Washington Weekly Telegraph (Newspaper) - February 17, 1860, Washington, Indiana 6. WASHING-TON, FEBRUARY 17, 11 for The Washington Weekly HE AET TO tale of love under difficult E. first morning after Mark Bently had set sail for a foreign broke the wide expanse of with beauty and grandeur of which could The sun rose peculiar and shed his ms across the majestic the broad face of the water reached far the sight of The proud ship glided seeming as steady and as a looked out upon this s sublime me. home and troubles that had summonsed him had his and forsaken his nature could no endure or support and this grand morning broke across the its surpassing Mark we say awoke and looked out upon What an awe filled his before had he known such in the midst of the ocean gliding o'er its broad face at such a rapid and yet they moved on so where he had expected tempest tossed from the level of the ocean to here where he had to hear nothing but the curse of the seamen and the loud and fearful of terrified together with the wild wail of the Avind and the mighty of the and the fearful creaking of the Kere we say he looked out on the beautiful that opened upon his for but I Avas charmed Avith the the piece you played and is of my - Pardon the intrusion but I could not forbear the pleasure of looking on the one voice was so and fingers so For a moment the lady looked at I have seen days when I could have cursed the hour I first riot finish the I and I begin to see that there is in our histories some little let this That tear we spoke me hear of I said it contained a history of my course it is for the tear Avas soon brushed I may do wrong by speaking thus to yet there is something that inspires me with confidence in shall not repose confidence in I hope It be heartless to betray ago I met and a young loved by My father not consent to our for he to I had given my heart Avas Oft did Ave sic and sing but a earnest He not gain consent of my for no about to from her reason only that he was poor she intrusion if you are truly a lover of and see fit to do me the honor to listen to my humble I see no reason that you should consider it an But I am a therefore I must not take the privileges of an you said and acted but let this all be seated by the piano and thanks but prefer to hear you sing sometimes you acquainted Avith the sometimes sing different the piece I sang my if it be you are acquainted Avith its no studied them more than those of any other I Avill play and sing the you Avill sing was To gain wealth he left his since I have not heard of The piace Ave sang our and your Avas so much lik but you have the history of my understand that frankness with that lady had increased Mark's admiration of and led him into a communicative feeling After a moments had elapsed ho spoke of a coincidence Were your lover be a I her father drove me and I too am going to another land to seek my The piece we have Avas the favorite of myself and the one I and strange as it may your voice is much like Yet there is that you should Seek to listen to a voice like the one you have nor after all a tear should drop 1 hear you but this other Avords were The her hand from key to on to are but come m the heart conscious of his many days before he to this time had accustomed for none he should find presence of the dear angel of his you see that ho Avas we say ho looked out on the grandeur of wondering and praising and thanking his He now still poor Let not the grandeur of this scene lead to such of I was Avas fixed on the looked steadily upon a picture of the of The was one of deep meaning and fully calculated to carry the soul away to the laud of brightness sang with all the fullness of his rich bass nor did either of them make a or a note of It Avas performed as if the tAvo had for it was Mark noticed Mark had scarce comprehended tiie words the of his It all seemed like a Hoav long he sat in silence he scarce but was not aroused until dinner was then lie arose and tried to banish the thoughts that Avere crowding on pardon us for leaving them thus but we must do so in order that you may the in the eye of the For the to forget of j way of the 1 1 1 * 1, 1 1------- I Thus muttered Clinton on the as if Inving land his my from to look the severest trials and deepest troubles of Providence has brought and despite my I am with am I Avill profit by this No hour has ever so dark that a brighter one has not succeeded it. I Avill learn to and only in my as he had finished this accompanied by the sounds of the were heard in another part of 'the He Gradually the entered with soul and spirit into Her hands glided over the ikeys of the producing music that could only be rivaled by the voice she which to Mark was sweet as His passion for music had had existence at the first of melody he had ever and had made it his taught and been taught The of music which he had most and which a thousand times sang and played for produced in his And the could it be that there Avas on earth another who possessed so sweet a voice as the one he had left in sorrow and deep It seemed so. He Avas transfixed to the he spell did could not move until the music had his his troubles and all that had made him Mark determined at once to know and see the one who had thus sang and Quickly he was at the of the xoom from whence he had heard those charming was his surprise when he looked in and saw a figure so divine that his leaped within It was no time wonder or amazement so he he had the Avine cup But there Avas something there that told I almost Mark that even whilst she seemed I but lost there was he knew not which ho thousand to enquire consequently the scriptural unacquainted Avith city life as well last quarter of an his mind as the gaming table; but that having had been so intently occupied the just come into possession of this that he in a measure had become he was easily impressed with the idea and was already somewhat his short the fact that he might introduce a subject that the lady he took the liberty to to fair a calm look she for a moment surveyed then see a but pardon I have no right to you could hardly avoid your manner tells me could The question came into my mind and was asked before I had time for a second but your pardon there surely can be no harm in your and in fact I am glad you you Avill not object to see no reason that I It can do no harm to tell so I shall to do if another tear should arise think it not I hard against the emotions of my endeavor to be and to the Avill of but I find it hard to do the tear contained the history of my thou too learned grief and deep of bitter cup of we in that are too have had my cUp Alfred led him on from one thing first to the wine then to a social at the giddy and maizes of sin and this young man Avaa From one step to another he was an hour to to Near a month had passed in this and this man had formed a strong appetite for and contracted a fearful desire to Thus far ho had been small sums from led him to concludo ho in the use of that he could now make a fortune in addition to what ho already found that his plans At suggestion of the young man to Clinton entered his objections on the ground that he had so often been and Avas useless to play with his new unless it Avas to these objections as a matter of served to make the name Avas Walter more desirous to play Avith man he was sure he could win So matters passed on in this Avuy for Walter May urging Alfred to play Alfred At length it was that one apart for the purpose of testing skill of took good care lo display to tlie gaze of a amount my good I shall beat or you get all this That suits re tar nod -all I ask that you hold out suppose I shall do at least I shall hope fortune will be on side to luck to I shall see to Ave had make a thing of and 1 think that I you out then I havo done why I guess I shall retire Avin all I and give me no to get it guess 1 I guess I Avont but you have agreed I have tlic the room is already so I Avant no out don't let your pupil back you out ai a little game of cards only twenty or thirty are at I'll try you any until I see what the is likely to you must play through make or this was the more was then but the separated to meet at the table a fortune Avas Lo be lost and o'clock and the tAvo young men Avere eagerly engaged in the Every bet made by Alfred was a bad When their Avere Alfred proved and ere Walter was conscious of the had the checks and all iVom the table and taken into his arose to take his but before he did so he luck Avas on ray side but I not be so hard Ave re Avith saying he left the ruined young man to his own The truth for first time across his Ko the of Alfred from tbe but it too late should lie To home he he could that he Avas by no means qualified to 0 the life of a he scarco kno to lie he Avas lost a of lie left the room and retired to the There lie himself for the first time to calmly on his course lie came into the lie Avas completely by iho that had forced liis and mantled him so fearfully that ho no hope of ever them For a sat iii at o But a had Aunt had been i most ia circulating reports of n and had assured was now that the old ii had been t this not played such Alice Ino it gentle airs of did all to and her and parted ilio to all and her No ii loved But the caresses of the wind were ii such as her gentle and and at only reddened her excited yet before the v. as a sad in her and the Avith little in the man's yes in man's ior lo be had after day m sat lus in ho had entered the and he was s and had habits that of OS to He opened his look a applied the to Ids pulled t and fell a lifeless corpse uron this is a but not fast young is it not a fearful one? Of course was known of so he Avas buried lit the expense of the a verdict of of by they do he come to his mind in this loss until two thirds of It would have been a blessing to him had ho continued to think as he did or and practiced so that his life had been but ho had not the to do passed but he Continued his Night after night he found at the gaming and night after night did ho poorer and This state of change of continued for about two Hc to some more certain Avay of obtaining money than he chanced to meet with a who he discovered Avas He had made large deposits in the and this Alfred Avas particular to learn of by possible means that lay in his The young man we have spoken had just come into possession of a very large this Alfred also As we have young Clinton had been casting about in his as to the practicability of employing some other means of obtaining to be plain he had his chances in turning But here was a chance he to get this young man's possessions in a so he determined to try once the chance at He wais the constant companion of the young and unceasing in his attentions to the result of that young man made a confident of Alfred and told him all about his good Alfred also learned that this young man Avas large pile of bills had gone into the hands of Walter but they continued to The continued in high while Clinton appeared discouraged and to take up the Avas after still Avas no change in the May Avas becoming in fact ho could scarcely walk when he attempted in Egypt Deacon Smith was one day called upon to an couple not less tlian sixty years of The assembled at the old log school house to see tlie happy couple joined The Deacon and the marital candidates said the Sarah stand Do take Sarah Long whom ou by the right to be your and wedded wile so long as you both Deacon said long as avo both the take Mr. Jones you hold by to be as you lawful and wedded husband so long cd Little Alice as you both shall deacon so long as Mr. Jones shall vote the American but watch his was business His perhaps Ave should say his as full as they hold of their All his save the one of seemed to have power of performing L' ilic child her playthings and rati up to her Avith some a as children to the old man unable to he place his withered hand upon her dear little till slie would away to her Noi The angels paly little on heart of the old man wa j bound up in Utile Everybody said that to lily the patriotic happy couple Avere joined together and Avent on their Doctor Avas employed by a poor man to attend his who Avas dangerously ill The doctor gave a hint that he had fears of not have thirty said the into And no wonder the there ever a Did anybody ever see such as il out of blocks Avith which it upon Did anybody ever IV such cunning as it displayed in decoying pussy into tlie traps it luid set for A dozen at in as many the tiy the trick over and tlic cat could not it. the old man every And whoever heard a thrill as the echoing tlie girl? At any tlie old mm found enough to and to in to all day and day after iu simply liio full heart not suffer him to answer her thousand in any way than she dear the stroke was now It seemed tobe God's will that the child should bo the trial of the old man's faith should be and anxious forms stood around to witness the it would blind and him or he give her up without a ut itali in just and had said it e the fair one fell and on this and paid Alice a not three days after her Maithe and old of tlie Avind irid alhous beyond his to his ne w of freaks Avith the and fallen sung all ni ofj tunes the dry and hadl tlie doors the as it too to ihe ol the old once it did succeed in was nol satisfied with itself as a guest kept tlie and up and down the and ing into people's and itself in to all the delicacies it that slie could not put ( he of the old man's would 0:1!y be a thing to and fondle if expected to keep the life iii her body at most and the old man did found himself while so eng holier and more fit for the kingdom of ' dare even to think of the struggle which she and issued at last in lunacy and struggle of an refined and avith and had lef behind a son and a dughter and the heart of the old man to did e for transcend No he gazing so intensely upon fading of the face he loved had he to live for else he love A of drove against the pane a branch of the elm tree close by liKit the around the man fixedly Was over the face of the girl? it only the from Tlie were still and white as the snow Tlie his hand on the eyelids of the and they immovably Faint only disturbed the silence for a tlie old man neither stirred nor upon his with features as rigid as a O form stole softly around to his and a soft voice in his say the Lord liath the hath taken blessed be Ilis Holy tender tlie old does liot respond to this a pause for some when tiie same form laid her hand ou the head of old and the voice dear had bettor Father Avill in an at the dear from the little brother of the girl had partially she alive? And had the old man tarried in the of the whither he had accompanied his well Yet it was even so. The that bloweth where it listeth but is still dy restrained and tempered to the of the tenderest it Avas this but that breeze that never comes returns having its dreadful had the cheek of the old man meeting Avas held at National on the evening of the 4thinst., to forma Constitutional Union Resolutions Avero arranging for the construction of a party embracing all the conservative elements of the Letters Edward Millard E. M. and J. Minor you little did I not tell you to let that cat's tail said an angry father to his son Avas trying to elongate a cat's old It's Old Matthew was a man Bronw s 3at and I'll yank thunder to use a very common jf j seen in his A pioneer and the if vou kill or you tion had often been his And hc have trials of a peculiar his you cure said then man you have no ligious labor as man's inevitable woman died on the doctor's I it is not necessary to and reasonable time he called forj in order to set forth his character in its the This was of thirty proper Suffice it for our to his so before they had began to bet for perhaps the fiftieth hc proposed a This Avas readily agreed to by and accordingly they then to Each Avere confident of May first bet Clinton go five bundled May five and so until Clinton had al money he I Carefully eyeing he out his pocket book and anote for five thousand payable at ten o'clock the next again Walter began to pile up his the is Daily What a number of useless young native 13 lace a mik trained our toil do they yet Solomon in all II not arrayed like one a heart lhat rn Do look to coldly to the real and the life of a to soften the asperities of to be do not pity a to soften tlie 01 aud spiritual He had or the onerous duties which vs been as a the world ami sleep away their time m to the ot his consequence of his own or do not pity a man who but he found that hc lacked a of after oppressing his was now Stauung by first braight to mother ot He instantly I do not pity a man who burns a check for fifteen thousand dollars by using them not pity aman or for the 01 such a mystery as the marriage of ' T 1 I 1,i ' but to see and bo expect thus Jeptha Rayburn Alice was cast it on tho Quickly that amount Avith his as payable at ton the next to tho highest Walter declared that he had staked his all on this so they must determine was the Up to this time he had been cheerful and in high but after buying a his not pity aman who marries a as the summer son was even more and the temper of it is his own to the rough uost of tho old V have and was as ' Avay aro sure to ' the No life can be not pity old there are man came this quiet of men in tho do not pity a yonng that Avants to got if she does not accept the first even if he is a little Matthew Avas censured 1 om Hoav an education who are allowed Ti i A A. I that life is lo bo a ho did not forthwith drive far away into I 1 t 1 of is the great of Avill she IS unable to the visitan of n Everybody said he but ever was
