Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 20, Hope, Bartholomew County, 7 September 1893 — Page 7

PELEG’S DIAMONDSDetroit Proa Preas. Peleg M. Bivias, taking him all together, was the provokenest man I ever see. Not that Pel eg was not honest and Methodist, pious, and all that, but he did have the shif’lessest ways and the carelessest habits of anybody I ever came across. He owned a tol’able good farm on the edge of town and somehow made a living on it, and they did say he had money in the bank, but he wasn’t thrifty and didn’t seem to know how to make the odds and ends useful. If he had an old plow or an old suit of clothes, or a pig that didn’t exactly suit him, he never could tell what to do with it, and was sure to give it to some of his poor neighbors, and one time he gave a man an old horse and the man actually sold him for $50. Fifty dollars! and Peleg M. only laughed that lazy laugh of his when he heard of it. Another thing that I didn’t like about Peleg M. was that he took a fancy to me. Me! Mary Kent Colliper, one of the best catches in the country, and the way he pestered my daily life out was terrible to contemplate. He kept oncoming around two or three times a week, ambling up to the front door from the gate like a pacing colt and asking where Mary was, when Mary was busy in the kitchen or doing her housework and having no time to waste on any man, much less any man like Peieg M. Bivins. But Peleg M. just laughed when I scolded and set around in the way, talking to mother, for she thought Peleg M. was the nicest young man in the whole State. One night Peleg M. came to see me expressly, so he said, and mother went over to a neighbor’s. “I’d like to know,” says I to him, “I’d like to know, Mr. Bivins, why you annoy me with your attentions.” You see I was on my high horse and used high language. “I didn’t know I annoyed you, Miss Oolliper,” said he, chuckling kind of mean like. “I thought I only pestered you. That’s what you’ve said all along.” “You know what I mean,” said I, “and why do yob come to see me.” “There isn’t any girl, so handy, Miss Mary,” said he. “Oh,” said I, with my nose turned up. “If that’s the reason I won’t be so handy,” and I got up to leave the room. “Aro you going to leave me here alone,” said he. “There’s nobody to leave you with, m there,” said I. “Not that I know of. But I’m right good company for myself and I think I’d enjoy a quiet evening. So run along up stairs.” “I won’t, either,” said 1, finding that he hadn’t better sense than to stay there by himself. I didn’t say anything more for five minutes, and he didn’t. “I like this,” he said after a while. “Like what?” said I. “Like this quiet evening, I didn’t think it could be so quiet while you were around.” “Oh, didn’t you, said I. “Mary,’’said he,“I’d like to marry a woman as quiet as you are. I believe I could stand married life in that way.” “Don’t talk to me about marrying,” said I. “I wouldn’t marry you if there was a diamond on every hair in your head.” “It wouldn’t do you any good if you did,” said he, softening his voice till it sounded nicer than I ever heard it before; “because, Mary, you aro such a good dispositions! girl that you never would pull any of my hair out, and what good would the diamonds do you?” X,, don’t know about that,” said I, feeling flattered a good deal. “I’m very fond of diamonds and I don’t ever expect to have one.” Peleg M. chuckled a little, and reaching in his pocket he brought out a tiny silver box and handed it to me. “What is it?” said I. “Look and see,” said he, and I opened the box. “Oh, oh,” said I, for there was the shiningest, brightest diamonds in a ring 1 ever set my eyes on, and it must have cost as much as $40. “What are you going to do with it?” said I, handling it as if it were a precious baby. “Going to give it to a girl," said j he. “What girl?” said I, shutting it up with a snap and holding it tight. I “A girl that likes me and that I j don’t pester half to death,” said he. I “I think you might give it to me,” eaid I, feeling hurt. “I’d rather have a diamond than anything in ' the world.” “But Peleg M. Bivius goes with ' the diamond,” said he. Then I had to laugh a little, for 1 really didn’t hate Peleg M. “Well,” said I, “I suppose every blessing has it drawbacks, .and it’s a rare apple that hasn't a speck in it j somewhere.” I

Peleg wasn’t saucy a bit when he spoke next“Mary,” said hg, “do you really mean that?” I just nodded and laughed. “Stand up here," he said, grabbing for me, “and let me kiss you.” I never would have thought it of myself, but would you really believe it, I got right up and Peleg M. kissed me four times and I seemed to like it, for I had that shining ring on my finger and somehow there was a new light filling the room and falling around Peleg M. Half an hour afterward when mother came home 1 tried to make Peleg M. keep still, but he told her all about it and she actually kissed Peleg M. Bivins. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Boston has 3,000 Portuguese. Chicago has seven theological seminaries. China’s Imperial canal is 2,100 miles long. Amsterdam, the capital of Holland, rests on forests of tiles. The anchors of the Campania weigh eight and one-half tons each. A negro Congregational church in Washington has 535 members. Electric tramways and railways in Europe aggregate about 270 miles. For stealing a chicken sandwich a New York man was fined 120 in New Rochelle, N. Y., on Wednesday. Renewed effort is being made in Wisconsin to raise money for a monument to the late Senator Matt H. Carpenter. Rome was supplied from twentyfour large aqueducts, which brought 50,000,000 cubic feet of water daily into the city. If men would stand up for their religion like they do for their politics, how quick the devil would begin to nin.—Ram’s Horn. A Brooklyn thief was betrayed by his buttons, two of which he left in the fanlight of a house he robbed a few days ago. Cowboys in the town of Three Rivers, Mich., are up to date, it not a little beyond. Many of them have discarded horses for bicycles in herding cattle. It takes seven days after death, according to Siamese belief, for the soul to reach heaven, and prayers are kept up during that period to help it on its way. Two divorce suits in one day by two men against the same woman was a peculiar case that was brought up for trial in the Pittsburg courts last we^k. Taunton, Mass., some years ago deeded a site to the United States for a Federal building, and having lost patience waiting for the latter wants the land back again. Coal oil was first used as an illumin 1826. The United States export of oil in 1889 exceeded in value $45,000,000. In the same year the world produced 34,820,306 barrels. A man who was arrested for begging in the streets of Montreal, last week, claimed that he was a Boston merchant and was remanded for eight days that inquiries might be made concerning him. Some idea of the slaughter of elephants can be secured from the fact that in Zansibar alone some 500,000 pounds of ivory are marketed every season from the tusks of ten thousand elephants. The Arabs have a superstition that the stork has a human heart. When one of these birds builds its nest on a housetop they believe the happiness of that household is insured for that year. The Probate Court at New Bedford, Mass., who has jurisdiction over such things, has authorized a young lady to change her name to Ella Rabbitt. Heretofore it has been Etta Rabbitt. An editor out West who sends his paper out to “time subscribers” sends a bill each year. When a second bill is sent and there is no response he takes it for granted that the subscriber is dead and publishes an obituary notice in hi* columns. A New York employe, of the Third avenue elevated road earns his liv ing by standing all day at the City Hail terminus and repeating four words, “Bridge to the right.” New Yorkers regard him as a nuisance, but to strangers the information he conveys is valuable. An Irish setter dog that for ten years past has run to every alarm of fire at Malden, Mass., died on Monday. and the hook and ladder company to which he was attached and which! was attached to him is inconsolable. In connection with the sanitation of arnijies, thousands of experiments on large bodies of men have been made apd have led to the result that, in peace or war. in every climate, in heat, cold or rain, soldiers are better able to endure the fatigue of the most exhausting marches when the j are not allowed any alcohol at alh

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