South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-06-20
SATURDAY.. JUNE 30, 1885.

me the sooner for attempting to dodge
him. AT all events, he followed me
to the Hotel, and with very angry
countenance began.
sBe's you not the toctor wat gin me
lofe bowder, dwelve mont ago1'
81! what, I a doctor give you love
powders 7 said I, appearing to be vast
| " surprised at this question--'you
must certainly be mistaken in the man.
Il believe you pc de man, persisted
the Duschman; you look so much like
him as one egg does to anoder.
mo, my good frend,' says |, syou
must be mistaken in the man. But
what is this story of yours about the
love powdersf' continued /, wishing
to Learn the effect they had produced,
as well perhaps as mischievously to af-
ford sport to the company 10 the bar
room.
'What is de shtory7 wy mishter
Toctor, de lofe powders didn't do at
all. Dey was all one tam cheat. Dey
was nothing more as one vile ,a,tero-
mat;ocks what makes people buke DER
insites out. When goes home, |
shuts myself up in q room mid Katta,
rina and we takes one bowder and
tcder bowder, yust so as you told me.
Den we waits for de operation. Ply
and by we grows sick in de shtomach.
Thinks I, wat for iyvel Of an Liberation
is dis ? dat makes me veel so all about
the short rips, de heart, and do shto.
mack? Put | says noting at all, hop.
in 'twould all durn out for de pest. Ply
and by we begins, pote on US, to heave
yust like de sea in tunder shtorm.-
Oh how sick | be says Kattarina. -
Den she grows bale as corpse, and |
fought she would vaint SO puts my
arm round her waist to hold her up
when we pote at once begins to cry,
New Yorg (? New Yorg and, by kra.
cious you never seen any pody gasl
up ACCOUNTS as we did. Dere was put
one window in de room, and we
couldn't git out de door because l logs
it and trows away de key when l Wrist
comes in and so we pote shticks ourn
heads out of de winter, and Dukes, and
bukes-you never seen de like in all
de days you was born. And what do
You tink was de consequence, toctor =
sWhat, why I suppose the girl fell
in love with you of course,' said l.
sNo she hates me den tousand times
worser dan ever. She won't so much
as shpeak to me now. And all de
young ve)lers and de garls dey laughs
at me, and bonts de finger at me as |
walks de slhree,s and says, Dere goes
de WOOL vat poughs the lofe powders
in N. York And now pc de laugh.
in shtog of de whole blaze. And all
dis comes of the tam cheat lofe powder
you gin me-for can shwear you be's
tie fiery toctor wat played dat drick on
me. And if ever l catches you in our
neighbourhood,' concluded he, doub.
ling his fist in threatening manner,
u, Il kive you one of the d--st lickins
you ever had in all de days of your
Iife."
Saying this he left the hotel in a rage
and this was the last / ever saw OF
him or heard of the love powders
Nes0 York Transcript.
ANEcDoTE-A stage driver the other
day, between Bangor and this place, was
hailed by woman, and requested to take
a BEDsrEAD and its accompanying bed &
clothing on board, together with her
dear self. This was poser for Johns
gallantry, flor stage drivers are always
ready to oblige the ladies' but making
her very civil bow, he said, II should
like to oblige we ma'am, very much, but
I've engaged to take DOUBLE SAW MILL
aboard, q mile or two ahead, and as you
might find an uncomfortable companion,
should advise you to wait week or so,
| till the mill moving business is over. p
Lincoln Patriot.
How little would be our Ambition OF
ornament, were it not for the pride Of
each sex to endeavor to be attractive in
the eyes of the other.
The CuLTIvAToR.-A correspondent
of the National lntelligencer, writing
from the Wabash county in Illinois, thus
describes COMPLAINING AND cULTI-
! WAITING MACHINE, lately invented and in-