San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-05

Ind been 'awS.ened- cy HE writer's frank
ness, and she would particularly like TO know
II he happened to be a Mormon. A regis
tered letter bearing the reply arrived early
In the following week. II was a long letter,
In which A. Crosby Young started OFF by as
surfing his fair correspondent that he was not
a Mormon, but, ON the contrary, was a mem
Der of the Methodist church. He then gave
a detailed history Of himself and his family
The rest of the letter was such as a young
man very much in love would write He
told how happy he was to learn that it was
not she who had placed the note in the hat. He
begged her to allow him to continue the cor
respondence, telling her that he would fur
nish every proof necessary TO show that
he was all and more than he claimed to be,
and asked her to forward her photograph
One Of his was being finished for her, and
would arrive in a day or two.
ENDED HAPPILY OF COURSE
On the following day the photograph ar
rived. 1t showed well built young man,
with frank and pleasant face, and pretty,
curling mustache. Amelia sent on one of her
photographs, and Bertha Haflli, who saw all
the correspondence, says that letters were
written and received twice week. "Oh,
they were regular gushy love letters after
tho photographs were SENT" she said to a re-
porter. Both of them were clean gone,
The boys in tho Office thought that she was
writing all the time to her uncle"
1t appears that the young man actually did
come all the way from Utah, arriving at
Newark lie stayed for a time at the United
States hotel iii Broad street. Notified of his
coming, Amelia was prepared to meet him,
and did SO with her ever constant Bertha at
her side The epistolary love was ratified at
the meeting.
The young man was for at once going to
tho girls house and making known to her
parents the object of his visit. She negatived
that proposal, saying she had not prepared
her parents for it, but promised to do so in a
few days She preached the matter, but met
with an unfavorable reply. Her father and
brothers would not be brought over to be-
lieve that man who lived in the land of
Mormons could be proper person to marry
Amelia, and she was forbidden to hold future
intercourse with him. This injunction she
Immediately disobeyed by meeting Crosby,
and informing him of her parents decision
The young man said nothing, but on the
following evening, introduced himself to
Amelia's family and told them he had come
all the way across the continent to make her
his bride.
The family refused, and positively in
formed the young man that he could not
have Amelia for a bride. The girl had
something to say in the matter herself, and
said it to her lover when she met him on the
following evening She said she would wait
two weeks for her parents to change their
mind before she would do anything deciSively.
The two weeks passed, and as their consent
was not given she decided for herself. On
Monday evening she did not return home
On Tuesday Bertha Haffli showed a short
note from Amelia, in which the latter wrote:
~ have just been married, and will start
this evening for Utah with Cros Tell masand
pa Yours ever, AMELIA.
up. SWIM write when ! get there."-
Cincinnati Enquirer.