Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-07-07

the room opened, and the shoe
makers boy came In.
"Here are the two dollars; Mr..
Grant sent themp ] }Hlts
"God bless Mr.. Grant," exclaimed
Mrs. Lee. #o
On the part of Harriet, to whom
one dollar was due, gush of silent
tears marked the effect of this timely
supply Of money produced, She re,
ceived her portion, and without trust
Ing her voice with words, hurried
away to supply the pressing want at
home. ug f.otss
A few doors from the residence of
Mrs. Lee, lived a man who, some
months before. had become involved
in trouble with an evil disposed per-
son aud had been found forced to de-
fend himself by means of the law
He had employed Mr.. Herriot to do
what was required in the case, for
which the charge was five dollars.
The bill had been reduced a few
days before and the man felt very
anxious to pay it, he had the money
all made up within dollar. That
dollar Mrs. Lee owed him, and had
promised to pay him during tile day.
For four hours he had waited, ex-
pecting her to come in; but now he
had nearly given her up. There was
another little bill Of three dollars
that he'd been sent to him and he
had just concluded to go and pay
that, when Mrs. Lee called and with
the balance of the money she had re.
ceived from the shoemaker, paid him
the one dollar. -.
Half an hour later, and tho pocket
book of Mr.. Herriot was no longer
empty. His client had called and
paid his bill. The five dollars had
come back to him. ...--...
A Case of Marriage without Knowl-
.-. edge. -..
A recent traveller i'm China relates
the following. @A9
MARRIED WITHOUT KNOWING 1T.
But the most preplexing pedica.
ment in which Mr.. Cooper found
himself involved, was his uncon.
scious marriage to u native maiden.
Here is the story: He was just halt
ing for break fast, after leaving the
Thibetan town of Bathang, was a
group of young girls, gaily dressed,
and decked with garlands of flowers,
came out of grove and surrounded
him, some of them holding his mule,
while others assisted him to allgEt.-
He was then led into the grove,
and after he had eaten and
smoked his pipe, the girls came
up to him again, pulling along
in their midst pretty, girl OF
sixteen, attired i'm a silk dress. and
adorned with garlsnds Of flowers"
"I had already noticed" Mr.. Cooper
continues, "this girl sitting apart
from the others during the meat, and
was very mGch astonished when she
was reluctantly dragged mp to me.
aud made to seat herself by my side /;
and my establishment was considera-
bly, heightened when the rest of the
girls began TO dance around us In a
circle. singing and throwing their
garlands over myself aud my COM
panion." The meaning of this per
formance was. however. soon made
clear to Mr.. Cooper. He thad been
married without knowing it. Al
first, he tried to escape the liability
entailed upon h!m; but such an out.
cry was made by all the people
round, tha he was forced to carry off
his bride. He managed to get rid OF
her before very long, by transferring
her to one of her relations, but even
that was not treated as dissolution
of the marriage. On his way back
he was joined one day by Thibetan
dame, of about thirty five years old,
who announced herself as his wife's
mother, and said she had come, with
the consent of her husband, to sup.
ply her daughters place. We can
well imagine Mr.. Cooper's surprise at
meeting with this novel proposal on
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