Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-12-02

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you with something and put Swiss sun
set over your eye. Do not yearn 10 WIN
| her affections al at once. Give her
twenty on thirty wears in which TO see
vour merits You viii have more to en-
title you to her respect by that time, no
doubt During that time YOU may rise
name.
The main thing yon rs2ryZe TO look out
for now, however Is to restTrsn Yoursen
from marrying people who do fSz-grMf,'' rMf'tht
to marry YOU That style of frcs - n :,
Will. in thirty or forty years, wear away.
| Ii it docs not probably the vigorous big
brother Of ''some young lady of IT. will
cotsign You to the silent tomb Do not
| try To- promenade with n Young Indy un-
less she gives her consent. De not mar
| ry one against her wishes Give the girl
a chance. She will appreciate it: and,
| oven though she may not marry YOU, she
viii permit Won 10 sit ON the fence and
watch her when She goes TO marry some
one else. Do not lie despoudent. Be
courageous. and some day perhaps you
viii get there. At present the horizon
Is little hit foggy.
As You say. she may be SO glddy that
she doesn't want steady company. There
IS a glimmer of hope In that She may
be- waiting till She gets over the agony
and annoyance of tecthing before she
looks seriously into the matters of mat
rimonv. Ii that should turn ont TO be
the ease we are not surprised. GIVE her
a chance To- grow up. and IN the mean
time go and learn the organ-grlnders
profession. and fix yourself SO that you
can provide for a family. Sometimes
| girl only seventeen years old Is able TO
discern that a young intellectual giant
like You is not going to make q dazzling
success of life rs husband. Brace up
and try to forget your sorrow. and You
may he happy vet.
| THE WISE MAN OF ARKANSAw.
The Arkansaw Trqrele, says Prob
ably the politest and most considerate
man who ever lived was General Brads-
bale of Arkansaw. Some time ago,
boarding a train, he perceived his son,
whom ne had not seen for twenty years,
occupying a seat, reading. The old gem
tleman sat down Immediately behind
the Young man. After the train had
cone about thirty miles, the young man
laid aside his newspaper, and. discover
ing his father, seized the old man with
aficctionate warmth. ''Why didn't You
let me know that you was on the tram,
father -
Because, " replied the old gentl man,
Il saw that You were reading and tud
not wish TO disturb"
That would have made no differ
cnce
And besides. " continued the father,
Il thought You might want to borrow a
few dollars.
TESTING A TRoTTING TEAM.
An Appleton business man wanted
span of horses, and he wanted pretty fast
ones. but he didn't know much about
that kind of stock. A horse dealer had a
team that was reported pretty fast, which
he would sell cheap. The merchant took
the team to drive little. and got a friend
in with him, and they went up to the
track. and the friend drove the team
around the track while the merchant stood
on the Judges stand and timed them.
The team went around pretty good, and
the merchant looked ut his watch and got
IN the wagon The friend asked him
what time they made. but he replied,
" Never mind He drove down 10 the
horse dealer and paid MIN the money for
the horses and drove of with his friend,
and when they turned a corner and got
ont of sight of the horse dealer, the mer-
chant said to his friend That's the best
bargain that was ever made IN this State
on a pair of horses" The friend looked
astonished and asked: "What time did
they make. honestly?" The merchant
said '.They trotted in three minutes
without a break. The friend looked as
though he was not much surprised, and
finally said That is not SO bad, but 1t
isn't fast. That Is mt the rate of mile
in six minutes" The merchant turned
pale and said " Why. how's that p 20, y
saws the friend, with n yawn, - it Is n
half mile track, You know. The friend
had to hold the merchant III the buggy
seat. he was so faint. and he offered all
sorts of chromos if the friend would never
say anything about it, and we presume
he has not. The team is delivering gro
ceries now. and hauling slabs from mill.
-Pcck's SIN.
TEXAS SIFTINGs.
y. GRAY-Pack with my box five
dozen quilts. The only remarkable thing
about this short sentence is that it con-
tains al the letters of the alphabet.
SENATOR Miller Of New York wants the
ConqreSS SSioHdl Rcc0yd changed to a
weekly paper and copy sent to every
family in the land. That is not the way
to encourage 81 man who is thinking about
starting a family Miller's suggestion is
calculated to break up the family system
entirely.
An Austin man named Gibson Nc
Grotty. went ont hunting with two Of his
sons. He was pretty well tired out when
hc rot back. and at the supper table he
remarked to his wife that he felt he was
growing old, rs he couldn't keep up with
the bows. That's SO, old man, if you
want to keep up with the procession you
viii have to run with boys Of your own
age
"DD you see dat hoss you was tallSin'
Of buvin' ?" asked one Austin darkey OF
another. Yes, ! seed him. Did
vou buy the hoss q No, l didn't buy
him. bekase dar was no mutuality. "
What do Yer mean, niggah p Oar
was no mutually | seed enuff ob de
boss. but the hoss didn't see enuff oh
me- He was blind in one eye. DaT
has ter be more mutualty in a hOss
trade.
ABOUT the time the Austin city coun-
ell reduced the wages of the police, a
policeman came upon two boys who were
busy shooting at target with pistol,
I inside of The CITY limits contrary TO the