The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27

The gentle zephyrs of August it'll.
lated elevatingly about the bulb of the
thermometer and the June bug scared
lOetily on the breeze when Adolphus
Augustus, lettering ia the park with
that accomplished languor that was
necessary to avoid rapture of his con-
tracted pantaloons, paused in ecstatic
rapture as his optics rounded the prom.
ontory of his noble Roman nose and
received upon their retine the impress
zion of a fair vision of loneliness that
graced. with an entire absence of art
one of those ornate pine boards that do
duty as sofas in the Burlington park.
The mingled notes of harmonious music
doated in softened cadences on the
melliauous air of evening and smote
the ear of Adolpbus with distract
ing vigor. The band was playing. a
band of mosquitoes, engaged by the park
commissioners regardless of the bills.
Adolphus hastily resented the too in.
innate approach of a member of the
band and the conclusion and immediate
safe escape of the intruder attracted the
attention of the hitherto apparently un-
conscious divinity sitting upon the
smooth side of the pine board aforesaid
(the under side not being planed), and
she unexpectedly raised her eyes, re-
vealing at the same instant double
row of exquisitely white and regularly
set teeth.
With that maidenly reserve becoming
a young girl, she promptly restored hel
wandering optics to a subdued attitude,
and, with that intuitiye perception char
acteristic of womanhood, reflected pen
sively that she had made mash il
Adolphus had failed.
But she didn't say anything.
She merely tapped the toe of hel
boot with the handle of her parasol and
waited developments.
Adolphus reflected that he didn't
know for his soul whether she had
smiled on him or laughed at him.
Adolphus was one of Burlington s
best young men, and the untold wealth
that his father had boarded was by n.
means limited to the size of Adolphus
pantaloons.
With that versatility of resource
characteristic of the dude, he stopped
scratched crooked and rusty pin FROM
the macadamized road which passes for
~ N,
grasped in his lily digits and quart of
limestone dust under his finger nails,
he approached the object of his desire.
SOW, excuse me. Pway did you
dwop thisp"
A smiling acknowledgment that she
had, led to further conversation, and in
a few moments the two souls were en-
rapport or words to that effect, if that
is the way to spell it.
The acquaintance led to friendship,
the friendship to an intimacy, and the
intimacy to an ice-cream saloon, where,
under the melting glances of the gen,
tie fair, aided by the persuasive elo-
quence of her eyes, supplemented by
the enthusiastic co operation of her cor
aline gums, Adolphus' wealth aud the
caterers ice-cream daily disappeared
in geometrical progression.
A troubled look gradually stole into
Adolphus Augustus languid eyes, as
the drain upon his purse maintained
with relentless and insatiate appe-
tits, gradually reduced him from atflu-
ence to want. Under the extraordi-
nary mental strain, as, day after day,
the dairy and his bank account were
exhausted to furnish frigid tactical to
the warm-hearted and giddy young
creature, who had learned to dote on
him SO fondly, he pinned and wasted
away until his attenuated bifurcated
garments tapped like a sailors brooches
about his knees.
But there was no respite.
Day after day the old longing, she
said, returned. Adolphus neglected his
club. His dues were unpaid. There
seemed to be no end to that woman $
appetite or her capacity. His plaid
ulster was still left from last winters
wardrobe, and with unsteady gait and
haggard brow he seeks the Intervention
of my uncle and .procures the means
wherewith once more to crafty, alas,
not to satisfy, the cravings of a disor-
dered stomach. As they approach the
portals of the palatial refrigerator
where frozen pudding is retailed at fiji.
teen cents aspoonful, Adolphus can not
fail to note that while carking care. like a
worm in the mud, has gnawed on his
damaged cheek, in just that same ratio
has the manipulation of corn starch and
Gillett's extracts arisen in splendor, and
the dome that protrudes obtrusively from
his countenance exceeds any similar de-
sign presented even by Government
contractor. The end is reached. Not
of the sweet ones appetite, but of Adol
plus pocket book. Not a nickel left.
Not street car ticket. Gone is wealth
and happiness, gone is the languid re.
pose of those halcyon days when a
thought was burden. But the appe.
tite remains vigorous, active, aggres.
sive.
The chill blasts of autumn moan a
solemn requiem through the denuded
branches of the trees. The boys nc
longer wash their feet in the fountain
at the park; the bull-frog croaks. in the
Third street pond a gutteral roundelay
The night watch dozes tenderly and
peacefully on the pine seats, the pale
moon looks down in waning splendol
and sad-eyed grief upon the dangling
form OF the late Adolphus Augustus.
while the retreating dog-star beholds
with a sinister glance bridal pair de
parting on an extended tour through q
region of perennial ice-cream. j.
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