Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-08-27
Thc Boston Girls Woe.

Brooklyn Sunday Eagle.
"The snow has drifted around nv
heart, sighed fair young Boston girl,
as she and her Brooklyn hostess sat on
the floor, lacing their boots, the other
morning. mo longer do the Spring
viOlets bloom in my life"
MAY l inquire what has chagrined
your" asked the Brooklyn girl sympa-
thetically.
II will tell you all, from Cosmos to
Omega. You shall know why existance
is hencefOrth burnt prairie to me. All!
the dream has flown. The grasses are
bending over the grave of that bright
hope"
"Did he leave you?' invoked the Brook
lyn damsel, in tears.
Not voluntarily. We were segregat-
ed, but through no fault of ours. 1t was
the dispelling of a vision"
"But won't he come back?"
81 fear me nay. Such differentia-
ton is not to be overcome. | will tell
you. We loved. The moon couldn't
beam but he'd hitch up team and drive
into my Outstretched arms"
"Myvtejaculated the Brooklyn girl"
always. He came, until looked for
him as for the stars. Every night until
one. Then he came no more to our
brown stone mansion door, no more.
And my heart is sad and weary. Listen
| have father. Pitiless, cold, relent-
less, but still he is my father, though he
has frozen up my young blood. assure
you it is really all icebergs."
did he say the young man mustn't
come any mOre?" asked the breathless
listener.
"He did not. He welcomed him, like
the whirlpOOl's rings that swallow up all
sorts of things. Gave him cigars and
talked with him. Pa was too awfully
sweet at first, and that's what makes me
sit sad and signing, and feel as though
Pm surely dying. Pm just perfectly,
terribly cut up about it,"
"Then how did he come to go away?
I'm crazy to know"
"YOu shall hear how the disintegration
originated. All the time pa was treat
ing him so nicely he didn't like him. He
was making up his mind to have him
leave. Oh! the saddest word of tongue
or pen is the terribIeness of these bad
men. Pa separated us. Like the pour
ing of the vengeful sea;he separatedimy
own and me-"
"How did he do it? What steps did he
take?"
"Give me your attention. You shall
know the facts from the prot0plasm to
the finish. l will tell you of my awful
doom, right here in your cheerful little
bedroom. l wanted an Easter hat. |
said to pa: Must have it. Was coming
to see you, you know. Says pa: Give
up the lover or the hat. Can't have
BOTH"
"And you?'
"Gave him up, of course. How could
| help it? The hat is lovely, but my
heart is stone; l move alone without any
comfort. 1t was hard to wreck him. but
there was no alternative. Pa made me
choose. Don't you think ii is pretty?"
And the two girls went down to break
fast, the fOrlOrn girl singing, in low,
sweet voice: "The good sword is rusted,
the good night is busted"
THE exports of ice from Norway, are
very naturally, heavy and important
From 60,100 tons in 1870 they increased
to 2lS,200 tons in 1878, and declined to
13S,500 in 1879. Nearly One-half of the
quantity shipped goes out in winter.
During the first ten months of 1880 147,-
600 tons were shipped, and the aggregate
for the year was $4,000. France took
i'm 1878, 20,925 tons; Great Britain and
Ireland, which is the chief customer
10000. The United States last year eX-
ported about 81 900 tons Of ice.