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From Gleason’s Literary Companion.
THE ADVENTURES
OF A BASHFUL MAN.
BY CLARA AIOI'STA.
Harry Gordon Singleton made Lis debut
into tin’s world on a Friday. We deem this
fact worth chronicling, since it was an event
of some importance to our hero, and be
cause we hope to show unbelievers that the
old saw about the unluckiness of Friday is
correct. From his vety birth, Harry was
stigmatized. He was an exceedingly pretty
babe, fair complexioned, blue eyed, brown
haired, plump and rosy; but he was endow
ed with an heritage far worse than a hunch
back, a club foot, or a squint-eye —he was
bashful ! When the ladies came to look at
him in his cradle, and to pronounce him
“a little beauty—the express image of his ;
pa,” the little “sweet” would invariably
put bis fat fist into his mouth and hide his
interesting face in the pillow. He could not
be won by sugar-plums or peanuts; be
would bide behind his mother’s robes when
asked for a kiss, and if a stranger attempted i
to take him up, said sti anger usually got !
the worst of it, in the tvay of kicks and
scratches.
So it came to pass that, although people
called Harry a charming little thing to his
mother ; they expressed themselves aside in j
very different terms, and maligned poor j
Harry’s infantile character to an unheard of
extent. To have listened to the private
conversation oL half-dozen old gosajns on ‘
this point, you would have had no doubt in j
your mind but Harry Singleton was the |
most accurate edition of original sin extant. !
Mrs. Singleton—a fair-faced, handsom
woman—regretted very greatly this unfor
tunate trait in the temperament of her be- j
loved firstborn, and used every endeavor to I
break Li in of it, but without success, and j
Harry grew up to youth the most beautiful j
and retiring of all human beings. He was, I
also, singular)’ unlucky. No child ever re- j
ceived so many bumps and thumps since |
the fall of Adam ; his forehead was a popu- |
lous archipelago of blue, yellow and black j
bruises, in various stages of coloring. He
never touched a knife without cutting his I
fingers ; he could scarcely eat his meats j
without sticking his folk into his hands, and
at length his father would allow him only a !
spoon with which to take his food—believ
ing that he could do himself no damage
with that pacific instrument, unless he swal
lowed it.
When there was eon pany at the house,
Harry generally retired to an unoccupied
room in the attic, where—having ensconced
himself in the bed which stood there—he
passed the day reading some old novel or
book of history, picked out of tbo great
chest in the garret used for the repository
of rubbish; or, by way of variation, lie
sometimes took refuge in the barn, and
snugly bidden on the hay-mow, spent the
time ill silent mediation on his unfortunate j
destiny, lie would walk a mile around |
through the fields to avoid meeting a young j
lady; and when in the street, if he heard j
the sound of wlierls he would leap over the !
wall or fence and lie prone on the ground j
until the vehicle had passed by.
As he grew older, he lost non© of his pe- j
culiarities, and before lie was sixteen veais
of age, bis mother’s chief difficulty was the
fear that he would live an old bachelor.—
Hundreds of silver dollars could not have
induced him to speak to a girl of his age,
and his father was obliged to forego his
purpose of sending him to the Whitesboys’
school.
Hut notwithstanding Harry’s excessive
hashfulness, he giew up to be a fine fellow
—brave, generous and handsome, and there
was not a girl in town but would have felt
herself honored by bis preference. Harrv,
however, stood aloof from all the the female
sex, and as a natural consequence, he was
the subject of numberless practical jokes,
and the hapless occasion of continual gig
! gling among the gay girls at the singing
1 school.
When Harry was nineteen, Rosalie Wa
fers came to Whitestown to pass some time
j with her aunt, Mrs. Judge Flanders. Rosa-
I lie was a pretty, bright-eyed, mischievous
j fairy of seventeen, and if the truth must be
! confessed, she took quite a liking to hand
; some, bashful Harry Singleton; butof course
j she was too much of a coquette to allow
I Harry to guess it. He, on his part, thought
| jiiuiself dead in love, thongh he dared not
I raise, his eyes to the peerless face of his guid
ing-star. For whole days he racked his
| brain, planning how he should address her,
but without deciding upon anything definite,
j One night, at. singing-school, a bold idea
flashed across bis brain ; its verv boldness
made it seem practicable. He would offer
to escort Rosalie home !
It was an audacious act, and Harry trem
bled in every limb at the thought of it: a
cold perspiration started out of every pore ;
, his hair nearly stood erect, and his face
1 flushed hot as the bosom of Vesuvius, n©
1 atteijfj'jfc losing, but his fine teuor voice
broke dowir; he coughed, hemmed, and
flourished his handkerchief, and was at last
obliged to sit down in despair.
The exercises of the evening closed ; Har
ry seized his hat and rushed for the entry,
where he took his station in full view of the
door through which Rosalie would emerge.
Her crimson hood appeared in the doorway,
and his teeth chattered in his head, but his
resolution was unshaken. He made a sortie
in her direction, knocking over little James
Brown, the barber, and fearfully mutilating
the new calash of Miss Winn, the milliner,
in the act; hut these were minor affairs,
and not worthy of his notice. He touched
the shoulder of Rosalie.
“ May I—may I—go home with you to
day—to-night—this evening?” stammered
he.
She put her little hand within his arm.
and they went out together into the star
light. Harry seemed to tread on air. This
world was this world no longer, but the
charmed paradise of impossibility; and he
dared not speak, lest he should break the
spell.
The little lady, too, was strangely silent,
and the entire distance to the house of Judge
[ Flanders was passed without a word. At
the door Harry would have bidden his com
panion goodnight, but she retained his hand
and drew him into the parlor ; and there
the light of the chandelier fell full on the
face of the pretty laughing woman, and with
I dread dismay Harry saw that not Rosalie,
I but Mrs. Judge Flanders herself, stood be
| fore him. He had waited on the aunt, and
not the niece ! He littered an exclamation
; and started up to retire, but Mrs. Flanders
j gnodhumoredly detained him.
j “ Don’t go, Harry,” she said kindly, “ you
j really did bravely. lam proud of you; 1
knew from the first that you had made a
I mistake, hut was fearful you would never
1 try sg.ain if I denied your escort. Rosalie
I will Leyji soon ; w ait for her.”
“ Indeed, ma’am—l—l—should be happy
to —not to— in fact, ma’am, I believe I am
! wanted at home.”
Harry started for the door backwards,
| but instead of choosing that by which he :
; had entered, he boiled out into the dark j
j kitchen and seiz’d the handle of the first j
door that offered. Mrs. Flanders was fol- j
! lowing close, but before she could utter a
: single word she heard his “ good night,”
t succeeded immediately by a seties of thumps
and rumblings in the direction of the cellar.
The truth burst upon her at once. Har
! ry had taken the cellar-door and had fallen
down the stairs! She seized a light and
I (lew down the steps. There lay Harry, with
: his head in the trough of ashes, and his
1 feet unromantically elevated over the shelf
of a neighboring cupboard. He was con
siderably bruised and stunned, but not oth
erwise damaged. Mrs. Flanders would have
raised him up, but he anticipated her; and
without stopping to shake himself, bounded
up the stairs and made a dive at the outer
door, the ashes streaming out behind him
like a cloud of gray smoke.
The door was opened from without, and
I Rosalie herself appeared. At sight of the
hatless, smoking Harry, she uttered a loud
shriek and fell to the floor, while our hero
dashed over lier prostrate form and took
the track for home, at a speed unequalled in
j the annals of foot races. Breathless and
i used up genes ally, the young man reached
I home, crawled in at a hack window and
| retired to his bed, which he kept for three
! days afterward.
j In spite of all apologies and flattering
j courtesies from Mrs. Flanders—in spite of
j gentle, affectionate ad vances from the fair.
1 Rosalie herself, Harry Singleton could nev
!er l>e tempted to stey inside the mansion of
the judge: and Rosalie, after waiting two j
years for Harry to make himself agreeable
to her, gave up the vain hope, and became
the wife of a substantial widower with four
children, which was quite a good beginning.
Harry went on his way alone, as his
mother had feared and prophesied, and that
exemplary little woman set about learning
him to repair stockings and replace lost
buttons, with commendable patience. Ho
had studied for the law, had been two years
admitted to the bar, and was a talented and
rising young man. Being also wealthy and
handsome, half the ladies in the village
were in love with him, but he gave them a
i wide berth and passed them by.
Mr. Singleton dabbled somewhat in poli- ;
ties, and at the early age of thirty he was
i elected member of Congress; and in cele
bration of this event a grand dinner in his
honor was given at the Whitestown Hotel.
!Of course the successful candidate must be
present, and etiquette demanded that he l
should bring a lady with hint. The com
mittee of arrangements waited upon hint to
inform bint of this fact, and it may well be
believed that the communication filled him
with vague horror. He begged of the gen
\ tlemen to provide him a partner, if be must
have one, stipulating only that the lady ;
j should not be a young lady ; arid in due \
j course of time be was informed that he was
Ito attend Mrs. Grnbhins, the widow of Dr.
limothy Grubbins, the wealthiest, as well
!as the fattest and tallest woman in the
whole country.
The eventful evening arrived. Mr. Sin- j
I gleton took Mrs. Grubbins to the hotel in a
j chaise. The lady was magnificently attired :
:in a doubleskirted tarleton, with ribbons,
feathers, and fearfully extended crinoline.
Poor Harry I the thought of escorting
that giantess‘into a room filled with people •
made him sweat like one under the influence
of a powerful dose of ipecachuana. But he
was in for it, and must get out the best way
he could. Mrs. Grubbins, proud and tri
umphant, preceded hirn, breaking the pas
sage, and compelling lesser people to yield
the ground. Just as she arrived on the
threshold of the banqueting ball, she drop
ped her fan ; and just at that moment, the
audience perceived Harry in the baok-
I ground, proposed “three cheers for Hon.
Mr. Singleton !”
Harry stooped to reclaim the fan, and
when the enthusiastic multitude looked for
their champion he was nowhere visible.—
j Cries ran round the room loud and vehe
j ment: “ Mr. Singleton ! where is Mr. Sin-
I gleton ?” and directly Mr. Singleton, look-
I ing very hot and very much confused, ap
I peared from under the upper skirt of Mrs
i Grubbins’ dress-tbat lady having complete
j ly submerged the honorable gentleman in
the folds of her drapery. Gentlemen smiled
in their sleeves, and ladies giggled behind
their handkerchief: Mrs. Grubbins looked
; more regal than ever, and Mr. Singleton
i leaned against a pillar for support.
The announcement of dinner was a great
relief. Judge F'landets presided: Mrs. Gnib
; bins occupied the seat at Singleton’s right:
I Mrs. Flambeaux sat at bis left, and Luov
; Deane, the village belle, was his vis-a vis.
Harry’s posiMon was exceedingly embar
rassing to one of his peculiar temperament.
I lie dared not refuse anything that was offer
led him, lest someone should look at him.
I and the consequence was. his plate literal!v
! groaned beneath its weight of edi hies. To
1 mato sauce—his especial borrow—was pass
ed around : a preserve plate full was alloted
ito him. He tried hard to swallow some.
I but it stuck fast in liis throat : it choked
1 and sickened him, and set him to coughing
I with alarming violence.
“You have taken a severe cold, T pre
• snme ?” remat ked Miss Flambeaux.
I “Yes, madam, thank you, I have.’’ re
turned Singleton, trembling on the verge of
another sneeze.
“Why don't you eat your tomatoes ?” 1
j queried Mrs. Grubbins. “My poor dead
| and gone Daniel used to say that there was ;
! nothing in the whole vegetable equal to to
matoes.”
“No doubt, madam, they are verv fine ;’’
and Singleton essayed a second spoonful.—
That second does had well nigh been too
much for him, and with desperate resolv ,
he watched until the whole company were ,
engaged in drinking a tost, when he tilted
the preserve dish and let its contents run •
into his napkin, which receptacle he whiffed I ,
into liis pocket without delay, and immedi
ately felt easier. A moment afterwards ,
Judge Flanders proposed a sentiment: ,
“The Honorable Harrv Singleton : May ,
be always retain the title of ‘Honorable,’ ,
but may he soon resign bis right to be call-,.
ed Single. It is not good for man to be •.
alone.” |,
The sentiment was drank with applause. ,
Singleton, blushing red hot at the insinua- j
tion conveyed by the words of the judge, ~
thrust his hand in Lis pocket to get his!,
handkerchief, when instead, out came the ’ ,
napkin, tomato and all. lie mopped his ,
forehead vigorously with it, and the luscius
vegetable formed an uncutoua poultice there
on—completely transfiguring his counte
nance. Blinded with the syrup, and half
j dead with mortifh ation, he thrust the nap
kin into his pocket and secured the hand
kerchief, while the astounded company look
ed on in silent amazement.
“Does your nose bleed, sir?” inquired
Mrs. Grubbins, quite audibly.
“ What in Heaven’s name is the matter !” :
I screamed Judge F'landets.
“ Ahem ! only a slight cold, thank you,
sir,” stammered Mr. Singleton.
“Acowld, is it? Faith now, and yer ‘■
honor’s nose must la? afther turnin’ itself in
side out, thin !” exclaimed Mr. O’Toole, the
Irish patriot and orator. ;
Lucy Deane was laughing; Miss Flam- ,
beaux was horrified : Mrs. Grubbins looked ;
shocked : our friend Singleton was nearly
j suffocating with shame. He leaned back
in his chair to recover his breath, and as
soon a he could speak, begged to be excus- j
‘ed a moment; be did not feel quite well.—
| And forthwith lie arose and made for the
door; but—horror of horrors!—he bad sat
‘on the pocket containing the napkin of to
mato, and bis w hite pautaloons were drip- .
ping red with the sanguinary vegetable!
A simultaneous shriek burst from all as
sembled :
’ “ Good heaven, Mr. Singletou is wounded !
I Murder ! murder ! Call a physician ! Seize
1 the murderer! Send for Dr. Spillpowder !
j Quick —he’ll bleed to death! Murder!murdei’ -
I The infuriated audience rushed hither
NUMBER 14.
and thither, and seme one encountering
John, the waiter, with a carving-knife in his
band, took him for the perpetrator of the
I crime, and seized oport him without defay.
John straggled anil swore, and laid about
him with right good will, but he was over
powered by numbers, and at last obliged to
yield. There was a regular fight, and black
eye* and swelled noses were the order of
the day. Tte ladies fled to the ante room ;
Judge Flanders ran for a surgeon, and dnr-
I ing the melee Singleton made his escape. —
No grass grew beneath his feet; he galloped
for home as fast as his legs would carry
him; but the night being dark, and be be
ing slight)*- flustered, he oi.fortunatefy nsis
; took the Ronse, and entered, uo< Ms owe
residence, but that of a correct old spinster
named Harriet Willis. The bouse were
somewhat similar, and Singleton, without
pausing for a light, rushed up stairs and in
to bis own chamber, as he thought, where,
breathless and exhausted, be flung himself
upon the bed.
Miss Harriet bad retired some time pre
vious, and the sudden advent of Mr. Stngle
i ‘on aroused her from a scond alumber.—
Springing from the bed. regardless of the
fact that her teeth were out, and her natu~
ral curls reposing in the bureau-drawer, she
flew from the house to the nearest neigh
bor's, where, having secured assistance, she
returned to meet the horrified Singleton,
just emerging from the door.
I’oor Harry tried to explain, bnt Miss
W iiiis would listen to nothing : her repu
tation was ruined, she said, and Singleton
must either settle or marry her ! A fiftv
dollar bill, which was given freelv. mended
the broken character, and learned Singleton
1 never to go to bed in the dark.
The atiair at the Whitestown Hotel was
rather a serious one. The patriot O’Toole
had his nose broken : Dr. Spillpowder broke
iiis horse's wind to get there before Single
ton should bleed to death; John, the wait
er. broke the heads of the half-dozen gen
j tlemen who assisted in his capture: and
Judge Flanders broke a'! the bnttons off bis
waistbands running after the surgeon and
shouting murder.
Mr. Singleton is yet unmarried —as fine a
i fellow as you would wish : and if you want
to see blushing, iust mention tomato sauce
to him.
Strnnse Orcnrrviice—A ’l ll idcrcr
wanders six years, and at last give him’
1 self up to Justice.
A man named Samuel Stanley, who lias
been, according to his own storv. a wander
er for the last six years, has voluntarily sur
rendered himself to the sheriff at St. Fan?.
Minnesota, and desires to be sent back to
I L abel county. \ a., where he savs he is
I charged w ith the homicide of a man named
I’eyton. The murder took place six rears
ago. He tacitly confessed his gnilt in stat
ing that the homicide was caused bv his
, having discovered I’eyton in criminal con
nection with his wife, and by saving that he
did not think his punishment would exceed
a short term in the penitentiarv. For the
past three years Stanley (who is a native of
Ohio) has worked in Miunesota, and previ
ously in Wisconsin. He recently returned
from a visit to Pembina, on the Red river.
The editor of the St. Paul Pioneer, who Lad
an interview with him in jail, savs:
Without manifesting much contiision for
the crime, or fear of punishment, he imagin
ed, wherever be lived, that everybody look
ed upon him as a murderer. The elements
even whispered in his ears, when he had
abandoned the society of men. and lived
aloue in the depths of the forest. Conse
quently be has had no abiding place for six
years, but has roamed through the country
from Texas to Minnesota, suffering, as he
says, more than a hundred deaths. At last,
almost worn out, he came to the conclusion
to deliver himself up. that after the sentence
of the law had been executed, he might
again live among his friends, or make a
home where he would be undisturbed bv its
terrors. The tale of the wanderings is
strange and interesting—so strange that it
occurred to us that his mind was not sound,
but we could detect no evidence of mental
aberration, and nothing in his conduct that
could not be reeoneild iu view of the awful
crime he had committed.
Strumous or Scrofulous are the curse, the
blight, the potato rot of mankind. Thev are
vile and filthy as well as fatal. Thev arise
from contamination and impuriety of the
blood, and are to be seen all around us ev
erywhere. One quarter of all we meet are
tainted w ith them, and one quarter of these
die of them : die foolishly too, because they
arecurable. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla cleanses
out the Scrofulous corruption from the blood,
renders it pure and healthy, and effectually
expurgates the foul contamination from the
system. No longer groan under vour Scro
fulous disorders, since the irresistible Ayer
1 has provided bis masterly combination of
’ curative virtues that he calls Sarsaparilla.
1 — Democrat, Waterbary, Ct.
What key opens the door to misery aud
1 ruin ! Ans. Whis key.
Will any one through the Farmer’s De
partment, inform a poor man the best way
! to start a nursery I Certainly— get married.
Wife (complainingly)—“l haven’t more
than a third of the bed.”
Husband (triumphantly)—■“ Well, that’s
• I all the law allows you.”