The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-02-07

MIN happy Tor week alter, every tlnle
he remembered. Once he dreamed
about that smile, and thought il sun
rise, and got up and dressed himself be
fore he fairly walked up. When ho did
come to his senses he found il was half
past /, and he went back to bed Won
dering if all men feel as he did when
they're in love.
The train started, and, just rs Miss
Stehbins was trying to swallow n small
chicken-bone, and making very wry
face over it, the cars gave an awful
leap, and theA--none of them knew
very much about, what happened for
the next few minutes. When Job
came to himself he was sitting III u
shallow puddle of water, and the first
thought which came to him was that
he had turned into = big bull-frog.
But, looking about him, in bewildered
way, for a solution Of tho mystery, no
saw Miss Stebbina sitting ON a floating
portion of wrecked car farther out in
the pond, dripping like Undine, il not
soagreeable to look at.
{" Be you hurt, Mr.. Dusenberry 2" sho
asked, as she discovered him.
No, don't think l be" answered
job. "Had a smash up, didn't wef
Seems SO" answered Miss Stebbins.
az guess there hain't nobody killed,
an that's lucky. Pm glad you amt
hurt. I was afcard you was"
Her solicitude touched jobs hOart as
nothing else ever had.
You amt damaged any, bo you |"
he asked, anxiously.
>" Not any to speak Of" answered
Miss Stebbins, "but my olo'es is jest
c'mplOtoly split There's my bunnit
sailin' about ovor there. I wish you'd
git it fer me-"
Job secured polo, and, after angling
unsuccessfully for while, got a bite
and landed this new kind of fiah on the
bank, where it lay in very limp and
detected condition, having but little re-
semblance to tho SNOWY bonnet Miss
Stebbins had worn.
"rm comm ashore" Announced Miss
Stebbins.
"Let me come an git you" proposed
Job, not without some trepidation, il
must be confessed.
"No, can get along 'thout putin
you to any trouble" answered Miss
Stebbins.
"What a self-reliant woman she is, "
Job thought, admiringly. "She'd take
care Of a man, now"
She gathered the ruined "alpacy"
about her, stepped of the extemporized
raft, and waded ashore without screaming
snakes or anything Of the kind. Job
concluded that she was one woman in n
hundred. So she WAS.
"You're all mud an scum" said she.
after inspecting job closely. I'm get
stick an some grass an kinder clean
ysu up" And for the next ten min
utes Job experienced new and novel
bliss in being CLEANED up" by this en-.
ergetic woman, who had now obtained
complete possession Of his heart. "Sho's
= manager" concluded job. "If she
had charge of my place, now, she'd
make things fetch in suthin'. / wish
she had"
Tho conductor announced that il
would be two or three hours before they
could proceed.
" Don't you feel as ef you'd like
suthin' to eat r asked Job. 81 guess
you didn't finish that chicken"
al s1otlA like somethin'," answeres
Miss Stebbins, and Job proposed ths
they should visit farmhouse near b
and procure some.
"I'll set out here on this stone in th'
sun, an dry myself till it's ready" sai'
Miss Stebbins, and took position o
rock by the roadside. job sat down b!
hsr.
"Pm thankful We amt killed" sni'
she. How lucky got acquainte'
with you, amt it2 Friends is alway
SO pleasant in such times" The glanc
which accompanied this sentiment fir
isbed job.
"Oh, Miss Stebbins, le'me be you
friend for Iifer' cried he, with an awfu
pallor on his face, the effort he made i
saying it was 30 intense. al know it
sudden, but then i"-and there he stuc
fast.
'Do YOU mean-marriage y aske
Miss Stebbins, with such warmth q
heart that her clothes dried rapidly froI
the diffused heat.
"Yes, I do" answered job; do"
"I don't know what John an A
miry'd say, but / hain't no objections
speak on" answered Miss Stebbins, wit
downcast eyes and beaming face.
"Then its a bargain p exclaimc
: Job. "Glory This is better'n Il
Fourth ! I'm goin' to kiss you, Mi
: Stebbins."
"You may if you want to, an ea
me Susan" she said.
Q The boy who was looking out OF Il
: window reported, to his mother, bu
i over the dinner, that the man was K
sin the woman, an he should think he
= be 'shamed Of himself.
! But Job never thought of such
IS thing! Wasn't he engaged to be M
9 ried4 And didn't q man always k
{ a woman when she promised to mar
> bin?
1 can't say what wonderful bargai
p Miss Stebbins made in the dry-goo
!, !, line, but she went home with ma
and has been happy ever since. So h
. Job.
!, Tilden is looming for the Preaider
again, the New Albany Ledger-Sta'
= ard alleges, and the nearer the Nati
IA al Democratic Convention approach