Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-09-22

SIeauy a na4Q ana as cool neaQ as II
there had been no such thing as bachelor
! frolies In existence.
Late in the forenoon, Ben Sanford
lounged in to ogle few of the ladies,
and above all, to rally Mark on loosing
| the glorious fun of the evening before.
Upon my word, Mark" he began,
I'VE must have you put up for SelectInan
you are so extremely ancient and venera-
bic in your ways-hoWeVer, you are to
be excused" he added, circumstances
considered-female ah well it's fine
affair, this marriage r.
Better try it, Mr.. Sanford said a
bright, saucy girl, who with her laughing
companions, were standing by while Ben
was speaking.
''Ah, madame the wherewithal p said
Ben, rolling up his eyes with tragical
expression. If some clever old fellow
would be so obliging as to die now and
leave me few thousand-then ladies,
you would see"
But speaking of money" said Mark,
when he saw the ladies busy over some
laces he had just thrown on the counter,
what did your glorious fun cost you r.
Pooh nothing only a ten dollar
| bIll-nothlng in my purse you know r.
Nothing in your purse 2-not an un-
common incident after these occasions,
said Mark, laughing.
"Oh, hang it all ~ said Ben-"too truel
| can get no remedy for this consumption
of the purse, as old Flagstaff says; hgw-
ever, the world owes me living, and so
gUoa nnnrning r.
Ben Sanford 1res inst one of that class
of young Men of whom common report
goes, they can do anything they please,
and who think this point so well estab-
| lished, that they do not think it necessa-
ry to illustrate it by doing any thing at
all. He was lawyer of talent. and would
have had an extensive run of business,
had he not of been of that class of people
never to be found when wanted. His law
books and law Office saw far less of him
than certain fashionable places of resort,
where his handsome person and various
social accomplishments, always secured
him a welcome reception Ben had
some little property left him by his faith
er, just enough as he used laughingly to
quote, to keep him in gloves and cologne
water" and for the rest, he seemed vast
| " contented with his old maxim, "the
world owes me living" forgetting that
the world sometimes proved as poor a
paymaster as the most fashionable young
gentlemen going.
But TO retnrn To Mark. When he
had settled his accounts at night, he took
from pigeon-hole in his desk, the little
book aforenaimed, and entered as fol-
lows: ITO one real wake up, SIC" which
| being done, he locked his desk and re-
turned once more to Mrs. Meriden.
Days few on, and the shop of Mark be-
came increasingly popular, and still from
time to time he was assailed by the kind
of temptation we have described. Now
it was: Marx, my dear fellow, do join us
in trip to G--'s;" and now, come my
| old boy, let us have spree at F-'s;'
] fho1o oi77h hn cFII
per-but Mark was invincible, and still
as one or another gaily recounted the
history of the scene, he silently committed
the amount of the expense to the little
book Yet Mark was not cynical nor un-
social. His refusals, though so firm,
were invariably good natured, and though
| he could net be drawn abroad, yet he
was unquestionably open-handed and
| free in his own home No house had so
warm a welcome-no dinner table could
| be more beautiful or more freely open for
the behoof of all gentlemen of the dining
out order-no tea-table presented more
unexceptionable toast, and no evening
| lounge was more easy, homelike and
cheerful, than on the warm sofas in the
snug parlors of Mark Meriden. They al
so gave evening parties, where all was
| brilliant, tasteful, and Well-ordered: and,
| in fine, notwithstanding his shortcomings,
Mark was set down as fine openhanded
fellow after all.
At the end of the year, Mark cast up
the account of his little book, and was
nightly astonished at it, for with all his
ideas of the power of numbers, he had nc
/ idea that the twos, fves, tens and ones
which on greater or smaller occasions,
had found their way into his columns,
would amount up to sum so considers.
Bile. Mark looked about -him-the world
was going well-his business machinery
was moving in exact touch and time-his
| Ihouse-where was there a prettier one
where place more replete with every
home-drawing comfort Had he lost
anything in pleasure the past year Mark
thought not, and therefore as he walked
homeward, he stepped into bookseller
and ordered some books Of superb engra-
| wings for Mrs. Meriden, and spoke to g
gardener to send some elegant flowers
exotics, for which he had herd her ex
press an admiration some evenings before
That same evening came In Ben San
ford, as he expressed it, I'm the Ter1
deptIs of indigo" for young gentlemen
/ whose worldly matters invariably g
wrong end foremost, will sometimes bC
found in that condition, however exuber
ant may be their stock of animal spirits
Pray, Ben, what is the matter p saiC
Mark kindly, as the latter stretched him
self at length, in an arm chair groanint
audibly.
"Oh, bilious attack, Mark I-shoe
makers bills, boarding house bills, tail
ors' bill-all sent in for New Years pres
ents hang EN- all u
Mark was silent for few moments
and Ben continued: HConfound it, Mark
what's the use of living, if fellow is t
be so cursedly poor2 Here you, Mark
born in the same town with me, and yoI
Younger than am by some two years
you have house as snug and cosy an.
comfortable as man need ask-a wifi
like an angel-peaee and plenty by tn
bushel, and all comes of having q goo'
run of luck in the money line" and Bel
kicked his slippers against the andiroI
? most energetieally.
"What has become of Emily P?
asked Mark, after pause.
Poor soul r. said Ben, there she i
vet; with all sweetness and patience, wait
ing till such luckless scapegrace as
, can give her home and husband
wish to my soul, for her sake, | coul'
afford to be married, and have home 0
Inv own; besides to tell the truth, n
!, tired of this rambling, sorambling, out-at
elbow, slip-shod life"
why don't you get married p SAT-
Mark
"Why don't to be sure l--use m
' tailors bills for fuel, and my board bill
for house rent, and my shoe bill for brea