Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-05-14
A Blonde for a Brunette.

and his wife Phoebe, and Robert Moor,
and his wife Mary. The account of tht
strange fortune that happened these cou
Piles is so circumstantial thst it must b,
in the main true. All the parties were
English, and were newly married a.
above in England before they came tc
the New World to court the goodies;
Fortune. Dick Dingle and his wife wert
both blondes, and BIB Moore and hi.
were browns, and both women were beau
ties of their respective types, and al
were young and adventurous. The two
couple didn't come over in the same ship
but they came about the same time, and
they did not know each other. Dick
Dingle, together with his pretty wife
proceeded to Petroleum Centre, Pa, with
capital of $4,000, which was soon
sunk in oil wells-all but S4O0 Dick
divided this sum with Phoebe. and star
ted out alone for the Argentine Republic
to retrieve his lost fortune and make an
other He struck good streak of min
ing luck, and cleared $4,000 in the first
two years, which he sent to Phsebe, and
which she duly received. This reconcil,
ed her to her husbands absence for the
time, out she heard no more from him
for some years, and she began to regard
him as dead. The fact is, he was living
wild sort of life in South America, and
had almost forgotten his blonde wife,
though he carried her picture.
GOLDEN VISIONS.
Bob Moore and his brunctts wife had
also a comfortable capital when they ar.
rived in this country, and lost some of ii
in unfortunate speculations. Bob left
Mary in Rochester, New York, and went
to South America full of golden visions
He promised 10 write to his wife soon
but never did, and was not lucky in the
Argentine country. Finally Dick Diu-
gle and Bob Moore met. and both were
vagabonds-in a strange country and
without money Or friends. They joined
their fortunes, and told each other the
story of their lives. There was a re-
narkable similarity between them. They
both had pictures of their wives, and
each went in raptures over the Others
picture, and cared very little for his own.
In mad freak vagabond Dick and vag-
abond Bob exchanged the pictures Of
their wives, aud some luck appeared to
come to them aftcrward. They were
fast friends, and accumulated some
money and began to behave themselves
better 1t was seven years since Dick
Dingle had written to his wife, and one
day in fit of repentance, he wrote her
letter enclosing $1,000, and asking her
to Join him in South America as soon as
| possible. In the meantime she had re-
moved from Petroleum Centre to Phila
delphia, but the letter and the money
found her after long delay.
ON THE WRONG TRACK.
AS Dick had waited the proper time,
and heard nothing from his wife, he be-
gan to feel uneasy, and one day resolved
to return to the United States to hunt
her up He started from Panama on the
English steamer Georgs Watts for the
United States on Friday. the 7th day of
June last, while his wife sailed from n.
Y. for the Argentine Republic the next
day, Saturday, June 8. Dick went to
Petroleum Centre, thence TO Philadel-
phia, but could not find his wife or hear
anything of her. He then went to New
York. resolved to take the next packet
for South America to join Bob Moore
But something occurred to prevent the
voyage. He got on little bit of spree
in New York and happened TO stumble
into store on Broadway to buy some
triaing article. There. behind the coun-
ter, he saw handsome brunette whose
face looked charmingly familiar He
was not mistaken-it was she, and the
picture he carried proved it. TIE ac-
quaintance ripened. Mary had sought
and obtained divorce from Bob Moore
for desertion, and was free, and lovely
and still young. Dick Dingle told the
story of his wife's disappearance, and
the couple resolved that che must be
dead, SO these two got married, and are
now living happily in Brooklyn.
FINDING HER PICTURE.
Phoebe Dingle ploughed the deep to
join her recreant but repentant husband
in the Argentine Republic. She was
doomed to disappointment, but che found
Bob Moore, and Bob showed her the pic
ture which he had received from the
hands of Dick Dingle himself, but he
did not tell her the whole story. In
fact, it is uncertain what Bob did say to
the beautiful women who had come so
far to fad her husband and failed but it
is quite certain that those two got marri-
ed in very short time, and now live in
Cordova City, Argentine Republic -
A real blonde. is quite variety down
there, and she makes a sensation when
she rides out every evening on beauti-
ful palfrey 1t is, perhaps, just as well