Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-06-17
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HOW An IOWA FATHER FACILITATES
BUSINESS.

some of the fathers of Dubuque
county, Iowa, who have marriage
able daughters, and they know how
to precipitass business, when fruit
is ripe for picking, and hangs,
wasting rts sweetness when it should
be plucked. Matters were brought
to a climax with rush at certain
farmers residence in Vernon..town-
ship, recently. A young tiller of
the soil had for months been pay
ing most assiduous attention to one
OF his daughters, bat he was s,ch a
bashful, modest chap, never been
able to raise his courage sufficiently
high to pop the question,
He had gone to the house in
which the lady lived at least on
twenty different occasions, resolved
to know his fate, but when ushered
into the presence Of the fair one, in
whose keeping be had placed his
heart, his courage woald invariably
'sgo back oa him." and he would
return to his lonely room in greater
suspense than before. Upon the
evening in question he had de-
termiued that come what would, he
would tell his Mary that he loved
her. He would once for all decide
the matter, but, as upon each
former occasion, he could no. get
the proposal farther than his throat.
There it stuck, and be determined
to gulp it down and give mp the
siege, when the door opened and
in walked the girls father, who
advanced to where they were sit
ting and thus addressed them:
Il came out to put stop to this
toolishness. 1t amt countin' ex-
penses Pm lookin' at, for coal is
cheap and wood can be had for the
haulin', but Pm sick and tired OF
this billin' and COON like a pair Of
sick doves, keepin' me awake of
nights, and it's got to be stopped
right here. DO you love John
Henry we'll enough to marry hirn2''
"Why, father, I-I-you must"
"Stop that fooliskin'.' yelled the
old man. ''Answer yes or no, and
quick, too. It's got to be settled
now or never"
"Well-but father, don't yon
know-if you'll only wait, and"
"Dry up; answer yes or no.
Speak - roared the old gent.
"Well, then, yes! There, nov" "
and Mary again hid her face.
"That's business; that's the way
to talk. Now, John, look up here,
or I'll shake you all to pieces. DO
you want that gal O mine for a
wife, Speak ont Ikea man now. D
"Why, Mr., amt this rather
al mean can't you"
"Speak it out, or out Of this
house you'll so head foremost.
won't wait a minute longer. There's
the gal, and there amt likelier
gal in the State, an you just heard
her say that she wanted you. Now
John, l won't stand a bit of foolin'
Once for all, yes or nof''
DWELL, yes, sir. I have beer
pr-sumptuous enough to hope that
l."
"Oh, step your soft talk the
thing is settled now. You tw,
fools have been six months at til,
Job that I have done in five min
utes. / never saw such foolin' n
there is 'rnoIg Young people aow-
adays. Amt like when l wa
youug-an' now, good night. Yo'
can talk the thing over, an you an
nae, John, y; go UP to towr. an ge
the license 'to-morrow, Soon b
time to get to piowin's no tiene TO
love-making then- Good might
good night I; | hope wasn't to
rotg'a, but | was determined TO f
the thing one way o. t'other," an
the old inan Went back to bed
Now that the ice was broker
the young people laid all thei
plans fos the future, and John fe
Just a little bad at the comfort h
had lost, when Mary looked ap &
hira shyly and said:
| "This would have been ali rigT
. months ago, John, if you hadn
been SO skeery- | krowed all ii
time that you wanted to ask m,
but it wasn't my place to say any
thing, you know. st. LOUIS R
f f pudtieds.
A writer ill an agricultural ct
change says he noticed that WIN
his other CATTLE wcrc lousy, his bt
was always free from vermin, ar
it oeca:rred to hika that it might |
because the ball paved Dirt ov
Il himself He put the suggestion
a use by rubbing dry earth on Il
Is Is other cattle, and found ii perfect
rs effications Both as a preventive al