M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-10-12

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Mark, when he saw the ladies' bus
over some laces he had jast throw
on the cOunter--"what did you
glorious fun ccst your
nothing! only ton-dol,
lar bill, nothing in my purGe, yor
know"
"Nothing in your purse! mot 81
nnconlmon incident after tneee oera,
'ions, "ssid Mark laughing.
"Ohl hang it all" said Beu,-
too true! | can get no remedy iol
this consnmption Of the purse, az
Old FsIs'af says; however, the
world owes me living, aud SO, good
moIning."
Ben Sanford was iCst ore Of that
cIass Of young men Of whom common
report goes, that they can do any
thing they please, sni who CONSIDER
this point as SO well established, that
they DO not think it ntcessary.to il
lus'rate !. by doing any thn. At ell
lie WAS a lawyer OF good talents.
anj would have had an exteneiyeIun
Of business, had he not been ono of
class of people never to be tyund
when wanted. Ills law books and
Jaw office saw far less of him than
certain fashionable places OF resort,
where his handsome person secured
10 him a welcome reception. Ben
had some httIe property lett him by
his father, just enough as he used
IauShingly to quote, ito keep him in
gloves aud cologne water" and for
the rest, he seemed vastly contrnted
with his Old maxim, "lhe wofli
owes me living" forgetting that
The world can sometimes prove as
poor u paymaster as the most fash
ionab,e young gentleman going.
But 10 return to Mark. When he
had settled his accounts at night, he
took from pigeon hole ia hs desk, |
the little book aiolenamed, and ems
tered as follows: TO one real wake
up, SlO," which being done, he !oc.
ked his desk, and returned ouce
more to Mrs Meriden.
DAYS flew on and tho shop of
Mark became Increasingly popular, |
and still from time to time he was
assai|ed bv tho kind Of temptation We
have described Now it was "Mark, |
my dear fellow, do join us in our trip
to G-s;"--aEd now. Come, |
my old fellow, let us have spree at
it was the club, |
now the oyster supper-but still
Mark was ingincible, and as one or
another gaily recounted the history OF |
he scene, he silently committed the
amount of the expense to his little !
book. Yet was not Mark cynical or |
unsocial. lis reIusels, though firm,
were inyariable good na'ured, and |
though he could not be drawn a
broad, yet lie was uLqoeStionab'y y
open handed at home. No house |
had so warlh a Sseicome-au dinner
table coald be more bountiIul or
more freely open tpr the
Oehoot Of oil gentlemen OF the din
Mug out order--nO tea table present
ID more unexceptionaDlo toast, and
here was no evening lounge more
easy, home>like and cheerful. than
on the sofas in the snug par!uFs oil
Mark Merideu. They also gave
evening parties, wEerc al was bril
liant. tasteful, and well ordered; and. !
in ire, Notwithstanding his short
,Omings, Mark wa5 Get loSn as q
En- open handed fellow -. 81.
At the eud Of the year, Marx cast
up the account in his little book and !
was nightly aatonisbed at it, lr
with all bis IDEAS OF the power Of
numbers, he had 30 idea that the
twos and fScs, ana tens, and ones.
which on greater or smaller occasions,
had tound their way into his cOlumns
would amount up to. a srm so consid
cradle. Mark looked about him
the world was going well--his busi.
ness machinery moving in exact
touch and time-his hOuse-where
was there a prettier one9 where a
place more replete with every home
drawing cont0rta Had he lost any
thing III pleasure the year past!
Mark thought not, and therefore as be
walked homeward, he stepped into
the booksellers aud ordered some
books OF superb eugravings ior Mrs
Meriden, and spoke to a gardener
10 send SONS elegant A)wering exoc
cs. for which he had heard her tx.
press an admiration some evenings
before.
That same evening cams in Ben
Sanford, as he expressed it, "in the
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