The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-04-02
With Due DeliberatiOn-PrOm
COurtship Spoiled by Too Apt H.
luStratiOn.

COurtship Spoiled by Too Apt IL
1ustratiOn.
From the st. Louis Republican
In the future great city is a young
man who is supposed 10 be somewhat
anxions to find young lady of many
virtues and few wants, who will consent
TO share the munifcent sum of SIS per
week, or thereabout, which represents the
value attached to his services by his en-
ployers. For some time the aspiring
youth has been paying his distresses to
young lady of the most estimable
character and antecedents, residing in
an aristocratic locality, and, strange to
relate, he has been received with favor.
Well, after six months of somewhat
arduous courtship, at total cash ex-
pense of about 81, the young man con-
cluded that the momentous occasion had
arrived when he might fling himself at
the feet-they were not large, she wore
threes-of his adorable, and beseech her
to be his wife, his own forever and ever,
&c. The critical moment arrived. The
young man propounded the question
fraught with such a world of joy or
with such universe of woe, according
to the nature of the reply.
''Will you be mine forever; w-w-w m
may hope-will you marry me?" he
stammered out, never in all the course
of his life having propounded a ques-
ton 30 difficult to articulate.
"Oh, DEAR" said the girl, "what shall
1 do? Please let me think about it. /
will give you my answer next Sunday
evening. can't answer now"
This was Wednesday night.
$50 you want to take four days in
which to decide, do you?" asked the
journalist, all the assurance of his guild
returning to bear him up in the emerg-
ency.
"Oh, yes, four days," murmured the
girl "Its only little while"
A happy thought struck the young
man. He was much given TO illustra-
ton by anecdote. Why should he not
illustrate the prensent case? So he said:
Darling, you remind me ofan old Dutch
Judge down in one of the Mohawk
counties of New York"
"How in the name of goodness do I
remind you of an old Dutch Judge?"
inquired the astounded girl, her gentle
brown eyes wide with wonder.
"Well," began the wretch, coolly, "a
good many years ago the Wings of
Schenectady county, New York, elected
to the office of County Judge and Sur
rogate an old Mohawk Dutch farmer,
who knew no more about law than a
street car mule knows about love- The
first case that came before the old Judge
was a suit for damages involved in the
opening of road through mans farm,
and it was tried before him without a
jury. After he had heard all the testi-
mony and the arguments of the attorneys,
he elevated his two hundred and seventy
FIVE pounds of solemnity to purpendic-
ular position, and made the following
speech:
'SHENTLEAfENs: | half listened to
dur teshdimony unit der arguments Won
der counsel init a great teal of batience
unit much addenshun, unit half become
brofowntly IMPRESSED nit der great i'm.
portance of dot case. 1t ish case vich
involfs many nish boints of jurisbru
dence, and vich requires a great teal O.
teliberashun. Derefore, in view of the
great inheritance of dot case, unit in or
der dat the tue teliberashun may pc op
serted py dis court, shall dhake foul
days in vich to tecite dot case, but shall
effentually find shudgement for de-
blaintiff!"
Somehow this beautiful illustration
did not seem to produce happy effect
The young lady's dignity seemed to ris,
as the story progressed, until, when sh,
heard the last of it and the beauty O
the illustration dawned upon her mind
she quietly remarked:
"I don't think shall require the fou
days. / can decide now, and shall finC
Judgment in this case for the defendant
I don't believe that any man who wa
in earnest would tell such story as tha
under such circumstances"
Then she glanced wistfully at he
watch, and remarked that she had no
thought it was so late. The young mai
put on his hat murmuring to himsel
that he was always putting his foot in il