Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 October 1893 — Page 3

. £hc 3? ifec County gemorrat M- McC. 8TOOP3, Editor and Proprietor-1-ETEliSBUMO, - - INDIANA. HE WALTZED HER AWAY. ▲ Weddiiigr the Besult of a Wild Danoe. BY I.CDVOIC HALEVV. [Copyright, 18911

JjL society was agTed upon one point—that for me there were but two suitable fiances— my cousin Gontran, the duke de Lannils, and the duJsje de Courtalin. 1 had the weakness to prefer the first. Why?, From the habit of childhood, I suppose.

"We had always played together, as soon as we could toddle, at miniature husband and wife. From the time I wore my first long ■dress, which immediately gave me the right to think of marriage and speak of love, I had told all my little friends that I should never love anyone or marry anyone but him; it was he or the convent. My little friends had repeated it to all their brothers and cousins, who had repeated it to Uontran. It was just what I had wished; but after that we played together no. At last I saw him—at the ball of th\; de Fresnes. He did me the honor to dance three times with me, and I went home absolutely intoxicated with joy. But the joy was of short duration, for the next day he said to his brother, who told his sister, who told me: “It seems that I am to marry mv cousin Marceline. Last evening I was literally thrown into her arms. Out of pure goodness of soul, I took pity on the poor little schoolgirl, and danced with her three times. But there must be no more of it. 1 shall carefully beware of balls and of young girls, in the future. I iiave not yet had enough of life. Besides, I know of nothing more ridiculous than marrying between cousins.” But that was not all. He also said to Robert: “I saw her in evening dress last night for the first time, and she is bo thin.” Tcf me this was most cruel,of •11, for it was true. I was thin. That night, after Gabrielle had told more.

GONTRAN THOUGHT I WAS SO THIN. me all this, I disrobed before the mirror and studied my poor little shoulders with their great hollows, and had a fit of weeping. Mamma came in the middle of it. - ' “My angel, what is it?” She took me in her arms. I answered only by my sobs. “My child, I must know all.” But I could not speak. The tears choked me. “My treasure, you paiu me. Speak, dearest.” Then, to reassure her, I managed to say, between my sobs: “It is because I am thin, mamma! Gontran, last evening; thought I was so thin.” Thereupon, mamma began to laugh. But after the laugh she was .goodness itself. She told me that,’ at seventeen, Bhe was much thinner than I; and she assured me, very solemnly, that I would certainly develop. And it turned out so; I did grow fuller. That winter ofmy first season’, mamma took me to a dozen great affairs; but they ' were occasions of mourning and sorrow; for Gontran was not there.. He did not want to marry. He said so to everyone, decisively, cynically. He even told me so. 1 did not know then that this was by order of my mother. In her eyes M. de Courtalin had a thousand finer qualities than had Gontran. And, above all, he had one great merit —he did not find me thin and he asked my hand in marriage.

One day, about lour o clock in tbe afternoon—it was the 2nd day of June—mamma came into my room with a look on her face that was new to me. “My child,” she said, “my child.” She had no need to say more. I understood. All the evening before at Prince de Veran’s, M. de Courtalin had been with me; and the next morning his mother had told mamma that her son knew of nothing more beautiful than my face. I replied that 1 knew of nothing less beautiful than the face of M. de Courtalin. I added that I had, moreover, no inclination;to marry him. Mamma tried to make me listen to reason. If I refused him 1 threw away a splendid chance. Duke de Courtalin was the mark at which all the maternal guns were pointed—great name, great position, great fortune. 1 should repent some day of having held all these advantages in such contempt, and so on. For me, I had but one word to oppose to all these just and proper remarks— <3outran! Gontranl Gontran or the convert and the most severe convent at that—Carmel. It was *ot because of his merit that I loved Gontran. It was rather liecause of his lack o' merit. M. de Courtalin was perfection. I listened to hit. praise all afternoon, and hated him. What I disliked above all was that he counted himself superior. Mamma was not

likely to make me yield, when she said: “He is a most learned man; most thoughtful, most industrious, most distinguished. He is a model son; he would make a model husband.” The more he was eulogized the more I turned from him. For I know of nothing more distasteful than one of those men who are always right, who display under all circumstances unruffled good temper, who impress everyone with their superiority. With Gontran I could be quite at my ease, for he never impressed one with his superiority. I knew but little; but my ignorance, compared with his, was erudition. He had great difficulty in securing his baccalaureate. He missed three times. For 1. heard him say one day, at the house: “Failed again! It is the third time!” But at last they sent him to a little faculty at Douai, where the examination was easy, and he passed. M. de Courtalin never failed; oh, no; he wasa bachelor, a lawyer, a doctor and all the rest—deep, correct and grave in his speech and bearing; always dressed in a black redingoto with a double row of buttons, and every one of them buttoned. And what a future before him! Already member of the council, and very eloquent; and perhaps, some day, a minister or ambassador, who knows? While my poor Gontran would never be anything bu^,a very amusing and very insignificant gentleman, very successful in his way, very modern in his beautiful gray suit. Gontran has a passion for clothes He confers for hours and hours with his tailor, which delights me, for I too love to spend hours with my dressmaker. 'Yes. Mme. de Courtalin had called to ask my hand for her faultless son. 1 do not know what mamma said to her after my refusal. I only know that I 1 was left for awhile in peace. After the Grand Prix everything was over; there was a general dispersion of society. And where was Gontran ithrough the long summer? Making a tour of the world very quietly and quite at his ease. I learned afterward that this also was momma's doing; that when he was in Japan he had bought me a number of lovely little things, placed in a tiny case that bore my name. The case had been sent to mamma, but I had never seen it

AU that year one name was sounaea in my ears—Courtalin, Courtalin, always Courtalin. He had all the virtues under Heaven. My determination began to weaken, I say it to my shame. After all, what advantage there was in being a married woman; absolute freedom would be accorded me. Then the thought of being a duchess was not displeasing. Mamma had prepared a list of eligible husbands, and Courtalin 1 was the only duke among them. To be sure, there was Count de Lenders, who would some day be a duke; but ,when? His father was only forty-five and had a constitution of iron. I was obliged to admit that in order to be a duchess it was necessary to marry M. de Courtalin. All winter mamma displayed perfect taste and exquisite sweetness. She never urged, never tormented me. I know, however, that she said to her friend, Mme. de Nelly; “My dear, she will yield before the 20th of June. It must be.” On that" date we left Paris for Aix-les-Hains. And I did not continue to say no with the savage energy of last year. I only awaited Gontran’s return. It is true that I almost died with fear of the understanding that I intended to have with him; but I had resolved to speak, and speak I would. It seemed impossible to me that out there in China and Japan he had not sometimes thought of his cousin. We had always loved each other until that unfortunate day when I had become marriageable. I knew that he would reach Paris on. the 2d or 3d of April. The following day he would certainly come to see us. And so it happened. He called about two o’clock, before mamma had quite completed her toilet. I was alone. I ran to him. “Ah, Gontran! how happy I am to see you!” And I kissed him without oeremony. He kissed mein return, was very much affected and began to speak such gentle, kind words that my heart melted. He looked at me with a different ex

HE KISSED HE IN RETURN. pression in his eyes. He found me a new creature. I was no longer thin. I had grown taller and fuller. Oh, for the five minutes in which to hare that little understanding! But just then mamma came in, then papa, and then brother George. An odious conversation regarding "the merits of English and French boats followed— how the French boats made better time, how the food on them was so much finer, and so on. It was so enjoyable! But Gontran did not leave without giving me a very tender, very eloquent touch of the hand. Nothing could have been more expressive, and I was happy. It was not until three days after that we met again, by accident; but he was no longer himself; he was icy; his goodmorning was Icy, the shake of his hand I ioy, his words icy. He was awkward

and embarrassed. He quickly lost us in the crowd, and reappeared no more. I was astounded, overwhelmed. Alas! my mother had noticed that first tender grasp. I returned to throw myself once more into the arms of my mother, and cry out: “Yes, I shall marry De Courtalin.” How many times between that and the 17th of May did I repeat the operation. It came to be a settled thing, that no sooner did mamma see me appear, than she mechanically opened her arms to receive her daughter, crying: “Yes, I will marry Courtalin;” and soon after: “No, l will not!” But the “I will not” became more and more rare. M. de Courtalin was a model of tact, of kindness and of resignation. He waited, always in black, always buttoned, with inexhaustible patience. Mamma was invariably enraged with Mme. de Courtalin. The newspapers covertly announced that there was a question of an alliance between two families of the Faubourg Saint-Ger-main. 1 received, vague congratulations, and dared reply by only vague denials, At last the 17th of May arrived. It was tacitly understood that upon that evening I would say yes to the patient lover, and that the engagement would be formally announced before all the world. It was my last day of freedom. I was restless all day, and glad when eleven o’clock in the evening found mamma and me at the home of Mme. de Vernleux, who was giving a great ball. As I entered I became suddenly aware that I was the center of attraction. A line had formed itself on either side, and little ohs! of surprise, and ahs! of admiration, went deep into my hoart I had already attained a certain kind of success in society, but had never experienced anything like this. M. de Courtalin came up to us. He wanted to ask my hand for all the waltzes, for all the quadrilles, for all the evening, for all my life. \ I answered: “Later on: presently; I feel a little fatigued.” The truth was that I had not the heart to dance. We sat down, mamma and 1, and the waltz commenced.

WK DANCED GAYLY, WILDLY .FURIOUSLY. Mamma urged me gently: “Waltz with him, dearest, I beg of you.” But I would not heed. My eyes roamed listlessly over the ballroom, and perceived with a start, two other eyes, fixed, settled upon me—two eyes that I knew well, but found it difficult to recognize, so big had they grown in that concentrated, wondering look. Suddenly their owner arose and turned toward me. A glance aside showed me Courtalin slowly and laboriously making his way toward me from another corner. My cousin looked at the satne time and saw him. Then it becaihe a race between the two men. Gontran intrepidly cut through all the waltzers, pushing and being pushed, caught and tore into shreds a flounce of Mme. Damnan’s lace, an offense which she never pardoned him. But he reached me before Courtalin; he came up to me precipitately, he caught my hand, he put his arm about me. I gave a little cry, but he lifted me, and bore me away. Mamma had scarcely time to cry: “Marceline! Marceline!” and 1 was gone. We danced gayly, wildly, furiously. What a waltz! He said to me: “I love you! I love you! You are grace and beauty itself. There is not another woman here half so lovely! And it is I who shall marry you! Do you hear? 1, and none other!” % I was suffocated witk. surprise, with pleasure and emotion. I allowed him to almost carry me; but I begged him to speak lower. “Anything you will,” I said; “yes, I will be your wife; only take care, somebody will hear you. But how came you, here?” , “Robert and I were unable to get a box at the Bouffes-Pariesens; so we went to the club. When I had lost thirty-four thousand points at besigue I thought we had played long enough. Then Robert asked me to come here. But what matters it? We are together now, and forever.” “Ah, my dear, if you had not come to-night my engagement to M. de Courtalin would have been officially announced to-morrow.” “Yes, but 1 have come and I am here holding you fast. I have discovered that there is not another woman like

you. 1 love yuui Absolutely panting lor breath, I cried: ‘‘Slower, slower, I pray you; I am falling; everything is turning around. Stop.” “No, no, we shall not stop. We shall go on. If we stop your mother will come and separate us; and I have more to say to you, much more. Swear that you will be my wife.” “Yes, I swear it. But enoughenough—” I was stifling; but he saw nothing. He went on like a madman. We two became a cyclone and rushed wildly on. Everyone stopped dancing in amazement to watch us. He 'held me so tightly and his face was pressed so close to my face, his lips so close to mine that I grew suddenly faint and slipped down into his arms. A film came over my eyes. There was not another word, another look, another thought. All disappeared in dizziness that was yet tinged with pleasant excitement, and I fainted. The next day our engagement was announced. The waits had created a scandal. It was imperative.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Cream Pie—One cup sugar, onje cup cream, one cup of milk, two teaspoons cornstarch, four eggs.' Bake in puff paste, without top crust —Pretty cushions are made of parchment satin, so called on account of its solor. Finish with • a frill of silk and decorate with flower designs —Uncooked French Cream—Break the whites of two eggs into an earthern bowl; add an exactly equal measure of cold water and stir in confectioners’ sugar, XXX. until you have it stiff enough to be molded.—American Agriculturist Chicken Pie.—Stew skinned feet, wingtips, neck and giblets with a little water, one slice each of onion and carrot Reduce one-half. Add a little lemon juice. Put dismembered chicken in dish, cover with strained gravy, rings of hard-boiled whites of eggs, slices of yolk, then with gashed pastry, and bake.—Good Housekeeping. —Flaked Fish.—Make a sauce, by dredging flour into a tablespoonful of hot butter, in a saucepan, and stirring till smooth; iet it bubble, and add two cupfuls of cold fish, nicely flaked, one tablespoonful of cold butter, a dessertspoonful each of anchovy sauce and mixed mustard, one teacupful of cream, with pepper and half a cupful of bread crumbs. Heat, and serve; or pour it into a buttered baking dish, spread bread crumbs over the top, and brown in the oven.—Housekeeper. Fricasseed Chicken—In making the gravy for fricasseed chicken I always add a little milk. It is an improvement. If toast is made to lay under the chifcken it should be dipped in the gravy before it is thickened to moisten it. Nice, light biscuit, freshly baked, broken in two and laid under the chicken, is an improvement on toast, buttoast is nice and sometimes one has a quantity of bread to be disposed of before it is too old. A, dish of stew may be made better with toast. Stewed tomatoes are nice over toast. Baked or fried tomatoes are especially ni6e on toast. They are nice for breakfast when you have not meat—Prairie Farmer. —Sweet Breads.—It may not be generally known that the sweet breads are the portions of fowls or animals which lie at the anterior part of the back, also known as the pancreas. Wash the sweet breads and remove all the bits of fatty matter, cover with cold water and heat to a boil. Pour off the hot water and cover with cold water until the sweet breads are firm. ' Stew in a little water the second time. When tender, add for each sweet bread a heaping teaspoonful of butter, a little chopped parsley^ with pepper and salt and a little cream. Let them simmer in this gravy for five minutes, then take them up. Send to table in a covered dish with the gravy poured over them. —Womankind.

—tried t>canops.—one oi tne simplest ways of cooking the scallop is to fry it Drain the liquor from the scallops thoroughly, laying them in a sieve. Immerse them in milk, season them with a little salt and pepper, and roll them in fine cracker crumbs, being careful to cover them thoroughly. As they are breaded, put them into a frying basket and plunge them into boil-ing-hot fat Fry them about four minutes; drain and slip them on brown paper to absorb any extraneous fat Then put them qn a napkin on a hot platter. Serve them with delicatelythin, hot, buttered slices of brown bread. Mix about a quarter of a cup of flour with every cupful of sifted cracker crumbs used in breading.—Boston BudTHE STEAM ENGINE. Improvements In Construction and Possibilities of Power. The improvements which have marked the development of the steam engine have been the result of their application to their promotion of more mechanical genius, higher skill, more careful and scientific research, more brain power generally than probably have ever been given in the history of the world to any other directly useful purpose. The steam engine stands today as a nobler monument,- a higher tribute to the genius of man than any other product of his many and mighty powers that the world has yet seen. It is the source and the foundation of all his material and wealth and largely of his intellectual and moral wealth. It is the prime mover in every application of his inventive and instructive genius to the solution of the problems of modern civilization. It drives the machinery of mine, mill and workshop; it transports him and his possessions across the continents and over the seas; it gives life to the whole system of transmission of all energies, including those of the electric light and the electric railway. It makes all that he has and is a possibility, and stands, the mist giant, a genius of more than Alad-din-like power, the maker and the guardian of modern life.

Eight neat ana electricity, all tne powers of nature, are- but its servants, and do its work and run its errands at arm’s length or miles away, in the extension of its powers to near and distant fields of labor alike. In performing the work of modern civilization man has compelled the service of over fifty million horse power of steam giants, equivalent to more than seventy-five million horses of average power, for the rated horse power of the steam engine is to that extent in excess of the power of the animal. This is the equivalent of the Steady working power of the whole population of the%lobe, and probably largely in excess of that amount—Toledo Blade. __ New Game for Him. Poker Jim of Dead Man's Gulch was at church for the first time in his life. “What’s the ante?” he inquired in a whisper, leaning' forward as the contribution basket came around to him.— Chicago Tribune. Must Have a Brain. Charles—I have eaten brain-foodfor six months without apparent results. Edith—Yes, I am told the brain is the only organ upon which it has any affect—Truth,

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Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. , .ohlee In rooms6 and 7 in Carpenter Build* in.'. Operations first-class. All work warrant ci. AuiBstlietica used for painlesa exttaction of teeth. NELSON STONE, D. V. S„ PETERSBURG, IND. Owing: to long practice and the possession of a fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle SUCCESSFULLY. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Pow* ders and Liniment, which he sells at raisonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Ce.’s Store. Machinist AND Blacksmith, ( am prepared to do the best of work, wltl ■allslacllon guaranteed in all kinds of Black emitting. Also , Mowing and Reaping Machines "» ? Repaired in the beet of workmanship 1 employ none but first-class workmen. Do no! go from home to get your work, but call 01 me at my shop on Main Street, Peteraburi Indians. CHAS. VEECK.

TRUSTEES' NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. NOTICE is hereby given that I will attend to the duties of thu office of trustee of Clay township at home on EVERY MONDAY. All persons who have business with the office will take notice that 1 will attend to business on no other day. M. M. GO WEN, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties interested that I wit attend at my office In Stehdal, EVERY STAUEDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office wiU please take notice. J. 8. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at tnv residence. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with ths office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with ths office of Trustee of I.ogan township. 49-Pnsiflvely no business transacted axeept on office days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Madison township. A9-l*ositivcly no business transacted except office days JAMES RUMBLE, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons interested that I will attend in my office 1* Velpen, EVERY FRIDAY, To transaet business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. W. F. BROCK, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby give'* to all persons concerned that I will attend at my offioe EVERY DAY To transact business connected with- the office of Trustee of Jefferson township. R W H . .RRI3, Tr astss

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