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A Pimple On The Nose

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
January
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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lt is a sad thmg íor a man to lose a character for sobiiety and steadiness, after spending half a century in acquiring it. But an amiable citizen of Denver - a gentle, peaceable man, who reads the News every day and goes to church on Sunday- unfortimately finds himself in tliat predicament. About a week ago a pimple commenced developing on the tip of his nose, and to tliat soulharrowing affliction he owes all the troubles of his life. It has bereft him of the public confidence, eonverted his happy home into a howling wilderness, and.niado him the miserable object for scorn to point her slow, unmoving finger at. The origin of pimples is a curious phenomenon ; they develop slowly. i The first indication of their presence - especially on the nose - is a faint cardinal color delicately diffused over the glutinous mtiscle on the tip of the olfactory apparatus. Unless closely examined, it might be mistaken for a whisky-blossom, and it is from this very natural mistake that the gentleman in question is suffering so severely. It was first noticed by his wife, who ealled j his attention to it with the remark that a man who had a helpless family and an amiable wife could not afford to spend i his time and money in hanging around saloons and in beastly dissipations. " But, my dear, what are you talking about?" " That's right, sir ; get mad - fire up and beat me! " " But, my dear - " "Oh, I knew it would come to this. j I was warned against you tliirty years j ago ; and, if I had heeded it then, I j should not now be a drunkard's wife." ■ ■ what is it you say? Confound it, madam; I don't understand you at all!" " That's it, Mr. S. - go on - complete your cruelty at once - strike me down ; at your feet - smash the j abuse the children. Oh, I knew it would come to this after a while," and the poor woman gave herself over to an agony of weeping. Stumied, bewildered and half insane, Mr. S. seized his hat and rushed out of the house. At the door he met the ' minister. The good man was startled by the appaiition of the angry man ' dashing past, and heard a muttered : curse, the purport of which he failed to distinguish. It might have been a groan of despair, or it might have been an oath. But he saw the inflamed countenance and the angry nose and his suspicions took derinite shape. Proceeding with his cali, he found the weeping wife, who confirmcd his worst forebodings. Mr. S. had been drinking to excess of late, , and had commenced to abuse his family. The minister at once convoked an asscmbly of deaeons and laid the matter liofori' them. It was all done in the striotest confidence, but in an hour the news liad spread through the own Mr. S. was a marked man. and that iiw1 nose, growing angrier in its crimson line, conlirmed the rumor and sealed his fate. That was a week ago, and ever sinee he has been busily engaged in picking up the stray threads of his character and making a public spectacle of his nose, in proof that it was only a pimple after all.- Denver (Col.) Neivs. . - "" Battlefokd, where the mercury indicated the polar temperature of 60 ] deg. below zero, is the capital of the British northwest territory, and is located not far from the coiifiuence of the nortli and south branches of the Saskatchewan river. Many imniigrants have been settling in the región arouml Buttleford who may possibly be somowhiit discouraged by tlie arctic weatlier.

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Old News
Michigan Argus