Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-06-23

- II tcsl llat question, Ill do 10 here
IN this very place. I'll turn mechanic,
ignore my money tand my family, mako
up to the prettiest, proudest girl in the
village, and show you that she won't mar
ry me poor. Then I'll come out in nv
true colors, and show you that nv cash Is
puissant to that which my conversation
and requirements cannot begin 20 dop
What marry her?"
'Not much-make her ask me to, and
then laugh at her"
| confess that I secretly hoped Joe
would not test the question. He was a
capital fellow, as rich in accomplishments
and cultivation as in money Now knew
very well that D, contained some very
charming girls-daughters of retired sea
captains, merchants, ect., who, however
much they might love n mechanic, would
see him hanged before they would marry
him. Aa contraire, young gentleman of
wealth and position, would prove very ac.
ceptable.
But he was determined, and when re.
turned to the city, in few days, ! left Joe
arranging chest of carpenter tools and
getting himself up in pair of blue over
alls and paper cap
| Joe had a wonderful talent for doing
everything tolerably well. He played up
on half a-doSen instruments, could sur
| vey, and dabbled in fine arts, understood
shorthand, little surgery and medicine.
was finished jockey, fair gardner. had
built stone bridge, written an epic, and
halfsoled pair of boots
With these somewhat varied accom-
plishments, he had no fear, of course but
what he could get on very well as car
penter. No one knew him at D, and
when he introduced himself to the boss"
carpenter Of the village, he succeeded in
pursuading him that he was a journeyman
Of unsusual talent.
He received several commissions during
the first fortnight of his experiment, but
on the whole, it was rather lucky that he
was not compelled to subsist on the pro-
ceeds of his labors. Otherwise, he might
have found it difficult to pay his board
especially as he commissioned me to send
hIm some five dollars worth of cigars ey-
| cry week.
One day after he had nearly exhausted
his patience and had done no end of plot
ting and planning in vain, the village car
penter asked him to undertake the resto-
ration of cornice on one oftlre oldest and
most aristocratic houses in D.
Joe agreed, and in n short time was
mounted upon the scahcld about on q
level with the third story windows of the
mansion of old Commodore Huntington,
deXtercusly making his measurements and
! plans for new cOrnice.
! 1t was not an easy task for the work
was elaborate, and the weather warm. -
Two days elapsed, and Joe had only got
ready to commence putting up the brack-
cts which sustained the heavy mouldings.
Lunch-time came, and the amateur car
penter, getting in the shade, unpacked his
little dinner-pail, and began a repast at
once simple and nourishing when he saw
that the window nearest to him was open,
and that some papers, laying on the escri-
torie inside, were disposed to blow away.
Il know it is a trespass," meditated he,
"but it is for the proprietors good-I'll
step into that room, and save, perhaps,
some valuable documents"
A little gymnastic exercise brought him
down from his scaffold, through the win
dow, and into q very elegant chamber.
"Ahem," said he "a woman's room."
There were paintings, statuetts, ormou
ornaments, and forty other luxurious
nothings, such as women of taste love to
gather around them. A guitar reposed
upon the bed, with some books in French
and Italian. The couch itself bore the i'm
press of form, as if the tutelar deity OF
the chamber had been lying down, and
passing her time with music and litera-
ture. There was a portfolio open upon
table, with a pretty little water color
! sketch, half-fnished; awell stocked libra.
ry in the corner bore evidence to the cul-
| tivated taste Of the occupant, and every
thing about the chamber, from the bed
with its shower of snowy curtains falling
from massive gilt ring, to the canary
bird in the window, bespoke refinement
and delicacy on the part of hoover had
arranged the apartment, seldom found
except in yourg and beautiful women who
aspire to have their surroundings like
| themselves.
Something elegant about this" said
Joe, gathering up the scattered papers
and placing them beneath a paper-weigh
on the escritoire, al must investigate thi,
here's an opening for a splendid bit o.
romance--poor young carpenter, and rich
lovely women Ell? Lord bless me, there
have been bushels of novels written or
the same plot"
After hurried examination of the room
he regained his scaffold, and consuming
his lunch, set once more about his labors
a little more hopeful than before.
Thus passed week. Joe got into
very impudent habit ofentering the cham
Der almost daily, in hopes of meeting tn,
fair occupant of so charming temple
He became familiar with all the books anC
music, whistled the canary bird into
oonvulsion of song, and drove himselfhal
crazy with speculations upon the fair un
known.
He had heard her sing very sweetly of
morning, when she opened the window
and just caught a glimpse of her form :
but she, seeing him, had withdrawn sud
denly, and he had not been able to dscov
} er whether she was beautiful as a rose o
ugly as q camel
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