The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-28
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VI that the pain they
NM caused to others
@aI and those, too
<2aEs whom he hello
most dear, did
not prevent his enjoying them to the full.
Apparently, he was the kindest of sons
and most affectionate of brothers. He
was never known to give his mother a
cross or impatient word in his life, and
his attentions to his sisters were all that
they could ask and more than they could
expect, judging from the relations of
other young men in their circle to their
sisters.
He was very popular in the village,
for he was not only the most amiable
but the gayest and handsomest young
fellow in all those parts; and there was
a dash of the hero about him, too, for
he had served with distinction in the
army, having gone in as private and
won his captains straps by sheer bravery
and devotion to duty. Ponder of lax
ury than any man ever met, he fairly
reveled in hardship when it had to be
endured. Easy going as he was by ma
ture, and slow to act under ordinary
circumstances, he was as quick as flash
in an emergency. At home he was
never on time, no matter what the ur-
gency of the case; in the army he was
punctuality itself. The most dandifed
about his toilet arrangements, and taking
as much time to array himself as the
vainest belle, he would take snow bath
it he could get no other, dry himself in
the sun and be ready for marching in
five minutes. His mattress at home had
to be of particularly choice quality of
curled hair and the springs of the very
best steel, or he could not sleep. In the
army he would roll himself up in blan-
ket, lie in the mud during a pelting storm
and sleep as peacefully as child. John
Hurlstone was made up Of contradic-
tons.
He loved his mother so tenderly that
he was completely unnerved if she was
i'll, and waited upon her with the gentle
devotion of daughter; yet he did not
hesitate to do things that he knew would
break her heart, simply to crafty his
own pleasure. He would have given his
last crust to his mother and sisters, yet
he would not do an honest days work to
save them from want He did not say
that he would not; he simply did not,
and that was the end of the matter. His
mothers and sisters were devoted to him.
They knew he was thoroughly selfish,
but he was so sweet and kind at home
that they forgave him everything. Wo-
men always liked him; men-that is, the
the serious minded-regarded him less
leniently. Among the class popularity
known as 'the boys" he was prime ia
vorite. They admired his cleverness,
and he was pleased by their homage.
He would sit for an hour at time talk
ing with big Sandy, the village black
smith, miserable, drunken, fellow, be-
cause, he said. Sandy isso fond of me"
Every barkeeper in the town and every
hanger on of the saloons shook him by
the hand and swore that "Cap'n Jack"
was ''perfec' gemman." The atten-
tons of the Prince of Wales are no
sweeter to the professional beauty than
were these words of compliment to Capt.
John Hurlstone.
John received the attentions of the
young ladies more modestly. He never
boosted of his conquests; indeed, he did
not seem to think that he had made any.
He never tired Of telling how fond he
was of the girls, individually and col
lectively, but that they were fond of him
he modestly denied. "They know l
love them all, and they feel sorry for
me-" he used to say, laughingly. John
Hurlstone was the most dangerous sort
Of firt, for he was really in love for
the time being with each Of the girls he
fiirted with. When he transferred his
very special attention from one to an
other he did so in the kindliest manner,
and seemed always to have warm place
in his heart for the old love. At the
time of which am now writing he was
paying marked attention, even for him,
to Amy Bayliss, the pretty little simple
LuluutO udGEuCSI VI tIS new LIZ. DdJ lISS,
rector of st. AIMS church in the village.
1t was more than whispered than John
Hurlstone was engaged to Amy Bayliss,
but nothing authoritative was known
upon the subject. But the dashing
beauty, Emily Barford, denied the rumor
fatty, and said that John Hurlstone was
not the man to be caught by a baby face;
that he was amusing himself with Amy
Bayliss because he saw, as every one
could see, that she was dead in love with
him. Emily Barford, like many a clever
girl before her, did not understand men
as well as she thought she did, and in
the case of John Hurlstone was entirely
mistaken. He was just the man to be
caught by ''baby face;" and when Amy
Bayliss rolled her big blue eyes up
towards bis and stretched her little mouth