Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1876 — Look Twice. [ARTICLE]

Look Twice.

A lady who has a great horror of agents and who has been more than usually cheated out ot time and money by them lately, was called ty the door the other morning by a resounding ring ot the bell. Upon opening it she discovered a nicelydressed man, carrying in his hand a small satchel. One glance she gave at this, then, instantly concluding he was one of her abominations, she hastily ejaculated: •* I do not wish anything this evening, sir," and brought the door to with aclick, afterward returning softly to the partly-closed blinds of a front window to reconnoiter. She beheld the supposed agent staring rather blankly at the closed door, a comical struggle, in which amusement and annoyance were each striving hard for victory, taking place on his face, while his disengaged hand, after the manner of all men when considerably taken aback, vigorously stroked his whiskers er rierv--ously twisted his moustache. '.a— _ She gave one hasty look, then another, her eyes growing larger; then there was a little half-scream of delight, a sweeping rush, a dobF swung wldeppem a man and woman rapidly, ad vanclttg, Mid then—oh! food for ye gossip-loving neighbors on the watchman audible kiss, and a woman clasped tightly in a man’s strong arms. It was the lady’s father, whom she had not seen for a number of years.—Cincinnati Timu. - Dr. Udyler calls debt “the cancerthat devours churches."