Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-11-04
$ fllti aa)ttklg &Drld.
11-1107r ANOTHER DON JUAN CASE,


The St. Louis Democrat Of Oct. 10Th
relates . very amusing incident which
occurred few days before IN 2 fash
ionable boarding house in thatcity. kept
by . buxom, charming widow. In the
house was q young. fair and very pretty
chambermaid, and among the boarders
was q young gentleman, the son of an
eminent clergyman in the interior. This
young man was pattern of propriety,
o model boarder, and student of divin-
ity. One night while passing through
the hall the landlady saw the pretty
chambermaid stealthily and suddenly
dart into the young students room. In
an instant she rushed to the door, burst
in upon the pair, and beheld them fond
ly clasped in each others arms. Hor-
rified and shocked at the sight, and not
pausing to think, or to act with better
Judgment, the enraged widow at once
shrieked and raised terrific hullabaloo
in the house. The account of the trans
action goes on 70 say:
Her.cries. of course, aroused the LODI
gers, Who rushed pell-mell down stairs,
SOME with but one leg in their panta-
looms, some with no pantaloons at ali.
and others with .carpet-sacks in hand
and their clothes under their arms. The
female portion OF the household were in
no better plight, but modesty torbids
that we should dwell upon the scanti-
ness of their toilet-or the want OF any.
The policeman happened TO be ut the
further end OF his beat, and did not get
To the scene until the excitement had
quite subsidized, and was theft told that
there's nothing the matter"
After the rumpus had quoted down
and helandlady had recovered her cQra-
posurr, she apologized 10 her boarders
Tor raising distus bsnce about nothing.
and assured them her conduct WAS oc-
casioned by dreadful dream She
said she had eaten too much cold apple
pie at the Fair that evening, aud il bad
caused her nightmare.
But one OF her boardcrs suspected
there was.somcthing more 1T the bot
I. tom Of the affair than culd apple pic and
nightmare, aud commenced invcsiiga.
tons. which resnltel in discover, of
some queer facts III regard 10 the pref
~ chambermaid
II seems the father Of the young stu
dent, who was about eighteen years Of
age, had younger son, aged sixteen.
They were fair. handsome youths. but
the younger one Was decidedly pretty.
lie was disposed to ratnblc rather than
90 study, and his father used somewhat
stringent means to compel him to get
the lessons put before hun. One day
his father sent the bay into the garnet
with ponderous volume of doctrInal
sermons, aiidspon after caught him with
the IFandn1ag .i.a0 in hts hands His
Christian forbeaTancc could bold ont nu
longer, aud he gave the boy al unmcr.
ciful switching. This was the first time
the old gentleman had resortcd to stch
violent chastistqncnt, and the feelings
of the 10y were so deeply wounded
to say nothing of his decorated back
that he determined to play prodigai son,
gand 20 cut into the world to feed swine
for almost anybody.
Ii happened that the very next day
he got bold Of St Buuis paper com
tanning all item about the contemplated
pilgrimage Of Mayor Thomas to the
Rocky Mountains for the purpose Of
finding an airline route TO Omaha. lie
dcterlunied to join the expedition and
see something of tho world. lie Icfi
home on foot. aud in three days arrived
in this city; but to his dismay he learn
cdthat IL would cost $40 to 90 with
the Mayor, and the change in his pock-
ct did not amount to 10 cents. lie
walked all. over. tllc city, aud nj L.
O'Clock at night fell in with party Of
Irish servant girls on OEallon street,
one of whom was chambcrmaid ut
.MrssA'si clearinghouse. This ganc-
sous-hearted girl, on learning that the
boy was "a stranger destitute Of means,
proposed to give up her situation to
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