The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-01
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There was "a fine old gentleman in
this city. who from the hum blest begin:
nings made his way steadily up to COM
mercial fame and immense wealth, all
by the manufacture of soap. said New
Yorker the other day, land with all his I
wealth and prosperity he never forgot
how a poor man feels or lost any of his
consideration for the rights of others
Pride never puffed him up nor made ]
him ashamed of his business or his early
history
He was proud of the purity and ex-
cellence Of his soap. and the secret of his
success over his rivals lay in the fact
that he invented several processes for
cheapening the manufacture of that arti-
Gle. and his great factory in this city
was full of machinery of his own inven-
ton and manufacture. He made one
ample fortune solely out of patenting
the ideas Of his fertile brain. and several
others by selling. Sshe manufactures he
was thus able to.E1Fn ont.
His wife was as intensely purse proud
as he was simple. though her origin was
as simple as his own, and her daughter
took after her. This child married well,
as they say: that is, young swell about
town proposed to her on account of the
great wealth he knew she would inherit.
When the engagement was settled the
daughter and mother asked the old man
what ne was going to do in the way of
setting the young people up in life.
Here they ran up against an unex-
pected snag The old boy would give
nothing in the way of dowry. Be
thought the bridegroom should support;
|; his wife unaided till her fathers will
gave her share of his estate. The ut
was to give his daughter a wedding
present. What this would be he stead
fastly refused to say just then. On the
wedding day, however, his gift to the
bride was the deed for handsome house
in u fashionable street, completely fur
nished IN costly style from top to bottom.
"The bridal tour had all been arranged
SO no stop was made by the happy pair
to examine the new house. All through
the honeymoon they talked of the pleas
ure they would have in going over the
house, examining the pictures and plate
and entertaining their friends in it.
Great was the delight with which they
entered their new home on their return
The carpets were velvet, the hangings of
silk and lace, the furniture hand carved,
the pictures old masters, the linen of the
| finest, and silverplate was everywhere
even in the kitchen.
1.-The. bridegroom was delighted, but
the brides cheeks were crimson, and her
eyes flashed fire that tears could not
quench. Everywhere she looked she was
familiar objects that filed her with rage
Snatching heavy silver salver from the
table, she showed to her husband, en-
graved on 1t lninutely but with elaborate
detail, the representation Of bar of
soap with her fathers well known trade
mark on it.
This queer crest was everywhere
about the house, worked into carved
furniture. woven in the linen and hang
ings, and even painted on the carriage
and stamped on the harness which were
presented with the house. It was the
old mans greatest pride, that trademark
and what it stood for, but whether he
had it put on his daughters things out
of sheer simplicity of heart or whether
he intended it as rebuke to her foolish
pride l never found ont. New York
/ Tribune.