The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-27
LOVE AND ACOUSTICS.
THE CAPITOL DOME HELPS ON AN
AFFAIR OF THE HEART.

A Young Couple Utilize Its Peculiar Prop
critics to Outwit stubborn Parent-A
Newspaper Man SURPRISES an Item and
Gets Column story.
1t was in the Office Of the clerk of the dis ,
trict courts. He had just planked down a |
dollar for marriage license, and reporter /.
was about to add him to the list as lone
more unfortunate, weary of single life, rash
ly importunate, going in for married
strife" but then he spoke:
"Say, friend, | wish you would leave that
out OF the paper"
The obiector to newspaper notoriety was
a pleasant spoken young fellow, and he
continued argumentatively:
Nov, I'm n newspaper man myself, ana
know how you're fixed. You're sent here
to get the news, and naturally want to get
all of It, But if you'll keep that item out
Of the paper for "A hours I'll give you
story worth printing
A mere two line item against perhaps
column. Here was an induCement that no
newspaper man could resist, and the re
porter was not proof against temptation.
Still he was wise enough to stipulate that
the story should be given at once
"Well YOU have Ournames and residence
from the register said the young Bene-
dict about to be. land we've had quite a
little romance. She belongs to one of the
best families in that country, where her
father is quite a small magnate. l went
down there about three years ago and start
ed a paper did pretty well and am prob
ably as well fixed financially as she is; but,
unfortunately the old man and couldn't
IlaF a
daughter he had | trod on his political
toes pretty sharply, and he never torgave
me- The old lady too, didn't like me,
partly because | was newcomer and not
related to any of the local arstOcraCy, into
which she wanted her daughter TO marry.
still Bella liked me, and you know when
YOU have the girl and the dog on your side
a fellow can stand a good deal of suubbiug.
All went along very well for awhile.
proposed and was accepted but when l
came to speak to the old man about it he
fired me out bodily, or threatened to do So
and ordered me never to show my face in
his house again. knowing the old man
and having due regard for my face, | never
did but managed to meet Bella on the sly,
although the old folks watched her pretty
closely
FINALLY they decided to remove her from
the contamination of my neighborhood,
probably on the theory that separation is "A
cure for such cases Accordingly they came
to Washington for month or so, possibly
in hopes that some of these city swells
might cut me out. But Bella managed to
drop me Il note telling me about it, so / fol-
lowed them. They've been here about a
week, stopping with friends couldn't find
out where until the other day. ! hunted
through all the hotels and haunted the
streets in hopes of seeing them, when finally
! remembered that strangers in the city
always go to the capitol about the first
thing
Then l took up my station in the rotun
da every day, staying all day long The
Waterman evidently considered me a new
crank in town. but finally they came-the
old man, the old lady and Bella. | pulled
my hat down over my eyes and hid behind
a newspaper until they had passed, and
then heard them inquiring the way to tn,
dome When they got pretty well up the
stairs, followed, and at the top, you know
it was pretty dark, so by keeping on the op
posite side | managed to escape the ole
couples eyes
They were busy studying out the 'Apoth
costs of Washington while Bella was lean
ing against the wall looking tired ant
homesick | waited around for chanc
to speak to her, but the old man kept he
at his elbow, and had about made up m
mind that l would have to knock him dow
when an ideG struck me.
lyon hnow how sound travels over thai
~a;cn SO that people on opposite sides of the
circle can talk to each other in whispers
had been there before and knew all about
it, so l stood just across from Bella and
spoke her name. She jumped as if she haC
been shot.
"'Where are you, WHIP she exclaimed
recognizing my voice at once She had beer
thinking OF me, she told me afterward.
flush, said l. Pm just opposite you
Talk TO the wall, and l can hear all yol
say
And maybe we didn't talk. 1t seeme
bit uncanny to be talking to "A stone wal
and having your best girl answer back
something like the old story of Pyramu
and Thisbe, only they talk through TIA
wall. Well She told me where she wa
stopping, and that it would be useless fC
me to try to see her nearer, as she wa
watched all the time.
Just then the old man chimed in an
asked her TO whom she was talking ST.
said only TO herself As there was no OF
within 80 feet OF her, he had to believe 1t.
well, that made me mad and also gay
me another idea / had been looking Il
one could get license almost for the asi
ing. There was no time to be lost. ! aske
Bella if she would marry me at one
whether the old folks We're willing or no
and she said she would if she could q
away Then we cooked up scheme. wa
to get the license and engage minister,
/ have just done. Tomorrow night the
are going to a concert or something, an
Bella is to get sick and go home with he
cousin about 0 o'clock Only before goin
home she will stepinto the house of a mini
ter, where we will be married.
Now, you easily see that the publicatio
of the fact that have taken out licens
would spoil all our plans, and if you wi
keepit out you shall be one of the Witness
at the wedding and kiss the bride if she
willing"
OF course the reporter agreed to this, an
the item was accordingly squelched for I'll
time being. But while it seems n pity
spoil such pretty little romance, it cann
confidently be said that they were ma
ried and lived happily ever after
The reporter was ON hand at the appOin
ed time and place, but neither bride NJ
groom prospective appeared. Whether ii
old folks got wind of their intentions an
removed the young lady, or whether sou
little part of the plans miscaTied, can on
be conjectured. Certainly the license is sti
on the books, but no minister has yet cert
fed that he performed the ceremony, al
as this fact has not been established
would be rather rough on the young peop
TO give their names, Washington Post.
Merry, but Not Wise.
The saying of Charles II. the king VIII
ACCORDING to the severe vet lust eDital