Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-13

| who was pound on nlllklng Lne cows.
/ An hour later Mrs. and Miss Grub
appeared, and the six small children
/ So the day passed-Mrs. and Miss
Grub sucking lemons all day, for
they had a good deal of speaking to
| do that afternoon and evening. John,
Jr., and ST., were busy around the
house.
At about 4 O'Clock the whole family,
headed by Mrs. and Miss Grub On
/ full bloomer pants, followed by
/ John, Sr, and Jr., with the children
marched to the reserved seats in the
rather small town hall.
John, Jr. s, face wore very mel
ancholy expression, aud he looked
! listlessly on, not that the turkey had
been too much for him. for Mrs. Grub,
having a good appetite herself, was
too much for 1T
And while he sits on the rather
crowded platform, thinking of the an
niversary of this day, long ago-oth-
ers have not been idle.
Mrs. Grub, after prayer, opened the
meeting with few pertinent remarks,
and then introduced that eminent
lady Miss De Boney."
THAT eminent lady" with a smirk
of her mouth, came forward. She
was about 80 and maiden. What
her object was in trying TO pass the
resolution in regard to women not
assuming their husbands name, | can
not say.
After a rather long-winded speech,
she sat down, amid rapturous APP
plause.
Then the "Machieon family gave
one OF their characteristic glees, aud
in answer to an encore, gave the
"Woman's War Song
AT this junction a stir was heard on
the platform, and John Jr., among
the rest, looked up and saw Mandy
Bakerl
She had come through the back
way, and Mrs Grub, seeing her knew
her, spite the bronzed SKIN and incip
lent mustache
John Jr., felt himself growing pale
as she sat near him, with her large,
black eyes fixed on the speakers face
AT last, in answer TO a motion from
Mrs. Grub, she came forward, and
Mrs. Grub introduced Miss Baker,
the great African traveller, who had
successfully established a woman's
rights government among the canni-
balls of the Fiji Islands, as also the rest
of Che islands of the Pacific"
She was greeted with rapturous APP
plause, and, with a great deal of mod
esty, said that she had surprised her
most intimate friends by appearing
thus suddenly. She thanked them
for her reception, and would take the
first opportunity to address them at
length,
And she took a seat. Now she had
time to recognize the blushing John,
Jr., which she did by asking him in a
solemn voice, how he was, for Maudy
was not given to exhibit her feelings
in public.
Now, the meeting broke up, to go
to supper and return the same even
ing.
Mandy and John, Jr, walked be
hind the st-John, ST., on the inside
Mrs. Grub with a woman's fore
thought, had place them so.
And John, Jr., was very, very hap
py, if one may Judge from his extend
ed mouth and smile as he listened to
his beloved ones "reminiscences.
do not propose to enter into de
tails in regard to Mandy Bakers for
tunes.
have animated that she had gone
into the world to make her fortune
prefarring to ask John, Jr, for his
hand when she could support a we'll
built house.
She had found making her fortune
very slow work, and at the end of
four years she had come back with
but very little gold. But she had done
Unreasonable good in the uncpltlvat-
ed regions of Africa and the islands Of
the Pacific and, would you believe,
had received six distinct offers of mar
riage, at which John shuddered and
asked was she heart free
That question was soon answered,
for at the supper table that night
Maudy formally asked his neither for
the hand of her blushing John
OF course, it was given, and Mandy
sealed the bargain by kissing John,
and in lieu of a ring, put a gold circle
around his fngure.
Then Mrs. Grub, with an eye to the
future, and knowing that they had
been engaged long enough, proposed
that they should be married before
they attended the evening session,
when she could have the pleasure of
introducing the African traveller as
her daughter-inidw.
I TIE Rev. Mrs. Van Colt was called
in, and Mandy Baker promised 80
love, cherish and support, and take
John, Jr, for better or worse.
| So john, Jr. $ face wore "a happy
expression that night, as he heard mis-
lord and master speak so splendidly of
( her adventures.
In fact, ii was John Grub's thanks
giving
Row to Dress sheep.
Now that mutton is becoming prom
inent as food in the west we give the
followingmanner of CassiuS NJ. Clay's
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