The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-30
A Young Mans Record
Bv JEANNE OLIVE LOIZEAUX

II was not troubled that way, Mr..
Forrest"
"But-but-"
when do you enter the roped arena
to meet all comers"
But I'm no slugger All these things
Just happened So have put them all
behind me-"
Until you meet the next policeman!
Mr.. Forrest, you came TO ask my con-
sent to wed my daughter. | cannot
give IT,"
But II | change-lf | have changed
If | do not slug any more-if am
no longer troubled with exuberance OF
spirits"
Please consider this interview at an
end. Mr.. Forrest. hope for your
mothers sake you will change"
And he gave his CONSENT" !" wills
pcred Miss Prue, who was waiting
in the hall for her lover to reappear,
NO, and he never will! He thinks
I'm a slugger and a loafer"
How dare he! How dare he!"
"Oh, he dared, all right. lie didn't
seem a bit embarrassed over II. lie
same as called me a prize fighter
And you so gentle that you wouldn't
hurt Il fly! Well we won't elope, and
We won't commit suicide. You just
walt That father Of mine is going to
get talking to-"
The father got It, but II did not
change the situation, except he hoped
that Mr.. Forrest, for the sake OF his
parents, would give up slugging and
take to the law and become a credit to
the bench and bar. II he did this. and
after five or ten or fifteen years.
proved that he had recovered from
his exuberance of spirits, why he might
come around and talk.
Miss Prue was not found dead at the
end OF a rope In the garret next morn
ing, They don't do that way nova
days. They write a little note and
smuggle II out Of the house and then
| have a feeling that their angel grand
mother is looking down from heaven
and will somehow bring things around
all right. In this instance, Miss Prue's
angel grandmother was on the spot
and saw her way clear
Mr. Forrest did not call again. He
did not propose an elopement nor plan
the death OF the banker II he was a
slugger he was an honorable one. Be
sides, he also had grandmother up
there. She was a hustler and schemer
when alive, and he believed he could
! depend upon her now.
Mr.. Wilson was interested in mar
BILE quarry, and occasionally drove out
there to see how things were going
There had been cutdown In the
wages OF the men. Too much money
was being sent back to Italy. Two
weeks after breaking Mr. Forrest in
two he started to visit the quarry and
settle the trouble II he could, and Miss
Prue accompanied him. At about the
same time the despalrlng lover started
out from somewhere in his auto for a
spin. His route passed the quarry.
The banker arrived to find seven or
eight hands hanging around and
grumbling, while dozen more had
packed up and departed strike had
been declared. He stood up In his auto
and GRATED. He showed that a cut In
wages always made the wage-earner
more economical, and was therefore a
good thing. and he was going on to
prove several other things when the
men made dash for him and hauled
him out of the machine They had
just begun TO pound him up right
smart when another auto arrived on
the scene, and he had n dim remem
brance Of hearing his daughter cry
out:
"Oh, It's Harry-my Harry! Oh
Harry, they are killing dad"
This was the situation that the two
angel grandmothers brought about
Couldn't be better Mr. Harrison For
rest was out Of his machine and slug
ging away, one, two, three. inside OF ten
seconds The enemy went down. The
enemy dubbed and slashed at him
The enemy was punched until 1t fed
And Mr.. Wilson sat up In the road and
saw II all. and heard Miss Prue's words
of commentator and eXultatlon And
when the enemy had been lambasted
the banker arose and extended his hand
to the young man and quietly oh
served:
81 thought you were to quit slug
ging!"
But this was a special occasion, you
seel" was the reply
"Oh, | understand Well, you might
call this evening and make It another
special occasion, and | shall expect you
TO take up law the very first thing in
the morning"
And Miss Prue reached out and
patted her father on the shoulder
You are the best ever" she said