Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-09-28
WHAT JACK FOUND.

more Wellden, as he found himself on
the stoop of his charming country
residence upon the Hudson, ''where
are you going to spend your holt
days? Europe, l guess"
@.Not bit of it, father. L want
TO do my own dear land first. just
think ofall there is to see here"
Eve amt fashionable, Jack"
eff you go that, sir, all the English
swells consider it correct form, as
they call it, to run over here. 1 tell
you / was heartily ashamed of my
self when that nice young fellow, Sir
Henry Harden, asked my opinion
about the distances in the Yellow
stone Park. l was nearly sneak
enough topretend to know, although
Twas never within 1000 miles of the
place. No, father, America first, say
l."
spoken like young American
eagle" laughed the elder man, with a
sparkle in his eye that indicated the
pride that every true son of the Stars
and Stripes fondles in his hearts
core
Mr.. Mortimore Wellden is banker,
and very wealthy one His word
Is his bond, and his dicta among
moneyed men are regarded as law.
His wife is one of those bustling
women who ''toil, and spin, and
6cold uhe maids" as did her grand
mother, Randolph of Virginia,
hundred years ago.
There are two children, a daughter,
Mildred, aged II, who is to come out
at the first Patriarch's ball of next
season, and Jack, a partner in the
bank, aged % years.
Jack graduated at Harvard, and
was stroke in the University race. He
is trifie over six feet, built in pro-
portion, and the owner of pair of
laughing blue eyes, and thirty-two
magnificent teeth that flashed be-
meath his tawny mustache.
Instead of dreading the ''dreary
drudgery of the desks dead wood"
Jack plunged into banking with thear-
1orwith which he took to boating, and
isnow not only his fathers secretary
and partner, but his counselor asw well.
Jack has never cared for female so
ciety. He of course attended balls
and receptions, and every species of
entertainment that fashionable So
ciety exults in, but he prefers his book
and his pipe, his dog and his gun,
md his spoilt sister to all the giddy
designations of the ''madding crowd"
1t was broiling July day of last
year that this conversation between
father and son took place, and two
weeks later found Jack Wellden at
the Profile house in the White noun
tains, on tramp after the most APP
proved fashion. He wore dust col
.ored check knickerbocker suit, with
big CATERS and deerstalker's cap.
His impediments, or baggage, con-
sisted of a knapsack and field glass
of great power. He was alone, and
least lonely when alone.
a valise laden with conventional
garments awaited him at such hotels
along his route as pleased his inn
perial majesty to regard in the light
of temporary headquarters, for his
mother on kissing him au revoir ut
tered these solemn words:
AtJack, never, never be without
your evening dress suit"
Jack had made the Profile house
his headquarters fora week, debouch-
ing from it to various romantic pass
.es and notches only accessible to
those 1.-the oflimb and brawny of mus.
Gle Instead of joining in the lawn
tennis or the hops he used to sit for
hours on the piazza, his pipe in his
mouth, watching the corners and GO
ers, the tourists of all sorts and con-
ditions that passed merrily on their
way.
1T must be told, but in the strictest
confidence, that Jack meditated a
book, and he had even chuckled over
the title, slack Minus JILL" but fate
willed that the book should remain
'unwrftten.
Jack Wellden was no mere tyro as
n walker. A member of the Athletic
eEiuD vi NEW IOTky lle was ~ ldlltsy
man IN the gymnasium, and in THE
Westcbester Pedestrian club second
TO none For wager he walked from
Highbridge to Yonkers and back
within a given and what seemed an
impossible time, yet he scored a vic.
tory with several minutes to spare.
Mountain climbing was his delight
and to be out in the early dawn, up
in the silver mist thatcrown the sum
NIT of inaccessible crags, to the
youthful banker was nearer heaven
than anything that earth could give
him.
The notches around the Profile
mountain are as numerous as they
are inaccessible. No mere two weeks
holiday young man need attempt
them; they mean collar work from
the word .'go," and take more out o
a man than an ascent of the Matter
horn or Mont Blanc. Jack found the
hotel crowded from cellar to garnet