The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-04-16
THE GIRLS CHOICE.

IN Nthb - thotSE.
Judge Wallman, one Of the bes
known Justices occupying the I. 5
circuit bench, after listening to !
party of lawyers the other day
his pipe, leaned back IN al
easy chair and said:
Gentlemen, your stories of court
ship and marriage are quite interest
ing and romantic, but | believe tha
it is reserved for me to tell you of ;
love affair which. | am inclined t.
think, will teach you that the cem
mon place marriages Of every day
life are not worthy of a place In oul
most prosaic novels or even oui
spirited conversations. Quite q
number of years ago, Just after th'
war. I was appointed judge OF ;
southern circuit. | attended We rl
strictly to the discharge of my duty
and although very fond of ladies
society, yet in my rounds | me-
very few representatives of the falr
sex who in the least impressed me
One day, during an overflow,
crossed the river about % miles
awav from my regular beat, and the
stream was so swollen that by the
time | had landed the sun had gone
down and darkness bad spread IT.
self over the face of the earth, and,
so far as I could discern, the bosom
of tie water. | did not find road
when | landed, and made inquiry OF
the ferryman, who, in effect, declar-
ed that he had never made geogra-
ply a study and that | must take
care of myself. OF course | intended
to abide by the extremity of such
advice, and after thanking my wa
ter-side character" for information
which, to say the least, was self-ap-
parent, | turned, ! knew not where,
and began a solitary journey through
The woods. ! had not gone far when
came upon large log house, sur
rounded by a well-kept fence and
almost covered by a thick growth of
Wild vines. | was assailed at the
gate by an army OF dogs. Their flu
" brnught out an old man who
irove them away and in voice of
.ouching kindness asked me what |
| explained my misfort-
lnes attendant upon high water /;
hat | was federal Judge endeavor-
ng to reach the appointment. He
very cordially invited me into the
louse."
A ledge ur constable is well
come at my house at sich time as
his. he said, throwing more wood
IN the fire. I've been cotched out
nvself and | know what it is. So you
ire ledge 2"
Yes, | am a Judge, holding the
,ffice under the United States Gov
That means you amt State
edge ?"
Yes"
wall, it don't make any differ
ence, | wouldn't help a State jedge
40 quicker than | would you. Myra,
see il there is anything to eat in the
louse.'
l looked up and the girl to whom
ne spoke stood near me. She meved
AWAY Immediately after being ad-
lressed, but not so soon that failed
% note the extreme beauty of her
ace. saw her wealth of bright,
Notwithstanding hair, her glorious
lepth of eve, her ruddy tall-of-the-
year cheek and raspberry mouth.
She seemed to pay no attention to
ne but obeyed witho 1t hesitation.
she re-appeared and an
bounced that there was something
o eat in the house and that It vas
pread on the table.
Come" he said, and conducted
ne to the dining room. Although |
vas very hungry, yet | think that
nv appetite could have been salts
led by allowing my eyes to feast on
he beautiful girl who attended the
epast. The spare ribs and back
zone and mashed potatoes were ex-
| admit, but that maghiti-
.ent face which bent above 1t all,
ar exceeded any banquet that had
,ver seen.
"Myra.n said the old man, after
We had gone in and taken position
,efore the fire, ''hand around the
pipes"
The pipes were brought in and
illed with natural leaf tobacco. We
,uffed and puffed and talked and
,uffed. | teld my experience and
he old man told his. | had been a
.aptain under Uncle Sam. Jefferson
Davis had made him a colonel. The
Id man bad no family except My
"a, his daughter. He seemed as de-
,oted to her, and quite as much de
pendent upon her as MIR. Wickliff
vas upon Agnes. / had been so
much interested in the conversation,
md especially with the occasional
,lances cast al Myra, that | did not
.hink to ask the old man his name
lntil lust about the time we were
ready to 60 to bed.
"My name is Jassmire," he said ;
Il was wonderin' eff you was ever
yoin' to ask me, an hanged ef I'd a
old you ef YOU hadn't. Hope