The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-02-15

my u0lEnDOTS. 1neY behaved ike pal
Of lovers who had run off and got mar
ried clandestinely. willingly acquitted
them, the one and the other, of having
no legal right to do so; for, to change
word in the Tires of the poet,
ct is Joy to think the best
We may of human kind"
Admitting the hypothesis of elopement
there was no mystery in their neither
sending nor receiving letters. But
where did they get their groceries? l Dc
not mean the money to pay for them
that is an enigma apart-but the groce
ries themselves. No express wagon, &c
butchers cart, no vehicle of any descrip-
ton, was ever observed to stop at their
domicile. Yet they did notOrder family
stores at the sole establishment in the
village-an inexhaustible little bottle of
a shop which I advertise it gratis) can
turn out anything in the way of groce-
ries, from handsaw to a pocket hand
kerchief. | confess that | allowed this
unimportant detail of their house-keep-
ing to occupy more of my speculation
than was creditable to me.
In several respects our neighbors re-
minded me of those mex plicable persons
We sometimes come across in great cites,
though seldom or never in suburban
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| too restricted for their operations-per-
sons who have no perceptible means of
! subsistence and manage to live royalty
on nothing year. They hold no gov
eminent bonds, they possess no real
estate (our neighbors did own their
| house), they toll not, neither do they
spin; yet they reap all the numerous
advantages that usually result from
honest toll and skillful spinning How
do they do it? But this is q depression,
and am quite of the opinion of the old
! lady in David Copperfeld, who says,
LET Us have no meanderingl"
Though my wife had declined to risk
a ceremonious call on our neighbors as
family, | saw no reason why | should
not speak to the husband as an individ-
ual, when [ happened to encounter him
! by the wayside. | made several ap.
prOaches to do so, when it occurred to
my penetration to my neighbor had the
air of trying to avoid me. | resolved to
! put the suspicion to the test, and one
| forenoon, when he was sauntering along
on the opposite side of the road, in the
vicinity of Fishers saw mill, deliber-
ately crossed over to address him. The
! brusque manner in which he hurried
away was not to be misunderstood. Of
course L was not going to force myself
upon him.
1t was at this time that | began to
form uncharitable suggestions touching
our neighbors, and would have been as
well pleased if some of my choicest fruit
trees had not overhung their wall. |
determined to keep my eyes open later
in the season, when fruit should be ripe
to pluck. In some folks, a sense of
the delicate shade of difference between
nssum ct tuuna does not seem to be very
strongly developed in the Moon of Cher
ries, to use the cid Indian phrase.
was sufficiently magnanimous not to
impart any of these sinister impressions
to the families with whom we were on
visiting terms; for despise gossip. |
would say nothing against the persons
| up the road until [ had something def
mite to say. My interest in them was
well, not exactly extinguished, but
burning low. | met the gentleman at in
tervals, and passed him without recogni-
ton; at rarer intervals | saw the lady
After a while | had not only missed
my occasional glimpses of her pretty,
slim figure, always draped in some soft
black stuff with a bit of scarlet st the
throat, but [ inferred she did not go
about the house singing in her light
hearted manner, as formerly. What
had happened? Had the honeymoon
suffered eclipse already? Was she i'll?
7 FopoIoI el,o uoO III opJ +bot Jo+ao+oJ
certain anxiety in the husband, who
spent the mornings digging solidarity in
the garden, and seemed to have re-
linquished those long jaunts to the brow
of Blue hill, where there is a superb view
combined with sundry venerable rattle
snakes with the twelve rattles.
As the days went by it became certain
that the lady was confined to her house,
perhaps seriously i'll, possibly a con-
firmed invalid. Whether she was at
tended by physician from Canton or
Milton [ was unable to say; bat neither
the gig with the large white allopathic
horse, nor the gig with the homeopathic
sorrel mare, was ever seen hitched at
the gate during the day. If physician
had charge of the case, he visited his
patient only at night. All this moved
my sympathy, and l reproached myself
with having hard thoughts of our
neighbors. Trouble had come to them
early. l would have liked to offer
them such small, friendly services as
lay in my power; but the memory of
the repulses | had sustained ranked in
me. So hesitated.
One morning my two boys burst into
the library with their eyes sparkling.
You know the old elm down the
road?" cried one.
Yes"
"The elm with the hang-bjrd's nest?'
shrieked the other.
Yes, yesl"
"Well, we both just climbed up, and
there's three young ones IN it,"
Then | smiled to think that our new
neighbors had got such promising little
family.-Atlantjc Monthly.
Cause and Cure of Snoring.
A writer in the Scientific Monthly tells
us how the habit of snoring is acquired
and, better-how it may be cured.
And, first, the cause: The air reach
es the lungs through two channels, the
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