The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-02
HOW / WON HER.

Where the town of Randolph now car
Fies on its busy traffic, Egbert Bacon's
farm was once located. Egbert Bacon
was my grandfather. His farm covered
more than seven hundred good acres and
he considered himself wealthy, as he un-
d0ubtedly was. He started in life q
poor boy and his honest accumulation
was the result of his toll. a
Grandfather was a very peculiar man.
Many persons considered him penUlrious,
but he was really liberal and from the
fact that his charities were given with
secrecy, people supposed that he never
contributed to good works. It was In
his old age (and he lived to a great
period) that company OF spectators
bought his land because of the fine water
power that ran through it, and as soon as
they erected mills the place began to go
forward until Bacon's farm was thing
of the past. [ can recollect when the
first mill was built, and well remember
my boyish curiosity in watching the me-
sehahcs who worked upon it.
Ny grandmother was about the same
age as her husband. She did not long
survive his death, and missed good
friend and counselor when she left me.
Grandfather expected me to be farmer,
bUt as ! never had a taste for hard work,
my thoughts and inclinations went an
other way. OF course he was not at all
pleased with my stubbornness but my
good grandmother always stepped be-
tween me and his wrath, and shielded me
from his displeasure.
The old gentleman was a sturdy man
at seventy years. He invariably dressed
m brown clothes, and wore so broad a
&rim to his low-crowned hat that he
might easily have been taken for Qua
Aer at first sight but get him angry
-ouce (and his irritability was easily
aroused) and he would let fly such sharp
and vehement sentences that it was some
times difficult to imagine they were not
profane.
| WAS nineteen years old, and was deep
aR love with Sallie Miller, the young
lady who played the organ at the Cross
Roads Church, and was the finest dancer
aTnoag all the girls in the country.
Grandfather had conceived a dislike for
-Sallie, because she was a musician. He
had no ear for music, and was "not
moved by concord of sweet sounds, f" and
s4NGGS2ALESo OO NGkLOA1J CAC1GOA Ills Lit do u
Scr&pe violin within his hearing or
strike chord upon the piano.
Much against my grandfather's inci-
nation, he permitted me to enter the law
(, Office of Mr.. Smart as a student Had it
not been for the good offices of my
4. grandmother I should never had this
wish of my life gratided. But she
sgaOotbed the way for my grandfather's
consent. But he never ceased to ridicule
me for my pretensioRs, and positively
refused to give me his consent to marry
SSaIlie Miller. It would not have been a
wise thing in .ne to cross the old gentle
mans whims, for [ was his heir and he
could have found another without much
difficulty, so I never urged my case but
humored him in every way L could
think of.
Once when / was home on brief leave
of absence, we were sitting around the
open fireplace, and there was O CHEEKY
are of hickory wood. Grandfather was
smoking his pipe, and alternately look
1ng at the burning logs and my grand
4 nether's frilIed cap.
What are yOu thinking about,
zaEher2" she inquired. She always called
him by that name.
q I was thinking" he slowly replied,
22aking the pipefrom between his lips and
= dropping both hands upon his knees,
90 that few years hence and one won't
see good old hickory logs burning upon
astdirons. Stoves and CRATES, and chat
Infernal coal that makes gas enough to
-sgufocate household, Will supply the
place OF our old-fashioned fires. +"
4 ought to have held my tongue, fer
ne was not speaking to me but [ wanted
To show off some OF my smartness and
so I replied
sob, my dear sir, there is really no
occasion for havinga stove which per-
maits the gas to escape. We have now
gas consuming stoves and one is not
troubled in the way you suppose y
I shall never forget my grandfather's
look SIS he raised his eyes toward me and
repeated, Eve have. Pray, Mr.. Smart
ness, permit me to inquire how long Won
have been possessed of this valuable in
formation? have known it for some
years, or rather have heard it said that
these stoves were gas-burners, but it's
all a lie there's not a word of truth in