St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1864-08-04

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iSSvT 1fia4|A q xi, good little n
ana having dug up the whole Of fihs tie Wil I'll
y okfs that h. tad sovn x1hesn1 be vas you1' j
before. vh.t with gambling, drinking, smol
ing, and am sorry 70 say iar worse worse :thl :tha
4 oil ttdr, sda life he began to lead poo p
Gretchen ''''s = IN 9I.z1i;3s4@ ~. rs
ooh, The villain - said tie Msarcb;onexsss is
"weli.; d course Of 'diSaH Dissipation tito caunno
last .rever' ttosushs III ~ titie tin h.xS Hans spifz
buben,, who thoSaght he had outyxiitted ;liy tn
hend IL gooa EARNEST, Asts;f sAd So in truth !.
first sight It aIppeaahrt!dd. ah!dd But If the ways Q
Heaven ar. mysterious, ,te designs Of sa
tan are absolutely 'hnfsthomable:; and j
was only after some miserable years o
vice aha debauchery, that f1lns 'discovere.
that lie hsd again :niscs1cSdtlaitsesa, as he ha,
Oh q former OCCASION y his ;jt Erst encounter
with the tempter';; and ana his silly triumph
changed rapidly u despair, ii, ennfsetlet
." "e"N"' oAasteieo IN lnIeiiect Onma4ea
in reputatiou, and distracted by remorse
he Began 10 loat1ie the swretccaied future to
which 'his fatal compact must consign him,
It would be too paipfulto dwef ;ye.r ,,
year upon his agonies Of regret, as repent ;i ;s
ance shadowed out to him, as in a mirror,
the image of what was still tc come: But
the fact was, by the time Gretchen had
lived on to be Hue, Healthy and engaging
woman Of tbirty-h,e, Hans had gradually
lwindfed down to :an awkward, iong! g!ishank-
ed hobbfedehoy of }lt'ftssstin. All his ma manly il
beauty haa faded haa~a:y; his tie flowing ii
tssard had 9lone since ;di..pp..red, his
honstachess had crumbled of; his xhis-
kers had evaporatcd his voice suddenly
jumped up m :octaye!'' r.,.f H. !-:,9.,'. g.
''oh! my goodness gracious!' said the
Marchioness. -., ~.=.~4 -.
.Ah! you may say so, indeed!' said the
Count; ..but this was nothing to what hap
pened afterwards. All Germany was in an
uProar about it. It was in vain that the
most eminent physicians were called in :;
Hans bafaed ,heta all. The whole faculty
had hitherto been iil;S ens;aSEed in in tiii pretiviain.;ng
people from growing older, but to stop the
progress of = patient that did nothing but
grow younger every day. was clean Beyond
their skill. 1t was : 1as,s aatut;s-a case,
extra qrtem medicdm, and, as old DR.. Sian
tenfuzel acutcly observed, it was impossi-
bic TO put nature on it's legs, when it was
i" :--a nnon II.
knew what he was about, if the doctors:
did not" .-.,.. ..- .e... -
..But pray" interrupted, the Marchion-
ess, ..how did Gretchen support this re
markable ,dispensation yg,7 ~,-. 7,...
:'oh much bette than al her unfortunate
husband deserved. STE hogan to consider
i Herself as widow ), imagined Hans was in
some way or other his own child, and be-
gan to love him over again, because lie was
so like his father. She hal once been an
atfectionate wife; she now became an.
equally affectionate mother; and lucky it.
was for Hans that she Was kindly disposed,
for from this time to the tenth year of his
apparent age, he rapidly sank through the
graduating scale Of a boys affection, for
marbles, peg-tops, hoops, lollypops,, and
sstecamipatnne, There Was - saying, s:ttsr,
This period how rapidly his form diminish
cd, and his clothes grew too big, as he
again sank HOE rom ffs ne So Soy "a 70 tbe
child; when, just poor Gretchen began
to think-but don't know, madam, wheth-
er ought to go on 49,, ,..,:.,f...,... ..,
.:And I, Count, cannot understand why
you should stop" ...- 60 ,.., ...
"Welf, madam. was only gejpg to OBJ
serve that just as poor Gaettchen began to
think that the milk Of human kindness,
with which She had hitherto supported him,
might. not be .nourishing enough for his
constitution, and had actually cast her eyes
upon fine, healthy young person, al
event took place which relieved ler from
any further anxiety on this score, fss siud-
denly-unexpectedly- yin the secoSndd Year
Of his second childhood, and on the very
anniversary Of his first interview with the
black 6end Of tie Hartawafd, RAMS }sSt spS9tz-
SubeAh d died with the imiiiseAsles.'' ''>''' s''i
"Well,' said the March1SSssss, II told
you at first that did NV Believe Believe word Of
IT," '@3''5s }='' 2 '@*S7'' 90 #-5s''" .'@'''
q, q = ~, = ,,.,. ,,.,,, r,., a.. ;.
..'And now I assure You again, madam,
that it's as true-as true as . So '''
But tSs reader reader must not be detained while
the Count finds his simile; and when he is
informed that tie skeleton Of Hans is sill
ID BE seen in I glass case at the museum Of
Gotsbers, vim certificate of the burgo-
master attesting tie truth of the story, no
reasonable doubt can Or ought to remain
III the mind of any one. 'S''' SAL II, ~
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ITHs .GAAssLAu.- according to the game
la~, as amended fast winter BY the Legisla-
ture,; in the counties Of Daootah. ,Hennepin,
and counties .east Of .the Mississippi prair;
10 fowl msy, 10 killed after the. lst, of
August, ana ana tkSftlaW intends intends i line Of IS
f1r each bird, killed or had. in, possession
before that time. !, lny other lqpPtiss ef lhs
State, il would seem from reading ot the