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TWICE WooED; THEN WON.
Young Mans Mind Blank as to His First
CourtshIp.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. miss
Edith Marchus, Of No. 263 Forest
street, this city, who has just married
William E. Higgins of Sandusky, has
been twice wooed and won by the
same man, the latter, however, having
10 recollection of the first siege he laid
to Miss Marchus' heart.
Mr.. Higgins is about twenty-five
years old, and up to the summer of 1895
lived with his parents in Sandusky.
He went to EIyria, where he obtained
a situation with the Johnson Electric
Railway Company, and one day in
August of that year, while at work as
a lineman, an insulator fell from q
crosstop and struck him on the fore
head. At the time he com planned of a
peculiar sensation about the head, and
as time passed he daily became more
confused in his thoughts.
Fearing that he would be i'll he re
turned home and was prostrated for
four weeks. When he had recovered
his health, apparently, he returned to
Elyria end re-enteread !shhe employ of
the railway company. On Saturday
evening he announced to his landlady
that he was going home to spend Sun.
day, and she becams alarmed when
the young man did not return.
For long time no trace Of the
young mans whereabouts could be
found, though his father,traveled hum
dreds of miles in the hope of learning
where he was. Finally, a friend of
the family who had been to st. Louis
said he believed he had seen the young
man in that city. The father went
there, and found his son working for
an electric company. To his fathers
joy GUS greeting however, he coldly
said:
Excuse me, but do not know you. :"
Then for the first time did the father
suspect the truth. The young man
had lost his memory, and all efforts
to revive it proved fruitless. The boy
didn't know where he came from, and
as he was desirous of resolving the
mystery of the past, he accepted his
fathers invitation to return home with
him in the hope that his memory
might be awakened.
It was supposed that when young
Higgins should reached home and see
his mother he would again be himself
in every respect. But he did not know
her, although she wept on his shoulder
and repeated to him all those fond
names she used in addressing him
when he was an infant and a growing
child. He could not recall anything
of his past.
Then q delicate surprise was arranged
for him, which, it was hoped as a last
resort, would awaken his memory.
Miss Edith Marchus, OF 1853 Forest
street, this city whom Mr.. Higgins had
been engaged to marry in October,
1895, was sent for. She arrived, and
was much moved by the presence of
her lover, whom she had mourned as
dead for so many months.
The young man treated her with re-
spect, but his demeanor plainly indi.
Gated that Miss Marchus, whom he
would have married but for his mis-.
fotune, was as stranger to him. Miss
Marchus had formerly lived in San.
dusky, and having moved to Cleve'
land, she was prevailed upon to re.
main at the Higgins home for several
days, in the hope that constant asso.
citation would rekindls young Hig-
gins memory.
All efforts failed. however, but Mr..
Higgins developed a strong attach.
ment for Miss Marchus, which ripened
into love, and they were finally mar
ried in this city.