The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1865-08-12

yellow halr nOatS ike. O. gOldeI qhQlG1
about him her gentle nose and radiant
chin are close to. his copspieious should
er, aud their hearts throb in unison With
the dirge ngsic Of the pines on the
shore and the raging waters RsieEa
them ;
And thus they speed onward, eyef
guided by dim and twinklipg windQW.
light a&r, that makes pale eeboe4
throggR the gathering Rists.
1t was warm and snug in the OAK pAh,
eled library. The clear glpbed lgmR
shines bright upon the ponderQus tqlRea
and myqltituainpus papers that stIea tha
Boor and furniture. Ana here at the
anoient Qargea table, sits the mestert
spirit os the palace.
Figure to yourself my dear reader, {,
man hardly past the dinper time Ql life,
yet hearing on his tkaaghtfGi bF9rc
these natural knobs and Jumps which an,
ly coma with taking and tqmpestAqqa
thoughts.
A man whom seeing one, might sag,
"here is something that is not as ifit had
not been the something it's" You hqya
met such a man no doubt.
have not.
The fire in the CRATE ffickers and
flares. a black loy, burnt in twain,
falls asundor and a spire Of ambent
fame leaps UP With q ftfRl glare By
its sudden fash oflight you can see this
man, calm. spirited and knobby- -broWed,
is not the man you thought he was.
You also see for the first time, by tho
fire CLEAN, that be is q clergyman.
He closes his ancient bronzed claspcd
volume with something bctYeeH q smila
and sigh, and says gHmiy, "it's q
shocking night, but good fer tho
crops"
A loud aud hollow summons al tho
front door Fesopnda throughout the man
sion like the thunderous downfall of
gravel on the coffin's lid. The rude
winds shake the window frames afresh,
and whirl With keepcr fury around tho
cqrHars,
"Perchance some poor soul lies
dying" murmured the good and piou4
mau, "and sends to seek the last Offices
at these unworthy hands,
He touches the hell and q sable
child of the sunny land, whence tha
originals, men and brothers, we're impor,
ted by lots to suit purchasers, appears.
Julius, there is some one at the
door,"
The swarthy Rthiop disappears, but
presently returns, pshering in three
strangers.
Strangers to the clergyman, indeed,
but not to you. good reader. They are
the loving pair we have seen in the
tossed shallqp, and With them is
the faithful hired man.
The holy MN surveys their dripping
forms with surprise:
"Whenoe come ye, friends, if friends
you be 7" says he; land what makes ye
here this sad and joyless night"
ave come here to wed," replies the
man with slight but noble and we'll
executed gesture.
at is an elqpement," says the clergy
man to himself. Then, aloud
"Have ye well considered the step you
are about to take ?"
"Tkat have we good sir" said both at
once.
"Aud ye love cue aqQttoF beyond all
else on earth 2"
ave do"
"And ye are prepared to sundcr all
ties else to cling and cleayc unto Que
another 2"
ave are"
? "Thcn l will wed you right cheer
fully. But hold how old are you, fair
!, sir 2"
S "Twenty summers have seen, Ny
$ bride numbers tire0 less"
"Ah We are miners yet"
< "No sir. | am no I1iucr. I work ia
e q saw mill.
NBut both are under age and the law
prevents me joining ye against the
ysbss Of your flesh aud blood. You
t must answer me some questions truly"
ave will"
n Know ye any reason why your wed
a ding should not be
It "M0pe'"
| "Know ye any one who, if they knew
s. of this would make objections there
unto
&c yes"
All! your father, sir p
!. No-not my father.
IS "Your mother it may be-"
70 "No-she is willing"
/ "Probably your father, fair maluep"
ID "No, we have bis consent"
ic Then it is your mother =
"No sir"
ID "Aud have you other guardians =
ut HNone."
I'd "Fheu," says the piOus man, lltti'
re disturbed, "why in the name OF common
sense do you say that there is one VIII
might forbid the match 7"
* ooh replied bride, her checks Gu
ID criusouing with the sufusion of nativ