St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-23
RICHARD HARRIS,
Died February IS, 1877, of
DILIRIUM TREMENs,
Aged Al years.
Aged Al years.


Mrs. Richard Harris, widow of the de-
ceased, ordered the monument made
after design of her own. and placed it
at her husbands grave about two months
after his death.
Mrs. Harris still lives in AichiSOn
with her son and daughter, the former
| a youth of fifteen and the latter hand
some girl of eighteen. The boy has the
blonde features and yiyaciOus tempera-
ment Of his father, while the girl inner
| its the dark complexion and taciturn
disposition of her mother.
| Her mother, it is said, was never BEAU
tiful, although even now it would be
| hard to suggest an alteration in her
features which would make them more
| nearly perfect. There is something
| about her cOuntenance which most peO-
pie find very repellant. Either the
S0mber history of her life in AtchsOn
has left its imprint on her features or
she assumes cold and naughty air be-
cause she prefers to be let alone. AS it
is. she has few intimate friends, and
| mingleS very little with her neighborS.
She first came to AtchiS0n from Geor-
gia i'll 1867 with her mother. Her name
was Loretta Hulett, and she was then
in her nineteenth year. Her mother
started a private boarding house, and
the girl. who was very skillful with her
needle, made good wages as seam
stress. After twelve months residence
in AtchisOn her mother died of fever,
and the girl was thrown upon her own
| resources. She opened millinery shop,
but having no money with which to car
ry on the business, was soon obliged to
give it up. Then she secured employ
ment in several private families for
short periods, and finally went to work
at the house of DR.. Chalice. The doc
tors mOther-in-law and her son Dick
lived with him. Both the doctor and
the HAIRLESS were quite wealthy. They
had come, to what was then almost the
frontier, from the East. They were
very ariStOcratic and
MOVED IN THE BEST SOCIETY.
When Loretta -Hulett came to DIR.
Chalice's house Dick Harris was a
young man nearly twenty-siX years of
age. He had spent four years at Har-
ward and graduated, but he had devoted
much more attention to athletics and
midnight SnpperS during his college
course than to his books, and the result
was that he never stood well in his
class, and narrowly escaped being
''plucked" when final examination day
came. In AtchiSon he studied medicine
i'll the Office of his brOther-in-law, DR..
Chalice. He seemed to have a natural
aptitude in the profession, and a tact
bordering on intuition in the treatment
of disease. Old residents relate many
wonderful cures effected by him after
physicians of long experience had pro-
nounced the cases practically hopeless.
But he exhibited the same dislike for
medical works that he had shown to-
ward his Greek and Latin textbooks
while at college, and employed himself
mostly in taking long horseback rides
into the country in the day time, and
carouSing about town with congenial
spirits at night.
Notwithstanding his notorious habits.
however, his genial disposition, his ma
tive wit and the standing of his family
made him welcome in the best society.
Indeed, his reputation as a very fast
young man seems rather to have COM
mended him to most of the young ladies,
and his conqueStS among the fair sex
are said to have been numerous. His
engagement to first one and then an
other was freely talked of as a settled
fact on several occasions, but whether
or not these reports had any foundation,
the wedding never took place, and his
heart seems to have remained i'll his
own keeping until he fell a victim to
the charms of his sisters seamstress.
Loretta Hulett. One of Dicks few lit
erary accomplishments was an ability
A, to read Spanish with considerable skill.
and to speak it with the f1uency of ma
tive. When he was a youth of seven
teen, and full of the love for wild life
on the frontier incident to that age, his
father sent him to a ranch which
he owned in Southern California, and
gave the establishment into his charge.
Although his management of the con-
Germ was by no means so successful in
the way of financial results as the elder
Harris desired, Dick, by constant aSsO-
citation with the men about the place,
all of whom were Spaniards, became
almost as proficient in their language
as if he had never known any other,
He was charmed with the smooth ca
dences of the tongue, and when he sub
Sequently went to college he devoted
some time and attention to the study of
its grammatical construction. Upon
his return to AtchiSon he discovered an
old Spanish gunSmith named Zanthes,
and used to make almost daily visits to
the old mans shop and spend hours in
talking to him. 1t was but short time
after the dark-eyed Loretta had been
employed at DR.. Chalice's house before
he discovered that she, too, could talk
Spanish. and his visits to the old gun
smiths suddenly ceased.
As reticent with him as she was with
every one else about her past history,
he was left in ignorance as to how or
where she had acquired her knowledge
of the language. He manifested no I'M
due curiosity on this point, however,
and contented himself with the fact
that she could speak it fluently. At first
he converSed with her merely as an
amusement. He used to spend an hour.
sometimes more, In the sitting room
where she worked, almost every day,
before going back to the Office after
meals, or while waiting for them when
he came home too early. Their CONVEX
sation, for the most part, was made I'D
of ordinary small talk about people and
events in the city with which both hap
pened to be familiar. Neither made any
attempt at cOncealment,be because neither /
felt that there was anything to conceal.
Dicks mother and the Chalices fire.
quently found them chatting together.
but paid no attention to it, and in fact,
were rather pleased that Dick seemed
to prefer this to some other occupation
III which he had been accustomed to
find amusement.
1t was not long, however, before these
conversations began to last two, even
three hours. Not infrequently Dick
failed to go down to the office at all i'm
the afternoon, but spent the time talk
ing to 1.-The girl" as Loretta was desig-
mated in the household, and watching
her nlmble fingers while she Seyed.
He found himself thinking of her a
good deal, although he would hardly