Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 15, 1900, Page 5

ogi Mrs. M. Brooks. r Written for This Paper. It was a pretty affair, that bachelor’s cal- endar, which Santa Claus had wished to de- posit in the worg. sock of a handsome and shy young man. The children had been in- creasing so rapidly that it had been impos- sible for te dear old man to get around in his sleigh to make his annual call on the” elders, so he had to use the mail. Butasthe young man opened the various packages wick the mail man Santa Claus had left or him, he forgot for a time the girl who had occupied so much of his thoughts for a year and allowed his mind to wander bach to the days of his childhood before the old saint lad gotten ontc the new methods of the post office department, but had de- posited the toys and sweetmeats intended for him in the long stocking, usually one borrowed from mother, hung beside the old home fireplace.. Those were happy days, and then he thought of what other days might be if he could but muster the courage to speak to Eva, provided, of course, that she | Would say “yes” to his pleadings, of which he felt not at all certain. | “The new way is better ‘or me after all,” = = he said, half aloud, “for I am afraid the I have jnst received a fine line of fall headwear, including}'some elegant outing hats and caps ‘for ladies’ and children. @ %) ] v. 3 a — | goodies would run out of the hole in that a) | toe,” and he glanced at the protruding mem- Fall and Winter Goods. I | Come in and See Them. ber which had worked its way through the | silk sock, and which had nut yet been cov- ered by either slipper or shoe. The young man had been in a quandary for most of the year that was closing. Like many another of his kind he had loved, he | feared unwisely but too well. True the girl |} |ef his choice had never intimated that his | ntions were anything but the most ac- B ; |ceptable, indeed she had even encouraged | | them so far as she could with propriety. }} | But the young man had not the taint of || | conceit that is necessary sometimes to make | | such encouragement plain to him. Time jand again he had determined to end the by having his fate decided and know for all whether she was to be his or j | not, but as often had his courage given way beforé the words were spoken. He thought | of these things, and of what a wonderful |Christmas present Eva could make him if she only would. It was while his thoughts were engaged package containing the pretty calendar. As he opened it he wondered who could have sent such an elaborate affair, hand painted, with the little monthly calendars, two on nage, and around them tty bunches bacheior buttonsand scenes froma bathe- JOLEAUD & Mo\'S. TER Painters and lor want to ma: hy should aman Decorators want to go to He: but a fool aoe would not want to marry if he had the op- 4 portunity of getting little woman Maids mas but maids like d Ave ue. Fresco Work and Sign Painting a Specilaty All Work Guaranteed to be First-Class. appropriate little verse. The little verse on the first page attvacted his attention and he stopped to read it be- fore turning the next. It was: “The year is young, I will not hurry, Why should a bachelor want tamarry, are many and maids are e year is indeed young," he-m just now is the time to begin a new sh I could. Why, indeed, st ? shoulda are not. @ sent this cal- endar, anyw He tured the page to the next verse, and cead: nk be ‘yes’ to me, but to wed and Grand Rapids. i “The bells say be. blest is another: matter. should wed if 1 could but R TPANS TABULES |: Doctors find V¥eseription - Forma>kind of HE PTOSOEDSL ROSS POSL SPR? SVRHI TOKAI SMPPSOSZ SLSOTOESS | and I would certainly be blest i He turned another page, and re~d the next jYerse. It was: x “(With a chafling dish we can cook cur food, The laundry takes care of our washing, But oh, for a self sewing needle and thread, To mend the big hole in our stocking.” + “What helpless creatures we men are, any- way. Women are an absolute necessity to That hole in my sock would not be there visa benedict instead ofa bachelor. Eva would never permit such’things, | am sure. A man must save a large unt jn a year by h sure Eva would be. I wonder who could have Sent me this thing, anyway?” Another page was turned and here there | were but twe lines of verse. They were: ‘See these worn clothes hanging on the line, Where's the girl totakea stiteh and saVe the other nine.” ~ “It would take more than one stitch to save my clothes frem complete ruination. A Good T is but another one of the many ways in which aeman with a wife would save money, as well as the possibility of always looking decent. solute necessity to a man the: clothes are in a Wogse condition, if possible, than the ones the artist has pictured here, but that would be changed if | had Eva. I wonder if my courage will*never reach that point where I can as!: her to be mine? Another page, the nest to the last, was turned over, and on it be found: “He either fears:his fate too much, Or his deseris are small, That dates not put it to the touch, To gain, or lose it all.” “That's me exactly. It must have been written especially for my benefit. ‘He either fears his fate too much,’ that's me. Iam so afraid she might say ‘no’ that I date not try to win at all. And then I guess my deserts are small besides when I compare them with Eva’s worth. Whoever sent me this did me Ten for five cents,at Lruggists, Grocers, Restaurants, loons, |News-Stands, General Stores’ and Barhers Shops, ' They banish pain, induce sleep, and prolong lite, ‘One gives relief! No matter what's the matter, one will you good. Ten samples and one thousand. testie monials sent by mail to any address on receipt of price, by the Ripans Chemical Co., 10,Spruce St., New Vork City, necessary courage to stake all and try to win. But when? That isa question that is | hard to answer. I have been saying the same thing for almost a year, and still I hesitate.” He turned to the last page on which he found a surprise. There was a picture in The Heral-Reviw Doe water colors of Eva and below it just two lines: et “A dream of the gir! who might have been mine, | Had I but spoken the word in time.” » | - “Dil Eva send me that? I don’t think she did; but if she did what did she mean. But one thing is sure Lam not going to lose that girl by not speaking the word in time. I’) F speak it to-night, even if} fail’ — And he did, and the Christmas bachelor is to be a benedict in a month. But calendar Mis Eva, was vary indjgnant when he insimated that it might haye come from, her, and e box af hon bons toscoth gs. No, Eva gid not send it, but she has a very dea friend who is an artist, and in whom she confided her troubles and jdeas for a pur- pose, sett gee aaa Sei! She may tell ber bashful lover all of thase thin, “4 eae the wedding ceremony*but a sd ots . aaOk 6 WRIGHT A PATTERSON. ty s Good Printing in this way that the maid brought him the | lor’s life, and-at the bottom of each pagean And bargains are promised us everywhere.” | 3 an economical wife such as Tam | The laundry is playing havoe with them. | I tell you a wife is an ab- | a kindness, for I am going to muster up the | not yet found the person who sent him the | KENTUCKY ROMULUS. ENT cos heah, Eller—don’t look too ‘ skeerd ’caise I call yer Eiler—you hain’t no Miss Eller to me, my gal, cause ye | been off ter the Salyersville cemitery, ay’ come home toatin’ er pagsel of Bluegrass airs. Yas, Eller, I jist rode over heah this mornin’ ter fin’ out ef you want ter smash up that leetle contrack we writ in our | hearts afore you went off, and sealed with The girl at first widened her pretty brown eyes, as if shocked at his uncouth speech, | but she met frank, honest, exacting eyes | that nothing could conceal except darkness itself. She colored, and, with a confused “Ab-he-em,” turned her face. Silence continued for about a minute, | When the young man continued in firm | | tones, a note of pathos running through them: | “Somehow or othery-when I hearn you was goin’ off, I felt like you’d never come | back to.me no more—not as little Eller. The nateral nater of you—clear, sweet, an’ bright as our mountin eri :s—would return bemuddled to simple eyes like mine. I’m | not layin’ in no blame to you. I allers thought you, compar’d to re, 7 little git- “tar beside a gourd fiddle. Isus I couldn’t help lovin’ you—m. heail jist run toward | you just like a dry chip toa suckhole. I knowed, though, when you got ‘way off among town folks, you’d look at them ar fine: hair’d doods, an’ them across their | Shoulders to the memory of rude Fred Cap- field, an’ it would make you curl yer lip an’ laugh. I know thar ain’t nothin’ about me to catch an’ hold a gal like you, an’ I love you too well, an’. think I’ve got a leetle bit.too much spunk about me, to ae draggin’ atter you like a briar, when you want ter free yerself. I’ve seed the day it would, be like a, shot in my heart to be | turned off, but I’ve been bracin’ myself for || | the lick ever since you went, away. I've | got all my ’rangements made, an’ in a month from now I'll leave for MKansas, where I’ve got an uncle who offers me a place in his store. So, Eller, ef you say the word, I'll take my medicine the best I | kin, an’ never bother you nomore.” ~/ | When he had concluded Ella looked up at | | him with a smile—a frank, bantering, kiss- | | able smile.- Affectation was gone from her | | manner and speech. i “Fred,” she said, with the genuine frank- ness of mountain natures, “I still think more of you than I ever did of any other man. I deplore your deficiencies in the , way of education; but you are worth a thousand ‘doods,’ as you call the town boys. Still, Fred, I’m sorry to say, you ere not my ideal, and unless I so consid- | ered you, I don’t think I could live happily with you. I don’t think I shall ever marry. | I’m too romantic in my nature—too exact- | ing in the demand for qualities in my hus- | band that don’t exist in these prosaic times. My reading has spoiled me, I know, T lie in times long gone. My lover is your- self, but taken back & thousand or two thou- sand years. The modern man, of al! de- grees, is too commonplace for my taste. Hundreds of times I have dreamed of you as my lover, but in every instance you were either. a Roman youth, or a knight of the middle ages, with armor on, going forth to do deeds for your lady love which the modern man could not even’ dream of do- ing. Of course, such a man, outside of books, I shall never find, and unless my na- ture changes as the years go by, I shall never marry. Now, Fred, I’ve told you truly ther; state of my mind, and! you willbe pleased some day that you missed getting such a girbas I am fora wife. Such love as I have, ' however, belongs to you, but you know your- self it isn’t the kind to. keep house on. Oh, | | if we could only go back to the grand old ' Roman days, or to the days when knight- hood was in flower!” ’ ‘ Fred arose at the conclusion of this nova speech, and, dipping his yellow curls, said: “Good-by, Eller. ” “Say, mam,’ whar’s them old histories that that ar bow-legged teacher left heer | tevo years ago?” said Fried Capfield to his mother after he had arrived home. “They’re. out, piled away in the smoke- | house, somewhar among a lot of old trum- pery—what ye want with hist’ries, I’d like ter now?” After a long search among old _ shoes, trace chains, dried beans, corn cobs, and other debris, Fred finally. fished out Gold- | smith’s “Ilistory of Rome”’ and an old Eng- lish history. With some labor he read the Roman ‘history as far as the rape of the Sabines, and, with a great grin and chuckle of exultation he laid it aside. Then he took up the history of the Norman con- quest, but dropped it when he read how great King William, when a duke in Nor- | mandy, won his exasperating wife. Then | he threw it aside, and, plufging his hands deep in his pockets, strode to and fro across | the floor, his lips struggling. to smile an? | | whistle .at the same time. A j | a | ing, as he appeared:in his best “duds” at the door of the smokehouse, where his mother was compounding some soap grease, “I want you to drop yer soap-makin’ ter-day | an’ go ter cookin’ up some good things.” “Why, what’s up?” “Never you mind, ole mammy! You jist mind yar han’some son, say nothin’ but yer prayers, an’ wait.” S | Fred then strode rapidly out to the yard | gate, where his big bay horse stood nerv- ' ously pawing the earth. He mounted him and went with a rain of hoofs down the hard road toward the home of Elia McCoy. Riding up in front of the house, he yelled “flallo!” John McOoy, big brother of Ella's, came to the door. 4 “Tell Eller to come out to the fence a | i moment,” quietly spoke the horseman. i Ella responded, interrogation points in | her eyes. j “Step close to the fence a moment, Eller; | I’m goin’ away, an’ I want to tell yer sum thin’.” She stepped up, her face quite pale, when-| | Fred, making a huge hook of his left. arm, | instantly caught her around the waist with | it, lifted her up in front of him, drove | | Wee ee im his horse and dashed furiously _ | away. ‘ | | Ella-squirmed and screamed, but the big | giant pressed her against his great chest and smiled-gently. ‘ “Oh, papa and the boys will kill you!” she elled. w ePossibhys but the Sabines didn’t kill | | folks like me, nor did the Romans you brag | | about. Besides, people don’t often kill sons- ja-law, no how.” “Oh, you villain!—boo-hoo! — I won’t marry you!” es “No; the squire that’s waitin’ down at the forks of the road wil! do that for you! » Stop yer snubbin’! I’m a Roman an’ er} William the Conqueror both at once!” The little woman cou'd do no more. She was conquered. She had caused this law- Jessness, and sho eran to laugh. Then. | looking up night big, yes | % “Mam,” said Frod, early the next morn- | j W. E.. MARTIN, Irasca Lanp Co. PINE AND FARMING LANDS SETTLERS LOCATED. { f Choice Farming Lands for Sale on Limg ‘Time and Easy Terms., ‘and T haue just taken my full dress ‘suit. to om McAlpine, the Cleaber, to be cleaned GRAND RA PID, = - MINN Grand Rapids, pee Minn. : A. B. CLAIR, Syria nigsa | Register of Deeds of Itasca County G . ; ~ USe THE SQUARE FOLDING ; BATH CABINET Mineral Pine ana arming ands SISe % & & Yor Sale by 4, HD. BERGIN Grand Rapids. f ae ee 6 g Pine Stumpage Bought. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. GRAND RAPIDS. 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Siberia, he points out, is no longer a mere Russian penal settlement, but a young country with a great future before it. The railway has already. diffused hundreds of thou- sands Of settlers over the vast domain and is opening gold deposits which it has not hitherto been possible to work at a profit. Siberia already ranks among the leading gold-producing countries and other important indus tries are expected now to develop rap- idly. In many respects the history of Siberia is curiously like that of Aus: tralia, The tinest List of Agricultural and Grazing Lands in the-County. The Most Excellent Sites for Manu facturing Enterprises. Prospective Settlers Located. Corres, ondence Solicited. Grand Rapids, - ~ “The : Dudley” Dray and | ~ Express Line Minn, weakens the body and de- grades thesmind. , It saps the nervous strength that is the source of all health, and perverts the functions of ‘every organ. — Because of its stubborn nature, it is often called incurable. This is not true. 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