The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-04-26

ITlcuuS lUu6eQ.
The season known to retail traffic as
"busy" wakes and wanes. Summer
comes, and August, sweltering, intoler-
able, settles upon the deserted town.
The houses are like ovens, the streets
like blast furnaces, and every thing that
remains behind the migratory, popula-
ton is undergoing lingering process
of cremation. The proprietors have
fed the heat, one salesman to depart
ment is found to be sufficient, and the
rest are away taking their summer vaca-
ton. Those who remain behind have
little to do, for there are hours togeth-
er when there is not a penny's worth
sold.
1t happens that "47' is reigning alone
in the glove department, and she is
refreshing object for contemplation this
sultry afternoon in her dress of blue Or
CANDY, with pale ribbons futtering at
throat and waist.
Above her head her wares are most
effectively displayed ia a complete cano-
Ply of long-wristed gloves in every con-
| ceivable color and shade of color,
| and, there being nothing else to do,
she sits upon the ledge below the shelly
| ing and Yields monstrous palm leaf.
When nothing is selling there is no
change to be made, and the cashier steps
| out of his narrow, sitting enclosure and
wanders In search of breeze. The long
lace mltts that fringe the canopy over
the glove counter are stirred as if by
zephyr, and the airy freshness of "47"
| &c OFT IL Ill.
er and sits down behind the ledge.
"You look awfully gloomy to-day.
What is the matter" she asks.
SWELL, l have reason to look gloomy.
| have made an unpleasant discovery;
or, perhaps 1 should say, I've been un-
pleasantly discovered"
"Tell me about it.
ooh, it is a long story" he says, more
than half persuaded.
''Fhis is very long afternoon"
''Well, have a very rich and very
crochety old uncle, and about seven
months ago received letter from him
telling me that if I would come and take
charge of his business and marry a girl
he had picked out for me he would leave
me his fortune. He said the girl was
pretty, and l knew his fortune was
ample, and as was not getting on any
too well where L was, you will infer that
| did not hesitate long before acce otinp
the proposition. 1t was all arranged
with the girl, who seemed to be quite
fascinated with the romance of the affair.
and l started for the town in which she
and my uncle lived. But on the way I
! got othinking about it, and it struck me
that would like to see her at least once
| before the die was lrrevocably cast, so
when L reached the town / hunted up a
! cousin OF mine who knew her, and told
HIM that he must arrange for me to call
on her lncognito. He assented yery
readily, and, as / only reached there the
day before the wedding was to take
place, we called the night of my arrival.
She came in directly, and I was intro
duced as Mr.. Falkner.
And such a girl, The moment I
laid eyes on her l grew rigid with indip.
nation to think that my uncle dared in
pose on me IN such way. He had led
me to believe she was everything a mai
could want in a wife. l found her
painted like an Indian, dressed in horrid
taste, talking at the top of her voice,
aud altogether the most Ill bred creature
L had ever seen. / could not stand it.
SO wrote note to my uncle, left the
town that night. and have never been
back since. l learned to day for the
first time that the girl saw was not the
one L was to have married, but friend
OF nay cousins, whom he had taken into
his confidence, and that her horrid curIs
and her yulgarity were assumed for the
occasion, all part of Dicks little pleas.
! antry; and my fiancee, who Dick saws is