The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-18
SHE SAID YES BY TELEPHONE.
me Drummer was Busy, but He Got
Ahead of the Professor.
From the Ne,c York Tribune.

From the Nelv York Tribune.
There is young lady living il Detroit
who for some time has been the recipient of
the attentions Of two young men, one a
professor In the state university at Ann
Aroor and the other a travelling salesman
TOT New York wholesale hardware house,
whose route extends through Michigan and
parts OF Canada. One day last week the
New Yorker arrived in Detroit late ia the
afternoon, and of course Immediately
started making the rounds of the retail
hardware dealers, with the laudable pur-
pose OF selling each a good stock for the
winter before the repres entative of the
rival house should put iE an appearance.
be had hoped to call on the object OF his
directions in the evening, but business was
good and O'Clock found him busy trying
TO Induce a Woodward avenue dealer to
take SIX dozen axes, four dozen grindstones
and half carload Of wooden pals.
AT this stage of the proceedings a younger
brother of the young lady dropped in to buy
new jackknlfe, aad mentioned casually
that the Ann Arbor professor was up at the
house. 1t instantly occurred to the enter
prising hardware and cutlery salesman that
the professor had come for no other purpose
than to lay his heart at the feet of the young
lady he himself adored. For a moment
there was struggle in his breast, but he
speedily got conCrol of himself and decided
that he could not possibly leave the store,
as the dealer was just on the point of decid-
ing to take the pals. But the thought Of
giving up the lady who had been for months
constantly in his mind, waking or sleeping,
was unbearable. Light suddenly dawned
on him. Handing the dealer circular ex-
planning the merits of his new double
bladed chopping-knives, he requested the
use of the merchants telephone for five
minutes, stepped to it. and rang up the CEN
trail office.
A moment later the telephone bell at the
residence of the young lady rang sharp and
decisive. The professor had been there for
an hour talking pleasantly of the grand
educational work they were doing in the
department of foSsilology lat Ann Arbor.
When the bell rang the lady's father being
absent (he was a physician), she excused
| herself and went into the adjoining room to
answer it. The professor heard her step to
the telephone and say "Yes,n make short
panse, and say YES" again. Then there
was a short pause, and he heard her say,
"Why-why-reall this is sudden" Then
| there was a still longer pause, and he heard
her say, YES" softly, then "Good-bY,"
and then she hung up the receiver and
came into the room. The professor moved
closer to the fire and remarked that 1t was
a chilly evening, and he thought it was
| going to snow, and then resumed his talk
about the great work at the university.
| Fiftesn minutes later there was a ring at
the front door bell.
The lady answered it and district mes
senger boy handed her a plain gold ring,
which she slipped on her finger and re-
turned to the parlor. miss =" said the
professor five minutes later, II want to
ask you an important question this even
ing. Excuse me for putting il bluntly, but
will you be my wife" But we need not go
further with this. Two minutes later the
professor went down the front step, shook
his fist at the telephone wire, and took the
S:45 o'clock train for Ann Arbor.