Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-10-16

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The brothers were tie hest of friends
They understood and Sympathized with each
others likes, dislikeS and weaknesses Only
once in thetr lives had they quarrelled, but
that quarrel bad lasted for six years. They
shudder nov ss they look back upon that
time.
Il was no vulgar dispute, which is made
Known to all the world and in which mutual
friends are expected to take sides. 1t was
only the TalbertS themselves who knew that
a quarrel existed. To outsiders they seemed
more ebSurdly polite TO each other than be
fore
The cause OF She quarrel was the interior.
ence of one brother in the others affairs. They
were peculiar men, and very tenacious of the
EngliShmen's duty of minding his own bust
ness. On certain occasion one of them
fancied q rather delicate matter as much his
own business Is his brothers. He was mis-
taken. They did not use high words, because
such things were not i'll their line; but each
brother was sadly firm. The upshot was that
for six years they only spoke when they met
III society.
At last ola Talhcrt died. His successful
daughter had been dead n long time. The old
man left Hazlewood House and its contents
to his sons CONFORMITY. The rest of his fortune
he divided into three parts, and left in this
proportion to each of his children or their
children, if any. Then the sons met at Halle
wood House and considered what they should
do
First of all, as was becoming, they made up
their differences Very little was said on
either side, bps it was understood that cordial
relations wen. -e-established. At which happy
CONCLUSION och man reioiced grGatly-the
six years sei4>se<ion had been a terrible affair
and tacitly registered a VOW that for the
future his brothers affairs should be his OWL
distinct, private property.
BY this time cur friends had grown rather
weary of gadding about. Moreover, it was
due to their position that some place should
be called their home For nearly twenty
years they had lived in the various capitals OF
Europe, and they knew that they had con
qucred society. Indeed. it is doubtful whether
aGy two men, not celebrities, were better
known than Horace and Herbert Talbcrt. Sc
they resolved to settle down and begin house
keeping on their own account.
They collected their art treasures, and be
ing not traders, but still thorough men OF
business, i'll order to save any question arising
i'll the remote future, made exact invcntoric,
of their respective belongings, down TO tbs
uttermoSt, smallest and most cracked cup and
saucer. Then they combined their collection.
and made Lakewood House curiously beau.
tiful with paintings, china and bric-a-brac
This done, they settled down into quiet do
nestle life, and kept their house as methodi
cally and carefully, and no doubt great
deal better, than any two old women coulc
have done.
OF course, with their cultivated tastes
their general requirements. their cosmopolitan
experiences, and the many desirable friend,
they We're known to possess, the Talberts
standing in Oakbury was undeniable. They
We're a credit to the neighborhood anG
might, had they not been too good-hearted t.
dream of such a proceeding, have snubbed
any one of the families of position without
dreading reprisals. If people laughed al
their womanish ways, etfeminate proceed
ingS and domestic economics, they were
nevertheless, always glad to entertain or t.
be entertained by the Talberts. The latter
need not be wondered at The little dinners
at Lakewood House We're the pink of culinary
civilization-the crystallization of refined
gastronomic intelligence.