Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1867-02-16


eraele 10 your ways--however, you are to b,
excused he added. circumstances consid-
sr~d--femsle influence hAl--well, it, 4
fine saair, this marriuge!''
'"Bet..r try it, Mr.. Sanford said q brigh,
saucy girl, ~bo, with her laugbing compan.
ions, IVES Standing BY while Ben. was speak.
iug. '"Ah, madame the whcrewi,balf said
Ben. ruling up his eyes with tragic ex.
preston. "f some clever old fellow would
bs 50 obliging a. to die now, and leave me q
few tboussnds>-then, ladies, you would see VI
"Bu',. speAking ef MONEY" 'esid Mark,
when be saw the ladies busy over ;sne laces
b. had just thrown on the conn,er, what
DID your glorious fsn' cos. you 2" q
.'"Psoh !-pothing !-ohly a ten dollar bill
--nosh'ns i" my purse, you know Il
t'No.hing ia your pure !.-not an uncom-
mon Incident .lter these occasions" said
Mark. laughing.
"Ob, hang tall y said Ben, TOO true!
can get no remedy tor this consum ption q
the purse, as old FIagstaff says; however.
the world owes me a living, aud 50 good
morning"
Ben. Sanford was just one Of that class of
young men Of whom common report goes,
that they can do anything they please, and
who consider this point as SO we'll establish
ed, that they do not shink it necessary to
'l!us'rs,e it by doing anything at all. lie
was lawyer Of talent, and would have an
extensive run Of business had he not been
one OF the class Of p.ople never to be found
when wanted. Hi, law books and law Office
saw far less Of him than certain fashionable
places Of resort, where his handsome person
a'd various social acco.Lpli> hments always
secured to him welcome reception. BIN
mad some little property left him by bis
father, ust enough. as be used laushingly to
quote, 10 keep him in gloves and cologne
wa1sr,' and for the rest he seemed vastly
contented with his old nnxim, "the world
owes me l'vins.' forgetting that the world
can sometimes pr We as poor a paymaster as
Toe most fashionable y,ung gentleman
asoiug.
But TO return to Mark When be had set
tied his aceounts Ut night, he took from
p'geoa hole in his desk. the little book afere
named. and entered as follows: ITO one
real wake mp. Slo,' which being done, be
locked h 5 desk, ani returned once more to
Mrs. Mer.den.
Days flew or, and the shop Of Mark be-
came very popular, and still from time to
time he was assailed by the kind Of ,emp,a-
ton We have described Now i, was Mark,
my dear fellow, do IN US IN trip ,o-'s,
aud now. come: my old boy let US have
spree at F-s; now i, was the club, now
an oyster supter-bui Mar VAS inyincib!e
aud still IS ore and another gai|y recoun
ted tie history Of the scene, he silently com
mittei the amount Of the expenses to tie
lAle book. Yet Mark was not cynical or
unsociaI. His refusals, though 50 firm. were
invariably good natured, aud though be
could not be drawn abroad, set he was un
queslonably open-handed and free in his
own hause. No nouse had so warm we
come-no dinner table could be more toun-
i'u' or more freely OPEN for the 3eLoof of ali
gentlemen Of the diniug-out order-no tea
table presented more unexcep'ionable toast,
aud no evening lounge was more easy, home.
like aud cheerful, than on the warm sofas in
the suoe parlor of Mark Merider. They also
gave evening parties, where all MAS bri!lan,
tasteful and we'll orqered ard, in fine, not.
w'thsta"dins bis +bors co ni'gs. Mark was
eet down as q f"e, open handed fellow after
all.
At'he end of year, Mark cast up his ac.
count in the little book, and wa, nightly
astoni-hed Al it, for with all bis ideas of the
power Of nun bers, he had no idea that the
twos, 6ves, tens, o"es which, on greater or
greater or smaller occasions: had iouud their
way into bis columns, would amoun. up to
q sum - considerable. Mar. looked abou;
h'm-'he world was going well-his busi-
ness machinery moving in exact touch and
tlme-his house, where was there q pret,ier
one? whore place more ,eplete with every
home-drawing comfort? Had be lost any
thing in pleasure the past year? Mark
thought not, aud therefore as he walked
home~ard, he stepped into a b okseler's
and ordered some books or superb ensrav.
'ngs for Mrs Meriden. and spoke to gard
ner to send elesan. Towering exvtics for
which he L.d heard her express All admira.
ton some evenings before.
That same evening came in Ben Sanford,
as he expressed it. "in tho very depths OF
indigo : for young gentlemen whose worldly
matters invariably 60 wrong erd foremo ost
will sometimes BE- found in that condition,
however exubersut may be their stock oi
aoimal spirits. -.. .. ~. ...~..... ...~
Pray, Ben, what is the matter q said
Mark. kindly. as Ren. stretched hi nself u,
length in an armchair, groanine audibiy.
"Oh, u bilious attack, Mark .-shoe-ma,
kers bills, ,ailor's b lis, boarding hoase bill,
all in for NV Years presenss, hang TIN
ull!'
Mark was silent for few m oman,s, and
b n continued 'roniound il, Mark what's
he nse Of living, If u fellow is to be so cur
'rdty poor. Here you, Mark, torn in the
zane town with the. and younger than | am
)y some two years. YOU have a housa n q S,,, !