The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-02-22
SOME ODD COURTSHIPS


Dimculty Men Experience In Prop0sfne 3
the Women They Adors-A Young
Lady's Tact Enables Her Lover
to Make . Charming
Declaration.
The Methodist minister was trying {.
read a poem entitled, 1.-THE Sling O
David" and turned from the task will
evident pleasure when reporter 10
the Chicago Herald asked him for
story.
There's the marriage of John Blank
an Ohio man, that l might tell 70,
about" said he. John was wealth,
young fellow. and q member of thu
church at Mount Gilead. He though
he wanted to marry certain young
woman whose fortune was in litigation
but he never could muster up enough
courage to ask her to be his wife. He
finally surrendered to another lady who
was willing to speed his wooing slightly
and was married in the church, in the
presence Of his first love, whose case in
court was the same day decided against
her and her wealth seemed likely to 20
to distant persons But No. /, as we
will call her, was sensible girl, and
when her lawyers had appealed from
the Judgment of the local to the Su-
preme Court, she went on as usual, sup
porting herself by teaching school. She
was handsome, and seemed to the bene-
dict Blank to grow more beautiful every
day. He was good to his wife and all
that, but we could see he still kept his
sweetest chances for No. 1. His wife died
finally, and after q year of mourning
John renewed his attentions to No. 1.
just at the time the Supreme Court
handed down decision in her favor.
She did not repulse him, and every thing
seemed to be going swimmingly for
Blank, although he had not asked the
woman to be his wife, when the young
lawyer who had SO pluckily fought and
won the case proposed, was accepted and
married her. That was twenty wears
ago. The lawyer died in 1887, and last
week received marked paper from
Mount Gilead containing an account of
the marriage of John Blank and the
lawyers widow. Funny, isn't it, how
some unions are brought about" and
the Methodist laughed little at the
dilatory man who proved the proverb
that every thing comes to the man who
can wait.
"At the time of the Chicago fire." said
the Presbyterian minister, 81 was
preaching in q Northern Illinois town.
and was visiting . sister who lived
then, as she does now, in Chicago. Her
house was just west of the line Of fro
and was filed with refugees for the first
few days after the catastrophe. Among
them was young man, slight &C
quaintance of my sisters husband, and
, young woman whom my sister had met
ut church sociables and such places, and
who was known to be wealthy. Both
had lost by the fire, and both had been
wounded in that awful crush by which |
they had escaped from the sweep of de- |
struction. The young man recovered |
rapidly, and aided my sister in minister
ing to the wants of her patients. He
was particularly attentive to the young
woman l have mentioned, though he |
had never before met her, and they be-
anne very fond of each other. When
matters got slightly Strengthened out
he young man became . real-estate
gent on his own account, and among
'ther business handled the estate of his
air fellow-victim. She was an orphan
nd he had no family connection to
peak Of. They seemed suited to each
Their, and my sister in writing to me
ften mentioned them and reported the
rogress Of what she thought was their
ove affair. The young man managed
he young woman's property 80 well
hat her wealth was doubled In value in
EN- years They often consulted To-
ether on business matters, and he Of
IN spent an evening at her home, but
9 never escorted her to any place Of ,
musement or to church, and they
semed no nearer union than the day
tier the fire. They are still in ex-
stly the same position. She has lost
er youth and he is gray-haired. She
rs never received any attention from
~ other man, and apparently he has
ot thought or any other woman. When
accepted the call to my present church
found them just 30, and they are to-
~, after . lapse--a courtship, might :
y-of eighteen years as far apart a. 7
Ter. know there Is mutual esteem.
az be love. ! know they are WE'LL
ted for each other. / know she is Q
Oh and still handsome, and know he
honorable; but never saw such stu
q dimdence, such prolonged, self-in-