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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1890)
A NIGHT OF STORM. "Just lock up your rooms, Marjori? and go down with us for a few weeks," said MUs Alixe "You know you nail on, coaxingu. can't d any work worth mentioning during the heated term, and " be consuming your hard-earned money if you remain here," hut after the briefest hesitation tastefully added in steaJ: "Vou know we shall be only too delighted to have your society." Thaukyou, Alixe," said Marjorie. with a grateful gkmee at her friend ifrom under her brown hishes. l!ut her pale, proud lips trembled utmost im perceptibly, and for awhile longer she hesitated alut accepting the kindly invitation. Hie was just a poor music-teacher, and the prospect of staying in town while nearly all her pupils were out of it, during the sultry pays of mid summer, and using up the small sum die had, while earning nothing with which to replace it, was not a pleasant one; while on the oth r hand, the alter native offered her of spending her en forced vacation in a cool, airy cottage, by the seaside was, ind-ed, very, very tempting to the tired, hard worked fir). Hut she was sensitively proud, ami shrunk from the thought of receiving the many benefits which some of her ueal.hy aiq u in's nces - and particular ly Miss Alixe Walton -were so willing to bestow upon her, "Come, what do you say, Marjorie?" jiersisted Alixe, afler nilo.viug a few miuutes for consideration. "Hut of course it will ha 'yes,' since that is the only sensible decision which you could possibly make. Very well, then" giving Marjorie no chance to contra dict her "we are going down next week, and early in the following week we shall exiect you to join us without fail." ' And so, with a kiss ami one of her most coaxing smiles, the pretty, iui-jK-rious daughter of wealth and fash ion won the coveted answer from Marjories wit -reluctant lips almost before the latter was aware of it. "The proud little llohemian!" laughed Miss Alixe softly under her breath, as she ran lightly down to the urri waitinir for her at the curb. "She would almost ra i er swelter here in town, and perhaps h ..f starve in the bargain, than to :u: 0,1 anything that looks like patronise ; "Jiut, thank goodiM' she cannol 'doubt 'the reality uf my friendship. And she might hitv :dl those comforts, and luxuries or her 'cry own if si only would, for I'm certain that l'arke (iriswold Ah!"-pausing abruptly. with one dainty foot 011 the carriage step, as a new idea seemed to strike her -"why didn't 1 think of that be fore? 'Mr. (Iriswold -will be a charming addition to our small circle, but it will never do to give prsity Miss Marjorie a hint of that:" It was one of the most charmingly picturesque spots imaginable on the Atlantic coast. A little h ick from Urn ocean stood the Bpacious Walton college, its long windows everywhere opening upon wide and airy verandas, ami thence to the broad stretch of velvety lawn, with its brilliant flower-bed and sparkling fountains. In vivid conl ras- be v.ccn that and the sea lay the w'Au, shingly beach, while just below the smooth shore changed to one of rough and rugged grandeur, great rocky points and cliffs jutting sharply out into the moaning waters; Just now the whole picturesque Bcene was Hooded with the soft, gold en afterglow of sunset, and the beauty of it had drawn everybody out upon tthe lawn or the beach below. A little apart from the others, the soft, rippling waves curling almost to " (their feet, stood Miss Walton and Marjorie Trevor, the latter looking dfstractingly lovely in one of the simple white gowns that she usually wore and 11 blight-colored light wrap drawn gracefully about heriiliJiiM -m. They were chatting away in merry, girlish fashion, when Alixe, turning her head suddenly, caught sight of a tall masculine figure striding toward them from the lawn. "Dear me!" she exclaimed, with a petulant little air of vexation which seemed charmingly natural. "Here conies Mr. (Iriswold. I slmll have to postpone my story until n more con venient time, Marjorio" "Oh, don't go, Alixe!"Vried Marjorie, almost pleadingly, laying a detaining hand on her companion's arm as she turned to flit away Alixe laughed. "I shouldn't, dear, if I didn't know that the gentleman doesn't take the least bit of Interest in my society. And it is so embamusing to feel ome's aelfdetrop, that I really can't -do it even to please you, Marjorie." And the 1 oxt moment she was flit ting up the Inwh past Mr. (iriswold, who merely pausing to exchange n uuiirhlns word or two with her, . hastened on to join, Marjorie, atondinir silent and motionless, now her back toward him and her brown eyes g.iiug wistfully out over the iighirsg sea. For awhile he stood beside her, talking of the sunset glories all about them; then they strolled on down -the sea. ig;i(i8 toward the craggy points Mow, i '-rne sit here. Marjorie" ho said i ... j and she started a little at that name w hich he used now for the first time, "I have something to tell yon, I have waited so long so patiently! liut you will listen to me now, Marjorie" with tender pleading in his voice--"I must tell you what is in my heart." She sunk down mechanically upon the large, flat rook which be had designated, her lips pressed together, her sweet face very pale, and a pained half frightened look in the large brown eyes which were so persistently averted from the tender glance bent upon her. In biienee she listened to the avow al which she could parry 110 longer. Hut when it was ended, and he turned to her with flushed, expectant face, awaiting her answer, she shook off the spell and spoke to him in low tones which, though sweet and pitying as music, fell like ice on the passionate fever of his heart. "I am sorry," she answered, simply. "You know I have done all I could to avoid this, Mr. (iriswold. I understand all that it would mean to me your love. Helieve me, I would accept it gladly if if I had a heart to give you .,.. r - in return, jiut 1 nave not, so j mu beg you to forget me, and to bestow your love upon sonw other some one who will cherish it as you deserve." "Then you love another, Marjorie?" ho asked, huskily. "Tell me-Hie truth. I f I must lose you " He stopped, for his voice failed him, and he looked away from the lovely face beside hint, with a changed ex pression on his own that touched Mar jorie to the heart. "There is very little to tell," she answered, sadly. "The story is brief and simple enough, but it killed my heart. 1 loved once, Mr. (iriswold, with all the streneth and passion of my soul. Like you, he was rk h and handsome, and I thought-yes, even now, I still believe-that he was true end noble and generous-all that a man should Vs. Hut trouble came between us, we parted in bitter anger, and he went away. He vowed that he would put the ocean between us and never loolt upon my face again. I have heard since that he was married to a beautiful Knglish girl, and- that is all. Hut you see now why I have 110 love to give any one. My heart is dead," she repeated with infinite mournfiilness, her great, soft brown eyes turning again to the sea that was growing gray and lonely in the deepening dusk. Hut l'arke (iriswold's handsome face had undergone another change before her little Htorv was ended, it was bright and flushed once more with hopefulness. ' Even after all that, Marjorie, I im plore you to be my wife," he entreated his strong voice full of a passion and tenderness that Beemed irresi?sabl. "He is gone out of your life; forget him; try to love me instead. Oil, 1 think you can learn to if you will only try, my darling!" He would not let her go but con tinned to plead, with all the eloquence that his masterful lovo could suggest, until at last Mi'ijorio found herself faltering, hesitating, almost on the verge of yielding to his prayer. "My life is so hard and lonely," she, reflected as she listened to his burning words, "why shouldn't I give it into his keeping? lie loves me well and truly, and --perhaps I might forget in time; I might even learn to love him who can tell?" "Let me have time to think it over, Mr. (iriswold," she said at last, putting her hand to her forehead with ti faint, pathetic little smile. "I don't know what to say to you just now. Hut - to morrow, perhaps, or, at most, before we return to town." And so together they walked back, almost in silence, to the cottage. Alixe was watching for them at the window. He has proposed to you-Iknowhe has," she exclaimed under her breath, drawing Marjorie aside, with her own dark eyes sparkling joyously. "I knew he would, when I saw you walking down toward the point. Oh, Marjorie, what a foolish girl you will be if you don't accept him!" 'Oh, Alixe, don't please don't ask me anything!" whispered Marjorie, the slight flush that had warmed her cheeks suddenly dying out. And then she escaped to her own room to think out, if she could, the problem of her future. The next night came down dark and stonr.y, ami terribly desolate beyond description. The sea moaned and roared and dashed upon the rocks below with aw ful fury, sending the white spray in a blinding shower overall the beach. The loneliness, the desolation, some how made Marjorio realize what her own future must bo if she put love from her forever. "It is like my life," she murmured, shudderlngly. "Ah, I lmd best take love now while it may be mine!" And she slipiicd, still half-hesitating, down the stairs with the thought of seeing (iriswold and giving him lier answer while the mood was on ner, Just as she reached the diuinjr-room a deep sound came booming. The sound which is 'so thrilling awful on such ajnight as this the minute gun at It brought every one to his feet, and every face there was white and horror stricken. "A ship in distress!" "A vessel on tiie rocks!" "Cod help them!" were the the exclamation that passed la hushed, terrified accents from lip to lip. Then everything else was lost sight of and forgotten iu the exciting hours that followed. A noble ship had struck on the rocks, and some of her hapless passengers went down to a watery crave, while others were saved by the almost super human effort of strong, brave men on shore. And not the least among them in heroism was Park (iriswold. White and awestruck, Marjorie Trevor went down and watched them at their noble work. With a curious thrill at her heart she bent over one tall, still form that Hark (iriswold had rescued from the waves and laid near by upon the beach. One look, and she turned and grasped r. ; , 11 w T.wil Tlmri.-.'" she 11 10 J - IV I , ...... whispered with blanched lips. 'MIns is the lover i told you of last night," Parke (Iriswold littered not a word in answer; but ns he turned back to his work of heroism the look on his brave, handsome face told Marjorie all t'.ie story of his suffering. She knelt beside that motionless figure on the sand, scarcely breathing herself as she saw signs of life return ing to it. At last the blue ey;i opened, and a smile of ineffable happiness-faint though it was-lumined the handsome, marble-white face. 'Marjorie!" he whispered, trying to draw her cheek down to his own, "we will never part again." She asked no questions then, only tried to bring him back to lite ana strength. Hut later she learned that the story of his marriage had been only an un founded rumor. What her life might have been but for that night of storm nil terror Marjorie shudders to contemplate. Although she says that, because he saved her husband's life, her a!Te::tion for Park (Iriswold is almost strong enough to make P.asil jealous. l!ut both Ilasil and Marjorie Thome live in the brightest hopes ot seeing pretty, dark-eyed Alixe some day c 11 sole the noble fellow for his disappoint ment. And when that occurs -and just now the event seems very probable -the cup of their happiness will indeed be full. Family Story Paper. A lMncUy Itliml Man. John Dearborn, known as "Wind John," the famous newspaper seller of Lewiston, a pilot of his own trackless course through the streets of Lewiston. is daily' adding new accomplishments to his old and is growing from a news paper seller to a capitalist Besides playing good croquet and being an ac complished fisherman he has bought two colts and is raising them to matur ity. His last venture is the grocery business, and he has hired a store and is going to rim it in connection with lis other business, his grandfather do ing the chief attendance upon custom ers. John can see morning lrom even ing, but that is all. Ho can't tell a brick block from an cn pasture, but :e knows every store on Lisbon street, md can smell a hardware store or a market half a block away. He plays croquet by information as to direction and by measuring the aistanco by walking to the object ball. Ho plays a good game, and is no easy opponent on the ground. John's grit grows with his successes, and he proposes to keep on and grow up in the world. Lewis ton Journal. An American in 11 London Drug: Store. One of the Americans in London told 1110 that he had this queer experience. He asked a druggist for a draught of iron and quinine. Oh, we can't give you that without a prescription, you know,'' the man re plied. The American persisted, but the druggist was firm. 'Well, can you give me au ounce of tincture of iron?" "Yes, sir." "And two two-grain quinine pills?" "Yes, sir." "Will you lent ma a tumbler with a little water in it'f" "Yes, sir." Having all these things the American dropped a dozen drops of iron in the water, and took that and the pellets down with a gulp. The druggist looked on with keen interest, and then said very gravely: "Do you know I call that very neat. It is very neat indeed." Julian Italph iu Harper's Weekly. Mmla tiie Old Liuly Mail. Kate Field's Washington: "What's the trouble between your Uond anil his landlady ? "She asked him to say grace at din ner on Sunday and he said: "O Lord, for what we are about to receive make us truly thankful, for without Thine aid we are likely to bo otherwise." Adam' LiM fcy Fall. At the vesjior service of the Young Men's Christian union the other even ing, says the Hostou l'ost, the l!ev. A. 1). Mayo gave the first in his sjiecial course of five summer talks to young jieople upon "Vouug Men and "Women in the City," taking for his sjiecial topic "The New Version of the Eden Story." Hesaid: . "An Indian chief from western New York once went to Albany and experi enced religion, and went back a full blown missionary. His first sirmou was on the erueilixior, of which he drew such a fearful pic', ure that his congregation was quite demoralized by the shrieks and howls of the women and children. Pausing in his tide of eloqueii-e, he called out: '"Stop short! This was a great while ago and a great way off, and perhaps it wasn't so." he old version of the creation and fall of man seems to have shared a similar fate. The scientists, the historians, the philosophers, and finally the leadin theologians of all sects have united ii the opinion that perhaps it wasn't so A broader and more rational interpre tation of the legends, myths, and script ures 01 ail Hie great religions nas brought out a new version of thisbeau- UIU1 aim majestie om sioiy. It is not I .1 : ,V..... U ........ft!. It., t, 1 1 I n . .li.mitiitu Ul III I 111 V IO 11 UiT. W III lit, ii n111 1 IV 111' of this record, wide'. fie evidently overlaid by the author nf (lensis, anil explained according to the, prevalent idea of human nature. " ookingat it in this way the original record teaches that man and woman were created equal, boHi in the image of (!od; that the woman proved the better man of the two, for she broke through the barrier built by the super stition of the world around them of the Knowledge of good and evil. She be lieved that such knowledge would make hi r and Adam what they were created to be, like (lod, iu their knowl edge of right and wrong, thr freedom of and their power forever to elect the good. I.o'Adam did not fall in the old lime scene. He ft 11 up stairs and bruised his head on a step above him, as a careless boy does going up a stair case two steps at a time. He and his partner emerged from that little Eden of childish obedience into the great world of responsible moral manhood and womanhood. Every boy is a new Adam, and every girl a new Eve. They are born into this Eden of childhood only in time to step forth into that new life of moral responsibility, which is the soul of the Christian ideal of man hood." So Tiiey Were Married. Dallas News: A bright sun and a pleasant afternoon seemed to halo the happy occasion, and in its refulgence to forecast the happiness of a union of two young hearts that had been devoted from youth and young girlhood through the years to full maturity of young manhood and womanhood, and at last so auspiciously brought together under the holy sanction of (lod's ordinance to beat as one. )n the very threshold of their lives they start together along the journey of existence hand iu hand, heart to heart, full of that hope and that joy which aureoles the vistas that stretch out before them and gives promise ol so much of that brightness that pleases and gives rest to life. After the ceremony which made them one, a wedding dinner awaited them, and in that feast of good things they read an earnest, it is hoped, of the largest fate with kindly hand has in store for them through all the years to come, and with the blessings of those ! they love and who love them. It is the sincere hope of all their many friends that no shadow may ever fall upon their lives and only fragrant flowers bloom along their pathway. Enirlisli Ignorance. 'I he ignorance of the English is per haps more v"-satile than among any other civilized and enlightened nation on earth, says the Chicago News. Not one man in ten can tell you how many counties there are, in England, not one in fifty the population of Manchester, ' not one in a thousand the names of the monarchs of England. These people actually know nothing about their own country- nothing about the city in which they live. The sentinel sta tioned in front of Marlborough house will tell yen, "perhaps, that 'is royal 'ighness lives there, but he doesn't know the name of the house. A pol iceman, who for twelve years had walked the beat in which the great banking house of the 1 firings is lo cated, was unable to direct me to that famous institution- said ho had never heard the name before. Distance is reckoned wholly y time. It is four hours to Liverpool, seventy minutes to Harwich, twenty minutes to South Kensington, etc. Taik to an Englis man about miles and ho simply gapes at you in idiotic wonderment. A Michigan Story. Nineteen years ago a (iratiot county, Mich., farmer refused to let his daugh ter go to a candy pull. She went though, aud remained away. Last I week she drove up to her father's door, I lilted out her eleven children, coolly took oft her wraps and astonished hei father by declaring that she had con eluded to return and stay at home, and hereafter be an obedient daughter. Philadelphia Ledger. Ff AX CLEANERS AND TESTERS, MILL MD ELEVATOR MACHINERY. ' REPAIRS, SUPPLIES, Steam Outfits. Ilorse Powers, Belting, Pulleys, Shafting, etc. YORK FOUNDRY & ENGLNE CO., YORK, NEK ACADEMY AND SELECT SCHOOL OF THE Holy - Child - Jesus, Xiincoln, Notoraslta. This institution is conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus frorn Sharon Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., Day School for young ladies, Parents will find in tins Academy all the reatars or danahtm. A Uiorounii, uneful and aompliBhl t-aucauon is uiiparieo, anu ptsruouiai iau m bbtow-d on tiie moral improvement of Uifl pupiU. ... .. , , Diffurenca of religion no oLtm:l to the mlmwnn of pupils. Vrrr particulars aduresfc. Kev. MOTH Kit SL'i'KItlOK, LINCOLN, NEB. Convent of the Holy Child Jesus. Skeleton in tiie Garret. Mr. Southard, a Ninth avenue dealer in second-hand building materials, re cently bought the old house, 5 St. Mark's place, says the New York Conimercial- Advertiser, and yesterday sent a gang of men to tear it down. A modern flat is to be built bi its place. The old house, a three-story and attic brick structure, was doubtless pnt up by one of the old New York families about the time of the building of the Croton aqueduct, when the crowding of the lower wards drove tjie old residents up town in swarms. In the wreck of to day the lilies of the line mansions of earlier days are easily traced. A few old trunks and boxes were found in the attic and thrown into the yard by the workmen this morning, but when-one of them, Kane by name was fumbling in the farthest and darkest comer he got hold of something that made his blood run cold. It was a skeleton hand that met his, old and moldy. One of the bony fingers came along as the workmen pulled his own out as if he had been stung by a viper. Kane sat down and looked at it. Then he veiled. The other workmen came, looked at the linger, peered into the darkness under the sloping roof, and edged a little nearer the garret stairs. liy aud by one of them wrenohc-l off a rafter,' let in the light and ewd at the object in the corner. An Vnliu ky Steamer. 2'ilwnukce Wisconsin: Among the vessels now in port is the first screw steamer built in Milwaukee. Late in the fall of 1854 the old A merican trans portation company steamer, Allegheny with a full cargo of general merchan dise, stranded near the present Hay View rolling mills' at the mouth of Deer creek, and went to pieces. Her boiler and engine were saved, and for these a hull was built on Jones Island by J. M. Jones. The launch occurred in IVjii, and the name of the lost steamer was transferred to the new boat. As a per cursor of the misfortunes which subse quently followed the craft, great dilli eultv was experienced in Getting her afloat after she started down the way. Later she sank alongside of the dock now occupied by the Milwaukee tug boat line, and in the absence of steam pumps and other modern wrecking ap pliances, remained there several months before the transportation company suc ceeded in lloatingher. This Milwaukee experience wps only, one of a series of unpleasant scrapes in which tiie unfor tunate craft became involved. How lever, sho survives and is at present en gaged in the coal and lumber trade rigged as a modern freighter with three rspars instead of the one originally car ried. The Allegheny has passed through numerous hands since her launch iu ISafi, and now belongs to the Tonawan da barge lino. Since passing into the hands of this corporation her "luck' appears to have changed, as her name is seldom linked with mishaps. The Allegheny measures 5fi"tons, rates and has a Lloyd's valuation of 8-11,000. Absent Minded. An amusing circumstance occurred ut the Continental hotel yestesday, says the Philadelphia 1 inquirer, when a -Yoniinent railroad official, who resides in the interior of the. slate, stepped up to the clerk's desk and wrote John Wank "'and wife." "Is your wife in the ladies' "parlor?" asked the clerk, with a view of send ing an escort to show her to the apart ment he had assigned them. "My wife?" said the .arrival, with a bewildered air, as he stood as if lost in reverie. "Why, my wife!" Then he aroused and glanced about as if he was looking for her. "Why, my wife," he finally remarked recovering himself "why, I declare, I left her at Atlantic City. We have been travelling together and I have become so accustomed to register her that I entirely forgot that she was to stay at thu shore." There was a hearty laugh all around at the expense of the railroad man, in which he joined. "Gracious, I would not let her know of this for anything," ho remarked as he darted away to the elevator Ilia One J'aiilt. "He's an awfully nice fellow and a good friend of mine, but he has one grievous faulthe is always quoting French and Latin and all the other languages." KAnd doesn't know one I suppose?" "That's just it; he does know them and I don't." Judge. will open as a Boarding and belect 1800. Mvlnilwl and refined homo for their Good Farms in Virginia FOR SALE OHKAP PROM SO to $20, I'EK ACRE. 1 Good eoiI, healthy, good market, mild 1 e:irr ale. Send for circulars. Address A. T. 8 TEW A lT & Co., KKAMS STATION, Jinwt(lll Comity, Yiriia. Y. N. U. York, Nkb. A Wife' s Dream Fulfilled. Almost everybody in and about Chicago knows John Dowling. Well, it, was in I think, and the derby day i.t Washington park. Defore Dow ling left for the races his wife said to him; "John, you remember you promised to invest iSoOU for me 011 the Derby, don't you?" "Yes, dear," replied the husband. "What horse shall I put on ?" "On Silver Cloud, please." "Silver Cloud? Why, you're crazy. The horse hasn't a ghost of a show." "No matter, I see by the papers there is thirty to one against him, and 1 have a presentiment he'll win." John argued, but to no purpose, and finally promised to fulfill his wife's be hest. Ho didn't do anything of the sort; got into' the betting ring and plunged heavily on the favorite. "Now, a good many will remember that Silver Cloud won in a rush and very easily. Dowling kicked himself, cursed his Iuck and was generally un pleasant to himself and his friends. But he dare not go home and tell his wife the chance he had lost. He bought her a ,15,0(K) house, deeded it to her, and to this day Ms. Dowling thinks the property became hers through her clairvoyant prescience in betting on the phenomenally long shot. Pioneer Press, An Astonishing; Sight. L. A- Sanctuary, (I. W. Parks, M.and A. Abraham, 0. L. lladley and C. Mer ton returned last Thursday from their hunting and fishing expedition in the Coast range, says the Itoxbury Plain dealer. They make a report of the astonishing discovery of a hole in the ground one-half by one and one-half miles in extent, or thereabouts, where last year stood a noble mountain near ly 1,000 feet high. At tiie foot of this mountain was lo cated Cedar lake, a small but exceed ingly transparent body of water, which is now no more, the bottom having been forced up when the mountain went down, and the water all spilled out. The mountain is now an island, as it were, surrounded by almost perpendic ular v alls of rock about 100 feet in height. The theory of the discoverers is that the mountain was located over a vast cave and that the weight of the heavy snows last winter crushed it in. The noise made by the sinking mass of rocks and dirt and trees was heard sev eral miles away, but the parties did not know until recently what caused it. The lake cannot be shown in corrobor ation of this story, as it has disappeared, but the hole is still there with the mountain in it, and may be viewed by doubting Thomases who will take the trouble to visit it. It is a sight well worth going miles to see. It is about three miles from Laird's on the Coos bay wagon road. The Value of Knowledge. A lirooklyn manufacturer paid a bill without a murmur the other day, sim ply on account of the way it was worded. His engineer found that the hot-water pump would not work and sent for a machinist. The latter both ered with it half a day and said it must come apart. This meant a stoppage of the factory for a long time. It was sug gested that a neighboring engineer be sent for, as he was a sort of genius in the matter of machinery. Ho came, and after studying the pump for awhile he took a hammer and gave three sharp raps over the valve. "I reckon she'll go now," ho quietly said, and putting on steam "she" did go. "The next day," says the manufacturer, " I received a bill from him for 25.50. The price amazed me, but when I had examined the items 1 drew a check at once. The bill read this way: "Messrs. llauk & Co., Dr. to John Smith. For fixing pump, 50 cents; for knowin hoV, 025. Had he charged me 25.50 for fixing the pump I should have considered it exorbitant, llut 50 cents was reason able, and I recognized the value of knowledge: so-1 paid aud said nothing." Why do chimneys smoke? Became they cannot chew.