The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-06-18
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That George Eliot" should marry 4
| man who has just passed the real limit Of
youth, while she is far beyond her prime.
i'justifies us in inlerring that it is i,nnis-
takably what we call II love match. There
is 40 worldly interest TO bring together the
successful banker and the w0rltl-renowned
and prosperous author. Mere respect and
sympathetic tastes cannot have solely in
fuenced both parties 10 the marriage.
/ There must have beena warmer sentiment
and one that took a stronger hold on the
Imagination. Hence we infer that this ia
Il peculiarly romantic marriage.
/ We cannot fail to be be reminded by 1t of
/ the second marriage of another woman IA
nous in literature, and one whom we muag
class with or next after George Eliot and
George Sand. When Madame de Stael
was a widow forty-five gears Of age she
married Albert de Rocea, d young officer
and military writer, who was only twenty
| four, while Mrs. Lewes at sixty has mar
/ ried Il young man Of forty. But Madame
de Stael was so jealous Of the fame identi-
! iieu Will ici llaiilc ttldt Slie kept TIE
union secret, and only disclosed it in her
| will at her DEATH six years after, and one
year before tile death of her youthful hus-
band.
George Eliot however, is name indie
pendent of any such accident as matrimo-
ny, and indissolubly connects Mrs. Cross
with the products of the genius which Gre
ated it.
We trust that the forebodings regarding
the retirement of Mrs. Cross from literature
I will not prove true. She has shown that
she has the perpetual youth of heart which
! is Il property of genius, and her imagina-
| ton and analytical power were exhibited
iii some of their best aspects in her last
novel. Perhaps now she will return to
the style of her earlier years, when she
seemed less troubled about shades of ex-
preston and detinements of definition, and
more concerned about her art than her
moral lesson.
We extract the following from letter
recently published in the .itlunHs, Of
| SltittfAC. A'EtlilstIlA. W { dliiFEtl IttIC On
the 10th of April. On the l5th, 'srepre-
senting day. we secured two claims in
the upper district and one in the lower
district. We sunk Shaft, aud at six feet
we struck water. | panncd two pans Of
gravel and got encouraging prospects, the
first gold that | SAW in the place. We
| then started Il drain ditch which we have
dug or feet deep, and we may reach
bed rock ut l0 or Il feet. We will go
down to it if we have to sink 20 feet.
There has not been much gold taken out
in either OF the districts yet. Hoppy and
his company struck bed rock yesterday.
He told me yesterday that the prospects
were good. Two gentlemen who came in
with him started out; one to bring in Il
stock Of hardware, the other to fetch stock
for livery stable. Hoppy is building i'll
this town. Wherever they have struck
bed rock the prospects are encouraging.
There are three stores here, several saloons
and a great many business and other houses
i going up. Newcomers are coming in fast.
i nave just returned from listening to the
first sermon delivered in Yogo Gt,ci. Ii
was preached by a colored gent from Ilii-
nois. Now for quartz: Mishell has been
out two days in the mountains. To-day
he brought III quartz from four foot vein
that he thinks will go two hundred dol
lars to the ton; ana he believes this will be
one of the best quartz camps in the Terri
tory
I Willing to Diet is wonderful what
fools boys are. A charming widow Of our
city owns a nice boy, and Il man from St.
Paul wants to be appointed deputy father
to the lad. 1t was only last Sunday that
while the st. Paul man was strolling down
Chestnut Street with the lad he asked.
s.Bub, does your mother bang her hair2''
and that foolish boy answered, 20, no,
but you ought to see her Dang dads head.
Guess the minister didn't know every
thing when he told pap to prepare to dis. I
\ Prepare. why he was aching to die. -
.StiiI,rdter Luaber7Ran.
The Power Of Habit.--0n Sunday last II
gentleman saw a petite and handsome
young lady coming down the street, where
upon he began to admire and stare at her
lin i way entirely new to the lady. II
proved, on closer inspection, to be his
wife IN 4 new spring stlit. He was so
Idisgusted 1t his disappointment that he
i threw :ll orangepeel IT her, and walked
away i'll an opposite direction. 1t simply
Of adapting themselves Y NJ manner oi
i circumstances.
His Wife's Bonnet.A wretch OF u
II husband told his devoted that he didn't
any use Of her pay thirty dollars :or
Ia bonnet when all she hasi to do was to
take. her little fancy work basket. turn fl
upside down, i,.ll solile sgsilt braid through
4 The holes, and perch scarlet poppy ane#a
4 yellow sttnfl0Wer OH enc side. She hal