The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-03-26

"Ten years" he unused, "and twenty
thousand dollars; and this is all the re-
suit Susette, my girl, you see before
you the reapings of my wild oats. They
have been long in sowing, longer in
growing, and proved a costly crop.
Thank heaven, there is no more money
to spend-the planter is a bankrupt, let
us administer his estate. The presents
we'll keep till those we love are not
ashamed to receive them from us; the
clothes we'll wear the curiosities we'll
give to some greater fool than ourselves
if such there be; the dressing case is
the appanage, Of a gentleman who shall
take 1t from me. For the rest the gun
must go into safe keeping, and the
cheroots be suppressed till we have an
income; but you and will never part
while there is starvation fare for either"
Whistling melodiously, for one of his
msfortunes was an exquisite ear for
music, he tumbled the miscellaneous
pile of property into his trunks, taking
the unsual precautiOn of locking them;
then quitting his elegant apartments
with smile, he strobe down the inter-
minable stairs of the hotel, and sought
the clerks Office to pay his bill and give
up occupation at once. Many people
turned to look after the handsome dogs
and man, as they passed down the street
a little later, followed by patient dray-
man with the baggage, and seeking care
fully among the poorest neighborhood
for lodgings, small and uncomfortable
enough to meet Hugh's newly acquired
ideas of economy. From these, when
at last obtained, he daily went forth on
the weary search after employment, of
which so many have had bitter expert
ence before him, and which he was both
by nature and habit peculiarly untitled
to commence.
Bearded and brown, model of su-
perb strength and vigor, he walked in
upon the pale city men like handsome
Arab as he was, startling them from
their stools by demanding a situation.
What could they do for him His edu-
cation had not fitted him for their pur-
poses-a careless, happy, desultory life
could not so suddenly be turned into
new channel. A thousand times a day
he had occasion to wish that since so
hard service in the battle of life had
been reserved for him, he might have
begun the necessary training earlier,
and entered the ranks a younger soldier
Country born and bred, he had been
brought up from his orphan infancy on
his uncle's magnificent estate of Hudson
Hills as the heir and successor. AT a
suitable age he was sent to the military
academy, where he excelled in all physi-
cal exercises, and with much reluctance
took what part was needful in more in
tellectual studies. Arriving with diff
Guilty at the end of his probation through
numerous pranks and scrapes, 1t was
gently hinted to him that he could
never pass the examination, and he
promptly resigned; a favorite even
with the stern mentors who thus advis-
ed, not willing to see him disgraced.
Without returning home, he besought
his uncle to allow him to finish his neg
lected education elsewhere, and was i'm
mediately entered at an English univer-
sity. Here his sporting tastes led him
into the company of "fast" men,
among whom he was speedily elected
the "prince of good fellows" at the ex-
pense of his own private fortune and
his uncle's Observation-Disclosures which
came more rarely and reluctantly as the
elder discovered how it was expended.
His college course over, Hugh found
himself not greatly the wiser, but much
the poorer; and receiving no invita-
ton to return to Hudson Hills, in which
he now considered he had forfeited all
right, wrote brief and kindly letter of
farewell, in answer to'his uncle's last
severe epistle; and finding the remnant
of his fortune placed at his own disposal
set off upon series of travels that con-
tinued till it was exhausted. One dark
November day, he drew the last draft at
his London bankers and took ship for
America, not with any intention of
claiming aid or support from his uncle,
but with wild longing to behold again
the dear western hemisphere; and SO
full of the prodigals yearning for home
he yet found himself forbidden to cross
its threshold.
am not about to depict scene of
genteel starvation, with interludes of
pawnbroker's shops and penny-rolls--
for do not believe these episodes need