Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-11-13
ATALE Or THE NOW.
Jan American Story by an American
Author Using American In
gradients

StcAiCaiS
The glorifed and inf1aIned west was just
deepening into rosy twilight, and the east
sern hills were III the act OF peeling OIL
their ruddy robes for the night, when a
we'll dressed Englishman OF American de-
scent might haye been seen vending his
way in a nortaeasterly direction, regardless
os the gathering night.
lie was tall, 1.-the and pimply in the ex-
IRENE, with a large, wistful, deWy eye. The
other eye was also ii the anne condition.
His name was Edmund Clayborne Briggs,
a domesticated Englishmen from Massa-
.chusetts. He was a self-made man; but,
aside from that, ne lad never done any
thing reprehensible.
Edmund Glayborne Briggs ancestors
had toiled fofa livelihood, for they were an
Ignorant people and did not know any bet
ter. lie was engaged in trying to over
come this inherited desire for industry
this strange, morbid yearning for some
thing to Do. His success thus far had
been phenomenal. Still he hoped to &C
sconpIish even greater things IN that direc-
tie1.
His dress was that Of d young man born
"a American soil, but who had tried to
conceal tha disgusting and terrible fact
from the eye Of the weird. His pantaloons
#ere worn flowing IN the legs and glossy
.e-oss tile seat. All that he had done thus
fur Id life had been in the sedentary line.
He was proud Of the fact that his hands
we're not hardened b. low, coarse tell.
some had claimed that there were bunions
oil his brain where self-esteem was locat-
ed, but that was only an idle runlor, and
this Is no place for anything Of that kind.
How sorry he felt for those who Wore
American shoes and New 1ork hats! As
lie stood leaning against a fence, feeling a
strange yearning for something more def
I;te. he looked down at his own English
made shoes, with their fat and pussy APP
Dearance. their droop in the middle and
their wide, oyer-fed, choked look. He
felt Of his youngest pimple and looked at
the stars, which were Just coming out one
81 one.
We will leave him there a few moment
while we pass 81 to briefly describe a
young thing named Hase1inia Couture,
who stands ii the bay window patiently
waiting for Us to DO 50. She is not neg
Letting her other work, however, for she
has MS other work. She feels that she was
born to be loved, and though she has been
out Of q job a good deal Of the time, that
IS her business. To love and to be loved is
her aim in life.
She loves Edmund with all the deep, rip
snorting torrent Of her intense nature. She
is like him, for she dislikes those who per-
spire. Her father was a toiler, and now, at
the age Of So, he is an old man.
She will take warning and shun the mad
maelstrom in which he has wrecked his
young If. She siaudders az she thinks Of
it. She rccoiis. II costs her an effort, but
she recoils. She then stands on the other
foot awhile asshe peers through the gloam-
ing.
Let us look at her for a moment as she
peers through said cleaning. Her brow
is low, and it looks still lower, because she
wears her hair tossed wildly over it in lit
tie flaky, fluffy giblets of redness, while at
the back of her head it is caught UP into
an infamed doughnut and held in place
by a thin dagger. Her throat is long and
flexible, ard the poise Of her head, which
She wears at the upper end of her swan
like throat, is tirst-rate. The air is one Of
disdain. She has a naughty way Of taking
out her gum and seeking it on the ceiling
that reminds one Of a duchess in good
spirits.
She now changes back to the other foot,
and looks ~yearnfully out through the
gathering night. Her attitude is one which
j painter might long strive to portray on
canssas and fill to catch. Her dress is cut
50 Is IL conceal her shoulder blades as far
n possible. and She wears large wooden
buttons on the points Of her elbows. 50
that lie will not scratch tie marble top
dressing case when She leans On it in orde1r
t. ponder a few hours over the ~intc1roga
tory. why was I boTa?:''
The night has almost in~staneoasl.
-raHn Intensely dark. T i IS dark A. sha
interior III q henightpd Ethiopian. IT,
wind i signing through tie trees, and