Richland beacon., 1877-06-02
THE MOST Gil TIOUS OF LOVERS.
Letters om rAich Breach Of Promise Suit
Could Hardly De Based.

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talk as much as they please about the exqui
site diplomatic skill of GortschakoH or Bis
marck IN long correspondence, but Their
has been correspondence o'ng on durin
the past week between young lady wh,
lives near Cn'on pari and a clerk IN big dr.
goods store down town. which. for TACT an,
ferl'liy OF resource, would eXiort, Were il full,
known, tue admiration IF all Europe ant
America. He has been paying the young lad,
very marked attention for the last ten months
aud as she would Ike to take a wedding TN
10 the East this summer, or else enter her sui
ior breach of promise before the courts rake
their vacation, sue wants TO hurry up things
Accordingly she began writing letters to him,
aided by her adectlonaie brother. who j.
studying for the law and he being of suspj
cons disposition, Is .iving him most guarded
replies. Last Saturday week sue wtote to
hi n as follows:
Saiurday, May Dear Howard Mamma
will not be in this evening | shall he at
home alter >, and a.. afaid ! shall be terri
hly lonesome If no oCe calls. Ever yours
ADA.
When the young man got this he winked
and said TO himself laconicaiv, Not much
she doesn,, and wrote lack:
Dear Mss Ada: regret that your respected
mother will be absent, as had intended to
call tbs evening TO see If her health had i'm
proved. lonr note, however. reassures me.
You speak OF being lonesome. All, | know
too well the feeling but in the compan, of
our beloved authors, Milton, Shakespeare.
Je'emy Taylor, Waits, and all those immoral
friends who are never iiom home and never
out of temper, how can we be lonesomel
When the young woman read this as lac as
company OF our beloved authors she felt
rather triumphant. but at the next word she
bowed her beautiful head on her hands aud
burst Into teas. saying: Hes jus, as mean rs
old get-out Her bfolher Agernon read il
ieilec,iveIy, and said He demurs; we must
join acIon and plead TO the jurisdiction. This
Is deep serpent, sis; he doesn't wear bis
sting upon his sleeve; but III fetch HIM
Then she dried hei tears aud wrote
il was unkind of you not to come las,
night Dut ferdinand was here, sud stayed
till nearly III. He is such darling fellow
| just dole upon him. But don't he Jealous
/ he Sabbath bells are ringing sweety Do
you not love the mellow music of tue bells
At night often in my dreams seem to hear
the chilning Of a bell-you must know which
one.
"There," said the brother. IL guess we've
got him where the hair is short lf he an
swers that in letter two lines lo.g, Writ
Dexter couldn't save han from $4,000 dam
ages The clerk read it, sat down thoughts
iuly, and replied:
"Dont be jealous Why shoulI /. True
is never selfish and under all clr
no ma,ter how far apart We may
Il, I Ia
your friend. ferdinand is indeed. a noble
fellow, and worthy OF your love. When Is
il TO come oiit p. 81 cannot say do like
the bells, for | like to sleep late on Sunday
mornings. The bell you say you hear al
nights must be the alarm bell on West Lake
stteet engine house. AS you say, know II,
for | often used 10 hear It when | beaded
over on Warren avenue
The young man did not conclude this letter
without some mIsgivings, "because, said he |
10 himself, he read the rough deaf, III looks
a little bit torced-too plain 10 be artistic. Ii !
might be construed that was trying To beg /
of Then, too, don't quite like the begin
nj lg. Why should | {? seems as IL ! was 80 |
confident OF her love that couldn't be Jealous |
Well / II chance it, 90 he sent the letter, |
aud when she received ii the girl had fit OF !
dry Mysteries, and sand: "Algernon, you mus, /
redress your sisters Wrongs. You must im-
brue your hands" Then she wept again. |
i doat know, said her biother doubIiuiiy;
he $ bigger | am, and tossing about pieces
)i calico aud boxes of thread and playing tire
counter with a sci Of parallel bars is powerful
n developing the muscle. He's u b,azen,
iery serpent, and | always said he was, bui
I you will &C on nursing braZen serpents III
iour bosom you must expect them TO turn
igain aud rend you. He must have d counsel
earned IN the law to advise him; besides, he
ias taken an impression ol his letter in a copy
ng press. He is "a three>ply traitor. Perhaps,
hough, we can scoop hlm yet, aud so they
RED, and, after a session OF three hours, pro-
luced the following ultirra,um
How funny your last letter was! Cogfatu-
aflDg me on my engagement TO Ferdinand
he idea! Who better than yourself knows
where my affections are unalteraby placed
Won't you come up to- night! Pa aud ma
Tiil be al home, and they will be glad to see
'ou.
That's pretty good, guess she said, "and
that they will make tue jury think
hat all our allusIons To the old people were
'ut IN to be interpreted the other way.
,uess, young man that u make you sick" Ii
lid, too, for a while, for when the young man
ot the letter he read it over backward and
Onward, and whstled soft copIous selections
rom thirty five standard operas be lore he saw
lis way clear TO an answer Yes. lie said
utterly, ''her pa and ma will be at home, bu:
he old man Il 90 up stairs 10 bed al q quarter
o 8, and the old woman II 90 out and tell the
ervant about putting tue dry Goldfish to soak,
Nd forget to come back-O, | know the old
rauds like bookls Bully, Ill take witness
With me! ThatsN! SO he sat down and
vrote