Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-11-17
THE GAZETTE.
ruEsDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER II.
His Second Counting a Joke.

HIS SeCUUQ tUu tAAe ~ oSANS'
M,ss BETSY Rowland and Mr. David Bas'
Ter were engaged to bs married In Eikland
township, Pc, nine years ago. They were
children CT yell to Go farmers. and their CO.
auaintaross ssid 1t vas good match. Six
weeks before tia time SGT for the wedding
Miss Rowland Tilted MIR. Basler and eloped
with Err. Lsander Oaktord, OF LOPEZ town
ship. They wero married by q ForkViile
ius.ioe. and when the fact became known IN
the runaway brides ntigb5orhcod the gossips
asserted tbat they had felt certain all along
thatsBets Rowland vas oeger really 10 iose
with Dave Baaler. They siso recaiied 'he
fact that Mr.. Oskfcrd bad taken MISS HoW'
tsnf, 70 seyera! country balls. AID tast she
aIWaye edged up toward Mr.. Oak Ve!c WIN
,,,oro fondases than toward MIR. Basier.
Mr. O kford took bis bride &c tia home 10
T.,nCz tcwpshir, SD NJ. Bssisr went 10
,t,;nsj,C ard becsuJa reckless on account OF
hin dlsapnointulent. People esid be vac &C.
ino 20 tbs dcgs aud would probably c,mEis
arleIde. bat la LET'S than three moths ne
oraced cd s.G has never touched drop CT
.IGacr slEcr. He was havdw orSlrg your g
man end na remained on the farm OF Ma
father, Mr.. D. Il. Bletr. No one ever a.
iuded 10 his disappointment, tut &c ire
ooeoty rtf.r,eG 10 It himsslf nv declaring
ina. be would yet even 9Th Betsy hcT-
iguG sooUay 0! later.
A year ago last sQDm ar. Cak!oid oil u, ) u
in tho FIJI his widow took her two children 10
mlkIsnd township, and went to ltviag with her
father. Farmer Peter z. Rowland. When she
bed been a widow Tor nearly year the OLD irleno'
ghip between her and David Bssler wss renewed.
People wondered at it WHOM they recalled wnat
l.-X1 ,horE noft
Mr. B.sler had eaid years bs!ore ABOUT getlinS
eyon with B.ty Rowland, but they woadersd
still m, re early in the fall when they heard that
tbs Widow Cak'ord ard Mr.. Basler were goiag to
be married in the latter part OF Cctoeer. 1hey
thought that Dave Baslar had forgotten his VOW,
and that he Ses 20 deeply In love With the WIDOW
that he coul MT live without her.
The wedding OF Mrs. Oakford to the man sne
had lifted nine years before was announced 10
tske place AZ tho residence of Mrs. O.kforG's
fsther on tho evening of Thursday, Let. ~ All
of Mrs. Oakfor6's Elklard relatives assembled az
tae farmhouse soon after dGrS, ara rev. ChsrleS
+. Owen came over from Eiklsnd Centre TO per-
form III. ceremony, When O'clock came mr.
Baser had not arlived. Els absence caused
great furry AID mCcA talk, snd when IL WAS
noticed that none OF his rel.t.yes WIS., pic'ent
there was q sensation among the gutsta. mre.
OskfoJd was visiting up Stare, and half an hour
after the ceremony vas to have begun Rev. MIR.
Owen ssnt O mess. n ger post hss.e after MT. Bas-
ler 1t YVES more than mile TO the Hasior iarm'
house. AID VIXEN the messenger COS there all the
family were in bed, except the man who was
needed to complete the bridal party. de was
sitting by the kitchen stove with his working
clothes GA, and when the messenger made known
bis GRAND, Mr.. Bssler chuckled end said:
1T tco1 good wh:ls to get squars with Betsy
Rowland, but pve paid her back in her own coin.
I wonldn't marry her now for the best farm In
Penusylvsn'a end you go back and tell her SO.
she fco,ed mo zine years ago, and turn about Is
fair play, stint II? Msyte she'll lta!n to take
joke -,
Mr.. Basler's message to the willow was speedily
delivered, IN thor, was mach indignation over
it g. ihs Ho slsnd retidercs. Rev. Mr.. Owen and
sympathetic rtletivss conscled GrL Oakford,
" ho wept for two hours over the humi iation, and
at midnight the guests departed. From the fact
that none OF Mr.. Bssler's relatives put in an az.
pearsnce, it is supposed that they we'll Knew thse
Mr. Baslor meant 10 fool the wicoS, for the tine
set for the wedding was known TO everybody In
tho ne;ghborbood.
Last F1idsy Mrs. Oakford began breach It
promise suit against Mr.. Rssl9r, laYing damages
at $4,000. Mr.. Basor is SO yoara old, and ia esti.
mated to be worth $4,000. He ssys that Mrs:
Oakfo1d will never got cont of his money, and
that he put eli Ct his property out CT his hands
before he got even with her.