The Portland daily press., 1874-04-21
ERMS $500 PER ANNUMIN ADVANCE
A Promising Young Man.

roth". VI tnree years ago young man of
;atnn gorgeous exterior, but limited in his
tI;.eiectuai t;u' endowments, was paying atten-
hooS W young woman of the Deighbor-
isnn.. AZ times she encouraged him, but at
his sssd,';. sne appeared to have concluded that
rn.s ~, ".suuities were not acceptable Rut he
pe,seVered in calling upon her and ui,,m.ta.
a.. ,sl,Neu at such a state as tn declare
..,n snas sue uio not releni d marry him he
Wouio des'ry himself. He accomns,isd ,h,s
Pathetic protestation with flourish of a fra1
am. anu, tnougn ne steadfas Ily declared dur
ing the subsequent trial that he son ht -
pistol himself, it so fell out that il was ne
woman who was shot, and that through tbe
heart. Eveu If he intended to shoot himself
1t will occur to most readers that a horse,
pistol is rather ipjudicous utensil to court
woman with, anyhow; although, owing
to the unfortunate scarcity of women, a man
sometimes has to employ desperate expe-
dients TO get wife. A good motto in Cali
fornia is. ''Get married by all means peacea-
bly, il you can. forcibly If you must" At any
rate, the m an was condemned to the Peni-
tentIary for number of years. There his
conduct was so exemplary that he was pro-
moted to clerkship at a stipend OF SIS a
month 1--WE do things that way in California;
anu lew weeks ago, mainly through the in
.erVentlon OF his father, he was pardoned out
py the Governor During his incarceration,
ne correspondent regularly with a young
woman In his neighborhood. She is some
wnat fascinating, is good shot with a rife.
sits on horse fearlessly ard gracefully, is a
brilliant dancer, good cook, and a notable
housewife for her two brothers. The faint
est breath Of SUSPICION was never blown
against her character, but she has that pref
ty wlllfulness, that charming audacity and
independence, generally mistaken by for
elgners for bold depravity. She never hesi-
LateS Tor moment aban,ninn h.l,,
whom she considers wrongiuly slaDdered or
abused. provided that person is horest and
has good intentions. s. Therefore, when the iail-
bird was liberated, he made haste to present
himself before her. She not only publicly
rode out with him several times. but accepted
ms escort twice to surprise party, an
old-fashioned way that rural CalIforpians
have OF enj oying the winter nights OCCASION
auy Although one or two of her relatives
were thrown into immense CONSERVATION by
the proceeding, the general public has looked
on very TRANQUILITY, and the genera. conscience
does not appear to have been anywise severely
shocked. 1t Is not looked upon as an escap-
ade that is at all likely to disjoint society or
corrupt the public morals. Everything is
quiet along the liue at present. That Young
man coming out with the SAVIOR OF the Peni-
tentiary walls fresh upon him, has by these
occurrences been endowed WITH an amount of
social capital that will give him good send
on IN the world again. But how wisely her
sympathy has been bestowed may be Judged
from tn circumstance that the young man
has all this time heen playing the gallant with
bis fathers dilapidated old horse and buggy,
while the poor old man has been compelled TO
trudge about the country on foot. lngging his
carpetbag full ofspecimen subscription books.
And that delIded old gentleman advocates
the abolition of capital punishment. And
that young man is now setting hmse to
study law on the savings accumulated in his
Penitentlary clerkship.-Cdlifornia Cores
p0ndent Cincinnati CONNER cidL