The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-17

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Aha father of his fiancee, Miss Mary
I,odnor of Louisiana was bishop in
+be Pelican state, and more than that,
he knew that the first American Radnor
was an emigrant from Wales to South
carolina. and every subsequent migra-
4ior and notable event in the history
If the family was also known to him,
Cor Miss Mary loved to talk of her fam
ilv and Slower delighted to hear her dc
en- though that was largely because he
liked TO hear her prattle on any SUBJ
iect that pleased her, and the heaven
reaching pedigree of the Mikado would
have been of interest to him, If Miss
Mary had been DESTROYS of reciting its
ramifcations. But of the pedigree of
the Stovers, Miss Mary knew but two
facts tantalizing to her in her inabil-
itv to learn more. The father of
Charles some time deceased, had ac-
cumulated a considerable fortune by
operations in Chicago pork, and was a
native of Maine. The first Maine Sto-
yer sufficiently notable to emerge from
the obscurity which concealed his pre-
decessors, was Samuel Slower of Harps-
well. a follower of the sea and amasser
Of wealth, who flourished prior to 1900
A.. D. 1t was at some period near this
date that he retired from the sea to
live on the fortune he had gained, some
considerable portions of which, and
portions which were considerable, yet
pertained to his descendants.
Mary's desire to know the Slower
genealogy was by no means entirely
prompted by curiosity. Sprung from
a section of the country where a good
pedigree is a more desirable inherit
ance than wealth, when she first be-
gan to feel that her acquaintance with
MIR. Charles was likely to ripen into
something else, she commenced to make
Investigations to learn whether the al
lance was one of which her family
would approve OF the immediate an
cestor of Charles, she knew enough to
satisfy her. 1t was the founder of the
family she wished to learn, that first
Slower, who in her imagination stood
glimmering through a cloud of haze
dim and yet discernible, like those rep
resentations of the dawn of history in
the school books where the maps OF
Chaldea and Assyria appear with the
locations of Babylon and NineVeh clear
distinct and LUMINOSITY pink, while the
rest of the land shades down through
light brown and amber to complete
darkness.
In three consecutive visits to Chicago
upon the very first of which she had
met Charles Slower and become inter-
terested in him-not to use word sig
nifying a stronger emotion-Mfss Mary
had made tactful, frequent and fruit
less inquiries concerning the first Sto-
yer among all her acquaintance. Now
that upon her third visit she had be-
come engaged to Charles, she felt that
what had been perhaps considered idle
curiosity before, would now be consid-
cred a natural and even laudable de-
sire to know all about her future hus-
bands family, and that Charles him.
self could be called upon to furnish the
desired knowledge. But, much to her
disappointment, she Jared no better
with Charles than she had with the
others. Either he could or would not
tell her more than she already knew.
81 Just think it's awful the way you
all up here in the North don't care
who your ancestors WERE" said Miss
Mary.
Here in Chicago we are so busy
looking out to see that our descendants
are well provided for that we don't
have time to inquire into the glortes OF
shortcomings of our ancestors, SAID
Charles. ION the whole, l think our
way of doing is the better way"
But those old New England people
those Yankees, they ought to have kept
up those things"
well, guess they did. Father could
tell you all about our family, almost
as well as you can about yours"
Then he must have known what
your ancestor was. 1 know what mine
was. He was a prebendary of st
Asaph's Cathedral, who came over to
this country to see if any of the In
dams talked Welsh and were descend
ants of the people who came over here
with Prince Modoc in ITO. Tell me,
what did old Samuel Slower do?"
why, told you. He was a sea cap
tain"
Il know; but where did he sail to
and what did he carry? Did he spear
whales, or go to the spice islands and
China, or to
The Blight of Benin. the Blight OF
Benin,
Where there's one that comes out for
ten that went in?"
de went to the Blight or Benin.
happen to know that he did go there.
oh you do know something about
him. What did he carry?"
why, what the rest carried then
All kinds of things. Assorted sizes in
his cargo. Long, short. etc. Come, tell
me about the Welsh Indians and what
the prebendary found out"
Miss Mary had never been off the
lower floor of the Slower house until
the evening of the first reception that
Mr.. Charles Slower had ever given
During the course of the evening, miss
Ing her betrothed for some time, she
was told by his sister that he was up
stairs in his private den with Prof.
Adam Kendall. an ancient savant of a
vast and heterogeneous knowledge who
was almost an authority on a multi
plicity of subjects, and so won the APP
plause of the commonaIty, but encoun-