Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-13
ROMANTIC STORY OF LOVE AND
DEATH.
Boston Herald.

The suicide of Captain Charles Il.
Power, of Somerville, committed Fri
lsv on the steps of his house, on Rowe
erect, ends personal history which
1ad in it elements of romance as pow
srul as anything ever Matched behind
he spectacles ofWilkie Collins. Elabor-
,tely worked up, it would furnish a
fne basis for novel in itself, or a play
for theater languishing for something
esides French adaptations and English
assics. Many years ago Charles b.
Power was a sailor lad of II or Is years.
With only his youth and good looks to
/ ADVANCE his interests, he fell in love
with a bright, attractive young woman
whom he met at a social gathering of
| he young members of the Salem Street
Orthodox Church in this city. Her
name was Amelia, and she was the only
laughter and heiress of old DR.. Hollis,
| we'll known in the North End, and in
deed throughout this whole neighbor-
!Ood The Doctor was rich; the rowing
.ultor was poor and without profess
sion; but love smoothed out these inc
qualities. Miss Hollis fancied the
;Oung mariner, and when he left Bos-
ION in certain memorable month at
the age of 10, no prouder or happier
mortal ever breathed on this mundane
planet, for Amelia was his affianced
wife, and he was the first mate of a Liv-
erpooi packet, a stanch and goodly YES
SELL belonging to strong firm and en-
gagged in profitable trade. This was
the time when hotels lined our wharf
streets, whose registers were never bare
ofthe names of guests, when sailors
boarding houses prospered at the North
End; when all over our harbor foreign
flags toated at the peaks of trading YES
sells, and the star-spangled banner
could be found similarly unfurled in
every civilized port Of the then known
work. There were no quarrels over
Inc American registry of foreign iron
bottoms, for it was long prior to the ad-
vent OF competing lines of steamers,
which have since reduced the ocean to
atery crossing. The voyage to Liver
pool was long and weary one, but the
lovers confidence diminished the sus-
pense he felt. His ship did not retern
Immediately, but carried freight to var
lous parts of Europe. In the mean
~hlle ne received news from home, and
earned that Amelia Hollis had given her
ahd 10 gentleman whose acquain-
ahce Twas said she formed after Powers
Ieparture His grief and disappoint-
leht nearly crushed him. He left the
se a. and for eight years led wild sort
i nie on the continent, got into hor-
.oe haolts of dissipation, and probably
emitted his passion to remain I'm
9 9 After the lapse of this period
elsnt years he Strengthened up, re-
tnea ms ways and determined to be
man. He shipped on a vessel bound
u boston, unable to resist the tempta-
, ,Ia Oh oeholding the happiness of her
a? was to have been his. On his arri-
.. ~ 'hiS city he went to his old home,
s"eu all his old haunts and was as
NC ana exemplary a young man as
VI would meet between this and east
%Ion; His old associates gathered
v W.. nm, and they attended social
k- -,eHt' am1e and led gay city life.
ny neard of him but they never met.
4 9 Ssli!y he grew restless again; the
'genhg gnawing at his heart would
'eV nm remain in Boston, and
j.n 70 the sea ne went again. The
1,n! was his home after that. He
i'eu and recrossed the ocean, and
'4e course of few years left Boston
yao nias,er OF the good ship Archer.
n Sr'1 ana years went by. This young
M t"u become bronzed and grizzled
poke poke IN "a deep tone. He was
70 ,ap'ain OF the archer when twenty
NOV! ears had elapsed since his engage
.i To WIN Amelia Hollis. One day,
,r J hue ne was at his lodgings IN this
, n, me received letter in woman's
writing ' inviting him to meet her
AN "e store of Crosby & Lane at a GER
I5a G,ae. The letter was not signed.
- snought flashed upon him that
h ali Ia. ;, from his old love, who,
b., f, .nese twenty-five years, he had
ia l -ao5Isotten: The widest scene at
ssrt Tau not dlmmed her image in his
,ro NJ W9ere he still carried it. He
aa I p+ieu me handwriting with that in
s,,ye OF auld lang syne, and had
lon 'u11PJlclons developed into convic-
.e5 n ne VISITED the store at the speci-
mo Ne and there met her for the first
t,a a r.lice they parted as lovers. After
ad ticetihg was over, and they
Elsin 80 ,b OF their mutual experience
adv the quarter of a century. the
yorraJ i s MIN that she had been
sarned u rom from her husband. What he
Ia, ~ ~ al that interview convinced him
Ia. me 9ne mad always loved him, and
,a7 cola ala marriage was not the result of
!. foI- toward him. Within three
aa.ria5 weeks Of this meeting they were
and the long-delayed happi-