The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-07
BEAT The OLD FOLKS.
uy NrNNlr ". pAlxEsNrLtEn.

florists, but O good, HWeot oceP-pIuh'
old.iashioned cabbngo-ro'e A coun'
try.girl, healthy, pretty with eyes
whose expression was Ike that Of tho
cows slfe MIXED, teoth white and
strong, and cheeks Of unYarying color.
AZ for Fred, he was neither stupid nor
loutisb, though 80 far as awkward shy.
ness was concerned no had tho address
usual with tho average country bump.
kin. He was now twenty-five, and
Rhoda was eighteen. High timo, no
thought, that they, woro Fettling down
TO life together, and In earnest, !,
But father and mother SIimson looked
at this proposition from a different
standpoint. Fred was young and he
had no property-iust worked for hire
on his fathers farm. Likes not no
never would have any-thcro didn't
seem to DO much drive to him. As for
tho prospect Of stepping, into hia faith
er's sales.--future tnasn't haler hear
tier man in the entire townahip than
Fred's father. He was good for forty
yenrs vet, II not more. So the Slim.
sons ffowned on tho whole arrange
rnent. There was old man Donohue,
who owned all the land Rhodas iather
worked on shares, "bGsides twenty
horses and two hundred head o cattle,
who was Just pinin' for Rhody, and she
wouldn't have nothin' to say to him"
they complained.
So, TO revenge Themselves on their
daughter for sighting such golden op:
portuuities, they had forbidden Fred
tho house, and the young people were
In trouble deep and dire.
Fred was accustomed to como to the
pasture bars in the summer twilight,
aivo the call OF some bird In his melodl'
Gus whistle, and Rhoda would hasten to
the tryst. where they would review the
whole mourniul situation and wonder
what was to DO done. Once Fred, In his
ardor, proposed that she should come
and live with his parents, but she
snapped him up briskly with Never,
Fred McSIorris. f Two got to live with
anybody's mother, I'll stay right to
home and live long O. my own. When
YOU got q house O. your own to put me
into. then we'll got married. II you
hnint got nothin' else; but not till
then"
Poor Fred went back over tho mead
ows quite crestfallen and almost IN de.
spair. and did not return to whistle
over the bars for three whole days, dur.
| ing which poor Rhoda shed many tears
| in secret, feared she had been too bard
on him and wondered il he would ever
come again.
On the fourth evening he returned
ouce more. There was triumphant
note in his shrill call; and Rhoda knew
os abe ran tleetly toward him that no
had good news to tell.
"What ia II 2" asked she, breathfesAy,
breaking OF from the kiss no was dis
posed TO make too long. =,
"rhings is comm our way, Rhoda II
you'll give mo your promise to dos l
want TO do"
II don't know about that" said Rho
do, warily. II can't make no promises
in the dark" .,,
dwell, you don't have to. All want
otyou is to help mo get the Scotland
YOU can easys turnin' your hand over
10 buy that little frame house over by
the south modder that fathers got for
sale. It's the ono chance Of lifetime.
witt, a pony and phaeton thrown in"
Rhoda's eyes began to grow largo and
ii don't know how I eau help you
anv, Frod. but I'll do what you want
me to il faint anything wrong"
~ knovcd YOU wouldn't 20 back on
mo. It's Jest this: I soon some ndver-
tIsements In tho county paper about tho
great doin's they're goin' 10 have 10
Clinton on the Fourth Of July. Picnic
on the fair grounds, balloon to go up In
tho Afternoon, brass band, an speeches
mn fireworks at night, and the old
Harry knows what else
"Woll?" interrupted Rhoda, expect
"Wou, you eco They're loOkIn' for n
biz crowd-reg'lar iNm-irom all tho
cnnutry round. There's furniture
doalor lhcro, who wants to take ad-
vantage OF II TO advertise his furniture,
mn hell piyo any couple thatll stand
IN n eli married in his show window
that Inornin' ono O. the best sets O.
furniture In tho store, an boss aud
phaeton to boot"
"Bu, I don't SEQ wlIoro the Gvc hun
drcd"- A.,
"No, course not. In comm 10 thas'
though. Tho Teller that runs the bal
ioon-au aIr.or.nol, or somothin' like
tbat they call hin-'ll give five hundred
dollars 10 some couple to bc married in
Ma bnlloon-icst as itS startin' tow'rtis
tbo cIonds. | Inowod could count on
Won. Rhodn, so | writ an told EN- both
rc'd do II, an | waited to git NJ answer.
an havo il all signed un' scaled atOro l
told you" ~ To-, w..
,foHrcd to think Of il! How can any,
body git married twieot on the same
day, 'thout runnin' the resk o stasos
prieon2"
whether thoy marry tho same party
both times, don't YOU sce2 Princes and
nTlncess an all them there tony people
docs Il twIcet. I's thinktn', though,
that mebbe tho alr.or.not might not like
Il II no got to know wo'S married. 1rIt In
tho show window, 80 lowed we'd do
il this hero way: I'll sneak granny's
Ouakor gown and bunnit out oil hot
CIosct for YOU for the lrst wGddiu' an
in uut on tho old gentleman's Sunday
anti and broadbrim myself. Nobody'd
never know rs In them rigs. Rhodn, an
thoy'd think wo's brand'new people
whom wu stand up inside tho balloon
an YOU promise to love, honor an
'U Not 'obov,' Fred McSTorris. Tha"s
pono plum out o style. An, besides, l
wouldn't give M nv independence on
the Fourth o. July"