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Almost all of them are now well-known geologists and mining engineers. So also are many of his younger ones. The family went on long tramps and camps together. The region about Stanford is singularly interesting from a geologist's point of view; and in those days it was a terra more or less incognita. Everybody was discovering things. It was real live geology.
Hearing that Susan and Mrs. Stanton were in the West en route to California, Leland Stanford, Governor of California and president of the recently completed Central Pacific Railway, sent them passes for their journey. They reached San Francisco with high hopes that they could win the support of western men for their demand for woman suffrage under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Silently she obeyed, and as she handed the little pasteboard across the table which separated them she looked past him to the bookshelf behind his head, and particularly to a new volume which bore the name of Stanford Beale. "Thanks," said van Heerden, pocketing the ticket, "it is of no use to me now, for I cannot wait.
STANFORD, LELAND. Born at Watervliet, New York, March 9, 1824; Republican governor of California, 1861-63; United States Senator, 1885-93; died at Palo Alto, California, June 20, 1893.
She did so, mentioning also her brown Bible and the way in which God was using its words amongst the wood-cutters in the Forest. "How beautifully your young friend played!" said Lady Stanford; "her musical talent is wonderful, but the girl herself is the greatest wonder of all. She cannot be the child of common people, she is so like a lady and so graceful.
Platt's relation to it; my reluctance and opposition; decision of the Rochester Convention in favor of Mr. Fassett; natural reasons for this. Lectures at Stanford University. Visit to Mexico and California with Mr. Andrew Carnegie and his party. President Harrison tenders me the position of minister to Russia; my retention in office by Mr. Cleveland. My stay in Italy 1894-1895.
"They are lovely, aren't they?" she said. "Mr. Stanford sent them to me this morning." He looked at her until her eyes fell. Then he laid the rose on the table near the hand which had given it to him, and without further speech went out. FAREWELL AT ONCE, FOR ONCE, FOR ALL, AND EVER Richard II., ii. 2. Although Ashe had said that he should not go again to the poverty- stricken dwelling of Mrs.
"I had reached the lower end of the avenue," continued Reginald Stanford, "and was turning, when I saw two persons a man and a woman enter. 'Who can they be, and what can they be about here at this hour? I thought, and I stood still to watch. They came nearer. I saw in the starlight her woman's face. I heard in the stillness her words.
As Helen lowered the glasses Stanford, who had come to stand beside the automobile, reached out his hand. "Let me have a look, Helen. They say my old friend, Judge Morris, is the official starter." He put the field glasses to his eyes. "There he is all right, as big as life; finest man that ever lived. Look, Helen."
Every one was surprised, at luncheon, when Rose's departure was announced. None more so than Mr. Stanford. "It is just like Rose!" exclaimed Eeny; "she is everything by starts, and nothing long. Flying off to Quebec for a week, just as she is going to be married, with half her dresses unmade. It's absurd." The afternoon train for Montreal passed through St. Croix at three o'clock.
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