Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-09-29
Selected Ml5tGllQun.
A N0USTaCHE; AND WHAT CANE
OF IT.

|, Alfred Troptop, was on tue point O
leaving home and the friends of my youth
to enter business with my uncle in Phila
delphia, was just twenty-five, was gen
orally thought good.looking, had received
liberal education and, altogether, might
put myself down as well-known and liked
in New York and creditable member o.
my fathers establishment. Only two event,
had occurred to disturb the peaceful mo.
nOtopY OF a harmless career-one, my en-
trance into a military company; the other,
the pledging Of my affections 10 my lovely
cousin Arabella who came for a mouth
from Philadelphia, stayed with u.s. and
sealed nay fate forever In a word, loved,
and was beloved again.
don't mind confe5sing that this was
the UGin cause Of my willing acceptance o.
a seat il her fathers Office in philadelphia,
and thus il came to pass that was Just GA
tho point of beginning life in the Quaker
City and my moustache, Here ny
troubles may properly be said to have be.
gun. Let me DO honest, and trace them at
the outset to their cause.
Ny uncle was methodical, D,ofairg
lawyer, who lived principally in his Office,
and barely tolerated lite out Oft Again
and again had my father pressed upon me
Tie necessity Of assuming as quiet and re-
spectacle manner as possible. And vet
when | stepped on board the steamerwhicl
Was to take me to Philadelphia, i vas in a
new miIitary-looking snit, which cost near.
~ $50 hair as short Gs scissors could
make IL, and parted with the greatest prsci-
SION and my moustache curling upward at
the corners Of my mouth, in regular mi&-
tary style as the hair-dres5er assured me-.
IL was q lovely morning We steamed mer.
rily down the bay The water was perfect.
y smooth, the band was playip3 "nivia's
LHut, and sat in the stern IN most I'D.
proved military attitude, twisting my moa-
s'1cAe and haughtily looking about me.
Arabelhi where was thy imagg2 Alas.
confined to oblivion in my braast pocket.
One look at it would have saved me.
gaEad alta living, loving image near me,
and vas infatuated. She sat beside me, in
all the fascination OF a muslin dress and
coqlattlsh straw hat, with q pair 81 dark
eye5 Blanciug beneath it; and wished she
would tumble overheard, straw hat aai all.
the. 1 might be so happy as to rescue and
euslaye her forever.
Sna belonged, so perceived to q at0ut,
n IN choking old gentleman, who walked
up ana down, looked at the Instant coast
through telescope, talked to everybody
around, and was evidently in high sgiatB
with himself and the world around general
Is. We fell into conversation, The fair
one jo,nai in the chat and laugh / was
in Paradise, How blessed my good for.
tunnel
In the army" Iprosume a.r said Pa
tcrtamiias.
couldn't have denied it for tho world.
So ! bowed with dignity. The mir cyca-
tma locked ut me admigingly, The father
said:
Il knew It..
He spoke in loud yoioe-and other
people heard him, and he surveyed nae
with interest especially gentlemen also
with mrastacAe and military air m
individual with treckiss aud an eye-z.ass
and q luiot-.ooking person who had the
appearance of clergyman | mention
those three for O reason which will be- seen
hereafter.
Your hand, sir; love the military
sal the Oil gentleman. "A fine setottei.
lows every one Of them, Let 4esa., what
your rogiuontt"
hadn't studied the army list for r9ta
ng
The one hundred and twentieth Uale,
States smasAors, said boldly, 7. we
Frank CANDLES old regiment | had me
him a tow months back, and heard .re-
him good deal of Il and It's mess tn
gentleman with the mouStacAo looked a
me more earnestly than ever,
I'm q peacoabieman myself said ta