Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-04-30
.,.- From the Wheeling Register
Modern Love Story.
AND DESERJYON,
: .IAHRIEn NAN RUSS Away WITH FULL
..s GROWN FAMILY!
He TAXES THEN TO MICHIGAN Sc
CURES ALL THEIR AVAILABLE
FNNOSAND Desc ERTS THEnt

"Tho course Of true love always was an uphill
business. - iSbGkSq1eG1.o
''Ihere is divinity that shapes our ends rough.
lew them as WI will."-Diho.
! A short time ago, there lived in this vi
clnlty German woman with four daugh-
ters. all grown to womanhood, We believe.
She was widow and possessed Of few
hundred dollars IN ready money, and had
some little property. Though she had
trodden on the flowers Of forty springs,
she was not insensible to the blandish-
ments Of the sterner sex, nor invulnerab BILE
to Cupid's darts. A heart-breaker, Stefel,
we'll say-though that's not his name
called at her residence. remained there
during the winter, and when s' the spring
time came, gentle Annie" by the witchery
Of his smile, the manner in which he made
love III Datch, and the ability he showed
in the destruction of "saur- kraut unit
speck, proved too many for the heart and
happiness of the buXom frau. He came,
he saw, he conquered, and could say, as
the Hungarian General wrote, "Bem, bam,
bonn"
This Romeo, Stefel, had buried one wife,
and had married and whipped another,
and was living with his second wentur,"
as Mr.. Weller puts it, when he cast his
lovelit eyes on the widow and her ducats.
He determined to obtain possession of her
money, but found that she understood
thing or two, and would hand over her
beloved greenbacks to no one but hus-
band
Here was a dilemma. But the gallant
Stefel was equal to the emergency. He
explained to the widow that as he already
had one wife, and as the Mormon rule and
practice did not prevail in this State, he
WI
Virginia, but if they were far, far away
from these cruels flaws, far away In the free
northwest, where men and their lives are
as free as the air they breathe, he would
make her Mrs. S. without the least hesita-
ton. He understood the art of making
love to widows. an art that Charles o.
Malley tells US how to practice;
"If for widows you die
Learn to kiss, not to sigh,
For they're all like the widow Malone"
He stole his arm around her fat waist,
and on her round cheeks and lips rained
kisses sweet. He told her Ct his love, as
surel her that
'Tis love will sweeten sugarless tea
And make cQutentment and JOY agree,
With the coarsest boarding and bedding.
On the strength Of his matrimonial prom
ise, for she cared nothing for the flumery
of life, he borrowed $500 Of the widow, os-
tensibly tor the purpose Of assisting him to
buy farm in Michigan, where, hidden |
from the gaze of the hollow-hearted world, |
they could love and bill and COO like any
other two tough old turtle doves, and drink |
their lager and eat their preiZels and |
cheese in perfect security. He left her for
d while and then returned to tell her how
he had added $500 to the sum he had bor-
rowed of her, and had paid 81, 900 on
"a l,ob bo1 ohoc l,oh
there was nothing for them to do now but
sell her remaining property and emigrate
to their new home, where he would strut
a Michigander and she and tie girls should
be Michigeese.
The sugar-coated story of the gay Lo-
thario, like Spaiding's Prepared Pills, went
right to the spot. The bait took. The
Teutonic widow smole sweet smile on
him, sold all she had, and, about month
ago, lit out with him, taking all her fami-
ly, and leaving the legitimate Mrs. S. to
weep alone.
On the way out he managed to obtain
possession Of the remainder of the widows
money under promise of bearing her blush
ing form to the altar (where they should
tie J.. that knot with their tongues they
couldn't unite with their teeth) as soon as
they arrived.
When they got to the neighborhool
where he told them the farm was, they
found no farm. They found that they had
been deceived. They found that the man
they had fondly hoped to call husband and
papa had gone, skedaddled, lit out, vam-
oosed the rancho, levanted, cut stick,
swart-wouted, mizzled, and had carried all
their money with him, leaving them in
strange land, among strange people, with
out dollar.
The perfdious wretch, as we have said,
moistened his tongue with honey only to
get the widows funds, and having got
them in his possession, did not hesitate to
leave her and her children to get out of
the scrape as best they could. On Friday
last they wrote to their friends here a his
tory of their penniless condition, and have
had funds enough sent them to return,
sadder, poorer, but we hope wiser lot 4
What has become of the heartless scamp
no one knows. We hope he may bring up
in Brigham Young's dominions, and
there take unto himself five wives, each of
whom will daily require about an inch of
his scalp as a guarantee of good bahavior.
A Trip Around the World.