The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-02-24

ing and dimpling into fair bright woman
hood. Seriously | don't know. But this
is the season when
ga young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
and | don't know of any law forbidding
an old one following the same direction;
so suppose Judge Christiancy's took that
turn. He saw this pretty bright flower
and desired to wear it for his own; and
from that to the wooing and wedding was
but step And as for her, the theory is
this Mrs Christiancy that is, Miss Lille
Luginbeel that was, counted money for
living-not her own in crisp rolls from the
bankers-but for the government in Il
dingy, dirty room, lily lighted and horri-
bly ventilated into whose barren space
are crowded twice as many people as
ought to be there, and all for ten dollars
week, eight OF which must go, at the most
economical calculation for board and room
and washing, = leaving just two dollars
surplus for the 'whereWthal We shall be
clothed" and other sundries, which al
ways make so conspicuous part OF Con-
gressional and departmental reports, and
of which Proctor Knott gravely and ironi-
cally SAYS he doesn't know what they arc
but thanks God tor them Just the same"
All of which is very well with a patient
people to foot the bills but Il very differ
ent affair on two dollars a week. Some
thing of this, no doubt, fitted through
Miss Lilies brain one sunshiny Saturday
afternoon, looking down at her dust be-
grimed garments and her dainty fingers
soiled and stained with paste, printers
ink, and dirty sponge water, and thinking
of her head that ached, her shoulders that
panied and her whole body that was tired
and then CHANGING Oft to the dazzling
whiteness Of the Presidential mansion just
across the way, and seeing the dainty lace
curtains falling gracefully at the windows
suggestive of all the comfort and elegance
within, and thence to the pretty grounds
and magnificent drives and the handsome
carriages rolling up with their burdens of
dignity, wisdom, grace and loneliness, at
Lady IhOrnton's, Madam Hegerman, Mrs.
Secretary Fish, Belknap, Chandler and
Robson, Mrs Attorncy-Gen. Pierrepont,
Mrs. Speaker Kerr Mrs. EX-Speakcr
Blaine, Mrs Senator Morton and hundreds
OF others in the sheen and simmer of
satins, silks laceS, jewels and velvets-
and thought, and closed her lips firmly,
and flung back her wealth Of golden hair,
and walked straight home, and looked be
Wilderingly into the Senator's aged face
with her wondrous blue eyes, and blushed
distractingly. and said ''yes,n as naiyelv
and charmiEgly as only IL pretty girl of
nineteen can. And the Senator forgot all
about $50 District Bonds, Kellogg gov
ernments awaiting Pinchback, and the
Centennial Bill. and remembered only to
breathe with Abelard-
"a curse all laws but those which love has made -
So they two We're wed. And if you dom
| like the theory, you are welcome to reject
it and set up any other that pleases you.
| AS | have been trying to tell you all
| through this rambling epistle, it is either
famine or u feast in this world, especial
! y this particular part of the world But
just now we are having our measure OF
| delights heaped up, pressed down and
| running over and mingled with all our
| other pleasures have had the usual weak
| wishy -Washy theatrical diet that obtain,
here displaced by star troupes fresh from
| Gotham, and have been invited to come
and see the best the very best acting any
where in the world Week before last
came dear delightful Maggie Mitchell,
yninn naI1sinly 10, ~ taLa han ri,,ht intn
| ,.onr boart Of f5s,,ts az tho nn1o 9Ieo;oI,s
poarl Of Sara,. anl - E,I,r I,o al ahont
MT sbe is Mrs paIIoci, in re7Iitv rnotIHr
| Of a laron f,miIv If childrnn Ind mcan.
| da',;ng 3Ion~ ~ tha wink In1 no lon(rnr
| fresh and youthful lorties. And after her,
can,e f. tha nreat ahsnrhinn I'm. ~ MN
Yorly - fnl,, Cos a~n nan5 +bn f,,, va
= nnnniIess Iomn1nss f,.iendlnss ~ir r anJ
nv tha taitb ,nI tha conrara IN WAS in
her has connnared Gasti1y Ind now
stands At the vnrv head Of bsr nrofossio,,'
VIII, tho st,ongr ErntS ~ ,-o1,th Loa,,t,,
anI rnnius ah7ut Ia,. ,,aGn XII grayo
us = new version Of tba nII old C1n7iIIa
So stroro and vividly reai in IFS n,ssinn
and DESPAIR. that str6nr men bowed Them
heads to hide Tie tears ANEW we're unwiIl-
mo sbonld be seen Ana lastly hnt NOT
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