The Republican journal., 1876-09-14
a Loug Branch Romance.

the DpdCu uHuSl inc COuSEtSaleu SHCerS Oh
all the trained racers in the matrimonial
contest. She is the one Of whom | told
you at the beginning Of this letter, who
went into the surf tor q bath. She had
read names. Also newspapers, and she
supposed that it was nothing to do. Her
father. who knows that he is unpresent-
able i'll fine society, having spent his early
days in mining, and his latter ones in
doubling up his money over and over
again, secured for her the chaperonage of
less Grade family, which was making
the fashionable round of summer resorts.
There is a daughter in this family She Is
nice enough. but not too beautiful, too ac
complished or too agreeable. 1t was an
nounced by the Journal of fashionable in
| telligence that an heiresS was in this tami-
| ly, and somehow this reputation became
| misplaced The family, who discovered
| the error. did Lot contradict it and their
| daughter became the center of devotions
which were multitudinous and complex
Indeed, if it did not mean love it did sig
nifty business, which has come to stand
for the same thing in general way
The miners daughter received what
ever of adulaton was left over. 1t was
offered to her as side censor of incense
intended for the central goddess. who did
not happen TO be accessible to her devo-
| tees when there was Il crowd OF candi-
dates for a smile. The pretty inge1tie OF
the western slope did not know why she
was placed down at the side of the altar,
and even if she thought of it at all she
| supposed it was because she did not vet
| know how to please the fashionable world.
| OF course she wished to be worthy Of adj
nration and she was not such AN idiot as
not to know how much more lavish ma
| ture lad been TO her than to the daughter
of her protecting friends Whatever faults
of style she possessed she was determined
! to eradicate them just as soon as she knew
| what they were. Adonis, who is at heart
Il right manly fellow, and whose faults Of
manner are not blemishes OF character
but Just such little conceits as have been
cultivated by the woman he admired, but
neither loved nor respected cndeavoreG
to divert himself with the pretty girl IN
til he should find the heiress sufficiently at
leisure to feel the full effect of destinations
when brought them to play upon her
senses The more he tried to amuse him
self the more he liked it He had never
before met with this style of lassie. She
tIi'l llcU hllIW NlilJ II SlIttll W to tOlilpOSCtl
Of She told the truth in the most unheard
OF style--;t Long Branch-and was As full
of pleasant, unworldly thoughts as II wild
sweet, brar is of fragrance. Before his
time came to level his bewitchment5 up
on the heiress he had ceased to desire the
| opportunity He was really in love, for
the first time in his life. His young lady
friends chatfed him, derided him, and even
expostulated with him upon his cruelty to
an unsophistcated girl who swan like Il
duck, rode like a jockey, danced is if she
liked it, didn't crimp her litVishment of
ruddy locks. nor wear trained dresses for
evening unless she felt like it. Nothing
reformed him, or brought him back to
| civilization.
He even made love to her. and when he
discovered that she was neither greedy for
an engagement nor especially proud OF her
conquest, but very serious, and disposed to
consider herself untitled Tor his circle of
| associates, he became Wretchedly in earn
est. He believed that only the airs of the
Pacific could have developed so enchant-
| inc Il blossom. OF course the father was
not tar off He would not wait beyond
call for his idol, although he refused TO
shadow her pleasure by his stupid aWk-
wardness, albeit she had not the slightest
suspicion of what detained him away from
| her. Adons was referred to the father
He went to town directly, aud saw, and
worse than all, he heard. and such Eng
fish as it was, too At the first call he
faltered He said he called-we ll-be-
cause he knew he was in the city. Then
AdOnis slept over it; OF rather laid awake
over it. He could not give her up He
was not helped to escape by the father,
who said: There amt no better. nor
sweeter-temperedg gal in Calyados County,
no, nor on the hull Pacific coast than my
| Kitty. She's been Il powerful comfort to
me sense her mother died, and ct a teller
don't treat her right. Eve got a bullet Il
Waitln' Tor his liver -idonis would have
been less or more than human if the stvle
Of the papa had not tried the strength Of
| his affection, and the same may be said if
he had not been the least bit glad that in
case he should not cure his heart OF its
| longing after k;ttie, there was no UNI
grammatical mother in-law in the future.
Adonis could not help himself, SO he in
formed me He went to see the papa
again in the morning. lie told his love
lie showed his credentials lie said that
Kitty loved kim, He also explained that
he could support her plainly and comfort
ably, but not luNuriously, and probably
with his temperament and capabilities. he
should never be rich man. You be a
| gentleman anyhow answered the father.
with tears in his eyes, land that is what |
! amt, leastWise. not on the outside; but if
kitty loves you. and what you say of your
character and standin' is true, here's my
| 4
marry her I'll give her 5000, 600 The
money | shan't miss, but the giving of the
child will make my heart a beggar Can't
| come and see her when there is nobody
to be ashamed Of me?" Imagine Adonis's
appearance when he gave both hands in
to Il great rough grip, and said, sincerely
too, 'Ihanks for the daughter, and believe
me, did not know that she was the heir
ess. | thought it was the other one. I'm
too happy at finding Il genuine woman
with Il genuine man for her father, to
care very much tor the fortune. Probably
| shall be glad enough about that by-and-
by. In the meantime come down to Long
Branch and | will show you that | can
never be ashamed of YOU The miner
came. He made a sensation by his I'M
trained manners and language, and to the
best OF my belief, the conventional Adonis
is as proud of him as if he were a hlsus
nature of the most fascinating sort. Ger
tainly Kitty is happy, but the other gnl,
the reputed heiress, poor lass. She has
missed many OF her adorers, but some Of
them dare not give her up too abruptly
| for fear of meeting Il general grin on the
face of society. They wish to seem to
have been sincere admirers [Cor Chica-
go Times.
The Elephant and the Locomotive.
When old George Stephenson, the father
of the railroad system. on his eXamina-
ton before Il committee of the British
House of Commons, was asked by scep-
teal interrogation what would be the re-
suit should Il stray COW get on the track,
he replied in his broad Northumbrian ac-
cent, that it would be ''mco bad for the
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