Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-05
books, one o. which is the famous "G.tes

Ward. There is little story to tell sbOu
| thst. The Bridegroom is a son Of toe
Rev. d.. Willism 81 vas Ward, eiltor &
the Independent. List winter the elder
Wsrd tock up Miss Phe os' l:'est book
c.reiess,Y as he sat in his ssnctIn, aDC
glsrcsd y: one Of Its pages. He imne
distely becsne intere sted, an6 kept OF
reading to the neglect Of more important
duties, NATL tie time came for him to e.
home. He walked to the South ferry will
bis mind still absorbed in what rs
had read, end ne Was so Gist7ais with il
|, that, IN crossing the crowded street &
geS to the ferry entrance, he allowed him
self to oe run over b? 6 heavy Truck aut
WAS badly III lTed; some OF lis rib;
were broker, sndfoT day CO two his lite
was considered in danger. The driver
who had rue him down wss arrested, uu'
Dr.. Ward declsreo tina. &c blame sh oa!d
De attached to him.
"Is WAS altogether my own fault" &c
ssid. "M7 mind wes engrossed with
something else than taking care Of mY
body, i1st then, or it wouldn't h,ve
happened"
When the season Of outing came
around DR.. Ward was barely con
vsleecing, and his son took him
on yachting cruise along the Long
Island Sound. They stopped at Gloucet,
ter, Mass, in which Miss Phelps hiss .
summer residence, and the neighborhood
CT which she had NOT lorg before stirred
up immensely by her story of "Jack," in
which the people theresbouts were de-
scribed sud note altogether agreesbly.
The Wards visited Miss Phelps, get
ting an Introduction through mu
tasl friend, and st the earnest desire Of
Dr., Ward, who had become greatly inter
ested in the suthorsss through perusal
OF her works while recovering from the
accident which she had Indirectly caused
ALI through the psst summer the
Wards hung about Gloucester, and
1t became apparent to observers
that this was due to the son rather
than to the father. Although the former
was hardly thirty-fVe years old, and
Biz ,beth Stuart Phelps is something like
fifty, their relations took On sn uomis-
taxable sspec. OF couriship. The result
was { marriage ceremony ct the Phelps
sesshore cottage, Z !st Gloucester, q few
days sgo.
went away ever to the Bo1erY 10 gee
= bride yesterday, and 1 nspected her as
closely as could by passing snd repsss-
ing the window of the place into which
her husband had brough. her. could
not decorously go in, although 1 SAW
of my own sex doing so, for 1t
WAS GROCERY, and one OF the worst Of
bad kind. You have read of
STRIVE BRoDIE.
q pedestrian, prize fighter and the FIST
man to survive s drop from the height of
the Bro oklyn bridge into the river below.
He is tough specimen OF New York
humanity, morally and physically. Not
long ago he opened saloon in the lower
part Of the Bowsry, and made it IS sttrac-
tive as he could to young men and
girls of congeniaily vicious character.
Brodie went 10 Rochester awhile ago to
mske the leap at Gsnesee Falla, which
k lied Sam Patch. His fest captured the
heart of 3 pretty girl, only fifteen years
old, and daughter Of poor but entirely
parents. she eloped with her
hero. The fatal exploit. of San
Patch had been go long local
that the fellow who repeated
1t and remained alive seemed to her very
glorious. he brought her to New York,
ucI SklCNCu poi SAkS lOllOWCle huO uS 0h5
arrested under the law which mskes
with girl under sixteen ab-
duction; but upon his agreement to MAE
~ her, she was left with him otter
the ceremony. A Rochester friend
had told me Of her really remsrks-
BILE beauty, of the careful home training
which she had received, snd of her un.
fortunate infatustion for Sieve Rrodie
So went, IS have said, to look ct her.
The room was dayk, dank and
most unromanuc. A drz3n drink
ers and Ioungers were in il. They
we're youthful losfers of both sexes.
Behind the bar wss the bride, alongside
her ugly husband, and acting as bars
maids duty which she performed regu-
larry, and which she seemed st this time
to eIjoy, for che WAS laughing snc chat.
ting merrily. Isn't this queer instance
Of freakish feminine fancy IN choosing 8
husband?
OF all the marriages that have failed to
produce continued happiness, that CT
Mrs. Msrie V. de Howe is inst now
notable, because she has procured 5 d.
vorce this week from her husband. The
Charler destitute was for many years
one Of the foremost fashionable schools
in town pstronized by wealthy
families, who seat their daughters
there for the most complete modern ed
ucstion. Professor Ellie Charlier was
:ts principal owner. He WAS fine ex.
ample OF the old school gentleman in de-
pertinent, and the inculstion of maid
erly T2odesty and decoIum was . special
ty Of his. A course of lectures on polite
experiment was feature of the shcool,
and in these lessons it was p,rtiou.
larry sought to impress upon the pupils
minds the duty and deslrabllity OF suit
sble masrimoIy. II Was calcula.ed that
the heiresses who went to the Charlier
Institute got IN Impression Of good sense
IS to the choice Of husbands
Marie Chsrlier WIS the profess
sor's only daughter. lie discovered
to his sstonishment, that she had fallen
in love with Houghwout Howe, q very
brisk young beau, but with only the in
come that his employment as private
secretary to Postmaster Thomas L.
imes yielded. That WAS enough to
support himself well enough silgly, but
not adequate to preteneous household,
lad he had no expectations Of
better fortune. Professor Chsrlier com.
handed his daughter 10 cease sll &C.
luaintance with Howe. She disooeYed |
hin fsgrsntly by clipping with her lover. |
Chsrlier at once announced that the in |
stitute would close at the end of the |
49,. 81