The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27
Com Facts.


Augustus, lettering in the park with
that accomplished languor that was
necessary to avoid rupture 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 refine the impress
sion of 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
floated in softened cadences on the
melliiiuOus air Of evening and smote
the ear of Adolphus 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 I'M
conscious divinity sitting upon the
smooth side of the pine board aforesaid
(the under side not being planed), and
she unSuspectingly raised her eyes, re-
vealing at the same instant a double
row of exquisitely white and regularly
set teeth.
With that maidenly reserve becoming
young girl, she promptly restored her
wandering optics to a subdued attitude,
and, with that intuitive perception char
acteristic of womanhood, reflected pen
sively that she had made mash if
Adolphus had failed.
Rrt She didn't saw ANYTHING
She merely tapped the toe of her
boot with the handle of herparasol 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 no
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
q graveled walk, and with it tenderly
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 this?"
A smiling acknowledgement that she
had, led to further conversation, and in
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 chances 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 and the
caterers ioe-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-
tite, gradually reduced him from a4ilu-
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 foudly, he pined and wasted
away until his attenuated bifurcated
garments tapped like 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 s
appetite or her capacity. His plaid
ulster was still left from last winter $
wardrobe, and with unsteady gait and
haggard brow he seeks the intervention
of my uncle and proeures the means
wherewith once more to crafty, alas,
not to satisfy, the cravings of disor-
dered stomach. As they approach the
portals of the palatial refrigerator
whore frozen pudding is retailed at fif-
teen cents aspoonful, Adolphus can not
fail to nete 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 arisenin splendor, and
the dome that protrudeS obtrusively from
his countenanee exceeds any similar de-
sign presented even by q Government
contractor. The end is reached. Not
! of the sweet ones appetite, but of Adol-
plus pocket book. Not nickel left
Not street car ticket. Gone is wealth
and happiness, gone is the languid re.
pose of those halcyon days when q
thought was burden. But the appe.
lite remains vigorous, active, aggres.
sive.
The chill blasts of autumn moan g
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 gutteral roundelay
I 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. r. j.
Burdette, tn burlington Hawkeye.
MOdifyinp Nature.