Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-07-06
AN INDEPENDENT PAIR.
They Were Too Spirited to Marry
TO Please Others.

philip" said old John Briggs tohis
sou, you are twenty-eigh, years Old
to-day.
$50 the family record says, father"
responded the elegant young gentle
mar addressed. Il am disposed to
place implicit reliance upon it and on
you"
You have done nothing since you
left college but kill time
1T is only retaliation in advance.
sir. Some day or other the old chap
with the scalp-lock and scythe will kill
ne
You are too fippant Since your
Aunt Priscilla left you five thousand a
year you have done nothing but spend
the money. Your income ought to be
enough for a single man, but you draw
on me, too
IN try to draw on you less. sir
at is not that, Philip. You are
quite welcome to "a check now and
then, for | know that you neither
game nor re,ui, and Uon nilnu your
horses, your club, your natural history
craze, nor your luNurlOu, tastes. But
still you spend more money and get
less for it than most young men o
your ago-haye too much, in fact"
81 don't find it too much, sir. In
fact, | was thinking what a graceful
thing it would be if you would double
it-a mere triAe to a gentleman OF
your means. | have to use the most
pitiiul economy, ! assure you"
"Oh, that's it, Ell? Well, there is
a mode to increase it very much. You
have heard me speak Of Phi1ander
spriggs, Of New York?1
"Money-lender and skinAint? Ihave
heard Of him"
Nonsense, Philip. He is q quite
worthy "a, well as very wealthy man;
and if he prefers to invest ready money
in short loans, what of that? Ilend
my money, or some OF it sometimes"
But not at cent per cent"
''No matter. | don't propose that
you shall borrow Of him. He has an
only child, a daughter, who will in
herit all his vast property, just as you
sill mine"
docs she shave notes, father?n
Phil, be kind enough not to indulge
IA chati. | have seen her and talked
With her. She is young, handsome
veil educated, and has good taste i
:%qciety sentlewoman with domestic
Asstes.n
well, father, you are not so old.
Ssd since you admire her so much,
zee no reason why -"
"Stop your nonsense and listen.
Spriggs and | had a talk over il wher
! was in New York, and we have con.
cluded, if you two mi together, t.
chip in equally and settle a hal
million on you on your wedding day
With what you have you'll do vel
enough for awhile"
But demurred Philip. Il don
like Spriggs for "A father-in-law."
"Stufr! you don't marry Spriggs."
"And the name! Think OF il
Spr-r-iggs!"
What OF thatP With marriage tn
name is changed. | don't think shell
gain much by it. Spriggs-Briggs
Six Of one and half a dozen of tn
other"
I'D like to oblige you, father.
suppose ! must marry some day; bu
it will be some one | love; and ther
Philadelphia like, insist on a woma
OF good family"
Some one you love! How tn
deuce do you know you'll not love he
till you see her? Good family! {
course you're entitled to that. III
peerage OF England is full of Viscour
Briggses. The Briggses are found
the Almanac Won Gotha among IL
erlaucht families. Your grandfatht
made $500, 900 in hides and tallow, al
il he had not invested il in real esta
that multiplied itself more than te.
fold before he died, | should have bee
in the same business to-day, and yC
in the c~ounting-room or warehous
Family, indeed! You're a foolish DO
Philip, and your auut's legacy hi
ruined you"
II wish, sir, there were a half-dozt
more old aunts TO continue my ri
in the same way. 1t is of 10 use sc
ting angry, father. You can't keep
up. III take to any thing you say
law, physic, OF divinity; sell n
horses, drop my club, read by Il
cubic foot. but to marry-excuse me
''See here, Phil" exclaimed II
father, who by this time was at viii
heat, "you never knew me to bret
my word. merely ask you to mar