The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-10-20
COURTING In THE SOUTH.
The Whole Town Turns Out to Help "A
Stranger Win His Bride.

| goes counting III Il quiet Kentucky viii
| lage. II he can make any sort of favor
able impression upon the villagers they
| will speedily get up pool to help him
| win the object of his affections. They
may not help him any, but there will
| be apparent enough good intentions to
pave the bottom of the other place. and
| to reconstruct all the sidewalks on
Broadway. Sometimes girl will live
in a riverside hamlet, a mile from the
nearest railroad station.
One daya wagon will take up young
| man passing through the state, who re-
members that somewhere near is Il
| bright-eyed, mlschie vous girl whom he
/ tlirted with once in the moonlight while
she was away at boarding-school. She
| was charming then, she must be more
| so now, and he has heard casually of
| late that she is still unmarried. The
| Young man travels with an accident in
surance policy, and he will dare even to
stop here and see this minister's daugh-
| ter. There is TO be moonlight this even
| ing, too.
"Pomp, run out with this note and
| bring me an answer, and the grlnning
darkey at the gate knows III advance of
| the directions to whom it is addressed.
Before many minutes he is at the tray
eler's room door.
Its all right, boss"
whats all right, you impudcnt
dog"
ooh, axes yo' pahdon, but see it
in her eyes. Yes, sab, Miss Hates TO
home" all this before he can deliver
| the written message from the parson-
age.
The grinning African is soon forgotten
under the influence of moonbeams,
| hammocks, and Titan locks. But
Pomp's memory has served him better
The stranger who arrived in the after
noon is soon a stranger no longer. Miss
| Rates new beau is a subject Of wide
speculation before the hamlet is asleep.
More than one Villager next day makes
overtures towards an acquaintance. And
the overture always leads up to
81 believe | saw you walking out with
Miss Kate this morning ,"
"Yes, sir. The walk up to your ceme-
! terry is delightful. Really. | had no idea
of the fine view to be had from the riv-
| err
"Yes, it's pretty fine, but Miss Kate
there amt many girls like her now. "
And one is told Of her good qualities as
| if he had never vet beheld her.
At the inn dinner is table d. hote, of
| course. There is but one table. The
| proprietor's wife and all the ladies be-
| meath the roof are ranged in line OPP
posite the man who came a-woolng.
| Pomp has done such good service that
| formal introductiOns are unnecessary.
| Doesn't everybody know the strangers
| mission now? And doesn't the regis
| ter tell his name?
cts fine weather, Mr.. Dash" the
| landlady observes.
VERY fine, madam"
''And good weather to be out with so
| fine a girl as Miss Kate. | declare it
| amt every town where there's such Il
| fine girl lives. Why, she"--
There's her good looks for soup, her
| amiability with the eatree. her Wit for
the roast, and her popularity for dessert.
| and when the ladies leave the table
they ''guess you'll be going to see her
| again this afternoon"
How long will you be out?" asks the
| livery man.
ooh, an hour or SO"
Coin to just drive about town, |
reckon?'
"Wel, not very far out"
Gust goin' to take Miss Kate out for
a drive, | reckon" This honest man
of business, in the democratic commun-
| lty that this is, seems a substantial citi-
zen and pillar in society, and one can
not be rude to him.
am anticipating that pleasure,
sir"
"Ah, | thought so. And l may say
that you'll find mighty fine young lady
when you get her. I've known her
| folks"-
Why it was that the stranger never
returned and that another stranger APP
peared suddenly at the parsonage one
day and carried off its especial prize to
great city IS, of course, plain enough
to the villagers, but the information
never came from either Miss Katie"
or from the "beau" whom Pomp drove
into town. The explanation was made
in part by the innkeeper's boy himself
and in part by the village postmistress.
Il could have told you so all the
time," said this worthy iunctionarv, as
the village watched young Dash drive
out the golden haired maiden. 81 knew
something was up when | see a letter
| or two coming to Miss Kate in q strange
| handwritc. There wasn't nothing to
say who they might be from, but one
| day see letter in Miss Kate's hand
write 90 through my office directed to
| this same gentleman-and then he sent
her newspapers and things"-and the
oracle magnlhed INTO tender core
spondencc the exchange Of two or three
| formal letters which had passed be-
tween the ex school girl and her friend,
chiefly about some new music or novels
he had some time promised to find for
her.
The village editor had a whole week
| IN which To construct fitting paragraph,
and here is what the next Olive Branch
| had TO say:
The amiable and accomplished Col. G..
Archie Dash, from the city, paid hastv
visit to one our bellies last week. He
appears to be about the most intelligent
young man we have ever had the pleas
ire to meet. 1t is rumored that there is
to be wedding before the SHOWS again
cover Cemetery Hill. Come again. Col.