The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-16

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has done already! l shall love nobody
but you'll shall marry nobody but
you"
And all at once, while my hand was
still close IN his own, and the violets
were dropping from the warmth of
both, who should burst in upon us but
his Sister Jane!
Her face was flustered, but not very
wrathful, and she seemed rather
pleased than otherwise at the tableau
before her. "For goodness sake,
john" the said. ''when you come back
to the house don't say a word to Su-
san: she's engaged to the Baptist min
lister. 1 never liked the looks of the
man myself, and wouldn't want to mar
ry anybody with such an ugly squint in
his eye; but he holds Susan's mortgage,
and If he looked seven ways to the
moon, she wouldn't care. So perhaps
it's better as it is"
I'm sure it's ever SO much better as
it is" said James Brother John.-Har-
per's Weekly.
An Interesting Incident in the Life Of
William Orion.
YEARS ago, q young school teacher
in one of the Eastern States had for a
salary a nominal sum per month and
the not-at-all dubious privilege of
boarding round. He had the temerity
to get fever which brought him to
Deaths door, and not having contract
ed to run a hospital as well as school,
the Trustees considered their engage
ment with him cancelled. He was
stricken down in the house of an old
farmer. whose wife proved to be a de-
voted, self-sacrificing nurse to the
young man, doing more than doctors
or medicines to bring the patient back
to health. A friendship was formed
between the young man and his bene-
factors. which was cemented by an af
lection on both sides, equal to the deli
cate and noble service rendered to him.
That the venerable couple would not
hear the remuneration of their kindness
of months was as important as it was a
touching fact to the young man, for he
was entirely without means, and, when
he came up out of the very Valley of
the Shadow of Death, without the
strength or prospects to command them
by labor. After q further and long pc
Rod of convalescence, spent in the
home of his benefactors, he got a
chance again to labor as a teacher.
Eventually he entered on business, and
the old gentleman and lady died in a
green old age. Years afterward, as a
man of affairs and fortune, the former
schoolmaster visited the village where
SO much sickness and SO much kindness
had made graphic chapter in his per-
sonal life. He quietly learned that an
adopted daughter of his old friends, to
whom, in lieu of having no offspring of
their own, they had devised the home
stead, had married an excellent mer-
chant of the village. but that business
embarrassments and a resolution to be
fully honorable in their settlement had
made the sacrifice of the homestead
imminent. The gentleman with much
delicacy and firmness insisted on COM
ing into the case. by right of an obliga-
ton and desire to interfere on behalf
of the successors of those who had
ransomed him from death. He bought
the place and gently compelled the
young lady and her husband to keep on
living there, nor would he let them pay
anything to him for the privilege. His
aid enabled them to start again even with
the world. They soon began to pros
per, and, with a self-respect that was
most creditable and characteristic, they
would not allow the gentleman of whom
we are writing to have the deed of the
homestead made out in their names. A
short time afterward they insisted on
beginning to repay to the gentleman in
installments the several thousand dol
lars he had, without any embarrass-
ment to himself, advanced to them in
their emergency. He protested, but
to no purpose. and in the course of
time they repaid him every cent of it.
There was q veritablc battle of wills
between them and him; they insisting
that he had discharged, in loan to be
paid back, all obligations he felt toward
their foster parents for their kindness
to him-he insisting that they should re-
gard it as a very inadequate part pay
ment of an invaluable service; but their
view of the case won, and all the con-
cession they would make to the gentle
mans sensibilities was tn comply with
his really indignant demand that inter-
est should not be returned on the sum
he was made to take back against his
wish. To-day that self-respecting
couple are thriving III plenty and honor
on the old family farm. To-day their
benefactor lies dead across the river,
and the greatest corporations in the
land, all society and the Government OF
the Nation mourn him as one whose in
tegrity was spotless, whose administra-
tive genius was of the first order. whose
name came to eminencc and honor
round the world, and whose patriotism,
courage, executive ability and mag
ni6cent energy, purity and fidelity
made his life fragrant and make his
memory royal and redolent with exam
pie and inspiration among men. Those
whom he benefited in this one instance
of many similar instances of effective
and unheralded benevolence, shall be
nameless. But he by whom they were
benefited and over whom the metropo.
lis and the country bend with blessings
on his career and in love for his char.
acter was named William Orion
Brooklyn IN. ~ Eagle.
The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald
relates the following anecdote of Joa.
quin Miller: "A few years ago Mr..
Miller came into the Herald Office and
asked the meaning of the word ICY.
clades,' pronouncing it in two sylla,
bles. He said it was q fine sounding
word, and he wanted to use it in q
poem he was about to publish. We
gave the meaning and the pronuncia.
ton, which he did not fancy, where.
upon We suggested cyclone and sure
enough, soon after came out one of his
striking poems wherein q cyclone wa.
introduced IS occurring in Oregon"
| Tho salary of Lord Dufferin as Gov.
ernor-G General of Canada last year was
348, 666. But the cost Of maintaining
his staff and of his trip to British
Columbia brought the sum paid to him
by the Province up to $130,OO0.