Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-06-17
TO TIME,
How An Iowa Father Facilitates Business.
From the Sc. Louis Republican.

How an Iowa Father Facilitates Business
From the st. Louis Republican.
There is no foolishncss about some
of the fathers of Dubuque county, Ia.
who have manageable daughters, and
they know how to precipi.ate bust
ness when the fruit is ripe for pluck
ing and hangs, wasting its sweetness,
when it should be plueked. Matters
were brought to climax with a rusl,
at a certain farmers residence in
Vernon township, recently. A young
tiller of the soil had for months been
paying most asslduous attentions to
n of his daughters, but he was such
a bashful, modest chap, having
been much in the company of girls,
except this one, that he had never
been able to raise his courage sufiic-
lentiy high TO pop the question.
He had gone to the house in which
the lady lived at least ON twenty diff
1erent occasions, resolved to know
his late, but when ushered into the
presence of the fair one, in whose
keeping he had placed his heart, his
courage would invariably ego back"
On him, and he would return to his
lonely room in greater suspense than
before. Upon the evening in ques-
ton he had determined that, come
what would, he would tell his Mary
that he loved her. He would once
tor all decide the matter, but, as upon
each former occasion, he could not
get the proposal further than his
throat. There it stuck, and he de-
termined to gulp 1t down and give up
the siege, when the door opened and
IN walked the girls father, who adj
Vanced to where they were sitting,
q thus addressed them:
u came o. to put a stop to this
fo%olishness. 1t amt countin' e,-
penses I'm lookin' at, tor coal IS
cheap and wood can be had for the
haulin,' and cooin' like a pair of sick .
doves, keepin' me awake of nights.
and it's got to be stopped right here.
10 you love John Henry we'll enough
to marry him7"
why, father, I-I-yor must"
"Stop that f%oolishin'," yelled the
old man. "Answer yes or no. and !
quick too. It's got to he settled
now or hever.'
""ell--but, father, don't O
know-if you'll only wait, and" I
DRY up; answer yes or no.
Speak, roared the old gent.
'Well, then, yes! Xhere now"
q Mary again hid her face. /
"That's business !; that's the wsv n
talk. Now, John, look here-look
up here, or HI shake YOU all to
pieces. DO you want that gal G. mine
Tor a wife? Speak out like a man :
"Why, Mr., amt this rather
l mean can't you"
"Speak it out, or out of this house
go head foremost. l WON'T
walt q minute longer. There's the Nj
5ai, and there amt u likelier gal in
he states, an you just heard her say
hat she wanted you. Now, John. /
"on't stand a bit Of foolin.' Once for
all, yes Of no?". IT,: .
"Weh, yes, sir. / have been pro-
'unptaous enough to hope that l.
I'm, stop yourself talk ; the thing
s settled now. You two fools would
ave been six months more 1T the lob |
hat l have done in five minutes I
lever saw such foolin' az there is
inong young people NOWADAYS.
n like when 1 was young-an'
Iow good night. You can talk the
hing over, an you an me, JOHN, III
o up town and get the license to-
borrow. Soon be time to get to Is
no time for love-makipo full
aen. Good night, good night; I an
ope l wasn't too rough, but 1 was We
eterinined to fix the thing one wav re re
r ~tother," and the old man went tri,
ack to bed. las
Now hat the ice was broken, the en,
Dung people laid all their plans for sev
'e future, and John felt lust & little az,
I'D at the comfort he had lost when =
AIRY looked up at HIM shyly, and mic
lid: bias
"This would have been all right "T
onths ago, John, if you hadn't been ito,
, sLaor, altl
Nho"eu All Tile ulIle tilat bre
ou wanted to ask me, but it wasn't ma
y place to say anything, you r r;n,
9TH
" dis.
Mr.. Tilden 10 out of IT,. AY
ue race. the
'eaklng o the victory in Missouri and
d Kansas last week the Kansas CITY thai
of that o;tu ten
- says it's
brilliant victories ara , yur syst
lse' even to che most sanguin. op- "'E r
'nents of Tilden. Missouri was Gu
nhdently claimed by the Tildeu bill:
'nagers, and a month g they Slai
no on.olu b,ankS,I = -