Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-05-31
ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1873.

And Doctor Hurlbut, feeling even less
amiable than on the previous night, sat
down at his desk and wrote prescRip-
tion for Miss Rose Carter.
just as he finished n his man Barnes
brought him note. 1t was from the
man who took care Of tbe Doctors farm
on the outskirts Of the town, near the
widow Thomas's wood lot.
"The widow Thomas's man Jake warts 10
know If you will lei the wido~ take,Black
Bess. TO go down 10 Saugus to the quarterly
conference meeting tonight. She told him 10
say pan SECULAR that she didn't feel very well,
AMI thought the ride would do her good If
YOU would he so kind as 10 let her take Black
Bess. which is 50 very gentle.
SAMUEL HoDGKINs."
The doctors face cleared as he read.
"Little Sam Hodgkins is waiting for
the answer, if you please, sir" said
Barnes.
And the doctor wrote few words
hurriedly, in answer to Samuel Hodg-
kins, not without grumbling at the mans
stupidity in not letting the widow have
the horse without applying to bin.
But no matter! the widow wouldn't
have to ask for Black Bess again, "With
all my worldly goods I thee endow," he
meant to say to her very soon.
Barnes was entrusted with the two
n0tcs-one for Miss Rose Carter, and
the other for little Sam Hodgkins to car
ry to his father.
In the meantime Charley had come
TO a new resolve. lie would see Mrs
! 4 MI 70, hnr
consent to his marriage with Rose
Without her consent, Rose would never
be his wife.
1t was evidently hopeless task to
try to overcome his fathers prejudices;
but he was determined that they should
not lie allowed to destroy his happiness,
and Roses, too, for life. Mrs. Cart er
liked him; she would give Rose to him
willingly, she had told him, if it were
not for his fathers objections she
might be persuaded to, in spite of them.
And there was no time to lose, for in
J two days he was going to a distant city
, to establish himself in business. He had
hoped to carry Rose with him, but all
his pleading had been of no avail to in
duce her to marry against her mother
will. All his hopes new lay in infu-
encing Mrs. Carriers mind. SO early
that morning, he took his way to the
cottage at the foot of the hill. Squire
Carter had just left, and Mrs. Carriers
mind was still filled with anxiety regard
ing Roses health which he had aroused
so perhaps Charley could not have
found better time for trying to win hel
over to his side
But, though she did hesitate for mo
ment, his pleading was in vain,
oYoa know there is no one | w0ult
rather have for son than you, Charley,
she said, ''But know Your father. H'
is stern man, very stern man and h'
will never relent. He would never for
give you for marrying against his will.
cannot consent to your running all you
prospects in life. You and Rose ar
very young; you may change. The tim
might come, Charley, when you woul'
!, regret disobeying your fathers wish
: You are his only son, and so dear t.
) him; and before this, you say he ha
, never thwarted your slightest wish. Io'
ought not to disohey him hastily Il
be sure, his prejudices seem unreasonable
Unreasonable! 1t is absurd" inter
rupted Charley, hotly. "Why he ha
never so much as seen you, to my know
edge,'
Mrs. Carter's check flushed family.
= 81 lived here when | was Il girl, yo
know. knew your father thel. II
c has some reasons for disliking me whic
don't understand.
4 sit is only prejudice, a notion, / al
sure.' said Charley. And he has II
1 right to dictate me in such matter"
| And he was beginning his eager pleaC
e ings over again, when Barnes appeare
: with note. There was no address q
the outside and Mrs. Carter opened
v while Charley waited in fever OF su
i peuse to know what his father cou
have to say to Mrs. Carter.
r Her face was picture of amazemel
r. as she read, but pleasure shown throng
o it as she handed the note to Charley.
d 1t was brief and to the point.
:, 'Lct him have her,
|, EnwARn IIUELBURr."
IS 81 always told Rose he had heart
one could only get at it," cried Charlie
o in transport of delight. "Now y'
Y can have no objection; we have yo'
n promise! And am going away the dt
a after tomorrow, you know, and mu
h take my wife with me-"
d "The day after tomorrow! My de
e boy you are beside yourself!' exclaim'
% Mrs Carter.
"You and Rose have said wait To l
d for so long, that you can't have the hes
E. to say it longer, now that there is
N reason for waiting. | shall coax Ro
n. over to my side, and then you can't
ut fuse"
ut And he did coax them both over
his side after countless arguments "a
he objections. 1t was arranged that the
as should be very quiet wedding, to viii
o. only few intimate friends were to
- invited, the next evening.
OF Then Charley hurried home TO expr'
his gratitude to his father, who he beg
II to think he had misjudged.
OF While this scene was transpiring
the cottage, Samuel Hodgkins had
C. ceived Dir. Hurlbut's answer to his no
IS aud being somewhat surprised and pI
IT zled by it, had transmitted 1T direc
to the Widow Thomas, thus relieyl
rs himself of all responsibility IN the III
lr. ter,
So the widow, who was adorning