Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-05-17
MIS- CELI AN ECU S.
From the Knickerbocker
OLD PAUL.
By HENRY T. NILES.

Old Paul is dead-and who cares No
body; for old Paul was a sloven, glu,ton,
and q drunk ksrd Disgrace 10 his family. q
laughing. stock to his neigbbors and NUS
snce in society; and when he died, lbe
world said, ''Good riddsnce tn bad rubbish:
like bees, he has lived, like bess, he has
died, and let his memory pe'i.b.n Sill.
old Paul made q most respectable appear
ance, as he passed through the village on
his way to the grave ysrd-,he mos, respec-
table be had made in il in twenty years;
for instead of tina. old broke down rack Of
bones he was won, 10 drive in harness
tied together with tow-strings. old Paul wss
drawn by . stately White horse, in rich trap
pings and instead of that crazy old wagon.
with ricke,y wheels and splin,ered shafts.
old PsuI's carriage (,hough. for some rea
SOD, bu, few like TO ride in i,) was certainly
every way respectable. Nor did now see
that poor old man, in his sIovenly, old fash
ioned, white sur,oui, and jambe dup, hat,
with sore, blood-shot eyes, end burning
face, and long, grizzly, filthy beard for old
Paul had a driver, and rode himself inside
And instead of the crowd Of rascsiIy boys
who were wont 10 follow him deeming il
rare spor, 10 see humanity sunk below the
brute-old Paul was followed by a long
and mos, respectable luneralnsin: (for he
had many relatives, though no friends J and
they were ell mos. respectfully dressed in
mourning, though 10 oil the sable concourse
that stood around the open grave. saw moi
one quivering lip or one falling tear, as the
6rst earth. clods fell heavily upon the coffin s
lid.
Old Paul's wife left him near twenty
years ego, and the world excused her for
1t: for how, said the world, could any wo-
man ever live with such brute But old
Aun, Prudence shook her head at this of.
band verdict of the world. as much as 10 say
/. was not always thus. Once he was rich
young, dssbing Paul; and Polly Jones
more than halfway, if we conld believe
gossip fifty years ego; he was rich, and she
was poor. And, the truth mus, be told,
said Aun. Prudence, knocking the ashe:
from her pipe, and lowering her voice to 6
confidential tone, as if afraid Of being over.
heard by some tenan, Of The grsve-ya ard ''i
the truth must be told, :hey du say" (for.
getting the tongues once busy with such
gossip, oil excep, her own, had long beer
silen. in the grave they du say .ha, Pau
married for beauty, and Polly for money
and you Knows old Billy, down at tn,
poor~house, ssys-life's wagon will 60 bar.
when there's no love to greese the wheels
Yes, gold had dazzled end blinded the one
and beauty had dazzled end blinded tn
other. Blu. the honeymoon soon waned
end they woke up to the reality: the one
,ha, the gold which inspired her day dream
might, after ell, be but the whiting OF Sc
pulch,e-..he mere surface. gliding OF a cours
and brutal nature the other, that the besu
~ which bad SO bewilched his fancy, lik
ftos, wotk gli,.ering in moonlight, nigh
be brilliant, aud 9, The same time freezin
cold that ii might be but the polish o.
cold dead marble-lhe brilliant covering o
proud, unwomanly, unsympa,hizing heart.
s.How shockingly they have abused then
pens !" exclaimed old Psul's wife, the da,
after he was buried, on returning to ,h