The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-03-08

tinct coloEs wsse visl>1e u Il a1tife. But
thls, I h.d rs.son to belisve sekrward,
Hs ssid hs bad. III IA d. !:
mighty part III he W., tOo-was there.
this nsw sait o 8 in, but those waiter
s Pssss re e sss e ss ss,. e. ~
ak about ten 6hScl1Is. Buf tllnt yosSS
BE brou9IS s Is i Sslisss md 49, -.
women round to the box to see me. and BE
madc up . party that night to take M
round Wall street and in them StocR
Boards. And the next day he called foz
$500 in thAIn st6c1 uAybe more. You
see, We sofsRBWoSpSd ssschs:sYou know
had ten shares In the Peacock Copper
Mine, that you was once Secretary Off
But those shares are not worth cent.
The whole thing exploded ten years ago. y
ThatS =, ny boS0u say so. But
| thensl 6dn't h30wsanj1hihe more aboui
C0m1lnuI3psw Central, q the n aphta Gas
Light o1pany, md 70 I thought it was
. square Ean1e. Only realized on IL
stocks bought, and / kem up outer Wall
street about 800 better. You see it was
sorter risk, after all. for them Peacock
stocks insight come upl''
loglred into his face; il was immeas.
urabl9 serene and commonplacc, I began
to be = little afraid Of the man; or, rather.
~ m - ~ - 3s,d o..,~<,v.< <Txh~ =. -
aftef = few words, We shook hands and
TVS some months before / again saw
the Man from Solano. When I did i
found that he had actually become q mem
Der of the stock Board, and had little
office ON Broad street, where he transacted
fair business. My remembrance going
back TO fhe first might I met him, in.
quieed the had renewed his acquaintance
with Miss x. II heered that she was in
Newport this summer, and | ran down
there fur week
"And you talked with her about the
baggage checksi''
no. he said, seriously; " she gave
me . commission to buy some some stocks
for her. You see, guess them fashn'b BILE
fel.ers sorter got to r1nnin her about me,
and 90 she put our acquaintance on q
square business footing. tell you, she's
right peart girl. Did We hear of the &C.
cident that happened to herr"
had not. /.
Well, yoa see, she was out yachting,
and / managed through one of those fellers
to get an invite, too. The whole thing
was got up by man that they say Is 90
ing to mary her Well, one afternoon
the boom swings round in 1 little squall
and knocks her overheard. There was an
awful excitement-you've heard about it,
may bei's
No! But / sawe 1t all with q Ro.
mancer's instinct ina fash of poetry, this
poor fellow, debarred through uncouth-
ness from expressing his affection for her,
had at last found his fitting opportunity.
He had
Thar was an awful row." he went on.
81 ran out on the taffrail, and there q
dozen yards away was that purity creature,
that peart gal and-I-"
You jumped for her." I said, hastily.
moi" he said gravely. 81 let the
other man do the jumping. sorter
looked on"
l stared at him in establishment.
NO." he went on, seriously. !" He
was the man who jumped-that was just
then his 'put-his line of business. You
see, If / had waltzed over the side of that
ship. and cavoorted in, and fiummuxed
round and finally Topped to the bottom,
that other man would have jumped nat
eral-like and saved her, and ez he was 60
ing to marry her anyway, don't exactly
see where I'd hev been represented in the
transaction. But don't you see, eff, after
he'd, jumped and hadn't got her, he'd
gone down himself, I'd hev had the next
best chance, and the advantage 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'd missed her I'd have
Clipped In. Thar warn't 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
vitations to burlesque receptions, and
naturally met q great many people whom
otherwise he would not have seen. It
was observed, also, that his $7OO was
steadily growing, and that he seemed to
be- getting on in his business. Certain
California stocks which I lad seen qui-
city inferred in the old days in the tombs
of their fathers, were magicaly revived !;
and l remember, as one who has seen a
ghost, to nave been shocked as l looked
over the quotations one morning to have
seen the ghostly face of the dead Beat
Beach Mining Co." rouged and plas-
tered, looking out from the columns of
the morning paper. At last few people
began to respect, or suspect, the Man
from Soiano. At last suspicion culmi-
mated with this incident:
He had long expressed wish to belong
to certain " ash'n'ble" club, and with
view of burlesque he was invited to
visit the club, where series Of ridiculous
entertainments were given him, winding
up with card party. As / passed the
steps of the clubhouse early next morn.
ing, overheard two or three members
talking cxcitedly.
" He cleaned everybody out" "Why,
he must have raked in nigh on Gao, 900. p
Who?o / asked.
:" The Man from Solano.n
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:
e Tell me fairly now. What business
did your friend follow in California;" =
g He was shepherd"
A what?'
"A shepherd. Tended his flocks on the
honey scented hills of Solano.n
"Well, all / can say is, curse your Cal.
ifornia pastoralsl"-Brst Harts, in N.
N. Sun.
Architecture.
1t has often been said that the archi-