The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-06-12

ty, tall, pale, and feeble looking. Ii
answer to my exclamation OF aston
ishment, he said, Yes, 1 ask ifyot
will be my wife l am rich, but have
no comfort--no happiness. My re
lations seem to yearn tosee me in the
t.grave. l have ailments which re
qnire degree of kindly care that is
not tolbe bought from servants.
have heard your story, and believe
you TO be one who will support pros
perity as well AS adversity. | make
my proposal sincerely, and hope that
you will agree to it
AT that time, Frederic" continued
the lady, ~ loved you; | had seen
you but once, but that once was toe
, memorable for me ever To forget it,
and something always insinuaied t0
me that we were to pass through life
together. At the bottom of my soul,
L believed this. Yet every one
around me pressed me to accept the
offer made to me, and the thought
struck me that might one day make
YOU wealthy. At length my main
objection to Sir James Melton pro
posal lay in disInclination to make
myself the instrument of Vengeance
in Sir James hands against relatives
whom he disliked, without good
grounds. The objection, when stated,
only increased his anxiety for my
consent, and finally, under the i'm
preston that it would be, after all,
carrying romance to the length offolly
to reject the advantageous settlement
offered TO me, | consented to Sir
James proposal.
s'This part of the story, Frederic,
is really like fairy tale. /, a poor
orphan, penniless, became the wife
of one of the richest baronets of Eng
land. Dressed in silks, and spark
ling with jewels, | could now pass
through the very streets were, a few
months before, l had stood in the
rain and darkness--a mendicant -
"Happy Sir James," cried nj. de
la Tour, at this part of the story /;
"he could prove his love by enrich
ing you"
"He was happy" resumed the
lady sour marriage. so strangely
assorted, proved much more condu-
Give, it is probable, to his own com
fort than if he bad welded one with
whom all the parade of settlements,
of pin money, would have been nee
essary.
"Never, / believe, did he for an
instant repent of our union. /, on
my part, conceived myself bound to
do my best for the sOlace OF his de
clining years; and he, on his part,
thought it incumbent on him to pro
vide for my future welfare. He died,
leaving me large part of his sub
stance--as much, indeed, rs l could
prevail upon myselfto accept. was
now a widow, and from the hour in
which became so, i vowed never
again to give my hand to man, ex-
cepting him who had succOred me in
my hour of distress, and whose re-
membrance had ever been preserved
in the recesses of my heart. Bat how
TO discover that manl All, uncon-
scious migrate to make no endeavor
to come ie the way of one who sought
to love and enrich yOni | knew not
4 In
at balls, assemblies, aud theaters--
You went not there. Ali, how |
lOnged To meet you
As the lady spoke she took from
her neck a riDand, To which was at
tached piece of hundred SOUS
sit is the same-the very same which
you gave me-" said she, presenting
it to Frederic "by pledging it | got
a little bread from q neighhor, and !
earned enough afterward in time TO
permit me to recover 1T. l vowed
never to part from it.
"Ah, how happy ! was, Frederic,
when | saw you in the street The
excuse which / made for stopping
you was the first that rose to my
mind. But what tremors l felt even
afterwards, lest Yoa shoVld lave Oeen
already married. In that case, you
would never have heard aught of this
fairy tale. though l would have taken
some means to serve and enrich you.
| would have gone to England, and
there passed my days in regret, per
haps, but still in peace. But happily
it was to be otherwise. You were
single.
Frederic de la Tour was awakened,
as it were, to the full capacity of his
happiness. What he could before
but look upon as sort of freak
proved TO he the result az deep and
kindly feeling most honorable to her
who entertained it. The heart of the
young husband everfowed with graf
itude and affection to the noble heart
ed heIng who had given herself to
him. He was too happy for some
time to speak. His wife first broke
silence.
$50, Frederic" said she, gaily,
"you see that if | am fairy, it is you
who have given me the wand--the
talisman-that has effected all -
The RAT NUISANCE. - Catching
rats is often difficult, as old rats are
proverbially cunning. Laying around
poison is dangerous not alone, but
Objectionable, for the reason that rats
NAV die ut inaccessible snOts and