The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1873-05-01
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A FUNNY ELOPEMENT.
How Il Was Planned tnd Executed.

"Ill tell you what it is, wife" said
Peter Smith, and he emphasized the
remark by a wise shake OF the fore.
finger, things have got into n very
bad way. The farm is mortgaged to
the very last cent it is worth, and
owe heap of money beside-more
by long shot than know how to
pay. What is to be done!"
II am sure / don't know, Peter, -
replied the bothered wife, but it
seems too awful bad to be turned ont
of house nnd home at our time of life.
Now if our son John would only
marry Jonas Browns daughter Sally,
it would help us out amazingly. The
Browns, you see, are well of, and the
connection would be perfect gold
mine to us. OF course they'd give
Sally the hundred acres of land and
things that they've always said they
would"
That's good idea, wife," said
Peter. frightening up amazingly.
You always were q cute woman, and
the notion does credit. But do You
think the young folks would take to
il I"
81 don't know, but it seems to me
that they've taken O great notion to
each other ever since they were chill.
dren--been more like brother and
sister that anything else"
But suppose the Browns would
object, US most likely they would !
You know we amt on good terms
thick as the young folks have been. +"
"I'll tell you what, Peter, is just
the thing for us to do-put up John
to elope with Sally"
agreed. Ill leave il all to you to
manage"
Thus the matter was settled. and
the scheming couple went to bed to
dream of a speedy release from their
financial embarrassments.
Coincidents are sometimes OF the
most curious character-almost sur
passing belief in some instances.
About the time of the above con-
versation between Mr.. and Mrs.
Smith, their neighbors. Jonas Brown
and wife held IN important confer
ehce.
"Do you remember that note for
six hundred dollars I gave for stock
last springf" asked Jonas.
Yes" replied his wife.
swell, it's coming due in about q
month, and how under the sun we re
going to pay it / don't know"
Mortgage the farm
"We've done that till il cant be
mortgaged another cent. I'm clean
discouraged, and there is Sally want
ing a piano. Where the money is to
come from is a mystery to me We're
On the verge of bankruptcy"
II wish Sally would marry John
Smith-gracieus knows they're to-
sether enough to take notion that
way"
"Yes, but I don't see how that
would help us any,
"You, don't, Ell Well, I do.
Aint his folks RICH and wouldn't
hey set him up handsomelyi Then
Ne could stand some chance Of help
through Sally"
That's good plsh, was JONAS
after profound medita
ion; /; shut the difficulty is, that the
smiths are not on good terms with
Is, and would be likely to oppose
he match.
"Then the best plan is to set the |
'oung folks up to an elopement."
So it chanced that the Browns and |
smiths planned TO dispose Of their
'hildren to their own pecuniary ad-
'antage. The next step in each case
vas to mould the young ones to the
proper shape.
John Smith was q handsome,
'rawny country fellow, with plenty
Il good sense, and an ocean Of love
or Sally Brown. When his parents
proposed his marrying her, he in
ormed them that he would gladly
10 so, but he feared her parents
VOuld object. Then his father slyly
an elopement and offered
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