Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1873-02-17

rLUoKY GIRL MAKES THINGS LITTLE WARM ron
HIM.
from the Racine uWlal JournalI

From the Racine Cwis.l Journal
Frank lowell is youthful shoemaker, who
WORMS in Joe Miller's boot and shoe factory.
Frank il q susceptible youth, and his tender
heart w ,S sttsn By the bessy ed grace Of
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 SOLOS, he thought of two
souls with but single thought, and pensively
pegged away. Time passed on with leaden wings
ard as the hour approached for'the happy con
summation, tho impatience of the lovers increas-
ed. A week ago last Saturday he went to tho
priests house to be published in the church the
next Sunday, as is the custom of those OF the
Catholic faith The priest being absent, he was
told 10 Call again bnt everything was finally ar
anged, and last Tuesday they wore to have boon
been married. During all this time the young
maiden had been busy. The wedding dress was
prepared, her dress, with trail three-quarters
Of yard long, as he desired it, was all finished,
and all that was necessary was for the priest to
make them man and wife according TO ahe solemn
ceremonies OF the church when without q word
Of warning Powell took the cars and went TO
Chicago. leaving the poor girl to mourn in n
weddingdress with trail three-quarters of
yard longwwith the wedding feast untasted.
His reasons for such conduct were that the girl
was too poor to buy the'Uutit
h Now. when it is known that she supports an
aged father and two little sisters out of her
earnings, and that she would not take anything
from them to deck herself in tnery, it will be
admitted that his conduct was disgraceful, and
that he was no way deserving so good wife as
she would have made him. Last Saturday he
returned to toVJt-and it coming to the know
ledge of the sh1p-mates Of the injured maiden
they held an indignation meeting when it WIS
resolved by them that if Frank Powell ever stuck
his nose inside that shop they would tlx him,
All ! heartless deceiverl he little dreamed What
was in store for him. Fix him! you bet he was
fixed a1 $40 %
Monday morning, with more cheek than a
hohse-pig, he stepped into Millers office. AS
he did so, the door behind him was locked and
the key mysteriously disappeared. Just then he
confronted by the girl he had so faithfully pro-
missed to marry behind her were ten fierce
damsels, just aching to get at him. The girl re-
preached him for running away he undertook
to talk back; she slapped his face. Whang. went
bottle of liquid backing in his face. The bot
tie broke and the backing ran all over him. He
kicked and swore, and tore round the girls
screeched and screamed Oh, it was lively At
this moment the girl who had been 30 cruelty
II ,ated seized two-gallon pot of warm glue and
poured it on his devoted head. He was the sick
est-looking shoemaker about that time, that
was ever in this city. Still the combat deepened
and but for some one unlocking the door, 30
that he was enabled to escape there is no telling
what those indignant maidens would have done.
Powell dove into another room and commenced
to sCrape himself he scraped, and scraped, and
kept ON scraping-he's probably scraping yet.
There was poetic sort of justice in thus daub-
ing him with that glue for II he don't stick to
his word he has something that will make him
stick hereafter The boys in the factory hear
ing of the way the girls had treated Powell, gave
them an oyster supper that evening.