The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-06-09
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|, and the court, ,n some poet sang. !
this is not the exact quotation ou
readers Will pardon US. What We
want to get at is that love is power
full, that it is a lever which, with {
proper fulerum will move the world
Leander, for the sake of Hero, swan
the Hellespont; a young man o.
Toledo, for the sake OF one as beau
tiful as Hero, allowed her father tc
Iounder in the turbid waters of the
I Mauniee an hour or more last Sun
day. The. matter was something
like this - -- 1- r.-.
A young Irishman, ''as toight a
lad as ever crossed the say, "Was, and
had been for some time, desperately
enamored of the charms of a young
maid of the race, which love was re-
turned with interest. The mother
| of the young lady approved Of the
match, but, alas! (was there ever a
love affair without an "alas?3') the
paternal 41arent was zobduate.i He
couldn't see it. He had accumulated
some money, and prided himself
thereupOn, while PhelIm, as we will
style our hero (the hero of. a story is
always the young man in love-,
hadn't dollar to his name, it taking
| all his earnings to keep his mother
and an invalid sister. The old gen
tleman had higher ideas for his
daughter, andf last Saturday night
the lovers were made miserable by
the hard-hearted old Wr5tch order
ing .Pheiim out of the house, and
enforcing his command witha brick.
Kitty (that is the name we shall
give our heroine, which name is
usually given to the young lady in
love- threw herself between the an
cry men, and succeeded in getting
the enraged young one away from
the d0micile before matters came to
serious eXtremities.
Phelim was in no good humor
that night. lie knew Kitty loved
him and also knew she would marry
him, father or no father. but he was
a prudent young man. If he should
marry her, and the old gentleman,
shouldn't do the handsome thing,
how would they get started, and how
would they live? Love is all very
well, but it don't furnish house,
neiter can it live without meat and
potatoes. For an article of which
so much is written it is terribly
matter Of-fact; and, besides, Kitty
was an only child, and if he married
her without the old gentleman's
consent, how about the property
when death took him away?
All these things and a great many
more, too tedious to mention. was
Phelim cogitating as he walked
along the bank of the river on the
afternoon ensuing. A splash aWoke
him from his reverie. He sprang
| to the place. He looked into the
water, and, good heavens! to the
surface came the bald head of Kit
| ty's father! Here was vengeance for
him. The old gentleman could swim
a little, Just enough to keep above
water few minutes. There was
nothing for him to hold to, and no
one but Phelin in sight. Should he
let him drown, and go up and marry
the girl? No, he would save him.
Irish generosity overbalanced his
love, and seizing long but very
slender pole near by, he reached one
end to him. The old gentleman
hauling him in, when a thought
struck him, and he showed him into
. the water, allowing him to still hold
to the end of. the pole.
! "Do ye know me, ye ould> black
guard?"
''Of course 1 do. Pull me up!"
"Areye entirely comfortable down
there in the water?"
''Pull me up, ye spalpeenp ~
''Faix, an that won't. Its the
| first time [ iver see ye in the water
am it PLACES me-"
"Pull my up!"
"WIIr We consint?''
"Consint to what2n
= 'tKitty. Ye know we'll enough
what mane.o I.9 sG. g h ... ..la /,
HNiVer !DI 500 l-.il.-.- F. ....iL
'tIts all wan to me. Ye may
dhroWn intirely, and who will stOl
me thin? Think twice. Will y
consint?" ssI- 81 -.r.-.l asF
} The old gentleman was becomin'
exhausted. At best he never ike
water, and the Maumee River wa
too much for him. .Il -il -.
"Yis, L consint; pull me up!' h
roared. l--- ,-..-. 7-F
"Will ye give us a settin, out p
said Phelim, who knew his advan
, tage, and seemed disposed to i'm
prove it. --..
, E'Yis. Pull me up!"
Phelim hesitated a moment as t
the propriety of tying the father c
Kitty to the dock IN the water, ant
going up and marrying the girl be
fore saving him, but he finally tho
he conld trust him, and hauled .hir
out Of the water. ~
, The event proved the old man q
, good as his word. The young cot
, pie We're married, and yesterda
they were moving a very suitabl
outfit for housekeeping into con
|, Portable cottage which the fathe
! ! possessed and has hitherto let.
His falling into the river was til
!, result of inordinate doses of-whisk!
: which he commenced taking imm
diately after the scrimmage of Sa
urday night, and continued at inte
! walls, with an occasional one betwee
:; the intervals, up to the hour of h
. plunge. Thus whisky and wat
q accomplished goOd for once, at leas