The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-15
MARK KhSCklL'S CONGEkIAL SPIRIT.

ANA II was aOQut DIS taIl d Wcuuiu
as they get up, too,'' said the young
man, a little shecpishly, but still very
proudly.
He was having his brothers wedding
advertised in city newspaper. He
thought, somehow, that everybody
must feel an interest in their we'd
ding, even to the esharp, business-like
clerk who took his money and his ad.
vertisement behind the counter in the
city newspaper Office. To Dick Has
call, country boy, young, little bit
s'grcen,'' unused to grand weddings,
city ways, or city finery, this wedding
of his brothers was the one resplend-
ent event in the history of the world.
1t was something to dream over and
tell about. But the sharp business
clerk behind the counter in the city
newspaper Office paid no manner of at
tention to Dick Hascall. He ignored
the bashfully boastful little remark in
the Hottest manner, as though 'tall
wedding" was the most ordinary thing
in the world to him as though he had
"tall wedding of his own every day
of the year, for that matter. Dick
looked disappointed at the sharp clerk S
evident want of sympathy, and turned
and went out without venturing any
more remarks. Now, if I'd been that
newspaper clerk, I'd have certainly
asked What the bride wore, and who
married en-. Wouldn't you?
Dick Hascall's brothers name was
Mark Hascall, country schoolmaster.
with sweet tenor voice-a farmer S
son he was, who had married on shert
acquaintance Bell Goswall,
GAY, BRILLIANT CITY GIRL,
who played the piano. She played ac-
compartments, while he sang 'Dream.
ing of Thee. Love- with his sweet tenor
voice, and in three weeks time they
could not exist away from each other.
After lengthy and extensive acquaint-
ance of six weeks, Mark Hascall went,
one Friday night, to the modest domicil
which was the home of his father and
mother, and said:
''Mother, IN going to be married.
eyes; so is that brindle calf re.
marked Dame Hascall, sarcastically.
''But, mother, it's so, said Mark.
81 am going to be married as soon as
the school out, to Bell Goswall. You We
seen her, haven't you, mother
Dame Hascall set down the pan of
corn dough, with which she was feeding
her spring chickens, and wiped her brow
with her apron.
"Markey, Marley! Don't skecr
me-" she said family
"Why, mother, what is there scary
about being marriedf' responded Mark
eheerfully. "You were married, you
know"
Dame Hascall recovered her presence
of mind Immediately. She never vast
ed any time in giving way to her emo
tions. She picked up the bowl of corn
dough again.
MARK said she, soberly, sis it the
truth you'v been tellin' me!''
''Sure, mother, | be come all the way
from Sweetbricr to tell you about it.
Mother Hascall looked at him with
her grirnrniest, most meat-ax-y express
sion.
$50 you've engaged yourself 20 that
city girl, have you? And now you go
to the house, march to your closet and
shut the door, and get down on your
knees and ask God Almighty to
FORGIVE YOU FOR REIN FOOL -
She took her empty dough-pan, and,
walked slowly into the house in most
stately manner, without another word.
Mark frowned with vexation at first,
then he laughed, then fell TO thinking
how little his cd mother knew about
him and his Isabel, and about true love
in general. They were married as soon
as ever his angelic Isabel multifarous
and multiglorious wedding garments
could be prepared. 1t was tall we'd
ding" sure enough. Isabel's father
was not rich man, and he spent nearly
all his worldly savings to give his
daughter magnificent wedding, and
some forks and spoons. Then he washed
his hands of her future, and left her te
her husband and Providence. SO they
were married because they could no,
exist without each other.
1t was one of those hurried matches
which sometimes takes place between
two young people whom the fates have
decreed shall make fools of themselves
They did not keep house. because
Bell didn't know how to work, and
secondly, because they had no house t.
keep. They remained at Farmer Has
calls, and they had not been married
three months before they began to dis
cover that two congenial souls that hac
been mated in Heaven beforehand, and
born for each other, and that sert O.
thing, could nevertheless quarrel like
two squabbling pigeons. Dame Rascal
worked for them. and was rather kind
but grim and, on the whole, not en-
couraging to a sweet girl bride, who
wore white Swiss morning robes trim
med with lace and inserting, and didn',
know how to make soft soap.
Il think you don't understand dea,
Bell, mother" exclaimed Mark. ssSht
is not one of those frivolous city girls
who can t do anything but dance anG
thrum the piano. Dear Bell has
VERY SUPERB INTELLECT.
That what attracted me to her first
hat ~.