The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-04-29
A RECREANT LOVER.

A RACINE (Wis.) paper furnishes the
IN following: Frank is youthful
shoemaker, who works in Joe Miller's boot
and shoe factory. Frank is a susceptible
youth, and his tender heart was smitten by
the beauty and grace of one of the girls en-
ployed in the factory. Now Frank is-or
was-not bad looking fellow, and the
maiden returned the tender passion, and
Frank won her blushing consent to become
his bride.
Then for time all went happily. AS
he sat at his work pegging soles, he
thought of two souls with but q single
thought, and pensively pegged away
Time passed on with leaden wings, and as
the hour approached for the happy consum-
nation, the impatience of the lovers in
creased. A week ago last Saturday he
went to the priests house to be published
in the church the next Sunday, as is the
custom of those in the Catholic faith. The
priest being absent, he was told to call
again, but everything was finally arranged,
and last Tuesday they were to have been
married.
During all this time the young maiden
had been busy. The wedding feast was
prepared, her dress-with trail three
quarters OF yard long; as he desired it
was all finished, and all that was ne
cessary was for the priest to make them
man and wife according to the solemn cere-
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word of warning, Powell took the cars and
went to Chicago, leaving the poor girl to
mourn in her wedding dress, with trail
three-quarters of a yard long, with the
wedding feast untasted. His reasons for
such conduct was that the girl was too
poor to buy the outfit.
Now, when it is known that she sup
ports an aged father and two little sisters
out of her earnings, and that she would not
take anything from them to deck herself in
finery, it will be admitted that his conduct
was disgraceful, and that The was no way
deserving so good a wife as she would have
made. Last Saturday he returned to town
and it coming to the knowledge of the
shopmates of the injured maiden, they held
an Indignation meeting when it was re-
solved by them that if Frank Powell ever
stuck his nose inside that shop they would
fix him. All heartless deceiver he little
dreamed what was in store for him. Fix
him You bet he was fixed p'
Monday morning, with more cheek than
a house pig, he stepped into Miller's office.
AS he did so the door behind him was lock-
ed and the key mysteriously disappeared.
Just then he was confronted by the girl he
had so faithfully promised to marry. Be
hind her were ten fierce damsels just aching
to get at him. The girl reproached him
for running away; he undertook to talk
back; she slapped his face. Whang went a
bottle of liquid backing into his face. The
bottle broke and the backing ran over
him. He kicked and swore, and tore
around; the girls screeched and screamed.
Oh, it was lively
At this moment the girl who had been
so cruelty treated, seized two gallon pot
of warm glue, and poured it on his head.
He was the sickest looking shoemaker
about that time that was ever in that city.
Still the combat deepened, and but fol
some one unlocking the door, so that he
was enabled to escape, there is no telling
what those indignant maidens might have
done. Powell dove into another room, and
commenced to scrape himself-he scrape6
and scraped and kept on scraping-he'i
probably scraping yet. There was poetic
sort of justice in thus daubing him will
that glue, for if he don't stick to his word
he has something that will make him sticl
hereafter. The boys in the factory hearing
of the way the girls had treated Powell
gave them an oyster supper that evening.
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