Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-20
Erom Miss Rraddon'sNew Maxazine. the BeignviG1
STONES LOVE AFFAIR.
- ~ BY peTroN COOK.

words in comPii iime ltary sense. ffaeGl-
cally it has it's ehlogists, built has also its
censors. There are people who Will lind
fsIIlf with prose because itisn't poetry the
aame. sort of people consistently denOunce
inracticalitY because 0f g deficiency in
specnlatixeness. For it is q common form
81 criticism tn condema thing not so much
for being what it Is as for not being soFl1ez
thing else; that desidereted something else
being, in most cases. something entirely
antipOdean and irrelevant to the original
and disrelished thing. il .rhs,3
.sIfs Ned Stone had ever fault found with
him onsthe score that he aods practical, and
that he soasa't poetical, he might have an.
s7eered witch Mistress Audfey-SupPoslng
land it's a. douhtedr case) that he was In
ffrT,,ed Of the existence OF that rnstic -
donot know what poetical is; is 1t honest
In deed and word? Is it Q true thing z"
Certainty in both word and deed he was
himself honest and true. For things that
were otherwise he was quite without SYM
pathy. Indeed, he was for. the, most part
without knowledge concerning them; being
afsifI1ple straightforward gentlemans VINO
SsIsnf his own way, lived his own life, did
what ia fell to his lot to do, in q cuFiously
sober, steady, homely fashion. lie never
ewerved to the right or TO the LETT. IL dlo
not occur to him. apparently, 70 aevlate
from compact plan OF consistent conduct:
He never seemed TO say any thing ne dld
not mean, or to mean anything ne dld not
say. the while his openness had not ABOUT
81 that element of offensiveness which char
-acterizes theunreserve of some people, Win
whom speaking their minds" as tney
phrase it. is rather like cracking pau egH
IAN operation better pretermitted than
performed. s-,-. .~-.,,-e - So
Ned Stones mind ran pure and clear as
a brook You were, of course, at liberty,
If such was your humor, to derlde II as De-
ing merely water-brook, AFTER aii-Pre-
terring fount of strong claret, perhaps.
Still the former, be it remembered, Is avail
able at all times, ami delectable ever IN lts
own mild way; whereas the lattaF Is only
for occasions of festivity at long Intervals,
never running for any prJtraceeo perloo,
nor always qnite clear, anu, with All lIs
charms, capable. upOn proyOcation, OF CIV
ing YOU a headache or OF throwing you
III He was q broker in the city-nothing
moro nor less than that. Whether his labor
and protits had to do with tea and sugar,
or ships or stock, am not certain. !
,found it sufficient To know that ne was a
broker of some kind in the city. Inc fact
Ioanveve9l certain idea to my mind. Ii
had sought to enlarge the idea by clarity
inor the fact. / might have found myself less
enlightened than further contused aDOut
the matter; tor inquiry, notice, oI1eh pc
swiIders as much aus it lhstruces' ne hau
heen very poor at one time OF his lie, ana
mad had TO work very hard. HIS Industry,
however, had in the end met Win It's que
5rewarC Arrived at middle age, ne WAS
-verva comfortably cireumstanced ano ne
saw no reason to doubt that his prosperity
would continue. When he announceu 70
his friends therefore, that he thougn6 OF
taxing TO himself wife, it was fele Rener-
ally that the step he meditated was pTu-
dent and proper one, and only what mlgnt-
under all the circumstances OF Gne CASE
lhave been reasonably expected. ana Wneu
he further stated that he hao nlaae An onei
.of his hand to one Miss Georgina Warren
the daughter of a wealthy East India mer-
"hant. and that his offer bad been accepted
bv the lady, We, OF course, hastened 10 Ten
der him our hearty congratulations on the
happy occasion.
When l say "We," must not pe unooI
stood as employing the editorial hrsG per-
son plurality way of vailiug my own lndl-
FidualitY, but as speaking Oh behalf OF my
self and various Other Trfcnds OF Neo
Stones, who were also my frlenos- ano
who cordially agreed with me in wishing
ioy to our friend upoI the proposed I'm
portant change in his life.
Ned Stone spoke OF the matter in his owr
simple sober way.
Si.Well. YOU know I'm getting on" hesaid
sand if am ever to marry, it's aoonG tim
j should think of getting about IL. re '
wears hence it will be too late, l. snall o.
Settled down then. III a bachelor KIND o.
life have adopted bachelor views and hab
Its. and bachelor ways of looking at things
which shouldn't be ableto alter or get ou
of at any price. A few years ago couldn'
have afforeed it, to put the matter plainly
and so it was out of the question. But
ALWAYS looked forward to getting married
When / could afford it; and so now, whel
I can afford 1t, I'm going TO carry out tn'
notion. You're very kind; think snal
he happv--in fact, I've no doubt about it
as happy as fellow has any right to ex
pect to be. One ought not TO expect to'
much, of course. But I'm fond In nay way
of this Ceorgina Warren; and th1nt
that she. in her way, is fond of me. She j
mot too Young, nor too old not too good
hooking. nor too plain. Shes sensible
enough. and accomplished enough; aud
don't see why she shouldn't make me ;
very good kind OF wife; and similarly,
don't see why Ishouldn't make her very
GOOD kind of husband. know Ill 90 al
can to make her happy and com ortable
and I've no doubt she'll do the same on hel
side. What more is there to be said? Per
hans I'm not very fond of old Warren, th'
father, and perhaps also old Warren, tn,
father, isn't very fond of me. But still
don't see that that need matter very much
T dare saw we shall understand each othe
ebv and BY; meantime we must rub on a
well as we can; and / must try and maxi
the best of the gentleman's humors, ant
not run counter to him more than cal
avoid We needn't be meeting SO ver'
often, YOU know. And it seems to me tina
the old fellow would De no fonder OF any
body else who might want to marry hi
daughter than he is of me. And if Georgin
likes me (and she says she does), and if
like Georgina (and know do), that seem
to me the chief part of the business.
don't think need trouble myself mucl
about the old mans views on the subject
You see it's our affair-Georgina's an
mine-and not his though it's hard t
make him see it in that light. But l dar
say it will all come right in the end. That
what / tell Georglna when she takes u
with rather gloomy views about her fatf
'Per's temper. She's very good sense. and
think she looks at the matter very much 6
Il doAonly of course she can't help feelin
that he is her father; whereas, thank gooC
ness. he is not mine. / m much Obliged
You all for your good wishes, say again
e It will be seen that Ned Stone was not
hover to sssigh like furnace" AS II
xt.Writing q Woeful ballad to his mistres
eyebrow" don't fancy he could have al
eomplished such a feat, even if his Ii
had depended on his doing so. His pull
beat ever steadily and punctually. III
Thermometer OF his love stood at bemperat
with no tendency toward q rise. Let Cup
do all he could, it did not seem that he w
able to work very vital changes in these r
spects. Stone, IL was evident, persisted
contemplating love and marriage from Il
prosaie and practical point of view. N
lions of poetry and sentiment on those
any other subject were not possible to hiI
His constitutional serenity refused to
disturbed at ali by the quotidian of love.
There was nothing about him demonstra
ing careless desolation. The "marks
asIove,a as they are ordinarily unde' stoo
were not .discernable. upon him. He wa
Indeed, great disappointment to eonvel
estional ideas in relation to the lover.
Many, perhaps, would be inclined
think that he was not to be regarded as
lover at all-that he was simply man g