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OBAS. D. S COLLINS.
KERR & COLLINS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA.
Office Id floor of Bell't Block.
H. L. GORDON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ST. CLOUD, MINN.,
Willprattle* ia the State aid Federal courts,
and regularly attend the Terms of the
District Cewrta in the Counties of Siearns,
Wirojht, Sherburne, Benton, Morrison, Pope
C*«ir Wing, Beagles, Meekei and Kankiyo-
Particular «tt*mtmu gtctn to Cnmnal Lam
EDWARD O. HAMLIN,
A O N E AT LAW
AT. CLOUD, MINNESOTA.
CHARLES fi. HOWELL,
ATTOBNB AT LAW,
Netary Public, Real Estate and Insurance
Agent. Judge of Probate of Meeker
Ceunty. 8pecial attention to titles' to
Publio Lands, and to obtaining Land Pat
ents.
Litchfield, Meeker Couty Minn.
A. O. OILMAN, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER
St. Cioon, MtNH.,
May be found at his office (up stairs over
Bush's Jewelry store, on St. Germain
8t.eet,l day and night, when not away
on professional duties. All calls prompt
ly atended to
0. SCHULTEN & G0.f
DRUGGISTS
and
PHARMACEUTISTS
St. Cloud,
3 1 in
SjsB" Proscriptions carefully compound
ed, day or night.
O. E. GARRISON,
CIVIL ENGINEER UNO ARCHITECT,
ST. CLOUD, MINN.
Having had twenty-two years' experi
enoe—twelve in Government surveying,—I
hope to £ire satisfaction in all branches of
Engineering.
Pine nd other Lands entered andtaxe*
faid for Non-residents, and full descrip
Ion given from personalexamination.
Offioe over the Post office, corner of
Washington avenue and Lake street.
Maps of StearnsCountvforsale.
"NOTARY PUBLIC.
PACIFIC HOUSE
Opposite the Depot,
8t CLOUD MINNESOTA
I. G. MARTIN, Proprietor.
This Hense hat just been re-ntted and
re-faraished thronghont, and offers to
goeste every eomfort to be desired. The
tables are provided with the best of every
thing in its season, served up in palatable
style, teges start from the Heuse dai
ly for Fert Aberorombie, Port Ripley and
intermediate paints. n21
WEST HOUSE,
O if S O A
W E 8
The undersigned having purchased the
jiswistoa House (located on Washington
•venue, near Clarke ft Co.'s store) has
sends many alterauons and improvements,
and now offers superior accommodations to
travelers and all who may stop with him.
The table is supplied with the best that ean
bo obtained in the market, the rooms are
tidy and the 'beds clean and comfortable.
S Good Stabling is attached to the
House.
St. Cloud. Nov. 7. 1870 v!3nl7
E N W W E A
GARRIAGEMAKER.
I
HAVE removed to my new shop, one
door above Jones' blacksmitn shop,
where I am prepared to do all kinds of
work in the Carriagemaking line. Wagons,
carriage* and sleighs made in a neat and
substantial manner at low rates. Particu
lar attention paid to repairing.
A E A
STRONC&ANDERSON
R. O. STRONG & CO.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Catpeta. Oil-Cloths, Mattings, Curtain Ma.
•rials, Upholstery Goods, Wall Paper
Bedding, Window Shades, Feathers, fto.
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ST. PAUL. MINNESOTA
Comoro*'S
BTATii lirrnxki Rrrinci,
HOB' Of id 3d DirrucT, Mirni
St. JTAOX, May, 29,1871.
NOTICX ia heraby givan to all penoni aaseasadln
this Diatrict upon the Annual 1 Jst for 1»71, that said
is now ia my bands for collation and that pay.
taunt mutt ba made to ma or H. 0 0 Morrison Dep
uty, on or before the 6th day of July, 187.
The ColWctororhis Deinties bare no authority
to remit aw/penaltiet, If payment ia not made at the
tfmo required by Uw.
JARBD BKNSON,
June Wt t'oJlector,
VOL. XIII.
BANKING HOUSE
—OF—
THOS. C. McOLTTRE
ST. CLOUD, MINN.
General Banking Business
Done.
ALSO
S1PT3CIAX, A-O-BlTa?
for tale of
North Pacific Railroad Bonds.
BANK O ST. 0L0UD
GENERAL BANKING AND BX
CHANGE USINE&S TRANS
ACTED.
O A O S I E
LAND WARRANTS,
I Colleges orip&ForeignExchange
SODOIIT AND SOLD.
Agricultural College Scrip can now
be used in payment of all Pe-«mptious the
same as Military Bounty Land Warrants.
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Office open from 9to 12 A ., and 1 to
6
St.GormainStreel,St.Cloud, Minn.
J. G. SMITH, Cashier.
St. Cloud, Sept. 16,1867. vl
BAM 07 ALEXANDRIA.
General Banking, Exchange
AND
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS
TSAMSACTID.
GOLD ancTsiLVER,
LAND WARRANTS^ COLLEGESCR1P
O A N S O O
COLLECTIONS MADE, AND PRO
CEEDS PROMPTLY REMITTED.
tssT* Taxes paid for Non-residents.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE SOLD
Office on Main St., near 6th Avenue,
ALEXANDRIA, MINN.
A N O S A a
FOUNTAIN HOUSE.
GLENWOOD, POPE COUNTY, MINN.
Beautifully locate i, at White Bear Lake,
one of the finest lakes in the State. Splen
did scenery excellen water sail and
row boats plenty of fish and game.'
GOOD ACCOMMODATIONS FOR
GUESTS.
The House is new and well ventilated,
and supplies all the comforts of home for
the invalid or seeker after pleasure.
TERMS MODERATE.
A Billiard Room in connection with the
House.
PEABODY & ROBINSON.
Glenwood, Sept. 4,1869. n7-t
G. P. PEABODz*.
A O A I
Wines, Liquors and Cigars*
107 Third Street,
ST. PAUL, MINN
O. O. HINES.
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THE PAINTER I"
Having permanently loeated in St. Cloud,
to, and will, with the aid of Paint, Ver
nishes, and other accessories of the craft, re
juvenate OLD BUILDINGS, CARRIAGES,
8IGN8, Ac., and make them appear as
subjects of a liko character should on the
[branch] line of the N. P. R. R. I "BKKAB"
new work at well as most any body else
do Paper-hanging, either plain or decora
tive Graining, Gilding, Glaring almost
anything in the line of painting, Try me.
Shop on Washington Avenue,
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA
TlSnia
J. W. METZROTH
Has removed his
Clothing Store,
(orPOdlTX THB CEHTBAL HOCSS.
JWTMEZROTH'S IS THE PLACE.
A large stock of (h efinest
SIMERES,
BROADCLOTHS,,
and all kinds of
Gent's Furnishing Goods
always on hand.
METZROTH S IS THE PLACE
GENTLEMEN'S SUITS
made at
O S
in the latest
HE
W YOR LONDMJIIID PARIS STYLES.
WST METZROTH'S IS THE PLACE 1
Special attention is sailed a his stoek
of
A S and A S
Embracing the mostfashionable and nobby
styles.
METZROTH'S IS THE PLACE
PrilCES LOWERTHAW THE 10 WEST
W6T REMEMBER METZROTH'S 18 THE
PLACE.
St. Cloud May '18o9. vll-n*
PIAJSOS, ORGANS,
Sheet Music, Violins, Guitars, Mnsic
Books, strings, &c.
You can buy anything in the Musical line
OU8APKB. at
W. 0. Farnhain's Huslo btore,
I N N E A O I S
Than at any other place in the Northwest.
Teachers can order Sheet Music, with the
regular discount. Sabbath Schools can or
der Books here as cheap as from the East.
Teaohers can be furnished with sample cop*
ies of singing books at the regular discount.
Violin and Guitar Strings of the very best
quality. Send all orders to
W. C. PARNHAM,
n2l 38 Nicollet St., Minneapolis, Minn.
S T. A
Marble and Granite Works.
O W A S O W E
Miiuutacturui of ant JJculer in
Foreign and American marble Mono*
meats, Grave stones, teine
terj Posts, fcc.
Also, Agent for the Mate of Minnesota
for the Chicago
a at a
O a a a
Agent for the celebrated Red and Oray
Scotch Granite
No. 354 Third street, Upper Town, St.
Paul, Minn. vl2-n82-ly
UflAS. S. WEBER, M. D.,
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN,
8T. CLOUD, MINN
Office on St. Germain street, 3d door east
of Catholic Church.
ST. CLOUD
Homeopathic Pharmacy.
MIDIGIKB OASES ABB BOOKS,
for use in the family and for the treatment
of
HORSES, CATTLE
and other domestic animals
By C. S. WEBER.
ROGER SMITH & CO.,
JIAHUfACTCBKRS Of
Fine Silver Plated Ware,
Are prodvfcing for the Fall and Winter
Trade, a large variety of elegant designs of
TEA SETS, CRNS, CASTORS, FRUIT
and BERRY DISHES,
together with a complete line of their cele
brated SPOONS, FORKS. KNIVES, &c.,
all warranted full plate, and bearing their
TBT/AJDrE J&JLJELHZ,
which is the oldest and best known of any
leading Siiver Plate Manufacture in the
United States.
GILES, BRO. & CO.,
Agents, 142 Lake at., Chicago.
Dealers may obtain illustrated catalogues
and price lists by enclosing business card.
$100 REWARD!
Offered to any one who will produce a
better Ax made within the juris
diction of the United
States than
the
t7*T
Noyes A.x
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Manufactured in
J. C. WINSLOW & CO.'S
Blacksmith Shop, St. Cloud.
All kinds of
Blacksmith & Finery Work.
SLEDS, WAGONS,
BATEAUX, &c,
Kept constantly on hand, and warranted
Driving Tools of all kinds.
Peavy (or Cant) Dogs,
Anchors,
Boom Augurs,
&c, &c,
{.Made a S
•sF" Orders Promptly attended to,
and Satisfaction Guaranteed.
J. 0. WINSLOW & CO.
Shop on Richmond Avenue, between the
Minnesota House and St. Cloud Wagon
Factory. n26 ly
t. 0 WINSLOW. 3. WIKStOW. I. M. HOTIB
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC!
REMELE & DORR,
Are prepared to do all kinds of
GROUND WORK,
GRADING,
CUTTING AND FILLING,
CELLAR DIGGING, Ac,
at short notice and on reasonable terms.
We claim to be able to give better satisfac
tion than any other parties in town, and
stand ready to make this statement good.
WE KEEP ON SAND ALL KINDS 0
LIME,
including Shakopee and Port Byron also
Plaster Paris, Cement and
Plastering Hair.
OFFICE AT FRANK REMELEY'S HOUSE
corner of Richmond avenue and St. Attgcsta street
4 Orders may be leit at J. R. Boyd's store.*C&
REMELEY & DORR.
St. Clond, March 28th, 1871. 37tf
OPERA _SAL00N.
F. VINCENT, PROPRIETOR.
Having leased this well known and ponular
Saloon and Restaurant,
I would be pleased to have a call from my
friends. I will keep on hand at all times the
choicest
Wines, Liquors and Cigars,
Ale, Lager, &c, &c.
Good Billiard Tables.
P. VINCENT.
St. Cloud, April 24. 1811. vl3wll
JOHN MARSHALL,
DEALER IX
Lime, Cement, Plastering Hair, and
Plaster Paris,
Et, Gttmr Street. Coiholv Gfa*
PICKIT & ABBOTT,
SBALBRSIN
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
DryGroocLs
CLOTHING,
Gents' Furnishing Goods
HATS AND CAPS,
BOOTS x*ND SHOES,
Careful Attention Civen to
Orders.
Bell's Block, Si.
April, 1871.
Cloud, Minn.
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H.HERSCHBACH&SON,
DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF
FURNITURE.
Two Doors East of Brick cburcb,
St. Germain Street, St. Cloud, Minn.
in Miacle to O
lit ANT DESIHSO STIll.
Repairing Neatly Done on Short
e.*Jt
W I E E E
Ten Million Seedlings at $100 tor one
hundred thousand. A very hardy, rapid
grower valuable for timber and pro
tection, fuel and nuts. Its dense, wide
spreading foliage, distributed by bewitch*
in£ spray, gives it an enchanting beauty
hard to ?*cel.
Multitrdeb Cf Forest Treee, and Evergreen!
without number, 25 Vnrieiiee. jsjgy- Our
prices are less than ON fc ALF the ordinary
Nnrsety rates. Large desoriptrreCatalogue,
containing* much valuable tBformation,
mailed for 10 cents. Address,
P1NNEY & LAWRENCE,
n28-4m Sturgeon Bay, Door Co., Wis.
M. BECKER.
BOO AND SHOEMAKER.
Boots, Shoes and Gaiters
M%de in the latest style and of the be^t
stock. Good fas warranted. Quality
work guaranteed.
EASTERN WORK always on hand to
sale cheap.
ALSO LEATHE A N FINDINGS
Shop on St.Germain street, neztdooito
Pickii & Abbott's Store.
St. Cloud. April28.1868.
Groceries and Provisions.
«J. E
has purchased the stock of Family Gi occr
les and Provisions at Heopner's old stand,
and will continue the business at that
place. He guarantees to sell as
GOOD GOODS
as any other house in town, and at as
O W I E S
and asks a share of the public patronage.
J. G. HCBER.
vl3-n40 St. Germain street, St. Cloud.
E W. CLAR & CO.
A N E S
DULUTH, MINN.
Having opened a Branch of our Phila
delphia Banking House in the City of Lu
tutb, we are now prepared to receive De
posits, make Collections and furnish Ex
change on all the Principal Cities of the
United States and Europe.
We are also prepared to make Loans on
Grain stored in the Duluth Elevator, and
Negotiate Paper drawn against Ship
ments of Grain and Flour.
E. W. CLARE & CO.,
37.3m
CITY RESTAURANT.
I would respectfully announce to the
publio in general that 1 am prepared to
serve up either Hot or Cold MEALS at an
hours. A good supply of fresh
Cakes, Pies, Canned Frnlts, Confec
tionery, Ac.,
Constantly on hand.
a a a a a
J. BEATTY.
St. Clond, June 8th, 1870. vl2-n47
Book Agents Attention
FIRST CLASS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
AbontFree Missouri. Our National Capital the
Hall of Representatives "Atthe White House In
the Treasury, and Among the Greenbacks.
E A
Through to tho Pacific From New York to Chicago
Chicago to San Francisco California Industries
A Breakfast with the Sea Lions Back to Chicago.
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Two routes to the Indies—Eastward by Suez Canal,
westward by Paeific Railroad A month in Kansas.
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A N E E S E A E S
N E E S E A E S
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Beautifully ilustrated with splendid engraviugs, to
which is added a Biographocal Sketch of the author
by Mrs. Richardson. A splendid book, and a chance
to make money never offered before. We wish ac
tive and efflcieot agents in every town,and offer great
inducements For terms, circulars Ac, address
CN10.N PUBLISHING CO.,
48vl34w Chicago, HI.
ICEl ICE!!
REMELE & DORR
Would inform the oitisens of St. Cloud and
vicinity that they are prepared lo supply
them with
PURE LAKE ICE,
In any desired quantity, at their doors, at
reasonable rates.
REMELEY & DORR
St. Cloud, June lOih, 1871.
W. HENDERSON.
Dealer in and Manufacturer of
Boots, Shoes and Rubbers
IfcF Custom work done in the best style
Repairing neatly and promptly done.
On rf&ahingta avenue, next door to Met.
oth's Cknhu»g store n«8
For the St. Cloud Journal.
"BUM DID IT,"
Rum aimed, the deadly weapon \_ _^
At the soldier's boating heart,
Impelling the crimson tide, or life,
From the wounded side to start.
Rum raised tho murderous bludgeon,
And struck the terrible blow,
That eent a soul to Heaven above,
Or Hades' realms below.
Rum flung the whizziug missiles
Recklessly through the air,
Falling alike on good and bad,
Rough men and maidens fair.
Naught marked that bloody conflict,
And none of its fruits remain.
But that on the Record they may be marked
As Rum's unholy gain.
,September 4,1865, in New Yoik city, a bloody riot
took being mainly confined to members of a
New
legment
of soldiers, who were under the
influence liquor. Stones, clubs, muskets, and
pibtols we f,ee'.v used, and for a time witli fearful
results. A .New York daily of that date remarked
that "Rum diu'
MRS. STANHOPE'S LAST
LODGER.
Mrs. Arnold. Stanhope, or as, some
persons rer«isred in calling her—Mrs.
Stanup—eked out her narrow incouu)
by t»king lodgers. Six years before
her husband had died and left her a
fine old house at tho West1, End,""and
just five thousand dollars besides.. At
the best percentage this was very little
with which to take care of herself and
her tnree children—children whose
ages ranged from thirt2en to seventeen,
and whose education was then unfioiph
ed. At the first crisis Mrs. Stanhope
took counsel with herself and her rela
tives.
"Sell the house and t%ke a smaller
one out of towu, on a horse-car route,
Kate," they one and all advised.
What was their amazement when,
after listening to them in apparent
needfulness and respect, she coolly in
formed them that she had concluded to
keep the house and rent her rooms to
lodgew. "Kate, ycu are crazy I" ex
olaimed her brother-in-law. "This
house and lot, in t.His locality, would
bring you filteen thousu'.nJ
anJ"
And with that sum well in
^ay-
3
with what you have, jou can live J*T$'
nicely out of town."
"But I don't want to live out of
town, Tom," she answered.
"We don't want to do a guod many
things that we are obliged to do in this
world," Tom Alroyd retorted, a little
impatiently.
"Well, I'm not obliged to do this,"
Mrs. Stanhope returned, rather proud
ly. "It's a matter of opinion, and I pre
fer to keep the house. As you say, it
is in a very desirable locality. It will
be no less desirable for lodgers."
"A matter of opinion, as you declare,
Kate but I should hardly have thought
that you would havo pre fert ed to fill
your house with lodgers
Then Mrs. Stanhope flashed out all
there was tn her mittd.
"Tom, jou may think me wild, or
Quixotic, or what you like. But until
I am actually obliged to, I will never
give up the old Stanhope estate. My
Harry is the last male descendant of
the name. I know it wus his lather'o
desire that he should succeed to it as
he Had done belorc him. And, be
sides that, I have a sentiment about is
myself. I am proud of the olJ {lace
and I want to keep it in the family.
Much too proud to let it go, Tom,
though you may think I demean my
self by taking 1 jdgurs."
This settled tho matter. Tom Alroyd
had nothing more to Fay, ot course, but
he nevertheless felt a good deal both of
disapproval and annoyance. To his
wife Mr. Alroyd prophesied all manner
of ill-success to Mrs. Stanhope's plan.
Kate was not a business woman. She
would lose money. She would be taken
in all sort" of ways, and lead a vexed
and disturbed life, when she might lead
such an easy one comparatively, by fol
lowing his advice. And the rest of the
relatives hearing this, thonght Kate
was "so foolish to run against Tom's
advice—Tom, who was such a safe coun
selor in all business iratters."
Long before the end of the six years
when my story opens Tom Alroyd was
forced to confess that Kate had done
better than he thought she would. She
had certainly nit.de both ends'* meet,
and she had saved a little. It she was
ever taken in, if she was ever vexed
and disturbed by the way of life she
had chosen, her relatives wore none t^e
wiser for it. She never complained to
them. At the end of the s*x years
Harry was nineteen, in his senior term
at college, and with a good change be
fore him in a great commercial house,
whoso firm had known his father, and
therefore felt an interest in the son.
Harry was nineteen. Then came Ellen,
who was two years older and then
Frances, or, as she was always calted,
Frank, with another two years of seni
ority.
When Ellen was twenty she consider
ably surprised her relatives by develop
ing a talent for sohool-teachiog* So, at
least, «he spoke ot it, when she walked
in one da with the information that
she had been offered a situation in one
of the grammar-schools at a salary of
$600. "I always suspected I had a
talent for this thing, mother, and you
seeaother people have suspected it too."
She never tjld how she bad been wait
ing for "this thing" for a year, and how
this patient waiting and a really splen
did scholarship, and last but not least,
the influence cf an influential man, who
had been Arnold Stanhope's intimate
friend, had at the end of the year given
her the situation she had sought. She
ww like her mother in this, that aha
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JU^Y.6^ If?).. NO. 51.
never" made~i greatthfegof. what sha
was. doing never talked about it, and
laid before anxious friends her hopes
%hd her fears and her patient womanly
virtues. But her mother, who knew
what silent courage and persistence she
was possessed of, guessed that she had
been working hard in many ways for
.'•thisubioK," and at the last spoke ol it
in thiB riant manner to cover her real
anxiety and.perhaps distaste for it. And
so she glanced up quickly at Ellen's in
formation and asked her a pldn ques
tion, while she watched her with search
ing eyes.
J?'Are you sure you have a talent for
this, Ellen do you like, it and shall
you be happy in it Because, if you do
ii' t, there is no necessity for it, remem
ber that, for you aie not as expensive
nearly as you weie at a school-girl, you
know, and I managed then very nicely.
Besiues, you are valuable as a helping
hand iu toe care of the house."
Elluu colored a little at this, for she
knew what her mother hud thought.
But she answered honestly enough.. "I
really think I have the talent, mothtr,
and I dare say I snail like it you'll let
joae try, won't you?'1
"Oh ye?, if you really arc in ear
nest." •*.'. %-.
That was all the preliminary talk they
had about And the next week the
young teacher had entered upon .her
duties 1:
"What started you so suddenly on
that track, Elly?" asked eighteen
year-old Harry, rather urandly.
"0i, my talent, Harry. I couldn't
hide it in a napkin, you know, any
longer." And Elly laughed.
"You see, Elly," Hairy Went on
still more grandly, "in another year I
shall be able to take care of myself and
dj something for the rest of you, I dare
say. So thero js no need of your "doing
this thibg." J* »5 ii
'Thank you, Harry, yo *re very
kind," answered Ellen, wA'b Blight
twinkle in her Dractical eye at .Harry's
swift surety of "doiog something *dr
'he rest of you "You are very kind,
Harry, but there's my talent! I'm a
little stron£,minded, you know, and I
•enst work out what there is in me."
until a year had been passed by
Ellen in ^eloping hor "talent," as she
called it, did a know just what it
was that had sU
on
"that
track." It was Ellen birthday. She
was twenty-one, and her u.",cle Tom was
gayty bantering her as was his CU«tom.
^Jjljftarry stood in your shoes !***,
Mis»|$[eri, it would be worth while.
But I -can't see why girls should ever
be twehty-ooe. They should keep in
their leens, you know, while they are
girls. Why, there's your mother and
your aunt here were married off long
betore your age. Let's see, Kate you
were only eighteen, and Mary was but
seventeen. Why, what are you two
about—you and Frank ?—nice-looking
yjung women like you, too."
Ellen answered this with great appa
rent carelessness and you would never
have thought, as she answered, that
she was at all disturbed. Frack, who
had been playing softly and fitfully at
the piano, heard this last remark of
Uncle Tom's. Pretty, vehement Frank,
who looked much younger than Ellen,
but who was two years older, swung
herself round on the music stool and
crkd out in her littls funny, quicktem
pered way:
"How can you talk in that style,
Uncle Tom? As if a woman's whole
earthly concern was to get married 1 I
don't think, you need he so proud of
early marriages in our family if ao
tler/s and Aunt Mary's did -tnrn out
well. There's Aunt'Harriet's: charm
i«g match that i|, isn't it? And there's.
Uncle Dick, threat splendid fellow tied
to that Utile doll 1 Do you suppose if
Aunt .Harrie.had waited until she was
iu her twenties she would have fallen in
love with a man who murders the En
glish langu ige every time he opens bit
mouth And do you 'think Uncle
Dick would have married only a pretty
doll if he had waited until he was a
man
Uoole Tom Alroyd wasn't very much
pleased with this sudden attack and
there might have ensued quite a tilt of
tongues if Harry had not just then
come in with a "bee in his bonnet/'
Wb«n Hflrr,v. had a bee in his. bonne'
it alwaj^ nuxzud very, noisily without
regard for time or' place.
"I say, mother',*' he buM^out, "Rob
Barker's uncle is coming home from
Europe, and Rob wants to get a room
for him at the West End here. And
told him I guessed he could have Mar
chant's room. irehan'ts going away,
you know, next month ."
"Mr. Merchants, Harry. Don't get
into that flippant way of calling a man
twice or three times your age 'Mar
chant.' It sounds under-bred," re
proved Mr Stanhope.
"Well, Mr. Maretant, then. But
about tbo room, mother persisted
Harry.
"How old a man is Rob Barker's un
cle, Harry asked Mrs. Stanhope,
thoughtfully.: l\f* I", "j
"Old Weil, he can't be very young
he stands in the place of Rob's father,
you know."
"Oh!"'
There was a satisfactory note in this
"Oh which Mr. and Mrs. Alroyd un.
derstood perfectly and tho moment
they were outside the door they com
mented upon it freely.
"There's another of Kate's queer
quirks, Tom," said Mrs. Alroyd to her
husband. "The idea of her setting her
face against any lodger entering her
house wha isn't elderly I"
'"She's" afraid people will say she's
after a husband for one of her daugh
ters. Isn't that it
"Yes. She always remembered what
Dick's silly little wife said to her at the
outset."
"What was that
"Why, that she needn't trouble her
self to dress Frank and Ellen for parties
when they grew up that they'd find
plenty of suitors in her lodgers. It was
part malice and part earnest with Matty.
You know sho was always ashamed of
Kate's taking lodgers."
"Pshaw Kate's morbid!" exclaimed
Mr. Alroyd.
"To be sure she is. 1 always said she
was," Mrs Alroyd returned.
And while they criticise Mrs. Stan
hope's "queer quirks," as they styled
her sensitiveness and pride, up stairs
in their own room Frank and Ellen
were having their little tilt of criticism.
"Oh shivered out Frank, pulling
down her long shining hair with an im
patient jerk, "I do get so very mad at
Uucle Toms speeches about marriage.
I think it's vulgar to talk in that way,
Elly."
"Of course it is," answered the cooler
"filly," with more emphasis than usual.
"Uncle Tom evidently thinks it's a
&irVs bounden duty to marry somebody
or, at least, thinks it's our bounden
doty. I fancied he'!1 Stop that kind of
«s able to
talk when he saw that I
take care of myself."
"Elly 1"—and Frank ceased her busy
combing as the new thought struck her
—"Elly, I do believe it was Uncle
Tom's exasperating speeches that first
Bet you thinking of taking care of your
self, as you call it."
Elly colored a little and langhed a
little".
"Well, I suppose it was, Frank. It
set me thinking in various ways. I saw
that mother didn't need but one ot us
to assist her about the house. I felt
that were being Halked at' a good
deal in the matrimonial key, both by
Uncle and Aunt Tom. It occurred to
.*ne that school teaching would he)"' f'ne
matt,.!* all round. But Uncle Tom
doesn't ap^eir to believe much in that
kind of help, see. He seems to think
that, the only decen* way for a woman is
to get married," and Elly laughed again
with the old gleam of humor in her
eyes.
"Just to think of your earning $600
a year, Elly you who are two years
younger than I. You always were a
great deal brighter than I, Elly. Bless
my soul! I don't believe. I am sound on
mj* multiplication table to this day.
And vThen I go shopping I always have
to count mj fingers in my muff when I
reckon up my change I do truly."
Elly laughed ou* at this, and Frank,
meeting her amused lo".***, laughed too.
"All I can do is to swee'u and dust
and mako beds, and sometimes fuss
round in the kitchen when Bridget is
away. I haven't an acquisition or a'n
accomplishment—not one As far as
that goes I'm a fool." Then making
an iodescribuble grimace at herself in
the mirror, she concluded emphatical
ly, "Yes, I've got it—I'm a healthy
fool—just that."
Quiet Elly was laughing by this time
as uobody but Frank could make her
laugh. But as quick as she found her
breath she said, animatedly,
"How can you talk so, Frank, whsn
you play so beautilully, and s'ng, too,
like nobody else."
'Like nobody else'—yes, that is
the way, Elly, precisely there's no
training or since about it to make it
like any body else. And as for tho
playing, that's in the same category."
"I heard Mrs. Raymond say the
other night that there was no playing
or singing touched her like yours," an
swered Elly, quietly..
"Did she say that?" exclaimed
Frank, her eyes all aglow—for Mrs.
Raymond was great authority, a woman
whose fine natural taste bad been culti
vated to the utmost They talkel a while,
of this, and then dropped their voices
as they heard the key in the room be
low them click in the look. "I'm glad
Mr. Maichaqt's going," said Frank, in
her lower tone he's such an old Betty.
I've got tired of creeping round the
bouse and talking in whisper, for fear
of disturbing him. Any way, Elly, I
think it's awful $h\\ and poky to have
a house filled with" a parcel of old fuss,
es. lido think-mother is over-sensitive
there. She says with two daughters
like us it is better taste and betfer dig
nity to have quiet, elderly people in the
house. I don't know but it is, but it's
awlul dull," reiterated Frank, shaking
her head pathetically. "And no soon
er does, one go than another of the
same sort comes. I should think
they'd call it the Patriarch's Retreat
by this time," went on this droll little
Frank, with a suppressed giggle.
"Hush! speak lower!" cautioned
Elly.
"Oh, nobody can hear!" Then for
a minute Frank was silent but just as
Ellen was falling asleep she heard her
voice again:- "Elly! Elly!" she
whispered, "I wender if Bob Barker's
old uncle will come 1"
"Stop talking, Frank, and go to
sleep—do dear—I'm so tired!" Elly
remonstrated And Frank went to
sleep, and dreamed that Bob Barker's
uncle was a greater fuss than all the
rest that he insisted on the home being
still at nine o'clock that he locked all
the windows, and listed all the doors
and that he capped the climax of this
by entering a protest against her piano
and Harry's flute. A month after this,
when she had forgotten all about her
dream, sho came in one day to find the
house in quite a commotion. Not only
Mr. Merchant's vacant room was be
ing metamorphosed, but the side room
opening out of it.
"Oh. Granny Barker's coming, I
suppose, in place of Granny Mer
chant she said to herself, as she
caught eight of Bob Barker in the
shaos of pictures and furniture. "And
the old geutleman's to have two
rooms she went on with her inward
eomments "a parlor and bed room,
eh Then aloud to her brother's chum,
in the rather patronizing style she al
lowed herself toward that youngster
on account of her three or four yeare'
seniority, she said, "Mastar Robert,
I supose this is all your taste glancing
at the carpets an I tho furniture.
"Master Robert" inwardly smiled on
this sweet-voiced patronage.
"All my taste except two or three
old things my uncle always will insist
on having." Then, as Miss Stanhope I confess
was turning away, he exclaimed sud
denly, perhaps to detain that fascinat
ing vet most provoking young woman
a little longer—for poor Bobbie was
notoriously "spooney" on Frank's
bright tace and natural ways—"Miss
Stanhope, you'll be sure to like my
unci 3 he's the nicest old fellow in the
world 1"
"Oh is he returned Frank, care
lessly, and then she went on her way
up to her room, to Bob Barker's great
disappointment, doubtless.
"Tnv °i old fellow in the world I"
she repeated td berself, with a little
shrug of her shoulde.'8'
A
fibe
recalled her dream, and UC&ei. She
could not but acknowledge, boTeTer
that this nicest old fellow's taste was*
not out of the way in the choice of
pictures, whan, coming down from
her room one day at the end of a week,
she lingered to look at two lovely land
scape3 that faced the open door. As
she lingered there she heard some one
making frantic attempts with tbeir
latch-key outside, attempts which prov
ed futile, as a sudden ring at the bell
gave evi^r*
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swiftly down, and, opening
said in explanation:
a
"It's that stupid new Biddy's work
she will slip the wrong bolt when she
goes out."
It was Bob Barker's face that pre
sented itsel.' first to her, and that young
gentleman found tongue to at once
glibly and politely:
"Thank you, Miss Stanhope. But
it was too bad to trouble you," And
then, in another tone, "This is my
uncle, Mr. Hadley Miss Stanhope,
Uncle Robert."
Frank looked at the new-comer, and
saw, to her utter amazement, a man
rather above the medium height, very
square as to the shoulders, very broad
as to the chest, very firmly knit to
gether, yet with the lithe carriage such
as one imagines an Arab to possess,
sod with all this—a face that bronzed
and ruddy from travel and outdoor life,
yet intellectual and refined—the face
of an educated gentleman, and this
gentleman clearly not a day over forty.
Frank thought of her dream of the
gray-headed, frosty-bearded old gentle
man who bad hitherto hold peaceful
possession of her mother's house and
ot her mother's intention that only such
should hold possession and the thought
was to much for her composure at the
moment. She would have given much
to have restrained that little irrelovant
and rather irreverent laugh, but it was
beyond her controle. There was some
thing so merry and natural in it, how
ever, that it proved contagious, though
it was irrelevant, Rob, in his "hobble
deboyhood" thought, "She's laughing
at the mess I made with the latch
key." Mr. Hadley thought: "Nice,
merry little girl and then they all
went up stairs together, and Frank
nearly burst out again, at her mother's
look of astonishment when "Uncle
Robert" was piesented to her.
Aunt Tom, as they called Mrs.
Alroyd, coming in that evening, Frank
could not restain her tun, and so the
story of the new arrival was chronicled
in such merry vein as only Frank was
misstress of.
"Think, auntie, I fairly laughed in
his face when I saw him, it was so
funny to imagine mother's amazement
and consternation."
Mrs. Stanhope looked excessively
annoyed at Frank's merriment, and
very soon managed to send her away
on some household errand The mo
ment she was out of sight Mrs. Alroyd
began
"Kate, I think you are perfectly
morbid on that subject. The idea of
your supposing that every body will
suspect you of matrimonial designs for
Frank and Ellen if you let you rooms
to young lodgers."
"Mary, it isn't merely that—though
that suspicion is a very common one,
and cno I do wish to avoid. But when
we ware girls don't you remember the
Traceys?"
"Yes, you were yonger than I, so
you don't know, I dare say, what I did.
Mrs. Tracey rented her rooms to lodg
ers as I do. They were usually oc
cupied by young men, and of course
people were ill-natured enough to say
constantly that her three girls wore
'sitting the caps,' and 'aft.-r' this one
or that one. Those horrid phrases!
But that wasn't the worst of it. The
Traceys were a good old respectable
family, not aristocratic by any means
any more than the Stanhopes, The
rooms however, were rented quite
frequently to young men of fashion.
**m
It was very natural that pretty gfrk
like May end Alice an* Sara Traeey
should be pleased by these elegant
young men should linger on the stair
ways talking with them should aooept
bouquets and Christmas and birthday
gifts from them should, in short, with
such opportunity fall in love frith
such dazzling heroes, and expect to
marry them. But Mary, not one of
these heroes, offered himself in marri
age to them. Not one of them at
rather than those flirtations. They
were simply passing away the time.
It came in their way to laugh and
talk, and now and then offered little
attention to tbe*e girls, and go the
matter ended Lt them. But not so
did it end for the girls. I happen to
know that Sara Tracey almost broke
her heart for Morris Ryder, and I
know that May and Alice were more
interested in those Stanleys than wae
well for their peace of mind. Then
the remarks that wera made were of
course not agreeable, There is always
something humilating in the position
of a woman, when she is so placed ot
so placed herself that she ean be flirted
with, or approached as an acquaintance
to talk and laugh with, without being
sought. And any mother shouM
shield Ler daughters from positions
like these if she can."
"Well, I believe you are more than
half right, Kate," Mrs. Alroyd replied
in a tone of ooovidtion. "1 had never
looked upon it so deeply before, 1 must
Not having girls of my own,
you know, I'm not so sensitive, Mary,
on this point, I would like as well at
any mother to see my girls well mar
ried, but I don't mean .they shall be
what is called 'thrown in any gentle
man way, nor stand a chance of being
'condescended to' and all sorts of thing.
We are poor, and not fashionable people
by any means but my girls are ladies,
and I mean they shall hold themselves,
and be held as such."
"How your mind does bold on to
things, Kate. I should never hare
thought of making a personal applica
tion, or taking a warning from any
tniog so far back as the affairs of the
Traceys."
"Well, perhaps not. Bui was eldet
•ban you, and I never forget that OotJ."
Kate, I don't believe yot need
trouble yonrr^ •bontthis Mr. Hadley.
He it not a yoong
Ryder or the Stanley's. Z*
likely to Art on the stairwavs with Kate
or Ellen—a man of forty And Mr*
Alroyd langhed.
Mrs. Stanhope laughed too at thie
close application of her story of the
Tracey's and so the conversation en
ded. But Mrs. Stanhope's thoughts
the subject didn't end with her words.
knew that this man of forty was
handsomest fellows she bad
one of .,„
chanced to Bee late.,, were with
ciations, if not his tastes, **,},
the fashionable world. And at .^
conolusion she said to herself: "But
perhaps, I am making an old fool of
myself. I do hold on to any thing ee,
as Mary says."
As time went on she began to think
that she had been over anxious, for
nothing could be more satisfactory
than the course of affair?. There were
none of those stairway meetings ant
talking* she had such a horror of.-*
Only a courteous and rather stately
"good-morning" or "good-evening" oc
casionally, in a swift passage to and
from the door.
"There never was such a proper and
discreet bachelor, mother,'' as Frank,
who must always have her fun, com
mented to her mother. "H'es as grave
and proper as one of the patriarchs.',
Ia the mean time this "grave and
proper" bachelor, who had learned the
family circumstances from his nephew,
was wishing he could be of service to
his neighbors.
That little girl who opened the
door for us, and laughed in our faces,
that first night, Rob, might do some
thing with that voice of hers if she
liked," Mr. Hadley said one evening
when Rob Walker had been holding
forth on these family circumstances,
which he had gathered from indiscreet
Harry, who had divulged more of the
pinch in the domestic economy than
he meant to, in his boyish talk of his
own future help.
"You've heard her sing Rob re
marked questioningly at this assertion*
of his nncle.
"Oh yes. I often leave my doc*
open when I'm in the house to hear Let.
She really has a remarkable voice."
And just as he spoke there then
floated up to them the wild sweet aotee
of an old German song whioh Mr. Had
ley had listened to many a night naon
the Rhine. He listened now, smoking
his after dinner pipe slowly and thought
fully. When it was ended, he knocked
the ashes carefully out of the bowl of
his meerschaum, and laying il down
upon the corner of the shelf, rose up
and proposed to Rob that they should
go down into the parlor and ask the
young lady if she would be kind enough
to let them listen to her singing tinder
more advantageous circumstances. "1
dare say she sings a great many of
those old German ballads, and there's
nothing I should like to hear BO much."
Rob was, of course, delighted. Tiny
found the little family circle compleit.
Mrs. Stanhope plying her needle by tht
drop-light Ellen, near her, going ovei
some school compositions, and Harry
putting his flute together preparatory
to accompany Frank's playing. If
Stanhope was not pleased at this inter
ruption she did not show her diapleas*
ure, and certainly she could have had
no reason to have found fault with Mr*
Hadley's manner. He was quite absorb
ed in the evident memories called up
by the songs to whioh he listened. And
alter the singing ho drifted into a little
talk of German life, especially the musi
cal life and as he hs known many cf
the masters of the present d«y thishttla
talk was very entertaining.
As he was bidding tbem good-night,
with his cordial "thanks for Miss Stan-
CMttamev W*#.