, 1878-06-21
Sudden ReformatiOns.
BY j. Il. . g.

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town as the expression goes. His nat
ural and acquired gifts and accomplish
ments gave him admittance into the
houses of the best families in New York
City; he was managing man in first
class business house on large salary.
Young and preposessing in appearance,
few would have taken him 20 be what he
was, an unprincipled man. AT the age
of thirty he had come to find his single
lite uninteresting.
The good Book tells us that no man
can live happy life who lives altogether
for himself, and it no doubt refers to u
higher law than circumstances can reach,
that goes all through society, when it
says God made of one blood all the ma
tions of the earth. A young and good
looking bachelor may haunt every known
place of amusement in the city of New
York and it has net Il few.--he may
travel and spend nights in the Jardin
Mabille, talk to and flirt with all the
pretty girls he can meet there or else
where--yet he will discover when tired
out and sick with over-stimulating him
self, some night just after he has reached
thirty years of oge, that bachelors life
has lost its charm for him.
These geueralizations may be altogether
true and sound, or only in part--be that
as it may, the hero of this story, Richard
SliDgerton by name, got tired OF single
life when he was thirty years of age, aud
went out day after day aud night after
night, to find girl good enough to be
his wife. He took no account of their
being two sides to everything that a
girl be was suited with might not be
suited with him, and for not doing so he
was compelled to search longer than he
thought he would have to look for wife,
as here and there lady whom he liked,
when bis attentions became too marked
and exclusive, gave him the cold
shoulder. But need not tell how, wheh
and where be was snubbed, as it will not
add to this story in the least.
Before long, however, there were om-
inous rumors. Those who professed to
be good judges in such matters, said that
the beautiful Miss T of - street
had fallen head and ears in love with
Richard Singerton, and he had proposed
to her, but that her father had refused
his consent to their engagement and
marriage. Her father was a wealthy
criminal lawyer, and from long dealings
with unprinciplea men he had acquired
the faculty OF Judging human nature.
1t has been we'll said that so restless
and vital is the force that speaks in
every part of man, that nature and ac-
quired disposition reveals itself in con-
tour of the face, motions, eest ires and
complexion, and in countless other out.
ward manifestations TO practiced eyes
and subtle minds experienced in observa-
tion of character. The phrenologist who
examines your head, while doing so, is
engaged, it has been said, in observing
whether you are talkative, or silent,
whether you are neatly or soyenly, what
is called loudly or plainly dressed, and
in observing your features when they are
in repOse, and in movement. The skill
to do this it is well known is not con-
fined to phrenolngists; society is full of
equally keen, just and practised oh.
servers.
Mr.. T., Richards loved ones stern and
unyielding parent-for Mr.. T. was stern
aud unyielding in most cases-suspected
Richard Of being a worldly, unprinci-
pied man from the first time he saw him.
He himself was what could be called a
good man. He had one great fault, how
ever; the fault of occasionally over-in-
dulging in liquor to such an extent that
under It's influence he committed many
indiscretions, and once in q while a
grievous sin. He would give the world,
including his daughter, ii he wanted her,
to the man who could cure him OF his
love for tue intoxicating cup.
He WAS u church communicate, and
every time he was tripped into the sin
of over-indulging in liquor that caused
him to be unlike himself when under its
influence, he would be in agony for DAYS
and perhaps weeks, lamenting his sin.
God looks at the spirit that prompts the