Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-06-09
LOVE IN PENNSYLVANIA.

After the ,Ssacon Corralled the Messen-
ger the Young People EIoped.
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 itr' Deacon Dykeman is a Re-
publican, says the Oakland, Pa, cor
respondent of tho New York sun,
and the election of the national Dem
ocratic ticket made him very wrathy.
Gilbert, who is young Democrat,
smiled at the deacon, backed away
from his fist and gave three cheers
for Cleveland and Stevenson.
Cheer, you copperheaded repro
bate!" roared 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 UNI
derstand what / mean don't you?"
And with that he wheeled about and
started for home.
Gilbert was keeping company with
Miss Emily. Deacon Dykeman's
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
ha hn
shouted, land you helpod 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 a 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 Dykeman
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 esidences, and
when the lovers couldn't meet they
sent notes TO one another. Miss
Dykeman owned an intelligent dog
named Beauty, and one day she con-
cealed note IN his collar and told
him TO run down to Mr. Gilbert's and
give it to Fred. Beauty trotted Off,
and Miss Dykeman watched him till
he got to the Gilbert door yard.
Young Gilbert was expecting the
dog, and Beauty stayed arohnd until
he had answered the love letter and
fastened it TO his collar, when he
cantered back to his mistress. Beauty
soon got so that he barked and made
great fuss whenever Miss Dyke
man failed to send him on the errand,
dashing off 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 Dykeman saw her
father coming up the road just after
she had sent Beauty of TO the Gilbert
place with note Tor Fred. The dea-
con told the dog to go back, but
Beauty dashed past him and went on
much to the deacon's establishment.
A few days later the deacon caught
Beauty while he was on his way to
Gilbert's with one of Emily's notes
The deacon read il, and that was the
end of Beauty's occupation as a note
bearer between the lovers In the
note Miss Dykeman told MIR.
Gilbert TO meet her at the
donation party at Eli Warehouses;
residence. Her father refused to let
her go, and his conduct brought the
courtship to a sudden termination.
On February II Miss Dykeman re-
ceived letter from an aunt in Temp
kins county, New York, telling her
to come there at once if she wished
70 see her cousin, a young woman OF
her own age. alive. Mr. Dykeman
urged his daughter TO go at once,
and she did so. 1t was put-up Job
on the deacon, for Gi bert Joined Miss
Dykeman on February 20, and in q
few Gays the deacon received letter
from Emily. in which she informed
him th.t she had been married to
Gilbert. and hoped that he would be
ready to forgive them both when they
returned