Love Running A Race With A Steam Engine

we una in the i'ortland Argus the ! lowing account of a love adventure which ' recently look place in that city. It is a j gcod story well tok!: -A. lovc adventure happened in tbis city a forlnight since, which. as it has a moral to it, it may not bcamiss tö relate. Astranger came among us a liltle uhile ago, and in the course of itinerancy in the prosecution of liis business, feil in with a pretty, inexpericneed girl, and aller a few. interviews promised her marriage, and tbey were to start for Boston, in the afternoon train, to have the knot tied. In the mean time, the molher-in-law of the girl got an ihkling of what was going on, andshe appoared at the depot to. rest rain her roving.daughter f rom throwing herself into the arins of a cotnparative stranger. The second Act opens at the Depot, wilh the train about to start. The mother had enlered the cars, and confronting her daughter and her lover, by turns entreated the one to. return home wilh her, and upbraidcd theother for 'stealing away" an old woman's daughter.' The daughter tvduM not heed her entreaties and tears. The lover was cold and indifferent to her threats. She told him he was a married man and - and bade him beware of retributiorï. To her daughter, she appealed, that she might return with her, and mako her home glad, which was now desolate. The passen-. gers' feelings were manifestlv on the side of the mother - -but herappcals could not draw her daughter out of tho cars. - Meamyhile time flew, and the moment oC departure came. The mother was stillbeseeching - the daughter pouting - th e lover frowning - when dame Fortune for once helped the matron and disappointed the maid. The conductor inquired if she had a ticket? She had not - and, as the rule requires passengers to besoprovided, she was advised to step to the office and obtain one. She stepped out - and the scène became now quite exciting, some of of the passengers happened to be very much in the way of the lover, and he could'nt get out so easily. Finding liis egress throügh the door strangely prevente;i, ho rushed to the window, andwith a -S'3 bill in hLs fingers, endeavored to convey it to her. She was evidently leaytnjg home, in tliis man's coinpany. without ir.oney. Rut he could not reach her. A tall hack-driver, laying his thumb by the side of his nose, and twirling his fingers, politcly informed him that he 'couldn't comeit.' II ere was a situation! The gii'l. wiili no means to parchase her ticket; the fellow witliin, unable to get out - and every body laughing al him. It is an old praverb, 'time and tide wak for no man' - neither does the mail train - nor for woman either. At this moment the starting time arrived, the bel] tolled, the engineer let on the steam - the fircinan grinned - the spectators laughed -and o il' went the train, 'tbith the itinerantj b'41 iciihoul his victim. Thon it was that the forcé of the girl's lovc broke forth. Wlien she saw the gnp cvory moment widening between them, she could endure the thought no longer - hut set off with iVantic speed in 1ull chasc nflcr the cnrs! Sorna shouted, some opened wide their eyes, some unfeelingly cried 'put 011 the steam. my denr,' a few pitiedihe poor girl. She soon (bund that her speed, even when impelled by love, was not equal to the mail train! - She returncd, dejectcd and in tesar?; to repeat the ihouglu of the old poet, 'the courseof truc love nevar did run smootb:.? Moral. - Let parents bc particular about the ciiaracters of those who are admilted to the sanctity of their home. - Be satislled that tfië'y are suitabje companions for their daughtêrs, before they are permitted to 'steal away their hearts. ' Inattcntion to tlïcsc particulars may cause mourning in a mother's breast for life, aud a daughter to be bewildered in the nieshes of u misplaced affection, that shall tinge her subsequent years with sorrow."