Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-08-30
A Laughable Love Story.

Thiseexperience of real life is from
correspondent in Illinois; and is as good
as anything we have recently read:
y Your correspondent has an intimate
friend Joe, who was until recently
cashier of - Bank, in the good old
State of Tennessee. Now to say that
Joe was handsome, accomplished, and
withal very entertaining, would be but
toexpress the opinion entertained of him
by nineteen twentieths of the fair sex
with whom he came in contact He was,
to use Western expression, Il Irregular
smasher among the women;" and it may
not be improper to state; Just here, that
no ne had more exalted opinion of
his capabilities in that respect than the
aforesaid, joe himself. As he and your
correspondent were on the most intimate
terms imaginable, and were accustomed,
in the '"halcyon days of boyhood," to
unfold to each other all our plans aud
purposes ofthe future-not even omit
ting the delicate matters of the heart
I was not at all surprised, about a year
since. to receive letter from him, in
which, after referring to our past friend
ship and the confidence with which he
had always consulted ule on any impor-
tant subject, lie assured me that he now
neodedsmy advice con matter which
very nearly concerned himself, and, in
which, perhaps, was involved his future
happiness and destiny I, of course,
felt concerned for my friend at this; but
was somewhat relieved at reading the
following: And now, dear s.
without giving you time to imagine any
thing very horrible,I will frankly tell
you that l am in love. Perhaps you
will say. Well what if you are? that is
nothing new But just wait until l
get through. You see ifit was COM
mon love scrape, such as we nsed to
have when we were boys, | could get
along with it we'll enough. But this
time it is little complicated kind of
double affair. Come now, $, don t
think [ am fool, but the fact is, Fanny
L. is the prettiest little creature in the
world. Young, beautiful and affection
ate, she is everything that [ can ask;
and in short, J. love her as [ never loved
before! But then, alas! she is poor
Poverty is her misfortune. Were | rich
this would not weigh feather; but then,
you know, AN not. The other, Mary
W. is beautiful, gay, accomplish ed and
wealthy. The former | love, the latter
esteem and admire. [ think | may
say, without being liable to the charge
of vanity, that neither Of them are in
different towards me, but that au offer
of marriage on my part would be readily
accepted by either. Now s., what
shall | do? Marry the girl | really
love, and remain poor devil all my
days; or by forming an alliance with the
other, at once acquire wealth and posi-
ton? Answer me-" [ did snswer him.
In my letter-which, pardon me, l do
not mean to copy herc-I expatiated
largely upon the blessings of welded
life, 'connubial bliss, loving hearts
and all the other "sugar and honey" ex-
pressions. I could remember; and closed
by conjuring him, as he valued his hap
piness, by all means to marry the one
he loved; and as for the beautiful and
accomplished Mary W, | would
fcome in due time to marry her myself
I heard nothing more from my love per,
picked friend for about six months, when
ishe wrote me as follows:
Dear S.: [ courted them both
(the rich one first and couldn't get
either of them! Good bye; I'm going
to Kansas"