Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1889 — Had her Doubts, [ARTICLE]

Had her Doubts,

Bessie (who has been down South on a visit, writing home)-Dear papa, I have married without your consent, but Gerald Is good and I love him. Papa (replying)- D,:;:r Bessie, if your Gerald isn’t a blank fool come home and bring him along, and I’ll forgive you. Bessie (writing again, in great perplex-ity)-I)ear papa, I don't know whether to bring him or not. Yv'hat are your views as to the spelling of proper names Gerald Snells his last name Smvtti.

A Philadelphia firm has opened an office in London for the sale of American soft coal. “8o far as is known,” sa) s an organ of the coal trade, “this is virtually the first of its kind ever established in Europe and the success of the experiment may lead others to cater for what has ever been a great British monopoly, viz., the st pply of coal to the ocean fleets.” If we can sell coal in England in competition with the coal mined in that coudirv, how is it that we can’t sell our coal here where we have the advantage of transportation, m> less we '.re protected 75 cents a ton—more than the entire cost of the labor engaged in mining? Perhaps the Journal can tell us.—The Indianapolis Sentinel. xhe autuor oi tne •• .Lottie Brown Jug” was probably in a jugular vein, when he wrote that sometime popular ditty.