The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-07-02

and Nine children-eght girls and one boy.
CONTINUED.
o, Lovel Blind god Tyrant Of ty-
rantsl The Emperor on his throne lays
down his gilded baton at thy feet, and
humbly acknowledges thy power and
mighty influence At thy beck and nod
mighty ships of war cleave the blue
waters Of the grand old sea, and thunder,
from countless iron throats, salyos to thy
great namel Vast armies march, fight,
and die. at thy behest; aud the soldiers
life blood, smoking on the plain, is swal-
lowed by Unsuitable earth, libation to
thy power. o. Lovei Blind god Thy
influence, like sleep, covers man mp
like cloak. He feels no pangs Of hun
ger. thirst, nor sickness, save of the
heart, when once beneath the shadow of
thy wingsl Adam. Solomon, David, st.
Paul. Cnsar, Brntus, Napoleon Bonaparte,
Washington. Nye. and Stewart, have
worshipped at thy shrine, and passed be-
meath thy yoke. Then who can blame
poor Poindexter Jones2 The editor of
this paper takes the present opportunity
to enter his protest against this style Of
what is called by some school girls,
high toned writiug-in other words,
this Overland Monthly style. Once in "a
while little sky-scraping Is well enough
in continued story but too much of
- - T..n g 4 u
reader sick at the rhetorical stomach.
Again. it seems 10 us that the author
would have displayed better taste had
he refrained from dragging Mr.. Nye into
the story by the neck and heels, as II
were. when such an anchorite as he could
have no possible connection with the
plot. The shadow of the widows smile
was not yet gone from my day dreams,
when the town of Uppieville was agitaiod
over the arrival. from the East, Of beau
tiful young lady named Mary the
daughter of rich miner. | saw her the
day she arrived. aud all regrets that
fingered in my heart for the loss Of Julia
and the widow vanished like the base
less fabric Of dream II really seems
ms though we have seen that expression
before. II sounds ms familiar TO US as
Thick as leaves ia Vallambrosa. Ell
News. | put myself in her way. If
she walked up street, | managed to be
in the way when she returned. If she
went into dry-goods store, happened
in just after, to buy collar or something
Of the kind. In short, | threw myself in
her way on every possible occasion.
employed a poet to write some verses
about her hair, red cheeks, pearly teeth,
and NIL that sort of thing; but all to no
purpose, ms she did MT seem to recognize
the poetry as intended for her. nor know
of my existence. The towns people all
said my subsidized poet knew more about
ejectmeut suits than poetry; so | paid
him of and fell back ON my good looks
and striking attitudes.
Ii went on thus for three months.
grew thin. My landlord noticed it. My
washerwoman noticed il. noticed ii
myself. My doctor said | had every
symptom of measles, and my troubles
came from eating green fruit. For once,
his diagnosis was wrong and science at
fault. | was in loye-I grew worse.
The landlord discovered my complaint
before others. He heard me order an
other cup of Mary without milk. The
waiter thought | was erazed, and ran
and hid in the barn when said Thank
you, dear. and gently pressed his hand
as he handed me a napkin. Soon the
whole town knew what was tho trouble.
will not tire the patience of my
readers about how it came to pass. as a
disgraceful practical joke was played at
my expense in that connections; but suf-
fee il to say, that | made Mary's ac-
quaintance at last.
As the author of this story has left
out the most interesting part we cheer
iully supply what is lacking ourself: The
TACT is every person in town knew he
was what the boys called badly stuck.
And the young people happened just
then to organize surprise party, to
raise funds. as they said, to build n
Kitchen to the parsonage. The evening
OF the party, some of the boys went TO
the authors room and sewed on to the
seat OF his black pantaloons a piece of
hour sack, with this legend printed there
on IN blue letters Warranted Pure
Genessee, Double Bolted' Then they
detained the innocent victim in oonver-
sation In saloon until the last moment,
tnen pretended to be surprised how late
was-and they all hurried to his room
ana helped him dress, and got his panta-
ICONS on without exposing the trick.
MS coat was of the monkey jacket
order reaching about four inches below
we waist. When Dexter, as we called
LI,n, Ias, reached the parsonage, all the
n.u mules were there, and Mary with the
o.aers' on, He was the last of his party to
haer her and being exceedingly polite,
terso,, OSoa TO every lady in the room in Ches-
evn"n u,an succession; and in so doing,
ess"n po'eu the advertisement of the Cen
wh;oh ,ST mills to the greatest advantage
MI, created a decided sensation.
ay Wo.Iy la,her being from Genessee, New
no,s oh, ana good business man, asked
~ eA'ei now much he cleared a-month in
S;e. au ,n;daveriising "a business; and offered
sar". ioerai terms to advertise in tho
i' why patent churn Of his inven-.