to look into
the future which looked SO grimly at him.
His good humor and good qualities made
him beloved by his young comrades
One day he was standing with some of
them in the great square of Upsula pra-
ting away an hour at leisure, when the
attention of the young men became ar
rested by very young and elegant lady,
who, at the side of an elderly one, walked
slowly over the place. 1t was the daugh-
ter of the Governor of Upland, residing
in the city, and the lady with her was
her governess. She was generally known
for her beauty and gentleness of charac-
ter, and was looked upon with great ad-
miration by the students. AS the young
men stood now silently gazing at her, as
she passed on like graceful vision, one
of them exclaimed:
"Well, it would be worth something
to have kiss from such pretty mouth"
The poor student, the hero of our story
who was looking intently at that pure,
angelic face, exclaimed as if by inspira-
ton
"Well, think I could have it."
"Whatr' cried his friends in chorus,
Z" are you crazy? Do you know her ?"
&C., &c.
/" Not at all" he answered, "but 1
think she would kiss me just now, if 1
asked her"
"What, in this place, before our eyes?"
"In this place before your eyes,"
Freely ?"
Freely"
"Well, if she will give you kiss in
that manner, will give thousand dol
lars"
"And p cried three or four others,
for it so happened that several rich young
men were in the group, and bets ran high
on so improbable an event, and the chal-
lenge was made and received in less time
than we take to relate it,
Our hero--my authority tells not wheth-
err he was handsome or plain: have my
peculiar reasons for thinking him rather
plain, but singularly good looking at the
same time-walked off toward the lady
He bowed to her, and said:
"My lady, my fortune is in your
hands"
She looked at him with astonishment,
but arrested her steps. He proceeded to
state his name and condition, his aspira-
tons, and related simply and truly what
had passed between him and his compan-
ions. The young lady listened attentive
w: and when he ceased to speak, she
said, blushing, but with great sweetness:
elf by so little thing SO much good
could be effected, it would be foolish in
me to refuse your request" and she kiss
sed the young man publicly in the open
square.
Next day the young man was sent for
lby the governor He wanted to see the
young man who had dared to ask kiss
1 from his daughter in that way, and whom
she had consented to kiss so.
He received him with severe and
scrutinizing brow but, after an hours con-
versation, was so pleased, that he offered
to dine him at his table during the course
of his studies at Upsula.
Our young friend now pursued his stu
dies in manner which soon made him re-
garded as the most promising scholar at
the University. Three years were not
passed, after the first kiss, when the young
man was allowed to give second one to
the lovely daughter ofthe governor as his
betrothed wife.
He became, later. one of the greatest
scholars in Sweden, and much respected
for his character His works will endure
forever among works of science, and from
this happy union sprung family well
known in Sweden at the present day
whose vast fortune, and elevated position
in society are regarded as trivial matters,
compared with its wealth Of love.
CoURr1Ne ScENE.-' Jonathan, do you
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'Darned if 1 don't, Sooky-but hot