The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-12-21
4 Mournful Elopemant'

TWO YEARS AGO PRETTY, INNOCENT
cnuSTRY GIRL-TIIEN A HAPPY, IN
I,-yGED. RESPECTED wIFE--'TO- DAY
THE CREATURE OF MANS PERFIDIous
LUST.
During the snitry summer OF 1905;
Mr.. Robert E. Mason, a digniiied and
distinguished employee in downtown
banking house, proceeded to the coun-
try to enjoy his HOLIDAYS. He was
elpgautly and showily attired, with his
vest and shirt bosom resplendent IN |
iewelry. His fingers were h0oped with
misssive rings, and his mnstaehe was
waved to the peint of defiance.
snarse growth oflight brown hair par
tally concealed his pate, aud crown
inc all he sported a stove-pipe hat OF
the newest design and of the most i'll
comparable Japan polish. He was not
n tall gentleman, neither WIS heavy
stout /; but, as has already been stated,
he was very digniiied. Not uuderes-
timatiug his natural advantages, but
rather zealously magnifyiug them under
oil circumstances. Air. Mason was
nerson pretty well calculated to make
headway among the breakers of this
lossine life ocean. He was cliatty, atfa-
bic, and shrewd.
Therefore eople liked him; and he
tneW if. On summer pleasure beat,
the wandering steps of Robert had
heen directed to various portions OF
these United States during previous
dos. dav holidays. aud on this coca
eiop he resolved to proceed tor North
Ia ha1 n q
motive for so doing. 1t may have
been his destiny or he may have
found himself signing, like the gentle
Cerope, "for lodge in some YES
wilderness"
From Erie city. on the shores OF tn
lake of that name, he commenced M
deylons tramps, sometimes taneyln!
himself Mormon on his way to Sal
Lake, aud regarding himself a pilgrim
on his way to Becketts tomb. An
thus for several days lie jorrneye
until the sales of his feet became sor
and the spirit of his resolution vanlshe
Then in pretty village, spelled prin
cipally with consonants, he engaged
room: and here he stayed-well, Nc
many days; bat long enough to ia
hopelessly, helplessly over head an
ears in love.
The proprietor of the woodbin'
covered cottage where Robert s0jouri
ed had a daughter of seventeen-el
ceedngly comely and as lovely as
water-liiy or the Daied of the lax
Minnie Margaret Dodsley was t
euphonious name OF this village beau
and naught of fraud, or ire, or i'll knt
she: but the artless spell that Turk
in a dimdled smile the carnation IL
shoue through her checks as she blus
ed with graceful downeast head,
fire that lnrs4ed in a sidelong glance
a light hazel eye-these were her ar
and her wilchery. During the sill
watches of the night the young ba
operator lay and instituted compaIi;
between this lovely nymph, wh
uurity and innocence were we'll mig
negelic. with the flaming tulips OF
city with their paint and patches q
naughty ways; and he took Sei
lima to witness that it he ever mari
his choice would fall upon Minnie,
daisy OF Erie's sandy shore.
He requested her acceptance OF il
trinkets he carried with him. He
ways CARRIED trinkets against
emergency in the summer--he M
have fallen into an ambush of teroc
Indians. for example. The maid
grateful. and louked pleased; an
squeezed her fingcr-tips till they
purple. He became absorbed in
knitting; the my steries OF darnm4
profoundly studied; and III
mellow voice lie reconnted in
D!eased ear the manifold glorie
Eotham. Then he found that Mi
was 60, great reader" so her ma
1 and as for her penmanslip, he c
4 ;udre of that himself. But she
q charming white arms-so round
4 fulI-and though she was tall
4 weighed 156 pounds, her feet
i wondrouslv small and nice to
4 But her lips! Here language re
incompetent to pursue the chai
theme.
4 There were several very nice
II ing young eountrymen
L Robert disdainly termed them,
paid much court TO this spl
maiden, occasioning him no e'
iealousies. heartburuings, and cur
Mrs. EaGslcy, the young iady's
likewise rehearsing Minnie's cone
IN his morditlly distenpered
seemed transformed into an {
knitting he long needles into IN
and mixing mp tie fibre in a u
knot of qnivering ne, yes. lie
have glpried in hewing the oaei
attentive lovers of Minnie IN
with an ak, even as beforetime :
the Prophet buicEered the five
at GiIgal! He would have laid
the village; he would have-b
last, Minnie said she liked him
than the "countrymen." I'M
4 after residence OF seven days b
her roof.
We soon after proceeded
nearest telegraph station. and dis
ed over the wires to his INN
friends in this city message
that he was going to be maffie'
requested the term of his vaca'
be extended by a fortnight.
E duly received by him, "All righ
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