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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1896)
nr ; T11K II RS PICK 1 A X 9 1 3 Jrs. IV right. She kept tho boarding house for the miners at Portland. She always had the best of everything, and hor prices were not so high, either. She had to go down tO'Deadwood every day for supplies. Somehow it seemed as if she could be in two places at once, for everything went on smoothlv in Portland while she was in Deadwood, and 1 know that she was the motive power as well as the head. She supported herself,her two children and her husband, sent her daughter away to school, and owned several ranches in her own name. She was short and plump and energetic Her hair was brushed smooth, more with the idea of neatness than ornament, and with an attempt to cover up gray locks. Her dress when I saw her, was duck, black with narrow yellow stripes, severe ly plain but well fitting. Shu apologized for her appearance, saying that if she had kno.vn we were coming she would have put on something better. I am glad she didn't. She looked better in her every day clothes. We went up to Portland one day to climb Bald Mountain and Terry, and of course we took dinner at Mrs. Wright's; there was no other place to take it. Mrs. Wright set ir dinner at one, be cause she thought we would not want to dine with thirty or forty miners, and she sat down with us and entertained us. "You come from Boston, don't you? My husband came from Boston before I got him. He was one of the Wrights on Beacon Hill. My name was Valory, Gorman. O yes, I can speak German; it's my mother tongue. I can think of German words faster than English. "Thirty-thirty-ono years ago I met you, Mr. Eldridge, and I ain't seen you till last March, and now your daughter is seventeen. Jennie is fifteen. ,1 was thirty-five when I was married. "Jennie, come here! "Miss Eldridge, this is my daughter, Miss Wright. Now I want you should get acquainted. "Yes thirty-one veal's ago when 1 was homesteading in Kearney "Jennie bring the pie. "I've kept a boarding house for twenty five years, ever since 1 left Kearney. Yes I own that farm yet. All tho Valories live around there. I'll show you the family picture, we had it taken the last time I was home. Come up stairs and I'll get it. "Now I wonder where it is. "Oh no, I dou'.t have to go to Dead wood, Harry. Mr. Wright, is going in my place to-day. "Now I'm in a brown study to know where that picture is. "That one is the Spearfish Falls. I wonder where that other one is! "Why you may have that one if you like it. Jiist put on it, Mrs. H. S. Wright, Portland. So. Dakota." ALASKV. TWO HOPES. Dark, sombre clouds lie low -' Along the we&lerti sky. To shelfring boughs all silently, The winged songsters lly. The wind is cold, The earth is sad; The darkness parts: Through sundered -cloud, A tiny ray of sunshine start?,' The fin til is glad. Dark, gloomy doubt lie deep Within my aching breast No d reams of joy come, tenderly, To give mo peace and rest. My love in cold; My heart is sad; The darkness parts:- s ; Through .riven doubts, Atiuy ray of sweet iWpe starta . My heart is glad. . 'Kl - ). U Kbkuv 4