The Press., 1892-02-04

dom advise a family that ain't more foreh&nded than they wish to be offend fnR a gf6at-granper with property to
 leave bshind him, and that has already
 had evil influences brought to bear in
 regard to leaving 1t to Charitable consti- 7 tutj6us Instead of his own ancestors
 What is . trunk, however wounding to the fashionable inspirations of the heart,
 to a few thousands to start life withi
 Be earn, AlhaInbry Jane, and say to yourseif what can be cure must be in sured, and you and Neptune will be than kfm hereafter.
 Iz wen. .Aihambry Jane felt to feel that < I was 3ud gmatical in most things, and sh6 washed her face in the tin basin out sisle tho kitchen door and went in. Her eyes looked like poached eggs, but the rest Of the family knowed why. and greatgranper's eyes wernt overly good s and hS didn't notice
 Only Alhanhry James pa. who is
 kinder abstractive. kept lookin puzzled aud sayin: K
 aIahaa orter ten Alhambry about that there trunk er suthin. but ! can't re member what 1t Is.
 Poor Alhambry. l used to hear her cryin and moanin in her sleep after that, and I'd go in and shake her, and shed say. ..Oh, Aunt Beckyi l had . nightmare. | thought great-granper Rusks old hair trunk had got up and was sottin on my chest. :" Or else she was dreannin that she was settin al ? the Minder of one of them fixy taverna they have down to York, and seen the colored waters histin the trunk in and all the fastidicie company iarin at it, And once she thought all her outside clothes had to be put into 1t because it
 was 90 big, and she was obleeged to
 walk up Broadway in nothin; but Htho1Rhts of that old. hair trunk kerved
 lines into Alhanbry Jane's noble brow
 that week that never was defaced. and
 amt this minute. But she didn't say
 notaiin, and time went on like g relent-
 Ices juggienot and fetched on the we'd ding day. lta%
 < There wus no gret calamitudes fur as know, only great granper felt like
 he'd enjoy heipin make the fruit cake. and, his eyesight bein kinder repaired,
 he took . piece of brown soap for some citron, and sliced 1t up and stirred it in, and the evenin of the wedtiin her pa went
 up garret to read suthin another about the tariff and forgot about conin down until most too late. and then appeared at
 tho door in his old flannel .dressin gown, sayin, "You and Neptune is sottin ur
 ruther lats, darter," as they used to dc ;courtin nights when he thought Ner ought to go hum. But everybody there
 knowed hs was. obstructive, 30 there
 wern't no need to mind so much as Al.
 hambry did M H-
 The minister beginnin to christen the young couple instead of marvin 'em
 wefn't nothin neither. only Alha1nbry's
 sensitudss is 50 delicate, and when the other 1ofks all snickered she cried and
 made herself look like she was peelin onions for the rest of the evenin. I've
 noticed that it's those that feels things most they happen to oftenest. But things might have been wus at Alham, bry'g weddin, even her travelin suit | Seems as of 1t was Q natral derangement of Providence that when two is wed his CAUt46D buOM0 0b tOO &OONs ss1u AOAs sk0utdn't it iat an A brides traveli1 frcck always makes her look as ugly 8: she kin accordin to her gifts that, way and though Alharnbry Jane was right pretty sometirnes in an old caliker with
 the steeves tucked up, hangin out ths 1. .washin, in her case her white weddin gown wass moro unbecoming than hel gray traveling suit. ef that was pos Ai,la. A
 But whae does such things matter i she youn9 coupls ia. happy and s20ps ESk1ioW F Qn what 6lenderI chains hang Aojnx 5oyA ox oux While they wu 6Iddin IT oodby sraat granper says t
 Nep,s you kin do me q favor. down il York My old friend Captain Peele was down to sec me yesterday, and h. | was showing me his watch that was pre- sented to him by the passengers for hi ]. gallant conduct in . case of shipwrecl and ,nnhitched 1t from his chain and lef it behind. Now, I want you should talk tito him. Just put it in your pocket He's atsthe Astor House
 .aAn, light, granper.t says Neptune and. bnttpned it up,r never guesstn wha trouble it would bring.
 ..3oodbsy." says pa; ..seems to m there wns something meant to sa, about that there trunk, can't remembe what.it wus though.
 Then they wus off and we all throwet rice and old. shoes. We didn't knov until afteFward how some of the rice go into AIhaznbry'sB eye, nor how pa's slip Der hit Neptune on the nose, which wa by nature u turn-up, and changed it flu the time betn into 8 fine Roman, onl.. red. sSnch ts life. But they got safel.
 to the depot, and to that '.great an. wicked city. New York" 1" as our donnini calls ;t