Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-08-06

became almost mad with grief; but when hi
looked upon his child in her cradle, who had Nc
one in the world besides himself, his philosophit
humor returned, and he loved her as one loves
the only thing left us in the world.
i One tine Sunday in spring, he was out walk
a ing with his child, then about seven years old
: when IN the outskirts of the town, he found q
: pub shooting out curious to discover what it
might be- he picked up, and planted it in the
garden behind his house Some weeks later
, Peter became nearly wild with delight, when he
saw the flower open its petals, decorated with
the richest colors, and knew it to be rare tulin
Any one else would have FASTENED off to sell II
to some rich amateur who would certainly have
given him some hundreds of forms for it, but
Peter, who much further guessed all the
profit he might make of it, a little later, and
from that day, he began cultivating the Japan
ese plant with the utmost care He collected
the seeds, sowing them again in his garden, and
after years of care, obtained flower perfectly
different to the mother bulb, tulip unlike any
one known; in fact, an inestimable treasure
which he exposed, with pride in his window.
We win now peep into the gigantic warehouse
over the doorway of which Deckers' House
was written in golden letters on black marble
/ In the midst of host of clerks and persons of
business running 20 and fro in those vast ware
| houses, young man was leisurely walking
about, smoking his pipe; this was William
| Deckers, the son, aged about two. and-twenty.-
Instead OF being short, thick.set young man,
like his countrymen in general, with a red face,
| William Deckers was tall and slight, with soft
mustache and long imperial, in the Vandyck
style, and not in the Dutch fashion ofthe day
He was the intended husband of Mademoselle
Van Selkirk, according TO his fathers wishes, as
we have seen, but about which the young man
was perfectly Indifferent for, having passed
much of his time in a German University, he
had contracted a beduidedt of poetic beauty not
40 Loo, n,,l
! high color of the women in general in his own
country, but his father persisted in telling him
that he must marry, and so the young man let
matters take their course with Mademoiselle
| Selkirk.
| In the midst of his silent walk, in these vast
warehouses, running footman entered, in his
| father 8 livery and announced the arrival of Mr.
Deckers, senior, and, at the same moment, the
gondola rowed up the canal, amongst all the
merchant boats there, awaiting to discharge
their freights. William fastened forward to
receive his father, who was walking gloomily
forward, not paying the slightest attention to
the obsequious bowings of the clerks and people
on all sides.
'Dishonored = he muttered. MY reputation
as florist lost, if another should succeed in OBJ
tanning that accursed tulip!'
Good day, tathern exclaimed William, TAX
ing his hand, how are you
And, without awaiting reply, he threw his
fathers arm beneath his own, and led him to-
wards his private residence
Well, father, continued the other, gaily
when they had arrived in charming boudoir
decorated in the Chinese style with coored win
dows SET in leaden trellis-work to initiate the
trelliS work of wood ornamented with shells
with which the boudoirs in China are decorated,
how did you accomplish your matrimonial pro-
Ject. yesterday 2
William, my boy began Mr.. Deckers, not
n embarrassed sorn L.. ln,,o
with Maidemoiselle Selkirk and do you rerg
particularly wish to marry her?'
'Who-I father? Not the least in the world
l never saw her in my life 2
Would you not sooner, now, have a nice
young girl, not so rich, perhaps, but much hand
somerP suggested the father
What do hear = exclaimed William. in sur
prise; have not heard you say, thousand
times, that Mademoiseile Van Selkirk was in
comparably beautiful
Well, well, that depends upon taste. Ger
tainly, am far from saying shat the bankers
daughter is Invested of all charms, but perhaps
you might think her a little too stout
If that be the case, father Tor goodness sake
let MS say no more about her, for if there is a
thing detest, it is woman like chrysalis in
shape
That's exactly what thought, Wiliam and.
for that reason, have been thinking all the
way along, of soliciting for you the hand of n
You snow my opinion on that subject, sir, that
when persons possess a fortune like ours, they
can at least choose wife who pleases them; con-
seqrently, if the one Won propose is well brought
up, and possesses as little possible of that pro-
sy beauty we spoke ofjust now, and provided
like her, never mind the fortune
We'll said, my SON. Go and dress yourself,
and | will present You at once
What harry YOU are in Tomorrow, or the
day after, will DO well enough Will it not q
Tomorrow exclaimed the ex-fshmonger, in
alarm; why, wretched child. you don't know
what you say Such treasure cannot want for
admirers
Monsieur Deckers, it will be seen, had terribly
subdued his pride of the previous day.
"Well, since it must be so, l will be ready in
FIVE minutes"
Half an hour later, the father and son were
seated in the gondola, always preceded by the
running footman, and, like an arrow, the boat
few toward the old market place.
On the 10th of July 1885, the town of Haar-
gaiety and festival. All the ships on the canals
displayed their remnants, floating in the air re-
freshments were literally distributed to the poor
fisherman porters and hawkers were walking
about, dressed IN their best there were games on
the water, cock fights, and prizes for the best
singing canaries in short, the whole population
were in delight at the marriage of William Deck
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evening of the same day, the Messrs. Deckers
left the house of Peter Schwartz, each carrying
off his priZe-a- treasure from the poor artisan !;
for the young man bore away in shut up sedan
chair, his pretty wife, rosy red with modesty and
happiness whilst the horamauiac had under his
arm his beloved tulip, in exchange for which he
had thrust two hundred thousand forms in the
c0rJeiHe de marriage. In right of proprietorshiT,
Monsieur Deckers wanted to give his name to
the flower. but what can the wish of millionaire
avail against tradition For the lovely flower
has always preserved its name of'My Daughters
Marriage which the bootmaker gave it.
Ny Daughters Marriage was imported into
France in 1917, by Monsieur Vimorin, senior,
and is, to this day, one of the prettiest tulips
known.
A QUESTION TOR PHILOSOPHERS. The pro-
prietor of tan yard, adjacent to a certain town
| in Virginia concluded to build stand or sort of
store on one of the main streets, for the purpose
of vending his leather, buying raw hides, and
the like. After completing his building. he be
gan to consider what kind of a sign it would be
best to put up for the purpose ofattracting aten.
ton to lis new establishment, and for days and
weeks ne was sorely puzzled on this subject,
! Several devices were adopted, and on further
consideration rejected. At last happy thought
struck him. He bored an augur hole through
the door post and stuck a calf tail into it, with
the bushy end Haunting out. After a while he
noticed grave looking parsonage standing near
the door, with his spectacles, gazing intently on
/ the sign And there he continued to stand. ga
zing and gazing until the curiosity of the tanner
/ was greatly excited in turn. He stepped out
and addressed the individual
.sGood morning" Morning" said the other
1 without moving his eyes from the sign. You