Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1882 — Why he Couldn’t Have Emily [ARTICLE]

Why he Couldn’t Have Emily

One of the daughters of Jonathan ; Edwards, the celebrated theologian I and the first President of Princeton college, had some spirit of her own, and also a proposal of marriage. The youth was referred tp her father. “No,’’said that stern individual, “you can’t have my daughter.” “But I love her and she loves me,” pleaded the young man. “Can’t have her!” said the father. “I am wtll-to do and can support her,” exclaimed the applicant. “Can’t have her!” persisted the eld man. ‘May I ask.” meekly inquired the suitor, “if you have heard anything against my chrracter?” “No.” /said t>r obstinate parent, “I hawti't heard any thing against you ; I think you are a promising young man, and that’s why you can’t have her. She’s got a very bad temper and you wouldn’t be happy with her.” The lover, amazed, said: “Why, Mr. Edwards? I thought Emily was a Chris* tian. She is a Christian, isn’t she?” “Certainly she is,” answered the con scientious parent, “but, young man. when you grow older you’ll be able to understand that there’s some folks that the grace of God can live with that you can’t. Dublin once boasted of a Magistrate. one Justice O’Malley, whose cl- ! oquence and erjdition made him the pride and delight of the city. “Ho sorr ” he thundered to an old offends er who had often escaped what the Judge always spoke of as “the but end of the law." “y’arre about to ins eurr the pinillty of your mulcfac’ions, Justice, sorr, may purshu* wid a leaden heel, but sc smites”—here the quotation eluded him—“she smites” triumphantly—“she smites wid a cast eirom toe!” Popular belief in„ the wisdom of vaccination has received a severe blow in a part of Germany, Where a large number of children, both those vaccinated for the first time and oth . ers revaccinated after an interval of twelve years, have fallen dangerously ill. tiie flesh about the punctured part decaying and sloughing off, and the bodies being covered and boils. It is thought unlikely that a single one of the affected children will recover. Impure virus appears to have been the cause of this unfor tunatc result. A Berks County. Pa., sportsman, while hunting in the mountains, laid down his gun, whe a rattlesnake crawled into the muzzle. After vain efforts to dislodge the smake, tin sportsman discharged the gun and blew the serpent into fragments. The reptile “didn’t know it was loaded.”