The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-25

rather of my want of Judgment of the
man, and, after few words, we shook
hands and parted.
1t was some months before I again saw
the Man from Solano. When I did 1
found that he had actually become a
member of the Stock Board, and had a
little office ON Broad street, where he
transacted fair business. MY rcmem-
brance going back to the first night met
him, inquired if he had renewed his &C
quaintancc with Miss X 81 hccred that
she was in Newport this summer, and
ran down there fur week.
"And you talked with her about the
b. ggage checks2'
No." he said, seriously; "shc gave me
commission to buy some stocks for her.
You see, l guess them fash'nble fellers
sorter got to runnin' her about me, and so
she put our acquaintance on square bust
ness footing. I tell you she is right
smart girl Did you hear of the accident
that happened to herr"
had not.
swell, you see, she was out yachting,
and managed through one of those fellers
to get invite, too. Thewhole thing was
got up by man that they say is going to
marry her. Well, one afternoon the boom
swings round in little squall and knocks
her overheard. There was al awful ex-
cltement-you've heard about it, may beg"
No! But saw it all with a roman
GERS instinct in a flash of poetry! This
poor fellow, debarred through uncouth-
ness from expressing his affection for her,
had at last found his fitting opportunity
He had
i" Thar was an awful row." he went on,
IF ran out on the taft rail, and there a doz-
en- yards distant was that purity creature,
that peart gal, and-I-"
you jumped for her." I exclaimed,
hastily
a." MOI" he said gravely, IL let the
other man do the jumping, i sorter looked
on" sA
q [ stared at him in astonishment.
H NO." he went on seriously. "He was
the man who jumped-that was his put
his line of business. You see if I had
waltzed over the side of that ship, and
cavoorted in, and flummuxed round and
finally Topped to the bottom, that man
would have jumped nateral-like and saved
her, and cz he was going to marry her any
way, l don't exactly see where I have
been represented in the transaction. But
don't you see, eff, after he'd jumped and
hadn't got her he went down himself, I'd
hev the best chance, and the advantag &c of
heving him outer the way You see you
don't understand mel don't think YOU
did in Californy"
"Then he did save her?''
"Of course. Don't you see she was all
right. If he missed her I'd have chipped
in. Thar warnt no sense in my doing
his duty onless he failed"
Somehow the story got out. The Man
from Solano as a butt became more popu-
lar than ever, and of course received in
vltations to burlesque receptions and
naturally met great many people whom
otherwise he would not have seen. It
was observed also that his $500 was stead
ny growing, and that he seemed to be
getting on in his business Certain Califor-
MIA stocks which had seen quietly in
tered in the old days in the tom6s of
their fathers, were magically revived; and
l remember, as one who has seen ghost
to have been shocked as I looked over the
quotations one morning to have seen the
ghostly face of the "Dead Beat Beach
Mining Co." rouged and plastered, look
ing out from the columns of the morning
paper. At last few people began to re-
spect, or suspect, the Man from Solano.
At last suspicion illuminated with this
incident.
He had long expressed wish to belong
f0 ~ko1y, & 81
view Of burlesque he was invited to visit
the club, where series of ridiculous ell
tertainments were given him, winding up
with card party. As I passed the steps
OF the club house early next morning, I
overheard two or three members talking
excitedly.
"He cleaned everybody OUT "Why,
he must have raked in nj gin on 100000"
"Who?" I asked.
"The Man from Solano."
AS turned away, one of the gentlemen.
a victim, noted for his sporting propensi-
ties, followed me, and laying his hand on
my shoulder, asked:
Tell me fairly now. What business
did your friend follow in California;"
He was shepherd"
"a what?" -.
" A shepherd. Tended his flocks on the
honey-scented hills of Solano."
Well, all I can say is, d-n your Cali
fornia pastoralsl"
Shepherds Dogs.
The following is from Scotchman, by
way of illustrating the kindly CONSIDERS
ton evinced by the Scottish peasantry