The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-07-21
CUPID CUTS A CAPER.
ALFRED suARTz BRINGS HIS SWEET
HEART FROM AUSTRIA.

90 Arrival She Informs Her Lover She
Didn't Like HIS L,oks, and Starts ON the
Lung Journe. HomawarsI.
COLUMBIA, s. c., July l4.-AlIored
Suaitz was the saddest man in Columbia
yesterday, for the rose-colored dream oI
his uneventiul, hard working life had
been rudely, suddenly swe. 1T away by
the faiLhicss action of the girl whom he
intended to make his wife. All tho way
from sunny Austrit came Alfred, iust q
year ago, with ambition beating high
withiu bis breast, and the sweet assur-
auce that her whom he loved would
come Overland join her fortunes with his,
should he make his way in the New
| World,
And lie did In the course of events
he dritcd to this city and engaged in
his tradc,of b,ker. BY his careful mode
of living, Alfred amasscd quite tidy
sum Of money, and he sont a portion OF
it to his sweetheart, Marie Epple, Of vi.
eDnu, with the request that she come OH
at once. The young woman lett her
native countryu ut once. and took passage
| for America.
Although wild with the impatient de.
sire to see his loved one, Alfred could
not go 10 New York TO meet her and
bring her oD to this city, and so lie
waited.
Yesterday morriag Marie arrived on
the train from the Metropolis, and her
lover was waiting for her at Lhe depot.
He had made preparations for them to
| be married at once, and had prepared
her a home, humble, but still a home.
Now Alfred Is almost dwarf in size
ard by no means handsome. His per.
s"ldl GXcellencics atoned for this among
| his few lricudS, liowev Il, but his appear
auc proved the death knel of all his
hovcs. He had looked forward TO the
meeting with all the longing that his
simple mind was capable of, and bis flu
turc happiness seemed centcrcd in
Marie. Perhaps the fair Marie thought
| that lie would grow, md that the air ol
| the new and mystic continent would i'm.
! prove his looks. When the Coast Line
train steamed into the depot early pes.
tcrday morning, Alfred was waiting an.
Niously at the gates. Through the win.
dow oil one ofthc cars he saw Marie, aud
executed war-dancc in his glee. But
| his Joy was dashed to the earth. Dis.
appointment was plainly visible on the
young woman's face when she caught
! Sight Of her dimlnulive lover. Evidently
the climate had done nothing to increase
his statue. or make him better looking,
as she iondly hoped it would.
When they met, Marie dismaYcd poor
Alfred by coolly telling him that she had
changed her mined ard was content to
remain plain Marie Epple for the pres.
cnt. ~ long and stormy interview fol-
lowed, and the crestiallcn lover left his
iaithless sweetheart, vowino To do some.
thing desperate in his terrible disappoint
mcnt.
Marie rcmainCd in the depot until the
next train left, when she started back
on her long tedious Journey TO her home,
She told Register reporter in broken
English that she was very mad at being
dIa2ccd all the way from Vienna for
nothing, and that she was gong right
home. She Just had money enough tc
get back.
Alfred was despairing his luck last
night, aud iamcntcd tho loss OF his hard
earned savings, which he had given to
Marie. The poor baker swears that he
will now romain Il bachelor tie rest oil
his natural life .--RcmiSter.