anaheim-gazette 1905-01-19

PRISONER TO A GIRL [Copyright, 1904, by T. C. McClure.] I was scouting along the front of Lee's army to pick up information for General Grant, and on this particular day I had approached what I thought was an abandoned farmhouse that I might get a drink of water from the well. The front door stood partly open, and that was one of my reasons for believing the place was deserted. As I reached the door I looked in and saw furniture and at once realized that some one must be living there. I was hesitating what to do when the door of an inner room opened and a girl about twelve years old stood before me. She was poorly clad, and hands and face were not overclean, but her eyes shone with intelligence, and her expression was pleasing. "What do you want?" she asked after we had surveyed each other for a minute. "Something to eat, and I will pay you for it," I replied. "If you will give me the gourd I will get a drink of water." "But father is away, and I am all alone, and you are a Yankee." "Well, what of that? I shan't hurt you." She looked me over from head to foot and no doubt wondered how I got there and what my errand was. I leaned against the door and smiled at her, but the pleasant look left her face, and she tightened her lips as if she had come to some decided conclusion about something. I thought she was going to turn me away, but after awhile she slowly said: "You will find a gourd at the well, and I will get you something to eat." I went out and satisfied my thirst and then re-entered the house and sat down at the rude table in the kitchen whereon the meal was served. She brought me some milk and some corn bread and cold meat. I tried my best as I ate to engage her in conversation, but she either answered in monosyllables or not at all. She knew all about the war, young as she was, and being southern born, it was not to be expected that she would give me a very cordial welcome. I could and did make allowance for this, and when I found that she was sullen and uncommunicative I ceased to answer her with questions. When my cup Jocelyn glanced at the tiny clock on her dresser. "Seven ten!" she said. "I'll have time to answer that letter after I get the dishes washed!" Her task was accomplished with brisk dexterity. To be sure, there were not many dishes to be washed—one cup, one saucer, one spoon, one plate, one knife, one fork. "Quite an old maid's outfit!" she said, with a little grimace as she rinsed out the diminutive teapot and set it on the shelf with the china. "Now to tell Ned, dear old Ned, that—that—oh, how would a girl in a story refuse to marry a man that was quite the best fellow she knew, only—only"— She read Edward Ford's letter through again, as though seeking some suggestion as to the most delicate and decisive manner in which she could decline his proposal. It was a charming letter—simple, manly and straightforward. He loved her—he had always loved her. She must know that. There never had been another girl for him. There never could or would be while life lasted, whether she made him happy or bade him wait or—or even should she answer no. He had wanted to speak when she came up to work in the city, but had not felt free to do so, having others dependent upon him. But now that his dear mother's sufferings were ended and that his sister had married and possessed a home of her own he was able to follow the dictates of his heart. The old place needed a mistress. It was very beautiful just then, he added. The syringa hedge was white with blossom. You couldn't see the road for the clematis and seven sisters rose across the porch. The girl, sitting at the window of the lodging house, looked out at the dirty Nottingham lace curtains of the lodging house across the street and then after over a wilderness of irrequu whom she had been waiting and ed loudly and with a suspicious gaze in her direction that she had no her pocketbook. "I had it a moment ago. I just it down here!" she explained the floorwalker who had hurried up. Young lady was waiting on me! "It may have been taken to the and found department. If you come with me, madam." She reluctantly accompanied And when a few minutes later passed the counter carrying her claimed property the look she Jocelyn..Duane was as vindictious though she still harbored doubts innocence. "Pleasant life, this!" the girl mured. Being independent was it was cracked up to be she wielding when a gentle voice "Gloves—5%!" "Yes, madam! What shade pre"— "Goodness," cried the new cuz "if it isn't Jocelyn Duane!" A plump little woman, holding little baby, sat beside her. The wholesome tan of the try was on her cheek, and the living shone in her soft brown "Why, Mary Andrews!" greeted her gladly. "It does seem to see any one from Maplew heard you were married soon left. And this is your child? darling!" "Isn't he!" said the mother p "John thinks there never was boy. He came up to the cone and of course we had to come You look awfully stylish, Jo and pretty. You're prettier than But—my, you're thin!" "How is every one at Maplew Jocelyn asked hastily, busying with the gloves." "Blooming—all that are left. Had some deaths, you know Mrs. Ford is gone. They do Ellie Moore would willingly tress of Ned's fine old house now." "Ellie Moore!" repeated She flushed hotly. There was ache in her throat. What rie Ellie Moore—or any other girl—"She's a rich girl—and not being! Tan, please! How queer to be buying gloves from you those will do. I must hurry young man is getting impatient suppose you'll never condense come to Maplew again, Jocelyn..." I went out and satisfied my thirst and then re-entered the house and sat down at the rude table in the kitchen whereon the meal was served. She brought me some milk and some corn bread and cold meat. I tried my best as I ate to engage her in conversation, but she either answered in monosyllables or not at all. She knew all about the war, young as she was, and being southern born, it was not to be expected that she would give me a very cordial welcome. I could and did make allowance for this, and when I found that she was sullen and uncommunicative I ceased to annoy her with questions. When my cup was empty she took it down cellar to refill it. I heard her moving about down there and heard her ascend the stairs, and, though she did not immediately reappear, I did not raise my eyes. A minute later, however, she spoke, and my eyes lifted fast enough. She was standing in the door between the kitchen and the front room, and she had a shotgun leveled at my breast from a distance of only ten feet. "Yankee, you are my prisoner!" "What do you mean?" I asked as I rested an elbow on the table and stared at her in surprise. "Just what I said, sir. You are my prisoner, and if you don't do just as I say I will shoot you. Stand up!" "Don't be foolish, child," I said as I stood up and smiled at her. "That gun isn't loaded, and even if it was you would not dare to fire it off. Put it away and hand me the milk. I am going to give you the silver half dollar when I am through eating." "The gun is loaded, and I'll shoot!" she exclaimed, though her voice betrayed that she was somewhat frightened. "Do as I tell you or I will fire. Go into the pantry." My revolver was in its holster under my coat, and I knew that the girl would fire if I made a move to get it. It was absurd to let a child like her make me prisoner, and yet I was forced to realize that she was as dangerous as a man—perhaps more so. The result was that I backed up to the open door of the pantry, and as she advanced upon me I stepped into the little room, and she closed the door and fastened it with a button. My idea was to escape by the window before she could get out and around the house, but I found the opening a small one and barred from the outside. I could not have escaped that way had I been alone in the house. Drawing my revolver, I fired through the door and made threats, but the girl's voice was firm and determined as she answered me: "If you fire again I will shoot through the door, and there is a big load of buckshot in the gun." I coaxed and attempted to bribe, but she refused to hold any conversation with me. I hoped that she would leave the house to get help, in which case a couple of kicks would have sent the old door flying, but she sat down in the kitchen to act as guard until some one should come along. It was almost noon before any one arrived, and then it was a squad of Confederate cavalry beating up the country in search of Federal scouts and spies. They were passing the house when the girl called them in, and as the sergeant opened my prison not felt free to do so, having others dependent upon him. But now that his dear mother's sufferings were ended and that his sister had married and possessed a home of her own he was able to follow the dictates of his heart. The old place needed a mistress. It was very beautiful just then, he added. The syringa hedge was white with blossom. You couldn't see the road for the clematis and seven sisters rose across the porch. The girl sitting at the window of the lodging house, looked out at the dirty Nottingham lace curtains of the lodging house across the street and then afar over a wilderness of irregular brick walls and smoking chimneys with eyes grown suddenly wistful. How she hated it all! Even if she could keep this fresh and dainty—this tiny room she called her own! Maplewild! The big, comfortable country house, set back in rich orchard lands! She used to laugh at the quaint, low cedled rooms, with their air of rigid order, of sedateness. Now she fancied them as a sweet, cool refuge. If there were only some fresh swisses and silkoline draperies around, and magazines and a lot of light, cretonne pillows, what an ideal home it would be! She would do the dining room in yellow, as it was on the north side of the house, and— The clanging gong of a fire engine passing in the street below startled her from her dream. She straightened up with a little jerk and glanced around the shabby little room, with the crude paper, the aggressive carpet, the cheap pine furniture, and her trunk in the corner. It was here she was going to remain—here. She had no intention of marrying Ned Ford. So she hastily dipped her pen in the ink bottle on the window sill, steadied her portfolio on her knee and began to write: Dear Ned—I have your letter, and I'm sorry, sorry so sorry you wrote it! Not that I don't want you to be fond of me. Do it. It seems sometimes as if I'm millions of miles away from every one who ever cared a pin for me. But it isn't any use your loving me—that way. Don't think there's any one else. There isn't. Two men have asked me the same question since I've been carrying my living in town. But I couldn't care for either the tiniest bit. And I do care for you—only, not in the way I ought to if— She shot a look at the little clock—jumped to her feet. "Seven ten, still!" She grabbed her hat, hastily put it on, adjusted her vell with a glance at the pretty, pale face that looked back at her from the glass with quite a frightened expression, and caught up her gloves. "Mercy! I must have forgotten to wind the clock. I was so tired last night. I'll be late as sure as fate!" The cars were crowded, and she had to stand all the way (to the store). She was late and was not only docked, but received a reprimand from the head of the department. There was a convention of some sort in town, and the great establishment was thronged with sightseers and shoppers. The heat of the day increased, and what with the close, sultry warmth, the worry over the episode of the morning and the incasent demands upon her attention—a splitting headache began to torture the girl. She found hard to retain her not felt free to do so, having others dependent upon him. But now that his dear mother's sufferings were ended and that his sister had married and possessed a home of her own he was able to follow the dictates of his heart. The old place needed a mistress. It was very beautiful just then, he added. The syringa hedge was white with blossom. You couldn't see the road for the clematis and seven sisters rose across the porch. The girl sitting at the window of the lodging house, looked out at the dirty Nottingham lace curtains of the lodging house across the street and then afar over a wilderness of irregular brick walls and smoking chimneys with eyes grown suddenly wistful. How she hated it all! Even if she could keep this fresh and dainty—this tiny room she called her own! Maplewild! The big, comfortable country house, set back in rich orchard lands! She used to laugh at the quaint, low cedled rooms, with their air of rigid order, of sedateness. Now she fancied them as a sweet, cool refuge. If there were only some fresh swisses and silkoline draperies around, and magazines and a lot of light, cretonne pillows, what an ideal home it would be! She would do the dining room in yellow, as it was on the north side of the house, and— The clanging gong of a fire engine passing in the street below startled her from her dream. She straightened up with a little jerk and glanced around the shabby little room, with the crude paper, the aggressive carpet, the cheap pine furniture, and her trunk in the corner. It was here she was going to remain—here. She had no intention of marrying Ned Ford. So she hastily dipped her pen in the ink bottle on the window sill, steadied her portfolio on her knee and began to write: Dear Ned—I have your letter, and I'm sorry, sorry so sorry you wrote it! Not that I don't want you to be fond of me. Do it. It seems sometimes as if I'm millions of miles away from every one who ever cared a pin for me. But it isn't any use your loving me—that way. Don't think there's any one else. There isn't. Two men have asked me the same question since I've been carrying my living in town. But I couldn't care for either the tiniest bit. And I do care for you—only, not in the way I ought to if— She shot a look at the little clock—jumped to her feet. "Seven ten, still!" She grabbed her hat, hastily put it on, adjusted her vell with a glance at the pretty, pale face that looked back at her from the glass with quite a frightened expression, and caught up her gloves. "Mercy! I must have forgotten to wind the clock. I was so tired last night. I'll be late as sure as fate!" The cars were crowded, and she had to stand all the way (to the store). She was late and was not only docked, but received a reprimand from the head of the department. There was a convention of some sort in town, and the great establishment was thronged with sightseers and shoppers. The heat of the day increased, and what with the close, sultry warmth, the worry over the episode of the morning and the incascent demands upon her attention—a splitting headache began to torture the girl. She found hard to retain her not felt free to do so, having others dependent upon him. But now that his dear mother's sufferings were ended and that his sister had married and possessed a home of her own he was able to follow the dictates of his heart. The old place needed a mistress. It was very beautiful just then, he added. The syringa hedge was white with blossom. You couldn't see the road for the clematis and seven sisters rose across the porch. The girl sitting at the window of the lodging house looked out at the dirty Nottingham lace curtains of the lodging house across the street and then afar over a wilderness of irregular brick walls和 smoking chimneys with eyes grown suddenly wistful. How she hated it all! 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The heat of the day increased, and what with the close, sultry warmth, the worry over the episode of the morning and the incessant demands upon her attention a splitting headache began to torture the girl. She found it hard to retain her usual calm courtesy of manner when a fashionably dressed woman upon wind the clock. I was so tired last night. I'll be late as sure as fate! The cars were crowded, and she had to stand all the way to the store. She was late and was not only docked, but received a reprimand from the head of the department. There was a convention of some sort in town, and the great establishment was thronged with sight-seers and shoppers. The heat of the day increased, and what with the close, sultry warmth, the worry over the episode of the morning and the incessant demands upon her attention a splitting headache began to torture the girl. She found it hard to retain her usual calm courtesy of manner when a fashionably dressed woman upon wind the clock. 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She found it hard to retain her usual calm courtesy of manner when a fashionably dressed woman upon wind the clock. I was so tired last night. I'll be late as sure as fate! The cars were crowded, and she had to stand all the way to the store. She was late and was not only docked, but received a reprimand from the head of the department. There was a convention of some sort in town, and the great establishment was thronged with sight-seers and shoppers. The heat of the day increased, and what with the close, sultry warmth, the worry over the episode of the morning and the incessant demands upon her attention a splitting headache began to torturethe girl.She found it hard to retain her usual calm courtesy of manner when a fashionably dressed woman upon windthe clock.I was so tired last night.I'll be late as sure as fate! 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Smith, public administrator of said county, respect commencing July 1, 1904, to Jan. 1, 1905, in pursuance of the provisions. Date of Issuance of letters Names of Desedents Approximate value of estate as far as ascertained. Money which has come into administrator's hands. 1903 March 18 Wm Harmon..... under $2 297 79 1 051 79 October 9 Arvilla M. Berry...., under 100 00 5 00 1904 March 18 Ferdinand L. Arndt.... under 2 310 00 861 73 April 1... Dutson B. Barker..... under 209 13 209 13 May 27... H. A. Newman..... under 7 340 10 198 65 Feb'ry 29 Jas H. Ward..... under 30 65 30 65 July 22... Sarah Ann Renz..... under 804 92 Oct. 7... Jno. Schaumann..... under 10 00 Geo. S. Smith, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of all estates of deceden before named; that he is not, and was not at any time, interested in any estate, nor is he associated in business, or otherwise, with any Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of January 19 City Market! F. W. FLEISCHMANN, Proprietor, CHAS. GELDERMANN, Manager. Fresh and Salted Meats, Special attention given to all orders, which will be filled promptly. Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars at Roman Wisser's Favorite Saloon ANAHEIM BEER ON DRAGHT Center St. Ansheim Choice of Many Routes EAST and WEST "Sunset" Via New Orleans and El Paso "Ogden" via San Francisco "Shasta" via Portland Pullman Vestibuled Trains Daily. 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Pianos Pianos Pianos Any piano in our stock of over 200 instruments and from the world's most famous makers may be bought from us now on the following payments $600 1st Payment $600 per Month NO Interest The SOUTHERN PACIFIC gives you choice of many routes from the northern boundry of the United States to the Atlantic Coast, so that you may go one way and return another, with varied scenery and climatic conditions. Full information from any agent. Southern Pacific DR. ALFRED LOERCH Optician EYE STRAIN Glasses as prescribed by me are conceded the foremost remedy for the cure of head ache, nervousness, facial neuralgia, due to muscular or nervous eye strain. For any eye trouble or for new glasses consult me. I am a specialist. AT HUTCHINSON'S DRUG STORE JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer DEALER IN Furniture and Bedding Repairing Done. MONEY can be borrowed on more favorable terms from the SAVINGS, LOAN AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION OF ANAHEIM than from any similar institution in the State A Home Institution... conducted by home men If you want to borrow money at a low rate to pay off your present mortgage, or to build a home or to improve your present one, address or call on Fred A. Backs, Jr. Secretary Anaheim Without Change of Cars from California to Chicago Kansas City St. Paul Minneapolis Denver and other eastern points. Only one change to Boston via several routes from Chicago All this is possible to any one taking a Tourist Sleeper over the Santa Fe Any piano in our stock of over 200 instruments and from the world's most famous makers may be bought from us now on the following payments $600 1st Payment $600 per Month NO Interest Think of it Krell, Decker, Regent, Sohmer, Chickering Bros., Steger & Son, Fitzjerald, Sherwood, Standard and a score of other makes. We also offer on the same terms a lot of used pianos which we have taken in exchange on new Regents, Deckers, Chickering Bros., and Krells. Prices from $95 to $200. We pay the freight to Anaheim FITZGERALD Music and Piano Co. 113 South Spring St. LOS ANGELES Brownsberger Home School INCORPORATED CAPITAL STOCK $75,000 953 West Seventh St. LOS ANGELES, CAL. The largest and most popular business college in Los Angeles. All commercial branches taught. Close technical training. Beautiful home surroundings. The first business college to move from the crowded down-town district, and own its own property. Over 100 roll-top office desks in the bookkeeping hall. Over 100 typewriters in the Shorthand department. The school throbs with intense business energy. Every graduate placed in a position. F. BROWNSBERGER, Pres. F. A. BARR, Vice-Pres Los Angeles Beer on Tap Telephone Main 55 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT Judge of the probate department of the superior court of the county of Orange: Judge of said county, respectfully makes this return of all estates of decedents which have come into his hands for the term 1905, in pursuance of the provisions of section 1736 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Date of ear as fed. Money which has come into administrator's hands. Funeral expenses expenses of last illness, debts and family allowanced paid by administrator. Fees and expenses paid by administrator. Lodged in county treasury by administrator. Money deposited in savings banks by the decedents not withdrawn by administrator. Balance cash in the Hands of the administrator. Property exclusive of money in the hands of administrator. Distributed to next of kin & turned over to gen. adm'tra and executors 297 79 1 081 79 5 00 801 73 209 13 198 65 30 65 804 92 10 00 $3 201 87 $719 30 $1 295 41 295 01 5 00 851 25 44 00 18 65 5 00 66 50 10 00 278 13 1 500 00 10 48 1 510 00 7 340 00 25 65 555 77 $870 03 $10 350 00 $324 13 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Orange. Deposes and says: That he is the Public Administrator of said County; that the copy of all estates of decedents which have come into his hands or the estates here was not at any time, interested in the expenditures of any kind made on account of business, or otherwise, with any one who is so interested. C. D. LESTER, County Clerk. [Seal]