The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-10

"But indeed yon must, my love; We must
live mp to our altered position, n submit
With what grace We may to it's require
well, NIL right, have it your own way;
mands yet, Mul~-. nv lord, and ~ Into to
begin now. though to my mind IT'S the rot
tenest foolishnes8 that ever was.'
Spoken like my " true wife! There,
kiss and be friends again"
Characterization! ! don't know how !
am eyer going TO stand that name. Why. n
too large for her; kind Of like Il cherub in
IN ulster, and It's q most o%utIandish sort of
q name. anyway, to my mind"
you'll not hear her find fault with ", my
LADY,
That's a true word. She takes TO any
kind Of romantic rubbish like sho was born
to it. She never got II from me. that's sure.
And sending her to that silly college hasn't
helped tho matter any-just tho other way
Now hear her, Hawkins! Rowena, Ivan
hoe college ia tbs selectest and most nristo-
cratic seat of learning for young ladies in
eur country. Under no circumstances can
q girl go in there unless she ia either very
rich and fashionable or can prove four gen
eratlonst Of b may be called American
nobility. Castellated college buildings
towers n turrets and an imitation moat-
and everything about the place named out
OF Sir Walter Scott's books, and redolent of
royalty and state and style; and all the
richest girls keep phaotons. ana coachmen
in livery. and riding horses, with English
grooms in plug hats md tight-buttoned
coats, and top boots, n q whip handle
without any whip to it, to ride sixty-three
feet behind them"
And they don't learn a blessed thing,
l w n1hynrkn vi puykird mot n dtrC1o k1AouA1
thing but snowy rubbish and un-American
pretentiousness. But send for tho Lady
Gwendolen-do; for l reckon the psernQe
regulations require that she must coma
home and let IN to go in seclusion and
mourn for those Arkansas blatherskitee
she's LOST
MY darling! Blatherskites? Remember
-nobiesse oblige."
"There. there-talk to me in your own
tongue. Ross-you don't know any other.
and you only botch it when you try. Oh,
don't stare-it was Il slip, but no crime
customs of a lifetime can't be dropped in
second. Rossmore-there now, be appeased
and go along with you and attend to Gwen.
dalsn. Are you going to write, WASHING
ton?-or telegraph"
He will telegraph, dear" s
II thought as much" my lady muttered
as she left the room. wants it SO the ad-
dress will have to appear on the envelope;
l ~ i luhU A1dhC u AOOk u ! II ~
get it, Of course, for if there are any Other
Sellerses there they'll not be able to claim
it. And Just leave her alone to show il
around and nuke the most of 1t. Well
may be she's forgiven for that. She's sc
poor and they're so rich, of course she's had
her share of snubs from the li~very-funkey
sort, and | reckon it's only human to wan
to get event.
Uncle Dan'l was sent with the telegram
for although Il conspicuous object in a col
ner of the drawing room, was q telephone
hanging IN a transmitter. Washington
found all attempts to raise the centra
Office vain. The colonel grumbled some
when you've particular and especial use TO
it," but he didn't explain that one OF tn
reasons for this was that the thin
was only q dummy and hadn't any wires
attached to it, and yet the colonel Otter
used it when visitors were present-ant
seemed to get messages throughit: Mourn
ing paper and a seal were ordered, then tn
friends took a rest.
Next afternoon, while Hawkins, by re
quest, draped Andrew Jackson's portrai
with Grape, the rightful earl wrote of thu
family bereavement to the usurper IL Eng
land-a letter which we have already read
He also, by letter to the village authorize
the remains Of the late twins be embalmet
by some st. Louis expert and shipped al
once to the usurper, with bill. Then Ii,
drafted out the Rossmore arms n motto
on a great sheet of brown paper, and b.
and Hawkins took it to Hawkins Yankee
hour came back with a couple of stun
ming Indictments, which they malice
ATTRACTIONS calculated to. draw
and they did; for it was mainly an idls ant
shiftless negro neighborhood, with plent,
of ragged children and INDECENT dogs tt
spare for a point of interest like that. All
keep on sparln9 them Tor 1t days and day
together,
The new earl found, without surprise
this society item in the evening paper, ant
cut it out and scrap-booked it:
by q recent bereavement our esteemed
fellow-citizen, Col. Mulberry Sellers, per
body, succeeds, as rightful lord, to the grea
earldom of Rossmoro, third by order o
precedence in tho earldoms of Great Brit
ain, and will take early measures, by sui
in the house Of lords, to wrest the title an,
estates from the present nsurpinR holder O
them. Until the season of mourning j
past the usual Thursday evening receptions
ut Rossmore Towers will be discontinued.
Lady Rossmore's comment-to herself:
Perceptions. People who dom right,
know him ma think he is commonplace,
but to my min lie is one Of the most un-
usual men [ ever saw. AS for Huudenness
and capacity in imagining things, his beat
don't exist. | reckon. AS like as not j
wouldn't have occurred to anybody else tc
name his poor old rat-trap Rossmor,
Towers, but it Just comes natural to him
Well, no doubt it's u blessed thing to have
an imagination that can always make yot
feel satisfied, no matter how you are fixed
Uncle Dave Hopkins used to always say
"Turn mo into ,John Calvin, and ] want t,
know which place Pm going to; turn me
into Mulberry Sellers, and | don't care!"
The rightful earls comment'-to himself
It's a beautiful name, beautiful. Pity
didn't think of it before l wrote tn,
usurper. But Ill be ready for him when h,
answers.
[ro he Continued
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