New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-05-26

OOAAS SSNoO>A VIZ 0N4u1AV "a AAoA0
and Saturn" Eclipscs are also to bring
us bad harvcsts and .,ther =. uhlcs.
Ten THOUSAND sheep which started
carly last summer from Oregon for
Montana have arrived in good condi-
ton.
4 House.
Mr.. PELETIAH MERIT was . young
man, emphatically. Some men arc
born young, and some have youth thrust
upon them. He was of the latter sort.
Though he certainly was born. &C
cording to the best authorities, at a
very recent period, he never yet had
been young in spirit. His solemn face,
his whity-ycllow hair, his pouted lips,
all indicated long frocks and cradle,
up to his fifteenth year. He was con-
scientious and sincere, but he took such
large views of life, and was so precise
and methodical in all he planned and
did, that his good intentions often fell
under the suspicion of conceit, and that
not without the appearance of evil.
At the time We introduce him TO our
readers he was full-fledged from COL
lcge and his course of theological
studies.
OF life, character, human nature, he
was entirely ignorant. A theological
training does otinclude these branches,
and this guileless creature was sent
forth to preach the Gospel without one
particle of serpentine wisdom. Harm
less he might he, but as useless as q
physician who, deriving his knowledge
from books alone, should undertake TO
practice on that knowledge.
So it was well for him and for Christ
endom that he decided to go on mis-
sion. Peletiah was so honestly good,
so pure in mind, so gentle and earnest
in character, that flock not critical
about intellect, and aspect, and man.
ners, and "go," could not fail TO 10
won by his works and words.
But to be q missionary, one must
have wife. Our hero's instincts re-
VOTED from the idea of going to a
seminary and selecting wife to order,
or taking somebody on recommends
ton of the Board, He had certain old
fashioned and delicate ideas about mar
riage, and did not desire to select
wife as he would horse, simply for
her good qualities, pluck, endurance,
temper and health. So he waited, and
kept his field waiting, till he should
genuinely fall in love, proposing, if he
were luckless enough to adore an unfit
person, to sacrifice his own feelings to
duty, and go out alone with an arrow
in his heart.
In the meantime, he went to Bliss
not the state of bliss, but town of
that name in New England, so called
after its pioneer settlcr-to visit his
cousin, Harry Marsh, a young doctor
who lived there, and had recently gone
into practice with his father; and it
happened that the day after Peletiah
arrived at his uno}e's, there came into
town, also on a visit. very nice young
GIRL
Harry and Peletiah met her at pic
mic and admired her nightly, as young
men always did admire Louise Grant.
She was pretty, not beautiful, with the
most charming manners, gentle, cor
dial, sparkling; eyes like robins, and
the sweetest voice; and having truly
feminine gift at hero-worship. On
finding that Rev. Mr.. Merit was going
on mission, she treated him with q
Difference and respect that put Pele-
tiah very high in his own esteem.
Yes, he fell in love with Miss Grant
with his own full consent and knowl-
edge. If she had been made to order
she could not have suited his ideas of
q wife better. She was intelligent,
sweet-tempered. cheerful, well-edu-
Gated, sound in mind and body, as her
orthodox opinions and rosy cheeks
testified; and she was earnestly relig-
ious. Surely, with all these other
gifts, she must be courageous-th
only quality he had not yet seen tested
and to crown all her virtues, she evil
IDENTITY looked up to and admired him
as woman should properly and script
urally look up to and admire her pro-
In the meantime, unobserved BY
Pelctiah, who was absorbed in himself
and Miss Grant, Harry Marsh also had
fallen over head and ears in love, as
the phrase is, too, and with the same
fair lady; but his style of the tender
passion was not like his cousins.
He loved Lou Grant because he could
not help it. He made no analysis of
her character or his own needs. He
loved her just as q man commonly
loves, forgetting himself and his mer-
its, and considering her above all
other things. He, too, had q great re-
spect for Peletiah, and, seeing that the
studious youth was also captivated by
Louise, he resolved not to plead his
own cause till Peletiah had decided his
future.
Perhaps his virtue would have been
rewarded, as virtue sometimes Is in
this world, by sad disappointment,
but for the intervention of one of the
weak things of creation; for Louise
Grant was an imaginative little woman,
and had thrown q halo of self-sacrifice,
devotion and lofty heroism about Pele-
tial,, greater than he deserved, and it
would have been easy for her honest
so,.l, capable of all a woman's devotion
- good, to persuade herself into mar
rying this man simply because he was .
missionary.
But it happened one evening both the
cousins called at Mr.. Barnes house,
where Miss Grant was staying. Pele-
tiah had resolved to offer himself that
very night, and settled calmly into the
most comfortable chair, in order to
outstay Harry; and conversation was
proceeding in both fluent and brill
liant manner, while Mr.. Merritt, as the
others tossed the ball of words to and
fro, arranged in his own mind the heads
Of his discourse to Miss Grant, and the
affecting application thel eof.
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