Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1883 — The Retort Courteous. [ARTICLE]

The Retort Courteous.

One of the most unique specimens* of the courting crisis on reoord, occulted at a Loudon dinner party. He had long made love to her, and while at the table he learned from a friend sitting next to him that his rival intended to “pop the question” that very day. What was tobe done? He was some distance from her, while the dreaded rival was at her side. Tearing a leaf from a note book he wrote on it with a pencil: “Will you be my wife? Write your answer, yes or no, on this paper and return it to me.” This sent to her by a waiter, saying; “To the lady in blue at the end of the table Be very careful.” The servant was careful enough, but the sender forgot to give him a pencil for the lady to use. She didn’t have a pencil, tut she coolly put the note into her bosom and answered to the waiter: "Tell the gentleman yes,”with as little betrayal of excitement as if she were accepting an invitation to a game of croquet A sensation was created in the Star route oases, Thursday, by Berdell withdrawing his plea of “not guilty” entering a plea of guilty and offering himself as jr witness for the government,, asking^; clemency of the court \ ; jM , -