Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-07-29
LOVE m PENnsYLvANIA.
AFTER the Deacon corrAilsd the Messea-
ger the Young People EloPed.


AFTER the Deacon corrAilsd the MssseH-
ser the Young People EloPed.
When the news Of the presidential
election reached here last fall Dea-
con Horace Dykeman shook his INST
under Fred Gilbert's nose, in John
Gilbert's blacksmith shop, and yelled
1.-The country's ruined and you helped
do tn Deacon Dykeman is a Re
publican. says the Oakland. Pa, cor
respondent OF the New York sun,
and the election OF the national Dem
ocratic ticket made him very wrathy.
Gilbert, who is a young Democrat
smiled al the deacon. backed away
from his fist and gave three cheers
for Cleveland and Stevenson.
"Cheer. you copperheaded repro
batem reared the deacon and out he
rushed. He quickly turned back and
pointing his finger at the robust
young Democrat, said: "See here,
Gilbert, in the future | won't have
ANYTHING TO do with you. You un-
derstand what l mean. don't you
And with that he wheeled about and
started for home.
Gilbert was keeping company with
Miss Emily. Deacon Dykeman' :
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 il was
Sunday afternoon, and the deacon
met him at the door and waved him
back The country's ruined, he
shouted. land you helped do IL 80
keep of my premises entirely ID 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 eumity toward Gilbert
and won his consent Miss Dykcmnu
labored hard. but the deacon was
firm in his decision not 10 have ans
thing TO do with the young man. and
then Mrs. Dykeman tried 10 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 10 one another. Mis-.
Dykeman owned an intelligent dog
named Beauty. and one day rho con
cealed note in his collar and told
him to run down TO Mr. Gllbert's anl
give il 10 Fred Beauty trotted OF
and Miss Dykeman watched him TN
he got to the Gilbert door yard
Young Gilbert was expecting IA,
dog, and Beauty stayed around unit
he had answered the love letter aut
fastened ii 10 his collar when b,
cautercd back 20 his mistress Beauty
soon got so that he bArkcd and mad,
great fuss whenever Miss Dyke
man failed to send him on the erraud
dashing OF in great haste when h,
found that he had note 10 deliver
and waiting patiently until tho not,
was answered and placed In hi
charge.
One afternoon, Ia the early part o
February, Miss Dykcman saw hei
father coming up tho road just afteI
she had sent Beauty on TO the Gitbcr
place with a note for Fred The dca
con TOLD the dog TO 20 back. bu
Beauty dashed past him and went Of
much to the deacon's astonishment
A few days later the deacon caugh
Beauty while he was on his way /,
GiIhcrt's with one Of Emilys notes
The deacon read IL, and that was tn,
end Of Bcauty's occupation as a note
bearer between the lovers In TIA,
note Miss Dykcman told Mr.
| Gilbert 70 meet hor az III,
donation party At Eli Morehouso',
residence. Her father refused to lc
her go, and his conduct brought tn,
courtship to sudden termination
On February II Miss Dykeman re-
cetvcd a letter from an aunt In Tnmp
kins county, New York, telling he
TO come there al once II she wishe,
70 see her cousin. a young woman o
her own age, alive. MIR DykemHi
urged his daughter TO 60 at once
and she did 50. IL was "a put-up iol
on the deacon, for Gilbert joined Mis-
Dykeman on February 20, and in
few days the deacon received lctte
from Emily, in which she informe,
him that she had been married 1
Gilbert. and hoped that he would h
ready 70 forgive them both when the,
returned
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