Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-27
4 ROMANCE.
How 4 Sirest- Car Driver uos tho
Heart ola Belle.
GLORIOUS sEwasD OF TRUE LOVE.
A Minister Of the Gospe', Nov ia Colo
RADIO. and the Happiest Nan
in Ill the West.
nn,-r Letter 10 Albasy Journal

Many years ago . freckled-faced,
red.haired, round .shouldered Vermont
boy, 10 years old, was employed as dri-
yer on q horse car in Albany. Living
not far from the corner Of State and
Eagle streets was sixteen year-oid De-
witchipg maiden, who was one OF his
passengers almost daily. We will call
her LoYise Robbins. The driver, whom
we will name Henry Martin, In order
to conceal his identity, though far from
progressing In appearance, had Is
lender heart under his rough exterior
snd far more genuine manliness than
the majority Of the city swells who par
AIDED State street then, just a. the dudes
do to-day.
But Miss Louise thought the young
car.driver the most awkward and un.
couth specimen OF man flesh she had
ever get her soft, laughing black eyes
upon. She drew his portrait and pre-.
sented it to lady friend, and labeled
| it "The Red Rose, or the Horse-Car
Heater" Many were the Jokes she and
| her associates perpetrated on poor, In.
| offensive Henry Martin, and he was
not SO stupid AZ not to know IL. Yet,
unnatural ss 1t may seem, the more she
| ,idiculed him the fonder he grew OF
Miss Louise; for the awkward youth,
| while fully realizing the great gulf be-
tween their social stations, could not
help worshiping the ground she trod
on. He knew how prepostsrous 1t was
for car.driyet to cherish affection for
! the daughter OF 80 wealthy an Al6an.
MN, vet her image was ever before him,
though he struggled hard to destroy his
mad love, He sscertained her name
by watching the store packages sent e
her home, and an old diary still In his
possession shows the name OF Louise
/ Robbins on every page. His letters to
/ his widowed mother in Vermont ut that
time were filled with
| Glowing Descriptions
| Of dark.eyed schoolgirl whom he
| thought the prettiest and dearest lady
in all the lapj-snd to that mother, the
only person In the world who knew the
value of his noble heart, he told the
story OF his silent worship Of Mss
Louise. Sensible mother that she was,
sbe warned him of his folly, which
must end only In bitter disappointment.
At last there came day when Louise
was his only passenger. With tenn.
lest in his soul and tears streaming
Gown his face, he stammered out the
declaration that she was an angel, that
he knew he had no right to talk 30 to
her; "but, oh Miss Bobbins, II you knew
how love you, you would not blame
me, for ! can't help it." Louise did not
scream or get frightened; she only
laughed In his face and said: "You get
hack TO that horse or he will run away
and kill US both, and don't you dare 10
act like e fool again." Notwithstand.
ing Louise was still In her teens, she had
! listened several times to the fearful en-
treaties Of fashionable young and old
men, who not only knew that she was
| q fascinating creature, but were surely
aware that she was the only daughter
ola very wealthy gentleman. She had
| told them all that they were very kind,
and that she would always be their dear
| friend, sister, cousin or anything but
their wife. But poor Henry, with his
| fiery head, weather beaten face, big
Lands, red and chapped, did not quite
fail In touching a tender place In her
heart; and when she had gone TO bed
that night, though she laughed almost
hysterically as she thought OF the car
drivers ludicrous performance, there
came the conviction here Is q genuine
man, the only one Of my admirers who
means what he says, and for the first
time she pitied man. Then she grew
angry at him for his audacity, called TO
her father and told him OF the incident;
but when the angry father said he
would have him discharged and fired
out Of town the next day she plea ded
that he was poor, simple fellow, aud
that he did not mean TO do anything
wrong. But the father was obdurate,
and the following day Henry was not
surprised when he was not only dis
charged by the company, but was
warned to leave the city. The news
papers stated that "the blear. eyed, red
headed ruffisn, Henry Martin, had
made indecent proposals to an uRpro.
tected young passenger In . hOrss.csr,
and that he deserved to be lynchsd."
At night he crept near the abode OF
Louise, that he might possibly have
One Moro glimpse
Of her, when Q policeman arrested him
Is suspicious character, and he was