The Lebanon express., February 28, 1890, Image 4

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-.' IlliVsil.l.V STOUT
I was born in Clioupsido. almost be
iientb the bolls of IW on October 5, In
the year of grace 1 being the lift h mid
youngest child nt Solomon tUuhcriugioii
mid I'rudeut. his wife My father u
a cituten uiid glover, a member of I lit
Honorable Company of (i lovers, hlsumbi
lion being always lo be fleeted before
becoming lord mayor, muster of his .i
puuy These ambitions are laudable in u
citv merchant, yet. altia, they i sre not
always attained ami tn my unhappy
lather's disc tliey were very fur from
being reached, a you shall presently heur
There is. I u:u told. some quality in the
Iomlou mi which ranseth I lie city. In
spite of mucb Unit is foolish as regard
cleanliness, to be a hculthy place, und
tuvoruble to children that, for my
own part, though I wu brought up in the
verv ceuler uud heart of ths city, with no
green fields to run In. nor any gnrdous
save those belonging to the Drapers' com
lMiy. t. as wetl an my brother and sis
lers, was a healthy and well faring child
up to the age of 8. when I, with all my
brurhers and testers, wan afflicted with
turn scourge of mankind. 8umllox Thin
dread fill dinertse. to the unspeakable grief
of my parents killed their four eldest
children, and spared none but iryself. the
yoTiRvat ntid a giri I recovered so far
slim, although 1 wus weakly and ailing
txi h long tune. I wa not marked by a
nuiU'lo spot or any of those ugiy pita,
winch sometimes ruin many a woman's
iieuiity and thereby rob her of that ehoie
est blessing, the love of a husband So
different, however, v.as I from the stout
and hearty girl before the smallpox, that
uiy parents were advised that the lxst
chance to save my life this burnt; ("r the
time their chief and even their only hope
waa to send me into the country, there
to live Ui fresh, pure air. running in the
sun. and fed on oatmeui porridge, good
milt, fat bacon and new laid eggs
Then my father bethought him of bis
own mother who lived fur away Indeed
from Loudon, namely at W ark worth. hi
Northumberland And be proposed to ny
mot her that they should take this long
journey, carrying me with thorn, and leave
me for awhile in charge of my grand
i:iei ber, which being done, and my health
showing signs of amendment, they were
enlist rained to go back to their own btisi
iiewi. leaving m la good bands, yet with
Mirniwful hearts, because they wens going
Inline without me And for six or seven
s-arv I saw them no more
No girl, lo bo sure, had tinder treatment
i i..t-fr tnrt n I rrprlt trnvnrnt tlmti mviuilf
51 f crandmotber. Dame Betberington
though not lady by birth, but only
a farmer's daughter lived hi the bonne
which standii outside the town, beyond
the bridge, among the trees
My grandmother wah wise woman,
and reflected that, as I was sent away from
Ixiiidon In order to recover my health and
grow strong, i was allowed and eucour
aged lo run about in the open air as much
as possiBle. so that, as this part of I'.ng
land In quite wile, and there are here tew
gypsies (who mostly may on the other side
of Cheviot) nor any robber on the rrrad
nor. Indeed any road at all to signify 1
very soon crew to knew the whnlecountry
within the 'ach of a hearty girl s feet
There i i.ient.y lo nee. ihonch this part
of North :.iOcilanil is flat, while the rest
is wild ah.! mountainous There are the
rums of ihe old castle, alxmt which n Is
always nlea.-taiil for a child to run uud
climb, or for a grown person lo meditate
on the vanity of earthly things, seeing
that this pile of ruins was once u i:r-ut
and stately castle, and this greensward
tras once hidden beneath the feet of fierce
soldiers, who now are dust and ashes in
the grave yard From the ensile one looks
down upon the Coquet, which would ever
continue in my eyes the sweetest of rivers
even were I to see the far famed Tiber
or the silver Thames, or the great fianges
or the mysterious Nile, or even the sacred
Jordan
Higher up the river wa Morwick Mill
when Ralph Einbleton lived with his
undo
Beyond the town, half a mile out to
sea. lies the little Island of Coquet llulph
once rowed me across the narrow channel,
und we explored the dewrt island mul
thought of Hobinson Crusoe which be had
read and told me But this was belore
the time when we took to protending at j
In those days, which seem to have been J
so happy, and I dare say were, Ralph was
frse. und could come and go as plenseo
him best. uve thut he went every morn
ing to the vicar, who taught him Units
and Greek, and sometimes remembered
but in kindly moderation the advice of
Solomon The reason of this freedom
was thut his uncle, with whom ho lived
loved the lad greatly, and Intended great
things for him. even designing thut lie
should become a great scholar and go to
Cambridge Tor once there was a member
of his family who took to learning and
rose from being a poor scholar in that
university, which bus ever been a kindly
nur.iO or foster mother of poor scholars,
to be a doctor of divinity and a bishop,
hut my Ralph was never to bo a bishop or
even a doctor of divinity And a aa-J
cbtuigo was to happen at the mill.
Every iuly wm our friend In those days,
from Mr Cuthbert Caruaby. justice of
the peace, and the vicar, down to Sailor
Nan und hr lodger. Dun Gedgo. the
Btronir Man. Everybody had a kind word
for "Ralph, and nobody told me then how
wicked it was to run about with a Iwy of
such unnatural depravity This, as ymi
will see. was to eciino lie was a tall Isiy
for his years, and he was six years older
than myself, which proves how good ua
tured he must have been, for tew boys of
1.1 or Hi cure for the companionship of a
girl of U or It) As for bis tm'u. it has al
ways been the dourest face In the world
to me. uud always vill be. so thut I know
not whether other people would call It
bundsoniu face His eyes were eager, as
if which was the case he always v;ante(
to lie up and doing They were blue
eyes, because he was a Northumberland
lad. yet not soft and dreamy eyes, as Is
! too often the case with the people of the
nort h (lis f aiv was oval itnd bis feat
ures r!guliir fie carried his head thrown
back, and walked erect with Imth hands
reudy. as if there was generally a fight to
be expected, and It was well to bo pre
pared To be sure. Ralph was one of
those who love a fight and do not sulk If
they are beuteu. but bide a bit uud then
ou airaiu
When Ralph was nearly 15. a great
and terrible misfortune befell him Uls
uncle. Mr Humuul nmbletou. though nut
an old man. died suddenly After lie was
buried It was found that ho had left by
will Morwick Mill, and the farm, his
household furniture, his IxMiks, which
were nut many, and all the money ho had
in the world, to Ralph as Ins solo heir
This inheritance proved at first the cause
of great uuhappiiieks to the poor boy
For.uufortuiiately. the will mimed Mat how
Humble as iruardian ' und executor, to
whom the lestutor devised his best wig
and bis best coat, with his Mjcond best
! bed and a gold headed stick Now it
j angered Mat hew to think thut be lie
i lag also nephew and sister's son of
Samuel LUubleiou. of Morwick Mill, was
j left no part or portion of this goodly
; heritage It would seem that, knowing
j his uncle's design to send Ral ph to Cam
bridge, and his hope that he would be
come a credit to the family and a pillar of
the church, he bud boS'd ami even grown
to beliee Gmily and to expect it as a
right, that the mill at least, if not the
farm, or a portion of It. would be left to
him It was. therefore, a bitter blow for
him to find that be was left nothing at all
except what he could make or save as
guardian cf the boir and administrator of
J the estate, with free quarters at the mill
for six years burely for a man of pro
bity aud common sense that would have
been considered a great dual
He came with his sister, who was as
mucb disappointed as himself, in a spirit
of rancor, malice and envy He regarded
the Innocent boy as a supplanter The
first thing he did was to Inform bin) thut
be should have do skulking or idleness
lie therefore put a stop to the Latin and
Greek lessons witb the vicar, and employed
the boy about the work of the place, giv
ing him the hardest and most disagrees
ble tasks on the farm For freedom was
substituted servitude, for liberty, re
straint; for affection and kindness, baron
language and continual Hoggings, while
Barbara, with her tongue, that ill gov
erned weapon of a woman, made him feel
for the first time in bis life bow Idle, bow
useless, how greedy a creature be was
The boy bore with all. as meekly as was
bis duty, for quito two years But be
often came to mu or to the fugleman with
fists clinched, declaring that be would en
flure this ill usage no lunger, and asking
in wonder what be had done to deserve it
Aud at s;::eb times he would swear lo leave
the mill, and run away aud seek his fort
tine anywhere somewhere in the world
It was always in his mind from the first,
when Mathew began his ill treatment,
that he would run sway and seek his fort-
; une In this design he was strengthened
by the example of my father, who left the
t village when a boy of 14 to seek his fort
' une. uud found you shall hear presently
what he found I dihsuuded him its much
as I could, because it wits dreadful for me
lo think of being left without him.
or of his running about the country
helpless uud friendless The fugleman, j
who kuew the world and had traveled far, j
jKjinted out to hitu very sensibly thut ho
would have to eiiiluro this liurdncss for a
very short time lunger, that ho was al-
ready Hi and us tull us most men. and ,
could not for very uliume Iks flogged mucb j
longer, while as for Barbara's tongue, he J
declared that a brave man ought not to ;
value what a woman said, let her tongue j
run as free as the sergeant at drill of re i
cruits. no more than the price of a roX)
end. and again, that In Cve years' time, as
soon as Ralph wus 21, he would have the
fight to turn his cousin out of the mill,
which would then become his own prop
erty, and a very pretty property, too,
where an old friend would expect to Qud
a pipe and a glass of Hollands or rum
And he promised himself to assist at the
ducking in the river which he supposed
that Ralph would give his cousin when
that huppy day should arrive, as well as
at the great feast and rejoicing which he
supposed would follow Tho result of
these exhortations, to which were added
those of my grandmother, was that he
remained at home and when Mathew
Uumblo cruelly belabored hiru he showed
no anger or desire for revengo. and when
Barbara smote him with harsh words und
found toxts out of the Biblo to taunt him
with ho made no reply Nor did he robol
even though tiiey treated hirn as if he
were a common plowboyaud funn drudge.
Instead of the heir lo all
I confess, and have long felt sincerely,
the wickedness of the thing which at
length brought open disgrace upon poor
Ralph, and drove him away from us Vet.
deserving of blame and punishment as our
actions were, I cannot but think that the
couduct of Mathew in bringing the chief
culprit be knew nothing or iny share or
of the fugleman's lief ore his worship,
Mr Justice Caruaby, was actuated more
by mulice than by an honest desire to
bi'tug criminals lo punishment Resides
he hail lot Hume months before this been
spreading abroad wicked rumors uImiuI
Ralph Huyiug umntig uihei false and
malicious things that the boy was idle
gluttonous, lying aud even thieving in
soinuch that the vicar who kuew the uon
tnn v and thut the boy was as good a lad
as ever walked though fond of merriment
and a little headstrong isnly rebuked
him tor malice and evil thinking, suyuifj
plainly that these things were not so uud
that. If they were so Mathew was much
o Illume in hluhbiliK I hem about the
niiinlrv rather tliali Irving l" oorroct tlie
I wd m faults and doing his tsst to bide
them from the general knowledge Vet
there are some who always believe whut
ik spoken to one's dispraise, and sour hsiks
and unfriendly tmvx were bestowed upon
the boy while my grandmother k
wanted not lo allow me to run wild with
d lull of so notorious a bad chumi'tet This
is all thill I meant when I suul just now
Ibut at first all were our Iriemls
When Ralph was gone I usik little Joy
in anything until I gut uiy first letter from
hiui. winch was not foi a very long time
Afterward
Now. one day. as I was walking sorrow
fully home, having sal all the afternoon
with the fugleman. I saw bailor Nun
iMi'kouiug to me from bur stone outside
the door
"Child." she said, "where's your sweet
heart?"
"Aluefc," 1 replied, 'i know not. Sailor
Nan ."
Young maids." sho went on. "must
not puke uud pine because they bear
nothing for a while of the lads they love
Be of good cheer Why. I read him his
fortune myself In his own left hand Did
my fortunes ever turn out wrong? As
good a tule of luck and fair weut lier as
I ever read. Come, child, give me thy
hand; lot me read your lines too, "
It Is strange bow In the lines of one's
hand are depicted beforehand all the cir
cumstances of Itfe, easy to be read before
bond by those who are wise. Yet Lava I
been told that it Is not enough to learn
the rules unless you have the gift.
"lie will come back." she repeated.
"lie wilt come backf ; repealed.
after long looking Into the band. Now,
your own baud Here Is long tine of
life yet not as long as my own. Here Is
the line of marriage a good line; a happy
marriage; a fortun girl yet there will
be trooblo Is it an old man? 1 cannot
rightly read. Something Is In the way
Trouble, and even grievous trouble. But
ail to come right In the end "
"Is my fortune." I asked, "connected
with the fortune of Ralph?"
Khe laughed her rough, bourse sea laugh.
"If il is au old man. of if it is a young
man. say bim nay Bide your old love.
If he press or if he threaten, say him nay
Bide your old sweetheart
"There irn an old mini enm over the lea,
Ilci-lio! lint I won't nave "un;
Came over tti leu,
A-cuurtln' to me,
( Wl' bis old gray (ward Juki, newly iliaon."
She crooned out the words In a cracked
aud rusty vol -a. and pushed my bund
away roughly Thou she replaced her
pipe in her mouth, and went on smoking
the tohucco, which was her chief food
and her chief solace, and took no further
heed of mo.
CHAPTER V.
A SECOND WUITTIN0T05.
Tho sunimor aud tho autumn passed
but no sign or letter camo from Ralph.
The people In tho town ceased, after the
manner of mankind, to think of the boy.
lie was gone mid forgotten, yet there
were two or three of us who spoke and
thought of him continually First, thoro
was tho fugleman, who found his life dull
without the boy to tulk with IIo prom
ised to make a collection of birds' eggs in
the spriug as a present for bim when he
should return. Then there was the old
woman, tiuilor Nun. who kept Ms uiomory
preen Lastly, there were my grand
mother and myself We knew not, how
ever, where he was or anything about
lilm, nor conld we guess what be was do
ing or whither he had gone
Twico In tho yeur, namely at Christmas
or tho New Vear, and at midsummer, I
hud hitlers from my parents, to which I
duly replied It wo in May when Ralph
ran owuy, so thut they hud three letters
from me thut yeur When my Christmas
letters arrived there was mention of our
boy. but so strange a tule that we could
not uiiiierstmid what lo believe or what
the thing might iiieuu
The letter told us that .Ralph reach oil
at a cn
.III ' - f
London safely hi. four or five weeks after
leaving us. Iiuvlng walked all the way.
save for such trifling lifts snrt helps us
might be had for nothing on the roiut, he
found out my lather's shop he gave Mm
the letter he slept tn the liniisu, und was
hospitably inilert allied In the morning
he was taken by my fat lint In the iust
IiuIium company's grout ti-iusu ui Coriiliill.
,iinl Ion there by him to tall; with a eit
lleiiiau ulHiiit the obtaining of u post In
tliutr service, that, the conversation (hi
ished, being dismissed by the gentleman
with whom he had taken counsel, lutlpll
left the olllee Then be disappeared, uud
was seen no more Nor to the Inquiries
made whs there any answer given or any
news of bun ascertained 'So wicked Is
tins unhappy town, " wrote my mother.
that men are capable of murdering even
'in iiinoceiii lad from the country fur the
sake ol the sliver buckles, m tho very
oat upon his back Yet lliore are other
ways in winch he luuy have Usui drawn
way He loved not the thought of city
lite be limy have taken the recruiting
stirgeuiit s shilling, or he nitty have been
pressed for a sailor and sent to sou, or,
which heaven forbid. h limy have been
doeoyed Into bad company, and now be In
the company of rogue Whatever the
cause, he Imlb disappeared and mudo no
sign. Vet lis seemed a good and honest
lad "
So perplexed wore wo with the atrange
and untuielllgihle intelligence that, after
turning it about In talk fur a wnuk, it was
resolved that wo would consult Mr Cur
mi by in the niattur It would porhups
have been better if wo had kept the thing
to ourselves For this gentleman, though
he kindly considered the case, could do
nothing to remove the dreadful doubt
under which we lay, except thut bo re
commended us to patience and re-si-ua
tloii. virtues of which. Ileuvnn knows! we
women who stay at home must needs con
tluuully practice We should. I say . have
done better hud we held our tongues. Is
cause Mr Curuuby told tho barls-r, who
told the townsfolk one by nno. and then II
was whispered about thai Ralph hud
joined the gypsies, according to some, ot
been pressed aud sent to sua, according to
others, or had enlisted, according te
others; witb wild stories told In addition,
born of Imagination. Idle or nialignnnt, as
that be bad Joined a company of common
rogues and robbers, or but I scorn to re
peat these things Everybody, howevur,
at this juncture, remembered the wicked
things said of the boy by bis cousin As
for Mathew himself, overjoyed at tbo wel
come nows, which be received oimui
mouthed, so to RM-ak. lie wont about call
lug all bis acquaintances to witness that
be had long since prophesied ruin and dis
aster to the buy, which, Indeed, to the
fullest extent, a tad so depraved aa to
horsewhip hit own guardian, richly de
served. As fur coming back, he said that
was not llkoly, and indeed, impossible
because be was already knocked on tho
bead Mathew was quite convinced of
this In some midnight brawl, or at least
fallen so low that be would never dare to
return among reapectablo people, These
things we could not believe, yet they sank
into our hearts and mado us uneasy. For
whore could the boy be, and why did he
not send us one letter, at least, to tell us
what he had done, aud how ho had fared?
"Child, said my grandmother, "it is
certain that Mathew does not wish his
cousin to return Ho bears ualico in his
heart against tho boy, and he roinotiibor
that should he never gut hack tho mill
will Is) his own " Already he began to
give himself the airs of the master, and
to talk of selling a Held here aud a hold
there, and of Improving the proixirty. a;
If all was his
"He will come buck." Bald tho fugle
man. "Brave hearts and lusty legs do
not get killed Maybe ho hath enlisted
Then lie may have gouu a-soldierlng t
America, or somewhere in the world, uu.l
no doubt will got promotion ay. corporal
first, sergeant next, uud perhaps bu niinic
fugleman Or may be. as your lady mother
says, he hath been pressed, and Is now ut
sea. so thut lie cannot write. But, wherever
he is, bu sure he is doing wuli. . Where
fore, heart up!"
Well, to shorten the story, wo g'ot no
news ut all. and could never discover, for
many yearn, what hud become of the boy
When four years hud passed by w ithout
a word or line from him, Mathew grow
horribly afraid. Isfcause Ralph's one-mid
twentieth birthday drew near, and ho
thought the time wus come whim tho heir
would appear and claim his own. Whut
preparations ho mado tn receive liim I
know not Perhaps a blinuloi'hiiHH and ii
cup of poison But the tiny pas..ed. aud
there was no sign of Ralph Then. Indeed,
Mathew hecanieqiiitocoi'tuiii thut ho would
no more ho di.sturled and that tlio mill
was his own
As for myself, I sat nt homo chiefly
with my grandinnt her. who was now bu
ginning to grow old, yet brisk uud ttota
blu still There wus a great deal to bo
done, and the days pass swiftly to Indus
trious bauds, yet not oiiu so busy and
not one so swift but I could find time
to think and to pray for Ralph.
JSt.ill the fngelniuii kept up my lieurt.
arid Sailor Nun swore, as If slut was
still cuptum of the forntop, l hut hi)
would come homo snfe I was young,
happily, and youth is tho time for hope
Aud about the end of tlio sixth yeur I
had cause lo think uhout other things,
because my own misfortunes began
I bad long observed III the letters cif rny
dear parents a certain dilTcroneo, which
cnnai.itnt.ly caused doubt und questioning,
for my mother exhorted mo continually.
In every letter, to the practice of frugal
Ity, thrift, simple living, und tho ucquisi
lion of housewifely knowledge, und. in
short, all those virtues which especially
adorn the condition of poverty Shu also j
imvor failed to bid tno rellnet upon the ttti
enrtuinty of hiimuu affairs und Mie Insta
bility of fortniio; and cvory lettor fin
iiislmd examples of rich men become poor,
and grout ladles reduced tn beg tlmlr
bread My grandmother bade ms lay
these things to heart, and I per
felved that she wus disttirlmd, and
she would hava writ ton to my father
to ask If things were going III. but for
two reasons Th Hrst wus that she could
neither read nor writo, those arts not hav
ing bcon taught her In her childhood; and
I testify t hat sho was none the worse for
want of them, but her nat ural shrewdness
even Increased, because she hud to dtqiend
upon herself, and could not still bo run
ning to a book fur guldunco The second
reason was that the letters of my fathor.
both to bur and to myself, were full of
glorious anticipation and cotilhlonce Yes,
while my inotlior wroto In sudncss he
wrote In triumph, when she bade mi
Icurn to scour pots he commanded me to
ntudy tho fashions, when sho prophesied
disaster he proclaimed good fortune.
Thus ho ordered that I was to Imi taught
whatever could be leu rued In so remote a
towu as Wark worth, and thut espiwlul
caro was to be takun In my carriage and
demeanor, begging my grandmother to
observe tho diiMirtment of Mr Car
imhy, and to bid me copy her as an exum
plu, for. he said, a city heiress nut uncom
monly nuii-riod with a gentleman of good
family, though Impoverished fortunes;
that some city heiresses hud of lute mar
ried noblemen, thut as iio hud tin son. .lor
any othor child but myself. I would In
herit the whole of his vast fortune (1
thought how I could give it al. to Ralph),
und. therefore, t must study how to main
tain myself lu the position which 1 should
shortly ovcupy He desired me inpuclully
lo pay very particular att Mti.l in not to
nee ui quite rusica! and countr? bred, and
to remember that tho conimou sjsweh of
Northumberland would raise a laugh In
1uidou With much aiora to the same
ellect.
I say not thut my father wrote U this
In a single hitler, but la several; so that
all these things became Implanted lu my
mind, and bulb my grandmother and my
elf wore. In spite of my mother's letters,
firmly porsuudud that we were already
very rich and considerable people, and
that my futlmr was a ' nien huut of the
greatest renown already a ftinuuon coun
cilman, aud shortly to bo alderman,
sheriff and lord mayor lu tbo city of Lon
don. This belief Was also held by our
nulghliors and friends, and It gave my
grandmother, who was. liesides, a lady of
dignified manners, more consideration
than sho would otherwise have obtained,
with the title of madam, which was
uruly due to the mother of so great aud
nccessful a man.
Now the truth wus this: My father was
the most sanguine of men. and the most
ready to deceive himself He lived con
tluuully (if I may presume to say so with
out breaking tho fifth commandment) in a
foul's paradise When be was a boy
nothing would do for him but be must go
to Loudon, refusing to till the acres which
would afterward be his own. because be
was ambitious, and ardently desired to be
mother Whlttington. 8 the dangers of
tho common chap btsika. In which he had
read tlio story of this great lord muyorl
Ilu so fur resembled Whittingtun that he
went up to Unidon (by wagon from New
.untie) with little lu his pocket,
except a luttor of recommendation
from the then vicur of Wark
worth to his brother, at the time a
jlover In Clieapsido. How ho liecamo
apprentice like Whlttington to this
glover, how he fell lu love like Whitting
tun with his muster's dnughter, how ho
murrled her like Whlttington and In
herited the business, stock, capital, gwsl
will and all. uiuy here only bu thus brielly
told, but by the denth of his master ho
hecumu actual und sole owner of a London,
shop, whereupon, my oor father's bruiu
suing always full of visions, ho wus In
flamed with tho cotiliiletico that now. In
deed, he hud nothing to look for but the
making of nn immense fortune Worse
tliim tills, ho thought that the fortune
would come of its own accord. How a
man living In tho city of London could
omke so prodigious a mistake, I know
not. Therefore ho left tho whole cure of
tho business to his wlfo and his apprentice,
Mid for his owu part sMmt the duy In colToe
houses or on Vhungu, or wherever iner-
jhutitsfttid traders mint together. This
mudo him full of great tulk. and he pres
nntly proceeded to Imngine thut ho hini
olf was concorniid lu tbo great ventures
aud enterprises of which ho heard so
much, or perhaps, liecuuso ho could not
actually have thought himself a merchant
adventurer, ho believed that before long
he also should be embarking .cargoes to
tho Fast uud Wont Ratios, running under
convoy of frigates sufo through the ene
my's privateers It wus out of tlio prolUa
of these Imaginary cargoes thut ho was to
obtain that vast wealth of which ho con
tinually thought ttud tulkud until, in tho
end. he believed that .he possessed it.
Meantime his poor wife, my mother, loft
lu chai-;;e of thu whop, und with her house
hold cures ns well, found, to her dismay,
thut the respectable business which her
father hud made Was quickly falling from
thorn, us thuir old frUmda diud, one by
one, or retired from tmdu, and no now
ones coming in thoir places; foras 1 huvo '
been credibly Informed, the business of a
trudomiiitii or morchunt lu London is so
precurious und uncertuin thut, unless it
bo coiiHtuntly watched, pushed, nursed,
mieourugod, coaxed, fed and fluttered. It '
presently withers away mid porlshos.
(Til UK (UlNTtNt'KII. j
The amount of shortage of Ceh!r
I.ounshury of tho New York postoffue,
who suicided, him been found to roach
$40,000.
A