Louisiana capitolian., 1879-08-09
HOW he WON Al HEIREss.

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The Rye Beach correspondent Of
the New York COMMERCIAL tells this
story: a
Tho great topic Of conversation Mt
the hotels at Rye Beach this week ia
the engagement Of Miss Sarah Brown,
q beautiful young Pennsylvania and
an beiress as well, to Mr.. Robert G.
Miller, tho son Of 4 Rye Beach fish
erman, and himself not more than q
skipper Of one Of the hotel yachts
which are rented for excursions by
hotel guests. Miss Brown was one
Of a party that made several trips Oh
the yacht which young Robert "skip-
pcrcd," and Robert saw great deal
of her, and went dead in love with
her, though, Of course, mindful Of the
Of the great disparity Of their social
positions, he kept the secret Of bis
love to himself, contenting himself
with paying her extraordinary atten-
ton during her trips on his boat As
for Sarah, she was extremely courte-
GUS to him. That was all. Well, tho
catastrophe that led to tho engage
mont happened like this.
They are great hands for fish chow
der down along the New England
coast. Instead Of serving q small
plate of soup at the hotels, they set
before each guest a bucketful Of cod
fish chowder, and, strange to say, tho
guests like it. Miss Brown is pas
sionately fond Of fish chowder, and
eats fabulously large quantities of It,
and sometimes eats it 30 rapidly that
she gets her mouth full Of Goldfish ver-
tebrH before she knows 1t. About
two weeks ago she did worse. Sho
got u very large piece of the backbone
of a Goldfish down her throat, and was
utterly unable to either swallow it Or
get it out. She was terribly fright.
ened, and 80 were her friends, who
decided ut once that doctor must bo
brought from Portsmouth, ten miles
away. Robert Miller chanced to be
in the hotel Office when the order was
given for a horseman to be dispatched
to Portsmouth, and, learning what
the trouble was, insisted on being
the man. So q very swift steed was
saddled, and q second later Robert
disappeared in a cloud Of dust.
In a couple Of hours the Portsmouth
doctor arrived, his horse white with
foam, and breathing fire from his noss
trils, and the doctor, being very
skillful fellow, soon extracted tho
bone. give minutes later" he ro
marked, land should have been too
late. If that messenger had not been
hero, l should never have seen my
patient alive"
"a horo!" exclaimed the ladies.
"What do you meant 1t was only
Robert, the skipper"
"What his name was, ladies, know
not; but repeat it, he showed him
self q hero, and he saved this young
woman's life by his hcroism."
explain yourself" cried the ex-
cited woman.
So the doctor explained how Robert
had fallen from his horse when about
half way to town, dislocating ono an
kle and breaking an arm, but not
withstanding his injuries he had again
mounted the horse and tied himself
into the saddle, and driven on faster
than before to make up for lost time.
"Why, when he reached my Office"
said the doctor, Che had just strength
to deliver his message, and then he
tainted dead away with pain and ex-
haustion. l left him in charge Of my
students and came on, for | knew
that there was o case of life and death
here"
Well, when Miss Brown recovered
her senses, being of q very romantic
turn of mind, she lost them again,
and fell in love with the man who
saved her life, and she is to marry
him as soon rs he RECEIVERS sufficiently
from, h;a ;,iur;ou