Evansville Journal, Volume 18, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 11 September 1867 — Page 6

TH T, WVTLLE DAILY JOURNAL: WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER li. 1867.

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Dairy Jones, Junior

BY DUTTON COOK. CHAPTER I. Although they admitted that she might, possibly, by some people, be accounted "pleasing," Miss Nancy Block's friends always said of her, "that she was certaiply not pretty." for, as they were good enough to explain, "she had not a feature in her face." The observation was not, of course, to be interpretedliterally. It was indisputable that Miss Block was in possession of certain lineaments which answered sufficiently well all the purposes which features are presumed to serve, and are ordinarily applied to, albeit they may not satisfy the critical requirements of her friends, nor accord completely with their ideas on the subject of abstract beauty. But our friends, it may be noted, are, as a rule, a little exacting in this and some other matters. They are disposed to constitute themselves our critics, and to judse us by rather superior standards. They are fond of hoidiDg the scales concerning us, our mental and bodily endowments, and they' bold them up a little too high sometimes. It is one or their pnvil eges to pronounce freely and frankly upon our defects and short-comings; and the privilege ' so far as one can see, is not likely to suffer abatement from fallinz into disuse. Miss Block's friends spoke their minds in regard to her with a candor that was excessive : almost disagreeably so. For candor is one of those good things, of which the proverb notwithstanding, one can nave too much No doubt the motive of this openness of speech on .- their part was praiseworthy enough. "They did not want, they averred, nonsensical ideas to get into the eirl's head." A misfortune of the kind they, were! de termined, should not happen if they could help it. And they deem it nonsensical idea" that a girl should think herself pretty. Whatever might be the real state of the case as to her looks, it was far preferable that she1 should consider herself plain; or, afr any rate, that she should be content with a very inferior estimate of hrr attractions. Upon this subject Miss Block's friends (especially those of her own sex, who were of age and riper than her , own, and of an aspect winch Time had probably altered for the worse) held forth with tmtirine if somewhat monotonous, elooueuce. They were never weary of recounting and always with especial refer ence to Miss Block's person al appear ance, and for her particular benefit that beauty was but skin deep; that looks went for nothing; that intellect was everything; that handsome was who handsome did ; with other valuable statements of like effect, much swollen with commentaries and dis quisitions. Miss Block always listen ed, or appeared to listen.patiently, or, at all events, silently. The discourse for a time concluded, she hurried to her chamber1, and looked in her glass. She found there a mute but adequate answer to all that had been said, and she smiled with coquettish content ment. Far. from her own point of view, she feheld in the glass a reflec tion of a very chnrmine vountr oersoo Insomuch that her friends' labors to Eersuade her that even if she might e "pleasing," she V.-is ccrtaihiy not "pretty, were, upon the whole, in the nature of that unprofitable toil which we associate with the fab la of Si-yphus ana his stone. Misa Isancy B ock beheld in the glass for one thing, a thoroughly English maiden's blush-roge and milk. pink andwhite sort of complexion. lven her most conscientious andean aia inenas aamitrea mat tier com plexion was ummpeachab'e. But then, they urged, there was nothing in mat. ine young. woman was not entitled to credit on such account; because it was well known that time out of, mind the Blocks had been noted for their nice complexions. And after all, her skin wasn't nearlv so clear and fair as had been the skins of certain, other members of her family, who pretained to the past rather than to the present. Moreover, she. trecKied quite dreadfully in the sunny weather; as for her blue eyes well, there they were as blue as the blue on a w"! low pattern plate, for those who cared for trifles of that nature. Miss Block's 1 riem1svfor the most part preferred eyes of any other color; P-Jk r brown, gray, , or even green. Nor did they set greater store upon the long silky lathes, the daintily arching brows, the coral-red lips, or the pearl-white teeth, which ML- - DlOTK atSO na(rlltroppOrtii:jltv ofcoutemplatioi? when ,-he consulted her mirror.,.: 1 hey. preierred to pas over these, items in the, sum of MissJUoek's looks, and to '.'dwell rather upQn the fact that her nose had a kiad of heav-e&-warti'apiricg inclination about its tip; and that a thread of golden red was here and there woven into the glossy texture of her tresses. They agreed in lamenting that her nose was "such a snub," and that her hair was "so dreadfully sandy" for in a fashion thus coarse andj extravagant did they E resume to allude to .very simple, and y no' means unattractive, facts in connection with Miss Block's personal cuaractenstics. Her fiarure. r.hv rl&fiAaA was un formed, aud therefore, not worth considering. (They were, plainly people who would .lisparasre a rosebud because it wasn't a fullblown rose.) As for her mind,. Muss .Block's friends glanced - upward and raised .their hands : their lVi and gestures signifying hopeless " despair. : She had no mind, they affirmed ; none whatever ! For her disposition', noor tMnir n perhaps it waa not so much her fault!'

she had been badly brought up, thor

oughly spoiled by her absurdly mdul gent old father. Mr. Block's daughter, if she is still living, (and I am not certain whether she is or not,) must be now a very old lady; though, I will venture to say, a very nice-looking old lady, whatever maybe asserted to the contrary; re markable, at any rate, for that good ness which is the chief beauty of old age, and an irresistable attraction at all times. For it is now more than half a century since Miss Block was in her teens, "pleasinz but not pretty." and when the circumstances occurred which I am about to Darrate. : Mr. Block styled himself "a shipbreaker;" that is to say, he purchased the hulls of old ships of all shapes and sizes, and broke them up in order to sell again, picemeal, the wood and iron of which they were constructed. His wharf was on the south bank of the Thames, in the parish of St. Mary, Rotberhithe. In those days traders made it a rule to live where they carried on their business. Mr. Block lived in a small but comfortable house attached to his wharf premises, and looking on to the river. He traded under the name of "Block & Co.;'" and had lately taken into partnership a young man named Godfrey Starkie, who had been of much service to him as cleric, book-keeper, and general assistant. Mr. Block was regarded by his neighbors as a prosperous, "well-to-do" man. , He was about sixty years of age, remarkable in appearance for his clean, clear, family complexion, and for the silver whiteness of his hair. He was amiable and benevolent, and it had been said of him that his only enemy was himself. He was fond of his ease and of good living; indeed to his excessive partality for port wine and punch, the ailing health to which of late he had been liable was very generally attributed. His wife had been dead some years. His only child was the Miss Nancy Block of whom some mention has already been made, and to whom he was tenderly attached. . His es'ablishment consisted of one female servant, who acted as cook and housemaid, and who, having originally been Miss Block's nurse when that young woman was an infant in arms, and of -course been many years in the service of the family, and obtained ' its entire confidence and regard; and an apprentice, one David, or, as he was more often called, Davy Jones, a workhouse lad, deserted by his parents, and brought up, therefore, by that unpleasant stepmother, the parish. His appellation, it may be stated, was due to the active and somewhat jacose fancy of the beadle of St. Mary's Rotherhithe, who was pleased to discover in the swarthy little imp of a child lett naked at the workhouse door, some resemblance to that arch enemy of raankind an old offender with many an alias who has oftentimes answered to the sobriquet ot Jjavy Jones among other nick names being quite the right word to use under all the circumstances of the case. ! - . It was a real misfortune to the boy that he was thus designated, lie was in truth a dog with a bad name; and many people were found to predict for him the customary fate of do25 so circumstanced. If he neglectej his duties in any way (and in times past an apprentice's duties were very multifarious: he was oftentimes an additional domestic servant quite as much as an apprentice,) if he broke a p'ate, or a window, or neglected to clean the knives or hi3 master's boot?, the question was invariably asked what else could be expected of a boy named Davy Jones? Yet it was hardly the boy's fault that he was thus called. Certainly he did not choose his own name ; it was given him at a time when he had no will of his own in the mat ter, pr any knowledge at all of ..what was happening to him.1 However, he had to make, the best he could of it: rather, hard work, because everybody else would presist in making the worst they could of it. But he never knew any other name. . His parents never came forward to claim him. , If any romantie incidents were connected with his births . they were never brought to light. Probably there was no poetic character about the affair at all ; it was very plain proseT most likely. Such,' an everyday commonplace matter as sin and suffering: and desti tution, i lie remained .Davy Jones to the end of the chapter. . 1 .: ,. He was a small, spare, black haired. dark-eyed lad, still very swarthy; and his natural ainsmess of' hue was heihtened artificially. Grime from the saucepans, from the blackinabrushes, from the kitchen grate, from up tne cnimuey, aiway seemed to nnd lorae and a restmsr, place on Daw Jones' fence. His hands were forever soiled, -with the:mud of the river, or the clay of the wharf, the rust of old iron,, or the pitch and tar of the ship yard. He carried about with him in cessantly, visible signs of his visits to il - . . 1 . .11 . 1 1 me coai-cenaiv v;ercainjv ce was a uiny poy., ,vna ne .was said, moreOver, to be mischievous and ill temp ered, fulleo, and, disposed to. :evll. Hut his reputation .10 those resrjects might have been born of .his unfortunate name.. . , . A 1 f X "How can you bear to be so dirty?" Miss " Nancy Block .said to him one day, as she tossed her chin, disdain ully. . . r. ., "Please, I can't help it." the bov answered; . ''I suppose that's the reason, Mies ancy.. . r . "But. you're always dirty. I can't bear dirty people." 1 ; , " You'd be dirty, too, Miss Nancy, if you had all these boots to clean," "the boy said. . , ' ... . . .-. "Don't call meMiss Nancy.' You should say' Miss Block.' You'realways grumbliog about the boots you've

got to clean. What a discontented

boy you must be!" "No. I'm not a discontented boy, Miss Nancy well, Miss Block, then 1 d go on cleaning your ehoes till dropped you know I would! And the master s, too I'm not afraid of work. But for that Starkie's shoes I should like to chuck them in the river! And in a lower voice, he ad ded. And him after them! "You don't like Mr. Starkie?" "Say I hate him, that would be nearer the mark." "You shouldn't hate anybody, Uavy; it s very wicked and un-Chris tian like, and Miss .Block shook he 11 1 iviw neaa graveiy ana neia up a warning rorennger, alter a fashion much favor ed in the pulpit. You shouldn hate anybody." "Well, I don't hate everybody," said Davy, as though that signified much tne same eon or tnmg, ana was as decent an approximation to goodness and Christianity as could be expected of a boy in his situation and of his character. "But as for that Starkie with his white face, and his white hands, and his white stockings " . "You hato him because he's clean and you re dirty, Davy." "Perhaps so. But I'm not his servant. I was bound to the master, not to him: yet he treats me like a doe He never gives me so much as a good word. . . . " ell do I ever give you a good word, as you call itr "You're forever giving me good looks, Miss Nancy; you see, you can't help doing that. Miss Nancy smiled., "I'm not a fine gentleman as he is, and never shall be. of course I know that," the lad continued: and then he added, glancing curiously at his mas ter's daughter as he spoke, "and of course you'd never let me kiss your band, as you let him. Not it 1 lived for a thousand years you wouldn't. It isn't to be expected you would; is it now, Miss INaocyf - aou wicKed boy! cried Miss Block, blushing and an scry. "How dare you say such things?" tie did kiss your hand, because saw him do it,. Davy Jones said, simply; "I was looking through the crack of the door. : ... "How could I help his kissing my hand? He would do it. I didn't want him to. I'd much rather he hadn t done it. It was very rude of him. And and it, s very mean to look through the cracks of doors, and to watch people, and play the spy upon them, Uavy. 1 Miss Block was alto gether very much distressed. ,. I couldn t help it. Miss rxancy. I didn't intend to be playing the spy upon you; but do what 1 will my eyes seem always to be following you about. They're never tired of goiDg in search of you; they re never so happy as when they're resting on you I'm sure I didn't want to see him kissing your hand. It made ray heart ache sorely: and 11 you d but given the word, I'd have had him on the floor in a minute, and given his white neckcloth a twist he . wouldn't have liked.. Anything rather than that such a fellow as that should have kissed suoh a hand as yours, Miss Nancy." , -' Did Davy Jones come of Irish progenitors? But it avails not to ask the question, for no answer can be given to it; Perhaps an Irish nurse had tended his infancy in the workhouse. Certainly there was a sweet and touching and especially Irish plaintiveness now and then in his voice and mauner when be addressed his master's daughter. ... " There's sixpence for you, Davy," said Miss Block; in a softened tone, as she drew the coin from her long purse. . "Don't you ever tell any one what you saw through the crack of the door,- there's a good boy. You won't see me again for some little time, though you look through the cracks of doors never so; nor I sha'n't Bee Mr. Starkie. We're going to Margate, father and I are, to-morrow, by 'the hoy. I hope the change will cure poor father's asthma, and make him well again. Mind and behave properly while we're away. Don't get quarreling with Mr. Starkie. Do you hear, Davy? No good will come of your quarreling with Mr. Starkie, but only harm." "I won't quarrel with him if he won't quarrel with me," said Davy." "And if you'd only be a little more tidy and wash your face. Davy-" r.Weli. what then," Miss Nancy?" the boy demanded eagerly. - " Why, you'd look eo much nicer and cleaner. What did you think I was going to say?" - And she tripped away trom him with a laugb. -David remained speechless and mo3 tion less for some time. Theu he kissed the sixpence, tossed .it in the air, as though he was having a little solitary gambling with it. Finally, after much trouble, he bored a hole init. with,a Jirad-awU and tied it round his neck, under his shirt, with s hit of string.' . : ?' . ?, O On the next day Miss Block and her father, accompanied by their female servant, drove in a cart to Greenwich, and there embarked in the hoy for Margate. Mr. Block, was said by his friends to be by ho means the man he had been, but to be looking .very "ailing and, feeble, indeed. All hoped his trip to the sea might rer torf him to health. ' "' V " ; . , TO BE CONTINUED. Robert Boyd, Architect, SO. . f CIIAXDL EK'S BLOCK. Office formerly occupied by the late firm of Murslnna A Boyd. : ; mch278n

THE UMOX PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. Their FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS AS AX IXVESTME JT. The rapid progress of the Union Pacific Railroad, now building west from Omaha, Nebraska, and forming, with its western connections, an unbroken line across the continent, attracts attention to the va.ue of the First Mortgage Bonds which the Company now offe' to the public. The first question asked by prudent investors Is, "Are these bonds secure? Next, "Are they a profitable investment? ". To reply in brief: 1st, The early completion of the whole great line to the Pacific Is as certain as any future business event can be. The Gov

ernment grant of over twenty million acres of land and fifty .million dollars in its own bonds practically guarantees It. One-fourth of tbe work is already done, and the track continues to be laid at the rate of two miles a day. 2d. The Union Pacific Railroad bonds are issued upou what promises to be one of the most profitable lines of railroad in the country. For many years It mut be tbe only line connecting the Atlautic and Pacific; and being without competition, it can maintain remunerative rates. 3d. Four hundred and twenty-five miles of this road are finished, and fully equipped with depots, locomotives, cars, Ac, and two trains are daily running ..each way. The materials for the remaining ninety-two miles to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains are on hand, and it Is under contract to be done ioBeptember. 1th. The net earnings of the sections already finished are several timet greater than tbe gold Interest upon the First Mortgage Bonds upon such sections, and if not another mile of the road were built the part already completed would not only pay Interest and expenses, but be profit able to the Company. 5th. The Union Pacific Railroad bouds can be issued only as the road progresses, and therefore can never be In the market unless they represent a bona-Jide property. titb. The amount Is strictly limited by law to a sum equal to what is granted by the U. H. Government, and for which it taltes a teeond lien as its security. This amount upon the first 517 miles west from Omaha is only J16.W0 per mile. ' th. The fact that the U. 8. Government considers a second lien upon the road a good investment, and that some of the shrewdest railroad builders of the country have already paid in five million dollars upon tbe stock (which Is to them a third lien), may well inspire confidence in a first Hen. 8th. Although it is not claimed that there can be any better securities than Governments, there are parties who con sider a first mortgage upon such property as this tne vefy best security in tbe world, and who ell their Governments to re-invest in these bonds (bus securing a greater Interest. 9th. As the Union Pacific Railroad bonds are offered lor tbe present at 90 cents on the dollar and accrued interest, they are the cheapest security in the market, being mote titan 15 per cent, less than U. 3. stocks. 10th. At the current rate of premium on gold, they pay Over Nine pef Cent. Interest. The dally subscriptions are already large, and they will continue to be received in New York by the Continental National Bank, No. 7 Nassau Street ; t'LAEK, Dodok Sl Co., Bankers, 51 Wall Street; John J. Cisco fc Hos, Bankers, No. 33 Wall Street; , and by Bank and Banker generally throughout the United States, of whom maps and descriptive pamphlets may be obtained. They will also be sent by mail from the Company's office, No. 70 Nassau Street, New York, on application. ' Sub scribers will select their own Agents, In whom they have confidence, who alone will be responsible to them lor the safe delivery of the bonds. JOHN J. CISCO, Treasurer, NEW YORK. : A (JEXT3 IS K VA XS VILL E: EYAVSYILLE XATIOXAL BAKK. aulO dAW&m QUEENS WARE HOLLINGSWORTH BROS., IMPORTERS OF Oliina, 5 IAS SWA RE, Ac., . &, i in all their various branches, AVE BEES IMPOBTI.VI direct from England ic. nuu r uuiy posieu as u. tne uemanr ol the trade, in quality, style, p.-Ice, etc Besides the experience of years in th. business, we go into the English market WITS GOLD, i . ?rn4. b,uX. cleap as any house in tne United States. . yJVUX?1 and 8811 BtTle ot WHITE ORAXITfi OOODS which no other house in the city can get from the factories dlrecu Tfiey are very desirable styles, and will sell more readily than any good in tbe marfcet. fciucn is tbe opinion of good Judges. . iuai E.vansTiiie is a cheap Q,ueensware no one is likely to dispute, and we deem it unnecessary to multiply words. . You will find us at the old stand, IV o. SO Fifft treo, and 3To. 8 Syeaniore Street. au26ldtf EVANSVILLE I2JD.

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