The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-20
Chris and Katy's Wedding.

Chris and Katy's Wedding.
Among the strangers in New York
last week was German named Chris,
Who emigrated hither twelve years
ago and had accumulated a handsome
little fortune in Colorado. His visit
10 the city was to meet his Katy, the
girl OF his choice, who had agreed to
wait until he sent for her. She was
among the steerage passengers of the
steamer Hohenstaufer, and Chris,
with a friend, was present when
the passengers trooped out of the
steamer. Chris looked anxiously
among the .throng, and his heart
sank, for nowhere could be seen any
one who in the faintest degree resem-
Died his betrothed. But his friend,
VINO had been on visit to Germany
only three or four years ago. had seen
her there, and had a better remem-
brance of what she really looked like,
recognized Katy at once in woman
who eventually discovered him in
the crowd and darted up to him with
a cry OIL recognition. He turned to
the lover beside him, exclaiming in
German "Aha! Chris. here is
Katy atlast," and brought them face
to face. They both uttered cries of
doubt and disappointment, and star
ed in mingled doubt and pain. Katy
could see nothing in the sturdy,
brOnzed man of the rosy. checked
young fellow who had won her affec-
tiop and gone from her SO long ago.
And he as little could see of the pref
ty maiden of Is years, who in his re-
membrance had always been the
same, in the tall, thin and brown wo-
man, with fiat, battered little brown
straw hat, small brown and red plaid
shawl, short skirts, coarse blue WOOL
len stockings, and heavy cowhide
shoes, who now stood before him.
Both sprang to one conclusion. that
the other was fraud. The friend
interfered and made reference to
events in their early life, which
brought them closer together, and
after little while Katy was induced
to accompany Chris to the friends
house. Now impotence and affec-
ton again took possession of Chris
more rapidly than Katy gave way to
the re-awakening, and he urged an
immediate marriage, to which she,
with some show of reluctance and
evidently lingering doubt, consented.
The ceremony was performed by a
justice of the peace, and the rapidity
with which he ratified off the few
words in language she did not un-
derstand, by no means satisfied Katy
that she was lawfully married wo-
man, and the more she thought
about it the more she became dissat-
isfied. In a shriIl. excited voice she
declared her belief that it was a put
up job to ruin her good name and get
the little money that her father had
sent over for her matrimonial send
off; that she didn't believe this Chris
was her Chris anyhow, and that she
was going right back to Germany on
the same steamer that brought her.
In that frame of mind she rushed out
of the house and started for the
steamer.
The newly-made husband and his
friend pursusd her and induced her
to go into hotel in order to settle
their difficulties. and lawyer was
brought in to act as mediator. First
they had supper and beer then they
had cheese and Rhine wine; finally
the bridegroom, in moment of hope
and reck lessness, ordered champagne.
And all the while the arguments
went on. The lawyer, working
through an interpreter. that Katy
might understand, led Chris on to
talk of his old home in the Father
land, and occurrences there in his
youthful days, and thus gradually
convinced her that this was really
Chris. To satisfy her scruples they
offered to get a Lutheran minister
and have the ceremony re. performed,
but the needless expense involved
was consideration which her econ
omic mind readily grasped, and at
last. overwhelmed by argument, she
gave up her design of returning to
Germany. Then new trouble arose.
Chris, under the influence of the
champagne, became excited at the
remembrance of her bitter words of
doubt and suspicion, and he grew
holly indignant. He said she might
go back to Germany. She retorted
angrily, and row worthy of long
married folks broke forth. After long
pouring of much argumentative oil
upon the troubled waters, friends
soothed the anger of the couple, and
both apologized. 1t was O'Clock in