Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-09-28
SATURDAY EVENING! !
Can II Be True That Dark Men
Are Always jealous.
A TRUE STORY BY OWENS WIFE.
The Marriage of a Young Couple Comes
Near Ending in Sad Manner
All Comes Ont Right at Last.

ozark men are always jealou
men. Beware if one crosses you
path"
So said the gypsy fortune teller t.
Maggie Cameron, when she sough
the hollow where the tents wer
pitched, with half II dozen othc
frightened girls and laughing boy
one summer morning, and Maggie
was superstitious for girl of Tho
Nineteenth century, yet she accept
ed Owen Mayne on her way home
The darkest of the dark, eyes like
jet, hair no ravens wing could out
vie, the skin Of II Spaniard, strong
features, and II temper that leaped
up at II touch, and did not cool
again in haste.
He was older than most of the
party, and had more experience
He had been i'm the far west; he had
fought the Indians once or twice; he
had met with desperadoes who
would have robbed HIM had he not
let them dead on the spot. A tall,
slight man, graceful and agile; rs
good II dancer ~ lie was a fighter
he had taken Maggio's heart by
storm.
He knew how to make love, too;
he was not one of your timid lovers.
"Your GYPSY told you to beware
of dark men, did she not? he asked
Maggie ~ they walked home to.
gcther.
EYES," she said "because they are
jealous; but, for my part, | should
not like n husband who was not jcal-
Gus of me; | should think he did
not care enough"
"You are right" said owen.
without jealousy there is no love.
Marry me, Maggie, and think |
shall make you happier than any
chilly hearted fellow who only
wanted you TO cook his dinner for
him could. Marry me, Maggie, and
have no fear of II jealous man as
long as you are true To him, for he
Will not suspect you without cause"
And Maggie put her hand into
his, and, though no doubt all the
Others saw him do il, Owen kissed
her.
And so they We're married not
long after, and for year were MS
happy rs mortals could be.
AT the end of the year there was n
little baby in the little home, and
the young couple were rs proud of it
rs young couples usually are.
owen was an engineer, and oil
aud away much of the time. But
when his train passed the little cot
tage where his wife dwclt he al
ways gave her signal in the shape
of u whistle she had learned 10
know.
al wonder what that whistle
mcans"' people on the cars often
asked each other, never guessing
that IL was the young engineers
signal to his wife and baby.
The child grew and throve, II pret. |
ty creature, with It's fathers dark |
eyes and its mothers golden hair; |
and except for the fact that, like |
any other engineer owen took his |
life in his hands each morning |
when he went forth Ia WIN his /
bread, there was nothing 10 trouble
Maggie.
"rhe dark man has never been
Jealous OF me once,' she used to say
10 herself. "But, To Toe sure, never
look at anyone else, and he has no
cause
The HON, where the time dwelt
wa' in quiet little village ON the
borders of "a small but beautiful lake.
On those afternoons which brought
Owen home Maggie used TO 40 To
meet him 10y wh4 Iney called the
Lake road
Al first she carried the child, then
he pushed him in the little wagon;
'ut at last lac Was able 10 walk be- ,
ide her. 4
lie was a sturdy httle fellow, with /
% fear Of anything, aud Maggie I
ad much ado 10 keep him IN good .