The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-07-18


Clergyman.
so, quite so. I am delighted to be able
to assure your lordship that there was
not a hitch in the proceedings, and ev-
| erything went off exactly as arranged,
and am sure most heartily congrat-
ulate your lordship," said the official
volubly.
congratulated! On blacksmith's
son! You-you''-
"a blacksmith's son certainly, and
doubt if she could have had a better
partner. She had the ideas, and be had
the mechanical ability. Experts say
that the bicycle saddle they have in
vented is just the thing that the public
have long been waiting for and waiting
financial way, and the young man was
good enough to intrust the arrange
| ments to me. I succeeded in interest
Ing the great company promoter, Gil
looley, IN the invention after we had
secured the patents all over the world
for it, and this morning the contracts
We're signed. The young man is to be
ny at large salary when the saddle is
put on the public"
'I-I-really don't know what you
are talking about" stammered the earl.
''The saddle Oh the public? l thought
you said it was to be put on a bicycle y
"Quite so, quite so. Gillooley has paid
your daughter f500,O0O cash, less my
little commission, and he intends to
pass it on to the public for two. mil
lions. And he'll do it too.''
'"Then you-yOu-have married no.
body recently, l take itv' gasped the
earl
'Not likely! There is too much mon
ey in the cycle business for me to
bother about marrying people. I send
them off to a neighboring Minister
"Will you excuse me if l bid you
good morning?" stammered his lord
ship.
"Delighted to have you do so," re-
piled the registrar.
=
This brings me to the conclusion Of
the episode I set out to relate, and all
that now remains for me to do is to
marry off every one OF my characters,
| after the manner of accomplished
story tellers, thus avoiding the exam
pie set me by the money making regis
trar. The particulars Of the Gwendo-
len saddle was printed in most Of the
leading English papers as reading mat
ter, but paid for as an advertisement
| by the talented Gillooley and swallow
ed as real news by gullible public,
who subscribed the capital of the new
company five times over. The informa-
tion was cabled to America, and in the
New York papers Lord de Benture
Barbarrybush read that Lady Gwen
dolen, only daughter of the Earl of
| Stobcross, had become possessed of
$2,500,0O0. As his lordship was at
that moment in negotiation with a
stockbroker who would only give ST.
100000 with his girl and that. largely
conditional on the success of the wheat
corner, Lord de Benture Immediately
sailed for home and told Gwendolen
that he had been in America merely
to learn the best route to Klondike,
which was quite true. He found what
he sought by marrying Gwendolen at
the parish church.. John A. Biggs ulti-
mately welded the grocer's daughter,
Hannah SproWle, after the great sad
die company had gone into liquida-
ton. The stubborn old Earl of Stob-
cross. who had been widower for
20 years, refuses to allow me to unite
hin' to any one and says be doesn't
care hang whether my story is I'M
popular or not on that account. Old
Peter was married already. as he
found out to his cost after the episode
I have related, when his irate wife
nearly broke his head for being such
q fool as to interfere in business that
did not concern him and thus offend
Lady GWendolen and lose all chance
Of getting share Of her money.