The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-08
INDIANA WOULD Do.
The New York Youth Was Soon Frightened
on by the Old Man.

The New York Youth Was Soon Frightened
on by the Old Man..
Said the drummer to the hotel
clerk:
mot long since l was returning
from the East over the Pennsylvania
road, and on the sleeper with me was
an old fellow with his wife and
daughter. He was an innocent cd
soul, and it wasn't long after 1 met
him in the smoking compartment I'M
til we were talking as old friends,
II he was very confidential.
You sc, it was this way he
said, after | had asked him a few
leading questions. My wife and
daughter live in Indiana on L farm.
and I've been thrifty and saving, and
we have got together about $50, 900
in good money and property, and Of
course we air people that air folks in
our neighborhood. l knowed it, and
so did my wife, and after our girl
was growcd up it begun to look as if
some OF those ~lIOosier yaps would
marry her for her money, and me nor
my wife wanted any Iioosier son-in-
law uIllCSS DIS IL ldSU tIldtlCC.
" so last winter we took a notion
go to New York City, and let Lily
that's wi daughter-haye a show in
iust.clasS society. We had been read
ing the papers and fashion magazines
till we were posted, and we knOwed
we WASH t as green aS some. Well,
we got together enough ready money
for a Splurge in New York for couple
Of months and went there tO'a hotel,
The newspapers got a notice somehow
that Lily was an heirGss. and it
wasn't long till the young men got to
coming around by degrees.
= THE first lot wasn't Il great deal
better than Indiana yapS, but at last
one came that was d Jim dandy. He
WIS dressed in style from head to
foot, wore Il bOu uet in his button
hole and all that, and drove around
in a cart | wouldn't haul my hay in,
with d white fellow holding the
horsr that was a wooden man. lie
was a good talkcr, and after | got
used TO him | rather liked his st lie
and tried to OAK Lily to give him a
show, but somehow she was mighty
indifferent, hut he kept on. AT last
he came to sec me about the case.
When he had stated his business /
said to him:
Young man, dc you know my
girl has got money!
"'les, ST. said he, but that is
nothing, Tor love your daughter
That's right, said l but nova
days men, sir, air after money first
and wives anywhere alter that
'l}ut not a man like L am, sir,
says he. 4 acknowledge that money
is useful in matrimony. but that is
only secondary
1" Good again. sad L, and l like
you. l want to say, though, that
Lily will have So, 00C, and that much
money would tempt most men,
:" That is nothing, SIR he said.
'WhX there arc people in New York
who have S23, 600 a month, and some
SO, 900 a week. So you see that
323, 900 a year would not he any great
induccmcnt to me to marry your
daughter if l did not love her.
AT this point l seemed to get an
idee.
'Did you think that Lily had
S25, 600 a YEAR, said /.
~ had incidentally heard so, l
believe said he. very indi9crentiy.
It's a mistake said l, but Of
course that makes no difference to
you. She's got S25, 000, or will have,
for her entire fortune, and
"But | didn't have a chance to say
another word. The young man gave
a gag or two, as if he were choking,
and the next minute he grabbed up
his hat and got out like Satan 5eatin'
tanbark.
$50 / told Lily and Lily laughed.
'Pappy,' said she, Il guess Indi.
ana Is nearer size, and that's
why we air goln' home."--New York
Journal.