Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — A LOVER’S STRATEGEM. [ARTICLE]

A LOVER’S STRATEGEM.

How He Won a Maiden After Three 1 - Refusals. Americus (Or.) Republican. A young countryman who had long loved a girl who lived a mile or two from him was nearly in despair about winning her hand, and was on the ©ve of selling Out and leaving the country, as the girl had refused him three times and it was "hut that she was engaged to another iellow. Our. hero had noticed that his rival and the girl would walx in an old meadow r field nearly every afternoon, and he grew madly jealous. In his cattle he had a young bull that was always mad with everything but his master, because he was an especial pet. Now Dave, as he called the bull, was to be the object with which to satiate his revenge. He would turn him into the meadow, hide himself and see his rival t oeeed like a football. So, one afternoon, calling in Dave, who would follow him like a dog, he repaired to the meadow, let the fence down, and turned the bull in.v He then strolled ofi, and walked around as miserable as a man could be who was committing an Avil deed. An hour or so later he heard the deep mutterings of the bull, and, hastening to the meadow fence, he saw Dave, about twenty yards from the couple, pawing dirt and shaking his head. The mas was trying to get the girl to run, but she was so terrified that she could not move. The bull made a dash and the fellow ran shrieking for the fence. The bull dashed on alter the flying fellow, while our disconsolate young man, having jumped the fence, rushed to the girl as the bull dashed on after the fugitive rival, and, catching her in his arms, told her that such a coward was unworthy of her. As Dave saw his young master he left off pursuing the other man, returned and went to licking his hand, while the indignant girl vowed she would never more speak to a man tha i was airaid-of a cow. She soon after married Dave’s boss.

Best Thoughts of Best Men. Lord Bacon: No cord or cable can draw so forcibly or bind so fast as love can do with only a single thread. Colton: The strongest friendships have been foraioi in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame-. Addison: The person who has a firm trust in a Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. Sir Thomas Browne. Errors, such as are but acorns in our younger brows, grow oaks >n our older heads, and be come inflexible. Seneca: Nothing so soon reconciles us to the thought of 6ur own 1 death as the prcspect of one friend after another dropping around us. T. Fuller: As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors. ' =■ —rfe r Earl of Clarendon: They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such as have lived to no purpose, who have rather breathed than lived. _i__ _ South: That which lays a man open to an enemy, and that which strips him of a friend, equally attacks him in those interests , that are capable of being weakened by the one and supported by the other. Lori Bacon: Many examples may be put on the force of custom, both upon mind and body; therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man’s life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. Dr. Johnson: Marriage is the strictest; tie of perpetual friendship, aud there can b« no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must ekpect to be wretched who pays to beauty, riches or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim., '*> Who cannot hate, can lovejnot; if he (frier#, His tears4ne barren a*rfae untrnitfnt r»tn That rears no harvest from the green sea’a plain And as thorns crackling this man's laugh in min. ~T - A. 0. Bwinhume. H# prayeth best who loveth best For tbs dear God who loveth ns. He made and loveth all.