Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-05-13
From the Mobile Tribune.
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FRANK INCENSE;
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The He Row of Myrrh Freeze Burrow.
BY ASA HARTZ.
, From the Mobile Tribune
BY ASA HARTZ.
CHAPTER I.

The silver moon was shining on its own
hook. (The idea of its ever borrowing
.light-or anything else-is medium.sized
humbug.) Itwas shining down into the
placid waters of Mobile bay like large sill
YER dollar of the old time currency Cat
fishes occasionally came up to the surface
of the watsg and agitated its bosom-as
catfshes are wont to- do, even In peace
times-and the silver dollar before men
toned broke off into silver dimes and plea
yunes, bringing pleasant and melancholy
recollections of the hard sschange" pieces
which whilom cigar venders gave back to
the smoking customer. The goddess of
night was doing well on this occasion !;
wooing swaips and maidens to moonlit
walks, soft talk, solemn VOWS, rash conces.
sions, and-other dogon'd nonsense.
EInasmuch as this chapter is specially in
regard to the moon, the orthor wishes to
avoid any other subject in it, and therefore
comes down particularly heavy on the moon.
.-ORTHoR.
CHAPTER IL. IT,.
Frank Incense was one of the sons Of his
mother--that is, if his mother had any 9TH
er sons; a fact which does not clearly ap-
pear to the orthor At the time spoken of,
some twenty.three summers (ditto winters)
had passed over his head. He had been
raised in medium poverty in house on
Cedar street. Large knowledge of the
world and side.wheel shirt collar gave
him the air Of young man who had seen
as much as any one who had not seen more,
He gazed upon the moon in pensive sad.
ness. Anon his eyes sought the deep and
clear but muddy waters of the bay, as seen
from the wharf foot of Theatre street. A
bright glazed'cap hid the rich yellow curls
Of his hair, aud q cotton handkerchief of
the bandanna build made frequent trips to
and from nose which occupied an eleva.
ton that induced the beholder to think
Frank wore a piece of assafetida for q breast
pin.
Franks bosom was tossed with grief.
Fin devoting chapter exclusively to
Frank Incense, the orthor wishes to respect
his hero, and cannot, therefore, introduce
in it any other subject.-ORrHoR.l ]
CHAPTER III.
nSarah Eliza, this is the fourteenth time
you've called me low-down cowardfy
skunk--afraid to enlist in my country's
cause! I'll leave you, cruel girl, and write
|ny- -Bame-in deeds of heroism on the battle
plain I. Farewell! I'm off,. I'll never
see you more, till, with victorious wreath
bound around my brow, I seek my native
home and lay my wearied heart at your
proud feet y
And he leaked out, Immediately.
Thatyoang man acas Frank Incense!
But who was the proud beauty to whom
this sorrowful and sanguinary language vas
thrillingly addressed
1t was Sarah Eliza Muggins, the bell of
the Sixth District. Reread in all the lux.
ury and extravaganza of high:born and
noble family, whose annual income did not
fall much below two hundred and eighty
dollars, this lovely female had been accus.
toned to do her own thinking about mat
tiers and things in general--aud this cruel
war in particular With her it was but
natural to think that every male, with the
usual quota of arms, legs, &C., should be
winning glory in the tented field at sll per
mouth. Hence the gentle hints which had
been fourteen times silly dropped in the
presence of her adorer, Frank.
Sarah Eliza Muggins was notone Of your
ordinary beauties. Thirty-six autumns had
full. blown her charms. A finely chiselled
head-richly festooned with riDglets which
We'd in hue with the color of the Code of
Alabama-surmounted neck and shoulders
that might have suficed to harmoDize with
the roseate and weli-boiled shrimp. Her
eyes were of that lustrous and expressive
beauty which characterizes the gentle and
watchful feline ornament so much priced
and SO much needed by thrifty housewives.
A mouth, large in itself, but so much the
| more fitted for the business of life, stood
! beneath and little to one side of a nose
that would have enraptured an artillerist,
in its angles of incidence and detection
Sarah Eliza Muggins was trump-a good
egg-and the betrothed of Frank Incense.
Tan orthor, in describing his heroine,
should never suffer himself to deseerate the
| chapter devoted to her with other subjects.
It is proper this chapter should end as it is.
-ORTHoR.]
| CHAPTER ".
Pursuant to act of Congress conscript
officer, duly commissioned for the purpose,
began to jayhawk the young braves who
! hadn't yet taken a Whit Of gunpowder; snd
the native town of our hero lost thereby
some of its brightest and most useless orna'
ments.
It was then the gallant Frank Incense
went boldly forward in his bleeding coun'
try's cause-joined conscript company
and entered the proud lines with the hon.
orable and responsible rank of high private
Here, just as the train of cars is leaving,
bearing that noble form, with others, in the
direction of Tennessee, we draw the curtain,
for it is night, and the same veil which
hides from our hero the hallowed scenes OF
his childhood, never to be seen, save
"Through nemory's fond tears"