The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-03-11
PLYMOUTH CHURCH 0UrD0NE.
A Drug Clerk Gets Himself Into Trouble
With Another Mans Wife. Sensible
Course Of the Injured Husband.

A Drug Clerk Gets Himself Into Trouble
With Another Mans Wife. Sensible
Course Of the Injured Husband.
1t is tale of love, of cares, of gloom, of
ragged edges, of anxiety, and of stepping
down and out. The dramatis persona are
all from Cincinnatti, and there also were
laid the opening scenes, but the climax and
denoument of the plot had for their stage
of action this great metropolis of the West,
which is our pride and others envy. For
convenience of designation We shall style
her Fatimas, and she was as rare and beau
tiful flower as it is possible for her fatal
soil to produce. The atrabilarious scribe
who asserted that when Cincinnatti she
baby is born they put a sursingle about its
feet, TO prevent them from spreading,
should have seen the dainty CATERS of Fati-
mas. As she bloomed into womanhood, ad-
miration followed in her course and sued
for recognition. The arch of her rosy lips
was like the bow of Cupid, and did as great
execution. The tresses of her hair were
the bow-strings of the celestial archer, and
the glsnces of her eyes his arrows, transfx-
ing the hearts that cam within the fatal
range. Fatima was a lady of elegant
tastes. When the approaching May tem-
running blandness, and when, as Lowell
beautifully expresses it
The meanest clod
E..lS iv,px axrffh to- .v,l
That climbs to life in leaf and flower
no one would more promptly and fully re-
spond to this instinct OF towering and re-
newal, and what time the birds began to
sing and the flowers begin to blow, her state
ly form would display all the bunchings
and intricacies of fold, plait, and ruffie that
make up a spring toilette. Loves" of bon
nets and little elegancies Of neck garniture
and personal decoration were with her q
fine effiorescence of an aesthetic culture
which was above sordid cares. The dis
cerning reader will infer from this that
Fatima was
RATHER EXPENSIVE SOCIAL ORNAMENT.
She was 1t was frequently so remarked BY
the old gentleman whom Providence had
provided in order to meet her billa His
cogitation on the subject led him TO the
conclusion that it would be q good thing if
this resplendant flower OF taste and beauty
were transplanted to the conservatory Of
some one more ready to bear the expense of
its maintainance than he was. A-gentle-
man whose features, seen through the halo
Of the golden roist that surrounded them,
were trans6gured into confines, and whose
years, seen through the same kindly
medium, did not prevent him from being
sufficiently sprightly to fit him as q mate
for youth, presented himself As a candidate
for the hand Of Fatima, and had the good
fortune to command the enthusiastic sup
port of her father. But she-alas!
she LOVED ANOTHER
Love levels all distinctions, and whether
the agility with which he sprang to pour
forth the effervescent soda-waier, or the
grace with which he manipulated . bottle
of fragrant Soeodoat and presented il in .
wrapper of typical blue, first struck her
maiden fancy, the fact is that she loved a
clerk in drug store. But who can resist
the DEGREES Of fate, especially when enforced
by q stern parenty Lucre was triumphant,
the heart Of the drug clerk was desolated,
and the two old gentlemen carried the day,
the one getting his prize, the other getting
nd of his burden.
| II tie reader fancies that this Is the end
Of the aory, he knoweth little Of the heart
of woman. As Mn Sigourney sings:
All, the heart is q soft and delic,se tAine.
All! tAe henrt b . lute With = thrilling sfring
A Pidf I'D Aan a pHaer wing.
That's the kind of heart that Fatima
had Although. fpuratiyely srseaI;pv she