Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-06-02
ONE THOUSAND.

ON liz
'MA1EIMoSIAL.-I am tired # the aimless
and rambling HE Of a bachelor. My heart
yearns Tor love and home. ] believe in love
utter marriage | am still young rather
handsome, and well situated as regards
means. | want to marry. | am really in
earnest. What young lady of good, genial
b. art will respond? Address a. &. / Box
9,999."
Thus read an advertisement which appear
ed in a paper about the beginning OF the
year 1870.
"Pshaw! What COMPOUNDED nonsensel
young gentleman, as he read the paragraph
that morning. 1T - either some contempt
IDLE fortunehunter or some one who wants
TO nave a laugh over the nonsenslcal letters
he will get in response; or 1t may be some
ugly wretch that wishes to WOO and win by
letter, knowing that no woman, having once
seen him, is likely to give encouragement
70 his suit. Coufound it! Ill answer it
myself. | can write with a feminine hand,
and I'll present my mythical self as young,
beautiful, wealthy, entirely destitute of poor
relations, and very DESTROYS Of marrying
My hame-let's see-Millie Bonds. That's
a splendid name. Mile is the Latin for
one thousand, aud Bones may be suggest
i've OF either the bonds of wedlock or those
- $500 = / J. on - - 90
No, | won't pretend to be very rich either.
That would lead to suspicious Of deception.
1t would be considered too good a thing to
be true. III call myself the possessor of a
thousand. That will bear an air Of genu-
ineness. Millie-one thousand
SoJoe Conner, suddenly transformed into
the imaginary Mile Bonds, seated himself
at a writing table in the library, and, in a
neat feminine hand, wrote as follows
MIR. A. r. T.-SIR: Seeing your adver
tisement for a wife, ard BELIEVING it to be in
good faith, ] deem 1t no improperly to
answer 1t. i, too, am tired of single life;
| believe that our natural condition is
WtuIOCh, anu tutt amer Ouc arrives al MA
,urity, it is the only through road TO hap
piness. | am young and handsome myself,
and have 81 900 in a savings bank. There
are those OF my acquaintaEces whom
could marry, but ! am sure they are no,
proper matches for me. | believe mar
rage to be a lottery, it is true, but | dc
not want to buy a ticket that is certain te
draw u blank. Address
MILE BoNps, San Francisco.
There, that will do" said Mr.. Conner
as he folded the note and inclosed it in az
envelope. II that mile doesut insure an
answer, We must be approaching he mil
lenium.'
Then he put a stamp on the letter, and
put 1t IN his pocket to mail as,he should
20 TO his office. Alas what q sheer waste
OF a > cent stamp! Had he only known
how easily the letter might have been de
livered without going through the pos,otiice
Joe Connor would nave been two cents
richer and Uncle Sam two cents poorer
currency, OF course. Three days atterward
be received the following, written in a
laoys handwriting, ard that, too, which b,
had seen somewhere before.
Miss Bonds A thousand pardons, ]
have deceived you, though not with any
evil intent When | put that ad gertis Sc.
ment IN tue paper only meant to have a
little innocent fun out Of it | am not 8
male candidate for marriage, nor a man a
all. | am a young woman, like yourself.
have received numerous answers 10 my ad
,ertisement nut only yours Interested me
! plainly see In You a poor, bonest, open
hearted girl. who has probably toilei hard
and exercised the greatest trusality 10 la,
by something for the future, and, | assur,
you. you are entitled to- great credit 70
having been able to save u thousand dol
lars. What | write to you Tor is to war;
you not 10 pay any attention in future L
matrimonial Advertisements. In this cas-
no harm could come Of it, but ,lerr ar
cases in which they may only be the snare
OF unprincip!ed adventures TO catch ,h
innocent and conhdinS, like yourself, VIII