The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-01-21

where Love was pougnt ana soio.
Aud thus he led q city life,
Forgetting his nativity;
Since then he's gone from bad to worse,
From Cupid to cupidity.
-ELLlor Sock.
STORY OF the GOLDEN AGE.
New York Independent.
A great while ago there once lived q
very beautiful and very rich little prin-
cess. So beautiful and rich was she,
that suitors from all parts Of the
world came fiocking in shoals to her
palace, wearing out pantaloons by the
million in protracted and agonizine
kneeling at her tiny feet.
Notwithstanding the glory OF 1t,
however, the little princess did not
much enjoy this sort Of thing; for
whereas other young ladies could
spend their time in making delightful
slippers and comfortables for their
friends, this poor little thing had to
employ all hers in knitting everlasting
mittens (which are very awk-
ward, disagreeable things to Make
sides being never pleasantly accepted,
so that many time did she wish she
might only have been born married,
and thus have been spared this con-
tinual worry and vexation.
For she was a proud, fastidious lit
tie princess, and declared that she
never would marry until she had
found one who was in every way her
superior, as was, OF course, all ex-
tremely right and proper; only, though
all kinds OF paragons came to WOO.
somehow or other none OF them ever
proved superior enough to succeed in
winning the little princess for his bride.
1t really was pitiable to see so many
fine fellows turned off daily; but the
princess was become so accustom-
ed to it that she grew callous
hearted on the subject; and when she
heard that OF the thousands rejected,
seven or eight shot themselves, five or
six felt badly and three or four cut
their wisdom teeth, and one or two
stayed single, all for her sweet sake,
she never shed a tear.
But one day. as a hundred or so
stood in the outer court OF the palace
squeezing on their gloves and practic-
ing tender glances and signs, prepara-
tory to entering the fair ones presence,
young man, of very different appear
ance from the rest, came quietly up
and joined them.
swell. fellow" said the others,
"what errand brings you here2"
'"The same as that on which you
came" answered he TRANQUILITY, "save
that shall succeed where you will
fail. come to we'd the princes"
"You!" they exclaimed in chorus,
looking at him with scorn, for he was
plainly dressed and of unlmposing as
pect. "You! You pretend to be her
superiorl You indeed!"
~ am" he replied, unmoved. "For
/ love her, and love ennobles.
Whereat the others laughed con.
temptuously.
"Just hear the fool!" cried one.
"This graceless beggar dares to Lowell"
"Put him out" screamed another.
"The cut OF his mantle is antique,
and he has no buckles to mis- shoes,
no powder to his hair. Bah! It is
scandalous to have him aboutl"
''Let him stay" said a third, with
q shrug. ut is as well to have q
valet at ones back"
The young man. at whom these
spears, were cast smiled composedly.
e FQstNnes change" he said. "You
I,Who,tnaH me valet shall yet see me
.earryMff the Princess tonight before
your very eyes,"
A murmur of derision ran through
the crowd. But at that moment the
palace doors were thrown open, and
the court herald announced in q loud
voice that her higness would now deign
to receive offers; and that going in
suitors would please take the left
hand door. that thus collisions. of q
painful and disturbing nature might
be avoided, and that, furthermore,
no suicides were allowed in the royal
presence. An immediate rush ensued
toward the entrance, which opened di-
rectly into the great hall where the
princess sat upon her throne, with
thousands of cushions lying before her
on the floor, that suitors might not
catch cold from kneeling too long up
on the marble pavement, while huge
hogsheads, filled with highly-colored
and various sized mittens. were piled
up artistically in the background.
beautiful is no fitword wherewith
to describe this princess. Had Web.
ster or Worcester or any other die
tionarian being seen her, he would GER
tainiy have invented some word on
the spot, more capable OF expressing
the charm and grace and perfect pro-
portion of feature, form and soul
which went to make up THE rars and
wonderful maiden.
And now one after another, with
different degrees Of assurance,
ecstacy, sentiment and pride, the
crowd OF suitors made their offers,
eXJOlilng GDelr several teXcoiienceS ana
ADVANTAGES over each other and every
body else, and modestly bringing into
view those points wherein they bid
defiance to the human race at large
and espired to be divinities. But to-
day, as yesterday, none was found
superior to the princess; one after an
other was duly admitted and dismiss
ed with a consolatory cigar, and the
promise that his name should not be
handed in to Mrs. Grundy, who, pen
in hand, sat in the reporters chair;
and still the little princess waited,
smiling and peerless, upon her throne,
in royal but wearying single blessed
ness. Yet all this while the str ange
young man who had come in with the
rest; said never word to press his