Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-07-10

An Anecdotal Transmigration.
There is a story about wedding tri,
that has been knocking about the ccun
Try Tor some time. We have tried t.
keep 1t out of the drawer. but it is O
no use to kick against it any longer. 1
was hrst told TO the Drawer editor il
octobe-, 1888, by a clergyman of stric
temperance principles and high char
acter-ln fact, total abstainer-whe
nad 1t from friend of his, first hand
who had Just returned from the West
Inls friend, mind you, saw and heard
what he related, and he was a person
OF undoubted veracity, though perhaps
as an abstainer, when travelling, not Sc
,oeaI as the clergyman. 1t was, in
pref. to this effect In the car on q
Tram from Toledo to Chicago was a man
VINO sat alone, looking absently out OF
the window. and appearing detected.
Dur1ng the passage an accident hap
pened to newsboy, and the generous
passengers passed round the hat fo1
him- The solitary man alone of "a
the carful refused to contribute ny
tning, not even a quarter. Somroody
remarked audibly upon his STIFFNESS,
when he turned round and saE "Gen-
tie nan, it may appear strasge to you
mat l give nothing; bY1 haven't a
cent of money. 1'he<fact is, was
married yesterday, md l am on my
s @eaa,hg trip. any vito hadn't ainna ;, money
In Decemberf following the editor of
the Drower was seated with two other
gentlemen in library in New York.
Une of them said: 81 heard good story
the other day from a friend of mine
who has Just returned from Europe.
Going down the Danube from Pesth last
summer, he noticed on the steamboat a
melancholy-lookingm man, who did not
appear to care much for the scenery,
but leaned over the guards and vacant
ly regarded the river. Falling into con-
versation with b m, he ascertained that
thepan was Prussian. Remarking
that the journey did not seem to inter-
est him, the Prussian said: No; I'm
rather lonesome. The truth is, I'm on
my wedding tour, and could not af-
ford to bring my wife. 5"
The editor of the DrdUer said that it
was a good story, and that he began to
think it was true, as it was confirmed by
SO many independent witnesses. There
upon he took from his pocket letter
which he had received that morning
from Par.s. In it the writer, a gentle
man OF culture and travel, said that a
curious incident happened to him last
summer. He and his wife were on a
Rhine steamer, when they noticed a mel
ancholy passenger whom all the beauties
of the scenery failed to rouse from
his detection. He was an object of in
terest to them all the morning. and at
length the wlfe's sympathy was SO
cba TO
and speak to the melancholy stranger.
and find out the cause OF his sadness.
The husband said that would be asfool-
ish thing to do. and she might get
into trouble. But the wife insisted (for
though American women have little
curiosity, they have warm earts), and
crossed over to where the stranger
stood, and accosted him, and they en-
gagged in conversation. In few mo-
ments the lady returned. laughing.
What g itl'' asked the husband. |
'sWhy, the man is South German. He
says that he is on his wedding trip, and
couldn't afford to bring his wife.
The editor then related the original
true story as it was told to him by the T. |
A. clergyman. So it appeared, on un-
impeachable testimony. that the same
strange incident happened in the ex-
perience of three persons the same
year-one near Chicago, one on the
Rhine, the other on the Danube? Did
it happen to any one of these veracious
people? When the editor had raised
this question, the third member of the
party, who had been silent and
had not intertered with the story
in any way. said, 81 can tell
you the real original of that story.
Several years ago, in a well-known
wholesale house in this city, an old
bachelor book keeper, who had been
MANY years with the firm, sudd My
announced that he was to be married.
The partners gave him a weeks hon-
day, and his feflow-clerks raised a lit
tie purse and presented it to pay the ex-
penses of his wedding trip. A couple
of days afterward one of the members
of the firm went down to Newport,
and there, lounging about the Ocean
House, and apparently enjoying HIM
self immensely, he saw his recently
sWhere's your wife," ''She's at
money given you for a wedding trip
$50 id. but 1 didn't understand that
it was intended to include her."
Now we are not saying that this is an
unwisc way of taking what is really
one of the most perilous journeys in
life, wedding tour. But what could
have induced all these different respect
able people to appropriate this particu-
lar instance to their own personal OBJ
seryaticn? It sometimes seems as if
people are not what they should be-
Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Naga-
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Ingenious Methods Devised for RobbiRg
the Nails.