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rr\ H HE WEEKLY.
,0LDME VII.
miCETABD BY THE SE^
A MEMOS?.
Lijtf waste of years I see
tieShin soft and green
Ugg my memory,
toWOrm °rT S
&ZS2/ZSi— rs
[rchvard by the restless sea,
Sn deep, calm and dreamless sleep,
erc peacefully,
lead lay resting
deeding the tempestuous deep;
*s alike of sun and breeze,
bing of tose changeful seas.
It when shipwreck sea-boat and, town, despair
M to the little
ifomen. with disheveled hair,
the wild shore went hurrying down,
tenderlv dead eyes would close,
DC th’dead limbs for long repose.
UjnT a weary, storm-tossed wight,
jailer year, in quiet was laid,
from the blustering storms of nigh*
this green spot and undismayed,
doss beside the breakers’ roar
fe wrath should mar his rest uo more.
iver each low-sleeping head,
l6 re thymy turf grew green and soft,
fiii bee liummed, and rosy-red
tbrier-flower bloomed, and up aloft
Ly Lies, clouds went drifting by
across the summer sky.
teas the years go by,
|i«by Id one old memories solemnly, creep
|a the sweet past
to see, beside the deep,
pie, lonely, silent spot,
toy a childish dream enwrought.
—Chambers's Journal.
Lover’s Dilemma.
p TOOK THE BBEAX> OTTT OF THE
ETH3 OF A BAKER’S CUSTOMERS.
ited from the Trench for the Phila. Call.
parliu-en-Bigamu was by all odds
)st wearisome town in the whole
meat of the Garonne-Inferieure.
mg its 8,500 inhabitants it con
. only eight pretty girls, a fact
hsgnsted kits all the young men living
limits.
I of these eight pretty girls was
|e, l one daughter of the two of M. rival Agenor bakers Malen
of the
Berthe was sweet 16, and would
had plenty of adorers had not her
pitilessly driven away all the
; men who had ever ventured to
fieven the slightest attention. M.
fed had amassed considerable
■ |,8il m the did wife not wish his daughter
of a gallant without
P cierk, 6 Coquelard, the town notary’s
®1 was gifted with a senti
S( He had just reached that
® the heart opens to love as the
a Sower to the kisses of the
Stanislas thought that Pou
“ oul(i famish him with other
® lhai1 contemplating the broad
Y®ing Ut the nightingales the day and listening to
during the
18 ^ard the close of April, and,
le conscientiously copied the
fe®nents, no
the young clerk
0 the charming Berthe, and
what he conld do to get into
^ aces of her hard-hearted
by the way, was a widower.
aad read in the young girl’s
she was dissatisfied with her
believed that she would
lv etse to accepting his heart
and
K, k ^ ot an °PP°rtumty to
£**** faith in the Was belief twent that L and his
54 come.
8 k° nse was situated oppo
; M er y, and
exchanged through occasionally the
the win
f^etthe. one furtive glance with
Fining L Y Pp ed on at Iris Ul way to the no
0 { f Bertlie e bakery and
° 88 he paid
L;- erolksm eyes after > the
[-6 fashion
man who is desperately
tati f °c intends shall that the object of
«sid know it.
“^ 8 ^ thebaWsda ^hte r was
ag c ffig Stanislas in a way to
6 me gs could not last
out producing the usual
bread during the
was bed and did not rise
ilf-
Independent in All Things.
CONYERS ROCKDALE CO., GA., MAY 30.1884.
frond was still slumbering while await¬
ing the hour at which his nocturnal toil
was to commence, fell at Berthe’s feet
and began a speech, to which he added
the most expressive pantomime. He
ended by asking her to marry him.
Berthe, unused to such masculine elo¬
quence, wa3 melted, and in a low voice
consented to unite her destiny to his.
Stanislas, greatly affected, kissed Ber¬
the several times so enthusiastically that
he awakened M. Malenfrond, who slept
in a chamber over the back shop.
The baker listened, and thought he
recognized the hand of his apprentice
who had been sick for a week. Over¬
joyed, he leaped out of bed. crying;
“Wait a little, my boy, and I’ll help
you knead the bread! I’m coming
down!”
The lovers stared at each other in con¬
sternation. At that instant the stairs
creaked beneath the baker’s heavy tread.
How was Stanislas to escape? The
stairway was between the shop and the
room in which were the two turtle
doves 1
There was not a second to be lost,
Berthe, who had a good head, extin¬
guished the lamp and whispered to the
terrified Stanislas:
“Hide yourself quickly in that chest
over there and don’t be afraid. I’ll take
care of everything!”
Coquelard followed her recommenda¬
tion and felt his way along the wall in
the direction Berthe had indicated with
a rapid gesture. In the darkness he
missed the chest but encountered the
dough trough; he felt a lid beneath his
fingers, lifted it, and, as nimbly as a
squirrel in daDger, leaped into the box.
He came down amid the dough with a
thud, but he had the presence of mind to
draw the lid over him,
At that moment the baker entered the
apartment.
“Sacrebieu !” growled he, “there is no
light here!”
Berthe instantly replied:
“It’s the fault of this wretched lamp. 1
tried to turn up the wick, but it went
out. That lazy Nicole must have for¬
gotten to put oil in it!”
A two minutes’ search ensued; then
came the scratching of matches, and the
lamp was lighted again.
“What!” exclaimed M. Malenfrond,
“are you alone ? Why, I thought I heard
some one a kneading a little while ago !”
“You had the nightmare, father!”
answered the daughter, soothingly.
“Why, who on earth could be here?
Gervais, our apprentice, is still sick and
won’t be out of bed for a week to come.”
“Then I didn’t hear right. But now
I’m up I’ll go to work !”
And the baker, rubbing his hands to
get them in working trim, went to the
dough trough and raised the lid.
At that moment a great clammy hand
arose from the depths of a box, hurling
fragments of soft dough in every direc¬
tion. “What’s that—what’s that?” ex¬
claimed M. Malenfrond, drawing back a
couple of paces. “Who the deuce is in
the dough--”
He did not finish. An enormous
plaster of dough was applied to his face
with a splash, cutting short his excla¬
mations and blinding him at the same
time.
The baker was conscientious in the
exercise of his trade. His dough was
well kneaded, and, though he made
tremendous efforts to scrape the plaster
from his visage, two or two minutes
elapsed before he was able to open his
eyes and speak.
During the whole of this scene,
Berthe, paralyzed with^ astonishment,
had not stirred.
When her father had succeeded, un¬
aided, in ridding himself of his plaster,
Bhe recovered her senses and began to
cry:
“Oh, mon Diem I” it must be a rob¬
ber I”
“Ah, the scoundrel I” groaned poor
Malenfrond. “Where is he, that I may
knock him down I”
And, all sticky as he was, he rushed
to the dough-trough.
It was empty, and empty in every
sense. Stanislas in his flight had
dragged off on his person all the baker’s
dough. He had left in the bottom of
the box only his shoes, that would have
bothered him in running.
“Ouf I” cried the unfortunate baker,
“The thief I I cannot bake to-night.
He has taken the bread out of the
mouths of more than ten families !”
During this time the clerk, all covered
with dough, hastened as well as he could
toward the shop of the other baker,
which was not far away.
The latter received this farinaceous
mass with the greater affability, as he
brought with him fifteen or eighteen
livres of dough. He scraped the clerk
so conscientiously that the next day
some of the inhabitants of the town
found in their loaves, one a plug of
tobacco, another a porte-monnaie con¬
taining eighteen sous, a third a pocket
handkerchief and a bunch of keys.
The luckiest had for his share a sheet
of stamped paper.
This worked against M. Malenfrond’s
rival, who, accused of inattention to
business, lost a part of his customers,
thus once again proving that wrongly
acquired property never benefits any
one.
A few weeks afterward Stanislas ven¬
tured to ask M. Malenfrond for his
daughter’s hand. As the clerk had re¬
ceived a legacy of a few thousand francs,
the baker gave his consent, and even
took him into partnership in the bakery
shortly after his marriage with Berthe
had been duly celebrated.
As for M. Malenfrond, he was kept in
strict ignorance of the real nature of the
episode of the dough-trough, and he
lever afterward went to bed without
having first cautioned his daughter to be
on the watch for robbers.
“You see, Berthe,” he often said to
her, “it is not enough to keep an eye on
the shop, the dough-trough must also
be watched, and for that there’s nothing
like the eye of the master or that of the
mistress 1”
Tlie Purchase of Cuba.
The subject of the annexation of Cuba
to the United States, was first mooted
just after the French Republic was pro¬
claimed, in 1848. The American govern¬
ment, while willing it should remain a
Spanish colony, declared that no other
foreign government should ever possess
it. In 1825 Spain had proposed to cede
Cuba to the United States in considera
tion of certain commercial concessions,
but this was declined. In 1848 Presi¬
dent Polk offered to buy the island for
81,000,000, but to this Spain w’ould not
listen. In 1849 a filibustering expedition
under Lopez was prevented by the
United States government. A second
expedition got away successfully, but
Lopez was defeated, and himself gar¬
rotted and other leaders publicly shot.
Since 1852 the question of the acquisition
of Cuba has entered freely into American
politics. In 1854 Buchanan, Mason and
Soule, American Ministers at London,
Paris and Madrid, drew up the celebrated
Ostend manifesto, urging that Cuba
should belong to the United States and
that if Spain would not sell it it should
be taken under certain contingencies, by
force.
In 1858-9 the United States Senate
considered a proposition to pay thirty
million dollars for the island. This was
the plan of Siddell, of Louisiana. It was
finally withdrawn. The sum named in
the bill, which was reported favorably
by both the committees of the Senate
and House, was proposed to be appro¬
priated for no secret or disguised pur
pose, but to enable the President to
make a payment to the Spanish govern¬
ment, on the full ratification of the
treaty by Spain, without waiting for its
ratification by the Senate and the appro¬
priation of the money by Congress. A
minority report was presented by the
House committee which opposed the bii
on the ground that Cuba would be an un¬
profitable acquisition, owing to the
necessity of preventing internal disorders
which would be sure to arise, and that it
would be a dangerous precedent to allow
the President to have the disposal ot
thirty million dollars for the settlement
of a treaty before its ratification by the
Senate. ^
Small Business foe an Avalanche.
-The Virginia City Enterprise says:
Down in the Lundy country the other
day a big avalanche btaited town
eteep mountain after Jim Mci nee. Jim
m ade a dash for a tunnel and as ne wen
^ the slide was so close upon a
it ra ked each joint in his backbone and
took off the tail of his coat, pea mg
ef the tearing away of the tail of hia
said he thought it wa3 ( mig y
coat Jim avalanche to
small business for an
be in.”
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