The Osceola times., 1884-12-13
sSHE LOVED THE TINKER.
a Grass widow OF Seventy Marie. .
Tramp.


ANYBODY wishing to know how SOON low.
Is quenched in the feminine breast will bav1
10 ask somebody Older than Mrs. Elizabe,t
fowell, of Farmingdale, l.. |. She is sev,
enty years of age. She has lust deserted
her husband,James Powell, to run off with
mere ooy, John Baunan, forty-fye years old
Mrs. Powell and Mr.. Powell have been
OUT Tor several years, she taking the inside
OF llle house and he the outside. She has an
income of $1,000 from the estate of a
former husband, Conklin Baylis. She lived
alone, lonely life, till about month ago
when ray of sunshine flashed into the
mouse. The ray was reflected from a mol.
lshed tin can held in the hand of Mr.. Ba,man
mender of silyer-plated ware, who called
for job.
IL was case of love at first sight. She
was coy, If not young, and he was tired of
walking and longed TO settle down in some
such cottage and with some such wife. She
asked him in to partake of the blooming
cabbage and the blushing con-beef, the only
things in the room capable of blushing and
blooming
Mr. Baunan, a most observing man, saw
that he was on the right road for home at
last, 50 he fingered Other dodgers came
and went, but he stayed on forever. He
mended everything in the house, from
thimbe to the nose on the teapot. The
neighbors, for wonder, observed that Mr..
Baunan meant business and that the grass
widow was spooney. Mr.. Baunan, an econ
omical man, saved the money he usually
paid for board. Some of Mrs. Powell's
friends talked about 'the boarder" and in
formed her of theugly rumors that were fly-
ing about the village.
You can tell the villagers" Mrs. Powell
replied, that love Johnny, and l will
marry him, if he will have me. O. The winter
scoming on and I'm getting old and / must
have somebody to escort me to the opera and
such places"
As ''opera" is but word and meaningless
sound In Farmingdale, where Patti has
never charmed the natives, the friends con-
suited physician in behalf of the old lady's
brain cavity.
Mrs Powell heard of the action of her
friends, and fearing that they might succeed
started for New York, in company with
Baunan, where they were married by an
Episcopal clergyman.
They spent the honeymoon In that city.
Mrs. Baunan returned TO the village yester-
day to close up her affairs, preparatory to
taking up her residence in New York. She
has started Baunan In business in that city
and informed her friends in the village that
she was "happy at last"
Mr.. Powell seems to be the man "left' In
the case. He and his wife had separated by
mutual consent and the papers were pre-
pared by a lawyer in Jamaica. He saws a
divorce proceeding was not thought of. The
old lady's grandchildren threaten to have
the aged Juliet arrested for bigamy in order
to save their respective legacies. She is the
sole executrix of her first husbands estate,
amounting to about $50, 900, and II is said
that Mr.. Powell, who is childless, had made
will bequeathing all his property to her.
Mr.. Powell will neither deny or confirm the
rumor, and his friends say that If he had
done so, he will change II now that she has
taken TO herself another husband.