Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
Courtship.

Governor Tom Reynolds. of Missouri,
married two sisters, who died, and asked
the father for permission to address the
third, which was granted, the old man
remarking: eyes, Reynolds, l suppose
YOU can have her, but don't for Gods
sake, when I'm dead and gone, come
after the old woman!" He was nearly
as bad as the Scotch clergyman who mi
day drove five young women to church.
After the service he courted and married
one of his fair companions. She died,
and as fortune had it, when in search of
a second wife he alighted on another
who had favored him with her company
that day. And so fortune moved until
all five became, sooner or later, his
wives. William Drummond, the poet,
wooed and won Miss Cunningham, who
died on the wedding day. This melan-
choly event so overwhelmed the poet
that daily he wept at her grave. Life
often seemed to him ga nought, .
thought, a masquerade of Dreams" He
was a bachelor until forty-seven, when
he married a Miss Lyon, because he
thought she looked like his first be-
trothed. Rev. Joseph Gilbert was so
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Taylor and the eulogium of her merits
by those who knew her that, without
wishing to see her, he addressed her a
letter asking if any peremptory reason
existed which might lead him to con-
clude that a journey undertaken with a
purpose of soliciting her heart and hand
could not possibly be successful. They
married.
The celebrated George Whitfield had
a queer way of counting. When he was
in America, in charge Of the Orphans
Home in Savannah, he wanted a help
mate, and had in his mind ayoung lady
whom he had seen in England. He wrote
her parents, saying he wanted a wife to
help him in the management of his in
~creasing family: This letter comes like
Abraham's servant to Rebekah's rela-
tives, to know whether your daughter,
Miss E., is a proper person to en-
gage in such an undertaking, and, if so,
whether you will be pleased to give me
leave to propose marriage to her. You
need not be afraid Of sending me a re-
fusal; please God, if l know anything
of my own heart, [ am free from that
foolish passion which the world calls
love" He also wrote the young lady,
but the parents were not overly anxious
to send their daughter on such an ad-
venture, SO the Reverend George did
not succeed, but later he wooed and won
a widow.
Another divine, Rev. Richard Hooker,
when he had been ordained, went to
preach at St. Paul's Cross. He arrived,
wet and damp, and was taken to the
house of a Mrs. Cunningham, who, by
good nursing cured him Of his distemper
and cold so that he got through his
services in admirable style. "You are q
tender young man. she said, land
Your delicate constitution needs a nurse
all the time. You should get married"
The clergyman agreed, and the schem-
ing Mrs. Cunningham, in looking for a
wife for him, began at home, and recon-
mended her daughter Joan. They mar
ried, or rather the old m fixed it |
up; but it was a sorry wife she made
him, for he soon discovered that ''she
was shrewish and sharp, and had a
tongue that was conveniently hung in
the middle; from morning till night it
rung." Sir Hugh Smithson was re-
jected by a famous belle Of private rank
and modest fortune. The only daughter
and heiress of Algernon Seymour, Duke
of Somerset, heard of it, and publicly
said ''that the disdainful beauty was a
fool, and no other woman in England
would be guilty of like folly" The re-
suit can be imagined. The celebrated
DR.. Abcrnethy had a business method
of courtship. He said to a lady: 81 am
too busy to make love. but if you can
entertain my proposition without fur
Their preliminaries let me know at the
end of a week."-C5nciunati Enquirer.
"A Pennsylvania Judge has recently
put a stop to the curious method of
evading the Liquor law in the petro-
leum regions of that State. The sellers !