The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21
HORACE GREELEY's ROMANCE.
New York sun.

Horace Greeley, when still fresh from the coun- try though he had already started his newspaper in New York, married a young lady from the north who was spending year with some southern friends. She was very young, handsome and attractive. One of her friends, from whom learned these facts, told me that she admired Miss Cheney very much, and knew but one man who would be the one to win her heart and hand that man was the young journalist, Horace Greeley. She set to work as some women foolishly do, to bring about the union. MT. Greeley and Miss Cheney had never met. This matchmaker told her story of the young lady with skill to the innocent young countryman, and 90 awakened his desire to become acquainted with the lady that he allowed his friend to write to Miss Cheney that he would like very much to correspond with her. Her letters to the mutual
 friend written with frankness and originality seldom found, and rather pleased the young man to whom they were shown, and having no experi- ence in knowledge of the mysteries of the female heart, he was easily caught in love's net. His friends remarked the symptoms of the increasing
 fever, and lost no opportunity to laugh at the poor fellow. Miss c. enjoyed the innocent pleasure of correspondence with the gifted young journalist and ought to have known the danger, but the let ters were SO delightful, each growing more and more attractive, and at last MT. Greeley, in the simplicity of his honest nature, avowed that his heart and his life he offered to Miss C., and begged that she would accept them, unworthy as they were, etc. He had been told by his friend that she was beautiful and very young. 1t was not neces- sary this friend thought a she told me- to describe Mir. Greeley. So love born in Miss C.'s heart, from the letters, allowed her to picture him as fancy dictated. After suitable time had passed, it was arranged between them that Mr. Greeley should go south, spend one day, be married, and return north immediately. His paper demanded this unromantic haste But MT. Greeley was not roman tic he was severely matter of fact
 Miss Cheney was in every respect the opposite of her lover. In the warmth of her youthful enthu- siasm, she had clothed him with personal beauties and graces that were justified by the adornments of his character as seen in his letters.
 He announced to his companions that the fortu- nate event of his life was at hand, and that short absence must be allowed to him bring home his young wife. The hour of their first meeting was the one which both parties anticipated with strange feeling of curiosity, but neither doubted the full satisaction to be realized. It was dan- gerous experiment and severe test of love. They met, and stood face to face. Miss c. had, with womanly coquetry, decked herself to meet her lover, and looked charming in his eyes, more than fancy had painted her. He stood speeches. a mo- ment, while her large, brown eyes opened in utter amaxement, scanning the figure before her from head to foot, and remaining in . state of almost breathless bewlderment, if unable to believe her sight, 90 entirely was he unlike what she had imagined
 His iax-white hair was long and fell around his neck loosely, his face was fair woman's and his expression was the mirror of . noble heart, his chin was dimpled, and on his mouth sat the firm of his manly character that redeemed the face from effemiacy. But the figure of Mr. Greely, the young man before her, was to her painfully without grace, his voice in the extreme drawl- Ing and nasal, and there was in his manner total disregard of conventional rules of ceremony. Mis c. could not conceal her disappointment, but they sat down in the most matter of fact way to arrange the business part of the immediate mar riage. MT. Greeley had travelled by land several days and presented himself in all the haste of impatient lover to his lady, without changing his apparel even thinking of his appearance, and his delight with her was great that he hiled to 60 the effect his preasncs had produced upon her.
 Her almost utter inability ts speak was attributed to natural timidity on tho occasion.