The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-01-19

women in those days. They saw Nj
agara, and the Hudson, and New
England, and part of the South and
West, and, returning, they brought
home to London little Alice Lewis
with them. They dropped the name
of Lewis, and she was known in Eng.
land as Alice Shirley.
Fifteen years went over, and chang.
ed Alice Shirley into young woman
of twenty. The years had also con.
verted her from 2 weakly child into
a bright, charming little dark-eyed
creature, full of vivacity and anima-
tion-a piqaant little flirt, i'll natured
people thought her; a aspirited, impul
sive, true-hearted girl, those who knew
her better knew her TO be. She was
in the full possession of the fact that
she was not Mrs. Shirley's daughter
She knew that her father had been an
old friend of Mrs. Shirley, and tha,
he, dying alone and poor, left his
daughter as his only legacy to her be.
nevolence and love. Alice always
supposed that her mother was dead
at the time when the Shirleys brought
her from America, for she had the
dimest, vaguest memory of some con
fusion and disturbance in their home
in Calcutta, which was somehow con
nected with her mothers name, and
she assumed that this must be an in.
coherent recollection of her death and
burial.
The Shirleys lived in London dur.
ing the season, and were much in so.
ciety. Alice was greatly admired
and sometimes, am afraid, tiirted a
good deal, and, perhaps, was reproved
wisely, and in vain, by Mrs. Shirley
She really could not help herself, Alice
pleaded, pathetically.
Its all your fault. mamma" she
declared one day. She always called
Mrs. Shirley "mamma.a
"All my fault, Alice? How do you
make that out, child?'
swell, if not your fault, il is your
fault and papa's. Pa jointly with ma,
as some one of the Tctterby family
says in that book of Dickens. Yes
its all your fault, because you make
me so happy; and | can't help being
| in high spirits, and SO, dare say, do
ing ridiculous aud foolish things some
times. don't believe there ever was
such happy girl, and it is your fault.
Mrs. ShiIley kissed her tenderly,
but looked grave and sad.
Among Alice's especial admirers
were two young men; the frs; was n
Charles Randolph, son Of Randolph,
the great tinancier and railway NAH
Randolph who beganlife as peddler,
or a tinker, or holman, or something
| of the sort, but who managed To pick
| up trifie of figures and other knowl-
edge here and there as he tramped his
road, or mendcd his kettles, or mount
ed his ladder, or followed his trade,
whatever it was, and who, in the in
fancy of the railway system, invented
something or other, people didn't very
well know What, and likewise deyel-
| oped financial genius, and so made
no end OF money, and now sat in Par
Lament, and held steadily aloof from
bubble companies and contractors
lines" and audacious protests of all
kinds, and was 4 Eich, Respectable and
honest man, with grave, solid man
ners, not much out of keeping with
| his whole surroundings. Charley
Randolph, his son, was a fine, hand
some, manly young fellow. with a
splendid beard. He bad been at Ok
ford. and still read good deal, and
his father had sent him to travel, not
merely over Europe, but to the Unit
ed States and Australia. He was a
devoted follower of Alice's and there
could be little doubt that he was on
ly waiting for an opportunity to pro
pose TO her. shall not yet say what
she thought OF him. Let the course
she afterward followed decide that.
Colonel and Mrs. Shirley leaned de
cidedly to the other admirer. To be
gin with, he was the son of lord
and it takes an extraordinary English
man, and yet more extraordinary
Englishwoman, indeed, to be wholly
Indifferent to the allurements of title
Then he was really an amiable and at
tractiye young man, apart from family
recommendations. He was the Hon
orabIe Wilfred Eua. eldest son ol
Lord St. Pancra was hand
some young man delicate aristo
cratic features, and gentle, winning
ways. He was young aristocrat ol
type growing to be common IN oui
days-the philanthropic nobleman.-
He took deep and sincere interes
in all schemes of prison reform, il
ragged schools, and Sunday schools
in reformatories for children, in socia
tea parties, meant to bring all classes
into harmony, and where the working
man and the heir to an earldom were
to drink tea together twice a month
and be very friendly, and where the,
were generally very awkward, botf
of them, and bored each other terribly
He got up reading classes and lecures
he took more trouble about the re
forming of poor girls than one of hi
illustrious ancestors would have fakei
for the purposes even of running them
Wilfred Euston, then, was philan
thropic young aristocrat, and he mad
Colonel and Mrs. Shirley-and Alice
when he could-his confidents and co
!. operators. / do not know whethe
Charley Randolph felt much faith il
/ in all the schemes of benevolence.-
Perhaps he stood too nearly afiiancee
to the working classes to care muc
| about any projects which seemed t.
: SAVIOR, however family, OF patronage
, But he always subscribed handsome
even when he frankly declared tina
!, the way to do the working classes an.
!. real and permanent good was to thros
t open the means of education, Civ