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Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-04
The Senate.

The Senate was called to order at 10:45 by Lieu tenant Governor Cooke. Prayer offered by Chaplain Parker.
 Senator Administration appointing Lucius G. Goodrich, of SinsbuTy, county commiSs toner of Hartford county passed under suspension of the rules and at once sent to the House.
 Senator Golden. Committee on Military Affairs Substitute bill loaning one hundred cadet muskets and pieces of artillery to Wm.H Stowe, of New Haven; calendar and printing
 Business the calendar was disposed of as fol
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-04

MANHOOD, YOUTHFUL IMPRU- LOST ::; ::s < State St New Haven.
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who, if they could not see their youthful ad-
mirers at home, were pretty sure Of doing so
at the Seftons' There was q bit of front
yard, shaded by tall sycamores, and fronting
the door was big unhewn stone, serving as
its single step and worn smooth by the tread
of generations of Seftons The little hallway
and that stone often held large audiences on
summer evenings-protracted meetings.
even unto the going down of the full or bed
moon at eleven, twelve, aye, one o'clock in
the morning, or until Mother Sefton's night
capped head was seen and her good-humored
voice from an upper window heard, saying,
"You young folks; it's time for you all to be
home and abed."
Said Mary Seton to me: "Now don't you
be away five years, like Jerry Black"
Jerry Black had sought fortune in China,
and at the expiration of five years sojourn
had returned without it. Our people were
always drifting to the ends Of the earth seek
ing wealth. A sea port is an open door to
foreign lands, and so influences the young to
venture out earlier and oftener than from
places more inland.
Three years was the longest most of our
company expected to remain in California.
The current idea then regarding the country
ran thus: "Some of us will dig gold; some
will 20 into trade. The profits will 60 into
one common purse. At the end of year or
two there will be a dividend We shall re-
ceive some thousands each. With this we
may return home, marry and settle down."
do not say this was my dream On the
whole, I do not think had then any plans
for the future was going away because it
seemed to me everybody who cared for me at
all cared most that / should 60 away. This
being an opportunity, embraced it. The
current had come to me and sucked ME in
had not gone to it. The world would hustle
me about with it. I wished it would let me
alone
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one to remain by me many year after. Her
caress, too, had in it something Of mother
hood, something longed for, but found not
at home, something which every man needs
as neutrality-suspicious. against degrade
tion.
Perhaps you think I'm very bold" said
she.
81 think understand you," replied.
II believe you do. Otherwise, | could not
do as have done. You must feel yourself
very much complimented, too," she added, in
lighter tone, "for you are the first of your
sex ever kissed in my life"
Here wanted much to say something very
polite and gallant. But all the words coming
into my mind for such expression seemed to
SAVIOR so much of the mawkish novel that
felt it proclamation. l said. quite without
generalization: II thank you" On the whole,
l think l said about the best thing could.
My tongue was not so tied afterward.
Hand in hand we walked to and fro on q
level. grassy space lying along the edge OF
the bluff overlooking the Covc's waters. We
talied-well, of things belonging to our own
world-aS if we were navigating together
rivers, creeks and inlets barred to the ma
jority. / know now she led the conversation
on these subjects to divert my attention and
ease my mind of the strain to which it had
been recently subjected.
The village clock struck two. "These are
unseemly hours for Eastport," said Blanche.
awe must go home"
We walked again to the half-opened gate,
and again parted, not without another kiss
this one mutual
Between us passed neither pledge nor bond,
spoken or inferred. We parted as if but for
day. Blanches last words were, "Remem-
ber, now, your promiSe!"
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smiles on you, believe everybody who
speaks fair, and would give your head
away, if You could, to any one who asked
for it."
'Well," said, showing possibly in my
tone some annoyance, you're frank enough,
anyway. Why don't you call me a goose and
be done with it!'
"Forgive me, john" said the girl, her man.
ner suddenly shading to tenderness. II know
it's not pleasant for YOU to hear this. don't
want to pain you. But you're going away
going out in the world among men, hard,
cold. merciless men-yes, and women, too
wolves who'll devour you alive"
She advanced and laid her hand on my
shoulder The movement seemed almost un-
consciously done, nor had ever before seen
her show such feeling. For a moment her re-
serve and habitual control vanished. She con-
tinued:
John, the real reason I said this is because
it was forced out of me. 1t is because you
are going away from me, perhaps forever,
and L"
Then she did what none had ever before
seen grown-up Blanche Seton do. She turned
aside knew she was weeping.
Here was a pretty 60. Why, the girl
loved me! And of course, loved her-had
loved her for years, had looked on her as
among the impossibles, unconquerables, rAl-
attainables. Here was the g Empress" ," the
majestic iceberg, melted into tears. Here
was the heaven l had never dared aspire
come to earth-my earth. Here was the last
drop in the cup of bliss to make Eastport
more desirable than ever to me-and the Ann
Mary Ann to sail tomorrow morning, my
traps all on board, my chest slowed with
clothes, and the interstices filled with tracts
and devotional books, gifts from my numer-
Gus aunts-I was wealthy in aunts then-all
of whom were glad was going away.
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I did not act in the conventional lover
style There was no kissing nor clasping l
was astonished-more, had sense enough to
respect the girls emotion. felt intuitively
that she had herself never dreamed of being
betrayed into such all avowal. There seem
times, conditions, circumstances occasionally
coming into combination to more human
natures in deeper and lower depths than
those who are moved ever dream exist in
them.
Blanche's hand had dropped from my shoul-
der We stood little apart. / felt l must
say something, and so made that stupid and
commonplace remark:
"Why, Blanche!"
The tears were being forced back, and I
could feel the Blanche of old also coming
again and resuming her former self, and
sway over self.
"John. let's 60 home," said she.
She took my arm. We walked back through
the now quiet and deserted street in silence
and passed through the ever half-opened gate
We halted on the old door stone but for q
moment Her eyes and mine met, but in a
half-averttd glance l took her hand, and,
ventulins timid pressure, said GOOD night,
Blanche"
Good night, John"
passed out of the gate, and in the thick
foliage above rung the incessant affirmation
and contradiction: Katy did! Katy didn't"
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CHAPTER VI.
WILLIAM BROENER.

A month afterward was in San Francisco.
The Ann Mary Ann was creeping on the At
lantic somewhere near the equator, with four
or five weary months still between her and
the Land of Promise.
San Francisco was then simply a mercan-
tile camp. Buildings were run up as are
booths at n country fair. There was little
idea of permanency. Everything was of the
'makeshift" order.
had on landing s125. resolved to take
one clear week, with no other purpose save to
look about, amuse myself, and watch for
whatever might turn up.
put up at the best hotel / could find and
paid so in advance for weeks board, which
granted to me the then almost unheard Of
luxury of niche, called room, to myself, a
cot bed, tin washbasin, coarse towel and
brown soap True, the walls were but OF
cloth-cotton drilling They did not shut out
the sound of voices all around me, and at
night the shadows of my adjacent fellow
dodgers were sometimes prominently and
clearly thrown on my canvas from the light
of the candles behind them, displaying them in
the many unstudied attitudes peculiar to man
on disrobing for bed.
My right hand lodger had nightly great
difficulty in getting off his boots. His figure,
of heroic size, was so thrown on my canvas in
the many irritating and uncomfortable posi-
tions into which u man is compelled ere he can
make his heel bulge from the position it has
maintained all day.
One night while so engaged received an
unexpected visit from him. In the midst Of
harder tug than usual he lost his balance,
fell over backward against the cloth wall,
which gave way under pressure, and through
the rent he rolled, boot still in hand, into my
room.
"Good evening"" he said; without changing
his position. "Hope don't intruder
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at that moment They would 60 astray Of
my meaning. The time, the place, the cir
cumstances, the withdrawal from the imme-
diate range of Eastport's petty gossipping,
meddlesome sphere, seemed to place ME in
another world, whose standard of life, action,
motive and impulse were entirely different
from this In that kiss 1 seemed to feel
Blanche's purity of soul and depth of
affection-a nature luxuriant in every
department of being, capable of a tenl-
pestuous abandonment, yet capable also of
perfect control at any moment Of ecstacy.
Externally it was but the pressure of rich
pair of lips, but if there be within lis other
and finer senses than our material ones,
these seemed in that momentary contact to
absorb and retain n portion of the intel
lectuao and spiritual richness and nobility
of that girls being. Nor did her act make
Inc bold or presuning. On the contrary it
seemed to bring me a realization of respect
nlmost amounting to reverence for Blanche
Seton, which l had never felt before. 1t
peemed to ME as an inspiration to become
more manly, more courageous, more ener-
getic; not the inspiration of Il moment, but
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CHAPTER w.

"Well, what are you going to do now"'
asked my mother with that expression which
to me said so forcibly: "Oh, this impractical,
inefficient son of mine"
Il am going to New York, bag and bag
gage, tomorrow" said Don't he alarmed,
l shan't hang about home, and | shan't
trouble you for many a year to come
intended going to New York with the gen.
eral purpose of escaping EaStport. which now
was for me uncomfortable. What, definitely, l
should do when there. knew not-save that
in some way should get to California OF
money my store was very slender was
casting myself on the broad uncertain sea of
chance.
A boy came to the house with a note for
me. 1t read:
'Meet me tonight after dark where we last
talked. BLANCHE SEXTON"
All day kept aloof from the village. At
night went thither. The girl was there now,
all herself calm and self-possessed.
John said she. Il am going to ask of
you favor-u great favor. Will you grant
it"
"Anything you ask" | said, impulsively.
"Anything is a big word. What ask of
you may not be 81 easy to grant rs You
imagine. want to put something in your
hands What, you are not to know until You
have left this village. for fcnl that you will
leave, and that very soon. What you receive
from me want you to llSe as direct. That
is all. Can you promise me that"
/ was eager enough to promise. The
thought of Blanche SefronS asking of me a
favor-somethinS apparently of more than
ordinary Importance, the reflection that she
deemed me worthy of Il serious trust-com-
pensatcd for all had recently suffered
She put i'll my hands IL sealed packet. Re
member" said she. mot to he opened until
you are in New York. and when opened its
directions to he implicitly obeyed."
II promise" was my reply.
"That's Il good boy" she said. "Now, let
Inc kiss YOU" And she did 50.
Kissing among the young people was in
EaStport regular business. At their par
ties all the plays had kissing rs their grand
aim and end Indeed the play seemed
merely us pretencc for the kissing. had
never looked with much favor upon these
indiscriminate osculatory melecS, and when
forced by circumstances, had taken part in
them, it was always with Il feeling of indf-
ference-almoSt disgust. Still, | supposed
that it was the thing to do, since it was Il
part of the life around HE. | had noticed
that Blanche Seton never participated in
these plays" Blanche was not a kissable
girl.
1 shall not attempt by any of the numerous
hackneyed phrases to describe my sensations
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diplomatic in not offering it as gift, and in
putting the transaction on business footing.
To refuse it under the present circumstances
would result, l felt in putting great barrier
between myself and Blanche. 1t seemed as if
she said to me: 81 am in this giving you the
opportunity you need. You are 10 man if
YOU quarrel with the instrument put in your
hands because it does not come exactly in the
manner you would have it."
l could see in imagination, as clearly as
though she stood before me, the way IL which
Blanche would have taken back from ME her
gift saw her calmly listening to my state
ment and as calmly receiving from HE the
notes, and then continuing conversation on
general topics as if the whole affair had not
a feathers weight in her mind. But under
all that seeming Indifference | knew there
would lie Indignation, disappointment and
worse-the deliberate laying aside of a feel
ing for me, something which l hoped to be
more than interest-more than mere regard.
have said farther back that Blanche Sef-
ton loved me- But l felt that her love, if
once gained, could not be laid Oh the shelf, to
be taken on and off at pleasure with the GER
tainty of always finding it there. No. 1t
was a love only to be held by constant
effort
bought, the next day, my cabin ticket for
San Francisco via the ISthmuS.
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0rigiual 2oetrg.
Written for the YOrkyille Enquirer.
FAREWELL TO THE MUSE.
By INGOMAR,

By INGOMAR.
Farewell to the Muse, whose sweet flowing
Were wont to steal DER me like dreams in sweet
slumberS,
And soothe all lfes cares with charm as sweet
AS tn Vale of Avoca, where tn bright waters
Farewell to the Muse It's in sadness write
it,
My heart has grown aged my harp it is
bighted;
1t now thrills no more to my touch or my
For my voice and my hands now evoke but dis
cords.
Farewell to the Muse! tho full oft she did
The days of my manhood when young life was
warm,
And lent as sweet glow to the pleasures oflife
AS the touch and the kiss of Il fond, loving wife.
All! once could sing in glad numbers as sweet
AS the nightingale'S song which the twilight
But ages infirmity has crept o er my Tyre,
And with age has vanished Promethean fire.
Farewell thou sweet Muse! thou vert dear to
my heart
Whenyoung life was joyous, but now we must
part;
For l sigh for seclusion,-for hearts ease
crave.
You go seek young mate, and let me seek-a
grave!
NoTE.-The many fugitive squbs under the
nom dc piumc of "INGOMAR,' the untaught saw
age, which, for many years, have tloated
through the daily and weekly press ofthe coun-
try, and sometimes found their way into maga-
zines are now brought to close ; and so deem
it but right to acknowledge the paternity ofthe
hitherto estray orphans. With all their imper-
fections | claim them as the offspring Of my
fancy disowning only the many topographic
al errors with which many ofthem are marred,
and also, some few unauthorized alterations
made by publishers. TO all his readers lingo
mar says-Hail! and-farewell!
w. S. LYNCH.
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He was stout, compact, well-built man.
apparently of thirty, black eyed, black
bearded, clear, singularly white COM
ordinary refinement.
In a tone very different from that Of the
reckless humor he had at first assumed, he
said: II beg your pardon, but l lost my bal
ance in trying to get this confounded boot
off, and, as you see, the wall between us
proved finsy; and, as they say in the play,
Here ami"
''No offense under the circumstances, I'm
sure" was my reply.
II bought these boots in the mines," said
hc paid two ounces for them, and they've
given me no end of trouble. They object
seriously to going on in the morning, and
when once on object as strongly to going Off
at night"
This was Mr.. William Broener He was
from the mines, and mining was his business.
We drifted into sociability that night. The
rent in the wall was not repaired next day,
and remaining open soon developed certain
companionship between us. He seemed to
like my company; certainly he was attractive
to me- We went about much together, and
to something beyond that of mere pass
ing acquaintance"
There was much in Broener attractive to
men and women. Physically he was Us fine a
specimen of manhood as ever 1 laid eyes on.
He was generous, and had an easy manner Of
dashing into peoples companionship and con-
fidence. which to lie was both a source of ad-
mration and irritation, since l lacked it en-
tirely. Broener seemed at home everywhere,
and on relatively familiar terms in any circle
to which five minutes previous he. had been a
total stranger while / writhed in the bonds
and fetteIs of certain awkwardness and re-
serve which at times seemed to compel me to
do and say the very things most calculated
to keep lie outside that atmosphere of socia-
bility which desired to enter and breathe
Yet this to an extent constituted the bond
between myself and Broener. He, knowing
his power and keenly alive to its recognition
and appreciation by others, liked to have
about him an admirer like myself, whom
in sense he could take under his wing
and protection
Come with me to the mines," he said,
few days after our acquaintance had COM
menced. 1--WE bit of a claim left and
We'll work partners"
assenteti To go to the dggings, direct
ed and befricnded by all experienced and
lucky miner, was an opportunity seldom
found in those days.
lay more than usual stress on the phrase
'lucky miner" Gold diggers were COM
pelled to believe in luck. Lucky men
Struck it rich wherever they went. These
we're sometimes in character the extremes
of recklessness and dissipation. No mat
ter. Their steps seemed directed, and where
they went they turned up gold-often to
be spent within a few hours. But the
spree over they went ploddng, poking
about bar, flat or crevice, turning up more
of the yellow metal in dust or chispas
while regular habits and sobriety worked
hard and could barely make both ends
meet. SO marked were these phenomena
that the inquiry was not uncommon on the
part of those who had ventures to make
regarding the leading prospector: "1s he
lucky man"
TO DE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
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SHORT SUMMER SERMONS.-Sift
down de talk of de worlds greatest
men, an when you cum to extract de
bigotry, egotism, prejudice am self
interest, you will have to look for de
quotient wild spy glass.
Luv am beautiful sentiment, an
de game of three-keerd monte am a
swindle, but fifty people are doWned
by luv fur every one swindled by
the keerds.
De public nebber stop to queshun
de troof of a scandal, and de man
who climbs above us am never quite
forgiven.
DE room which a man takes upon
de sidewalk am no criterion to judge
of de amount of brains in his head.
Hits er short row dat aim got no
weeds in it.-BrOfher Gdrduer.
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among the crowd, and occasionally mock
directions were cried out to me in nautical
phraseology regarding the proper navigation
of the unruly animal. One ancient salt ad-
vised me to ''luff," another "to put her helm
t,rd down. while third told me to "haul
aft the spanker, wear ship and run for the
caboose." The climax was reached when a
iovial mariner raised the whaleman's heart
stirring cry, There she blows"
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able to get place. Last spring the edges
t floods DDS after the 81 seeds fell upon them, and
Mr.. Campbell could see along the river
banks three bolts of young trees, and dis
tinguish by their general appearance.
The upper belt was Of sycamore, the Sec
ond (downward) of cottonwood, and the
third of soft maple. In June bigger
flood came than any that caused the seeds
to sprout, and killed all the young trees.
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FRO DE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
The Washington critic., 1886-12-13
PIEDMONT AIR LINE,

SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOV. IA, 1886.
Trains leave b. & T. station, Sixth and b sts:
a., m. daily for Warrenton, Gordonsvil!e,
Raleigh, Charlotte. Atlanta and all points
South. Pullman Palace Buffet Sleeping
Car Washington to Atlanta and Washing
ton to New Orleans.
2:35 p. M daily, except Sunday, for Manassas,
Strasburg and intermediate stations.
$3.50 p. m. daily for Warrenton, Gordonsvile,
Charlottesville, Staunton, Louisville, Gin
cinnati and Points on tho Chesapeake and
Ohio route. Pullman Sleepers Washing
ton to Louisville.
II p. m. daily for Lynchburg, Raleigh, Ashe-
vile Charlotte, Columbia, Aiken, Augusta,
Atlanta, Montgomery, New Orleans and
points Southwest. Pullman Buffet Sleep
ers Washington to Aiken, s. o.. Washing
ton to Montgomery, connecting with Par
49, lOr Cars to New Orleans.
TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO
DIVISION
Leave Washington 0;l5 a. m. daily, except
Sunday, and 4I5 p. m daily, arriving ut
Round Hin 11:ih a, M. and 7:19 p. m.; return
turning, leave Round Hin G:0S a. m. daily and
1913 p m, except Sunday, arriving Washing
ton $40 a. Ill aud $3.50 p. IN,
Through trains from the South arrive Wash
ton $40 n. m. and $3.50 y. m and from Louis
Vile 010 p. IN. straslurg local 1905 u. IN.
Tickets. slceping,car reservations and in
formation furnished and baggage checked at
Office, COL PENNSYLVANIA avenue, and at Pas
senger Station, pennsylyauia r Il, sixth and
Il streets. JAS. l.. 1AYLO
General Passenger Agent.