Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1882-03-02
ARaUNAL'Ti OYEAEVIEs.
The Eridal .rour.

From The San Francisco Argonaut. AZ
So you would wed with Alcibiadss Doc
little, daugh ter2 r. said Themes Iumsuden
% he fondly stroked the golden head Of his
only child !.
Aye. father We love each tohes dearly,
I A lA and And he is doing ex-
tremely we'll, too, he tells me. He ii, as
you doubtless know, a law tlark = 5l{5 #
4 clark, my child. What is . claskfr
Perhaps should have said clerk, faith.
or, said Theodosia Tumsuden, flushing
slightly at her parents ignorance; perhaps
row would have understood me better; but
ct Millss Seminary, where they hare lucul-
cate ! into M mind the purest principles Of
religion. together with French, music, and
drawing, we were always hidden to say
clark. 1t is thu English fashion, ana more
elegant. y.
Be il so, my child Il said Thomas TUNE
suden, fondly always talk il the most
high tonedest fashion. Show your brung-
up wherever you 90. But this young fell
low is q clerk, you say"
He is more" said Theodosia, 1he is
bayrister. He has been admitted to prac-
tlee IN the police court and before the jus-
{ tlces 81 the peace, and he ekes out his in
come by other pursuits.
What other pursuits?" asked her father.
He sweeps out and washes the windows
for his employers, said Theodosia, with q
brilliant 7al blush, but. oh, father, he loves
There, there, daughter, said Thomas
Iumsuten, strangely moved, do not
weep. peddled peanuts myself when I
was poor boy. HeIis q good and worthy
youth, as 4 was. He shall have you for his
sbslde: Go, my child--go and prepare
your trosu. Never mind the cost.
With light ard joyous step Theodosia
Iumsuden put on her sealskin and sailed
out shop ing.
Did she use up four or 1--WE dry goods
clerks that afteroon2 All, yon know not
Theodosia!
She ! used 's up six. J.
The naptials We're the most genteel, cor.
genus, and magnificent that ever TRANSFERRED
il this locality. The bride was tho most
beautiful. the groom a finer specimen of
manliness than ever before known The
ladies' dresses were perfectly elegant. and
the wearers were all lovely. Ii was, in
short, the regular wedding.
Thomas Tumsuden gave his daughter a
magnificent diamond necklace, ten diamond
rings, q diamond tiara, and q check for fifty
thousand dollars. 10 Alclbiades lie gave
his BLESSING.
But it was all in the family.
The young couple started ON their bridal
tour amid the congratulations Of rejoicing
friends. When they were alone together,
Theodoaia spoke: III i8.
@Alcibiades," she murnurrea, 4let us not
make the usual trip through the usual in
terior towns; / would be far away from tbs
kind though inquisitiye eyes Of those who
know and love me, on this, my wedding-
tour. Let us journey far toward the Morn
ing Land, Alcibiade s-eVen to the East.
just as you say, my darling" replied
Alcibiades.
He let her have her own way. Husbands
always do.
On bridal tours.
Two months have flown. @
Tunasuden, !" said a friend to him one
day, sid you know that your daughter and
her husband we're back?
No, said r. Tumsuden, hurriedly, "I
thought they were still n the country.
No. I saw chem day in 6 poor quar-
ter Of the city, and they both looked very
Wretohed.
Where did you see them?"
Stevenson Street, near First.
In Eve minutes e. Tumsuden was 1t the
"ASAStteOL kAS%OOs 1S WIS ~ ISAGUlSAEt IlDUSE.
AS he mounted the rickaty staira and saw
tbs squalid children playing on them, his
heart grew sick within him. He reached
q door pointed out to him BY q froWsy
urchin. He knocked. y
Come In, said q faint but still Familiar
voice. IA s6
f He entered. What sight for q fathers
eye! A bare and cheerless room, uncarnst-
ed, surDitureless- othing in il but trunk.
Upon this sat his daughter and har hus-
band, with features pinched from lack OF
food. Batween them lay what was evident
" their frugal meal "a bologna sausage aud
four crackers. Where be their diamonds
now, ha hal aud their fifty thousand dol
lars2 s s8 695
All wherel 81.
4 Tumsuden advanced and opened the
trunk. IT. was empty. But these words,
painted on q label, scared themselves into
! his brain: Fifth Avenue Hotel. :"
/ Thomas Tnmsuden had long been threat
ened with apoplexy. He fell heavily 70 4
the floor. with dull thud.
They had been to New York.
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