The Osceola times., 1884-07-26
HIS WEDDING TRIP.
The eTrsnsmigrations of an Aus sdots Illus
trated by Example.

The Trsnsmigrations of AN Aus edots Illus
trated by Example.
Harper's Magazine for July.
There is story about wedding trip
that has been knocking about the coun-
try for some time. We have tried to
keep il out of the Drawer" but it is of no
use to kick againsI it anv longer. 1t was
fir. { told TO the drawer" editor in Oc-
tober, 1888, by clergyman of strict TEN.
perance principles and high character
in fact, total abstainer-who had 1t
from friend of his, first hand, who had
Just returned from the West. This friend
M nd you, saw and heard what he relat-
ed, and he was person of undoubted
veracity, though perhaps as an abstainer,
when travelling notso total as the clergy.
man. 1t was, in brief, to this effect: In
the car on train from Toledo to Chicago
was man aho sa' alone, looking abb
sently out of the window and appeared
detected. During the passage an ac-
cident happened TO a newsboy and the
generous passengers passed round the
hat for him. The solitary man alone of
all the car full refusod to contribute
not even quarter. Somebody remarked
upon his stinginess, when he turned
round and said: Gentlemen. it may ap-
pear strange to you that / give nothing;
but haven't cent of money. Tn"
fact is, was married yesterday, and l
am on my wedding trip, and hadn't
money enough to bring my wife alorg."
"ln December following the editor OF
the Drawer" was seated with two other
gentlemen in library in New York.
One 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. looking man, who did not
appear to care much for the scenery, but
leaned over the guards and vacantly re-
garded the river. Falling into conver-
sation with him he ascertained that the
man was Prussian. Remarking that
the journey did not seem to interest him
the Prussian said, No; I'm rather lone
me. The truth is Pm on my wedding
tour and could not afford to bring my
wife,"
The editor of the Drawer" 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 Paris. In it the writer, a gentle
man of culture and travel, said that a
curious incident happened to him last
summer. He and hi; ~ifc were on a
Rhine steamer, when they noticed a
melancholy passenger whom all the
beauties Of the scenery failed to rouse
from his d lection. He was an object OF
interest to them all the morning, and at
length his wife's sympathy was so much
excited that she proposed to 90 and
speak to the melancholy stranger and
find out the cause of his sadness. The
husband said that would be a foolish
thing 10 do and she might get into troub-
lie. But the wife insisted (for though
American women have little curiosity,
they have warm hearts, and crossed
over to where the stranger stood, and ac-
costed him and they engaged j" con>er-
sation. In few moments the lady re-
turned, laughing. why, the man is a
South German. He says that he is on
his wedding trip and couldn't afford To
br ng his wife"
The editor then related the original
true story as it was told him by the I
A. clergymap. So it appeared, on unim-
peachable testimony. that the strange
incident happened in the experience oI
three persons the same year-one neal
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 81
lent and had not interfered with the
story in any way, said: Il 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, suddenly announ, ed that he
was 10 be married. The partners gave
him a weeks holiday and his fellow
clerks raised little purse and presented
it to pay the expenses of his wedding
trip. A couple Of days sfterward one oi
the memb r. of the firm went down to
Newport and there. lounging about the
Ocean House, and apparently enjoying
himself immensely. he saw his recent y
married old book-keeper-but alone
Where's your wife?' She's at home.
But ! thought you had money given
you for wedding trip? so did, but
| didn't undertand that it was intended
to include her."
Now we are not saying this is an un
wise way of taking what il really one o.
the most perilous journeys in life, a wed
ding tour. But what could have induced
all these different respectable people tc
appropriate this particular irstance tc
their own personal observation? II
sometimes seems as if people are not
what they should be.