Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-07-26
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MICALJUsEfCE.
In the city of Portland, Maine, in the
memorable martial year OF 1861, re-
spectacle merchant was moved to grave
anxiety by his only daughters infatua-
ton with masculine admirer, OF whose
antecedents and character it was very
difficult for her or her family to gain
any definite knowledge. She had been
introduced TO him in mixed company,
on some semi-public occasion, by an ae-
quaintanee knowing him only slightly
BY name. His first subsequent cstll
upon her at her home had been with
out formal invitation and, Indeed, his
forwardness in improving the introduc
ton would. have been resented by the
young lady herself but for her immedi-
ate te."strong liking" as the phrase is, of
the man. He was handsome and gen.
tlemanly, and, beyond this, had what
she persisted in regarding as face to
be implicitly trusted. Her parents, and
her father particularly, refused to ac-
cept this latter characteristic in lieu of
all other ordinary guarantees OF social
trHstworthiness; and, after expostiifat-
ing vainly with her against encouraging
an acquaintance with 4 visitor of whose
origin and avocation no one in town
seemed able TO give any satisfactory in
formation, took renewed pains TO ascer-
tain what manner of person their daugh-
ter's suspicious admirer really was. lit
tie by little came the discovery that he
lived, in covert way, on his wits. A
friend of the merchants was sure that
he had once seen him coming out of a
gaming house; another, who boarded in
the same house with him, reported that
he kept strange hours. In short, the
father gathered enough information of
this kind to feel justified in assuringhis
daughter that her now devoted caller
was not respectable character, and de-
claring that lie must come to the house
no more. The parental fault had been
in allowing the acquaintance to 60 on
even thus far under matter of such
doubt, and its penalty was shown in the
girls reSOlute refusal to doubt at all
her hero. He had face, she persisted
| in saying, that refuted every calumny
upon his honor, and any one that knew
the first thing about physiognomy
would say that sich a"frank, honest
countenanee could not bslong to a bad
man. Parental authority, refusing to
be moved by this argument, and con-
| tinuing its ban against the lover, the
infatuated damsel capped the climax of
her filial disObedience at last by a clan
destine marriage and elopement with
! the object OF her incorrigible faith.
| They were traced to the parsonage where
| the matrimonial knot had been tied, and
| from thence had disappeared from the
city. Never having anticipated such a
result as this, the deserted parents were
overwhelmed with grief and fearful APP
prehension, and lost all heart for the
| future. The mother, who had been an
invalid for some time, died under the
shock, and the father, at this accumula-
ton of misfortunes, sank into a lethargy
from which he rallied only to find him
self 4 bankrupt. Thus were family and
fortune both broken up in a brief time
by thankless child's disloyalty and
willfulness. Then the rniaed merchant,
too, disappeared from Portland with
what little he could save from the wreck
of his old home, and the story travels
with him to California. whittier he
wandered desolately, in the hope of dis
tracing his Thoughts from the past, and
seeking lonely livelihood. Too old
and worn to contend successfully for a
new career anywhere, his business ex-
periences OH the Pacific side of the CON
nres, until day about five years ago
found him the keeper Of II small candy
stand on Washington street, near the
old post-officc, in San Francisco. Every
day since then, saws the Post Uf the Hat
ter city, which now takes up the tale,
no matter how heavily the winter rain
came down, or the gusty Summer winds
swept down from Telegraph Hill, the
old man has appeared at the hamble
stand and sold cheap sweets to passing
children, until the occurrence of Incl
dents now to be mentioned. Amongst
his little customers there came one day
J abont two weeks ago, a bright-eyed
. neatly-dressed lad, apparently in hi:
ninth or tenth year, who bought candy
: to his taste and seemed greatly pleased
| at its cheapnese. Well he might have
: been, too, for the poor, old, shabby,
! generally grabbed yender, had seen tha
in the boyish face which impelled hin
1 10 tempt the little fellow to come again
Y And never doubt that the temptation
+ was successful. The boy came day afte
e day for his confectionery, and alway
:, his face was studied by the old maj
0 with a strange kind of wfstfulness. A
a last there was a confidence between TIL
= two, and the elder asked and was tol,
e the youngsters name. II thought
knew that cOhntenance, exclaimed til
r whte-haired candy man, with curiou
d expression of face, and requesting
4 neighboring merchant of the curb
n take supervision of his stand tor a fey
e moments, lie told the boy that he woul
II accompany him to his mothers house
e ''The YOUTH" continues the San Fran
s cisco paper, surprised, perhaps, at th
1t notification, but nothing loath to oblig
It his old friend, led the way to a fiji
d mansion on Bryant street, where
le richly dressed, handsome lady appeare
10 at his cry, and Immediately fell sobbin
upon the neck of the candy man, -eallin
k, him "Father! - Thus, after ten year
rs the ex-merchant of Portland met h
)r undutiful, runaway daughter agail
l. having been led to such reunion by he
r. sons inheritance of his fathers fac
as The story to be told, with many pen
he tential tears, by the lady, was MS fe
ne lows: Her husband, the owner of sue
n. memorable conntenance, was really
er gambler when she married him, thong
II, rather through discouraging misaQve
T. ture in preceding worthier callings TIL;
ld by vicious natural taste. After the
he marriage, however, anG flight to Ca
re fornia, he resolutely ren0nnced /
lg green table and all its surrounding
of and bravely applied himself to legi
in mate business in an humble grade. We
he poor and hardly pressed at first, he PR
emily gained opportunity for SIN
, n investment in mining stocks; and tl
he succeeding, was able to establish hi
ce. self on Montgomery street as a brok
Thunceforth his success was unbrokt
ld, Fortune favored him at every turn, a
ips he is now rich, highly honored ci
no zen of the Pacific metropolis. VIII
lie, their position was sufficiently assul
so to give tdem confidence, the yonng W
ler wrote a very penitent letter to her
he rents in Maine, begging their forgi
lie ness of her untilial disregard of tn
ent commands, and pleading in exten