The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-13
LOVE AND BUSINESS.
MT. We're de vere Proposes to Mrs. Canaggy
 and Makes a Mistake.

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 and Makes a Mistake. $ "Your question takesme by surprise, Mr. We're de We're. How long have you entertained for me the feelings you have just expressed9"
 From the first moment I ever saw you, Mrs. Canaggy. For the last six weeks have been in state of bilious ness and unrest. I have fallen off sixteen and one-half pounds in weight, and haven't had any relish for my food or any of the ordinary pursuits of life. If you could only realize how I yearn--" Hl fa
 Despairing of conveying to the fas- cinating and wealthy young widow any idea of the intensity, the abandon, the utter goneness with which he eyearned, he shook his head and for some mo- ments yearned in silence. MT. We're de We're, J said Mrs. Canaggy, kindly-almost tenderly- "have you ever tried Corkins' liver pills?" Hf3iea
 Talk not to me of pillsr' exclaimed the young man, with flashing eye. "Can you reach the affections through the livery Would you minister to a wounded heart by putting mustard plaster on the feet, Mrs. Canaggypn : The lady looked dreamily at his full grown Waukenphast shoes, and as she smoothed out the folds of her magnif- cent silk dress with richly-jeweled hand, she murmured, softly; "t would, indeed, be a terrible waste of mustard. @
 Victoria Canaggy" protested Har- old We're de We're, rising to his feet, and speaking with burning energy, "Listen! You have pictured to your self, doubtless, in the dreams of your girlhood, the kind of man to whose keeping you would willingly surrender the priceless treasure of your love. I may not stack up exactly as the man of your girlish dreams. Possibly the late Mir Canaggy did not. But no man that ever lived could cherish for you a deeper or more passionate de- votion or would shield you from the rude blasts of the world with half the pride and tenderness that l would feel if you gave me the right to be your champion. Victoria, does not your own heart plead for me?n
 ''Mr. We're de Vere,n replied the lady. evidently moved by his appeal, 'pardon me for asking the question, but l have known you for so short a time, and it is a matter that concerns me deeply-are you q gentleman oi eorrect habits?''
 'I can answer you truthfully that am u
 Do you drink intoxicating bever. agesp"
 No, upon my honor"
 Do you attend horse racesP"
 'Never. :"
 ''Nor chew tobacco?"
 No. mo-"
 Nor smoke cigars?"
 "No.n
 "Nor cigarettes?"
 Cigarettes, Mrs, Canaggyp If there Is one thing on the face of the earth utterly detest, loathe and abominate it is the cigarette. It is the quintes- sence of all that is vile. execrable, and abhorrent. A man who would smoke cigarettes would steal sheep, Mrsl. Canaggy, and the person who manu- lectures or deals in them is pirate and double-dyed scoundrel, for whom hanging is too good
 "Mr. We're de We're. regret to give you pain, but l can never be your wife, said the beautiful young widow sadly.
 Why? 0, why. Mrs. canaggypn
 ''Because, N and her voice fell upon his ears like the murmur of distant cascade. or the weird. sepulchral vail of the night wind among the ghostly tree tops of November landscape "because am a silent partner in cigarette factory. "-- Chica1a Trihuns