The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-02-02


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Here | am in Paradise, and l arrived
at the right moment. Raoul and Gas
ton, who had lain in wait for the pas
sengers, had already thrown themselves
on their wife. CASTOR had taken her
right hand and pulled from one side,
saying: Jeanne, my dear Jeanne"
Raoul had taken her left hand and
pulled from the other side, saying:
Martha, my dear Martha" She had
two little names, and she had thought
it best, when she became engaged to
her second husband, not to keep the
nickname which had been used Nv the
first. This was an adorable creature
who had wonderful delicacy of senti-
ment. Raoul and CASTOR in the mean
while did not either of them let go of
her hands.
Jeanne"
Martha"
81 am your first husband"
"I am yolr second husband"
"My rights arc not disputable.
"iir, let so of Madame"
81 am not speaking to you, sir. 1 do
not know yon."
81 do not know you."
Now they had been intimate friends
during their lives on earth, and could
never pass each other without stopping.
Raoul did not bulge from his place
near CASTOR, and the dispute between
them became hotter. They raised their
voices. Life is very peaceful in heaven,
but it is little monotonous, and the
least event has the same effect az run
away has in little provincial village.
All the blest, both male and female,
gathered around from all parts. Some
took the part of the first husband, some
of the second. As for Jeanne, she had
disengaged her hands, and spoke
neither to Raoul nor to CASTOR. Saint
Thomas had accompanied me into Para
disc
"This kind of thing" I said to him,
must often happen. Women who
have had two husbands are not at all
rare on earth"
"Granteu; hut what is new, abso-
lutely new, is this fashion of two men
disputing about one wife. Ordinarily,
in the same circumstance, the question
Is, which one would not take back his
wife?"
"And when the situation is reversed,
when there are two wives and only one
husband?"
cob! then it is entirely different.
The question among the women Is
which one will be able to get back her
husband Women are wild for has
bands, even in Paradise. We had,
however. an odd incident on the day
Napoleon L. arrived"
"Ahl He is in Paradise, Napo-
leon I. ?"
"Oh! he had little while in Pur-
gatory; and, frankly speaking, it was
Justice. Look at his history with Plus
Ill at Fontainebleau! He was still in
Purgatory when, in 1852, after the
coup detGt, Napoleon III. behaved so
handsomely to Plus TX that it was
thought that they could not decently
keep the uncle of such a nephew in
Purgatory any longer. So they opened
the gates of Paradise to him. He ar
rived, and his first words were: And
my two wivesY
Have you any preference?'
Yes, certainly. l will most will
ingly take back josephine
"They Immediately run to Josephine.
It is Napoleon. He is here, and he
wants you am very sorry, au-
swercd Josephine, dryly; but, after
what happened in 1909, never, never,
never.
"They go Immediately to Marie Lou
Use, who screams, L see Napoleon
again? who live so peacefully with
the General! Don't speak to me of
Napoleon Let him take back Jose
phine. Neither one nor the other
would change her resolution. Napoleon
remained standing alone, feeling rather
vexed, when Nine. de StGel ran mp.
Napoleon, said she, give him to me.
/ will take charge of him. and they live
very happily together"
At this moment Saint Peter was in
terrupted by cry from the crowd of
"The Eternal Father! the Eternal Fa-
ther!" 1t was the in truth the Eternal
Father. He was passing that way by
chance, and, having heard noise, he
stopped. A dream-this is all dream.
Be careful and don't forget that.
Really he was the Eternal Father of
the italian school In gray cloud, a
long white beard, and with an admira-
bic air of indulgence and Of charity, he
is common and virtuous Jupiter. He
stops and asks what is going on. They
tell him briefly.
Ivory well, says the Eternal Father,
"what could be more simple? Madame
is here as a reward for her Christian
sentiments and her religious conduct.
She has a right to the greatest possible
happiness. Let her decide which of
these two gentlemen she prefers"
But" observes CASTOR, "that ono
of us which shall be beaten comes in
last?" CASTOR, who owned racing
stable on earth, still kept using the