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a bacmorsolilopes ah eabli 001111x8111 a3d its besolt8 i am a bachelor i have pawed that an- ofrtain period of lite when the mind and heart go hand in hand and make the visible being play many a foolish game my lot such as i find it is the result of choice not of necessity i am not given to relating my history espscially that portion of it wblch- pertains to early events bat for the sake of introducing mysell to those who are as yet to become my acquaintances i shall ontjfiis occasion disregard what has tuttftrto been with me an inviolate role reticence in doing sol exact bat one condition is is chat no confidences will be betrayed your word is enough though im a man of the world once in my wanton sportive yoatb i knew a girl she was fair and beautiful as the first blush of a june morning her nature was of tho ardent sort slightly ting ed with the mercurial my love for her was a passion and my attentions were unceasing we beguiled the long summer evenings un der the shadow of an umbrageous oak that formed part and parcel of a quiet sylvan retreat we always selected this spot because it seemed bjst suited for our reflections and discourses which were not meant for tha vul gar ear we talked of love with a pious rever ence and delighted to peer into the future which we believed had forussomuch real joy hope was buoyant then and life wis all a dream my fair love i put emphasis on the my for so i regarded her showed at tunes a disposition to coquetry but this in my innocence i construed into an awakening passion for me i therefore made no attempt to repel but rathei to encourage it my dtar said i to her one night when a sharp bretze was blowing our way per mit me to throw this plaid over you im afraid you will oatch a cold oh samuel i she said and her eyes spoke more tenderly than her words how kind and thoughtful thanks hat you mast share it with me your silken moustache is still in its infancy and might die you know if not properlj protected i made a slight but ineffectual protest with fussy eagerness as if to outdo my consideration for her she threw a part of the plaid over my back and head and so both of us wore protected from the wind it was a habit of mine in those days to stroke and trim my incipient moustaohe al most incessantly for like most youths of my age i took an unconscious pride in my sole adornment this babit was not unobserved by my young lady and she took the first i opportunity of reminding me of it in her own way not long after this when we were both together i expressed my admiration of a beautiful locket suspended by a chain which she wore ronnd her nook because i knew this would please her who gave you this ethel and whose hair does it contain i asked she sighed firs and then addressing me in a tone that invited sympathy she said i reoeived that locket from a dear aunt she gave it to me before she died tha hair it contains was hers she saidit would keep me in remembrance of her it is the only locket i have and if my annt had not died i would not have had one at all but ive worn this one for soma time now and it seems to be getting old dont you think so samuel t i confess that i was rather innocent at this time but i was not altogether obtuse i understood the purport of the hint i deni ed myself of some personal comforts and procured her the best lcoket my meagre ex chequer could afford she expressed her gratitude very fulsomely as most women are in the habit of doing and assured me that i was the first gentleman who had been fo vary kind to her tha vary next evening 1 was with her she said samuel do you love anyone do i love anyone i repeated in amaze ment x 0 ethel i continued have you been so blind after all those no i hwe not been blind she inter rupted i know you love one dearly very dearly samuel hope now took the place of emprise i only wished she would go on in the same strain yes dear i said encouragingly you are right samuel she said takicg one of my hands and placing it in hers a voice whii- prd tome this morning that you loved only one and can you truess etbil who that one t is i said grasping both her hands yes the voice whispered to me the an swer and it is yourself we walked home by the usual route the birds were still twittering in the branches while others sang their vesper lays before retiring to rest ethel was particularly lighthearted i was the reverse in her jocose manner she said aha just wished to test me yonng men require testing but yon musnt think me severe samuel and while she smiled at ma merrily she watched me from the aides of her eyes before we parted i said ethel is our love to continue or am i to be dlsill jsioned 1 disillusioned she echoed thats the word i said rather snap pishly have i not loved yon with all the love any one can bestow on another and have you not seemed to reciprocate it just as ardently and have i not rut implicit con fidence in your professions 0 samuel i never meant at this point a handsome young gentleman canu swaggering up to the gate at which we stood a friend of mine whispered ethel to me excuse mo poodby yes rather better than a slight acquaint ance well sam he said and a bright smile lit cp hli countenance i never had an in tense love for the girl bat i dont mind con fessing to yon that i did like her her bright jolly manner suited me although i be lieve she was something of a aire and at what period may i ask did you hsvo this love for ethel r i asked be- commlng interested bat endeavoring to disguise it well as yon know i have been acquain- ed with ethel smart for a long time but about a year ago i became attached to her and since then up to within a few days of her marriage we were a very great deal to gether said jack did she ever tell you that she met another yonng gentleman frequently daring the period she and yon were so in timate i asked 0 no of course not said jack shiug- glng his shoulders and she asked me to say nothing about our interviews and walks lest it might make other girls jealous did she ever say that she loved only you she did and jack laughed heartily jacks frank confession encouraged me to follow his example jaok raid i we are two of a kind what do you mean he asked seeming much puzzled i mean that i too was a lover of ethel smart that our oourtahip was in pro gress exactly at the same time yonrs was jack still looked puzzled but could not help smiling sho had a most ingenious way of getting giftsout of one i continued let me give yju one instance bat this must go no fur ther the whole of tbis conversation i take it is confidential said jack very good one night when we wero out together i admired greatly a looket she wore i received that locket from a dear aunt she said she gave it to me before she died the hair it contains was hers she said it would keep me in remembrance of her it is oho only locket i have and if my aunt had noi died i wouldnt have had one at all but ive worn this for some time now and it seems to be getting old jack burse into an uncontrollable fit of laughter after he had resovered in a man ner still looking intensely amused would you be surprised to learn he said that i am that dear annt we both laughed heartily now and jack continued but recently i noticed that the locket i gave her had been replaced by another which she told me she received from her grandfather and that she merely wore it occasionally to pless him and here said i stands that grand father after a good laugh we shook each other heartily by the hand admitting that we had been cleverly checkmated by the adroit ethel the gentleman sho married was in her eye all the time and she managed to elude detection by him in keeping company with others by the simple fact that at the time he was very frequently out of town suffice it to say their married life was not a bappy one the most pleasant illusions of youth which time arrests and experience condemns leave an impression on the mind neverthe less which is destined to be- more or less permanent to influence the life in an exact ratio the impression which this disappoint ment made upon me has not been eradicated even at this distance of time and up to the present i have not regarded the fair sex with unmixed favours haitian storm the rainy season commences in hayti dur ing april and continues till september after several months of dry weather one breathes again as theeast wind brings the welcome rain which oomes with a rush and a force that bends the tallest palm tree till its branches almost sweep the ground sometimes writes spenser st john who spent twelve years among the haytians while dried up at portauprince we could see for weeks the rain clouds gathering on the mcrse de 1 hopltal within a few miles of us anctyet not a drop would come to refresh our parched gardens during the great heats the rain is not only weloome for its cooling effect upon the at mosphere bat as it comes in torrents it rush es down the streets sweeps olean all those that lead to the harbor and carries before it the accumulated filth of the dry season in very heavy rains the cross streets are flooded i nnver saw more vivid lightning heard louder thunder or knew heavier rains than visit hayti i had often read of a olap of thunder f rm a dear sky but had never heard anything like the one that shook our house near portauprince we were sitting a large party on our broad veranda about eightoclock in the even ing a beautiful starlit night the stars in fact shining so brightly that we could almost read by their light when a olap of thunder whloh appeared to burst just over our roof took our breath away it was awful in its suddenness and strength no one spoke for a minute or two then by a common impulse we left the house and looked up into a perfectly clear sky at a distance however on the summits of the mountains was a gathering of blaok clouds and within half an hoar one of the heaviest storms i have ever seen was upon us with thunder worthy of the clap whioh had first startled us k i left home ior an extended tour and on my return some months afterwards ethel was married almost the first one i met was an old college companion jack brisk ly was a tall dark quiet looking fellow whose heart was the personification of gen erosity glad to see yon back again look ing remarkably well by jove he said shak ing me friendly by the hand d yon know the latest he continued i signified my ignorance by a movement of my head ethel smart is married so i understand i said drily did yon know her well a genius for business solomon siberstein dot poy nf mlna vos mate mit a berfect chenlua for petziness isaacs dis moraine he vent to haf bis hair gat mit a fifecent parper in roosevelt street and ven i see him dere in de chair he vos eading his loonoh vile de parper vos gifiog him a shamboo i how past they leave this world a german statistician says there are at present 304 languages spoken by the inhabitants of our globe whose religious convictions are divided between 1000 dif ferent confessions of faith the number of males is nearly equal to that of the females the average duration of life is 33 years onefourth of tha population of tho earth dies before attaitiog the 17th year of 1000 persons only one reaches the age of ico j ears and not more than six that of 63 years the entire population of the globe is upward of 1200000 000 of whom 35214000 die every year 96480 everyday 4020 every hour 67 every minute and 1 and a fraotion every second on the other hand the births amount to 36792000 every year 100800 every day 4200 every hour 70 every min ute 1 and a fraction every second mar ried people live longer than the unmar ried the temperate and industrious longer than the gluttons and idle and civilized natiovs longer then the uncivilized tall persona enjoy a greater longevity than small ones women have a more favor able chance of life before reaching their fiftieth year than men but a less favor able one after that period the proportion of married persons to single ones is as 75 to 1000 persons born in spring have a more robust constitution than those born at other seasons births and deaths occnr more frequently at night than in the day time it may finally be added that only onefourth of the mafe inhabitants of the globe grow up to carry arms or perform military service i human eemains boasted and exported intelligence from the solomon group of islands shows that a shocking state of affairs was prevalent massacres being frcqrent owing to internecine wars this was the oase at savu guadaleanor and san chris- toral it seems that the coast tribes had become exasperated with the bush people by continual petty thefts of pigs and other belongings an expedition in force was or ganized by the coast people and terrible slaughter was the result at one place 30 men women and children were massaored in a single village cannibalism was ram pant and it was said that in one oaso at least where a number of prisoners wero oaptured the people after being slain were roasted their bodies being afterwards cut up paoked in leaves and exported to other islands for distribution the raids were said to be taking place very frequently and were attended with the same horrors wives and families had been captured in numbers and in cases where they were not killed they were sold ino slavery by their conquteroo this latter was the ate partic ularly with tno boys and girls the schoon er enterprise whicu brought the news of the shocking occurrences reported that the people on come of the islands were implor ing the captains of vessels to take them from the plaoe as they were afraid of being massa ored it was said the natives showed them selves very willing to work but the raids prevented anything being done for the crops so that the places were in a very bad taste magistrate to prisoner were you born in pannsyjvany prisoner yes bir magistrate brought up in that state prisoner yes i have been brought up in pennsylvany and every other state in the union too when 1 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