Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1881 — A Tale of Love and Sacriflce. [ARTICLE]

A Tale of Love and Sacriflce.

“But, papa ” “Not another wonl; I’m a wild cat when my back’s up, and don’t yon forget it.” The speaker was a hard-visaged-man, dressed with an") elegance that ill-accorded with his evident want of culture. She Who addressed him as “papa” was a fair-haired girl of eighteen summers. Reared on the knee of luxury, she had never known what it was to have her slightest wish thwarted. Her father, a plumber, was, from the nature of his business, a man of iron will, but he was not devoid of pity or generosity, as many •a debtor whose house and lot he had taken in ' part payment for fixing the water pipes, letting the balance of the accout run along for two months, could testify. He had surrended Cecil, his only child, with all that'wealth could purchase, looking forward to the time when she would marry the eldest son of a Niftgra Falls hackmam, or some person of fortune commensurate with her own. But; she had allowed her heart to be ensnared by the wiles of Cupid, and that morning had asked her sire’s consent to her marriage with a poor but not proud young man whose agricultural operations on the board of trade had not been attended with success. It was this request that produced the answer given above. Again Cecil pladed with her parent not to crush the love that blossomed in htr heart. The old man’s went back to the happy clays when he had told her mother of his love, and how they commenced life with nothing but strong arms and willing hearts. Placing his Tan-like hand on Cecil’s shoulder, the old man looked at her tenderly and said: “Look ye, my lass. \ou say you love this man and cannot live without hini." Mebbenot. I have promised you a seal skin sacque this winter. ‘Let us test your love. If you become this man’s bride I shall not buy you the sacque. In my hand is a check for S3OO. In the wheat pit over on the board of trade Is your lover. Which do you choose? Without raising her head she reach, ed out convulsively for the check.