Smyrna times., 1856-06-25

% ~ Ny0' anu Hoh TesolVe " tnat spoke IN every
feature" gave evidence that should occasion
require it, those silver-mounted pistols in his
belt would be Of available use. lie spoke
"Good morning, young man which way SO
soon in the day :"
answered that my object was pleasure. /
found 1t more convenient to ride early as it was
the lIveIlest part of the day TO me. This was
an error to begin with. For in truth | was
forced out of my quarters thus unusually soon
by the babbling of the noisy ribald crowd who
had kept up bedlam all night, at the wayside
inn where had stopped.
I" Have you been to breakfast, stranger %
"Yes, sir | thank you, broke my fast at
the Travellers Rest back on the road.
"Ah! know that place, it looks uninviting,
and you must have had uncomfortable lodgings
there; come, stop, we have been to breakfast,
but GalsnOre will get you cup in few min.
utes."
l thanked him I was not accustomed TO par.
take heartily in the morning, but would stop
with him as felt rather entertained from the
agreeable contrast of society which good for
tune had allowed. was introduced to his
tamily-a happy group of eight. Galanore, the
second daughter, pleased me because of her
amlability of disposition. Her father owned
extensive mines of rich ore, broad acres and
many herds. These made me love Gaanoru
the more. | had seen many maiden whom
had admired more than she; though in nv
heart she was triiing toy, yet in the scale of
troy and my avaricious thoughts she was more
momentous than them all. By common con-
sent, from that day forth, was one of that happy
people, until swore before heaven, to take as
greater, dearer than all besides, this unsophis.
ticated heiress. That was the first false oath
ever took. And now, oh ! how miserable
cannot love one whom l never really loved
now that have seen the butterfly helpless in
my clutch | do not prize it and cannot love N.Y.
self for decoying it thus. Gentlemen, you are
young--we part to-morrow-some travel swift
ly, some slowly on this great road, and are
often lost to each in the jOstling hurry of the
drive. BE sure in catching, you are not caught.
For an old motto is ever true" He who lives
by the sword shall perish by it." One hath no
power TO forget a plot which his own heart
hath sehemed."
The crowd adjourned and the pretender is |
lost to us all but we love the pomp in which |
he speeds the course, and would even risk the |
Iun which he warned US of, could we but share
its booty too.
MisanthrOPy sits mOping over the expiring
embers of his campfire. He too is traveller,
but prefers, rather than come into this great
social halfway house, to be without, amongst
the hoot and howl of the woods; not that the |
rural beauty invites, but the shape of human |
kind repulses him. On being approached he |
turns away from those who would accost him,
as though they had some assassin intent upon
his life. What makes this man so strange -
Within this great hall is enjoyment of every
sort, mirth of every character. But he is a
wreck. Like the animal which dies, and from
some unaccountable cause is petrifed to stone,
leaving every muscle visible in its transmitted
state. so he, by an unlocked for change, hath
been dispossessed of every social power, and
now looking like man, is only SO in shape
In youth he was the gayest of the gay. But
winter came to him in midsummer, cutting off
his every hope; and he lives only to hear the
patter of the hail, for he avoids the south side
Of the mountain, where May-gales always blow
and pleasant sunshine ever falls.
The man of mammon too, is here: he keeps
his room; seeks conference only with those
who have foreseeing thoughts. Those who
the portentous opochs which storms
and national seasons bring. lie struts on the
promenade, and claims gold as the only surety
against life's ills. The world can be bought
by 1t; sickly sentiment is its craven slave ma
tions wrangle and treat by its power. He far
ther once drove the lHg-wagon, but he insists
on royal lineage; excusing the sire, because
patriotic duty, not scullionship, induced the
ayosation. Moreover, he thinks blood like water
is its own purifier.
At the far end of the great hall of this stop
ping place, are the remnants of broken great |
ness. Maidens who onco drove in enormous
splendor are lodging there, unnoticed women
now. They drove too fast, wore out the axles
of their coach, and not being used to hsrdhood, |
were unfit for pedestrian marches. They sold |
the jewels of weman's worth that they might |
be allowed passage in the omnibus. The maid
en- Of superior years arrived last week. 'Tis
said she thrice refused TO wed good men, who
stood not on empty titles and bogus buttons but
on their own homesteads, choosing instead
thereof some pill-compounder. or limb of spe-
cial pleading. Since here she has offered to
marry Ornanork the weed-sawyer for this way
house. But he is smart fellow, and says he
whess his saw for love or money, but nc Ir
faded cheeks.
The man Of ambition is here; he has thrice
tried 10 climb the hill, that he might pluck