Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-01-12

had Jared Dauly enough there and thought II
not unfair to visit some place with fairer pros
poets. Having been taught by previous fail
ures to disregard the pleasures of sense, / SEN
sibly turned for amusement to the felicitous
study of character.
The various men about me we're all exam
Ined physically and mentally, and placed high
or low in my standard according to judgment.
The man with beetling brows, black, wiry
hair, sprinkled with gray, broad well de-
veloped chest, eyes sharp and an aquiline
nose, Immediately adjudged to be fine spec
linen of New York energy--while the placid
man with broad forehead, long light (emphati-
cally Light hair, and mincing smile, named
benevolence. Thus affairs rolled on like well
arranged cars, smoothly, and in the meantime
| had quite established an acquaintance with
the bar maid, discovering in her several fine
traits. A ready cheerfulness in supplying our
daily demands for porter, disregard for
money as is proved by the fact that she never
took pains to give me exact change, always
allowing a penny or two in her favor, saying
with careless smile, 81 spose that's near
enough, sir,'' or "that's as near as can
come, SIR" One Saturday, however, my
pleasure here was suddenly brought to an end.
Leaving our store, stopped on the pavement,
mingling in crowd collected to sympathize
with man whose candy pack had just been
knocked from his shoulders, and to endeavor
to sweeten their lives by sharing his portion.
While here my pocket book mysteriOusly van
ished. Some Signor Blitz must have seduced
it from my trousers pocket. In parenthesis
would ask, does not Signor Blitz-do not all
conjurers live by deceit By cheating our
eyes and senses If then professions are, as
the public undenid6ly afirms, the criterions by
which we should judge of the men, am not
justified in calling the successful practitioner
of street legerdemain, some Signor Blitz y
did not notice its absence till after eating an
fact that when entering l saw the bar maid
saluting an odious man with black whiskers.
Having passed her with dignifed scorn |
strobe to the counter to pay my score
"Where's my pocket booki" Now search
in the right pocket, now in the left, now ex-
plore the hidden depths of my breast pocket,
now dive into my coat tails, return to the right,
pass to the left. The right, left, breast, tail,
vest pockets and even watch fob into which no
respectable port monnais could enter, are scru-
tinized, searched and researched. begin to
be embarrassed, to blush, and wonder audibly
tohdt can haze become gift! / go to my seat,
look on the floor and ask the walters whether
they have seen port monnaie. They COM
mence to condole with me and ask what color
it was, whether it had steel clasp or no, as
if pocket books laid about in such abundance
that they would find it extensively difficult to
discriminate which among the many was mine
How absurd This worked me up into a
state of internal frenzy then when I returned
to the counter and made another unsuccessful
search, to hear some one whisper, ga good
way TO dine cheap" was like adding insult to
misfortune. Some other one laughs l blush
deeper and deeper, even swear little, while
Fanny chuckles in merriment at my disaster.
The landlord alone appears to sympathize
with me and consider my loss his own. FL
nally things come to crisis by my suddenly
rushing bare headed from the eating house,
neither stopping nor staying till reach my
place of employment. There entering in red
hot haste, frightened lady customer Sc
verely. Imagining me breathless courier
speeding to announce the death of her husband,
(who must if her fears are well grounded, be
exposed to remarkable dangers) she faints
but must pass over this theme-howI de=
spatched boy to recover my hat, how have
a faint impression of running against we'll
known female figure, or how received a
note, nay, two, the next day, one from my
employer, stating that my services were no
longer required, and another from my intend
ed, young lady Of beauty and fortune, who
wrote, that since could not act in seemly
manner it would be better for all parties that
should discontinue my attentions So much
for the misery caused by restaurant.
Phi DELTA.