Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-01-28
EEvEg TAXI A SLIPPING MANS
WORD.
BY JUDGE CLARK.

"Hula. Payne shall never be my
sonia law, vas the pronounced lie
! cree Of NE~,1 iatAs-.
Graft1 Griffin shall never DE Jas
husband, vs. lie ikea resolve o.
-" ilsoa daughter.
While -llis domestic dead Toe.
keeps the overs nj a sJAud-st.L. ,l.
Is :aSe alva-a-a Of it t. introduce
them 70 the reader.
Griffith Griffin vas tie man 70 Gl
\ parental eye-uolcs Of rour gsll1u
s-.nln-s wiki dollhouse ntas,a lies
and heads tul Of emptiness. hu. /,
man OF body and substance. OF dis
cree. years and established fo,.une.
In his early youth ne had sought 70
marry TO- money; bus squat.
Sluabby figure. rcd hair and handy
legs are nct the sort Of stock in
which r.ch heiglSSes are r0Gt 10
make investment. Still. II wealth
nav not be won without beauty.
beanty msy rs won by wealth.
Trusting o which, the rich ~ungaiulv
Griffith lad siege % the hand Of
pretty Bertha Wilson. Not but
that hewoGld have preferred a plain
eT face and money with II: but all
things are not possible TO all.
Hubert PAYNE had good looks,
brains, = profession. and nothing
else. His graceful figure. handsome
face and sparkling conversation
were eel lifted % play havoc with
a young maids wits. Bertha
thought him perfection. Baths Tor.
tune wasaI to make: aud Mr.. vi
son was one Of those vho look upon
matrimony IS 6 ready-money busi-
ness. he vas much too kind a father.
il is true. TO coerce his daughter into
q marriage against her will; and
Bertha wss far too duuful a daugh-
ter to Get her fathers authority at
open defiance.
So matters stood when Bertha
was invited to spend the season with
a friends family at Long branch.
BY a coincidence we can hardly call
accidental. Griffith Griffin and HUI.
bert Payne concluded to take their
surf there at the same time.
The two gentlemen stopped at the
same hotel, which was so crowded
hat guests were tain 10 be content
with half a room apiece. Griffith
and Hubert ,eing fellow townsmen,
were naturally allotted the same ap-
artment.
They were little ofish at first:
but in q day or two, beeame more
companiOnable. For some reason.
Hubert Suddenly became less per.
sistent in trusting himself between
Bertha and his rival. Instead of
lowering like a thunder cloud every
time he saw them within nodding
distance. he would now 60 accom-
modatingly about his business,
seemingly careless of what advan-
tage was taken of his absence.
Miss Hippolyte Higgins was the
key to the secret. She Wasa very
tall and not strikingly handsome
lady. She was void of sdperiuous
hesh-had the appearance, indeed,
OF having been trained to her fight
weight which may have been the
case, seeing she made a mission of do
ing constant battle against the er-
rOrs of the time and the general
mal-administrtion OF the universe
She argued theology with the cler
ical guests till more than one con
v~alescent throat was threatened
with a relapse, and tackled and talk.
ed down reeuperating lawyers and
BY the se0re-lO0kiDg as
fresh at the end. as when she be.
gan. 1t was strange that Hubert
Payne. who had been 70 eaptivated
with Bertha Wilson's pretty femin-
inc ways, should all nj once have ia
ken a fancy to her veIy opposite.
SO it Was, however. He was
scarcely a moment from HippOlyte's
side. They discussed the whole cir
Gle Of sciences; settled schemes of so
cial aud moral reform a thousand
years ahead of time; and, from their
standpoint, voted the present an
age Of barbarism.
So much for their public converse.
ton. What passed at their tete-dte-
tes, we do not venture to surinise
Griffith Griffin was charmedl at the
course Of things. he thOughth he
knew human nature. Bertha had re-
fused him for love: mightn't she ac-
cept him for spite, when she saw
Habert's perhdyi He had no doubt
oft, and determined to push his adj
vantage.
But an unexpected discovery
changed his plains.
Hubert and Griffin, we have said,
Occupied the same room. Grill
found his mate a very unquiet sleep
ar. Besides talking in bis sleep,
he was an inveterate snOrer-and
such a snore. 1t began with a low
rumble, gradually rose to- roar IN
the middle, and then died away III
broken cadence, like the subslding
ofdistant thunder.
One night Hubert dropped Oh a
little earlier than usual, and soon be-
gan to snOre and mutter in a way
that eclipsed all his former Efforts