The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18
The Bridal Tour.

$50 you would wed with Alcibiades
Doolittle, daughter" said Thomas Tum-
suden, as he fondly stroked the golden
head OF his only child.
Ave, father. We love each other
dearly, Alcibiades and I. And he is do
ing extremely well, too, he tells me. He
is, as you doubtless know, q law
clark
"a clark, my child? What is clark?''
Perhaps I should have said clerk,
father" said Theodosia Tumsuden, flush
ing slightly at her fathers ignorance;
perhaps you would have understood me
better; but at Mills Seminary, where
they have inculcated into my mind the
purest principles of religion, together
with French, music and drawing, we
were always hidden to say clark" 1t
is the English fashion and more elegant. "
BE it SO, my child" said Tumsuden,
fondly, always talk in the most high
tonedest fashion. Show your brung-up
wherever you go. But this young fellow
is clerk, you say?"
He is more, " said Theodosia, che is a
barrister. He has been permitted to
practice in the police court and before
the justices of the peace, and he ekes out
his income by other pursuits"
And what other pursuits?" asked her
father.
"He sweeps out and washes the win.
dows for his employers, said Theodosia,
with brilliant blush, "but, oh, father
he loves me SOP
'There, there, daughter" said Thomas
Tumsuden, strangely moved, "do not
weep. / peddled peanuts myself when ]
was poor boy. He is good and worthy
youth, as / was. He shall have you fol
his bride. Go, my child-go and pre-.
pare your trosu. Never mind the cost ,
With light and joyous step Theo.
dosia Tumsuden put on her sealskin and
sailed out shopping.
Did she use up four or five dry goods
clerks that afternoon? All, you know moi
Theodosia!
She used up six.
The nuptials were the most genteel,
gorgeous. and magnificent that ever
transpired in this locality. The bride
was the most beautiful, the groom q finer
specimen of manliness than ever before
known. The ladies' dresses were per-
fectly elegant, and the wearers were all
lovely. 1t was, in short, the regular
wedding.
Thomas Tumsuden gave his daughter q
magnificent diamond necklace, ten dia-
mond rings, diamond tiara, and check
for fifty thousand dollars. To Alcibi-
ades he gave his blessing
But it was ali in the family.
The young couple started on their
bridal tour amid the congratulations of
rejoicing friends. When they were alone
together, Theodosia spoke:
''Alcibiades," she murmured, "let us
not make the usual trip through the
usual interior towns; would be far
away from the kind though inquisitive
eyes of those who know and love me, on
this, my wedding tour. Let us journey
even to the East
Just as you say, my darling replied
Alcibiades.
He let her have her own way. Hus-
bands always do.
On bridal tours.
Two months have flown.
''Tumsuden," said friend to him one
day, "did You know that your daughter
and her husband were back q
"No." said T. Tumsuden, hurridly, II
thought they were still in the country" "
mo. 1 saw them to-day in a poor
quarter of the city, and they both looked
very wretched."
''Where did you see them?'
Stevenson street, near first"
In five minutes T.. Tumsuden was at
the indicated place. It was tenement
house. As he mounted the rickety stairs
and saw the squalid children playing on
them, his heart grew sick within him.
He reached door pointed out to him by
frowsy urchin. He knocked.
''Come in" said faint but still fa-
miliar voice.
He entered. What sight for a
fathers eye A bare and cheerless
room, uncarpeted, furnitureless-not
ing in it but trunk. Upon this sat his
daughter and her husband, with features
pinched for lack of food. Between them
lay what was evidently their frugal meal
"a bologna sausage and four crackers.
Where be their diamonds now, ha, ha
and their fifty thousand dollars?
All, where
Tumsuden advanced and opened the
trunk 1t was empty. But these words,
printed ON a label, scared themselves
into his brain "Fifth Avenue Hotel. 5"
Thomas Tumsuden had long been
threatened with apoplexy. He fell
heavily tn the floor with dull thud