Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

and corn and pork and lumber, aud
know not what else, have brought gold
in large store 70 the pockets OF its rest
dents; and they have built themselves
poble houses Of light stone, and not ave
stories high and packed In blocks, but
each standing in It's ample grounds.
Here had Nora Willis lived from
childhood, tenderly cherished, carefully
and literally educated, greatly petted and
perhaps Just a little spoiled Nor had
she ever known, In any marked degree
and I'd 60 her twentieth year, unsatisied
longinRs or ambitions.
! OF cour.s everybody who reads the pa
peis remembers the celebrated johnson
viii case Ia the supreme court Of New
York and how &c babe fair TO become a
veritable American "Jarndyce vs.. Jarn-
dyce.v
Perhaps one reason why 1t did
not was that Tom Johnson's
wife showed so much energy and will in
the matter. She had needs do something,
for Wall street had not treated Tom
kindly, and there was a question at one
time about their being able TO keep the
Fifth Avenue house. At all events she
did do something; and that wiDter she
was missed nt the assemblies, the "Pa- |
triarchs' and the Of. G. N. GU
Finally Il was whispered that she had
gone--not TO the big hotel among tn
jersey pines; not TO Aiken, where {
consumptives sit solemnly on the i :.
verandas not even to Florida, bu' -
tually to the West! "To forlorn -
called Lakeside, or something IN ~
sort,'' said one Of her intimate fr "a
another, rs they sat In cosy 49,. $3.50 :
the ballroom at Delmonico's I,h e..
no idea where II Isl; whether "1 nv
diana or Colorado, or wher ~, :" :,
dear. IL there ever was 81, 5 ="
round hole, II would be II A., h, il,.soa l.
any Western city" N'S "''"'oN :
As II happened, howey - ~. ro,.u..
was not a square peg in n,.s y III =
az 80 Mould not haV
closI ~. i.ah p'1,I Sno her OWE pleasure
IVY sna No"tu In ~ oheerfully passed
Mlh . " ~ ne disagreeable plac
ior ehc sum ~ ~ ecuEing that evidence
hniou NC W. Hno GbTought the great vii
case W sun Termination aud set he
hu a,aiu nnI " gsolf fairly on their feet
Whle " ~ BESIDE, she was tact an,
u .s,, ~ eff; pronounced everything
cnarni sI Nace, climate, houses, peo
pc, one aud been there but littl
WHY WV % she was a prime favorite.
nap scned that old Mr.. WINS wa
70 Se of much service to her in he
GUEST hence nothing was NOR
natul Al than that she should be nue.
DIS house, or that she shoul,
nn = great pet Of pretty Nora. To Tn
lat Der her stories Of New York, its III
~ 10 its society seemed to open to th'
loang girl an entirely new world. Mrs
johnson was glad enough TO talk to her
"Llke Dante" she wrote to friend, "a
imagine him, when banished from Flor
{ ence, describing TO some provincial dis
! ciple the glorles and beauties of that fai
/ city, no do I, my dear, find solace in m,
r self.imposed exile in pouring in th,
I willing ears OF the belle Of Lakeside
, continuous strain of talk about New
I York and Newport; and, by the way, sh,
/ Is an uncommonly pretty girl. 1t Is won
derful how many there are of them here
and If they had New York dressmakers
I we should have to look to our laurels."
} 1t was just before the spring fiower
| had fully showed their heads on the prai
rie that Mrs, johnson finally gained he
/, point and held the precious evidence safe
ly In her grasp. In the exuberauce o
: her Joy, when Mr. Willis brought her tn,