The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-10-03

ter than most Jockeys. Partlcul al
attention has been paid to her riding.
Mr.. Marks is so fond OF horses and
all belonging to them that he has
said Rose should take lesson in thu
ring for every one she took at the
piano.
'From appearances he has kept
his word. That horse and she are
only one thing, Look at them now,
down the valley road
'For all that, she doesn't ride any
better than my Lawrence said Mrs.
Burbridge.
Lawrence's cavalry riding made a
centaur of him. They do 90 well
together said Miss Rodney, gazing
after the pair, as they rode on and
disappeared in the woods. 1T will
be nice thing for Lawrence, won't
it, if they always go together =? So
young and pretty, and then Sc
wealthy
& don't know about that said
Mrs. Burbridge to her cousin. 'She
is well enough-very presentable,
very manageable {; but her money
| had rather, almost rather, he mar.
ried poor girl. l feel as if there
were stain on all her money!
You don't mean so p
y es. want to consult you about
it. | hardly know how to hold my
self-whether to encourage Lawrence
or not. See what you think when
you hear about it all
why, is it anything so bad as all
that?'
perhaps is only foolish preju.
dice ; but the larger part Of Mr..
Marks wealth is city property
well, what of that p
Tenement houses, my dear, and
that kind
Good gracious, Emily, you're no,
going to be SO silly as
DO just listen. He owns whole
streets of that sort, to begin with
and for anything more desirable he
manipulates, Mr.. Burbridge says, in
this way and Mrs. Burbridge drew
closer to her gossip, pausing to
count the stitches in her afghan strip.
Having seen advantages in a piece
of property she resumed, (which is
either not for sale, or else at an ex.
traordinary high rate, he buys, IN
another name, an adjoining building,
and lets that out to crowd of pow.
erty stricken families, and makes OF
it as complete nuisance as the law
allows, with brawling women and
swarms of crying children and tip
pling and quarreling men. Present.
ly it is full of liquor-selling dens OF
worse the police have to be called
in two or three times a night and
presently the buildings on either side,
not to be had for love nor money be.
tore, are for sale at sacrifice. Then
he tears down altogether, builds his
palace, and lets it out in floors, and
adds another ten or twenty thousand
a year to his income. You can see
he can afford to let his little girl have
ten-thousand dollar horses; though
1t is a mere vulgarity, of course
Il should think so ! What way
to make money
yes. Last year he turned out the
old Miss Souths from the house where
their great-grandfather had lived in
the colonial times. They loved every
brick in it. A charming old house
ancestral pictures let into the walls
carved mahogany stairways, black
with age quaint old rooms, all full
of legends and associations. Here
their great-grandmother had stood
when she fell in love with her hus
band coming in the door from that
window their grandfather fired the
first shot on the British here THEN
mother happened to sit down wher
she came home a bride; and so on
They had story for every nail in the
walls. And then their garden, il
the heart of the city, full of fruit
that delightful, breezy, bowery gar
den And they had been offered {
hundred thousand for the place by
two different persons-one wanting
it for himself, and one wanting it t.
present to the Historical Society
and, OF course, small as their posses
sions were, they refused to think O
such thing. But Mr.. Marks go
hold of the neighboring property
made nuisance opposite and OF
both sides, so that the innocent ole
ladies could ne;the- get in nor out o
their own house without insult anC
offense, nor enjoy peace and quie
after they were in ; for their sleel
was broken by the turmoil when {
drunken woman was taken sore aiming
to the station house every MIG ht, anG
their days were unhappy with such
sights and smells as you can hardly
imagine. And they were heartbrokel
with lonesomeness, for their friends
of course, could not come to see them
with anything like the old frequency
and their garden was beset by ma
RAIDERS, and the evil wretches were
to be found under their trees at al
hours. And so they sold the house
at last for a song, and were obliged
to go into the country ; for they
could not afford am city-rent out O
the interest of the pittance that Mr.
Marks had paid for the house. And
poor Miss Priscilla died, verify, be
lieve, OF inconsistencies. So you nm
derstand, my dear, when l see Miss
Rose come floating down at night
when the lamps are lit here, in hel
Indian gauze and diamonds, the rose
and the lily alive, all smiles and
bushes, and enough to take your
breath away with her beauty, as ]
must admit, | tell Lawrence that ]
can't help regarding her as a lovely
flower that has grown up on heap
of compost. And somehow I cans
bear to think of my grandchildren
being Mr.. Marks grandchildren
and there it isl And Mrs. Bur.
bridge shook out her dimities aud
guipures with the air of one whose
money (what she had of it) had been
so long coming down through the
hands of so many ancestors that i,