The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-09-07
COLD WATER AS A PERSUADER.
An Amusing Irish Love Story.
From tie Toledo (O.) Blade. I

From tie Toledo (o) Blade
Love rules the camp, the council, and
the court some poet sang. If This is
not the exac. quotation our readers
will pardon us. What we want TO get at
is that love is powerful--that it is lever
which, with proper fucrum, vii. move
the world. Leander for the sake of Hero |
swan the Tablespoonful young man Of |
Toledo, for the sake Of one as beautiful as
Hero, allowed her father to founder in
the turbid waves of the Maumee an hour
or more last Sunday. The matter was
| somewhat like this:
A young lrishman as "toight lad as
ever crossed the say" was and had been
fol- some time desperately enamo ured Of the
| charms OF young maid of that race,
which love was returned with interest. |
The mother Of the young lady approved
the match, but alas! twas there ever a
love affair without an alas y the paternal
| parent was obdurate. He couldn't see j..
He bad accumulated some morev, and
prided himself thereupon, while Phelim,
as we will style our hero, (the hero Of
story is always the young mar IN love, }
hadn't a dollar to bis name, it taking all
of bis earnings to keep his mother and an
invalid sister. The old gentleman had
higher ideas for bis daughter, and las.
| Saturday Light the two lovers were made
miserable forever by the hard hearted cd
wretch ordering Phelim out Of the house
and enforcing his command with brick.
! kitty, Chat is the name we shall give the
heroine, which is the title always given to
the young lady in love- threw herself be-
tween the angry men, and succeeded in
getting the enraged young one away from
the domicil before the matter came TO ex-
tremities.
Phelim was in no good humor that night
He knew Kitty loved him, and he also knew
she would marry him, father or no father,
but be was prudent young man. Ii he
should marry her and the old man
shouldn't do the handsome, how would
they get started and how would they liye2
Love is all very well, but i. don't furnish
a house, neither can it exist without meat
and potatoes. Fer an article of which so
much is written, it is terribly matter Of
fact; and, beside, Kitty was all only
child, and if be married her without the
old gentleman's &C nsent how about the
property when the old buffer Death knocks
him out Of time?
All of these things, and a great many
more too tedus to mention, was Phelim
cogitating AS he was walking pensively
along the river the afternoon ensuing. A
splash awoke him from bis reyelie-he
sprane toward the rlace-he looked into
the water-aEd, good heavens 10 the sur
face came the bald head of his k'tty's
Iathcr Here was vengeance for him
The old man could swim little, Just
enough to keep above water few minutes
there was nothing for him to hold to,
and nobody but Pheh,n in sight. Should
he let him drown, and go up aud mary
the girl: No, lie would save him. Irish
generosity oyerbalahced bis love, AID.
selling long bat very slender pole lying
mean by, he reached one end to him. The
old gentleman took it Pheim commence
Ell hauling in, when a thought struck
! him, and lie showed him back into the wa
ter, allowing aim to still! hold to the end
Of the pole.
do We know me, We ould BLACKBOARD ?"
CAV coorse do-pul me up.'
Are ye entirely comfortable lLere in
the wather?'
"Pull me up, ye spalpeen -
" ak, an that won't. It's the furst
! time nver saw We in the Watller, and it
! PLACES me-"
L" Pull me up
" VIII ye concInt? ?"
| 'Concint to what r.
" kitty-ye know well enough what |
name !"
| "Niver"
" It's all one to me-ye may dhrown In
tireIy, and who'll shop me thin ? Think
twice. Will ye concnt 2
The old gentleman was becoming ex
! hausted lie never liked water at best,
and tie Maumee was 100 much for hirn
"Yis ! | concint. Pull ne up!' he
roared.
"Will you give US a setting out e. said
PEelim, who knew bis advantage, and
was disposed to improve it,
"Yis Pull me out"
! Hheim hesitated a moment as 10 the
propriety 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 yester-
day they were moving into very com OFT.
able cottage which the father Of Kitty pos
sesses and has heretofore rented.
His failing INFO the river was the result
Of inordinate doses Of whiskey, which he
commenced taking Immediately after the
skrimmage of Saturday night, and coptin
ued at regular intervals, up TO the very
hour of his plunge. lie was in an obliv-
ious condition, and would have drowned
but for ths timely presence Of his present
| law.
LOWELL FAcToRIEs.-According to the
Boston Journal, the Lowell corporations
whose united capitals amount to sl3 900,