The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1866-02-07
A LaughabIe Lore Story.

This experience is from a correspondent
in Illinois, and is quite as good as anything
we have recently read. "Tour corespoI-
dent has an intimate friend, Joe F-,who
was uuiii recently cashier OF - Bank, in
The Slate OF Tennessee. Now TO say that
Joe was handsome, accomplished, and
wilha very entertaining, wo0id be bpt 10
express The opinion entertained of him by
nine teBGhs OF The fair sex with whom be
come in contact. He was, TO use the wes-
tern expression, ga regular heartsma-her
among The women ;" and it may not be im-
proper TO state, just here. that 90 o1e bad
q more exalted opinion OF his capacities in
that line than the alorsad Joe himself As he
and your cores pondsni were on The most
intimate terms imaginable, and accustomed,
in the "balcyon days OF boy hood, " TO unfold
10 each other all our plans and purposes of
the future-noi even omitting the delicate
matter Of the heart-l was not at all sur
pdsed, about year since, 10 receive a let
ter from him, in which, after referring 10
our past friendship AMI the confidence with
which be had always consulted me on any
important subject, he assured me that he
now needed my advice 'on a matter which
very nearly concerned himself, and in
which, perhaps. was involved his future
happiness and destiny" /, of course. felt
concerned for my friend al this; bot was
somewhat relieved after reading the fol-
lowing:
"Aad nov, dear s.. without giving
you time to imagine anything horrible,
will frankly tell You that | am 10 love. Per-
haps you will say, "Well, what if you are
lhal is nothing new Bot just wal! until
ge, through You see, if i, was e common
love-scrape, such as we used TO have when
we were boys, could ge; along without it
well enough But this time il is little
com mplica,ed-a kind OF double affair
Come now, s., don'l think ] am fool,
but the fact is, Fanny l. is the pretiiest
Eule creature in the world; young. teauti.
ful and affecliouale, she is everything that
can ask. and in short, love her as never
loved before But then, alas! she is poor.
Poverty is her misfortune. Were rich this
would not weigh a feather, but then you
know am not. The other, Mary W.
is beautiful, gay, accomplished and wealthy.
The former love; the latter | esteem and
admire tlhink may say, without being
liable 10 the charge of vanity, that neither
OF them are luuluSIebi lpWaId ulef OuN thoA
an offer of marriage on my part would bs
readily accepted by either! Now, s.,
" hat shall do Marry the girl really
love, and remain poor devil all my days,
OF by forming an alliance with the other, al
once acquire wealth and postion7 Answer
me-"
did answer him in my letter, which,
pardon me- do not mean TO copy here
expalisied largely upon the blessings of
"wedded life" ''connubial bliss" slowing
hearts," and all the other "spgar and
honey" expressions could remember and
. closed by conjnring him, as he valued his
happiness, by all means 10 marry the one
he loved; and as tor The beautiful, accom-
p!ished and wealthy Mary W, would
come in due time 10 marry her myself.
heard nothing more from my love perplexed
friend for about six months, when he wrote
me as follows:
"Dear s., ccurted them both (Ihe
! rich one 6rsD aud couldn't get either of
them. Goodbye ! am going 20 K'e---