The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-29

year they came into my studio with ra-
diant faces. / knew what it meant.
"Well, children" said !, 'when is it
TO be and whereP"
Gay and sweet was the laugh they
gave me, and Harry replied:
eff acceptable to you and DR..
Chaplin, tomorrow at noon, right here,
where we first met"
"All right, my children" exclaimed
I, really much gratified with the honor
thus conferred on my bachelor apart
ments.
1 am not writing simply to record a
wedding. The event got in the way
just here, and has to be made note of
ere the story a be finished.
The rest of that day and the morn
ing of the next was busily occupied in
making my place ittingly ready. At
half-past eleven dear old DR.. Chaplin
sauntered in, and exclaimed, with ar
lists and clergyman's taste combined:
"Well, well, Doran, you have made a
wonderful scene of this! Why, it is a
fit marriage hall for a Prince or a Pres
ident!'
By twelve o'clock quite a group of
artist friends and others had gathered.
Soon a carriage stopped in front, and a
moment later my pair of beloved ones
entered, but t'least said soonest men,
ded," and so 1 will not attempt de-
scription. In his own inimitable man.
ner DR.. Chaplin proceeded with the
brief ceremony, beautifully saying as
an Introduction:
'You have already mixed the colors;
it remains for this hour to stretch the
canvas and place the easel; then,
through the hasting years you will de-
velop the varied piece entitled married
life" Then, in a moment almost,
Harry and Mary were man and wife.
There was no wedding tour for the
happy couple; the honeymoon waxed
amid scenes of house hunting and fur
nishing, and waned oyer the delights of
their first home.
A fiat was taken, consisting of this
room and that and the other; they were
to do without a servant; meals were to
DE sent up from below by the so-called
dummy; in short, everything was $50
nice" and $50 cosy" and all that.
Looking out on a small park, there
was, especially, a pair of large rooms
which they named the ''studios;" a
wide hall connected these and suitable
closets were attached.
"Just the thing for my surprise"
whispered Harry in my ear, as we were
looking through the apartments; and
'.just the place for my SURPRISE" whis-
pered Mary, as she had. an instant's
chance out of his hearing.
Soon came the ''house-warming," an
evening arranged for their friends.
Howneat and sweet all things looked!
A new ship ready for sea, the new
world in leafy. bloomy spring-time, and
a new home just prepared for its Adam
and Eve, are premium pieces worthy
of favorable mention.
The afternoon preceding the house
warming" under direction in turn of
each of my trickster children, I hung
the pictures, bought Sncogntto. Into
Harry's room and up on the best panel
of the wall went Mary's piece, Loves
Vigil and into Mary's room on the
corresponding panel went .Harry's
piece, ''Victory."
When all was satisfactorily done
though, of course, each was kept in ig-
norance of the others loving guile-it
fell to me to superintend the sequel.
41J Cal was LII OLCHloIOlOh, lol loiO-
saw that there was a chance for o scene
such as an old bachelor would hardly
know how to manage. "What if-P"
and ''what if-P" was my inward query
all that afternoon.
Well, I called them together in the
front hall and said:
"Now, I want each of you to make
me a promise-will youp"
Each answered instantly in the af-
firmative, and 'sWhat is it?"
"You are to go each into the others
studio alone; you are to stay there till
| give consent for you to meet; and you
must promise me to be perfectly salts
fed and pleased with the arrangements,
furnishings and all, which you find
there-do you solemnly so promise?"
They took my hands-Mary the left
and Harry the right-and promised,
each understanding for the other, but
not suspecting for self.
Then they went, Harry to her studio,
Mary to his. Two or three minutes
later 1 followed Harry. There he
stood in the middle of the floor, tears
in his brave eyes, and as I entered he
caught my hand, exclaiming:
"Bless the angel"
"Then it is all right, is itP" asked 1.
"All right? Yes, and a thousand
times more! But how did she get tho
money!"
"She will tell you'll replied, and
leftShim.
In Harry's roo 1 found Mary, more
fearful, but not more amazed, and as I
entered she sprang forward, almost
sobbing in her joyful surprise, exclaim-
ing:
'Dear, dear Harry! He's the prince
of men! I wan to see him, mayn't IP"
eyes," said L; she is in your room.
Col"
What occurred when they met I do
not know, of course-how should an
old bachelorP However, I should prize
their portraits taken at that supreme
moment of their d~ouble-edged surprise.
But while 1 vas alone there in Har-
rvs studio l held a hasty but compre-
hensive review of my share in this COM
plicated enterprise, and said within
myself in decided earnestness:
"Ncver again will 1 have anything
to do with such an affair. 1t is too
nervous a business. The brush and
the canva for me-unless-unless-
now at fifty, or farther on down the
decline, 1 should meet my own queen
of hearts. "-IrUing L. Beman, IN Con-
ttnent.
An AnecdOte Of Thad. Stevens.
1t is related of Tbaddeus Stevens that