The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-07-11
Our Storp-Geller
LOVE AND DESTINY.
Or, How Smart Saint Bernard Dog Led to
Two Happy Marriages
BY AN EMERALD ISLANDER.


Henry Jackson and Frank Macauley
were college mates aud ardent friends, and
they graduated on one and the same day.
Iu short time after the graduation Henry
went to China on commercial business,
and did not return TO his native city for
ten years. When he came back he was
called on at once by his old companion.
After most hearty greeting, the following
conversation took place between the two
friends;
"Wcll, Macauley, old chap, | hear you
are married and have family of four sons.
That surprises me for I never thought you
would settle down to be patertamiiias
quite so soon"
ayes, jackson, here | am, married
man. You see every one has his own dis
tiny, and let him resolve as he will from
himself, he is sure at last to meet it.
any dear fellow, you speak as If you
had been in frequent consultation with the
fortune-tcllcrs."
"A mistake, Frank have never called
on any of those wretches; but, for all that,
am satisfied that there is such a thing as
destiny"
You mean, then, that you are mar
ried man by destiny, and not by your own
deliberation."
"The destiny, my friend, came first into
operation; then my own purpose put in an
appearance and finished the business. You
sec this Saint Bernard dog, named Beppo
it is he that opened the gates of destiny
for me.
Bravo, Macauley, bravo! So you
mean to say that Beppo whispered to you
to get married ?"
Not that exactly"
"Whnt then?''
"No doubt you will laugh at me but
to be candid with you, something whis-
pered to me to become the owner of Bep-
po, and the something whispered to Beppo
to lead his master directly on the road to
marriage"
"What something whispered to you to
become the owner of Bcppo, and then"
ayes The whisper was not made in
words; it came suddenly in the shape of
decided inclination, and, following the
inclination out, the dog became mine"
"Why! how did you get the dog2"
"In all truth, Henry, | went to Europe
Ito his native Alpine hills for him.
"Come, come, Macauley, tell it out"
II will, If you viii let me. 1t is fact
that | went all the way from this to the
Mount Saint Bernard monastery in the
Alps to procure that dog One day"
Stop stop! How did you know that
such an animal was at the monastery, and
how could you, a busy merchant, haze gone
all the way to the Alps for no better pur-
pose than that Of procuring dog about
which you knew nothing?"
If you will not suffer me to tell you
the story l suppose Z must stop
Well, go on aud tell il.
:" One day, not long after your depart
ure, something suggested to me to buy a
book on the natural history of the dog l
went at once and bought one, and in read
ing what it said Of the Saint Bernard ami
nal, | decided at once that l should have
one of the breed. Then"
Hold on, now hold on am
afraid, Macauley, that you arc quilting me
with pure romance"
The romance is to come yet. But, If
you viii not listen to me- can go no fur
ther."
" The romance Is to come yet That is
delightful Then let us hear it,
" Well, what read in the book filed
me with the idea Of going to Europe,
and"
Going TO Europe for dog, Macaulcy?'
" Yes, jackson, yes Now are you sat
isfed? OF course had business also in
view; bat, most certainly, the business part
Of the proceeding was suggested by the
thought that true Saint Bernard was
worth having
The case then il that you went to Eu-
rope for Saint Bernard and also on bust
meas"
" That is il exactly but remember that
the commercial part Of the enterprise
sprung out Of the idea Of procuring the
dog
UWell, my friend, I'm deucedly impa-
tient to reach the end how did you pro-
cure the dog p
Well, | went first to Mount Saint
bernard to procure the dog, and--'
" What the dog before the business !"
Yes; tho dog before the business.
The place Of tho business was Liverpool /;
but ] took passage to Havre, and from
hayre 4 reai to the Alps, where
= MacaaIey, did you do such an act as
Ahat---the dog before the business n
did You viii not let me tell you
the whole adventure