St. Paul daily globe., 1891-03-22
A SAD, SAD CASE.


business. 1t was dated and postmarked
at veritable city in a neighboring
state, and signed by the writer's full
name. Out of consideration for his
feelings, which, as it will appear, have
already been buffeted enough, these are
omitted; but with these exceptions, and
relying on the public's Willingness to
credit its statement thus made with all
s0lemnlty, there is here spread before
the great army of lovers who make up
the world communication which. for
simple pathoS, sincerity and primitive
sense of justice, is unexcelled by any
thing since ROUSSEAU exhibited his
! Quivering human heart to the general
gaze.
Editor st. Paul Globe Dear Sir:-After nv
Respects to you would most Respectfully ask
you for favor which is this have been
| corresponding with a Lady of one of your
counties tor over year with a view to mat
| rmony about 20 or 80 miles from st. Paul.
She gave me Encouragement from the first
and Requested me TO come to see her which |
did last Nov. She then promised to marry
| me and since then her letters show that she
intended to keep her promise but in Feby.
she wrote she would never marry me and in
same says | will never be your wife. NV rea-
son Tor taking this course is l want to let the
| treated me so no other man will fall a victim
| to her Prey. She is - years old and | am 81
| informed her of my age in first letter. She
! said my age would be no objection Sent her
| good references from St. LOUIS and also
| from Bank which can send you if you wish
L notified her of my Intention. She toled me
| TO go ahead If | was Determined to Publish
| them that could not hurt her If you do
Publish them will also send her Picture to
| Put in your Paper. If you wish | will send
you her own letters which bears her own Sig
nature but you must return them to me as
| Soon as you copy them If She and her
| trends know that letters will be Published in
| your Papers think they will try and influence
you not to Publish them will in the mean
| time Subscribe for your paper Please send me
| copy of your weekly.
Old man, you put on the shoulders of
this paper heavy burden. When your
cyclone burst on this office its entire
staff stood on its head, and in the en-
thusiasm of delight exclaimed: "Hur-
rah! hurrah! hurrah." Our matri-
monial editor, whose duty it is to wrestle
with matters OF this kind, at once took
to drink, a thing he was never known
to do before, and has left an incompe-
tent and inexperienced substitute to
tackle your case, which surely must he
tackled. You have done the GLOBE a
| good deal of harm in this way, but it
bears you no grudge. 1t thanks you.
You are public benefactor. You and
the mob of gentlemen who made such
| short work of the Italian malefactors in
| New Orleans, the other day, together
| have furnished a most important con-
| tributiOn to the study of sociology. You
have proved that the cave man is not
extinct yet. You need not subscribe
for the WEEKLY GLOBE. We shall
send it to you, postage prepaid, for moth
| ing and forever. The GLOBE is in your
| debt, and if you will write it one more
letter of this kind you will be entitled
to the daily edition Oh the same terms.
| 1t i'll becomes this paper to criticise
one of your age and vigorous methods,
| but it would seem that you have made
mistake in your plan of campaign, and
have yourself to thank, at least in part,
for your present sad plight. You have
| taken your view of matrImony'' at too
long range. The distance, seventy or
eighty miles, which you give, is in wan
TON violation of all the rules on such
| subjects laid down in the text books.
| An epiStOlary assault, too, it may be
said, without any reflection on the post
| al department, is a dangerous thing for
a man who spells no better than you
do. But once having started on
this plan. you blundered sadly last
November when you went to
see her. You should have stuck
Iesolutely to your original tactics and
fought it out on that line. Nobody
ought to swap horses when crossing a
river. Nothing impresses a woman so
| unfavorably in a lover as Instability.
This vacillation on your part probably
made the young woman's relatives eX-
| press doubts as to whether your habits
were steady, and may have made her
| herself wonder whether you were not
| giddy and unreliable, and whether after
you had sown your wild oats you would
settle down quietly to the eXactions of
domestic life. 1t is fatal to love if one
| of the high contracting parties gets
criticising the other III such a fashion.
| Love is based Oh mutual confidence.
| Your methods introduced the worm of
| doubt You ought to have consulted
the GLOBE before you began. 1t could
| have helped you then. But now it is
afraid that all it can do is to console
! you.
The GLOBE IS sorry, but you evil
| IDENTIFY love this false woman to dis
! traction. Your anxiety to have her
| picture and her letters published, so
| that the world may see and admire
| them, shows this. Seldom in the history
| of the tender passion has there been
such an example of answering devo-
| ton, even after final defeat. In spite
| of her faults, she must be remarkable
woman to be able to convert her Worsted
| lovers into friends so persistently loyal.
| 1t is too bad that you have lost her, but
we guess that you have. The only thing
| left for you is to find such relief as is
possible under the circumstances. There
are not many sources of refuge from
sorrows of this kind, and none OF them
are very attractive. The subject has
| been Investigated very thoroughly,
| however, and such remedies as there
are are very well known. A poet named
| OvIDIUS NASo wrote book about them
hundreds of years ago, and. although a
good many people have tried to supple
ment his catalogue, in the light
| of modern science, very little that
| is new has been discovered. You
are undoubtedly familiar with OvD's
work, but lest you have mislaid your
copy during the excitement of your re-
cent trying experience, when you have
10 doubt been breaking all the furni-
ture about the house, the GLOBE will
venture to tell you that, if you would
forget the cruel jilt, you can take your
choice between suicide, drink, or falling
! in love with some other woman. That
is what OVID says, and all the text
books to which we have before referred
agree with him.