The Bessemer indicator., 1893-06-10
LOVE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
After the Deacon Corraiiod tile Messen.
gor tho Young People Eiopcd

LOVE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
After the Deacon CorrsIiod tile Iessen.
gor tho Young People Eiopct
When the news OF the presidential
election reached here last fall. Dea-
con Horace Dykeman shook his fist
under Fred Gilbert's nose, in John
Gilbert's blacksmith shop, and yelled:
THE country's ruined and you helped
do it," Deacon Dykeman is Re-
publican, says the Oakland, Pa, cor
respondent of tho New York sun,
and the election oil the national Dom
ocratic ticket made him very wrathy.
Gilbert. who is a young Democrat,
smiled at the deacon. backed away
from his fist and gave three cheers
for Cleveland and Stevenson.
"Cheer, you copperheadcd repro
bate!n roared the deacon and out he
rushed. He quickly turned back and
pointing his finger at tho robust
young Democrat, said: "Sec here,
Gilbert in the future | wont have
anything to do with you You un-
lerstand what / mean, don't yoH"
And with that he wheeled about and
started for home.
Gilbert was ieGpins COMPANY with
Miss Emily, Deacon pykemans
eldest daughter, and understood what
the deacon meant, but imagined that
he would change his mind in few
days. The next time that Gilbert
went to call on Miss Dykeman it was
Sunday afternoon, and the deacon
| met him at the door and waved him
back. 1.-The country's ruined" he
| shouted, land you helped do it, SO
keep off my premises entirely in the
future. Don't come near my house
again"
Gilbert went away, and in the
evening he and Miss Dykeman met
and took stroll. They soon became
engaged, the agreement being that
the marriage should not take place
until Miss Dykeman had overcome
her fathers enmity toward Gilbert
and won his consent. Miss Dykcman
labored hard, but the deacon was
firm in his decision not TO have any
thing to do with the young man, and
then Mrs. Dykeman tried to reconcile
him. but in vain.
There is one farm between the
Dykeman and Gilbert residences, and
when the lovers couldn't meet they
sent notes to one another. Miss
Dykeman owned an intelligent dog
named Eeauty. and one day she con-
cealed Il note in his collar and told
him to run down to Mr.. Gilbert's and
give it to Fred. Beauty trotted oil.
and Miss Dykcman watched him till
he got 10 the Gilbert door yard.
Young Gilbert was expecting tho
Jog, and Beauty stayed around until
he had answered the love letter and
fastened it to his collar, when he
cantcred back to his mistress. ncauty
soon got so that he barked and made
u great fuss whenever Miss Dyke
man failed to send him on the errani,
| dashing oil in great haste when he
found that he had note to deliver,
and waiting patiently until the note
was answered and placed in his
charge.
One afternoon, in the early part OF
February, Miss Dylseman saw her
father coming up the road just after
| place with Il note for Fred. The dea-
Con bolu inc Go5 10 go buck, DIt
Beauty dashed past him and went on
much to the deacon's astonishment
A few days later the deacon cnught
Beauty while he was on his way t.
Gilbert's with one OF Emily's notes.
The deacon read ii, and that WAS the
end of Beauty's occupation as note
bearer between the lovers. In the
note Miss pykeman told Mr.
Gilbert TO meet her at the
donation party at Eli Warehouses;
residence. Her father refused TO let
her go, and his con luct brought the
courtship to u sudden termination.
On February Z Miss Dykcman re-
ceived letter from an aunt in Tomp-
kins county, New York, telling he,
to come there at once if she wished
10 see her cousin, q young woman OF
her own age. alive. Mr.. Dykcman
urged his daughter to go at once,
and she did so. 1t was put-up job
on the deacon, for Gil bert joined Miss
| Dykeman. on February 20, and in a
few days the deacon received letter
from Emily, in which she informed
him that she had been married t.
Gilbert, aud hoped that he would be
ready to forgive them both when they
returned.