Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-10

No san. man safpf.o-e. eeer carried an -pisto
larry irssgion % 20 actual proposal Of marriage
without seein, the o53ecL or. except what he'
p@n has tod hlsn. ~itEout knowing something
about he.'-- seasesstlosss NsgaHlas Writer
So much for the conclusions Of self
concel,. Man has done that thing.
know 4 case IN point Don't II think
] do. forasmuch as | myself was Its dom-
mating idiot /, age 81 name. Francis
Rowland. usually known as Brother
Francis-no; of ecclesiastic brotherhood
Heaven Forbid | got tie sotriquet
from q trick nay slsters--thefe are eight
Of them, four older aud four younger
than La trick the girls had Of always
designating me with that misleading
prefix. was thus known far ami wide.
Would b, witty people used To send
penifents To me to confess, and strangers,
on being introduced. took to addressing
me as y Your Reverence" and that be-
fore was cat OF my teens. o, and
wasn't it gaiiineF | loved the girls,
though. the whole eight, even Martha
the oldest, who had married and gone
10 the next town To hive before ! entered
those teens, and Catherine, whom she
had taken Oft with her--she was next 10
her in age-then Harriet, the sensible
one. who, after our mothers death, had
taken her place as head OF the house.
I Eliza. number three. is & frisky maiden,
Z two years older than !. She talks ever
I lassingly aud never says anything worth
bearing. only | like the rattle of her
( tongue. Then the little ones Florence,
Maud, Blanche and Edith If anything
could have feconciled me 10 my bated
prefix ii was bearing them use IL How
I they used 20 tousle me around, and run
7 races over me, and make the business Of
{ existence a perpetual scramble for me.
/ Edith was only five years old when ms
( twenty first birthday came and | started
for the west 10 seek my fortune
And NOW pass over nine years. 1t
| would be idle to tell OF the struggles and
sarlships, the disappointments and sue
cesses Of those momentous times. Suffice
il that. after various ups and downs. !
took up government land in Colorado, Is
corner Of which. very soou after. was
fixed upon by the ruling maguates for a
great railroad center, and 80 presto
changed | was rich man. declare
I've been living ia an Arabian night
ever since.
wrote directly home, telling Of my
good fortune. and built house and
furnished il, and laid out my grounds
aid stocked them with nlaguiticence
which accorded with my means. But
here was my grand stumbling block.
am n quiet. reserved man. Indeed,
never, whatever society may have been
mixed up ia, could identify myself with
tho spirit of my surroundings. | wa
: alone, always alone. understood
Adams predieament II anybody evel
did bur however deep sleep might fai
on the. never the Withdrawal of a rii
diminished nay either side
Up To the day ~ hen was 80 year.
old. and rich, my whole time On my
hands. | had been too busy to give tn,
matter much thought, Bu, now THU
skeleton in my closet made up all my do
rnestic society Il wasn't sociable
Is il any wonder that /, like man,
another victim OF uncongenial tiresid'
companionship. was much from home
Not that / went abroad ia search of per
soEs with whom to exchange ideas.
rather think was "a tolerable wet blan
ket when | dropped in among those in
olined to that recreation, One day. saun
tering into the railway station, pickle,
up a scrap of newspaper somebody has
tossed by. and in my lazy, aimless super
abundance OF leisure began TO rul
through IL
Eureka Here was the message | Ia,
: waited forl Thereon | read that some
body-oh, the deliciousness Of that sag
gestioni--somc man, another as vet ful
) ribbed Adam Ike myself. 30 doubt
solicited the correspondence OF the VIC
man Whose hand the fates bad knotte,
snto his
Upon that hint | spake or rather
. wrote. don't think a forcing pum
could have got the words oil my tongu
, though the very woman - hom % all tn
world would have chosen had sIoo.
there with Der ear open TO receive them
Blu, could not |. trusting the "diviuit
~hieh shapes uur ends, 50 pat forth ma
hand with faith. with that uneouquerabl
: force of will which should summon OH
Of the unknown that completion OF IN
being which my soul craveiI | wen
home. dashed my appeal GA paper an
hurried it oil to that beneticcnt littl
r Journal by the earliest mail
q Could ! wait for the time n hen an al
: sweF was possible. 1t was no easy task
K oat managed 10 do it--and Yhatf Ha
1 my earnestness multiplied its demand.
: Had the eiilor secretly set nae oil as a
3 tnhabitAnt ~ utah--one IN excelleu
: Standing. too' tttty-seyen letters Ia
postmaster handed ous to me in arswe
!, 70 my first call carried them iigfsi
~iih qusking heart Could they all !
addressed 20 meg les, every one, an
in every one the writer expressed 3 b,
lief that site had found her ether self
NE They were yATaousiY written psi
A.. | can b-sar 10 think of them refore /
i, read that ins,allnient half through IN
]. postofiiee clerk came rushing TO my doc
with another.
There had been a second mail VI
box was bursting with them. More tina
. hundred made Mp this last bateh-a
; 10 the same tuRei Heavensl lifted u
u ms voice and ~eft But the end Wa
H. not yet They came pouring in day ali
II night In less than forty-eight hours
% had enough to stuff four mattresssa
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