Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-10

bringing suit against two Chicago
papers for libel for saying he had been in
the penltentiary.
HARD-MONEY BRIDE.
The Touching and True Story of a Dtsap-
pointed Bridegroom.
One of those too frequent cases of
matrimonial disappointment which tend
to prove that at least part of the
world is feeting show has recently been
brought to light. An old colored person
of about three-score years was found to
be the possessor of an exceeding unlove-
ly wife, about dozen years his senior.
AS the old man was spry and intelligent,
and his ill-favored spouse directly the re-
verse, some inQuisitive seeker after in.
how it came to pass that such person as
he ever managed to secure for his bride
a lady so greatly his inferior. With a
sigh and a few groans the victim of ILL.,
assorted matrimonial alliance as cheer
fully as possible uncurtained the scenes
of the long ago, and treated his inquirer
to picture of the early days. While he
would not admit that his soul was
in any considerable degree a sordid one.
he was free to acknowledge that wealth
was not without its influence on him.
Had two young women been named as
possible candidates for his affections, the
one being rich and the other poor, he
would not have rejected the moneyed one
in favor of the one who had not even
enough wherewith to purchase the plain
est trousseau. In the days of his court
ship he was deeply infatuated with the
lady who is now his wife. He wondered
if she or her mother had money, but
dared not ask her, lest she should think
he wanted her for her money, and, there
fore, give him the mitten. She and her
mother suspected that money would be
an object to him. Yet neither of these
women would open their lips on the SUBJ
iect which was we'll known to lie very
closely to their hearts and his But there
are actions which speak more loudly than
words, especially when accompanied with
the music of the jingle of solid silver
dollars. The house was of logs,
with the customary chinks in wall and
ceiling. Up stairs went the prospective
mother-in-law one evening when the
youthful pair were sitting by the down.
stairs fire. She had money and was pres
emily engaged in counting it. Clink
after clink greeted the suitor's ear, as
dollar after dollar passed through the old
lady's hands in process of enumeration.
His attention was divided between the
lovely creature down below and the finan-
cially adorable one up above. The sound
from aloft was enchanting, transporting,
bewildering. The lucky fellow had sup
posed there might be some wealth in the
family, but when he had counted up to
900 clinks of as many silver dollars his
feelings overpowered him, and forthwith
he made declaration of his love to the
girl of his choice. Disparity of age was
nothing when there was union of soul.
A matter of dozen years was not to be
considered when 900 silver dollars had
made their melody up stairs, with no tell
ing how many more to be heard from
The work of accepting the proposal was
as speedily disposed of as the proposal It
self. Pompey and Maria were to join
hands and heart and fortune in the indls-
soluble tie of holy wedlock. 7eif
To say that Pompey was disguised
when he found the actual state of his
mother in-law's treasury is to put it very
mildly. When he learned that her wealth
consisted of thirty old fashioned Mexican
dollars, and that she had on that eventful
evening counted them over and over and
over again for his edihcation and to see
disposition was to rave and swear and tear
nought more to do with Maria. But by
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taken her for better or worse, especially
worse. The transaction was for "richer
or poorer" and it now looked like being
poorer enough. He might have repudiat-
ed his contract, but that would be going
back on himself and on Maria, too. It
would have been confessing that he
had married her for money, which is
(. confession few people like to make,
honest though it might be. So he de-
termined to grin and bear it and worry
slong the best way he could. He would
rather sing in the words of his favorite
cam pmeetlng hymn, 81 suffer on my
'hree-score years, than try to break his
yoke, however CALLING it might prove.
Some men would have thought they had
good cause for trying to get divorce,
but such men as the faithful Pompey are
not made of the stuff on which divorce
lawyers fatten.
Marriage Is called lottery. Perhaps
there is good deal of the lottery busl-
ness in it. The wlsest who. go into it
never know in advance differently it
may turn out from original Expectations
and promises. But the happiest and
most judiciOus souls are those who, like |
poor Pompey, have sense enough, when
they have made bad bargain which
proves not as goodas it seemed to give
promise of being, to make the best Of it
and throw into 1t such sunshine as they
can.
The Poughkeepsie Neaos, we see, mem
ions the following by Mr.. John Roemer: