The Shasta courier., 1866-10-27
SHASTA COURIER.
Cold Water as a Persuader.

Love rules the camp, the council, ant
the court" some poet sang. If this is no
the3 exact quotation our readers will pardon
us. What we want to get at is that love il
powerful-that it is lever which, with
proper fulcrum, will move the world
Leander for the sake of Hero swan tn,
Hellespont-a young man of Toledo, for th,
sake of one as beautiful as Hero, allowed he
father to founder in the turbid waves of tn,
Maumee an hour or so last Sunday. Th'
matter was somewhat like this:
A young Irishman as "toight lad a
ever crossed the say" was, and had beer
for some time, desperately enamored of th'
love was returned with interest. The moth
er of the young lady approved the match
but, alas twas there ever a love affair with
out an alas y the paternal parent was OBJ
durate. He couldn't see it. He had &C
cumulated some money, and prided himself
thereupon, while Phelim. as we will style
our hero, 1.-THE hero of story is always the
young man in love-, hadn't a dollar in his
name. it taking all of his earnings to keep
his mother and an invalid sister. The old
gentleman had higher ideas for his daugh'
ter, and last Saturday night the two lovers
were made miserable forever by the hard
hearted old wretch ordering Phelim out OF
the house and enforced his command with a
brick. Kitty, THAT is the name we shall
give the heroine, which is the title always
given to the young lady in love-, threw
herself between the angry men, and sue
ceeded in getting the enraged young one
away from the domicil before the matter
came to extremities.
Phelim was in no good humor that night.
He knew Kitty loved him, and he also
knew that she would marry him, father or
no father, but he was prudent young
man. If he should marry her, and the old
gentleman shouldn't do the handsome, how
would they get started and how would they
live? Love is all very well, but it don't
furnish house, neither can it exist without
beef and potatoes. For an article of which
80 much is written, it is terribly matter of
fact and, besides, Kitty was an only child,
and if he married her without the old gen.
tleman's consent. how about the property
when the old buffer Death knocks him out of
time?
All of these things, and a great many
more too tedious to mention, was Phelim
cogitating as he was walking pensively
along the river the afternoon ensuing. A
splash awoke him from his revere-he
sprang toward the place-he looked into
the water-and. good heavens to the sur
face came the bald head of Kitty's father
Here was vengeance for him. The old
gentleman could swim little, just enough
to keep above water few minutes-there
was nothing for him to hold to, and no
body lut Phelim in sight. Should he lei
him drown, and 90 up and marry the
girl? No he would save him. Irish gen,
erosity overbalanced his love, and. seizing
long but very slender pole lying near by
he reached one end to him. The old gen.
tleman took it-Phelim commenced haul.
ing in, when a thought struck him, and
he showed him back into the water, al
lowing him to still hold to the end of the pole.
DO you know me, you old blackguard ?''
Av coorse / do-pull me up ~
'' Are ye intirely comfortable there in the
water?'
''Pull me up, ye salpheen."
"Faix, an that won't Its the first time
1 iver saw ye in the water, and it PLACES
me-"
"Pull me upl"
Will ye consint ?"
Consint to what ~
Kitsy-ye know well enough what
mane!"
"Nlver!'
Its all wan to me-ye may dhrown in
tirely, and who'll sthop me thin? Think
twice. Will ye consint?"
The old gentleman was becoming exhaust
ed. He never liked water at best, and the
Maumee was too much for him.
Yis! l consint. Pull me up!" he
roared
"Will you give US setting out?" said
Phelim. who knew his advantage, and was
disposed to improve it.
Yis! Pull me out! !"
Phelim hesitated moment as to the pro-
priety of tying him in some way to the dock
in the water, and going up and marrying the
girl before saving him, but he finally thought
he could trust him, and he hauled him out
of the water
The event proved that the old man was
as good as his word. The young couple were
married, and yesterday they were moving a
very comfortable outfit for housekeeping into
a neat cottage which the father of Kitty
possesses and has heretofore rented.
His falling into the river was the result
of inordinate doses of whisky, which be
commenced taking Immediately after the
skrimmage of Saturday night, and continued
at regular intervals, with an occasional one
between the intervals, up to the very hour
of his plunge He was in an oblivious con.
dition, and would have drowned, but for the
timely presence of his present SON -in-law.
Whisky and water accomplished good