The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-01-10
now HE MARRIED HER.
The I.atrst Romance That Csmea to lie
from the West,


There is living quietly with his wife
/ NJ one of tho hotels in this city, says the
/ Chicago Tribune, n man whose way of
/ getting married is 80 refrcshingly now
/ and 80 full of excitement as 10 deserve
some brief description. IL is hardly tho
thing "a give this persona name, but
I he is here now for tho purpose Of selling
some milling property which he owns
/ ont IN tho mountains and, II any one
I chooses 10 run down the record Of the
several thousand individuals who are
! now here ON that mission, ho may ho
I able to find the hero of this story. His
I first adventure in wedlock was made
some Years ago at Denver. He was then
resident of Colorado, speculating IN
mining lands ono day, As he was stroll.
ing along one of the oiy's streets, he
went by sewing machine store. He
looked in through the plate glass win
dow and saw young woman operating
one Of the machines He was nightly
pleased with her looks as she sat there
curled, mtlled aud generally adorned.
and lac went IN and made a closer in
spection uf her. This more thorough
examination confirmed the favorable i'm
preston he had formed, aud lac asked
her il she would marry him.
She said she would. They were
married. and dwclt together in peace for
IL might be- three or four months. Then
there came some disagreement. Ii is
unnecessary to state what IL WIS about.
She got Utah divorce and became free
from him lie left Denver and went
l.i
successful IN this, and came on here not
So very long ago for the purpose If dhs-
posing Of some mining property which
he had gotten.
Notwithstanding the unlucky result of
his first marriage speculation, his
thoughts kept ON returning 10 the Joys
Of weddei life. He had tried II unaided
once. bat had failed III IT, 10 this time
he took the counsel of the fates. He
went over % "a clAiryuyAnt on West Mad
ison street, and laid his case before her.
Being business man, and plain of
speech, he said 4" ] want you 20 tell me
where to tiud the woman who wall suit
me for a wife. Ii You tell me truly, and
find her and marry her, will give you
$40, ,OOG.
Al tirst she didn't believe him. Hut,
while his words seemed little wild, the
way in which he spoke them was sober
enough. There WAS possibility Of
making $40, coo, and certainty of
making s., for she charged him that for
her hour OF advice. and lac paid IL. She
took counsel with her family and gave
him au answer the following day. "lou
60 said she, TO IS shirt mAuufp,-
tory, aud look through the sewing room.
There You will find the woman whom
tue Lord intended should be your wife.
aud the one that will make yOu happy
and, perhaps, she said % herself, the
woman who will stand me IN for $40, To-
600"
Now, he was not exactly sure about
this advice, because he had married one
woman who looked pretty as she sat at ii
sewing machine, and il didn't seem 40
certain 10 him that happiness WAS always
to be found in company with that useful.
though romantic machine. Still hr had
faith III his clAiryoyAnt, and he resolved
20 see what there was ia her story. So
II NAV have been two, or perhaps three
months ago that lie wandered into --'s 5
place aud said q" / would like 10 look
through your sewing-rOom. l want 10
sea how YOU do business. | want O. know
how shirts are made on big scale. j
have worn shirts, OF aud on, for the last
thirty years, but never studied up very
closely the business Of making them
Can look through your room and see
the outfit ?"
They said they had 10 objection, and
they took him up stairs. ur IA the rear
part Of the store, or wherever the sewing
room may be, and turned him loose
among q dozen pretty girls and as many
chAttering, rafting machines He walked
up and down the room viewing the col
lection of beauties, they looking up at
him with sidelong glances aud wonder
ing what in the world that rather odd.
looking stranger was doing in such a
place.
Presently one Of them caught his
attention. aud he went up 30 her and put
his elbow On her machine, which brought
his lips very near 90 her ears, and he
said 10 her, in n tender tone
"Do you know what came here
Tor ?"
"She said Z" No, indeed. sir. 10
not. "
"Then. " said he, 81 didn't come here
to look at these things. | don't care
anything about sewing machines, and
not much about the people who run
them. l came here 10 find my wife.
Yuu look like her. You suit me. VIII
you marry me 2?
She looked at him very steadily and
saw that he had diamond studs, and tha'
he had heavy rings on his fingers that
his clothes looked very good, and that
he was not as homely as many men whom
she hal seen. So she said, after finish
ing the band on which she was busicd,
and laying her work little on one side:
Il will marry you If your references are
good.
He said 10 her, still in tender tone:
d" Nv references are So-and-so and So
aud-so. Ny name is So-and-so. / live
at such place, and got a divorce three
years ago have n copy OF the decree
duly certified no reason for trouble on
that account.
Then he left thanking the proprietors
for their courtesy, and telling them he
had found out all he wanted 10 know (;
went over to Peter Hand and got q mar
riage license, in which his name was
misspelled. Two days afterward he WIS
married, the girl having been satisfied
with the references, and he is now living,
as was stated above, in great happiness
at one Of the Chicago hotels. He is a
picture q devotion she OF wiiely love
and fondness, aud If the Utah divorce
business IA abolished may remain so.
They had been married week when the
clairyuyant noticed, somehow or some
where, that her customer HAD got his
wife. She opened her eyes rather wide
at this, for a clairvoynnt has not gener-
ally faith enough in what she says to at-
tach any importance 20 IT. But the
Thought Of her $40, 900 inspired her, and
she went over Ia see her man, and said
TO him Here, you have found your
wife and married her. Now, | want You
10 carry ont your contract and give me
$40. O0O." He said: Certainly AL
NIT the debt. but you will have to wait
until / have sol my mining property.
The market is not good for il just now.
1t doA't go off easy /; but it is good. and
when dispose of it some time you shall
have your $4,000. In the meanwhile
here is So on account" 1t was not al
together what she wanted, but she took
it and went away.
Helping 10 Steal His Own Hogs.
A queer case of stealing is related as