Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-05
oReNAL sToaYl
THEWAYS0F THE WORLD.
BY JUNIUs HENRI BROWNE.

ally (; but all happiness is material.
"Yardley and I-are you acquainted with
| Yardley? that's he leaning on the
piano-agree pretty well on these subjects.
He IS seven or eight years elder than my.
self, and has seen more OF the world. We
went up the Nile together six winters ago,
and we had plenty of time to ex-
change ideas on that delightfully."- lazy
voyage. Yardley has ample leisure to
observe and study. He assumes 70 be a
business man. He is the Co. in Ainsley,
. Wariek & Co, dry goods importers in
Church street; but he is seldom seen in
the counting room. A wealthy bachelor
uncle, whose heir he expects to be. put a
lot Of money in the firm in his name. His
partners do not, fancy, expect him to do
much. He is known as the ornamental
member of the house he is bright and
decidedly snowy Aren't his brown hair
| and reddish whiskers magnifcently ar
ranged And did you ever see dress coat
and trousers fiji better? The tails of his
coat hang ideally, His clothes have made
the fortune of his Ffth-avenue tailors.
Pail Mall swells now send orders to them.
After all, there are no tailors like those of
New York.
81 want to introduce you to my friends,
especially to those 1 have pointed out.
They include variety of character. and
may entertain youat least. You must MT be
too critical, Goodwin. 1t is bad way to
begin life. Take the world as it comes.
It's pretty poor world, I admit. If I'd
attempted to make world myself, I'd have
done better, or have given up the job.
Nature does as well as she can, doubtless /;
but she's limited, like everything else and
we mustn't expect too much of her. Take
my arm, please, and we'll go the round.
Well commence with the ladies. Where's
Miss Royden? o, l see her, chatting with
Yardley. She's escaped for the moment,
from her Gallo griffin"
Oscar Goodwin was twenty. nine = he
looked rather older, perhaps, from sober
| temperament and habit OF reflection-and
was a Californian in the accepted sense.
He had not been born in the Golden State,
but in Syracuse, New York, and had gone,
as child of six, with his father, then three
years widower, to the Pacific coast in
1858. The elder Goodwin was a genu-
inc American. He had been educated
at country academy he was a man of
good mind and excessive energy, but lack
ing somewhat in stability. He studied law
in Utica, and might have made success
at the bar, had he not grown impatient at
| what seemed to him very slow progress.
He married pretty, intellectual, fragile
girl before he had any financial reason for
assuming such responsibility, and found it
needful to try something more lucrative
than the law. He went into merchandise );
speculated considerably, and lost every
thing, when he was the father of three
children, the oldest, Oscar. The two
youngest, always delicate, soon died, and
their mother did not long survive.
Alone in the world with his boy, Ed
ward Goodwin resolved to go to California
as a new land of promise. He had varied
fortunes there made money again and
again and lost it; was by turns
merchant, lawyer, journalist, peddler,
miner, speculator, and finally again
Lo.o,~,. :, -, ,,,oroL,,4 -, Soorapoarto P,,for
tunate speculations in grant lands, by rapid
turning of his means, and by seizing upon
the advantages afforded by that era when
agriculture in the Golden State began to
feel the impetus that subsequently made
it the chief industry of the coast. he
| made half million in his varied oper-
ations. Once more turning his atten-
| tion to mines, he was directing the work
Of one of them in the Sierra range,
when he inserfered, being naturally chival-
rous, to protect the mistress of notorious
Irish desperado, who had already knocked
| her down. He was unarmed but in the
passionate Indignation of the moment, he
struck the fellow in the face, and was shot
dead with a revolver in the hands of the
cowardly ruffian. The rough but justice
loving miners gave a short shrift and a long
rope to the Irishman, and thousand dol
lars in gold dust to the poor woman, and
sent her to San francisco.
Oscar was then thirteen. Friendsinterest-
ed themselves in the boy, to whom the pa
ternal estate secured $4,000, which was
securely invested. He left the Cali
fornia metropolis not long after, and
entered Harvard University. Having been
graduated with honors at nineteen, he
spent some time in travelling through his
own country, and then decided to study in
Germany, not so much, perhaps, from a
love of learning as from sense of uncer-
tainty respecting the profession or pursuit
he should adopt He spent year at Bonn,
and went afterward to Berlin, where he
learned, he said, more of human nature
than of science or philosophy. Still unde-
cided as to his future, he lounged for years
about Europe visited the Far East !;
twice circumnavigated the globe, and
finally resolved to return to his native land
| and fit himself for the law, for which he
had made various general studies abroad.
He had made the acquaintance in Paris
| of DIR. Charles Archer, who claimed to be
attending medical lectures there, and sub
sequently saw good deal of him in Vi
emma and Switzerland. Archer had
unquestionable talent with a special
aptitude for his profession ; but he had an
income of about $1,000 year-just
enough, as he often declared, to make
man lazy without rendering him materially
comfortable. He had an office in Thirty
! eo,,Stb s+raa+ and his hours were from 10