The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-10
Name the Day.

They have been engaged since early in
the Centennial year. She proposed to
him then that it would be good and pa
triotiC time to be married on the 4th of
July, precisely at the moment when the
midnight clock tolled the completion of
the first century of the American Repub-
lie, each with an American flag in each
hand, but he convinced her that it would
be better to wait till September, when
the weather would be cooler, and they
could go on honeymoon exclusion to
Philadelphia, and there see the treasures
of the science, art, and industry that the
world had poured into the bounteous lap
of the American eagle. She said that
wni'l6 be nice, but when September
came ne was JUU DuSny e1UupIcu1n WALL
ing to hear from the October elections,
and in saving the country. After the
election was over, then came the excite
ment over the Electoral Commission, up
setting all previous arrangements and
unsettling business, but as he kissed her
goodnight on the evening of the 9Th of
March he said: "Thank Heaven Louisa,
the long agony is at last over. With the
settlement of this dispute public conf
dence will be revived; the crisis will walk
off on it's ear; capital will flow in from the
pauper nations of Europe, and the COM
mercial goose will hang high. So soon
as business revives, then, Louisa, then
-" and he squeezed the words he
would not speak. But alas! the
strikes INTERVIEWED, and there was an
other postponement; and when the diff
ferences between capital and labor had
been adjusted the procrastinating patriot
proposed to wait till Ohio had given It's
verdict upon the Presidents policy. The
other evening they were sitting together,
as they have sat for several hundred
evenings back, and he said: Louisa, did
you read the paper this morning9" 81
did," she replied eagerly. "And did
you read in it an extract from the Car
isle (Ky) Mercury, headed Fifty Years
Engaged-A Woman's Love Requited
After an Engagement of BALI a Cen
tury?' How blessed and holy such
betrothal must be; fifty years of
happy hopefulness; twelve and half
Presidential terms of sitting on the same
chair, and looking forward to the mellif-
luous chimings of the marriage bells.
Do you not, adored of my soul, think
that that would be life any woman who
knows what true love is might ardcntly
covet, desire, long for, and sigh after?"
Then he paused, overcome by the ear
nestness of his pleading, while his great,
lustrous eyes beamed upon her. 81 don't
know" she answered, slowly and
thoughtfully, but that it would be, if
she didn't happen to have stored away
in her desk 26S letters from her fellow,
on which any jury would give her $20,.
600 damages without leaving the box. "
She held him with her glittering eye, and
there was a moments silence, when he
replied: Louisa, l called tonight to ask
when you would fix the happy day that
will make you mine in name as you are
mine in nature. Nay, blush not, my own,
but name the day." TUESDAY week,
she faltered, her eyes filled with happy
tears. 80 rapturep he exclaimed, as
his jaw fell. Honest Indian, Theo
dore" she said. Bet your money
Louisa" he replied as sententiously. Nc
cards. No postponement on account Of
weather. Chicago Tribune.