The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-16
Thaler, successful and rich German

Strasse, buy Won big top mein friend. get
fraulelns and vldder-fraus yid re monish-
bags III re lands. Ii zey will not ave
zou, zey will take re rupee; frost 'em for
Eat, my zon.
But the recommendation was unpal-
atable, and to n great extent impractical
bic, 80 another fidus Achates was ap-
pealed to, one Jack lie Geste, man much
addicted to chatf and practical joking.
"In this land of pearls and precious
stones, no go, dear boy" said Mr.. lie G..
From Dondra Head to Point Calamere
north, south, east, west-the women
won't look at you; that you have found
out long ago. Give up hunting, then,
IN these oft-trod colonial fields, and draw
the home covers. Don't you happen to
know any bonny lassie i'll your own
Caledonia, stern and wild, or pretty
colleen in the aisle of shillelahs and
shamrocks, who would be glad to share
curry and rice with you? Go and try
those parts; if not, have a haphazard
shy at where | hail from, the Channel
Islands. Spins-ay, and precious good
looking ones too-are as plentiful there
as cocoanuts are here, and maybe one of
them might be induced to clear out i'll
your favor. Failing in those islets, L
know of no other dodge than indenting
upon one of those cooperative associa-
tions which furnish everything, even to
a better-half. But mind, old man, they
keep a rooster for foreign seryieein their
offices: first lady on the list, plain or
pretty, first for duty; you pay your
money, but you don't take your choice. .
But these suggestions also were con-
sidered infeasible, and put aside. Pres
emily, however, a thought struck Nc
PhersOn.
lie Geste, said he, when l was a
boy there lived i'll the neighborhood of
my fathers manse q widowed lady with
two or three then wee, very wee, daugh-
| tiers. From what can recollcct of them
their means We're cramped, not to say
| scanty, but they were of good blood and
form. One of the children, the eldest,
If my memory serves me, was called Etfie,
| Ellie Medium, and promised to be
bonny, for can family recall her blue
eyes, tiaxen hair, rosy complexion and
jump little figure. If she be alive she
must be close on thirty; for it is many
years since L came out here STRIPPING,
| and was Chinna Doray IAnglice, little
master on the Paycock estate, as my
kind employer styled that property.
Mrs. Medium knew me well-better, in
deed, than / knew her. I wonder if she
and the BARNS be in the land of the leal
OF the living"
"Write indirectly and inquire"
"And Sandy did SO, and ascertained
that his old acquaintance, Miss Efie
InaIIJ1pl GILL o1ix-D 4
bearing up against the res augusta
donei. Armed with which intelligence
he once again returned to le Geste.
" 1t is all right now, Mac" said he;
"yOur course is as clear as day. Send
a chit to materfamilias N; tell her
that you are well to do in the world,
own lands and cattle, men servants and
maid servants; that you want to SETTLE
that as a whipper-snapper you liked
no, better say loved-Miss Effie, and ask
her in plain English to come out and
marry you. Above all things, though,
be sure and send your photograph; you
are not such very, very bad looking
chap. Sandy, if you would only dress
like Christian and not like a coolie."
SO the letter was written, submitted to
lie Gestes inspection, sealing, posting
and III due time was received by the
Mediums in whose little household it
created no small amount of a8tonlsh-
ment and was much spelt and pondered
over, especially by the damsel most
cOncerned-still comelyif even a some
what passe body-and who, after a
while, consented to go out and wed her
suitOr.
CATER all, mother DEAR" she said,
" he has house and home for me; maybe,
by and by, for you, too, Jennie; and I'll
do what | can to help you. It's the best
son-or [ suppose | ought to call him
looking. Quite the contrary very, very
nice-loohng, see the photo he has sent
us"
"And Miss Jennie quite agreed with
her elder sister that Mr. Mcpherson was
a beauty.
"Well, my bairns," said the old
lady, 81 can't gainsay you but that the
portrait is winning and douce enough;
but as / call to mind the boy Sandy, the
son of the minister, he was not nearly so
seemly and well-favored But 1t is, in
deed, lang syne since | set eyes on him,
and likely be has got handsomer as he
got older; some men do"
Then, everything being settled, Miss
Medium accepted her kismet, agreed to
go out, and her lover-open-h handed,
honorable, true, as | have already told
you he was-sent the wherewithal for
passage and outfit.
''And pending the many, many weeks
that elapsed, and while the good ship
Queen of Serendib was sailing round the
cape for her destination, a change. a
radical change, came over the life and
habits of our bride-expecting friend
He cast into the limbo of things done
with coarse 'cumlies,' rough 'dunga-
rees, and other country clothing, and
burst out iuto Europe muster linen,
tweeds and serges. He purchased large
" house furniture and nickknacks; he
bought lady's horse and Peat's side
saddle; he whose equine prOcliyities had
never extended beyond shaggy noun
tain pony, and tattered and torn pig
skin. He told his old flames and chums
that he was going in for the Benedict,
and bashfully listened to the "riles
and jeers of the one, and the chat and
laugh of the other.
"But, barring The Great Unwashed
himself, no one was more taken aback at
the course of events than Tamby, his
lODy-serving "appOo or butler. That
functionary saw coolie after coolie arrive
at Ailsa Craig with load upon load of
unknown and unusual goods; and al
though IN the Lines and other native