Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — A Terrible Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Terrible Mistake.

A young gentleman had an engagement with the daughter of a prosperous citizen to attend the theater, says the Louisville Post The young lady suggested that they use the family carriage, and the gallant was too polite to decline. On the morking of the engagement the young lady asked her father to please stop in Mr. Bowersox’s office and inquire where he wanted the carriage to call for him. The kindly old gentleman did so. He stepped in the office, and, calling to the young man, said: “I want to see you about that carriage.” “Wait a moment,” said the youth, evidently agitated. He laid down his pen, and, coming from behind the desk, led his visitor info a far corner, and continued I can’t settle that right now, as I am deucedly hard up. I’ll fix it by the middle of the month, dead sure.” “What do you mean?” said the old gentleman. “Why, ain’t you the collector for the Gouge’em Transfer Company?” “No, I’m not. I’m Miss Bondholder’s father, and want to know whero my carriage is to be sent for vou tonight.” He went to the theater in the carriage, but he did not enjoy it much.

Life is a garden, and you who dwell therein must cut dowu/with a stern will, the weeds would you have your flowers flourish: give those tender blossoms—love, hope, truth and friendship —no artificial warmth, no forcing process, no undue or nervous haste, but vault them over with the blue skies of eternal love, bind them about with strong hedges of faith, and give them sunshine aud fresh air and sweet rains, and give them care and every-day attention, for these tney will need more than, anything, else/ And. wheneyer you have a moment to spare pull a weed—but never a flower—out of your neighbor’s garden, that it may be as fair as your own.

One of the latest novelties in astronomical phenomena, as brought to light by studying the spectra of certain stars, is the showing that two of these, heretofore classed as single, are in fact double, and belong to that class known as binary stars, or pairs which revolve alrout a .common center. The binsr-ies thus discovered are the stars known as Zeta, Ursa Majoris and Beta Aurigae, the former being that star which, in popular phrase, would be described as the middle star in the handle of the “Dipper.”