The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-20

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been extinguished and all was hushed,
my wife said, with some anxiety of tone,
Husband, feel uneasy about our
Minnie"
Minnie |! why what's the matter
is she sick % ac0 aaj 80 ga99 lsa'
"No; she isn't sick, but" isse
"But what, wife?''' rr
f" Well Minnie isl mean, she seems
to be-well, Pm afraid she likes Jenny
: Brun." ehi ai tHa9gi ios g - e9F12e ohN
"Jemmy Bruni She'd better not''
And l leaped to the floor and walked
to the window. Jenny Brun and
our Minnie Ia pretty match" ~
"I was afraid you would be distur.
bed, dear; but don't take it too much
to heart, husband. ! dare say we can
put a stop to it. And motherly sobs
came from the pillow.
"Put stop to it! I guess 1 will
Jenny Brun and our Minnie IL guess
, mill put stop to it."mic 81 d1gsY z
| And who was Jenny Brun? A
young man of some two years. resi-.
dence in the neighborhood, of good
habits so far as knew, bnt altogether
and dramatically opposed to any taste,
to my ideal of manliness. / had al
ways worshiped business tact and en-
terprise. 1t had taken me, when a pen
niless boy, and brought me up through
t numberless difficulties to a position OF
influence. That which was found in
my nature when young, was thus nour,
ished and rooted through all the after.
years of struggle ripening into triumph
The young man was of literary
turn of mind had taught in an acadia.
my ;~was a writer, it was said, for one
or two periodicals. There was an all
of sentiment about him, in his looks
and manners, which came precisely
within the scope of my contempt. ]
had known it in others-in strong bust
ness men-this utter contempt for the
least possible manifestation of senti
ment for these unthrifty fellows who
have never an eye for business, bu
i hang upon the skirts of thought, clasl
imagery, and ride upon rhythm. Yor
: may see it now every day in CONNER
cial houses. 1t springs, I think, from
r the absolute an:agonism of fact an(
fancy-of the fingers which dot tn,
> pages OF the ledger and those which il
umine the lines of the poet. "Th'
MUSES. frowned on me-" said German
poet, /" for keeping account books
n Undoubtedly. Nor is the knigh
of the balance sheet less intolerant to
v ward the miserable fellows whose en-
tire stock in trade can be stored within
lie avery little cavity just behind the from
tai bone 'i @
m My good wife had a time of it cool
ing me down, and preventing the adop
10 tion of most violent measures. Eve
when / had formally surrendered t
m her superior discretion, 1 chafed q
times like bear in harness. If m
al wife had not been almost Rarey i
tact, should certainly have broken in
at to plunges even sooner than did.
Minnie was taken one, day into so
emn conference by her mother, wit
rs only pussy in the doorway as auditor
- But the child, though she blushed yer
: much, moved about from seat to sea
e and tore pieces of paper into bits, d,
r. clared that she was heart whole yet
as why shouldn't she be ?-for Jem
my Brun had never yet said word t
her which any man might not have sal
to any Maiden, Y ~
So wife and got easy again.
IS But what should / see one evenin
as at twilight while sauntering out undt
er the shadows of my grove of forest oal
vs. not far from the honse, but two figure
d, fittering hither and thither among I'll
a. distant trees. Like knave as l w.
er / sat on the ground and watched then
)" Watched them nerviously, glaringl
till | saw Jenny Brun give Minnie
sh kiss on her lips, and look lovingly aft
rs her as she slipped away. e,s
ed l was. reclining upon the sward |
it her path. Determined to meet ar
Sc confront her there, l sat and watche
ay her coming. 5eard.
u Certainly Minnie's face never wo
it, such an expression before. 1t was n
ok gleeful, but it was radiant, and her eye
G. which were bent on the ground, al
of hence only visible as she came We
near me, had light and depth thai
he never saw before. She passed me,
of utterly was the child absorbed in b
nut own emotions. t''it - hfttls
n n" Minnie p / said, in a tone whi
nd startled myself scarcely less than t
IN. child.
six "Oh p and she sprang from the pa
Ter as though the sound had been a rat
among the grass. 2t a8i1j -
ng / raised myself slowly-I am We
It's slow when very angry-and standi
stifiy before her, glowered down in
nd her s-Minnie's beautiful living ey
& with a sternness which had ne,
of failed to terrify. Butthe child, thou
me she 1trembled like an aspen at fir
om brought her fathers spirit to her rescl
2 and, in the strength of love and I'M
3 lcence, looked into her fathers ang
. 4 face at length with perfect composu
to- is1I must not repeat the words that !
lowed; /; they never shall be write
i've would to God they had never be
me spoken ...r f.r J.
d." Minnie had given him her heart. a
4 would give him her hand. How COZ
mr. cbo bolr, "a Q Ex,a., lor fo+1,o,,s n ~.